I don’t recall the last time it rained here. As dust dry as I can remember in at least 3 years. Rain possible later this week so this weekend was a little bit of a scramble to get the gutters blown and leaves up at the three houses, leaves raked off the gravel road/driveway and rocked trails. First time we touched them this year so there were a LOT of them. The pine straw rake and grapple did a good job moving large quantities windrowed by the mower. Grapple works better with wet leaves; still worked pretty well with dust dry leaves. Not much time on the Kubota for that day and a half job but still an important part of the process.
While raking the foot and a half of leaves from the front of Dad’s pole shed, I barely bumped the door jamb for one of the 9’ x 20’ sliding doors with the back of the grapple as I was backing parallel to the front of the shed. Really didn’t even feel it, but noticed the door suddenly slide open about 4’. Noticed the jamb didn’t look quite right as it seemed to be a bit separated from the phone pole corner post but it was still upright. Then, like a felled tree, it slowly fell over.
About $25 worth of lag screws and door latch should fix it. Latch is already replaced. Didn’t have time or enough 10” x 1/2” lag screws for the door jamb on hand so that can wait a day or two.
Before possibility of rain, needed to finish getting up the wind fallen tree in the creek bottom we started on a couple weeks ago when our son was home. There’s a pretty reliable mud hole between the wood yard and tree that’s currently dry enough to cross with a load without getting stuck or tearing up the place. A horse could take a leak at the head of the cut and you probably couldn’t walk across the mud hole at the bottom for a week so the remainder of the tree needed to come out before the potential rain. Cut into 7’ logs to haul to the wood yard for processing later. Had 20 minutes of light left when the last load came out.
Overall a productive weekend. Would have been better if I hadn’t hit the shed but I suppose $25 and about about an hour labor isn’t anything to get too wound up about.
I didn’t measure the diameter of this white oak log. It’s 7’ long on a 72” grapple. 28” saw didn’t go all the way through it so more than 28”. Guessing 32” to 34”. It was all the tractor wanted but low and slow it traveled fine and stacked at the wood yard with no problem.
