Texas Spring/Summer Thread

[robbyr]

I got error occurred messages trying to view video.

 

[Snowback]

I got error occurred messages trying to view video.

Hmmm. They are working on my devices, but here are direct youtube links you can try.

Tractor stuck in mud solution - YouTube

Swedish tractor extraction method - YouTube

 

[CowboyRon]

Here's another one with a little different twist.
Tractor stuck in mud - YouTube

 

[robbyr]

Yep, worked that time.

 

[bindian]

Thanks guys. I got the big stuff cleaned up Thursday. Huge limbs on the house, one tree in the small pond, and one huge oak leaning into another huge oak. All hauled to the back burn piles. Hauled huge limbs from my neighbors house with the grapple. Our electricity was restored sometime Thurs. morning. Not sure what time, as the main breaker was open and generator running. Put about 20 hours on the generator, on about 5 gallons of diesel. I think that is pretty good for a 8500 watt generator! I'll post photo Sunday evening. Funny thing...............I put a friend's bio diesel in it in 2008 after Hurricane Ike. I still smell biodiesel when I crank it up!

I'm in Manor right now at my daughter's house now. I came over Friday afternoon. Sat. afternoon I changed my Grand daughter's baby bed into a little girl's bed. Now she can get in and out by herself......like a big girl!
hugs, Brandi

 

[bindian]

Here's another one with a little different twist.
Tractor stuck in mud - YouTube

I think doing it this way will work better when your 4x4 can't find solid enough bottom. Great ideas. I will have to remember them when I have the backhoe off. I have used my tractor as anchor while a struck mini track loader backed over one chain and got unstuck.
hugs, Brandi

 

[dalroo]

Will try again - may double post. Did some mowing today. Beautiful day and grass is crazy this year
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[robbyr]

Will try again - may double post. Did some mowing today. Beautiful day and grass is crazy this year
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Instead of mowing I wish our cows were on it for a while. :laughing:

 

[bindian]

Photos from Wed. after the storm. News helicopter was right over the Mahindra when we took the street photo.
hugs, Brandi

 

[bindian]

Photos of the limbs on the roof. Hanging limb is still there. No satisfaction from Allstate yet. I'm going to change homeowners insurance to Farm Bureau, where all my vehicles are. Looks like I'll rent a cherry picker this weekend. Unless I can get a quote from a tree company cheaper than the rental rate.
hugs, Brandi

 

[bindian]

The photo of my electric pole leaning after it was bowing from the fallen tree over the pond. SHECO told me to go ahead and cut the tree and drag it off the line, as they didn't have the equipment. I cut it down after dark. Then we heard the pole cracking. It was bowed so far, I told the SHECO linemen to drop the line and I would get it out of their way. The next morning I drug it out of the pond. It was awkward dragging it out, as the tree bent just above the ground and bent over the pond. Cutting the tree almost dropped the trunk in the water. I had to drive over the dam and down to get a short leash on the chain. All after dark. Thank GOD for headlights
hugs, Brandi

 

[bindian]

Most fun of the day was digging the uprooted tree with the CAT. I thought pushing with the CAT and pulling with the Mahindra would angle it far enough to clear the fence. I was wrong on moving it that way. Too much weight hung up at the top in the supporting tree. Instead I got the CAT in front of the root system and pulled the whole tree toward the CAT. The CAT pulled it like child's play. That worked good enough and with the Mahindra pulling from the side................dropped the tree right where I wanted, missing a small oak and clearing the fence.
hugs, Brandi

 

[bindian]

More fun over the weekend. I spent it with Rebecca and Chloe. I converted Chloe's baby bed into a little girls bed. She loves it. She didn't get out of it anytime during the night. I got tons of hugs and kisses for converting it. Rebecca bought a conversion kit, but it was the wrong one. I had to install barrel nuts and even 5 inch long carriage bolts to make it work. But it was worth it!
I came home Sunday and took a 2 hour nap in the recliner. Good times.
hugs, Brandi

 

[wroughtn_harv]

Looks great. And it appears you had some fun tractor time.

More fun over the weekend. I spent it with Rebecca and Chloe. I converted Chloe's baby bed into a little girls bed. She loves it. She didn't get out of it anytime during the night. I got tons of hugs and kisses for converting it. Rebecca bought a conversion kit, but it was the wrong one. I had to install barrel nuts and even 5 inch long carriage bolts to make it work. But it was worth it! View attachment 467053View attachment 467054
I came home Sunday and took a 2 hour nap in the recliner. Good times.
hugs, Brandi

 

[Bird]

Yep, that's very nice, Brandi.

 

[foreman Etexas]

Well bad news the wife's aunt of a young age of 55,had a heart attack out of the blue and past away. Only health issues she has is like me just hypertension and on low dose BP meds.

 

[robbyr]

Well bad news the wife's aunt of a young age of 55,had a heart attack out of the blue and past away. Only health issues she has is like me just hypertension and on low dose BP meds.

Hate to hear that. Prayers for the family.

 

[bindian]

Harv and Bird,
Thanks.

Harv,
I would have had fun seat time, but was running sleep deprived.:confused2: I was up 32 hours the day before and didn't wanna do anything stupid with the chain saw, the tractor, and up on the roof. So I waited to the next day, after trying to sleep with no a/c. Then on to the weekend, where my Grand daughter wakes up at 7am, no matter what.:thumbdown: Now I'm down with a nasal infection...........with another busy weekend planned. I'm renting a 50 foot cherry picker to get to the limbs hanging down on the roof..........that are too high up to cut off right now.

Then I gotta redo the chicken wire fence on my neighbor's fence line. The fence with the PVC pipe posts! I can see replacing that with a proper fence real soon. The storm washed too much debris into it and the chicken wire is down, buried in the silt. The ducks, right now, are basically free range ducks.
hugs, Brandi

 

[bindian]

Well bad news the wife's aunt of a young age of 55,had a heart attack out of the blue and past away. Only health issues she has is like me just hypertension and on low dose BP meds.

Jim,
Oh WOW, that is awful. Prayers for her and your families.
hugs, Brandi

 

[lostcreekranch]

Harv and Bird,
Thanks.


Then I gotta redo the chicken wire fence on my neighbor's fence line. The fence with the PVC pipe posts! I can see replacing that with a proper fence real soon. The storm washed too much debris into it and the chicken wire is down, buried in the silt. The ducks, right now, are basically free range ducks.
hugs, Brandi

Free range or Peking Duck? Mmmmm mmmmm good!