[AT] Osage and the green tractor

[Mike M]

That's a good idea Dean, I do the same with my back blade for snow,
otherwise I leave half my driveway in the road.

Mike M


On 12/13/2019 11:05 AM, Dean Vinson wrote:
>
> My red tractor often shows up in photos of my ongoing battle against
> osage orange trees, since it’s typically hooked to a utility trailer
> that’s well suited for hauling chainsaw, log chain, firewood, etc. 
> But for those who favor the green-and-yellow ones, here’s a photo from
> yesterday of the 1958 John Deere 620.   I’d had it out to back-blade a
> gravel lane, and then gave the same treatment to the ashes remaining
> from a recent bonfire site.
>
> In the photo, the bare dirt area immediately beneath and behind the
> tractor resulted from a series of very large bonfires last spring
> which disposed of several large osage stumps and all the branches and
> trunk sections except what I kept for firewood.  The little bit of new
> ash in the lower right corner was one of two smaller bonfires from
> just a couple weeks ago, which served to clean up a brushpile I’d
> accumulated over the summer and burn a couple smaller stumps and
> surfaced roots.   The overall area had originally looked like the mass
> of trees to the right, just a dense mess.   I gripe about the
> tediousness of clearing that stuff out, but it helps to have some old
> tractors involved.
>
> Dean Vinson
>
> Saint Paris, Ohio
>
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