Things built, torn down and other projects.(Pictures)

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Finally got the woodshed covered, and I had a little time to give the grapple a tryout. It's still not finished and I've never used one before, but it got the job done.

And of course, I put the pile of brush in what I deemed to give me the best shot at picking it up. Kinda like those Dept of Defense videos where they are demonstrating a new anti missile system to the public. They know where the missile is coming from, how fast, what altitude, where it is all the time and what the person who fired the missile ate for breakfast.

And I still missed one limb.
 
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MWR said:
Finally got the woodshed covered, and I had a little time to give the grapple a tryout. It's still not finished and I've never used one before, but it got the job done.

And of course, I put the pile of brush in what I deemed to give me the best shot at picking it up. Kinda like those Dept of Defense videos where they are demonstrating a new anti missile system to the public. They know where the missile is coming from, how fast, what altitude, where it is all the time and what the person who fired the missile ate for breakfast.

And I still missed one limb.
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That’s pretty cool! Wish I had something similar for the next time I find the cat passed out in the backyard. Just one time, Lord, I promise.
 
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VolNExile said:
That’s pretty cool! Wish I had something similar for the next time I find the cat passed out in the backyard. Just one time, Lord, I promise.
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Well,I guess it would work for animals. I did try to pick up a counter weight for the tractor and all of a sudden big yellow bees began to swarm out of it. I moved on.
 
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MWR said:
Well,I guess it would work for animals. I did try to pick up a counter weight for the tractor and all of a sudden big yellow bees began to swarm out of it. I moved on.
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I wouldn’t try to pick her up. Just have that thing hanging over her, opening and closing.

(She does something similar to that with us at 5 am if we don’t get out of bed quickly enough to let her out.)
 
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Tried to move the counterweight to the front of the tractor. About the time I got a good grip on it, a horde of big yellow bees came fogging out from around it. This procedure will be postponed until another day.

 
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MWR said:
Tried to move the counterweight to the front of the tractor. About the time I got a good grip on it, a horde of big yellow bees came fogging out from around it. This procedure will be postponed until another day.

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You seem to be an… umm… car collector? And the occasional school bus?
 
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VolNExile said:
You seem to be an… umm… car collector? And the occasional school bus?
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I bought the school bus to use the frame as the base of a band sawmill. The frame is over 30 feet long and "straight as a stick." And it already has wheels and an axle on it. Just add a trailer hitch, leveling jacks, and build the sawmill to roll back and forth.

And there's not much timber around here that will make a log over 24 foot long.
 
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MWR said:
I bought the school bus to use the frame as the base of a band sawmill. The frame is over 30 feet long and "straight as a stick." And it already has wheels and an axle on it. Just add a trailer hitch, leveling jacks, and build the sawmill to roll back and forth.

And there's not much timber around here that will make a log over 24 foot long.
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That’s some clever thinking!
 
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This is what I had in mind when I built this grapple. Makes sawing firewood a lot easier on an old man. I can saw standing up and that is easier than sawing down on the ground.

And that is a seasoned beech log. They're pretty tough, not to mention pretty heavy. And they make a lot of heat. And that is a 455 Husky rancher saw making the sawdust fly.

 
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MWR said:
Tried to move the counterweight to the front of the tractor. About the time I got a good grip on it, a horde of big yellow bees came fogging out from around it. This procedure will be postponed until another day.

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Big yellow bees?
 
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MWR said:
This is what I had in mind when I built this grapple. Makes sawing firewood a lot easier on an old man. I can saw standing up and that is easier than sawing down on the ground.

And that is a seasoned beech log. They're pretty tough, not to mention pretty heavy. And they make a lot of heat. And that is a 455 Husky rancher saw making the sawdust fly.

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You have a pneumatic splitter?
 
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