Things found in the field

[RadarTech]

I did not actually see all of this on the tractor...
But consider this one..

Up where we are building our house--
We have all kinds of wildlife, turkeys, skunks, racoons, all kinds of birds, and now a BEAR!!

Here is what has happened recently...

The turkey chase!
About a month ago I was out on the private road on our ATV, and saw something move- rather small-- so I gunned it. WOW a turkey! Then I went a little farther and I found the HEN and 10 - 12 chicks!! they moved out of my way and kept on going.. Our driveway snakes around the property due to the mountain terrain, so I met the hen one more time-- and she just did not care! a week later, I was down on the driveway regrading it with the tractor due to the rain damage. As I pushed some washed down dead tree parts over the edge of a bank I saw it.. The gobbler, well I think he saw me.. he was running straight for the tractor and then at the last second took to the air and flew over the bucket..

That is when I saw the hen and the chicks moving away from where I just pushed the garbage! never heard of a gobbler / hen / chicks being so protective!


The bear encounter
I was working late at the house, and my step daughter was riding the ATV.
Well I get the garbled phone call, and a disconnect. (not rare, just not much coverage in the area). I called back and hear BEAR and a disconnect.

Not knowing if she was beeing chased, scared or being stared at- I launch down the road in my SUV. I snatched it back in 4WD once I hit the first curve. If may have taken 90 seconds to get to her. and she tells me about the bear.
after a little looking aroung, I found where it fled , and man it was at least 450-500 pounds.

After a few more weeks, The bear has been seen up and down the road.
Just this past monday, I saw it and fired a warning shot near it and sacred it off!

I know I can't shoot it-- spoke to wildlife officers! but I can scare it off.
I just hope he/she does not happen up on me when I am out on the tractor!

Only time will tell...

so what are the odds for an L3400 HST vs a ~500 lb black bear?
that is what I keep thinking.....


Later,
Jim

 

[Soundguy]

While I'm not into casual destruction of wildlife.. in a case of 'me' or 'it'.. I'm always gonna choose 'me'. IE.. a L3400 HST battering ram.. may just do the trick... that or the rifle / shotgun I'd be carrying with me full time, after seeing the bear... ( fired in self defense only, of course.. )

soundguy

 

[ultrarunner]

I kept finding car parts at the bottom of my property that has been inaccessible for at least the last 30 years do to steepness and a solid wall of poison oak. I'd be rich if there was a market for poison oak... some of the vines are almost coke can diameter.

I've been systematically going after the poison oak the last 5 years and now I was able to punch a trail all the way to the bottom and that's where I've been finding the parts.

Talked to my 87 year old neighbor that build his home in 1957. He said he had ordered a load of rock for his driveway back in 1957 and that truck lost it's brakes and ended up at the bottom on my ravine... He said they recovered the truck, but decided to leave everything else because of the poison oak.

 

[RadarTech]

While I'm not into casual destruction of wildlife.. in a case of 'me' or 'it'.. I'm always gonna choose 'me'. IE.. a L3400 HST battering ram.. may just do the trick... that or the rifle / shotgun I'd be carrying with me full time, after seeing the bear... ( fired in self defense only, of course.. )

soundguy

I agree completely..
As a former Marine-- I just never saw the sport in going out with high powered rifles with a scope.. In some cases, yes it may be sporting- bow, shotgun with short range shells...
but I digress and that is a totally different subject..

In grand military tradition, I have been looking for decals for the tractor recently..
In the armor units, they paint tank graphics on the side for each kill.

So I figured, I could find some squirrel decals, maybe a bear...

Later,
Jim

 

[Soundguy]

I'm sure you can find something like that on the net.. just about everything else is available.

soundguy

 

[L3650]

In grand military tradition, I have been looking for decals for the tractor recently..
In the armor units, they paint tank graphics on the side for each kill.

So I figured, I could find some squirrel decals, maybe a bear...

Later,
Jim

road kill stickers like this?

Roadkill Stickers

 

[Soundguy]

See.. I knew somebody made em'

soundguy

 

[Treemonkey1000]

I would need a few squirrel stickers. Them dumb bushy tailed rodents will run across the road. Stop in the middle of the lane. Panic and turn around. Now if they had just kept going across the road they wouldn't have ended up with tire tread marks on them..

 

[rootytoot]

...An AT&T Blackberry. Been rained on and the screen is fogged. Someone is probably bummed.

Sometimes you can draw the moisture out of an assembly like that by putting the object in a sealed tin with common white rice for a couple of days. The rice is hygroscopic and absorbs moisture, and will eventually clear it up. I've used this trick on old mechanical watches (anybody remember those? anybody still wearing one that you have to wind up )?

 

[ultrarunner]

Sometimes you can draw the moisture out of an assembly like that by putting the object in a sealed tin with common white rice for a couple of days. The rice is hygroscopic and absorbs moisture, and will eventually clear it up. I've used this trick on old mechanical watches (anybody remember those? anybody still wearing one that you have to wind up )?

The only watch I have is a wind-up that belonged to my Grandfather... It's the only watch I wear when I wear a watch....