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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Thank you, Gene. I remember you mentioning that dozer to me some years ago, and this past spring or so I saw you’d had it listed for sale… and I’ve kicked myself often for not jumping on that opportunity. Seemed like one thing too many at the time, but I can imagine how handy it would be and I know you’d taken good care of it.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Dean<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> AT [mailto:at-bounces@lists.antique-tractor.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Gene Dotson<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, November 5, 2019 7:56 PM<br><b>To:</b> Antique Tractor Email Discussion Group <at@lists.antique-tractor.com><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [AT] Osages to maples<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans",sans-serif;color:navy'> Dean</span><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans",sans-serif;color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans",sans-serif;color:navy'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans",sans-serif;color:navy'> </span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans",sans-serif;color:navy'>Certainly is a very vast difference to the area. </span><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans",sans-serif;color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans",sans-serif;color:navy'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans",sans-serif;color:navy'> </span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans",sans-serif;color:navy'>When I bought my place it was a neglected mess. The little Case 320 dozer was a very handy tool for clearing the property lines. </span><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans",sans-serif;color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans",sans-serif;color:navy'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans",sans-serif;color:navy'> </span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans",sans-serif;color:navy'>I have always marveled at your photos as you progress with the cleanup and other jobs. I have been remiss on my photos of my progress.</span><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans",sans-serif;color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans",sans-serif;color:navy'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans",sans-serif;color:navy'> </span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans",sans-serif;color:navy'>Gene</span><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans",sans-serif;color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans",sans-serif;color:navy'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans",sans-serif;color:navy'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans",sans-serif;color:navy'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:whitesmoke'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black'> <a href="mailto:dean@vinsonfarm.net" title="dean@vinsonfarm.net">Dean Vinson</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:whitesmoke'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black'>Sent:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black'> Tuesday, November 05, 2019 6:52 PM<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:whitesmoke'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black'>To:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black'> <a href="mailto:at@lists.antique-tractor.com" title="at@lists.antique-tractor.com">'Antique Tractor Email Discussion Group'</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:whitesmoke'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black'>Subject:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black'> [AT] Osages to maples<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>About five years ago I started clearing out an old osage orange hedgerow, maybe 150 yards long, that hadn’t been tended in many decades. Lots of time with the chainsaw, lots of bonfires, lots of work with the Super M dragging logs and pulling roots and hauling firewood, lots of work with the JD 620 and rear blade grading and smoothing. Yesterday I had a crew plant eight new red maple trees on the same line where the osage trees had been, and this afternoon I got the Super M out again to haul trashcans full of water back to them.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>The top half of the attached photo is the 2014 view, showing one of my first bonfires as I began clearing out the osage and honeysuckle and briars. My goal back then was just to clear out some breathing space around a nice mature walnut tree that I’d discovered earlier that year after noticing its top sticking up above the canopy of the older but shorter osage trees. It’s not visible in the photo but it’d be to the right of the bonfire. After a couple of years of occasional trimming and cleanup and thinning out, I set my sights on removing the hedgerow completely. (There’s also another one, but I’m just cleaning it up and will keep many of the big trees).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>The bottom half of the attached photo is the view from a few hours ago. The mass of trees and brambles from the top photo had been just to the left of the little gravel lane behind where the tractor is now sitting. The tall trees behind the tractor had all managed to survive despite being engulfed by the sprawling osages; the dark one in the middle is the big walnut I’d first started clearing out around five years earlier. Interesting that those trees all lean slightly away from where the osages had been. The new maples, hardly visible since they’re small, are dead on the centerline of the original hedgerow.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Will be interesting to see how the new trees do over time. It’s been fun, sort of, plugging away at that scraggly old hedgerow over the years, and darn nice to have a couple old tractors to help.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Dean Vinson<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Saint Paris, Ohio<o:p></o:p></span></p><div id=DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=1 cellpadding=0 style='border:none;border-top:solid #D3D4DE 1.0pt'><tr><td width=58 style='width:41.25pt;border:none;padding:9.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'><a href="http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=emailclient" target="_blank"><span style='text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=46 height=29 id="_x0000_i1025" src="https://ipmcdn.avast.com/images/icons/icon-envelope-tick-green-avg-v1.png"></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=473 style='width:352.5pt;border:none;padding:9.0pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:13.5pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#41424E'>Virus-free. <a href="http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=emailclient" target="_blank"><span style='color:#4453EA'>www.avg.com</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table></div><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><hr size=2 width="100%" align=center></span></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>_______________________________________________<br>AT mailing list<br><a href="mailto:AT@lists.antique-tractor.com">AT@lists.antique-tractor.com</a><br><a href="http://lists.antique-tractor.com/listinfo.cgi/at-antique-tractor.com">http://lists.antique-tractor.com/listinfo.cgi/at-antique-tractor.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></body></html>