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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Dean,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>When real work needs to be done you have to bring in the Green and Yellow! <span style='font-family:"Segoe UI Emoji",sans-serif'>😊</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Dean VP<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Snohomish, WA 98290<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery."<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>..Winston Churchill...<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></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 <at-bounces@lists.antique-tractor.com> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Dean Vinson<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, October 12, 2020 6:11 AM<br><b>To:</b> 'Antique Tractor Email Discussion Group' <at@lists.antique-tractor.com><br><b>Subject:</b> [AT] Having the right tools for the job<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Good tractor day. The “antique fence,” as we call it, is an overgrown flowerbed around a few old fenceposts, the remnants of what long ago had been the intersection of a couple of different fields. I decided I’d remove the old rotten fenceboards, straighten up the posts, clear out the woody shrubs that have grown up, then put up new fenceboards. Nice little fall cleanup project, so I threw some tools in the trailer and fired up the Super M.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Got the old boards off easily enough, but straightening up the big old corner post was another deal. Some quality time with the spade, spud bar, and post hole digger got me about 30” down along one side, but I still couldn’t straighten it up or pull it out by hand. Too big, too deep. Time for some hydraulic assistance, courtesy of the JD 620. Turns out the folks who set that post maybe 60 years ago wanted it to last: Nice old osage orange log, set 42” in the ground. I’ll dig out the hole a little more then re-set the post back to plumb.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Couple other posts need to be replaced completely, and I’ve got some new osage orange logs standing by. <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 OH<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></div></body></html>