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I had my new-to-me Bobcat excavator (link) out this afternoon to move the pieces of a tree which came down this winter. I have the branches chipped and most of the pine needles moved away so it was time to move the hunks of tree trunk. Slinging the tree pieces below the bucket worked well...

(higher resolution image attached) I have a number of projects planned which will require some (hydraulic) help digging or lifting rocks. After considering options ranging from building a Cadplans backhoe, building a standalone cadplans digger, buying a subframe backhoe, to renting a...

Look at QuickTime Video - Making of 'Pretty Big Dig' . There was a story about this on 20/20 last night. If you don't already have Quicktime you will need to download it to view the video. Apple QuickTime Download ABC News web page on the 20/20 story

New Ipswich, New Hampshire was hit hard by this weeks Ice storm. I lost one 24 inch pine next to my driveway, The top of another large pine broke off and landed in the back yard (about 10 inch diameter at the break). Half a large pine split off at a fork in the tree and fell across the...

Mountain Laurel growing next to my house. My house. My garden is the brown area in the foreground This is my progress to date clearing the future site of my garden. This is the area with the stone wall in another post. It clearly will take me another year before I move the garden...

I am clearing about an acre of land on each side of my house as the future sites of my garden. The I found this old stone wall. The land was farmed long ago, was bulldozed 13 years ago when the land was subdivided and the road built and has since grown the trees you see. I feel lucky...

We had a thread on plastic diesel fuel drums last week. A question comes to mind: is static electricity is a concern with the plastic (HDPE) drums? For years I have read the instructions to place fuel containers on the ground before filling them (i.e. don't fill them when they are in the...

My Land Pride 1542 rotary tiller came with a slip clutch (I live in New Hampshire - there is a reason we are called the Granite state). In three years it has never slipped even when I hit a rock big enough to stall the tractor. I found the instructions here to free a slip clutch. I was going...