I feel sooooooo much better now that my tractor is working right again.
Yesterday I worked it for about 3-1/2 hours. Moving debris and pulling a few stumps.
We have our first decent quantity of snow coming overnight tonight. Luckily for me I have a couple days off right now.
So today I put the tractor to work all day long. I worked it from 7am until 4:30pm with about 1-1/2 hours of breaks in there to get food, caffeine, and do a couple chores in the house for the wife while she was at work.
The tractor performed flawlessly the whole day. First I had to fill over two culverts on the trails with dirt I had put in a while back. We had received a lot of rain one day with some of it being a hard down pour and it washed away a bunch of the dirt because no grass had grown in yet. Then I moved a bunch of logging debris off the trails with the grapple, pulled about seven or eight stumps, and then I installed another new culvert in a place I really wanted to get drained. I figured I better go for it now because I had the culvert sitting at the camp. I managed to do a little ditching at both ends of it to get the water in that area to go where I want it to. And back filled over the culvert. That drainage project will have to continue next summer when things dry up. Another good job done.
Then, just before dark I took the backhoe off right in my detached garage where it will likely stay for the winter. Then put my new to me back blade on and am all ready for the snow.
Here are a few shots of today’s work.
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