Busy Wife This Weekend

[EddieWalker]

I've rebuilt both of mine on my Case dozer and once you get it off of the machine, the rebuild is pretty cheap and simple. Very similar to any other hydraulic cylinder, except it uses grease instead of hydraulic oil. Ounce the seals around the piston are gone, it doesn't work any more. Replace the seals and it's all good again.

 

[mike69440]

Wow, have not posted in a while! I've had some heath issues and injuries. I'm back at it but old age has slowed me down quiet a bit. Back in the day I'd work on the place dusk to dawn, but now 3-4 hours tops, & I'm done.
Any rich Baby boomer or millennial thinking they are going to retire and move to the country, start a farm, and enjoy rural life had better realize they are dreaming or be rich enough to pay to have the work done. Glad we started this project 18 years ago.
So we got a surprise with a baby cow, now she is 3 days old.
Also realized that to buy the meager equipment new on our little farm/home would take about $400K. It would never happen give the state of our country today.
Thank God for my little excavator, as I now move about as fast as that old machine, and falling large trees seems way more risky and harder now without mechanical help. Respect gravity.

 

[EddieWalker]

Thanks for the update. My wife keeps telling me that I need to get everything done before I get too old. I think she knows what's coming and I'm in denial. I just don't know how to get everything done. Not even close!!!!

 

[mike69440]

Thanks for the update. My wife keeps telling me that I need to get everything done before I get too old. I think she knows what's coming and I'm in denial. I just don't know how to get everything done. Not even close!!!!

After 6 months of PT on my shoulder, now I am finally getting some real exercise to recover some of the strength I had a decade or two ago. Being kind to myself I'm probably 50% of when I was younger and 80% pre injury. Still, feels good to be able to work.
Took down 2 Large ash trees for fire wood, replaced the worn out drive sprocket/Clutch drum on my saw, repaired and ditched part of my perimeter road, and moved 3 loads of rock to expand the pad at my pistol range.
My neighbor just got a sawmill, so I will give him the large white pine I just dropped. 5 more large trees to drop and I should have 6 cord for the winter. Hate working in heat so I want to finish up gathering wood by next week.
Son in law will have some splitting to do.

 

[EddieWalker]

Good to hear that your recovery is coming along, and you're able to get so much done. I always tell myself that I'm going to have all my firewood split and stacked before summer hits, but it never happens. I have some oak logs ready to cut up, but there are too many other things that have higher priority. Summer is coming, and I haven't split anything yet this year.

 

[mike69440]

Cleaning up debris in the far corner of the property, all 4 cows came over to visit including the baby. Stood 10' from me, Then, two does wander over from the neighbors' property strolling by maybe 15-20 feet. I had the small tractor with me. For some reason, critters are not afraid of machines. Doubt the deer would have approached if it was just me?
My phone was left on the kitchen table, otherwise I would have gotten a pic of the 6 of them.

 

[mike69440]

Working the other property line. Stuff grows in fast, Lots of deadwood, low branches, brush, and debris. No deer today, but entertained the cows. Wife seriously thinks the portable fence is going to keep critters out of her garden.

 

[EddieWalker]

Your place sure looks nice!!! What do you do with the cows in winter? Is there a barn for them? Do you buy hay?

 

[mike69440]

Your place sure looks nice!!! What do you do with the cows in winter? Is there a barn for them? Do you buy hay?

They spend the summer at "Cow camp' and the winters in barn, to feed the horses and cows during the 6 months they can not eat off our field needs approximately 900 bails.

Finished +6 cord of wood just before the weather turned high 80's and humid. I can barely work when it is 60F.

 

[EddieWalker]

They spend the summer at "Cow camp' and the winters in barn, to feed the horses and cows during the 6 months they can not eat off our field needs approximately 900 bails.

I'm guessing you're feeding them square bales? Here, square bales are selling for $10 each. I sure hope you're getting them for a lot less then that!!!!!