What did you do to or on your Kubota today?

[fried1765]

Took the blower off. I'm done with winter whether or not the calander says different. Gave the driveway a quick scuff with the rear blade to fill in some ruts.

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If PEI should get any snow this time of the year, it will not stay on the ground very long.

 

[GrumpyFarmer]

I think you USA forum guys that are making syrup need to start sending it to us, the Canadians are very likely to cut us off from getting any here shortly.

You’d probably be better off paying the tariffs…I am a craft producer of a rare black walnut syrup (all organic of course) which brings a premium. . It’s so rare we have to have onsite security monitoring the process.

 

[S-G-R]

If PEI should get any snow this time of the year, it will not stay on the ground very long.

We have about a week of positive temperatures coming so a lot of thecfrost will go. We'll still get some poor man's fertilizer. I just hope it's at night and melts quick.

 

[hoot owl]

I spent most of the day yesterday 30 miles from home gathering items for the concession stand for the pinewood derby at church today. Finished unloading the truck around 3 and was going to park in the shade and take a nap for an hour before starting to set things up. I received a text from a friend who walks his dog on our drive sometimes that a large tree fell across it. Well I decided it was easer to drive home and remove the tree in the day light rather in the dark with the wife and daughter sitting in there car waiting on me.
It took me longer to walk the half mile to the house than it did to clear the tree after 1 cut. We had 60 mile an hour winds all day.

About 16" across.

I left the tractor at the end of the drive just in case any thing else fell.

Went back to church (1/2 hr. each way) and over saw setting up 2 tracks and tables/chairs. We got home around 9 and I drove the tractor in first. And you guessed it. Nothing else down in the drive. There were 2 that fell along side the drive but nothing I had to move to get past.

 

[Gaspasser]

Took the blower off. I'm done with winter whether or not the calander says different. Gave the driveway a quick scuff with the rear blade to fill in some ruts.

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You have invoked the wrath of the snow gods SGR. On March 22nd last year we had 18-24 inches of wrath. Three Mother 's days ago (mid May) we got snow though it did not endure on the ground long. I ain't biting. I'll wait til the black flies come out.

 

[S-G-R]

You have invoked the wrath of the snow gods SGR. On March 22nd last year we had 18-24 inches of wrath. Three Mother 's days ago (mid May) we got snow though it did not endure on the ground long. I ain't biting. I'll wait til the black flies come out.

I'm willing to take the risk. Looking forward to working in the yard again.

 

[Gaspasser]

I hear you. Anxious to get working once the mud clears. See that you are in PEI. Been to Cape Breton but not your island. We are big fans of the group COIG. They played at our wedding. My wife has fond memories of visiting PEI as a child. She wants to go back. In your opinion, what's the best weather summer month to visit?

 

[RMS]

Took the blower off. I'm done with winter whether or not the calander says different. Gave the driveway a quick scuff with the rear blade to fill in some ruts.

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I thought about doing the same but it will be at least another month before I can even think about going out back without leaving ruts in the yard.

 

[S-G-R]

I hear you. Anxious to get working once the mud clears. See that you are in PEI. Been to Cape Breton but not your island. We are big fans of the group COIG. They played at our wedding. My wife has fond memories of visiting PEI as a child. She wants to go back. In your opinion, what's the best weather summer month to visit?

I'd say July through August. It's been above average temperatures the past couple of years.

 

[mdhughes]

Did some firewood today. I was moving logs from where I fell some trees to the splitting area. I was surprised when I got off the tractor with these three logs in the grapple. Not sure how I got them to the splitting area.

 

[nerwin]

Well that's not good.

That's a steel bridge that has nearly washed onto my property.

 

[Bmyers]

Well that's not good.

That's a steel bridge that has nearly washed onto my property.

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So I guess you are saying that is a Bridge too Far?

 

[Russell King]

Well that's not good.

That's a steel bridge that has nearly washed onto my property.

FREE BRIDGE!
Do you know where it was before it ended up there?

I would see if it is significantly damaged and use it as a crossing bridge if it is not damaged. I guess officially it is not on your property yet but your neighbor probably doesn’t want it?

I remember when I bought my property on a small river there was a bunch of “stuff” on the upper flood plain and one thing was a mobile home frame that had been there since a big flood in 1981. I bought the property in 2010. It was mostly on my property but some on the neighbors property. I asked if it was okay if I got it out (cut it with torch into sizes that I could carry up to the main level and onto a trailer). As I was putting the last piece on that neighbor (who had lived there since before 1981) then asked if he could have the cut steel! That cracked me up that it had sat there so long and he never did anything about it but then wanted me to give it to him. He is sort of a hoarder (lots of vehicles and stuff that he will fix “someday”) so I gave him a few of the long pieces but recycled the rest to pay for the acetylene torch set that I had to purchase to cut it up.

That looks like you could get some decent steel or cash from recycling if you wanted to work hard for some time. I recall you showed an excavator working on the bank restoration so hopefully that was yours and not rented help? It might have been large enough to move that so it won’t change the flow path significantly.

 

[nerwin]

FREE BRIDGE!
Do you know where it was before it ended up there?

