TODAYS SEAT TIME

[Jim Timber]

Yeah, the aspen regen leaves are huge. There's suckers taller than me (6').

Didn't take any pics, but I did make some good progress grinding stumps from the skidder trail that connects my house site to the future food plot despite getting rain in the morning.

I also learned the down side of 60 PTO horsepower. You spend more time driving up on stumps than you do grinding them. Lol

 

[sixdogs]

Aspen is a part of the poplar family, and the only one which occurs here naturally. Hence poplar or "popple" are synonymous with aspen. I don't know about twisted; it's not uncommon to see it 80 feet tall, and 30 feet to the first limb. Still, that's small compared to where you are now. The wood is also weak and rots easily. Yet the Baldwin Ladder Company down near BrokenTrack and RustyIron uses the Bigtooth for side rails in his fruit tree ladders.
The time of year that you cut it helps somewhat, also. Right now is a good time to reduce sprouting because a lot of their energy is stored in the limbs and leaves. In winter there's a lot more stored in the roots so that in spring the sprouts can be more vigorous. No matter when you cut it though, you're going to get sprouts. What's really funny is how big the leaves can get on those sprouts, sometimes I see them as big as a dinner plate.

Back during that ice storm in 1998, I had about 40 mature poplar that were growing on the edges break off and fall into my fields . Live and let live I used to think. Anyway, come spring I could barely push those things back into the woods with my loader because they were so crooked and such a weak wood. Out here, poplar looks mildly like the aspen of maybe Colorado. Lots of it is straight, select grade and commands a good price for trim uses. My house is interior trimmed with it.

There may be a sub species in Maine because we had the nasty looking crooked and rotten looking stuff but I have seen a slimmer and straighter poplar at times. I didn't pay much attention but it had a slightly different leaf.

Got to figure a Yankee would come up with a use for the wood. Never throw anything out.

 

[Howling]

Rented a lift for the weekend. Got a little seat time stuffing it back in to a tight space.


Most of the weekend was standing (and swaying).

 

[prof fate]

Many hours yesterday in the seat..some brush hogging but most moving dirt, attempting to level a 66x132' area for a horse arena. So far dropped the one end about 16" and made MANY trips with buckets of dirt to low places.

Have maybe 8-10" more to go on this one end, maybe some across the middle. Used to be a barn and indoor arena here in the 80s so it's not to far off what I need.

Hit 72 hours on the Kioti, second regen at 71 hours.

 

[PJSprog]

Used the LS to move stuff from the barn to the dumpster and the burn pile Saturday as we de-cluttered the barn ... finally.

 

[Gordon Gould]

Did a little road maintenance yesterday. I didn't clean the leaves out of the ditch blow my neighbors hay field and paid the price. We had a lot of rain all last week and the ground was really saturated then it was topped off Saturday night by a real down pour. 1-3/4" in 20 minutes. A wall of water came off the field that slopes to the road and washed the ditch leaves until they got to heavy and formed a dam forcing the water onto the road. Glad the down pour didn't last any longer the washout wasn't to bad.



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[Jim Timber]

Well, after 3 years I'm upgrading my stump grinders teeth. Going from undersized 700 series to proper 900 series Greenteeth.

Hopefully that reduces the mangled shanks and exploded carbides from bumping rocks.

 

[sixdogs]

Many hours yesterday in the seat..some brush hogging but most moving dirt, attempting to level a 66x132' area for a horse arena. So far dropped the one end about 16" and made MANY trips with buckets of dirt to low places.

Have maybe 8-10" more to go on this one end, maybe some across the middle. Used to be a barn and indoor arena here in the 80s so it's not to far off what I need.

Hit 72 hours on the Kioti, second regen at 71 hours.

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What is your mirror mounted to?

 

[daugen]

dried up just enough to get a couple more hours of lawn mowing in and got it done. Little clumpy but at least it's done, as rain came pounding in several hours later.
Rear facing mower on Kubota F mower really does not like damp grass.

Also bush hogged several acres of overgrown field next to my garden, that was a little dicey at times, ground was very soft, using the larger 2wd Massey with ag tires and triribs and several times I felt myself sinking and had to raise the mower a little. This area will all be planted in potatoes next year so i don't care if I leave a few small ruts, better to get rid of the habitat for who knows what critters. Neighboring farm is now abandoned, run right into the ground and the power was turned off. Chronic alcoholic farmer hauled off for last time due to acute alcohol poisoning and now in nursing home. A sad waste of a human being. And what a mess he has left behind. My other close neighbor and I can't wait until someone buys it and cleans the place up. First it needs a dozer and an excavator.

I knew I was in a bit too wet ground when I saw the front left tire simply stop turning and skid along the ground. Sure glad I had ag tires on that tractor. We've had more than ten inches of rain in the last week and the previously dry land sucked up the first five inches just fine, but the next five is all we can handle.

I saw them picking tobacco last week.
This rain must be helping some crops and really making a mess out of others. Sure has wrecked my tomatoes and melons are exploding daily.

 

[4570Man]

I painted a house. The man basket makes the job MUCH easier and safer. There’s a couple places where it still wouldn’t reach but having the second ladder to set paint on and having the taller ladder tied off to the basket was still a lot better.