What's your hoe doing?

Spud_Monkey said:

WAIT... make that 4 busted now, okay I'm just replacing all the lines I am not dicking around with this anymore.

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discounthydraulichose.com if you have a bunch to replace. Pretty cheap and fast if you can wait a couple days.

Thanks, they seem to have more customization ends and different R nomenclatures for tight radius ones I have unlike surpluscenter.com who just has generic ones and Nappy Auto Parts wants three times as much for them. No rush here.

Continuing to take down trees.... roots and all on most. One I had to cut down and dig out the stump.... here she is on the 'new' burn pile..





and a balance act....



Not much of a root ball on these.... the standing dead oaks.

Looking good T-town!

I was finally dry as of Wednesday evening...then the wicked storms last night, and I am right back to mud and water just coming right up thru the ground

I bought a chipper that runs on a tractor PTO, for all the trees that I have all over the place...only problem is, they cannot get them due to covid (just like tractors), so I must wait till august. Some companies are waiting list with no guaranteed delivery time.

Sorry to hear 'bout your wetness..... A typical mid-atlantic ( from my youth) Memorial weekend coming up.... camping in the cold and rain.!!

Most of the trees I'm dealing with are a foot or smaller dia. and lots of dead wood. And I have the space to just make a burn pile.... like this


which leaves me with this...


...... funny how there's lots of rocks in the ashes left over after the burn.. "maybe the rocks choked the trees and kilt 'em ??"

Been working both of my tractors on the quest for more mow able ground. Pulling vines and digging stumps with the hoe then using my John Deere with it's grapple to make burn piles.

Planting tomatoes

Mrs.B made me. Long weekend of more rain than not, we went camping. After a weekend like this past, (20 years ago) I insisted on buying a trailer. She'd probably be OK in a tent still.

With a camper it wasn't unpleasant, but sunny would have been nice.

Willie B.....

We also spent many years in a tent.... love camping, but not getting wet. So, we would always go spur of the moment so to speak after getting a "reliable" weather forecast....

Decided to get "off the ground"...... which led us right past the pop-ups to a trailer.
High and dry is good on a weekend like the one just gone by. And not to mention the bathroom 4 steps from the bedroom!!
Yes, the weekend was wet.... and chilly.... but we had some fun and relaxation.

@casey518 Man, that's a clean machine! I have one kind of like that but looks a bit more used.

Hmm... Camping... I used to like camping? (adding the "?" due to now that I look back on it maybe I never liked camping)
I like nature a lot but the camping, the tent setup, the hard, pokey ground, the constant zipping of things, and not having a handy bathroom have made me really dislike it. My in-laws like to go once a year or so and I try hard not to be miserable but I am, every time. I don't think I'm a sissy or anything, so it's not some city-boy stuff, it's just not fun. I can dig sitting around the campfire and all that but the tent life isn't for me. I've trailer camped at the lake with my dad, in the past, and it's better, but only marginally. Maybe I don't like camping, I kind of wish I did.

aighead said:

@casey518 Man, that's a clean machine! I have one kind of like that but looks a bit more used.

Hmm... Camping... I used to like camping? (adding the "?" due to now that I look back on it maybe I never liked camping)
I like nature a lot but the camping, the tent setup, the hard, pokey ground, the constant zipping of things, and not having a handy bathroom have made me really dislike it. My in-laws like to go once a year or so and I try hard not to be miserable but I am, every time. I don't think I'm a sissy or anything, so it's not some city-boy stuff, it's just not fun. I can dig sitting around the campfire and all that but the tent life isn't for me. I've trailer camped at the lake with my dad, in the past, and it's better, but only marginally. Maybe I don't like camping, I kind of wish I did.

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I don't like camping either. My wife bragged up how great tent camping was when we were dating. The first time we tent camped, the forecast low was 45 degrees. It dropped to 25 that night and we froze. Later on, she convinced me to tent camp during our week long honeymoon road trip. We were in Flagstaff, AZ and the wind blew so darn hard that the tent bounced off my face all night long. Its been 10 years, I haven't been in a tent since. I'm no city slicker by any stretch, but I'm not willing to give up a good night's sleep. Maybe a good camper would change that for me, but I'm not betting on it.

Casey, it is a toy backhoe. ha ha.

Camping in my childhood was in a camp. We (Dad & I) spent every other weekend at Griffith Lake. Then there were three privately owned rustic camps on Federal land. Life lease holders. Sam McLellan, a wonderful man didn't much use his camp, he let us use it. It was a 3, 5, or 2.5 mile uphill hike to get there. Everybody walked in except frequent users at another camp, two brothers in their fifties had a Tote Goat. Dad joked about "Two Polacks, three cases of beer, axe, lantern two pound of lard, bushel of potatoes, on a Tote Goat heading for the Lake"

Mrs. B thought camping was in a tent. I'm the wimp. I don't care for sleeping wet & cold.

Well, to be quite honest, I never went camping with my hoe, but I have done my fair share of camping all over the world. I have camped in England, Holland, France, Austria, and many more. Probably my favorite camping spot is in the Canadian out back.

I have fond memories from my youth of being a Boy Scout an traveling to Canada for a 10-day wilderness trip. When I say wilderness, I mean they boat you and your supplies out and you have no way to leave the island unless you use the supplied canoes.

As an adult, I was a Boy Scout leader for 20+ years, and was able to take the boys, mine and the Troop back to the same place in Canada that I went to as a Scout, years before.

I quickly found that when camping, the ground is not your friend. I purchased an oversize cot that is very similar to those issued by the military (except bigger), and put a self inflating mattress in it. Over time, I added one of those closed cell cheapy pads made to use when sleeping on the ground, and I had a bed that was as comfortable as my bed at home.

I regularly camped with the Scouts 12 months out of the year. I have camped outside, on my cot, without my tent in well below 0 weather. I have even woken up on a cold February morning with inches of snow on top of my sleeping bag in below 0 weather....Gee, thinking back, it would have been nice to have had my hoe with me.

Just flip the loader bucket over so you could tuck in under it? Build a fire right up next to the bucket to warm the whole thing? Yeah... That sounds ok!

aighead said:

Just flip the loader bucket over so you could tuck in under it? Build a fire right up next to the bucket to warm the whole thing? Yeah... That sounds ok!

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LOL,yea it does!

There were a fair amount of 'tenters' in the cold and wet state park this past weekend...... tarps strung all over the place.
There would be lots of possibilities for 'tarp hanging' if one had a hoe around the campsite.

Cleaning up after my dog.

casey518 said:

Cleaning up after my dog.

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You must have one BIG dog...LOL

Heavy rains this spring.