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    Tractors and wood! Show your pics

    Guess we're all smarter now...! Not sure yet how I would use it... "bull shizzle" just doesn't sound right...
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    What is the fastest way to burn a pile of logs?

    ^^^^ Gasoline is a bit tooo explosive for my use on a burn pile...diesel works! Winter time burns can create some steam at start up. If one is good, two piles burning at the same time is great... Cleared about 10 acres 2 years ago...like the OP, there's still some slash to burn. The critters...
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    New garage time!

    Always impressed with your "git'r done somehow" attitude...
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    New shop going up!

    That's a lot of concrete...everyone used to say the cost of a steel structure was in the metal. Unfortunately, now it's a bad horse race between concrete and steel to see which can be the most expensive... Good Luck on your build!
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    1 tractor rest of forever -- what brand?

    That Ford is a clone of the real thing...kind of like Mahindra and Kioti [emoji6] (Now that I've upset everybody, the devil made me do it...don't y'all dog pile on me, I'm just teasing!)
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    Tractors and wood! Show your pics

    Anybody "near the beach" that you can visit for a week so she can see first hand what traffic and being around crowds is really like? Writing this while visiting our daughter in NEW JERSEY. Unfortunately, we lived around these uncivilized people 17 years too long (meaning New Jerseyians, not my...
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    Beekeeping

    Sounds just like an expectant father... We're all waiting for cigars! (actually, as Eddie said, that's a spectacular looking field).
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    1 tractor rest of forever -- what brand?

    This is about as close as you will find to a FOREVER tractor...
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    Tractors and wood! Show your pics

    That's pretty good...I saw one at an auction this last weekend and thought of you. I had heard that a PTO splitter was slow...but 10 secs at 1400 RPM sound pretty usable.
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    Tractors and wood! Show your pics

    Mr. Rob, what do you estimate your cycle time is with the PTO splitter? You mentioned your tractor sips diesel - what RPM do you generally run it when splitting?
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    Tractors and wood! Show your pics

    That's pretty country, and not far from the Krispy Kreme in Clark Summit! Have stopped there a hundred times (maybe only 99 times) while running Rt 81!!!
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    Intercom to shop

    Thanks for that!
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    Intercom to shop

    ^^^ Mr. Mikester, do you know the brand/name of your driveway alarm?
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    Do you ever get it all figured out or mostly figured out?

    The Ft. Davis area is nice. We've been to the mountain top. Pretty amazing place. I did enjoy the dark skies and stars.
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    Tractors and wood! Show your pics

    Thanks Jstpssng...now you cost me 20 bucks ordering Yellow Eye, Soldier, Jacob's Cattle and Marfax bean seeds to plant!!! I'll let you know in 86 days how the bean-hole beans turn out...[emoji16]
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