[AT] Not much of a workout, but fun

[Spencer Yost]

Nice photo and nice workout for the tractor.   Amazing how the right size tractor makes the job easy.   I worked a small ironwood stump of the same size with a super 'A' and that ended up  needing a little help from a rocking post.


Thanks dean!

Spencer

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On Jun 5, 2011, at 9:00, "Dean Vinson" <dean at vinsonfarm.net> wrote:

> This morning my neighbor gave me a photo he'd taken yesterday when I pulled
> the dogwood stump out.  Neat how it shows the chain in mid-bounce:
> 
> http://www.vinsonfarm.net/photos/dogwood_stump_removal.jpg
> 
> Dean
> 
> 
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> Subject: [AT] Not much of a workout, but fun
> 
> An enjoyable tractor afternoon here in suburbia.  The back 20' or so of my
> yard is wooded and backs up against a larger woods, and invasive honeysuckle
> is all over the place.  Last fall I'd cut down all the honeysuckle that was
> on my side of the property line, ripping the smaller ones up by the roots
> but leaving about eight or ten bigger older clusters cut off about two feet
> high.  A month or so ago I went back and cut off all the new shoots that had
> sprung up from those stumps, and today was the day to get the tractor out
> and finish the stumps off once and for all.
> 
> (Well, for a while anyway.  That @*&#! honeysuckle spreads and grows like a
> weed).
> 
> The motivating factor was that an old dogwood tree elsewhere in my yard
> apparently died sometime last year without me realizing it, because it never
> had so much as a hint of a bloom or a new leaf this year.  Just dry dead
> branches.  So after mowing the grass and looking again at those dead
> branches, and at the honeysuckle stumps back in the woods, I decided it was
> time to get the Super M out.  Cut the dogwood down leaving a four-foot
> stump, cut up the branches and the trunk and cleared everything away, then
> got the tractor and a chain.  As wide as those big old honeysuckle clumps
> can be, their roots are shallow and the tractor never knew it was pulling
> anything.  The dogwood stump didn't put up a fight either, although it left
> a bigger hole in the ground.
> 
> So it was fun to get some practical use out of the old girl, and to hear
> that engine smoothly humming along at low idle while I moved the chain to
> the next stump, and to entertain the neighbor kids.  Some year I'll have
> some more serious work for it to do, but for tonight I figure it's earned
> its keep in the garage for a while longer.  :-)
> 
> Dean Vinson
> Dayton, Ohio
> www.vinsonfarm.net
> 
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