CurSedVoyce
California Hillbilly
Its up off the old Strawberry Rd. In Strawberry. Lake was too crowded at Pine Crest. Stanislaus River worked out.
How'd it go today?
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CurSedVoyce
California Hillbilly
Kids had a lot of fun in it.
Camper is set up at the Charlotte Bluegrass Festival for this coming week.
I have to work every morning so will be driving back & forth starting on Wed. Only about an hour & 15 minutes each way.
Looking forward to seeing some old friends, good bands, and doing a bit of picking!
I have to work every morning so will be driving back & forth starting on Wed. Only about an hour & 15 minutes each way.
Looking forward to seeing some old friends, good bands, and doing a bit of picking!
Well i had a dr appt in stl this last Monday, all is well. Had a decent week at work, nothing special, and finally started cleaning up the parking lot area on my lot with the backhoe. It's old and slow, but sure beats doing it by hand. Will spread chips on it to keep the weeds down and I'll be good to park trailers on it.
1952 case 320 backhoe, the first ever dedicated construction backhoe. Before that all backhoes were a tractor with a backhoe attachment. When i got it the main paint scheme was rust, so we wire brushed it and threw on whatever paint we had to keep it from rusting, mostly cold galvanized paint.
pantheraba
More biners!!!
1952!!!! Amazing you've got that thing still running... Awesome.
ruel
TreeHouser
Sailing and swimming and beer, happy as a clam
Kyle, what's with the chain binder on the bucket?
Kyle, what's with the chain binder on the bucket?
treebilly
Student of the Jedi. OH-7106A
Had a great day. Happy Father’s Day everyone
treebilly
Student of the Jedi. OH-7106A
One more
gf beranek
Old Schooler
The perfect Bass Hole with family. Don't get any better.
Yeah, it's still kicking ass, just wayyyyyyy underpowered compared to anything remotely newer. It forces you to dig with technique rather than raw power, which has forced me to be a better operator. It's a 30 hp gas engine, with an old school marvel carb, so it's easy to work on. It needs some heavy tlc, which one day I'll get around to. But for now it keeps rocking.
The binder is for a clamp on rake thing i made, I'll hunt down a picture if i can find one. The bucket has shovel teeth so if you try to dig up weeds you do too much digging, with the rake attachment i can grub weeds and leave the dirt and rocks behind. Works great for cleaning up the gravel driveways, which are odd shaped and not long enough to really go at it with normal grading attachments. I'm gathering scrap parts to do a bolt on tooth bar for the loader, and I've already modified it with some angle iron on the heel so you can back drag a bit better since the bucket is rounded so you can't ever get a bite. I'm considering building a box blade thing for it, or a land plane, or something like that. A backhoe isn't that great for grading, so I'm just trying to make it work for me for around the house stuff. The newer ones are far better with buckets shaped for the task, especially the 4 way ones which are awesome.
The binder is for a clamp on rake thing i made, I'll hunt down a picture if i can find one. The bucket has shovel teeth so if you try to dig up weeds you do too much digging, with the rake attachment i can grub weeds and leave the dirt and rocks behind. Works great for cleaning up the gravel driveways, which are odd shaped and not long enough to really go at it with normal grading attachments. I'm gathering scrap parts to do a bolt on tooth bar for the loader, and I've already modified it with some angle iron on the heel so you can back drag a bit better since the bucket is rounded so you can't ever get a bite. I'm considering building a box blade thing for it, or a land plane, or something like that. A backhoe isn't that great for grading, so I'm just trying to make it work for me for around the house stuff. The newer ones are far better with buckets shaped for the task, especially the 4 way ones which are awesome.
stikine
Treehouser
Spent the day with friends today at Middle Ridge cabin. It's the only one that you can drive to on the district. Nice spot on a small lake around 1500 feet elevation
Burnham
Woods walker
Lovely spot, lovely cabin. Thanks, Austin.
SeanKroll
Treehouser
Keif and kefir are way different😉.
Decent day, but I didn't do much. Boss set the locust posts I cut over the weekend, so that made me happy. Seems like a lot of the forestry work I do is for my own gratification. I don't get any guidance on what's useful, so I try to find something useful on my own. Not that there isn't plenty to do that's needed in the near term, but I never hear about it til it has to be done *now*, or the moment passed, especially with regards to milling. There's tons(literal) of stuff I could make, but it's hard to get motivated to do something on the off chance it's needed. Alaskan milling is a lot of work, and pretty expensive. I can't get enthused about shoving a saw through a tree /just cause/. So anyway, it's nice having my work get used.
We also wrapped a bald cypress to protect it from beavers. Had to get in a boat to do it. It was partially wrapped with what I had on hand at the time, and it worked for awhile, but they decided to go after an unwrapped part again. Pulled a swamped canoe out of the pond also. Boss wanted to hook it up to a tractor. Lazy as shit. Iron isn't the answer to everything. It moved ok, but you need to be hands on in case it sticks on something, and you can finesse it off. Pulling with a tractor has a good chance of pulling it apart. The boat we used was a little jon boat, and I paddled it with a shovel since there isn't anything on the farm :^D I pulled that out of the pond last year I think.
We also wrapped a bald cypress to protect it from beavers. Had to get in a boat to do it. It was partially wrapped with what I had on hand at the time, and it worked for awhile, but they decided to go after an unwrapped part again. Pulled a swamped canoe out of the pond also. Boss wanted to hook it up to a tractor. Lazy as shit. Iron isn't the answer to everything. It moved ok, but you need to be hands on in case it sticks on something, and you can finesse it off. Pulling with a tractor has a good chance of pulling it apart. The boat we used was a little jon boat, and I paddled it with a shovel since there isn't anything on the farm :^D I pulled that out of the pond last year I think.
SeanKroll
Treehouser
Beat the heat!
stikine
Treehouser
Damn, redneck Kyle build fer sure...😁
Lol I'll take some of my clamp on trailer hitch, that's even worse! Very very handy tho, with a pintle it is great for rigging stuff, dragging logs, moving trailers and backing them into tight spots, etc. Finished ripping up weeds in the back for now, so now i got some grading to do, and then start spreading chips. Got a fire going, my burn pile got too big while i was sick so I'm dragging stuff to another pit so i can control it, so I'll have it out tomorrow after work.
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