Siesta Sundance
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Took out some big stumps with the tree puller and bucket and all the roots with grapple.
What did you do to or on your Kubota today?
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NCL4701
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Our nearest next door neighbor to the west (1/2 mile down the road) passed away about 25 years ago. Not a thing moved at her house since. Trash wasn’t take out, car never moved, nothing. A few years ago property was sold to a developer. My wife was always impressed with the daffodils in the yard. There were some nice rocks in the yard, too. Our place has virtually zero rocks on the entire 70 acres.
In a discussion with the developer's project lead a few months ago, asked him if they were planning to preserve anything at the house or flatten the whole area. He said of course they plan to remove the house and regrade the whole area. He gave us permission to take whatever we wanted from the outside of the house.
We went to get a few ornamental plants one time previously. Got a couple of rocks on that trip as well. I was on a 10lb lifting restriction after a basal cell removal so our adult son had to do the lifting to place or roll rocks into the loader bucket. For whatever reason that day, he wasn’t playing well with rocks too big to pick up that were half buried, so we mostly stuck to rehoming ornamental plants and getting smaller rocks.
Today, wife and I went back. Dusted off the SMV sign for the tractor, loaded the Mule with empty buckets, and took a short road trip. Technically, wife never got the Mule in the road, just stayed on the shoulder the whole way. I drove in the road behind her. I don’t really like roading equipment around here now that most of the farms are gone, but folks still seem to respect equipment if it’s big enough. Came back with buckets full of daffodils and hyacinths in the Mule. Loaded up a loader bucket full of rocks (4). Re-planted all the flowers. Left the rocks in the bucket to be set out tomorrow. Might get another load of rocks tomorrow as well.
Most of those remaining are liftable by hand. Three of the four we got today are more in the category of “Give me a lever and a fulcrum…” and maybe I can’t really move the world but I can move a much bigger rock than I can lift.
In a discussion with the developer's project lead a few months ago, asked him if they were planning to preserve anything at the house or flatten the whole area. He said of course they plan to remove the house and regrade the whole area. He gave us permission to take whatever we wanted from the outside of the house.
We went to get a few ornamental plants one time previously. Got a couple of rocks on that trip as well. I was on a 10lb lifting restriction after a basal cell removal so our adult son had to do the lifting to place or roll rocks into the loader bucket. For whatever reason that day, he wasn’t playing well with rocks too big to pick up that were half buried, so we mostly stuck to rehoming ornamental plants and getting smaller rocks.
Today, wife and I went back. Dusted off the SMV sign for the tractor, loaded the Mule with empty buckets, and took a short road trip. Technically, wife never got the Mule in the road, just stayed on the shoulder the whole way. I drove in the road behind her. I don’t really like roading equipment around here now that most of the farms are gone, but folks still seem to respect equipment if it’s big enough. Came back with buckets full of daffodils and hyacinths in the Mule. Loaded up a loader bucket full of rocks (4). Re-planted all the flowers. Left the rocks in the bucket to be set out tomorrow. Might get another load of rocks tomorrow as well.
Most of those remaining are liftable by hand. Three of the four we got today are more in the category of “Give me a lever and a fulcrum…” and maybe I can’t really move the world but I can move a much bigger rock than I can lift.
Chanceywd
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Wife and I like the rocks too, she has many gardens. We have found a few nice ones in the woods but a best one is the "potato" It looks like a big brown russet, I would guess it is a piece of granite It is about 30" long and maybe 15" thru.
We keep looking for those patches of moss on the ground and if they are solid you start digging. That is how we have found most of our big roundy ones.
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Sad to me that you use all that pretty wood for firewood and not lumber.
I know use what you got for what you need, it's just ash is near to impossible to find in lumber form.
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Well @edritchey hope you will still kick it around here with us!Got my last 2 kubota tractors ready to get picked up next week they will hopefully go to good homes.
I traded them off to make room for other stuff I’ll get more use out of now that I’ve been retired for several years.
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Oh I will and I got to say it will look different around here without any orange machines I’ve had at least 1 kubota around here for the past 35 or more years.
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North Idaho Wolfman
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Glad to hear you'll still stick with us, and yea it's always strange when things change!Oh I will and I got to say it will look different around here without any orange machines I’ve had at least 1 kubota around here for the past 35 or more years.
If I had a way to saw it into dimensional lumber I would do so with some of the bigger logs, but I really don't have the extra money to do so. We have so many blonded Ash trees that they are starting to go bad standing.
I have read that there are some Ash trees that are doing well even in areas where the Emerald Ash borer is killing trees. Lets hope that there are enough Ash trees that withstand the borer that we don't loose all of our Ash trees.
I am just looking for ash planks for a trailer and it has basically disappeared in Ireland, or is incredibly expensive. A friend of mine has cut down some ash trees in Germany that were dying, so hopefully I can get a few pieces, haul them 1000 miles to Ireland and cut the boards with a friends saw mill.
Me thinks you’re gonna need a bigger machine to lift that out and sell for scrap.
I call that empty
. They are only dirty when the shiny part starts to show some oxidation…and a very little bit of use shines that right up 
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Just put my little tractor back together after it's trip to the dealer. Had a free to me TSB done to eliminate the jerky trans motions.
I had pulled the loader to have it out of their way and removed the rear quick hitch and top link. I had already pulled the mower off last fall. Had it all washed and clean inside and out. It was only there 3 days but came back all dirty with smudges on the right side of the inside cover and several scratches I've never seen. I guess some of the operation took place inside the cab.
It won't be long before I need to put the mower back on. At that point it will just be a mower for the summer.
I also pulled the cowl lose from around the steering wheel so I could adjust the parking brake light switch. It would come on when I set the brake but went off as soon as I let go of the lever. Hopefully that will stop me from traveling with the brake set.
I had pulled the loader to have it out of their way and removed the rear quick hitch and top link. I had already pulled the mower off last fall. Had it all washed and clean inside and out. It was only there 3 days but came back all dirty with smudges on the right side of the inside cover and several scratches I've never seen. I guess some of the operation took place inside the cab.
It won't be long before I need to put the mower back on. At that point it will just be a mower for the summer.
I also pulled the cowl lose from around the steering wheel so I could adjust the parking brake light switch. It would come on when I set the brake but went off as soon as I let go of the lever. Hopefully that will stop me from traveling with the brake set.
Glad I haven't taken the blower off yet. 5 inches of white stuff is forecasted for tomorrow.
My neighbor farmer can take care of that. Not my problem.....yet. I'm waiting for them to get an excavator down there, it's quite a drop.
No rocks on your land? You are just living in the wrong state. Try the "Granite State", New Hampshire. You can have all my rocks. Do you like digging? Lol.
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Yeah, it’s kind of weird. Of course we don’t have the glacial till and frost heaved rocks folks up north have. Still, it’s atypical for the area to the point it’s near certain the lack of surface rock is due to human effort. Most likely the whole place was cultivated at some point in the distant past and all rocks removed but with the topography of much of it, that’s kind of hard to imagine. We know it was clear cut about 80 years ago because all the oldest trees are about 80 years old and there are remnants of numerous saw dust piles from the portable saw mill(s) that were commonly used on site at the time. Historical records indicate it was part of a several hundred acre farm throughout the 1800’s and into the early 1900’s, with the homesite and associated outbuildings on our side of the ridge where the public road runs now. I would really like to know the story behind the removal of all rock, but anyone who ever knew is long dead.