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LOOKIN GOOD DON, AND I LIKE YOUR SECURITY PLAN, BUT IT REMINDS ME OF SOMEONE ;-)
Claymores at the gate?
I just don't want to wind up missing a digit or limb. I can sometimes get in a hurry to get results.
Quote from: JR on June 02, 2017, 03:58:12 PMClaymores at the gate?That might just work...And it is KINTUKY!
this will do.
Quote from: Sammconn on June 02, 2017, 04:46:14 PMQuote from: JR on June 02, 2017, 03:58:12 PMClaymores at the gate?That might just work...And it is KINTUKY!Yes it isIn church the other day a buddy comes up to meSays:"I was cleaning out the closet the other day and ran across some tannerite...I thought of you!"Kin-tuk-ee
50 gallons over 4 days with that many people is excellant! but, according to that pic, you used about a buck fiddy!
Boys did a nice job on the outhouse hole, but it's a pretty long distance from the Shed and Trailer! Reminds me of the old "funny book titles" from my youth - "80 Steps to the Outhouse" by Willy Makit & Betty Wont
...I intend to grow men. That soil is so hard it paves the transition between mud and stone, Literally! Bu setting a seemingly impossible task ahead of them, I have given them the opportunity to explore their limits. They may not enjoy digging it, but bet you me, they will shine with pride over a singularly insignificant hole in the middle of Kentucky. That hole will help me build them!
Quote from: Flyin6 on June 10, 2017, 09:00:02 PM...I intend to grow men. That soil is so hard it paves the transition between mud and stone, Literally! Bu setting a seemingly impossible task ahead of them, I have given them the opportunity to explore their limits. They may not enjoy digging it, but bet you me, they will shine with pride over a singularly insignificant hole in the middle of Kentucky. That hole will help me build them!There's a lot of awesome in that paragraph!Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
After a lot of digging I fired up the Sarge and moved a lot of dirt and tracked it in on top of the levee end of the pond. I stacked that up 3-4 feet higher and widened it considerably. All that goo I had piled up on the backside slid off and went down the hill. It's a four feet mud slide a hundred or more feet long. It's drying and when it gets dry enough I'll stack it back up on the bankRiding on Sarge on top of that levee 30+ feet up in the air was pretty creepy...But I survived and that's' my story!
I forgot to take pics today, but the "Shelf" on the high side was cut all the way across the long up-hill axis, and all that dirt was piled on top and along side of the levee and tracked in where I could get to it.
That pond is now a couple hundred feet long, 10-12 feet deep and wider than yesterdays pics depict. Additionally I cleaned it all up, curving the sides and ends. I still have to work the excavator on the uphill/shelf side to curve that side and cut another 8-10 feet out.I have stacked a bunch of really big boulders along the "Road" that is adjacent to the hole so some mixed up night driver doesn't practice submarine crash dive techniques.I think the place was subject to some big winds. The little Oak tree sitting beside my camper was broken and on its side, and I found stones embedded into the side of the camper!
And now for everyone's favoriteMy weekly CARREP:Coming down the lane, when I drove Chief in, I destroyed a slew of pesky trees, because I could, and they needed to be destroyed. I now have some great new neighbors who agree that the road needs to be widened and improved a little.Well, I took out a clump of Cedars leaving the largest one. My thought was to just trim it up to make it "Pretty"Then I remembered the neighbor saying he was bringing a camper in. That single tree would scratch the dickens out of his camper so I went down the lane with the tractor to remove debris and pull down that tree.Turns out that tree was a stubborn cuss, refusing to yield. So, after grubbing the rootball, I started ramming it with my tractor and grappleNote to self: In the future, do not ram things with your expensive tractor.Well the tree yielded after awhile and I won, I thought.When I tried to curl the grapple back, it groaned and refused to move backwardOn the post flight inspection I noted this:The last pic shows what it should look like.
And then I woke up to discover this:
I yanked that cylinder offJohn deere wants a new born child and $481 for a replacement cylinderI think I'll drive over and visit a hydraulics shop or my buddies at Case to see if its repairable. I know pros straighten motorcycle forks, why not cylinder pistons?
Hey Don you might want to have a guy that knows ponds, dams and the like come check what you dug. Hate to see it fill up then give way and wash out some neighbors place. At the same time you might have the EPA or similar fed agency crawling down your neck for water related stuff. I would just be careful....with that size that much water packs a lot of weight.
I believe the EPA and clean water regs only apply to navigable water or those tributaries connected to it (thats the new stuff).As long as his water is from his property and does not run to a navigable waterway he should be fine.Heard some crazy stories about that!
Re the bent cylinder.....Don, use the right tool for the job. You have a 30,000lb track hoe....jus sayin....
They might be able to straighten the cylinder but they usually break. We never buy them from a dealer. Always from our local hydraulic shop.Sent from my VK810 4G using Tapatalk