WinterDeere
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- Joined
- Sep 6, 2011
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- Location
- Philadelphia
- Tractor
- John Deere 3033R, 855 MFWD, 757 ZTrak; IH Cub Cadet 123
I went out to the fire pit, and found the only-partly charred remains of that 30" slab, and was surprised to see the growth ring spacing near the pith was real fat, like only 3-4 rings per inch. But then at the perimeter it was maybe 8 rings per inch. If we take an average of 6 rings per inch, then a 30" tree = 15" radius = 90 years old. Not very impressive, for a pretty large tree, but I guess it spent its first many years growing in open sun, before other trees crowded in and slowed it down.
That's not far from the time that this farm would've been sold by the family which lived here 1773 - 1922, and built the main part of this house in 1775, so maybe the new owners had just then let that edge of the property slip from farmed fields to unkept woods. I don't know when this place ceased to be a "working farm", in fact I think it happened in several stages through a few changes of ownership in the 1900's. Aerial photos taken in the 1940's show it as mostly an apple orchard, but I know the 1770's - 1920's incarnation was a dairy farm, the barn of which was taken down in 1986.
That's not far from the time that this farm would've been sold by the family which lived here 1773 - 1922, and built the main part of this house in 1775, so maybe the new owners had just then let that edge of the property slip from farmed fields to unkept woods. I don't know when this place ceased to be a "working farm", in fact I think it happened in several stages through a few changes of ownership in the 1900's. Aerial photos taken in the 1940's show it as mostly an apple orchard, but I know the 1770's - 1920's incarnation was a dairy farm, the barn of which was taken down in 1986.
I was scratching my head when I noticed that phrasing on the tag, trying to figure out exactly what made their fully-mechanical brake system "electronic".
