WHAT DID YOU DO TODAY ?

   / WHAT DID YOU DO TODAY ? #691  
Yesterday evening I need to clear some cobwebs from my mind so I used the FS90 with Brush Blade and worked on clearing sweet gums and "Virginia stink trees" from my gate area and the fire road. Piled them all into the back of my little snowplow truck and dumped them on the next burn pile. I managed to get a couple loads, and successfully cleared the cobwebs in the process.

Be well all,
David
 
   / WHAT DID YOU DO TODAY ? #692  
Took the steepness out of the hill by the driveway. Started only being able to go up and down it with the box blade and finished it off going across it with the land plane. Now I can safely mow it.

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   / WHAT DID YOU DO TODAY ? #693  
Set the JD261 to highest cut level to make it behave like a bush hog. Cut the pasture area down to 6-inch high. We have had no real rain for about a month. After the livestock hits the pasture, it's all twigs and throns. Cutting this mess down should help the pasture rebound some.
 
   / WHAT DID YOU DO TODAY ? #694  
Bought it last week does that count?

New Volvo L20 one sweet ride - this is my first ever "Oil-Cooled" engine not one drop of water in this machine!

Great machine. I'm not aware of an oil cooled engine but it makes a lot of sense. How much oil does it hold and how do you like it?
 
   / WHAT DID YOU DO TODAY ? #695  
Hi all

Took delivery today of my new Wallenstein BX62 chipper :)
Have been just putting though light Kurrajong branches, Have yet to try some hardwood. I'm sure some ironbark will slow it down a bit :) So far it really does suck the branches in and does 4 inch ones with ease.

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Mike
 
   / WHAT DID YOU DO TODAY ? #696  
Once again in need of 'Tood adjustment and clearing of mental cobwebs I spent a few hours yesterday morning using the push mower and LX266 riding Lawn mower to mow most of the "yard" (both upper and lower), the gate area, the former pasture fence outer side, and the fire road.

Everything except the upper yard I had skipped the last time, so some of the weedage was heavy.

Today I'm going back to cleaning up slash and building a burn pile for a bonfire party. Mostly to keep the mental cobwebs at bay...

Be well all,
David
 
   / WHAT DID YOU DO TODAY ? #697  
Pulled/pushed my old wheelhorse mower out of the shed, where it has been buried under junk for the last 10+ yrs. Got it in the barn and removed the non working engine. The engine seized up sometime around 1998. I had it rebuilt, but it stopped running again about a week later (I was never charged for the rebuild). Since I had a rear finish mower for my tractor, I never had it fixed again. Lately I have been looking at replacement engines, and thought I'd try to find a new engine that will work in it. I found one, but the hood might have to be modified to get it to fit. View attachment 384964View attachment 384965View attachment 384966

I have one much like yours it is a 1996 if I remember right , with a twin onan eng. which I have been useing every summer . The only thing done to it is oil , filters , plugs , and new plug wires . The carb needs some work now as I have had to put some carb cleaner in it a couple times this summer to keep it going. This new gas is a pain even though it may not have caused the problem I am now having .
 
   / WHAT DID YOU DO TODAY ? #698  
Welded up my light bar and installed it

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installed a Pyle FM Radio & speakers that has an AUX setting to play MP3s
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welded hooks on my bucket

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moved my tool box to the right side fender and hand grab bar to the left fender

Going to take a midnight cruise through the woods tonight :D
 
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   / WHAT DID YOU DO TODAY ? #699  
Hi all

Took delivery today of my new Wallenstein BX62 chipper :)
Have been just putting though light Kurrajong branches, Have yet to try some hardwood. I'm sure some ironbark will slow it down a bit :) So far it really does suck the branches in and does 4 inch ones with ease.

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Mike

SWEET.

I too have just gotten a chipper, it's a MTD, but the sweet thing is, the engine can be disconnected and swung out of the way. Now to see if a PTO drive could be made to attach. :)
 
   / WHAT DID YOU DO TODAY ? #700  
Yesterday I fired up the MS290 20" FarmBoss and took out a (for me) scary dead Mimosa Folia tree and dropped it in two cuts right where I wanted it even with a slope and a stiff breeze.

The before is during this last winter, the circles try o point out the trees I cut.

I dropped a couple small dogwoods, the Mimosa, a sweet gum by the pond that the top came off last winter and looked terrible on the skyline, and a crepe myrtle infested with a pawlonia (I despise those trees). One of the dogwoods is outside the frame.

I did fire up the tractor to lift the largest chunk and hold it steady while cutting it up.

I am so very sore today from limbing with my big saw...

Be well all,
David
 

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