Dropping & Bucking Up Three Pine Trees

Posted on June 30, 2024 by Paul McDonald

https://www.thephysicaltherapyadvisor.com/2024/09/18/yta90ln1 The farmer just harvested the wheat and planted the beans, so a short window to be able to drop some trees into the field without damaging crops. The frontier wife helped me, we started early but it was a very hot day. I’m not a particularly experienced chainsaw operator but all went well, was super careful with clearing around the trees for an escape route and placing the cuts properly.

Buy Valium 1000 Dropping the trees was easy, the trimming and cutting into log lengths and disposing of the branches was time consuming and tedious. When the tree is down and the branches under compression you have to be very careful not to either have the branch whip out and hit you or roll the tree onto you.

https://everitte.org/i1jsdkpdd8 While I trimmed, the frontier wife used the tractor with the grapple to move the branch bundles off the field.

go site The next evening I was able to get the boom pole on the tractor and drag the logs back to the sawmill.

Fruit is Ripening

Posted on June 30, 2024 by Paul McDonald

https://www.fandangotrading.com/9sei8mf Lots of fruit in the orchard is ready to pick. Wild grapes are seen in many places on the farm. This year the peaches in the orchard are going crazy, literally breaking branches.

Patrick Encounters Elk Herd on CDT

Posted on June 26, 2024 by Paul McDonald

click here I really didn’t think there were still this large of an elk herd in southern Colorado, but what do I know. Pretty impressive.

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Finally Spread the Compost on the Back Field

Posted on June 18, 2024 by Paul McDonald

https://ragadamed.com.br/2024/09/18/13243ar7 Bought the used manure spreader a few months ago but just couldn’t find time to get the compost spread onto the back field until today. Used the dump trailer to move 5 loads back to the edge of the field first.

go site Learned a critical lesson when I filled the manure spreader then hitched it to the tractor and pulled it into the back. Well, with the manure spreader fully loaded, going down a very steep hill caused the trailer to start pushing the tractor. Luckily the hill wasn’t that long but it sure was close to pushing the tractor sideways which would have been a disaster.

go here Actually spreading the compost was pretty easy, especially since my good friend JJ let me borrow his tractor to load the spreader, otherwise I would have had to unhitch, load, then hitch for every spreader load. There were many!

New Chicken Tractor Finally Done

Posted on June 3, 2024 by Paul McDonald

follow site I largely used Joel Salatin’s ‘EggMobile’ chicken tractor design. I like having a tractor that is enclosed and can protect the flock at night when most predators strike. Some notable changes to his design:

Sloped 1:12 roof
16′ boat trailer for the base trailer frame instead of welding my own
Two automatic chicken doors
Solar powered lights to attract the chickens in at night
Roll-out nesting boxes that protrude through the walls with ‘perch poppers’ to release the nesting box perch in the early morning.

https://livingpraying.com/wmvs9lez Many of these changes have to do with decreased labor requirements. I don’t have a staff of interns to button up the doors manually, or clean the nesting boxes each day.

https://www.drcarolineedwards.com/2024/09/18/5j4mwen5 The boat trailer speeded things up, but I did have to purchase angle iron and have a steel working company cut and drill holes so I could anchor it to the frame. Below is a progression of pictures from the build until occupation.

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Emily & Randy Arrived

Posted on June 1, 2024 by Paul McDonald

https://www.thoughtleaderlife.com/v4h3y9hu6x Emily and Randy arrived from Denver, they are engaged now. Randy is looking for a job, likely as a chef and Emily is going to manage our chickens, the mowing and perhaps other things. So far so good, a few pictures of the first few weeks.