[AT] Red tractor day

Sat Jan 3 11:19:40 PST 2015

I don't have Osage Orange, but am lucky enough to have quite a few Honey 
Locust trees, another gem. I steer real clear of them. I've also got a 
bunch of real stalky type trees that are thorny with grey bark, anyone 
know what they might be. They have almost rose like thorns.

Mike M

On 1/3/2015 1:45 PM, Cecil R Bearden wrote:
> I second that need for a windbreak.  I live on one of the highest hills
> in the County, and the wind generators are popping up all around.  There
> was one of those Bois D'Arc windbreaks about 200 ft East of my house
> when I built it 30 years ago.   Dad had the county tear it out since it
> was in the fence line at the road.  The first winter you could tell the
> difference even though it was so far away.  The dust form the road just
> fogged every time a car passed.  Even though all the trees were gone,
> the roots would still surface and start a new tree. Last summer, I had a
> water leak from one of those roots growing into a coupling on the water
> line to the house.   We have had 3 leaks like this.  It is sorta like a
> horror movie the way they never die off....
>
> Cecil in okla
>
>
> On 1/3/2015 11:58 AM, Ron Cook wrote:
>> Dean certainly did find a very good place.  While I certainly do agree
>> that the hedge row needs some "straightening up",  dozing it out would
>> be the wrong thing to do.  I would bet it was planted so as to provide a
>> wind break for the pasture and perhaps the building site.  Of course, us
>> that live where the wind blows understand this.  Around here, the folks
>> move out from the urban area to a farm building site so as to enjoy
>> "country living".   They tear out all the windbreaks and the old groves,
>> replace with landscaped grass and fancy looking trees, pave the
>> driveway, insist the county pave the gravel road in front of their
>> place, then bitch about the high cost of gas and electricity to heat and
>> cool their homes.  I am not even going to touch on the very expensive
>> utility tractors for lawn care and such.
>>
>> I do not have enough property to grow a nice hedge along my West and
>> North property lines where it is needed.  I could, however, park a bunch
>> of TD-18 or TD-24 crawlers in a line.:-)
>> Ron Cook
>> Salix, IA
>> On 1/3/2015 6:51 AM, jtchall at nc.rr.com wrote:
>>> What that M needs for help is a TD-9 dozer in working clothes. If not then a
>>> 60's or early 70's model IH backhoe.
>>>
>>> Now if you really want to dream big, how about a TD-14 or 18? Get one of
>>> those and there would probably be a waiting list of folks wanting to come
>>> help you! Heck, some would probably bring a couple 5 gallon buckets of
>>> diesel, one for the dozer and the other for the brush pile!
>>>
>>> John Hall
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: charlie hill
>>> Sent: Friday, January 02, 2015 8:29 PM
>>> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
>>> Subject: Re: [AT] Red tractor day
>>>
>>> Phil, you and I think alike.  Looking at that
>>> picture the first things that came to mind were
>>> dozer or big excavator and fire!   It might be
>>> fine fire wood but to my east coast eyes it looks
>>> like a nightmare compared to the beauty of the
>>> rest of Dean's place.
>>>
>>> Charlie
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: pga2 at BasicISP.net
>>> Sent: Friday, January 02, 2015 8:16 PM
>>> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
>>> Subject: Re: [AT] Red tractor day
>>>
>>> Wow! What a beautiful place you have, Dean. That Farmall looks right at
>>> home.
>>> I am guessing that you want to remove most, if not all, of that Osage (we
>>> call it Bois d'Arc here in TX). Looks like a fairly long term project unless
>>> a dozer gets involved. :o)
>>>
>>> Phil in TX
>>>
>>> --- dean at vinsonfarm.net wrote:
>>>
>>> From: "Dean Vinson" <dean at vinsonfarm.net>
>>> To: "'Antique tractor email discussion group'"
>>> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>>> Subject: [AT] Red tractor day
>>> Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2015 17:51:35 -0500
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> http://www.vinsonfarm.net/photos/farm_panorama_20150102.jpg.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> http://www.vinsonfarm.net/photos/osage_orange_20150102.jpg.
>>>
>>> Dean Vinson
>>> Saint Paris, Ohio
>>>
>>>
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