[AT] Chore day with the Super M

charlie hill charliehill at embarqmail.com
Mon Aug 17 08:05:20 PDT 2015


Yeah I know Steve,  I do travel a bit.  grins.
We are just down here on a coastal plain that used to
be ocean bottom.  What is under us is limestone marl
that is mainly fossilized marine life.  Crush the rock and
you see clams and vertebrae and sharks teeth, etc.

There is some granite about 80 miles from here to the west but
it is deep in the ground.  Go another 20 miles or so west
and you start to see small rocks in the soil.   Then it turns into
clay with rocks sticking up everywhere as you head west.
Hitting rocks while plowing is not even a consideration here.

Stumps and roots in new ground is about the only thing we ever hit.
I kind of like it that way but folks do like to have those rounded stones
and some jagged ones in their flower beds so they haul them in by the
truck load.   There is a rather wealthy fellow a mile or so from me
who built a new house.  The walks, patios, retaining walls and the exterior
walls of the house are all stone and all trucked in here from Indiana.

He likes it.  Looks out of place here to me.

Charlie


-----Original Message----- 
From: Stephen Offiler
Sent: Monday, August 17, 2015 9:53 AM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] Chore day with the Super M

Then you wouldn't even believe where I live, Charlie.  I have never in my
life dug a single posthole without removing multiple stones from softball
to football size.  Take a walk in the woods anywhere around here and you
tend to see more rocks and stones than you see soil.  You literally can't
give them away because everybody has them.  The only stone that is sold
around here (aside from crushed stone and riprap) has been split and
processed into flattish and squarish shapes for stone wall construction.
The stuff you find naturally is roundish like Dean's and won't stack into a
wall.  Glacial deposits.

SO
PS "around here" means southern New England

On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 6:49 AM, charlie hill <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
wrote:

> Cecil and Dean,  I was looking at those rocks in an entirely
> different light.  We have no rocks around here other than a
> vein of marl about 20 to 100 feet down.  Stones like that are
> non-existent.   These "hardscape" contractors around here
> would charge anywhere from 20 to 100 bucks a piece to place
> one of those rocks in a flower bed around here.   I wish I had
> them!
>
> Charlie
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cecil R Bearden
> Sent: Monday, August 17, 2015 1:12 AM
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> Subject: Re: [AT] Chore day with the Super M
>
> Dean:
> That load of Rocks would be a 3 day job for me if I had to load it by
> hand....  It sure is satisfying to look back at a days work and see some
> progress.......
>
> Cecil in OKla
>
>
> On 8/16/2015 7:46 PM, Dean Vinson wrote:
> > Out trimming branches from trees along the driveway and a few other
> > locations today, and hauling the cut branches to a burnpile for later.
> > Also needed to haul a bunch of rocks from where they'd been collected
> > along
> > the edge of a soybean field to a curvy little creek that's getting close
> > to
> > eroding its way under my pasture fence.   Good chores for the Super M 
> > and
> > the little old beat-up trailer.
> >
> > When I contemplate these kinds of chores, in the morning, they seem like
> > they'll only take a little while.   By mid-afternoon, I was feeling
> pretty
> > ready for a cold one.
> >
> > Dean Vinson
> > Saint Paris, Ohio
> >
> >
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