We have a sewer easement that loosely follows the creek that bisects our place into north/south sections. We use it for hunting (deer, turkeys, and everything else crosses it and grazes it at some point during the day) and as a driving trail. Some parts are as much as 80’ wide; others (such as the area below) are pretty narrow.
Couple days ago, loaded up a pole saw, limb loppers, and a little electric chainsaw that looks like a toy but is actually pretty sweet for pruning. Took the Mule from one end to the other trimming limbs that were encroaching far enough they created problems running the Mule through without hitting limbs or causing a need to fight limbs when bush hogging. Mow it only once or twice a year, but I still don’t much care for fighting limbs with both hands while steering with my left knee while bush hogging even if it is only once a year. That left piles of limbs. Next couple days were filled with higher priority tasks, but today took the tractor and grapple to sweep up the brush.
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Being this isn’t a yard, tilting the grapple just shy of the teeth digging in and floating the boom allowed sweeping the limbs into pretty decent grapple loads without manually handling the limbs. There was one area the ground was too rough and uneven to do that. Still, a little over 2000’ of sewer line with probably 750’ having limbs laying on the sides took about an hour and a half for one guy who sometimes qualifies for the senior discount to sweep up and pile into two brush piles off the sewer line. I’m good with those piles creating small animal habitat until they rot down. Would have taken the better part of a day to do that by hand.
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After that, got my father’s old Troybilt tillers out of shed to get them cleaned up a bit, at least enough to read the serial numbers so
@MOOTS can get me a little more info on them. ((Thanks
@MOOTS!)
They weren’t terrible, but they had enough dust, dirt, and hardened grease obscuring the serial numbers a pressure washer or steam cleaner was a near requirement. Shed isn’t near any of the shop areas, so after pondering options decided to load them up on the little mower trailer and knock some of the dirt off. Not too hard to load with the trailer aimed downhill and a good running start pushing them up the ramp. They were really easy to unload with the trailer aimed the other way. Just had to be quick enough to not get run over.
At some point when it’s either too hot or too cold to mess with stuff outside, I’ll get them inside to see about getting them running or determining they’re parts only. One has a Tecumseh engine, the other a Kohler, and I know very little about either. Regardless, they need to go elsewhere and they don’t look like scrap.
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