[AT] Good tractor day

[Gunnells, Bradley R]

Sounds like a great day. I love those kind of days at home. Very easy to forget about work and stress when out in the field doing tasks like this.

Does that Osage pop and spark when it burns? I've got some that I need to trim some low limbs on and will likely save it for the wood stove. I've got some dead locus on my property that I burn. But have to be careful as it throws a lot of sparks when the rush of fresh air gets to it.

Thanks for the picture to go along with the story. I enjoy seeing your old iron.

Brad

On Dec 5, 2014, at 12:53 PM, Dean Vinson <dean at vinsonfarm.net> wrote:

> http://www.vinsonfarm.net/photos/cutting_osage_20141205.jpg
> 
> Last summer I'd discovered two nice and very good-sized walnut trees hidden
> back in the dense hedgerow of osage orange trees across from the orchard,
> and had begun cutting back the osage around one of the walnuts to give it
> some breathing room.  Today I cut back some more, kept a little as firewood
> but dragged most of it onto a burn pile.   Needed the Super M to haul the
> wagon for the firewood and chainsaw and log chain and such.
> 
> While out there I discovered some prior owner had long ago cut a bunch of
> osage wood up into fireplace-sized logs but just left them piled up back
> under the canopy of branches, and although the wood itself doesn't hardly
> rot the pile had gradually turned into a solid mound of dirt with logs
> embedded in it, evidently many years' work of squirrels and chipmunks and
> rotted leaves and whatnot.  I pried out as much of the wood as I could by
> hand but that still left a big uneven mound with no doubt more logs beneath
> it, so I brought the 620 and rear blade out.  That made short work of the
> mound and kicked up the remaining logs so I could easily toss them over onto
> the fire.
> 
> A cold rain chased me inside by around noon, but it was good to get that
> area opened up a little and to let those fine old machines out of the barn.
> Nice morning indeed.
> 
> Dean Vinson
> Saint Paris, Ohio
> 
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