"Carl's Lounge" (Off-Topic Discussion, Traditional Knife "Tales & Vignettes")

Modoc ED said:
I keep half of my watches on Daylight Savings Time and the other half on Standard Time.
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That's a sound solution, Ed! I thought I'd changed all our clocks until I got in the car this morning. I was on my way to get a blood draw. I pulled out of the driveway, looked at the info display, and realized I hadn't done the cars yet! For a second, I thought I was an hour late!
 
Old Engineer said:
That is a heck of a Toy my friend . Have you ordered your Cab for it yet ????

Harry
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I've been walking behind the snowblower for about 25 years, so I guess I can get by without a cab on the tractor. I'm still pretty good with working outside in the cold & bad weather. Besides, it's probably not going to snow anymore since I got this.
 
Ironbut said:
I've been walking behind the snowblower for about 25 years, so I guess I can get by without a cab on the tractor. I'm still pretty good with working outside in the cold & bad weather. Besides, it's probably not going to snow anymore since I got this.
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It looks like you have a long gravel driveway to maintain as well . I did okay outside in the cold too until about 4 years ago .

Harry
 
Ironbut said:
I've been walking behind the snowblower for about 25 years, so I guess I can get by without a cab on the tractor. I'm still pretty good with working outside in the cold & bad weather. Besides, it's probably not going to snow anymore since I got this.
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I hear you. A few days ago, I signed a snow plowing contract for the season. If this season is like the last, he's going to make out like a bandit.
 
Old Engineer said:
It looks like you have a long gravel driveway to maintain as well . I did okay outside in the cold too until about 4 years ago .

Harry
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Yeah, we have about a 400 foot lane, and a pretty large area in front of the pole building/garage that needs to be cleaned. Plus, we had a flash flood a few months ago, and although everything's cleaned up pretty well, there's still some landscaping I want to do.

I'm 76 years old & as long as I dress properly, I can tolerate the cold pretty well. But when I come in the house, I want to be warm. Just being not cold isn't good enough. Our house needs to be warm. That's why our main heat source in the Winter has been a wood stove for almost 50 years.:)
 
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On mine the rollbar is just barely too tall to fit in my garage door, by about 1 inch. I ended up having to take it off because I couldn't remember to fold it down every time I was putting it away.

The best part of a small tractor with a loader, when the wife says she wants to put mulch all around the house and trees, I say "Go ahead, you know how to start it". :p
 
Rookie82 said:
On mine the rollbar is just barely too tall to fit in my garage door, by about 1 inch. I ended up having to take it off because I couldn't remember to fold it down every time I was putting it away.

The best part of a small tractor with a loader, when the wife says she wants to put mulch all around the house and trees, I say "Go ahead, you know how to start it". :p
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Yeah, my roll bar's going to be permanently folded down, because it's too high for the garage doors. My wife hasn't gotten on this yet, but I keep offering to show her how to operate it.
 
That's a swell tractor Ironbut Ironbut . I love tractors.

I had this Ford tractor for years but maintenance was getting to be a burden so I sold it to a guy up the road.



I then fitted out a Craftsman Garden Tractor with a kit from Johnny Products and it works great for what I do - maintain our gravel driveway and pole barn pad and plow snow.



It moved these two dump truck loads of plain gravel and class two gravel no problem.



Getting really old and creaky so I just might hire someone to plow snow for us this year as Gary Peregrin Peregrin does.
 
Modoc ED said:
I love tractors.
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I am afflicted by the same sickness! LOL.
And of course had to build a shed to keep the rain and snow off them, jeez lol

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Rookie82 said:
Here's a quick video of my big tractor, heading into the woods to gather maple sap. This was a few years back.
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Them's some deep ruts. Looks like things might get high centered if they get much deeper in places.
 
Ironbut said:
Yeah, my roll bar's going to be permanently folded down, because it's too high for the garage doors. My wife hasn't gotten on this yet, but I keep offering to show her how to operate it.
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I do not have a Tractor like you guys do , but my Zero Turn mower came with a Roll Bar and I have to leave it down because it is too tall to go under a few trees .
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Harry
 
mbkr said:
Them's some deep ruts. Looks like things might get high centered if they get much deeper in places.
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Ya in Pennsylvania in mid-March the ground is pretty saturated. By the end of syrup season the sap wagon is usually dragging along on the frame with the wheels not even touching in the deep ruts anymore. We've bent quite a few tie-rods that way over the years. Around mid-late summer we go over it all with a backblade to smooth things out as best we can to keep the trail from becoming completely unusable.

But the wood frogs love to lay their eggspawn in the ruts each spring. Good place to catch pollywogs.
 
As a kid, we used to catch polywogs and watch them grow into frogs (toads, actually. Bufo Boreas, "Western Toad".) Then we let them loose in the yard. Some survived for years in our back yard.

My father lost his polywog status during WW II on a submarine. He was in the Army but was on a reconnaissance mission. Think I still have his card, Think I also have the certificate he earned for learning to blow the head while submerged.
Me, I'm still a polywog.
 
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