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thecfarm

Reclaiming The Land Back (3) - YouTube
One of my projects.
Just about done now
This has been a nice piece to work on.  If I was digging like this at any other place,multiply the rocks by 100. There was a little knoll,I wanted to cut it down and make it not so sharp,easier to mow. I thought sure I would find rocks there. Very few was found.  :o
There's more video about this project and one more to come.
Model 6020-20hp Manual Thomas bandsaw,TC40A 4wd 40 hp New Holland tractor, 450 Norse Winch, Heatmor 400 OWB,YCC 1978-79

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Magicman

Nice progress Ray.  Rocks??  :o
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mike_belben

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lxskllr

Glad I watched til the end. I was gonna comment on the poor tree  :^D  That would be a nice jul tree, and in my living room come December. About all white pine's good for. Jul trees, and smelling nice after getting thrashed by storms  :^D

thecfarm

There was alot of humps,not rocks,but where the ferns grow. Some was more than a foot high and 3 feet across. I have a BIG pile of them and sod too. I have plans for that pile too.
Poor tree,I have 1000's of them poor trees. ;D Was not much growing in the woods. Than my Father and me logged some of the land. Just like kicking a hornet's nest. Those white pines are as thick as hair on a dog.
We call that The New Piece. We bought back 7 acres of The Farm. That helps to keep neighbors away. I don't make a good neighbor. I am up in the morning making noise and well after dark too. I cut off enough so we could see the field across the road and see the wildlife in it. I hauled off one so called stone wall from it. I sprayed that wall for 3 years with vegetation killer. No more poison ivy. Looks like rocks was dumped around the wall,but was never built. I finally got to digging rocks out of the so called field. We mowed around the rocks for 4-5 years. Than when I would go to dig out the rocks,many was about the size of my head and just sitting on the ground. :o  We spent many hours going around small rocks.
Model 6020-20hp Manual Thomas bandsaw,TC40A 4wd 40 hp New Holland tractor, 450 Norse Winch, Heatmor 400 OWB,YCC 1978-79

Peter Drouin

Did you get new gizmos to put up a video with?
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WDH

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mike_belben

I think a clamp on root rake would help you A LOT with combing out these rocks.  My rock bucket is almost always on for roughing, sorting and clearing.

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thecfarm

Brenda has a you tube channel,MAINEiac Grammie's Homestead. I started to put a few videos on for her. Her subs don't really like my tractor-wood stuff.  :(  They like her cooking ones. One video has 50,000 views.  :o   Mine only bring in under 100. Probably will start my own channel. 

mike,I saw that in another post. Looks like something I would tear apart. The bucket on the tractor is starting to show some wear marks now. 
Model 6020-20hp Manual Thomas bandsaw,TC40A 4wd 40 hp New Holland tractor, 450 Norse Winch, Heatmor 400 OWB,YCC 1978-79

mike_belben

Well, im not saying you couldnt.. But i will say it'd be entertaining to watch you try.    ;D



When the dirt stopped coming and it switched to pure demo loads, i figured this bucket was toast, but surprisingly it has held up. The corners get over used untangling the stuff with big rebar and ive bent two tines a little but thats it.  I'll straighten and reinforce them when i get torch filled. 



  Id say i have moved 100ton of big concrete with it this summer.  My tally is somewhere in the 145-150 triaxle loads,  bobcat sorted most every pile. It rides a lot smoother in 'Bell Mode" but the tires got trashed. 






 


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thecfarm

I probably moved that much tonnage in rocks. ;D
I made something to carry small rocks that goes on the back of the tractor. Not much to look at,but saves me from handling the rocks 2-3 more times.
I still need a grapple skidder to haul the big ones into the bog.
Model 6020-20hp Manual Thomas bandsaw,TC40A 4wd 40 hp New Holland tractor, 450 Norse Winch, Heatmor 400 OWB,YCC 1978-79

mike_belben

Anything that reduces carpal tunnel and frayed tendons is worth it!
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Roxie

So, I'm sitting here, minding my own business, watching thecfarm running his New Holland, and I feel a presence behind me, and there was Cowboy Bob with a misty look in his eye.  I swear he could hear a tractor running two counties over.  :D

Nice video, Ray.  I'm looking forward to following your progress. 




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gspren

Quote from: Roxie on August 26, 2018, 01:38:30 PMthere was Cowboy Bob with a misty look in his eye.  I swear he could hear a tractor running two counties over.  :D


Roxie, did he hear me start my JD yesterday to scrape my driveway? I'm only a county and a half!
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thecfarm

Poor Bob. :D   My step son calls it Tractor porn.  ;D 
This project is almost done!!!! I only wish all my land was this easy to work on.
Model 6020-20hp Manual Thomas bandsaw,TC40A 4wd 40 hp New Holland tractor, 450 Norse Winch, Heatmor 400 OWB,YCC 1978-79

thecfarm

Should of kept my big mouth shut. ;D I have hit rocks. And I do mean rocks. I feel better now. I was thinking that somehow I was working on someone else's land. ::) 
It's a coming. I am not saying it's almost done again.
Model 6020-20hp Manual Thomas bandsaw,TC40A 4wd 40 hp New Holland tractor, 450 Norse Winch, Heatmor 400 OWB,YCC 1978-79

thecfarm

It's done!!! ;D 
Well I suppose I don't want to say that too loud. Next year the frost will push up more rocks. There is a video coming of my mighty fine work.
Model 6020-20hp Manual Thomas bandsaw,TC40A 4wd 40 hp New Holland tractor, 450 Norse Winch, Heatmor 400 OWB,YCC 1978-79

Roxie

Waiting for the video.  8)
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Corley5

I'm letting the forest take back most of my fields.  The sugar maples especially are seeding their way back in.  We're keeping some of it as open ground but any that shows northern hardwood regeneration is left for the trees to grow.
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JB Griffin

Never seen anyone use a bucket like that before.  Curious to the reasoning behind that.
We always set the bucket flush to slightly below grade and drive foward.
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thecfarm

I wanted to just get the so called,mounds of ferns and rocks. I did not want to run into the ground all that much.I tired forward a few times. Well more than a few. ;D But backwards works the best for me,in that area.I just felt I was able to skim the stuff that I did not want off the top backwards.
Model 6020-20hp Manual Thomas bandsaw,TC40A 4wd 40 hp New Holland tractor, 450 Norse Winch, Heatmor 400 OWB,YCC 1978-79

mike_belben

I use backdrag constantly.  Every bucket heel should have ripper teeth. 
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thecfarm

Model 6020-20hp Manual Thomas bandsaw,TC40A 4wd 40 hp New Holland tractor, 450 Norse Winch, Heatmor 400 OWB,YCC 1978-79

Papa1stuff

Happy Birthday my friend  8) 8) 8) 8) Have a great day!!
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