Got 2.5” of rain in 24 hours a little while back. Silted in one side of one of our creek crossings bad enough it was hard to distinguish it from the rest of the bank. Has to be good enough to cross with the L and a Kawasaki Mule so the bar is pretty low but it wasn’t meeting minimum expectations. Piranha bar is a major improvement for this type work. Easily cut through roots and vegetation to widen the crossing a bit and allowed recutting of the ramp in about 20 minutes. Would have been faster if I had a better operator (I don’t do a lot of real digging with it).
Still, 20 minutes to totally recut a ramp into a 5’ creek bank. I remember when my father and I cut crossings with a 9N and pond scoop. Pond scoop wasn’t as wide as the tractor and it wouldn’t cut a root bigger than about 1/2” so that was an adventure that took about half a day per side with some hand work.
As soon as that was finished, power company shut off our power to reconfigure some things to pull in a much more robust line to supply the several hundred houses being built beside us. They didn’t know how long it would be off other than they’d have it back before they left for the day. Wife wasn’t complaining but it was disrupting her day and the 16kW IMD wasn’t doing anything but gathering dust. Swapped the box blade for the generator and got her back to normal operations. Power was off about 5 hours. It was pretty nice to continue life as usual.
Intended to take pictures but didn’t.
