[AT] Red tractor day

jahaze at aol.com jahaze at aol.com
Sat Jan 3 12:09:41 PST 2015


Mike,

Sounds like prickly ash, unless it's really tall.  Prickly ash only gets 10-12 ft tall, so if it's much taller than that, I would need more info to tell you what it is.

Enjoy, Joe

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> On Jan 3, 2015, at 2:19 PM, Mike <meulenms at gmx.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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