Re: Flip over question

Posted by Hugh MacKay on February 18, 2005 at 14:35:50 from (209.226.106.110):

In Reply to: Re: Flip over question posted by Duke Denning on February 18, 2005 at 08:27:32:

Duke: I can see you need special attention. To begin with, I never suggested that one should pull with a tractor other than using drawbar. What I did say was when you hook another tractor on front, do not run the chain or cable under the tractor being pulled to it's drawbar. HOOK TO THE FRONT PULL HOOK. I have run across a few objects in my lifetime one tractor wouldn't pull, and the safest way is put another on front. Even with a machine like a forestry skidder with winch and logging arch. They will pull a heavy load with winch if one can hold the front end down, yes even hold the machine from slipping back as well. Many a time I have tied that John Deere blade to a big tree.

On the matter of Elm trees in Eastern Canada, Dutch Elm did not hit there until the late 70s. 250 years ago when our forfathers cleared that land they left Elm trees for pasture shade. Some of these trees grew to be massive. I had one that my entire 40 cow holstein herd could take shade under. The shade pattern was 80 feet diameter any direction, when sun was directly over head. Some of these trees had as many as 6 - 18" stems comming out of one stump. As we started more confined feeding and less pasture, we soon realized how much of our fertilizer these trees were sucking up. The root system will spread further than the limb spread. The Elms in center of fields had to go, as they also caused a lot of damage to tillage equipment. Dutch Elm in 1978 was also closing in on us. Forestry specialists suggested if we get rid of old trees we may save the young trees.

My dad had removed 21 of these trees in 1960. Cut them all with a chain saw, drilled holes in stumps and filled with salt. I wanted to cut more at that time. My dad said, " I waited until your grandfather was gone to do this much, you can wait until I'm gone for the rest" In 1960 there were a few D6 and TD14 in our area. None of them would tackle Elm trees or stumps. I said before the D7G was not well equiped for what I was doing 16' angle tilt blade. Owner had stored it at my farm over winter, and the root rake was 50 miles away and nothing there to load it. I told my dad I was going to remove 3 Elms before spring planting and owner came for his D7. My dad said the D7 wouldn't do the job and laughed. The big tree did take 4 hours and that included rolling off the field. Two smaller trees both Elm each took about one hour. For the cost I went back to the chain saw, drilling holes and salt. Little did we know how easy Dutch Elm would make this job. Yes the Elms down there are all gone too.

Follow Ups:

• Re: Flip over question Duke Denning 17:30:44 02/18/05 (1)
  • Re: Flip over question Hugh MacKay 18:34:06 02/18/05 (0)

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