Good Morning!!!! 56F @ 5:30AM. Cloudy with showers. High 57F. Winds SSE at 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 50%.
Even chances it'll rain today, but even if it does, it won't amount to much. Predictions are still holding at 0.05". And still calling for 80F+ temperatures starting Tuesday, and now more rain a week from Monday.
Not sure I want to monkey with that dozer, Ted. Darn thing threw a track yesterday, and I'd feel awful if it did something like that, or even worse.
Holy mackerel, Randy, that's a great price on RM43, even in times before alligators! But the link to quilltop I found with google returned a "Page not found" error, and other results were approaching $200 for that 2.5 gallon jug.
Les, the dozer owner/operator, showed up right on time at 8:30 yesterday morning, and I was already busy stoking the burn pile when he got out of his truck. By nine he'd finished greasing and warming up the dozer and we were off, me trailing behind on the tractor with the grapple. He knocked 'em down, I stacked 'em up. All day. He also cut a new trail to the very bottom of the lot to get access down there, and together we cleaned up almost all of the bottom property line, almost 600'. Probably have more green trees in the piles than dead ones, as so many had bad roots and fire damage that would kill them in the fairly near future, It would be a shame to have to bring in the dozer again to clean them up. It's just too steep in most of that area to get after with the tractor. The weatherman is calling for light showers this afternoon, so I'm not sure if he'll be back this morning or not. Guess I'll find out at 8:30.
Things went fairly smoothly until a track came off the dozer while Les was side hilling. With a couple come alongs and a long pry bar, he and his partner Mike got it back on, but it cost 'em an hour-and-a-half. They had to remove a lock bolt in the tensioner mechanism to get enough slack in the track, and in the process lost a lot of grease and a little ball bearing that made the seal at the bottom of the bolt hole. Fortunately, I was able to scrounge up replacements in the garage. I'll go out in a little bit and clean up the mess I made on the workbench looking for another little ball. Only now I remember I have a box full of 'em sitting next to the Wrist Rocket in the closet.
Not sure what else is on the agenda for today, other than greasing the tractor first thing, and probably fueling it up, all before rain showers start around noon.
Hope everyone has a great weekend!
putter inside,make American shepherd loaded.
