TODAYS SEAT TIME

Gordon Gould · Dec 8, 2011

MossflowerWoods said:
Is that the logging winch on the 3pt in the 2nd pic?

Thanks,
David

Yes it is. A very useful piece of equipment if you enjoy working in the woods. My operation is pretty small but it keeps me busy and happy.

IndyIan · Dec 8, 2011

Smithrr said:
Ha, that's funny. I just didn't even think of taking a photo. I could take a picture of my before and after insurance bills when I get the after bill.

My son called me a redneck doing redneck bodywork, but I like the "Backhoe Body Shop". Heck, around here I could possibly make some money with that.

Yep, my old Neon is sporting some sledge hammer body work on the rear quarter panel too... The main goal was to get the fender back out over the tire. Although I think if I had a backhoe anywhere near it I'd be tempted just to maul the car and put it out of its misery!:laughing: I know I was tempted with the sledge hammer!

MossflowerWoods · Dec 10, 2011

Gordon Gould said:
Yes it is. A very useful piece of equipment if you enjoy working in the woods. My operation is pretty small but it keeps me busy and happy.

Gordon,

Those are AWESOME pictures. Can I come help?

David

MossflowerWoods · Dec 10, 2011

So I got a couple hours in today. I dropped the TSG-50 fo the first time, and the Grapple. Picked up the bucket, and a borrowed PHD.

I put in 2 posts for a 12' gate, and a corner post and 3 more posts plus the top rail to start my first temporary pasture. Both my older daughters helped (although mostly they bulilt a fire) and 2 different buddies from Church showed up to help.

Pics and more will be on my Temp Horse pasture thread.

I got a slow start for a wide variety of reasons, and It took far too long to find and load all the tools, and I'd never run a PHD, and this is my first horse fence so I was nervous about every decision.

But we got started, and my wife thought it looked great and like we got a nice start.

More tomorrow...

Be well,
David

Gordon Gould · Dec 12, 2011

We have snow now and the weather is nice. I finished pulling all the hung up blow downs last week and today started pulling the ones on the ground.

Gordon Gould · Dec 13, 2011

While I was in the area I cut this gnarlly old maple that has seen better days to let more light into a little opening that has a nice wild apple tree in it. I cabled up three big branches on the tractor side and winched them in together for the first hitch and then took the butt log.

MossflowerWoods · Dec 13, 2011

Gordon Gould said:
While I was in the area I cut this gnarlly old maple that has seen better days...

Gordon,

I LOVE these pictures of your tractor, logging in the snow.

AWESOME.

If I lived closer, I'd come help (and hang out and learn).

Thanks for sharing.
Be well,
David

MossflowerWoods · Dec 13, 2011

Jonnyc1999 came over today. He took out his big bad Stihl and dropped a widow-maker pine on the far edge of the pasture. He dropped the cherry tree that was going to be inside the pasture, and he cut the last 9" on the massive 4 trunk black walnut stump that LstInThot had tried to cut in the dark. (My bucket snapped the last little 3-4" chunk).

Then we got to work on the temporary Horse pasture fence. He helped me get the generator running better, and he helped me load everything into my truck, and we hauled it up the hill and go to work. He had great advice on both the fence line, the string lines, how many holes to auger at one shot, etc.

Neither one of us could get the borrowed Bostich framing nailer to shoot nails.

But together we set the new corner for an 88' stretch from the gate North, and we set posts & nailed boards for 48 feet.

It was good seat time and great company. I had a great time and my wife and daughter's said the fence we put in was "Beautiful".

He even took pics...:thumbsup: (only way I typically make it into the photos!)

Before he left we even fixed the short run my daughters and I had tried to do on Sunday but had been forced to stop because the generator would not keep running.

Then I headed to Home Depot for a 5000w Husky generator and a Porter Cable 6gal pancake compressor with finish nailer, brad and staple gun...

What a great afternoon! Tractor buddies are good buddies to have...

Thanks for the awesome day working shoulder to shoulder today Jon.

