[AT] Red tractor day

Dave Rotigel rotigel at me.com
Sat Jan 3 07:12:53 PST 2015


I would think that Dean, like so many who live in our great country, found that the harder he worked, the luckier he got. Strange how that seems to happen when people have the freedom to follow their own path in their own way!
	Dave

On Jan 3, 2015, at 9:46 AM, Richard Fink Sr wrote:

> Dean all i can say when i see photos of your place is WOW. How does one 
> family get so lucky. And tractor still looks good
> R Fink
> PA
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> On 1/2/2015 5:51 PM, Dean Vinson wrote:
>> Yesterday and today were comparatively warm and dry, so I spent quite a bit
>> of time cutting back the osage orange hedge, a very small portion of which
>> is visible at the far left side of this photo.
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>> http://www.vinsonfarm.net/photos/farm_panorama_20150102.jpg.
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>> Hauling the cut branches to an increasingly gigantic burn pile is a job for
>> the red tractor rather than the green one, since the red one is easier to
>> get on and off, easier to back up, and typically has the little wagon
>> hitched to it anyway.   The green one comes out when I need the rear blade
>> or the rotary mower, both of which at times have roles to play in the long
>> process of cleaning up this hedgerow and the 5 or 10 yards on either side of
>> the main line of trunks that has become overgrown with the sprawling osage
>> branches.
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>> Here's a view of an area I haven't yet begun to work on.  The thorn briars
>> that seem to accumulate under those branches are a nice added bonus, in case
>> I manage to escape most of the thorns on the young osage branches
>> themselves.
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>> http://www.vinsonfarm.net/photos/osage_orange_20150102.jpg.
>> 
>> Dean Vinson
>> Saint Paris, Ohio
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