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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Cecil, I wish you were closer too… :) That D6 would speed up my clearing efforts something fierce, and there’s plenty of the osage orange to give it the workout it needs!<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><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span style='color:windowtext'> AT [mailto:at-bounces@lists.antique-tractor.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Cecil Bearden<br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, December 21, 2019 8:01 PM<br><b>To:</b> at@lists.antique-tractor.com<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [AT] Nice working evening<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p>Dean:<br>I have worked on a lot of Osage Orange. What is on the ground represents a lot of work... You are a better man than I !! I wish you were closer, I would bring over the ol' D6D. I started her up today and finally unloaded the 30ft 24K lb 4post lift. The old girl fired up pretty quick, but started on 3 or 4 first then had to run a few seconds before it ran on all 6. It needs a good workout....<br>Cecil<span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On 12/21/2019 5:21 PM, Dean Vinson wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal>Temps jumped up into the 40s today, so after a morning of running errands I enjoyed a couple more hours in my never-ending effort to push back the osage orange trees, with the assistance of the chainsaw, log chain, and the Super M. Fairly big tree, probably 50 years old or so, with three trunks. Two of them were sloped so far over they were practically horizontal, and those two are what’s cut up on the ground behind and to the right of the tractor in this photo. The third one is relatively vertical and is still standing, for the time being, and is visible in the photo behind the seat of the tractor.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>That third trunk, plus the tree immediately behind the center of the tractor, plus the two trees to the right, all have a date with the chainsaw before winter is out, followed soon enough by a process of rapid oxidation accompanied by the spontaneous emission of heat and light.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Dean Vinson<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Saint Paris, Ohio<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p><pre>_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>AT mailing list<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="mailto:AT@lists.antique-tractor.com">AT@lists.antique-tractor.com</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre><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></pre></blockquote></div></body></html>