Hay Haley pics of what Ive been working on

Been working on this tree line cleaning it up to gain 30 to 40 feet of field back. Dad just turned 75 and hes slower now and dose more bossing now and telling me how to do everything it seams. Oh well, Hes earned it. Still not done but I am getting after it and was doing good till I blew the lift cylinders on the Gehl 4400 skid steer, Oh well rebuild kits came in today so tomorrow while it raining I will rebuild them. In the mean time I have been using my Oliver 1550 and loader to move logs around. I had a 45 foot oak that the top broke off last year to take down, Big widow maker about 35 feet up that was making me nervies and with it about 6" from the fence and leaning the wrong way this was a tough one to drop. With the Oliver dad and a longggg chain it came down with a thud! Like the rest of them I have cut they get bucked and cut in have or just moved in one piece and piled up to be cut up latter. I have a guy coming sometime soon with his bucket truck to cut limbs out some trees that I don't want to fool with. Turning 50 I think I am getting smarter, Tree limbs ladders and chain saws and 20 feet up don't mix anymore! 10 years ago I would have went right up there and cut them out. Not NOW! They do say with age comes wisdom, I hope its true. Anyway 200 yard done and about 100 yards to go and this fence line is done. The picture of the Oliver you can see one of those 45 foot low limbs sticking out in the field that bucket boy can cut down, There is to many of them for my liking. The brush pile is about ware the last row was last year so I hope to get more this year. Rain or shine there is allways more work to do. Bandit

For got to add these. I am going to have wood coming out of my ears soon. I don't know for sure but I might have some wild black cherry that I cut out on the trailer and in a pile. May have to find someone to sell it to. Who knows? Bandit

Looks like you are making some progress. Them dang woods will eat you up because it"s always one of those projects you are going to get around to. Reminds me of a little saying Dad had, "A farmer"s work is never done, from early dawn till setting sun." May have been more to it originally but that"s all he remembered.

Looks like about 30 years of growth , on some of thoses trees. Took time for them to grow there, so only natural that it will take some time to get rid of them.

You can consider those fence rows that you have not done yet as "crop ground" You are growing your future heat there.LOL.

Cutting the trees down is easy compared to getting rid of all the multafloria rose and rose of Sharon bushes and everything else that was growing in there thick and nasty! I spent a couple of weeks cutting that stuff out and burning it up before I started cutting trees down. The trees I am cutting down are junk trees(elm, plum, catawaba ext.) or trees that are bad or dead or in the wrong place, The Oaks, Hickory, Ash, Locust, Hedge Apple can stay if in a good spot. There is a pretty good wash that I have been working on sence we bought the place to get the water slowed down and filled it back in and its working. The stumps I could get out were put in the wash to slow the water down more. There is still more work to be done and it just takes time to do. Having more time than money I guess we will get-er-done the hard way! Now I wish I still had the old TD9 track loader I sold years ago, I could have had this done in a couple of days instead of weeks of work. A farmers work is never done. Bandit

Dang Bandit! You sure a fellow with previous heart problems should be doin that much manual labor? Just kidding,around here you couldnt find a younger person within 50 miles that would do that job at any price.When i was in high school me and my cousin took an old shortwood pulpwood truck and we cut pulpwood for spending money after school got out most everyday we could.we made some good money and were in great physical shape too.I see you been imbreeding equipment again,An Oliver tractor with a I.H. loader and it looks like a natural fit too.Great pics!

Well something got to get you, Right? Its been a while so I thought it was time to get some work done. Feels good to get out in the sun and work till you get tired, rest and get back at it. The loader I did that mix 20+ years ago when the guy up the road from dads had a sale, I figured for $50 I could make it fit and it did. It has saved my back many times. My hippokrocy knows no bounds on inbreeding equipment, Have an 18 ft JD field cult with IH shanks on it because the JD shanks were wore out and a JD disc with IH disc blades on it. You never can tell what I will do next? I like to be told you cant do that! It makes it more fun. Bandit

Sure looks like it could be MN. I see MANY field lines here where trees are creeping in on the tillable acres. Then I think, if that was mine I'd cut them out (I think like that because I fail to really think of how much work it really is) and sell them for firewood.