Be well,
David

wcampbell47 · Dec 13, 2011

Today I got about 4 hours in putting the finishing touches on the parking lot for the primary boat ramp in the subdivision. I now have 14 hours on the new B3200. Used about 80 tons of crushed limestone in all.

KYDan · Dec 13, 2011

MossflowerWoods said:
Jonnyc1999 came over today. He took out his big bad Stihl and dropped a widow-maker pine on the far edge of the pasture. He dropped the cherry tree that was going to be inside the pasture, and he cut the last 9" on the massive 4 trunk black walnut stump that LstInThot had tried to cut in the dark. (My bucket snapped the last little 3-4" chunk).

Then we got to work on the temporary Horse pasture fence. He helped me get the generator running better, and he helped me load everything into my truck, and we hauled it up the hill and go to work. He had great advice on both the fence line, the string lines, how many holes to auger at one shot, etc.

Neither one of us could get the borrowed Bostich framing nailer to shoot nails.

But together we set the new corner for an 88' stretch from the gate North, and we set posts & nailed boards for 48 feet.

It was good seat time and great company. I had a great time and my wife and daughter's said the fence we put in was "Beautiful".

He even took pics...:thumbsup: (only way I typically make it into the photos!)

Before he left we even fixed the short run my daughters and I had tried to do on Sunday but had been forced to stop because the generator would not keep running.

Then I headed to Home Depot for a 5000w Husky generator and a Porter Cable 6gal pancake compressor with finish nailer, brad and staple gun...

What a great afternoon! Tractor buddies are good buddies to have...

Thanks for the awesome day working shoulder to shoulder today Jon.

Be well,
David

Very pastoral, not enough scratches on your bucket yet, but they will come with additional use. What type of wood are you using for your planking? I have found that white oak seems to last the best, but be ready for some thumb damage, driving a nail into it is akin to driving a nail into a rock! But, it lasts a long time with minimal care. I have torn out all of my plank fence except for the crowding area and the loading chutes. I had some solo seat time today, but not on my tractor, rather windrowing leaves on the zero turn and then raking them up and loading them into the gator for dumping on the compost heap. A good day here too! According the weather forecasters, aka, lying scum, it's supposed to be windy and relatively warm here tomorrow, but alas very little seat time for me tomorrow. It's a honeydo day.

davcog · Dec 13, 2011

Got a couple hrs in today moving some rocks and stumps from new snowmobile trail. Had to dig around one rock and then dig hole deeper. To big to get out hole once it was loose.

Now it will down far enough that sleds can get over with no damage.

Short Game · Dec 14, 2011

Dropped some big limbs today for about another 30 four foot mushroom logs and trailered them back while the ground was frozen. I have 63 logs inoculated now. I am shooting for around a hundred.

MossflowerWoods · Dec 14, 2011

Short Game said:
Dropped some big limbs today for about another 30 four foot mushroom logs and trailered them back while the ground was frozen. I have 63 logs inoculated now. I am shooting for around a hundred.

Bob,

That's a lot of ****ake! Do you sell them or just eat them all? :licking:

David

Gordon Gould · Dec 14, 2011

MossflowerWoods said:
Jonnyc1999 came over today. He took out his big bad Stihl and dropped a widow-maker pine on the far edge of the pasture. He dropped the cherry tree that was going to be inside the pasture, and he cut the last 9" on the massive 4 trunk black walnut stump that LstInThot had tried to cut in the dark. (My bucket snapped the last little 3-4" chunk).

Then we got to work on the temporary Horse pasture fence. He helped me get the generator running better, and he helped me load everything into my truck, and we hauled it up the hill and go to work. He had great advice on both the fence line, the string lines, how many holes to auger at one shot, etc.

Neither one of us could get the borrowed Bostich framing nailer to shoot nails.

But together we set the new corner for an 88' stretch from the gate North, and we set posts & nailed boards for 48 feet.

It was good seat time and great company. I had a great time and my wife and daughter's said the fence we put in was "Beautiful".

He even took pics...:thumbsup: (only way I typically make it into the photos!)

