My Place: a CAT, Mahindra, and Ducks

[Wagtail]

The good old Mk.1. eyeball is pretty good at determining a level area... it's what I used when levelling the area for the pad of my 5-bay shed. Yes, the later use of a laser found a 'mound' that was quickly corrected.

Ya done good!

 

[dfkrug]

I think I got the sawmill shed pad leveled. I will find out when my concrete guy stops by with his rotary laser.View attachment 748573View attachment 748574View attachment 748575

Now I have decided to take out more trees behind it so I can have more room to drive behind it. So the CAT will get to do more tree carnage with its 28 inch digging bucket.
hugs, Brandi

Pad kooks good.

You concerned about wildfire, Brandi? That forest looks pretty dense. I have taken out 100-150 trees in the past 2 years in order to improve wildfire resistance.

Here's to more tree carnage.

 

[bindian]

Pad kooks good.

You concerned about wildfire, Brandi? That forest looks pretty dense. I have taken out 100-150 trees in the past 2 years in order to improve wildfire resistance.

Here's to more tree carnage.

We don't have wildfires or wind here. Our wind, and wind farms, are/is out in West Texas and the Panhandle. East Texas is thick all like this. We don't have canyons that impede road travel and speed up the winds in a frenzy.

The last photo, above, shows a thick buffer zone I left where the neighbors live close to my fence. It is here where I will take a few trees out. Eventually, I will put up a 8 foot wood fence. Then clear it out like I like the other photos on earlier pages here.
hugs, Brandi

 

[bindian]

The drought continues.

A rainy week is forecast now. Hopefully in 7 days, it will be full again. Come fish out the 4 pound(ish) Blue catfish.
hugs, Brandi

 

[charles todd]

Looks like my pond. At least I was able to spray the water weeds, then bush hog them down.

Has been raining here some. This week is supposed to "bring on the noise!" Raining heavily right now.

CT

 

[bindian]

Charles,
Lucky you!
All our big storms split apart before they get here. Everyday we just get 14 drops. I know, as I counted them.
hugs, Brandi

 

[bindian]

The drought ended Thursday afternoon with 5 inches dumped in about 1.5 hours.

That gate in the corner was where I was standing when I took the photo above, when the pond was down 4 feet.
hugs, Brandi

 

[groundcover]

ducks said that was the best day ever !

 

[bindian]

The day before it rained cats and dogs, I took a roadtrip down to Galveston. I was only there for an hour. But it was an hour of history with the Battleship Texas, BB35, coming back to Galveston and drydock after 34 years.

The first 3 photos were taking from the railing at Fisherman's Wharf in Galveston. The last photo was sent to me and it was taken from Gulf Copper's Shipyard side on Pelican Island.
hugs, Brandi

 

[bindian]

ducks said that was the best day ever !

The ducks have a blast when the pond overflows. I have broken concrete down stream of the overflow culvert. At the level in the photo, white water is going out the culvert and over the broken concrete. The ducks get in a line and get into the white water to do what I call dumpster diving, as they float with the current. Then they repeat it all. The are a blast to have around.

hugs, Brandi

 

[Redlands Okie]

Neat pictures of the old Texas. Got to tour parts of it a few years ago. Would really be neat to be able to see more of it after the repairs.

 

[bindian]

I was 6 or 7years old on my first visit. I made sure to get my kids on the Texas before they got much older than that. Luke might have been 12 then. When he enlisted in the navy, he told the recruiter he wanted to be on a Iowa class battleship. The recruiter said we don't have any active Iowas'. To which my son replied............."None active today"!

When we last went, the engine rooms were blocked off. But now I am hearing they are installing lighting in the rooms. So hopefully, in about 1.5 or 2 years, we will be able see more of her. She'll be in drydock 10 to 12 months, then she sails to her new home on the upper Texas coast. I sure hope it is Galveston!

It's not too often you get to see the only WWI and WWII surviving battleship float by. So we plan on making it a family trip to see her come out of drydock next year.
hugs, Brandi

 

[oldballs]

Where was the Texas BB35 when Pearl was struck?

Thanks for the photos

Cheers,
Mike

 

[bindian]

Where was the Texas BB35 when Pearl was struck?

Thanks for the photos

Cheers,
Mike

Texas was in Casco Bay, Maine at that time, preparing to go on another Neutrality Patrol in the North Atlantic, watching for German U-boats.​

hugs, Brandi​

 

[bindian]

Got my girl new rear boots. I won 4 of them with Mahindra rims in a Big Iron online auction. Now I got to sell 2 of them.

hugs, Brandi

 

[bindian]

Made some sawdust Saturday. Turned this 20 foot SYP log

into 25 2x6s.

hugs, Brandi

 

[bindian]

Thanks Peace. Where are you located. Also, can you post a photo of your Ferguson TO30 here, please?
hugs, Brandi

 

[bindian]

I was busy, in the sun, getting logs from the clay pit. At least I get to unload in the shade. I thought my log supplier said just a handful of logs. These logs are all 16-19 foot.
Well, here is the handful.....

Those took 6 trips with the gooseneck. The pit is only 10 miles from me. In total, I have 6 of these stacks to be sawn in cooler weather. In 2 stacks other stacks, all the logs are over 20 feet in length.
The grapple is large enough to load 5 medium logs at once, but this way lets the log ease onto the trailer.....

hugs, Brandi

 

[bindian]

Which reminds me of a joke............
Lumber store guy..........."How long do you want the 2x4s?"
Customer................"Oh, for a long time, I want to build a garage out of them." lol
hugs, Brandi

 

[bindian]

Got these built...

Now if these two did it right...

and these two did it right....

I'll have lots of rabbit meat for the freezer
hugs, Brandi