daugen
Super Star Member
good morning all
looks like a nice sunny day up to about 80. Perfect June weather
Popgadget, I used to average about 70 inches of rain down in NC in Inner Banks. Your annual totals are very interesting,
good reason for me to keep watering my newly planted trees and shrubs. The only thing staying wet around here is my drainage ditch.
I bought a new cheap solar powered water fountain for my bird bath when old one failed. Turned out I had to completely take it apart and clear a clog, but the newer one
has the twice the power for two bucks more. So I have this old but somewhat working solar fountain, and water sitting out in the ditch. Hmmmm
next time it fills up, might put the fountain out there and let it float around.
this afternoon I'm going to take out the Gravely, hook up the gravel driveway scraper and go scrape my neighbor's lane. That should be fun.
Four neighbors on that private lane, they were all delighted for me to do it, they have to share lane maintenance and this will preserve their current gravel.
gosh I wish I had one of these as a kid, tending a third of a mile long gravel driveway into the farm, full of potholes. I raked, and raked, and raked. And being the youngest brother, that crap job went to me. So I became the Roadmaster of Rockwood Farm. Later on when I returned to the farm, I had my first Gravely, a 16G, with a mid mounted scraper blade. I would use that on the lane and just sit back and smile. Almost no raking. That blade could be angled, what I'm dragging behind me today is not.
One thing for sure, I am not doing any manual raking today, but if I make a mess.....well I have to clean it up. So not going to go all the way to the sides since I can't angle the gravel back to the middle.
I wish I had kept the mid mount blade but it went with the unit. Then I bought my current used one, took it down to the frame, at some point repowered it, and now need to find work for it to do.
I would borrow Ken's backhoe for my stump, I know he would lend it to me, or use it himself over here, but am afraid of breaking it. It's just a baby backhoe. I think I need a heavier one that will sit on the driveway next to stump. Trying not to wreck the entire area. But Ken, if you want to be the operator, my friend's son has that beautiful equipment trailer I showed earlier, and he will come pick up your tractor no problem. I just don't want to break your machine, particularly since I have zero seat time on back hoe. Honestly easiest thing to do is have local rental place deliver a M62. Not meaning to impugn Ken's beautiful Massey Ferguson, but it's a subcompact and that backhoe I'm sure digs wonderful trenches. But a big stump?
backhoes are like swimming pools. I don't want one but I sure want a friend with one.
looks like a nice sunny day up to about 80. Perfect June weather
Popgadget, I used to average about 70 inches of rain down in NC in Inner Banks. Your annual totals are very interesting,
good reason for me to keep watering my newly planted trees and shrubs. The only thing staying wet around here is my drainage ditch.
I bought a new cheap solar powered water fountain for my bird bath when old one failed. Turned out I had to completely take it apart and clear a clog, but the newer one
has the twice the power for two bucks more. So I have this old but somewhat working solar fountain, and water sitting out in the ditch. Hmmmm
next time it fills up, might put the fountain out there and let it float around.
this afternoon I'm going to take out the Gravely, hook up the gravel driveway scraper and go scrape my neighbor's lane. That should be fun.
Four neighbors on that private lane, they were all delighted for me to do it, they have to share lane maintenance and this will preserve their current gravel.
gosh I wish I had one of these as a kid, tending a third of a mile long gravel driveway into the farm, full of potholes. I raked, and raked, and raked. And being the youngest brother, that crap job went to me. So I became the Roadmaster of Rockwood Farm. Later on when I returned to the farm, I had my first Gravely, a 16G, with a mid mounted scraper blade. I would use that on the lane and just sit back and smile. Almost no raking. That blade could be angled, what I'm dragging behind me today is not.
One thing for sure, I am not doing any manual raking today, but if I make a mess.....well I have to clean it up. So not going to go all the way to the sides since I can't angle the gravel back to the middle.
I wish I had kept the mid mount blade but it went with the unit. Then I bought my current used one, took it down to the frame, at some point repowered it, and now need to find work for it to do.
I would borrow Ken's backhoe for my stump, I know he would lend it to me, or use it himself over here, but am afraid of breaking it. It's just a baby backhoe. I think I need a heavier one that will sit on the driveway next to stump. Trying not to wreck the entire area. But Ken, if you want to be the operator, my friend's son has that beautiful equipment trailer I showed earlier, and he will come pick up your tractor no problem. I just don't want to break your machine, particularly since I have zero seat time on back hoe. Honestly easiest thing to do is have local rental place deliver a M62. Not meaning to impugn Ken's beautiful Massey Ferguson, but it's a subcompact and that backhoe I'm sure digs wonderful trenches. But a big stump?
backhoes are like swimming pools. I don't want one but I sure want a friend with one.
