[AT] Red tractor day

[jtchall at nc.rr.com]

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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