Well, trying to cover close to two years of absent post is going to be a bit of a challenge, so here goes...
Got my first job in summer 2008 for a fabrication shop. That and a couple of deaths in the extended family did a good job of inhibiting work on the farm, but we at least got the upstairs mostly insulated and drywalled, and that helped immensely with our heating.
we had some trouble getting our hay to dry that year, but we did pull off two cuts of hay.
2009 saw some rather busy work both on and off the farm. neither me or my brother were able to get a job this summer, so we set to work on the farm.
After some dithering around, we finally decided to mount a brush rake to our D8, after having it sit around with just a c-frame for two years. An torch, grinder and some three boxes of welding rod later, we had a decent mount for a home-made brush rake. Six hours got about three acres clear that almost as quickly started filling with junk.
Dad arranged with a scrap dealer to take some of our scrap away, and we spent a full day gathering it into one place, everything from sheet metal to engine blocks, and 7 tons of junk was hauled off.
We had a real long heat wave, and we had a heck of a bumper crop of hay. 530 Bales the first cut and another 300 for the second.
Winter 2009 gave us almost no snow, and we only had to plow our driveway twice. It started to dry out real bad in spring (Which led to our brush burn pile running off and burning out our hay field. It had a positive result on the field except for the afternoon we and the volunteer fire department spent putting it out!) But then the rain clouds moved in. They had a season's worth of forgotten snow, and they intend to deliver.
It rained for close to a month. It is starting to let up, so we can get back to brush clearing with our new-to-us D6D
Got my first job in summer 2008 for a fabrication shop. That and a couple of deaths in the extended family did a good job of inhibiting work on the farm, but we at least got the upstairs mostly insulated and drywalled, and that helped immensely with our heating.
we had some trouble getting our hay to dry that year, but we did pull off two cuts of hay.
2009 saw some rather busy work both on and off the farm. neither me or my brother were able to get a job this summer, so we set to work on the farm.
After some dithering around, we finally decided to mount a brush rake to our D8, after having it sit around with just a c-frame for two years. An torch, grinder and some three boxes of welding rod later, we had a decent mount for a home-made brush rake. Six hours got about three acres clear that almost as quickly started filling with junk.
Dad arranged with a scrap dealer to take some of our scrap away, and we spent a full day gathering it into one place, everything from sheet metal to engine blocks, and 7 tons of junk was hauled off.
We had a real long heat wave, and we had a heck of a bumper crop of hay. 530 Bales the first cut and another 300 for the second.
Winter 2009 gave us almost no snow, and we only had to plow our driveway twice. It started to dry out real bad in spring (Which led to our brush burn pile running off and burning out our hay field. It had a positive result on the field except for the afternoon we and the volunteer fire department spent putting it out!) But then the rain clouds moved in. They had a season's worth of forgotten snow, and they intend to deliver.
It rained for close to a month. It is starting to let up, so we can get back to brush clearing with our new-to-us D6D
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