[AT] Chore day with the Super M

Mon Aug 17 18:44:53 PDT 2015

Come on up to the house and you can have all you are willing to load! I've 
already loaded them once to haul out of the field so I don't plan on 
handling them again.
My cousin wanted a big rock for a new flower bed last week so her husband 
went and got one I dug out with the subsoiler a few years ago. It was about 
all the loader on his 40hp Deere could handle.

Red clay and rocks, that’s why all our tillage tools were heavy duty. They 
put in a new subdivision about a 1/4 mile from here back in the 80's. A HUGE 
grading contractor got the job to build the roads. Cutting the main entrance 
managed to break everything they had big enough to attempt to get through 
the rocks. The tract of land they developed was a farm we rented for many 
years. When my family moved here from about 10 miles east in 1942, most of 
the mule/horse plows were not heavy enough to stand up to the rocks. 
Adjacent to my place my uncle broke 3 or 4 plow points one afternoon. My 
grandmother was renting the farm with plans on buying it. He told her if she 
rented it he wouldn't farm it. She didn't buy it, unfortunately. She did 
rent it the majority of the time. When she died, the money was still in the 
bank that she could have purchased it with. Eventually it got developed and 
sold for $30K for 2 acres. My next door neighbor still has a rock the size 
of a small car in his back yard--we farmed around it. It was going to cost 
too much for the developer to haul it away.

John Hall

-----Original Message----- 
From: charlie hill
Sent: Monday, August 17, 2015 12:39 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] Chore day with the Super M

Thomas, I go up into western Maryland a few times a year
and venture over into PA as well.   I keep looking for a farmer
around there somewhere that I can make the same deal with
but so far haven't seen any of them around when they look approachable.
(not busy working, etc.)  I figure I could bring home a few hundred pounds
every trip if I could work a deal with someone.

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: Thomas Mehrkam
Sent: Monday, August 17, 2015 11:18 AM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] Chore day with the Super M

I live in Houston.  Sand or clay as deep as you can dig.
However I have hunting leases in the Texas Hill Country.  Mostly rock there.
The land owners say I can have all the rocks I want.  Please haul them away.
I have river rock in the drainage behind my house.  Nice foot ball size
rocks lining the flower beds.  All I have to do is load the pickup coming
home from Hunting. :-}
Best of both worlds.

      From: Stephen Offiler <soffiler at gmail.com>
To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Monday, August 17, 2015 8:53 AM
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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