Some nice weather for this time of year inspired me to get the old 730 Case and dozer blade going and clear up some of the dead, water killed trees on the farm. No, not joining the club of land clearing, progressive farmers that seem to be everywhere else. I like my trees but all this dead wood looks bad and will eventually fall into the field around the edges causing problems.
The old Case is the tractor my uncle bought in 1964. I first got to drive it in the summer of 1970 and I guess I was pretty hard on it. A learning driver usually is. But it survived and now has a special parking spot in the shed out of the weather. Still up for any job I have for it. Clearing trees is dangerous for both man and machine but so far we are both ok. Second gear at idle speed. Slow and steady wins the race they say. I don't need to win, or even finish. I enjoy the work and thats all that matters. Steering is extremely heavy on the Case but it helps keep me warm later in the day when the temperatures drop..
A panoramic shot of the old Case parked for a rest. Hard to believe that is a creek bottom that is normally too wet to drive in. Its that dry this year.
Dead wood should make good firewood.
ReplyDeleteYes it would be some good firewood but I don't need it anymore and my brother has plenty of dead wood closer to home. I'm still cleaning up broken trees around the yard from last May's ice storm damage. Going to be some big fires here once the snow starts.
DeleteNow that is an interesting bulldozer set up.
ReplyDeleteIts a Leon built right here in Sask. by Leon Malinowski in the early sixties. Later went on to become the Leon company manufacturing a lot of other farm equipment as well as blades.
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