[AT] Red tractor day

[Ron Cook]

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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