Recent content by wolc123

We had a good steady rain this afternoon, so I finally got to use my splitter shed. It worked pretty good. I was able to split a bucket load and stack it in the woodshed, in about 40 minutes, all while staying very dry. I patched up the canopy top on my loader tractor, with a combination of...

No dust gets on anything except the firewood in the open ended woodshed across the back.

Your tractor would handle a 12 foot pull-type or an 8 ft 3-point. I certainly would recommend the pull-type as I’ve yet to see any 3 point disk that I thought was worth more than its weight in scrap metal. It takes many more passes with those, to get the ground sufficiently worked, wasting...

It’s mostly real. It still has most of the original parts on it too, including all (4) tires and paint. I have had to change out a few though, over the last 800 hours that I’ve put in it (it had 1200 on it when I got it, back around 1990). I bought it from the widow of the original owner...

If I were to add them up, I suppose I’d have a dozen or so, category 1 3-point implements. I have (2) tractors with 3-point hitches, one mid sized and one large. Keeping the implements on level ground makes changes relatively easy, especially with the mid sized tractor. My mid sized tractor...

We usually only use ours a couple of times each year. My brother and sister have a small cottage up on the St Lawrence River and we always go there for a long weekend in the summer. Last summer it was pretty cool up there and we hardly needed the AC. I’ll be needing it on the Fourth of July...

That’s the third truck camper I’ve owned. It’s 25 years old. I bought them all used. This one looks like it spent most of its time indoors. My wife saw it out for sale (2) years ago, and talked me into buying it. The one we had at the time was just a couple years older. The roof leaked a...

I plowed 5 or 6 times with the Cub thru the winter, and twice with my larger tractor (when we got more than 12”). The Cub certainly earned its keep, especially thanks to that PVC pipe under the blade. For the first time ever, I couldn’t find a single stone in the grass this spring. I was...

This one is a little closer with better parts availability due to higher production numbers:

The plastic covered totes look like they would work pretty good, but they are ugly. My wife with complain, if I tried that.

If you don’t go with a John Deere, you will most likely always live with some regrets. That don’t sound too fun to me.

Stacking firewood was my least favorite part of the whole process, until I finished my woodshed. Now, that’s my favorite part. I haven’t found much worse than stacking fire-wood outside, except maybe trying to unstack it, to bring in the house and burn over the winter. Having to shovel thru...

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I moved some split ash into the woodshed this afternoon. I’ve got room for about 12 more face cord on the newly completed east side. I don’t know if I’ll get that much processed this summer, but it’s nice to have plenty of room if I do. I used to be able to do more firewood in the winter, but...

I hadn’t used my old Stihl MS 280 in a while but it ran real good with some fresh ethanol free 50:1 mix this afternoon. I chunked up the hard maple that I hauled home from my parents over a week ago. It’s been kind of muddy back by that trailer with all the recent rain. Hopefully, the...