TODAYS SEAT TIME

[Gordon Gould]

The buzzards had already started tenderizing this beast even though it was only hit the night before, so I didn't want to waste any time gettting it out of there.

Don't blame you - This isn't a good time of year to consider salvaging road kill especially if it laid there over night. For some reason your post just brought that story to mind.

gg

 

[Runner]

Don't try this at home, kids: Used the rear blade on the loader to work the compost pile - and the bucket for some clean-up work, etc.

 

[Xfaxman]

From the Back Porch Camera, mowing the yard:

Click the picture to see it better.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

Another really nice day out today, and one of today's jobs was to mill another older Cherry log, so I loaded one on the mill with my tractor. Once I opened it up, it was pretty nice inside,

Here's the slab wood that came off it, I turned it all into firewood,

I ended up with a pretty nice pile of Cherry,

Then it was off to cleaning some tree's out of the edge of my hayfields!

SR

 

[RayIN]

I hear ya SawyerBob. I bush-hogged 20A this evening and counted 9 big trees storms(1tornado) took down this spring. Two big Walnut trees blew down/were uprooted last Jan. Both fell on my old pole barn. Cleaning them up I'll leave to a professional, they fell across a creek and the main trunk of both is about 5' above the creek. The other 7 are on the other side of a different creek, which can't be driven across with tractor until this fall during the dry season. I have to drive into the creek, then up the creek to where I can drive over the other bank.
I still haven't figured out how to pull logs out, because that creek is just wide enough for my tractor, and pulling them straight across presents its own problems.

 

[Gordon Gould]

I had a section of drive/road where I couldn't grade out the wheel ruts any more, So today I tail gate spread from the one-ton 4 loads, 12.6 ton, of 3/4" Stay-Mat over 350' of road.

Then I shaped it with the back of my rear blade to make an even crown.

Last I packed it with the one-ton. Couldn't quite reach a narrow strip in the center.

gg

 

[BackRoad]

That's way better than many of the local town roads in my neck of the woods Mr. Gordon!

 

[Cycledude]

The first picture looks unbelievably smooth !
What is “stay-mat” ?

 

[Gordon Gould]

The first picture looks unbelievably smooth !
What is “stay-mat” ?

I guess it is a local name here that applies to a road surface gravel mix that packs well - like "crusher run". What I get is from a local Pike plant. It is all crushed ledge and is a mix from 3/4" crushed rock down to stone dust with a little clay added.

With a little practice it tail gates out pretty well. On that stretch I ran down each side of the road with a load so there was double coverage in the center and thin on the edges. Makes it easy to crown.

Here is a 3 minute video I made several years ago .

gg

 

[Engineer42]

I had a section of drive/road where I couldn't grade out the wheel ruts any more, So today I tail gate spread from the one-ton 4 loads, 12.6 ton, of 3/4" Stay-Mat over 350' of road.


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Then I shaped it with the back of my rear blade to make an even crown.


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Last I packed it with the one-ton. Couldn't quite reach a narrow strip in the center.


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gg

Looks good. Nice job.