What did you do to or on your Mahindra today?

   / What did you do to or on your Mahindra today? #611  
Well, today was another one of those days cattlemen don't want to have. The good news is we found the poor old number 304 cow before the buzzards did. The bad news is she was still alive making angel wings in the dirt. This meant that we had to commit a monstrous act of mercy and administer the coup de gras. A rifle, hovering touch close above the medulla oblongata proved instantaneous and painless.

Instead of dragging her over the ground with a chain, we carried her ceremoniously in the grapple bucket to her final resting place. The fire from yesterday was still smoldering. We laid her in and added more material, dead trees, limbs, branches and so forth, building up a funeral pyre appropriate to the occasion.

So as not to offend anyone's sensitivities, images are not posted here. Instead, links are provided to my Google pictures.
Do not click on these links if you are upset by images of dead animals. Fair warning.

Downed cows struggling to get up often make angel wings in the dirt.

Placing the 304 cow on the funeral pyre.

The funeral pyre. The buzzards and coyotes won't get you now.

RIP 304.
 
   / What did you do to or on your Mahindra today? #612  
On a lighter note, this was our widest and heaviest lift to date. Most dead trees are hollow and light weight. This big pine tree was still loaded with pitch, pine tar and sap. It mashed down our front tires and was lifting the back tires off the ground. A 5555 weighs 6,000 pounds. While in the grapple, we chainsawed off both ends and put the the three pieces on the pyre mentioned above.

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   / What did you do to or on your Mahindra today? #613  
I finally felled a yellow birch that was rotting from the top down, I still have more that needs bucking but they're in some deep snow. I wish that I cleared the area near here last fall so I could plow it out with the tractor so I could fell a few ash and then buck them up.

Hopefully I can split the yellow birch rounds this week.
 

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   / What did you do to or on your Mahindra today? #614  
I finally felled a yellow birch that was rotting from the top down, I still have more that needs bucking but they're in some deep snow. I wish that I cleared the area near here last fall so I could plow it out with the tractor so I could fell a few ash and then buck them up.

Hopefully I can split the yellow birch rounds this week.

Yellow birch, one of my favorite aromatic fire wood smells .... :)
 
   / What did you do to or on your Mahindra today? #616  
Got a lot of random stuff done today that I have been needing to get done. I'll finish up some of it tomorrow that I didn't get to today
 
   / What did you do to or on your Mahindra today? #618  
It sure does smell nice when cutting it, do you like pine?

I never have burnt much pine, but when ever one of my few big yellow birch finally go all the way bad, I try to cut some for firewood before it all crumbles away. They start growing all sorts of fungi up here in the dying process...
 
   / What did you do to or on your Mahindra today? #619  
Over the weekend I had a job resurfacing a gravel driveway. I was able to use the blade shoes that I made. They worked out great. Kept the blade from digging in and chopped the hills off.

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   / What did you do to or on your Mahindra today? #620  
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This is what gardeners call Black Gold- composted horse manure...
 

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