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After picking up rocks for 30 years on my first mountain property, I finally realized that for every one I picked up, there were at least two underneath! Now, a mile away and 500' lower on the mountain side on different property, I have zero rocks and any digging is enjoyable, in comparison. One...

I have a stream thru my property, and I know the county states a minimum of 100' away for any structure. So, I call my 8' square deck I built directly over the stream, a foot bridge!

Interesting.... I burn a fair bit of micro lam, some OSB, and sometimes I joist scraps in my shop wood boiler here in Idaho, being in construction and tripping over the stuff daily, I sometimes haul some home. My home made boiler burns clean, and my neighbors are far away, 1/4 mile anyway, no...

I started my spring cleanup of the deadfall around my bike trail, logging I guess you could call it. I'll take the fat tired trailer I made for my ATV down there, and the Greenworks chain saw, and start re-stocking the woodshed for the shop's wood boiler, winter is coming! All the little...

I run mine around my trails and grass runway in the spring, when the ground is nice and soft. It knocks down and smooths all the vole tunnels made under the snow during the winter, doing this several years in a row now and it's resulted in a general improvement to the smoothness of the ground.

I also have the weedwhacker for the 80 volt Greenworks battery, and before I ran over my chainsaw (and futher solidifying my brand preference to them) I had also bought a hedge trimmer to assist in keeping my bike trail open. Got a 60 volt lawn mower also. TW: their 80 volt battery charger is...

This weekend, doing some clearing of new growth around the 3" supply line that runs down the mountain 1/4 mile to my hydro electric generator, I set the 80 volt Greeenworks well out of the way, of course! 30 minutes later, backing up, I was surprised to feel the rear of the tractor lift up, I...

Don't get me started.....

I do all types of light crane work, HVAC, unloading anything and everything off of semis, hot tubs, storage sheds, but mostly trusses, for 24 years now. 110" of boom, and the 360 degree rotation and 1400 pound counterweight make it a bit different, a lot, from the stand up behind the cab types...

I should have got one long ago, at least now while the ground is still not hot weather hardened, it kicks butt!

I did the mower moving after a 10 hour day operating my 30 ton boom truck, hydraulic systems are one of the best inventions ever, for sure, under appreciated by most, not us!

I unloaded the 6' brush hog from on top the trailer where it's stored all winter, inside. The cherry picker inserts into the receiver of my fork lift rack, held in by compression, 2 chains sit in notchs cut into the top part of the frame, it comes off and on in about 30 seconds. Made out of...

My grapple, good for all kinds of things, used mostly for pulling sage brush and planting railroad ties, from EA several years ago I seem to recall. It's jaw close tight enough, match up well, to pull small brush with no slippage.

I don't want a proper road here, I just wanted to knock down some of the side slope, which I have done, potential erosion is a major reason why. I want the side slope to remain...., just not quite so much, so I may or may not make another pass or two at it. I sold my box blade, after not using...

No turn required, as the mountain drops away for 1200' vertical before the valley floor, it's much easier and safer than taking off a flat and level runway.

Yes, that's what I did, lengthened it to the max, the funny part is that's how I took Wolfmans advice, though now I see he said to shorten it! When this snow melts enough and it dries up a bit, I'll hit it again, while it's at it's max softness. I think last year I waited too long, it does get...

I now know the top link has a stop, as I ran it out all the way, with about a 4" drop to the side, and just a bit of side angle, too much was worse. What made all the difference was the second pass, that's when it started cutting in much better. Logic tells me more passes would result in more...

I do have sub soiler, used last year with a home made attachment to lay over 2000' of 1" poly line, it did occur to me to make a run with it first. Straight blade or just a slight angle? Didn't try that....

Last year I tried setting my back blade up with a good side angle, plus a forward angle, thinking I could drive down the 1/4 mile of no rock easy digging still soft in the spring anyway trail I have that is side sloped, and take some of that side slope out. I put about 250 pounds of scrap iron...

I put all the heavier scraps of iron I have laying around on the landscaping rake and ran it up and down the runway plus the trails I ride my bikes on. The extra weight really helps in getting the results I'm after. I also have a 100 year old harrow that I can drag around, but the rake is...