Re: Oops, hate it when that happens

Posted by Billy NY on August 24, 2015 at 05:53:07 from (104.228.35.235):

In Reply to: Oops, hate it when that happens posted by JML755 on August 24, 2015 at 05:21:36:

It looks like it went up over the radiator tank. Funny how the letters went like they did. Looks like a 3600. You could make a brush guard that rises up from a standard front bumper that fastens to the front axle. Good excuse to pound out that one dent, the rest looks good, fix 'er up, make a brush guard if you are in these conditions often.

I've seen enough of what clearing or similar work can do, trees, downed limbs, branches, vines, widow makers, etc. Recently, the top of a tree we were working under closed off a trail made by a trespasser on another farm I help look after. The top of a willow tree snapped off randomly, hinged right over and stuck into the ground, precisely at the center of the trail! I have a few photos of it. Its mostly unpredictable, all of it. These are not common, but one had best be aware when in the woods, this would have killed had someone been under it.

A lot of people balk at having a loader on while doing field work, but for this kind of work, and I've done my share, a loader bucket is really nice to have. Just like when I bale hay, I leave the outside row for last, one time the pick up caught a piece of cut/split firewood, that somehow was inside the perimeter, it walked in off the pile some how !!!! LOL ! Lucky it was seen and the baler stopped. Always crap on the outside, so at least if you break something, just the outside row is left. If the perimeter is brush and trees, downed, leaners or what have you, cut the middle, then go around and push in the sides, or just leave it. I have one line that is loaded with widow makers, I will have to clear all of those before I go in there to mow. My old 850 with a wagner loader has cleared some of the worst of field perimeters here. I did pull the return hose off the reservoir once, and got a good size stick to hit the distributor cap, easy repairs both of them could be worse. I was doing this work after an ice storm from the previous winter, hundreds of acres of field perimeters, finally got a piece of staghorn sumac to poke into a small coolant hose on a JD 3150, never saw it.

I cleared a path down a slope near my house, a bit steep, but made easy access to the back of the place from the yard. Cut with a chainsaw, cleared by hand, all looks good. I head down with the D7 and half way through, some kind of vine winds up in the track or something and off the bank on my left comes a good size piece of dead elm, smacking me right in the side of the head, hard enough it would have dropped me to my knees, but I was sitting. Set the blade down and had to take a break, never saw that coming.

I've had limbs and sticks come through full brush cages too, hard to predict what can go wrong when in the brush.

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