Before he left we even fixed the short run my daughters and I had tried to do on Sunday but had been forced to stop because the generator would not keep running.

Then I headed to Home Depot for a 5000w Husky generator and a Porter Cable 6gal pancake compressor with finish nailer, brad and staple gun...

What a great afternoon! Tractor buddies are good buddies to have...

Thanks for the awesome day working shoulder to shoulder today Jon.

Be well,
David

From your pictures I can see that a lot of good work has happened on your place since August :thumbsup::thumbsup:

Short Game · Dec 14, 2011

MossflowerWoods said:
Bob,

That's a lot of ****ake! Do you sell them or just eat them all? :licking:

David

It's a dilemma. I'm not into commerce at all. But darn, I'm enjoying doing this so much. It makes me feel very productive. At least I don't have to worry about it until I have too many mushrooms. The plan from the start was to give them away. I have given away four of the logs, but I only want to give them to someone I think will do a decent job of managing them and respecting the work I put in.

Ford tractor · Dec 15, 2011

"today" was yesterday, but...

The neighbor called and his well went out. Brought over 2 tractors, one with a hoe. Dug from the house to the well head and around it. The well guys wanted 6'deep, 6' wide and the it was about 25' long. So only about 33-33 cuyd of material, but it was windy, raining and 33 degrees. Took about 3 hours to dig as there was a lot of stuff in the way like driveway, house, wires, trees, roots, sidewalk, etc etc.

The TLB was only used to dig, the small one was used to push the dirt back in the hole. Dirt went back in about 30-45 min. Being cold, wet and ready to head home makes one highly efficient!

JD 4520 · Dec 15, 2011

Ford tractor said:
"today" was yesterday, but...

The neighbor called and his well went out. Brought over 2 tractors, one with a hoe. Dug from the house to the well head and around it. The well guys wanted 6'deep, 6' wide and the it was about 25' long. So only about 33-33 cuyd of material, but it was windy, raining and 33 degrees. Took about 3 hours to dig as there was a lot of stuff in the way like driveway, house, wires, trees, roots, sidewalk, etc etc.

The TLB was only used to dig, the small one was used to push the dirt back in the hole. Dirt went back in about 30-45 min. Being cold, wet and ready to head home makes one highly efficient!

Nice work and a great neighbor you are. I trust that you will receive a nice Christmas blessing any day soon.

twinjayhawks · Dec 15, 2011

I got to build a Generator House today. My generators have been living under a tarp for the last 2 years next to the electrical pole waiting to be used.

I had to dig into the side of the hill to prepare a pad with the backhoe. That took much longer than planned because it was very hard to get level. I then had to build a wooden structure for the house to sit on out of treated wood and then erect the structure.

The generators look very happy don't they?

The last picture is where I hooked up the backup power connectors. All I need to do is... Turn off the main feed, start the generators, hook up the cord and refill with gas every 8 hrs. By hooking it up this way my house panels are live and I can control what is hot from there. My chicken house light is fed by another panel so I can see when the main power comes back on.

Gizmo2 · Dec 15, 2011

twinjayhawks said:
I got to build a Generator House today. My generators have been living under a trap for the last 2 years next to the electrical pole waiting to be used.

I had to dig into the side of the hill to prepare a pad with the backhoe. That took much longer than planned because it was very hard to get level. I then had to build a wooden structure for the house to sit on out of treated wood and then erect the structure.

The generators look very happy don't they?

The last picture is where I hooked up the backup power connectors. All I need to do is... Turn off the main feed, start the generators, hook up the cord and refill with gas every 8 hrs. By hooking it up this way my house panels are live and I can control what is hot from there. My chicken house light is fed by another panel so I can see when the main power comes back on.

Very nice. What building is that? It's just what we need.

twinjayhawks · Dec 15, 2011

Gizmo2 said:
Very nice. What building is that? It's just what we need.

It is a Rubbermaid kit I bought at Lowes $650 here (7'x7' +/-). I would have liked to stick build one but I did not have the time right now.

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