Recent content by ajschnitzelbank

I don’t know what any of that means, but dang that’s a cool toy.

Had a good sized maple fall a while back. Finally got to it for firewood. It was up a small embankment next to my driveway, so I threw a chain around a few sections and pulled then out with the hoe. Had to reposition the chain a several times. I was envious of y’all with winches! But then I...

Woah, what’s with the fire truck?

My brother bought the lot next to me as a vacation spot. He’s rather busy, so hasn’t gotten to this tri-axle load of gravel since last fall. I spread it for him today. Then there was a broken white pine top stuck in a maple. I pulled as much of that out as I could. There’s still a little...

What will you spray with it? (Wondering about the plants and the spray itself, I’ve never sprayed anything, I live in the woods of the northeast and keep my yard fairly natural, for want of a better word for it.)

Sorted and stored logs I cut a few months ago for my milling project. I’m new to it, we’ll see how it goes. It’s red pine that’s very straight and tight grained, but rather small (logs are 6-11” diameter inside the bark at the narrower end). I’ll be using a Logosol chainsaw mill will a Stihl 661.

Wowza. Were you and the machine okay? Did it stay rubber side down? While sliding I did think about sliding in to the ditch and flopping on my side 😬

Oh yeah, after I regrouped (and took a photo 😂) the rest of the way down the hill I had my hand on the 3pt drop lever.

I shared my screw up so I, and others, can learn. So thanks, that’s fair and constructive criticism. I thought of dropping in the moment, but hesitated in the low key panic 😵‍💫 I’ve been in other situations where I dropped the loader or blade, but for whatever reason I was caught so off guard...

Ohhh I see. It’s a dead end road, and my house is at the end, the only one uphill from that spot. So someone would have to be coming from down the hill and would see me. But there’s seriously often zero vehicles that come up over the course of an entire day. Most days is like the plow one time...

Yeah… the rest of the way down the hill I was in 4wd and low range and took it very easy. I’ve lived here ten years and believed I knew the road conditions and machine fairly well. But, it seems so was over confident. It can sneak up on you if you let your guard down!

I slid to a stop, and felt I was in a safe(enough) spot to step off. But maybe I should have stayed on the machine 🤷‍♂️

While heading to the neighbor’s place to plow them out (a vacation place, they live in the city) I spun out on the town road. I didn’t see it coming and boy did it frighten me. I was in midrange, 2500 rpms, two-wheel drive. Just driving down the fairly steep hill, I think it’s 10% grade or so...

I’ll add it was the first time for ME pulling them out this winter, but not the first for them! The tow hook in the front bumper was broken off. The hole where it threads in was plugged with the broken off threaded bit of the hook.

Today (just now) I pulled an Amazon van out of the ditch. First, for this season 😂