TODAYS SEAT TIME

[grsthegreat]

Our power company cut down a path of our trees about 650’ x 15’ that would encroach on new power lines. They were nice enough to limb them all up and mulch the limbs. Lots of trees down.

Broke down and purchased a 72” grapple from Kioti. Made my life way easier that the way i usually move the wood. I usually only work on a few down or standing dead trees. Theres alot of trees cut. Hard to tell by pics.

I worked on them last 2 days…lots of more days left.

I tried to send my drone up to take pics…..but the Ravens were not allowing me to do this…they kept chasing my drone. Like kamikaze birds.

 

[Gordon Gould]

^^^^^^ That will give you something to do with your new grapple for a long while. Seems odd to see power lines on both sides on the road.

gg

 

[grsthegreat]

^^^^^^ That will give you something to do with your new grapple for a long while. Seems odd to see power lines on both sides on the road.

gg

The far set are Bonneville Power high tension lines, the near set are local distribution lines. Cant be on same poles.

 

[sixdogs]

400 mile round trip to northern Michigan today to help a friend start cleaning up after the devastating ice storm they had a couple weeks ago. Most of the area is still without power after 12 days and not likely to get it back for some time. I’ve never seen anything like it. 6 hours on the chipper and barely put a dent in the mess, pics just don’t do it justice.View attachment 3252408

What kind of chipper is that? PTO powered?

 

[Runner]

Moved a small stone for landscaping yesterday.

Needed more counterweight, should have swapped the weight box for the chipper, but was too lazy.

 

[chim]

Wrapped up mowing before the storm. Last evening the thunder came as I was walking back to the house after parking the tractor. The bluish clouds in the picture looked a lot blacker in real life.

 

[Carl_NH]

Tilled, put down 20 yards of loam out front and fill and loam by the barn, then

reseeded before we get a week of rain.

Had some puddling after 1" of rain and thunder storms last night so may need to put more seed eventually.

 

[Happy in NC]

At the risk of sounding dumb...what is loam?

 

[Carl_NH]

Expensive dirt without rocks 30$ yard delivered - here in NE it's usually mixed with compost or manure. I get from a guy that has horses and mixes it and sits for a year or more then screens it.

All we have here are rocks (glacial till) on the top 3-4' down with large rocks - and out by the barn where I drive over it was rutted so I used some of his tillings (which are small rocks and soil from screening) as the base over the ruts, then top dressed with loam/dirt and seeded.

 

[Jstpssng]

At the risk of sounding dumb...what is loam?

Topsoil, ideal for growing plants. It contains organic matter and other nutrients.