What did you do to or on your Kubota today?

[Lil Foot]

Cleaned out the "water course" from the county culvert to my "pond".
This little depression allows the runoff to collect & lose velocity before spreading out across my 3rd acre and proceeding downhill across to my neighbors place.
Also shows the pile of dirt I now have for various uses around the place.

 

[Lil Foot]

We periodically have to clean up pine needles, leaves, sticks etc. from around the cabin & outbuildings, 30ft minimum distance, for fire danger. (we should clean the whole 3+ acres, but it just isn't possible with two old folks & limited time)
We spent 2 1/2 days hand raking up 58 piles of needles.
Then we used the B7100 with brush forks to scoop & load the piles in the dump trailer, compressing them with each fork full.
Then we drive them 3 1/2 miles north to "Little Bly Pit" where we can dump natural items. (needles, leaves, slash, logs)
Four loads, 10' x 6' x 2'.
This stuff is periodically bulldozed into a pile & burned by the Forest Service, and then the pit is reopened for more homeowner natural waste.
Last pic shows 2 of the 4 "loaves" of pine needles at the pit.

 

[Lil Foot]

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[Snowman7]

Meh 112*

Tell Greta that Death Valley needs to take its heat back.

10 days ago it was a feels like temperature of 127*! We had many days /weeks above 120* heat index.
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I honestly do not know how you southerners live with those kind of numbers. Here in northern MI. we have had about 2 or 3 days of 90 or more and that is enough! We like our highs about 75-80 (most of us).

 

[Old_Paint]

No action shots, but cleared the end of the county culvert (again) with the BH, trying to minimize more dirt washing into ny watercourse.
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One trick to keeping a culvert clean is to make sure the outlet end is above the level of the dirt/silt or the grade of the runoff ditch, if only slightly. Then anything that goes into the culvert won’t settle in it. Brush/trash are obvious exclusions. If you keep a piece of paracord pulled through and secured by stakes to keep it off the bottom, you can pull a chain or larger rope through and use that to pull an old tire through if brush or trash gets stuck.

I’ve become a fan of corrugated double wall plastic culvert that is smooth inside.

 

[MOOTS]

I honestly do not know how you southerners live with those kind of numbers. Here in northern MI. we have had about 2 or 3 days of 90 or more and that is enough! We like our highs about 75-80 (most of us).

All of us in the south can’t understand why all y’all up there, live with that white crap.

 

[Bmyers]

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Every time I see a dump trailer in use, makes me want one more. Just can't quite get the finance committee onboard, yet.

 

[Siesta Sundance]

I honestly do not know how you southerners live with those kind of numbers. Here in northern MI. we have had about 2 or 3 days of 90 or more and that is enough! We like our highs about 75-80 (most of us).

I guess we're used to it, similar to what y'all deal with in the cold winters. We get a lot of snow birds down in South Tx, cause Florida has become too expensive to escape the winters.
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@Lil Foot in AZ, are y'all busting heat records?

 

[lynnmor]

All of us in the south can’t understand why all y’all up there, live with that white crap.

We like to ride our snowmobiles on the white crap. Great season to be in the woods, no skeeters, ticks, bees, snakes, dust and excessive tourists.

 

[MOOTS]

We like to ride our snowmobiles on the white crap. Great season to be in the woods, no skeeters, ticks, bees, snakes, dust and excessive tourists.

Lol. I get it. It’s just so cold! Snow and the beach are about the same for me, 3-4 days of it and I’m ready to go home.

 

[Lil Foot]

One trick to keeping a culvert clean is to make sure the outlet end is above the level of the dirt/silt or the grade of the runoff ditch, if only slightly.

Not trying to keep the culvert clean, just trying to keep so much dirt, sediment, rocks, & gravel from coming through and filling up my water channel. County tells me constantly that they will keep the inlet end clear so that it will deliver only water, but they haven't cleared it once in 10+ years.
Gubmint employees.

 

[Lil Foot]

@Lil Foot in AZ, are y'all busting heat records?

Yup, pretty regularly.
Supposed to build from 109f today to 118f Saturday, then "cool off" to 114f next week.

 

[Lil Foot]

Every time I see a dump trailer in use, makes me want one more. Just can't quite get the finance committee onboard, yet.

I wish I would have bought one 20+ yrs ago.
My back would be in a lot better shape.

 

[Lil Foot]

Pretty much everyone knows the hottest temperature recorded in Phoenix was 122 degrees on June 26, 1990. But the hottest temperature in the state was recorded at Lake Havasu when the thermometer got to 128 degrees on June 29, 1994.

 

[Lil Foot]

In case you are wondering, there is a VERY noticeable difference between 118f and 122f.

But it's a dry heat.

 

[Siesta Sundance]

Yup, pretty regularly.
Supposed to build from 109f today to 118f Saturday, then "cool off" to 114f next week.

Our news here has reported Phoenix's thirteen days straight of 110* +
I'm guessing to make us feel cooler, lol. I think we broke more heat records last summer, but we did hit some extreme highs a few days already this summer. Our heat index over the next week is expected 108 to 120*, with the day time temps ranging 102 to 107*.

 

[RMS]

Moved 5 loads of brush and tree limbs after doing some trimming yesterday. I sure do like those forks.

 

[dlsmith]

All of us in the south can’t understand why all y’all up there, live with that white crap.

I can put on enough clothing the keep warm in here in the frozen north, but I can't take off enough clothes the stay cool in the heat down south.
At least not enough to be able to go out in public, and I get REALLY cranky in hot weather.

I'll take the snow any day.

 

[fruitcakesa]

You may or may not know about the catastrophic flooding w've had here over the last few days but I got the chance to do some repair to my mothers driveway after the culvert plugged and washed out the road. Alot of the washed out gravel ended up in my pond, which is usually dry[don't ask]. So I hauled 8 bucket loads of the material and did a quick and dirty patch job so we can get a vehicle up to her house.
The actual repair will happen hopefully when the town gets around to fixing the rest of the road.

 

[Siesta Sundance]

You may or may not know about the catastrophic flooding w've had here over the last few days but I got the chance to do some repair to my mothers driveway after the culvert plugged and washed out the road. Alot of the washed out gravel ended up in my pond, which is usually dry[don't ask]. So I hauled 8 bucket loads of the material and did a quick and dirty patch job so we can get a vehicle up to her house.
The actual repair will happen hopefully when the town gets around to fixing the rest of the road.

It made the national news, 7 to 10in of rain is a lot. Now, just imagine if it was 3 to 5ft of rain in a 4 day period.

Harvey in Houston: Most Extreme Rains Ever For a Major U.S. City

The rains from Tropical Storm Harvey—which by some very preliminary estimates may be the costliest hurricane in U.S. history—are washing away meteorological and hydrological records, not only for Texas but for the United States.

www.wunderground.com

Vermont is appropriately 9,000sq miles. The 26.5inches was an average rainfall amount across 14,000sq miles that Havery was over SE Texas.