[AT] Red tractor day

Mike meulenms at gmx.com
Sat Jan 3 12:58:30 PST 2015


Just looked it up Joe, that's the stuff. Nasty when you are cutting 
firewood.

Thanks,
Mike M

On 1/3/2015 3:09 PM, jahaze at aol.com wrote:
> 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
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
>> 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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