surprise rain last night, surprisingly heavy, 1.47 inches as of this morning. The lawn continues to grow and grow; getting to the point where I'd sure like it to slow down.
busy day planned today, lots of errands, then work on the downed tree some more, then mow the orchard.
Thinking about selling my way too heavy solid bottom HR Long grapple and replacing it with an open grapple. My grapple is over 800 pounds way out front; should have been 400-500 max; just too heavy for an L. It works wonderfully, just so heavy it makes the Kubota hydraulics seem even punier. Interesting that my local Kubota dealer had the exact same almost new grapple out front on their yard several weeks ago, looks like someone did the same thing I did, and it sold quickly ,so maybe I should just take my lumps, sell it, and get the right tool. Less weight out front is safer and better no matter what. I have the oem solid bucket, so if I need to haul dirt or mulch I can.
Saturday, picking up 500-1000 pound tree logs, I was thinking there would be no way for me to do this safely without a grapple, particularly working by myself. This is when I sure wish I had a dump trailer; now I have to grapple the debris out of my trailer without wrecking it. I saw one picture where someone lifted up their trailer with their FEL forks to dump it...my rear gate prevents that. Besides I have to get the debris over a two foot high concrete block wall into my burn pit. Trying to pick up the same heavy stuff as few times as possible.
great pics of roadrunner Don. I've never seen one, only in cartoons...very cool.
RS, pics of splitter please, sounds very interesting.
I guess everyone else must still be eating. 
