Pictures from a skid steer mowing contractor

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You want to come do a job just west of Branford? I need some trails cut on my property using a skid steer mulcher.

I'm thinking sometime mid-late September timeline to start.
I would go over there to do a job as Branford is the halfway point between my house and my hunting camp over near Perry, shoot me a PM and I can give you my phone number and we can talk it over. Charlie.
 
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Do they decide how wide an area that you are going to clear? Seems to me that it should be wide enough to get a tractor in there and be able to turn around while keeping it mowed.
Some of the ones that plan on maintaining it themselves do tell me what they want width wise, most just want about 10' wide strip off of the fence/property line so they have room for their tractor, the rest tell me to do what I see fit because I will be the one maintaining it yearly and that they just want to be able to walk around the perimeter of their property.
 
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My guess is, 2x's are to keep trusses from rotating or twisting. Jon
 
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That's a great looking barn. Can you tell me what the 2Xs in the bottom of the trusses are for?
It's just a rat run to sturdy up the trusses before you get up on top of them, even with them in there it pays to have a string line or plumb bob until you get the first two trusses plumb and all the pearlings in between them, once you get the first two done right everything else will fall in place as everything is on 12' centers.
 
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Mr. Lineman, did you survive H. Debbie?

Missing posts of your latest adventure!!!
 
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Mr. Lineman, did you survive H. Debbie?

Missing posts of your latest adventure!!!
I did , I went on vacation with my family last week, then we had the hurricane on Sunday night/ Monday so since then I have been fixing fences and working on fish pond overflow pipes, etc, also had to go over to my hunting/fishing camp over on the coast about 20 miles North of where Debbie made landfall and do some cleanup, but my camp survived another hurricane without any structural damage, just debris and fallen trees to cleanup and refrigerator/freezer to clean out because of no power, so hopefully we will get back to normal this coming up week. Thanks for checking. Charlie.
 
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Well I am about 6 weeks behind on this hay field and have already sprayed twice for army worms but late yesterday afternoon I went and checked one of my hay fields and sure enough I saw the signs right on one edge where the spawns of Satan had already eaten their way out about 30 yards from the woods, so I said
"No sir" I am not spraying again I am going to take a chance and cut with a 60% today and 50% chance tomorrow and then getting much lower chances for the remainder of the week, so rain might get me but them dang army worms aren't getting one more mouthful of my hay grass. Went by one of my neighbors field this afternoon and saw the cow bird flock so I pulled in and yep their in there thick, called him and told him he better jump on them , wasn't but about 30 minutes he called back and said you got any pesticide? I said yeah come on over, so he got his done this afternoon, if you have never had to deal with army worms thank your lucky stars.
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Never knew that is why the cow birds flock in fields like that. They're like seagulls swarming on bait fish.
 
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We had army worms real bad a few years ago. Price of hay went way up, nobody had any to sell because of all the damage. Now I'm just starting to hear people talk about them being back this year and spraying for them.
 

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