RedNeckGeek
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- Butte County & Orcutt, California
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- Kubota M62, Kubota L3240D HST (SOLD!), Kubota RTV900
Good Morning!!!! 49F @ 5:30AM. Partly cloudy. High around 70F. Winds NW at 10 to 15 mph.
Yesterday was overcast until the sun broke through for a nice sunset, and the forecasted rain never materialized. The gauge picked up 0.03' overnight, not even enough to settle the dust.
Sounds like you dodged a bullet, RS. Are you going to weld the plugs back into the holes you cut?
We finished up the south property boundary, not making it all the way to the corner because of the steepness of the ravine there, but at least now I see the marker stake from the one closest to it. Shifted our attention to the section north of the driveway, all very steep and choked with dead oaks and manzanita. Some of the manzanita were over twenty feet high, with trunks more than a foot in diameter. Again, Les was knocking it over and pushing it up with the dozer to where I could reach it with the tractor, which then got moved across the driveway to a new pile. Manzanita and short branches on the one end, whole trees on the other. We put a dent in it, but I can see several more days of work still ahead. Then more on the driveway. We'll be starting at nine o'clock this morning; yesterday we got another eight hours in. That's a lot of bouncing around seat time.
At one point I started noticing a dark trace under the tractor, and when I looked hydraulic fluid was coming from the six port manifold for the FEL. Ran up to the garage and found a loose fitting, easily tightened. Checked the fluid level and it looked fine, but the tractor was acting like it was low or there was air in the system. The fluid is water clear, and hard to see on the dipstick. Les said he painted his dipstick, so I did the same with this one (Kubota orange) and we'll see what it tells me this morning.
When I finished up the south boundary, I grabbed the last pile of wood with the grapple and dropped it next to the fire ring. Les and I enjoyed a beer after work warming by it as the sun set. You can see the brush piles from the southern boundary just above the generator. There are two of them, Ted, each about the size of a big yellow school bus. When we started the work on the north side yesterday, I grapped the GPS and located the survey stakes on that side, going through a lot of poison oak in the process. That crapped up my clothes and gloves, so no photos yet. But everything went into the washer last night and should be clean this morning, so I'll try to remember to snap a few better pictures today. Should be a prettier day than yesterday's overcast.
Yesterday was overcast until the sun broke through for a nice sunset, and the forecasted rain never materialized. The gauge picked up 0.03' overnight, not even enough to settle the dust.
Sounds like you dodged a bullet, RS. Are you going to weld the plugs back into the holes you cut?
We finished up the south property boundary, not making it all the way to the corner because of the steepness of the ravine there, but at least now I see the marker stake from the one closest to it. Shifted our attention to the section north of the driveway, all very steep and choked with dead oaks and manzanita. Some of the manzanita were over twenty feet high, with trunks more than a foot in diameter. Again, Les was knocking it over and pushing it up with the dozer to where I could reach it with the tractor, which then got moved across the driveway to a new pile. Manzanita and short branches on the one end, whole trees on the other. We put a dent in it, but I can see several more days of work still ahead. Then more on the driveway. We'll be starting at nine o'clock this morning; yesterday we got another eight hours in. That's a lot of bouncing around seat time.
At one point I started noticing a dark trace under the tractor, and when I looked hydraulic fluid was coming from the six port manifold for the FEL. Ran up to the garage and found a loose fitting, easily tightened. Checked the fluid level and it looked fine, but the tractor was acting like it was low or there was air in the system. The fluid is water clear, and hard to see on the dipstick. Les said he painted his dipstick, so I did the same with this one (Kubota orange) and we'll see what it tells me this morning.
When I finished up the south boundary, I grabbed the last pile of wood with the grapple and dropped it next to the fire ring. Les and I enjoyed a beer after work warming by it as the sun set. You can see the brush piles from the southern boundary just above the generator. There are two of them, Ted, each about the size of a big yellow school bus. When we started the work on the north side yesterday, I grapped the GPS and located the survey stakes on that side, going through a lot of poison oak in the process. That crapped up my clothes and gloves, so no photos yet. But everything went into the washer last night and should be clean this morning, so I'll try to remember to snap a few better pictures today. Should be a prettier day than yesterday's overcast.
