How Does a Tractor "Ride"?

[BrokenTrack]

It is a waste of time to address the previous collection of voluminous inconsistant and incoherent ramblings. Since the OP' thread has already been hijacked, my replys to forum posts attempt to share helpful information to the thread topic but also disagree w/ responses that are misleading, and incorrect or speculative.

The NH poster is sensitive to contrasting facts. He wears his injuries to shin, forehead, and thigh as some " badge of honor". By ignoring the protocol for logger chaps, special purpose helmets, faceshield, hightop work boots , hearing protection, he fails to mitigate the frequency of accidents. Since he logs professionally in retirement for income, he signals the weekend warrior to follow a careless example.


Members understand this is NOT a logging forum while we discuss definations. Members do collect firewood and fell some trees for friends, neighbors, personal use and very limited commercial operations. Suggesting that members drive over stumps tall enough to hang up their tractor is simply erroneous. Members do not generally abuse their tractor and subject them to dangerous stunts like driving over tall stumps. I suggest members w/ woodlots, know the territory well, properly mark trails, and act responsibly when working in these woodlots. Again,KNOW the TBN audience. Many folks treat their tractors better then themselves! I digress. The subject is careless disregard for safety and bragging as such. Railing against chain brakes on saws is yet another foolish procedure. In fact, Muhammad himself recently posted a tragic safety related incident.

There are examples where agreement exists w/ the NH fellow, but there are also others where we disagree. If he would like to pursue them, he can initiate a thread, and they can each be debated upon the merit.

Again erroneous advice, or careless, safety specific issues will generally result in any member being called out.

MajorWager, you keep changing your wording. I never once suggested people drive over high stumps, I said that it happens, and people should not be condemned for letting it happen which is what your first post on this topic stated. Please go back and read it, and see how your wording has morphed.

You also say that the thousands of members on this site have acreage that are just this way or that, but I hardly think that is true. It is not for me, and I am member. I am betting money that the collection of members is quite diverse considering the numbers, and the regions of the country everyone is from.

As always, you are more than welcome to come up to my farm. There is an open invitation for all of New England to come here for our free Rock the Flock concert event on August 11th to benefit drug addiction recovery (Teen Challenge Maine). If you would like to come up before then, please do. I cannot drive all the equipment at once, and I have plenty of trees to cut.

Trying to explain every situation is tiring, and not really conducive to forums. It is easy to take something out of context because it is snippets of text with no full explanation, and lacking tone. Retirement for instance, yes I am retired, but before I got cancer I was cutting hundreds of cords of wood per year. But I hardly think I am the only person that dubs around with forestry and farming after they retire, and considering how much our farm grew wood in my career years, it needed a wee bit of forestry work to meet the forestry plan. That wood however did not go for firewood or onto my sawmills for personal wood, it went instead to paper mills, commercial sawmills, and other people for firewood. There are plenty of people on here who do the same thing, maybe not clearing land for more fields, or doing forestry thinning, but still professionally cutting wood for paper mills and sawmills.

But before you get confused and ask though, let me please clarify this too before I get accused of being purposely misleading. My primary residence is in MAINE, which here, I have two houses, but my wife and I also own an additional home in New Hampshire.

 

[California]

Hey guys lighten up. Everybody has a different style, and working environment.

Just let it be.

 

[majorwager]

Again deviate, obfuscate, never address the point ot issue at hand. The hand in friendship angle is touching, extend an olive branch, can't defend contradictory behavior, so be my friend and please pretend not to notice. Simply own responsibility for behavior that encourages others to act in harm' s way. If you desire to perform magnonomoue good works, begin with promting responsible woodland practices. You are not alone in engaging in charitable activities and organizations. But to wear such activity on your sleeves as a basis that you are somehow better than others actually cheapens and commercializes the effort. The most respected and effective charitable contributors in my community are those that work tirelessly behind the scenes, allowing the credit to be bestowed for those that show up in time for the final curtain call.

 

[FM504]

Sunrise duel at 20 paces should settle this one...so much for the op, but was entertaining nonetheless.

 

[majorwager]

FM504,
Wondering in there might be other alternatives.? Anyway, Not sure if John Deere or Cyrus McCormick envisioned" Ride" as a characteristic of their inventions?

 

[FM504]

Yeah I doubt it, mine weighs around 11k and has zero suspension. Ride quality never entered my mind when buying.

 

[BrokenTrack]

Again deviate, obfuscate, never address the point ot issue at hand. The hand in friendship angle is touching, extend an olive branch, can't defend contradictory behavior, so be my friend and please pretend not to notice. Simply own responsibility for behavior that encourages others to act in harm' s way...

Actually I have had some great teachers...

"If a man thinks ill of you, do not in turn think ill of him, for you are far more sinful then even he thinks"

Charles Spurgeon

I got nothing against you MajorWager. Again, come on up on Aug 11th for Rock the Flock, or come on up to work around the farm. I always got something to do with tractors, and I honestly think you would have a good time here.

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For those that do not know, Lamb Jam is a bluegrass free concert on Aug 10th, and Rock the Flock is a free rock concert on Aug 11th to benefit Teen Challenge Maine, a drug addiction and recovery group here in Maine. After losing my good friend to an opiate overdose, along with my ex-brother-in-law, Katie and I decided we had to do something about this growing crisis. We chose to use our farm to host a free concert because it has views of Mt Washington some 150 miles away. Last year we had 350 people and raised $3000, but this year we expect 1000 people or more, have a motorcycle ride in and are doing an antique auto club cruise in.

We only have two goals:

Praise God
Help Teen Challenge

 

[majorwager]

If someone truly wishes to assist w/ the opioid crisis, and you are retired, get involved every day. There are many efforts under way, daily dedicated folks trying to make a difference. A feel good one time party, concert, whatever one calls it, then just rub your hands together, all done, did my part, pat yourself on the back END of the effort. ONE day and a few thousand dollars is NO Match for a daily EFFORT.

And this isn't personal. When someone can't defend the issues they turn to the personal victim scenario. Whoa is me, I am a victim here. Well I am done. I surrender. Folks reading will draw their own conclusions.

 

[California]

Unsubscribing from this thread.

 

[BrokenTrack]

If someone truly wishes to assist w/ the opioid crisis, and you are retired, get involved every day. There are many efforts under way, daily dedicated folks trying to make a difference. A feel good one time party, concert, whatever one calls it, then just rub your hands together, all done, did my part, pat yourself on the back END of the effort. ONE day and a few thousand dollars is NO Match for a daily EFFORT.

And this isn't personal. When someone can't defend the issues they turn to the personal victim scenario. Whoa is me, I am a victim here. Well I am done. I surrender. Folks reading will draw their own conclusions.

That is just it, I have, for years and long before I retired. Yet you do not know me, and yet make assumptions.