Posted by JerryS on November 05, 2014 at 23:42:47 from (98.80.120.142):
Since I’ve already revealed myself here as something of an eco-terrorist I figured I might as well go ahead and post another of my environmental depredations. Background: In early 2013 I bought a house and five acres that adjoins my existing 12 acres. About 3 1/2 acres of the new five acres is heavily wooded with 100-foot pines and assorted hardwood. The trees are all tied together with a canopy of a variety of vines: muscadine, wild grape, sawbrier, rattan, honeysuckle and poison ivy. The vines also cover lots of fallen pine logs and big limbs--about a 40-year accumulation. The previous owner seemed to not care that most of his property was an impenetrable jungle, but me, I don't see the point of having acreage if you can't access, use and enjoy it.
So, a few weeks ago I began chopping trails with a machete---paths that I then turned into fire lanes using my zero turn mower. Last Thursday was the big day: I torched it. The global warming people would not be pleased---a three-acre fire sends lots of carbon into the air. I tended it until after midnight. Since then most of the wood on the ground has been smoldering; it’s interesting to see a 50-foot log simply melt away, leaving a gray trail of ash where it lay. The next step is to go through and saw and pile all the remaining stuff that’s on the ground. Then I’ll come through with my old TRACTOR (JD 1020) and my old Sidewinder brush chomper and take down everything the Sidewinder can chew. Yep, all us old relics can still get ‘er done!
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Today's Featured Article - Grain Threshing in the Early 40's - by Jerry D. Coleman. How many of you can sit there and say that you have plowed with a mule? Well I would say not many, but maybe a few. This story is about the day my Grandfather Brown (true name) decided along with my parents to purchase a new Ford tractor. It wasn't really new except to us. The year was about 1967 and my father found a good used Ford 601 tractor to use on the farm instead of "Bob", our old mule. Now my grandfather had had this mule since the mid 40's and he was getting some age on him. S
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