KenB2920
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Yeah, real nasty ... I've never seen such vines... Amazes me
TODAYS SEAT TIME
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houser52
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Sharpened the blades on the Bush Hog grooming mower then finished mowing around the tractor shed.
Beautiful morning to be outside.
Beautiful morning to be outside.
Gary Fowler
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Neighbor's wife informed me last night while we were all playing cards that she needed a bit of help with a few tasks. So this morning I loaded up my chainsaw, some rope and my leaf blower in the RTV and started on the little item first by blowing off some grass on her sidewalk from her lawn mower. I got this done before she came outside. Next we loaded up and went to her former residence to do some work. They sold the house to her brother in law ( he intends to flip it) but it needs a bit of work. I started by trimming up a 25foot tall sweetgum that had grown up over a roof and about half the trunk had grown over the steel roofing. It took about 1/2 hour just trimming off the limbs to be able to cut it. Finally got all the limbs gathered up into a pile, then topped the tree with the top 15 feet , then cut down the rest of the tree after attaching a rope and tensioning it with the Kubota RTV. Next loaded up the RTV with all the limbs and tree trunk, that took 3 loads to get it all to the burn pile.
This took till about 11 am, so I tackled the next task which was to see why her lawnmower was cutting low on one side. First checked the air in the rear tires, one was 4 PSI and the other was 7 so I increased that to 17PSI (max was 25 PSI). Then looked at one front tire and it was totally flatwith the tire bead broken loose. I guess that was a good reason for it to cut low on one side in addition to the rear tires being low. After much searching for a ratchet strap that would compress the tire and not finding one that would work, I got a piece of 3/8" Poly rope tied it around the tire then twisted a loop in it till it got the tire compressed so the bead seated. Put 40 PSI in both front tires. It was now noon, so time to break my fast today. Got a scrambled egg and bacon sandwich throwed together for lunch then after scarfing that done, it was time for a little break, so wife and I watched an hour of TV, then it was tractor time.
Got out the LS P7010 to push up some debris piles that a timber harvester had left and where we had added lots of limbs from previous trimming. What I found on the bottom of the pile was a lot of dirt piled around a stump with a lot of small pieces of limbs embedded in it and then a lot of dead trees/limbs piled on top of that. The LS had no trouble plowing thru that dirt and basically pushing the pile of timber off the dirt pile and consolidating if so it could be burned. I did have to bring the Kubota B26 over and use the back hoe to sift out some of that dirt, load some of the larger stuff to the top of the pile. I got about 2 hours of work in that, some of which was manual labor picking up the small stiff and throwing it on top of the pile.
Got that one to burning and neighbor lady showed up. We decided to look at another pile similar to that one and see what I could do with the B26. I ended up breaking down a similar pile and pushing all the loose stuff up so it could burn. By this time it was about 5 o'clock whistle time so I called it a day.
NOT BAD FOR A SUNDAY.
This took till about 11 am, so I tackled the next task which was to see why her lawnmower was cutting low on one side. First checked the air in the rear tires, one was 4 PSI and the other was 7 so I increased that to 17PSI (max was 25 PSI). Then looked at one front tire and it was totally flatwith the tire bead broken loose. I guess that was a good reason for it to cut low on one side in addition to the rear tires being low. After much searching for a ratchet strap that would compress the tire and not finding one that would work, I got a piece of 3/8" Poly rope tied it around the tire then twisted a loop in it till it got the tire compressed so the bead seated. Put 40 PSI in both front tires. It was now noon, so time to break my fast today. Got a scrambled egg and bacon sandwich throwed together for lunch then after scarfing that done, it was time for a little break, so wife and I watched an hour of TV, then it was tractor time.
Got out the LS P7010 to push up some debris piles that a timber harvester had left and where we had added lots of limbs from previous trimming. What I found on the bottom of the pile was a lot of dirt piled around a stump with a lot of small pieces of limbs embedded in it and then a lot of dead trees/limbs piled on top of that. The LS had no trouble plowing thru that dirt and basically pushing the pile of timber off the dirt pile and consolidating if so it could be burned. I did have to bring the Kubota B26 over and use the back hoe to sift out some of that dirt, load some of the larger stuff to the top of the pile. I got about 2 hours of work in that, some of which was manual labor picking up the small stiff and throwing it on top of the pile.
Got that one to burning and neighbor lady showed up. We decided to look at another pile similar to that one and see what I could do with the B26. I ended up breaking down a similar pile and pushing all the loose stuff up so it could burn. By this time it was about 5 o'clock whistle time so I called it a day.
NOT BAD FOR A SUNDAY.
wmonroe
Elite Member
Busy day, you did quite a bit more than I did. I spent about three hours with the finish mower on the 5240 trying to get the yard under control.
Continued to work on yard this weekend. Extending the level area from the house and using that dirt to fill wash outs and smooth the hill up to the tree line.
My son drives with a single finger extended whenever I have my phone out.
Found a couple rocks that were only a few inches above finish grade. Ended up digging around them and pulling with a chain.
My son drives with a single finger extended whenever I have my phone out.
Found a couple rocks that were only a few inches above finish grade. Ended up digging around them and pulling with a chain.
Gary Fowler
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Man that is one heck of a rock in the background of your son driving the tractor. I think you will need a lot bigger equipment to get that one out. Would that be called a boulder or the tip of a mountain?
Got a bunch of rocks that we working around in leveling and smoothing out the yard. You can see the tip of another just under the bucket in that picture. Those are part of a line where we going from level to up the hill.
Our house is up on a rock ledge. Appears the slab for the 1st floor was poured right on the rock. Our driveway would make a great sledding hill - except it ends at the street.
daugen
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Not sure I will ever find a picture of it, but growing up, in the granite area of Eastern PA, we had huge rocks like the one in the pic everywhere, not in the fields, they had been cleared, but everywhere in the woods. And one identical to the one in the pic was left in the middle of the front lawn. And as little kids, a rock that size, well....it's King of the Mountain time.
So for a little kid Gary, you bet, a mountain, and for very brief periods, I was king. Having two older brothers meant my tenure was very short...
Headed out to mow more lawn. Got the orchard done yesterday, today the roadsides and the rear field.
Rain not coming in to 4pm
I've got time.
famous last words...
Larro Darro
Elite Member
The 3930 has been sitting for a couple three weeks with a bad front tire. I finally came off of the $266 for two tires. Got the new tires on and cut up the south half of the garden yesterday. Showers today.
terryknight
Veteran Member
spent some time yesterday popping yews out of the ground and today cleaning up stumps and trees that i had previously topped
