How in the bleepity bleep?

[MossRoad]

Well, more Bleepty Bleep again! I was pushing some old stuff to clean up where an old log cabin was on the property. That thing was very old split logs/square head nails and my neighbor said it was built by his great great grandfather. Neighbor is about 80 now, so it was a long long time ago. A big mess had grown up around it over the years and kept expanding and expanding until it got really thick and some large trees/vines were all tangled up. Cabin is long gone but the mess was still there. I've been cutting and pushing the mess out of there since last April and am close to finishing it. I pushed some more this evening when it cooled off a little. I managed to push an old piece of a limb through the front grill. Grrrrr. I have the expanded metal to weld onto the bar in front of the grill...but haven't gotten around to it. Metal grill is $93 on the Kubota parts list. I saw one on fleabay for about $50 used. Thank the Lord it did not go through the radiator or something really important. I'll wait until I get done with all the pushing there is to do, before replacing. I like to lift the bucket and then push down on the old stuff/heavy vines and then use the chainsaw to cut them off. Then pull the mess out with a heavy chain on the back of the tractor. I think old dead stuff is more dangerous to a tractor than live trees and things.

Hidden debris is sometimes horrible to find. A couple weeks ago I was brush hogging trails on our property and found metal railroad hardware and fencing material I never knew was there. Owned the property for 25+ years and never saw it before. There's still a couple places I haven't been on it yet and its only 20 acres. Thick, thick brush.

 

[gwstang]

I've been here over thirty years. Had some pines cut for timber about 15 years ago. Some of the remote back areas I rarely go to. I was hunting back there about 8 years ago (before the tornado in 2011) and found a dang giant tire the pulpwood crew had left down in there. You know those giant tree skid tires that are man high. I am guessing it gave out and they had it changed and just pushed the old one off down a long hill that isn't easily accessed. Bunch of varmints. That thing is way to heavy to just move by hand and I ain't going to get a tractor off in there....so it will be there until the kingdom come, I guess. Won't hurt anything, but still.

 

[MossRoad]

There's an old railroad grade and bridge on our property. The tracks are long gone, but before we bought our property someone dumped quite a few car and truck tires and a couple large tractor tires along the old grade. I can get the car tires by hand, but the tractor tires require, well, a tractor! :laughing: and I haven't had a reason to remove them as of yet.