I would see if it is significantly damaged and use it as a crossing bridge if it is not damaged. I guess officially it is not on your property yet but your neighbor probably doesn’t want it?

I remember when I bought my property on a small river there was a bunch of “stuff” on the upper flood plain and one thing was a mobile home frame that had been there since a big flood in 1981. I bought the property in 2010. It was mostly on my property but some on the neighbors property. I asked if it was okay if I got it out (cut it with torch into sizes that I could carry up to the main level and onto a trailer). As I was putting the last piece on that neighbor (who had lived there since before 1981) then asked if he could have the cut steel! That cracked me up that it had sat there so long and he never did anything about it but then wanted me to give it to him. He is sort of a hoarder (lots of vehicles and stuff that he will fix “someday”) so I gave him a few of the long pieces but recycled the rest to pay for the acetylene torch set that I had to purchase to cut it up.

That looks like you could get some decent steel or cash from recycling if you wanted to work hard for some time. I recall you showed an excavator working on the bank restoration so hopefully that was yours and not rented help? It might have been large enough to move that so it won’t change the flow path significantly.

The bridge belongs to a farm up the creek a little ways. They used to use it to drive tractors across but was shared with snowmobile trail years ago. It has falling to disrepair but the owners regularly used it. Last fall they had someone there taking pictures of the bridge, so I'm assuming they are gonna tackle it this year perhaps even reuse it. The big concrete blocks that supported the bridge are pretty much gone too.

I had a couple people I knew with heavy equipment fix the bank for me. The last few storms we had had some some significant damage, it's a a huge mess. You wouldn't think a this little creek would cause this much damage but it has. When I first moved here, it was just a few feet wide and trickling stream...now it was turned into something much bigger. The good news is that houses that are near it are not in any risk of damage...just land damage but it sucks losing land. We lost over 100 feet as the water changed direction.

As you look at the landscape, it has done this before the way it's carved out. Probably hundreds of years ago and it's like going back to way it was. It's interesting in of it self but man it really shows you the power of water.

What really need sto happen is the entire creek needs to be cleaned up to prevent further damage but who's gonna pay for that? Certainly not the state government! (Unless it was one of their houses)

 

[Russell King]

@nerwin
there is a book called “Let the Water do the Work”. It has become extremely expensive so you might need to see if it is available in the library or just watch the videos by the author.

https://www.amazon.com/Let-Water-Work-Meandering-Restoring/dp/1603585699

It provides some useful information on how to manage your riparian environment, and not fight it.

 

[BT3101]

Been getting some use from my new grapple bucket. Lovin it vs using pallet forks or regular bucket and chains. It's the 48" Titan Economy grapple with Summit hydraulics controller. Perfect for my needs.

 

[Gaspasser]

I'd say July through August. It's been above average temperatures the past couple of years.

Thanks SGR. Will see if we can make it up there this summer.

 

[NCL4701]

Well that's not good.

That's a steel bridge that has nearly washed onto my property.

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Might be good if it makes it to your property and you can sell it to a scrapper.

 

[NCL4701]

Got everything that was already in the wood yard cut to length and maybe half of it split. Worked on it couple hours a day for a two days out of the past four to get to this point. Last time we worked up firewood I was still working 50 to 70 hours a week and my father, who did most of the splitting before that, was in inpatient rehab. When we hit a dry spell long enough for the swampy part of the creek bottom to dry up, I took a week off work, spent a day and a half pulling in a couple of year old dead fall red oaks felled in a microburst. Added all that to the logs from a red oak that was rotten at the base and within striking distance of my house plus a small white oak that was way too close to one of the other houses and causing damage, both limbs to the roof and roots to the foundation. It was a lot of wood. Wife and I went after it like it was a full time paying job and had it all split and stacked in 5 long, exhausting days.

Well, this time I’m retired and wife’s health isn’t what it was 4 years ago. When contemplating the methodology this time, I was reminded of a conversation I had with my father when he was in his mid-70’s. We both heated with wood but he did most of the work to get the wood. He’d gotten to the point he’d let me work with him to get trees on the ground and sometimes help load the rounds on a trailer for transport to bring them back for splitting (this was pre-Kubota). But he wouldn’t let me help split despite his kind of struggling with it and I felt bad about that. He told me the problem was that I still worked so he knew if I helped I’d want to bust ass sunup to sundown to get it done and he wasn’t interested. He enjoyed doing it but wanted to piddle along with it for 30 minutes or 2 hours or whatever he felt like at whatever pace he felt like. He had an old lawn tractor hooked to the splitter and another riding mower with a little cart for all the other supplies. They were always ready to go during the months he worked at splitting wood so there was nothing to load or unload. Just drive one out, walk 50 yards back to the house and drive the other one out. Made it efficient to split for short spells.

So now that I’m not working for someone else most of my waking hours, I figured his idea was pretty smart. Hooked the wood splitter to the tractor, hung chaps on the SMV bracket, and put everything else needed in the bucket.

All hooked up, it just barely fits in the heated shop where the L lives.

So what I’ve bucked and split so far is pretty shabby for two days, but I’m good with it considering it’s actually only about half a day hour-wise by myself not in a hurry.