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   / Good morning!!!! #25,311  
Exactly. Maybe once in 8 hours will I max out with a large tree, (40 ft) and then it is usually too long (wide load) so I end up dragging it anyway.
Don,

I have trees of that size I need to move ... but like you, most of the places where they are, are so confined that they would have to be drug/skidded out anyways ...

I do have a pile of them up in the field drying ... those just need the branches trimmed off and lifted up to be bucked into firewood lengths.

Most grabs of brush will weigh around 100 pounds. Large limbs might weigh up to 200 pounds.
Interesting ...

I have a number of existing brush piles I want to move ... most of it is fairly small diameter as the larger stuff gets saved for firewood ... so it's probably fairly light ...
 
   / Good morning!!!! #25,312  
Good Morning. 1110, sunny, 69F with 46% humidity. Forecast high of 73F this afternoon, and a low of 51F tonight. It got down to 41F just before daylight here, so yes the cold weather did reach this far south. But after tomorrow the highs are back up in the low 80's and the lows in the 60's for the rest of the week.

We are going to run up to Marianna for lunch and a little shopping. Then watch racing in the afternoon. I've been watching the F1 race this morning off the DVR. The race was stopped short. It looks like someone got killed or badly hurt when a car crashed into race workers helping at another wrecked car. The Grand Prix was in Japan, where there is a typhoon going on. I was surprised they were able to get the race in at all.

Hope everyone is having a good day.

Larro
 
   / Good morning!!!! #25,313  
GP
I have the GP 72; 850 pounds way out front.
easily 250 pounds too heavy for my tractor
but it's a bucket grapple, just not a plain grapple.
I wanted one do everything tool and didn't know the downsides of such a plan...
 
   / Good morning!!!! #25,314  
70F and no rain last 24 hours.

Finished this round of mowing :)
Hosting brunch for about a dozen friends.
A relaxing day of visiting and football.

Be safe
Have a great day

David Sent from my iPad Air using TractorByNet
 
   / Good morning!!!! #25,315  
GP
I have the GP 72; 850 pounds way out front.
easily 250 pounds too heavy for my tractor
but it's a bucket grapple, just not a plain grapple.
IC

I wanted one do everything tool and didn't know the downsides of such a plan...
LOL ... been there, done that ... more times than I care to remember.

The Kubota B2910 is actually one of those ...

In hindsight, the coin I shelled for the MMM would have been a nice down payment on an F series ...
 
   / Good morning!!!! #25,316  
IC
LOL ... been there, done that ... more times than I care to remember.

In hindsight, the coin I shelled for the MMM would have been a nice down payment on an F series ...
My JD F series was a good buy. But that was after I bought the MMM. :(
 
   / Good morning!!!! #25,317  
what a gorgeous day. Took some pics, including some of my wooden bridge which resulted in a new thread on that. Let's just say a few structural issues to attend to before I think of taking the Kubota across. Had a little bird keep me company for awhile out front, sat there posing in a variety of positions, and I also saw what must be the last honeysuckle blooming on the side of the chicken house, soon to be demolished. Just as soon as I get the grapple on. Now that's going to be fun...unless I snag some of the barb wire behind it. Going to be real careful not to.

found about a dozen nice evergreen seedlings trying to make a place for themselves, and they need to go someplace else. I know the success rate for transplanting wild trees is not so hot, but I'll try to take a big root ball, and will carefully hand dig. Good excuse to get the phd on the tractor and go dig some tree holes.

I took the UTV for a ride over to the next field, and took a pic of that ditch that is posing as a shrub hedge. Six feet deep under there; reminds me of punji traps in Vietnam, and no I wasn't there. The farmer clearly had a problem with that field. Looks like he tried twice and got stuck twice, then moved further in.

wood got delivered for the new shed roof extension, to match the other side. First we have to fix the broken water pipe just to the left of the wood pile. That is happening early tomorrow. Stupid pipe already broke ten feet closer to the building. Actually not broken, just loose leaking fittings.
 

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   / Good morning!!!! #25,318  
Drew,

Looks beautiful down there ...

You're really whippin' it into shape ... :thumbsup:
 
   / Good morning!!!! #25,319  
2014-10-05, 19

Boy, turned out to be a very nice day after a very dreary Saturday...
Got the cutter prepped for the winter. I took the tractor half of the PTO drive shaft off and put it into the shed (after reading another thread about stuck drive shafts) and liberally coated the implement half (which will be outside under a tarp) with Fluid Film.
Next project was getting the Gator ready for the snow plow. I had bent one of the brackets on the Gator's bumper last year when I hit some frozen slush. Since I don't have an oxyacetylene rig here, I got my local Deere dealer to straighten the bracket (which is welded to the bumper). It's not perfect, unfortunately...but for "perfect" I would have had to get the Gator to the dealer. I think it'll do for this winter...hope so, anyway. The bumper weldment costs about $130...might replace it next year.
Then a few chores for the wifey. Next weekend, I need to fix a felt seal on our dryer and replace the cartridge in the shower my Step-Daughter uses (Step-Daughter is living with us now).

Altogether, a good weekend...better then my usual "get sh!tfaced and lay on the couch watching TV" weekends.
 
   / Good morning!!!! #25,320  
42 right now then dropping in the 30s tonight.I pulled the second master cylinder off the Tractor today now waiting for replacement cylinder.
 

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