Mahindra 4540

[thewoodlands]

I took 5 or 6 loads of pine branches to the town wood dump, what's left is in the picture. It was 87 when I came in today but the temp is starting to drop.

 

[thewoodlands]

North of us is getting hit pretty good with what seems like high winds and lightning, they have lines down with a bunch of trees on power lines. The storms have been staying west of us heading north so far.

Certain areas north of us have received two inches of rain real quick with another 1-2 coming in, they have a flood warning on.

 

[heavy hammer]

We have been having storms as well here just west and south of us I figure it's just a matter of time till we get ours. It is supposed to heat back up the coming week so we will see what storms we get. I haven't worked a summer storm yet this year so we will see.

 

[thewoodlands]

We have been having storms as well here just west and south of us I figure it's just a matter of time till we get ours. It is supposed to heat back up the coming week so we will see what storms we get. I haven't worked a summer storm yet this year so we will see.

I was just talking with the wife about possible storms this week with all the hot weather. I'll start working early in the morning this week and stop around 12 or 1, the work should include stacking and bucking up some pine logs which should open up one of our trails again.

 

[heavy hammer]

After I made that comment, I have been working storm here and even some out of town. I'm hoping to move some wood with the tractor this weekend to finish my stacks close to the house and I have been processing wood here and there. I need to bring down this big ash and dying maple on the edge of my woods.

 

[thewoodlands]

After I made that comment, I have been working storm here and even some out of town. I'm hoping to move some wood with the tractor this weekend to finish my stacks close to the house and I have been processing wood here and there. I need to bring down this big ash and dying maple on the edge of my woods.View attachment 245967

Nice work heavy hammer, we finally received some rain that we needed but the storms with some high winds started up east of us.
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[thewoodlands]

Today I started cleaning up a new area where we'll pile a bunch of the pine we have and also make some trails for the rhino,tractor and for walking.

Picture 9466 is from the only entrance looking at the dead pine, there was plenty of rotten pine down so that went on the second run to the wood dump and boy, did mother nature dump on me.

Hopefully before the end of this coming week, I have a whole bunch of pine in there.

 

[thewoodlands]

We had a pine that lost its top a few years ago so I felled it and then split the chit. I moved some limbs with the 4540 so I changed to the bucket and moved some pine to the area I cleared the other day.

The 310 is still giving me problems so I grabbed the 028 WB, it was running nice and throwing some nice chips so I guess I'll use it more often.

Pictures 9483 & 84 are the two fawns we have hanging around, they've been putting on a show running the trails around the house.

We had 46 this morning.

 

[thewoodlands]

I moved the rest of the split pine to the area I'm piling it up since we already have two years worth stacked for the shoulder season. Once we burn four face cord of this years shoulder season pine, I hope to stack another four from this pile before we get snow.

 

[thewoodlands]

I bucked up some dead pine and then split it smaller to burn in the outside fireplace with some other firewood. After splitting the pine I dug up one stump with the backhoe on the 4540.

 

[thewoodlands]

Since we had some rain on Tuesday night and most of the day Wednesday, I burned up some splits in the fireplace that had been in a pile for a few years. I did have some dry dead pine that was used to get everything going, I burned up about three or four bucket loads that I moved with the 4540.

 

[SpaceBus]

It's getting close to burning season here. Do you do anything special to prep your tractor for winter?

 

[heavy hammer]

A friend of mine had some locust branches fall from a past storm. Just a little wood turned into three big truck loads.

 

[thewoodlands]

It's getting close to burning season here. Do you do anything special to prep your tractor for winter?

Once the temps stay colder, I'll have a battery maintainer on it. I usually have 15 gallons of diesel on hand but with the winter blends coming to the gas stations in this area around the end of October, I'll start having five gallons on hand so I don't get caught with a bunch of summer blend diesel in the tractor.

I'll start treating the diesel with what I use for the winter, I think it's called Mahindra Arctic Blast.

 

[thewoodlands]

View attachment 247015 A friend of mine had some locust branches fall from a past storm. View attachment 247016 View attachment 247017 Just a little wood turned into three big truck loads.

Looks like you have some very nice firewood. I'm still working on felling some smaller pine, the rounds will become pit firewood and I took three trailer loads of branches to the wood dump today.

The area I'm working will be another area to put snow that usually was on the side of the driveway.

 

[heavy hammer]

Thewoodlands with tomorrow being Sept 1 cooler temps, snow and burning is not to far away. I'm dropping a very large ash tomorrow on the edge of my woods. I'll try and get some pics. Summer is about over which I hate say.

 

[thewoodlands]

Thewoodlands with tomorrow being Sept 1 cooler temps, snow and burning is not to far away. I'm dropping a very large ash tomorrow on the edge of my woods. I'll try and get some pics. Summer is about over which I hate say.

Nothing wrong with Ash. I've been working on clearing three plow areas, two that are new.

Once we lose the leaves off the trees, more Ash will becoming down here too. I'm hoping to get another ten face cord c/s/s before the snow gets deep.

 

[heavy hammer]

I ended up taking down a maple that was in front of the ash as well. I didn't get any pics but I'll get some of the rounds. My father and brother were over to help me drop them and clean up the 660 had a new chain on it so my father was pretty happy to run it while I used the tractor to move brush and move rounds.

 

[thewoodlands]

I ended up taking down a maple that was in front of the ash as well. I didn't get any pics but I'll get some of the rounds. My father and brother were over to help me drop them and clean up the 660 had a new chain on it so my father was pretty happy to run it while I used the tractor to move brush and move rounds.

Sounds good, I've been running the old 028 Wood Boss that my neighbor sold me years back, I've on;y been cutting pine and some maples but it's a nice little saw.

 

[heavy hammer]

Here are the rounds stacked from those trees and then split. Copper kept me company.

 

[thewoodlands]

This is one of the two areas that I cleared of some pine so we had more room for snow near the bend of our driveway. I used the 4540 with the forks to load the utility trailer to take two loads of branches and dead pine to the wood dump, hopefully by next Sunday, this area will be much cleaner.

 

[SpaceBus]

Your leaves are still so green!

 

[thewoodlands]

Your leaves are still so green!

Not on our bigger trees, we went for another leaf peeping ride and the colors are really nice.

 

[heavy hammer]

It's funny here some trees have almost all their leaves off and some still have green leaves.

 

[thewoodlands]

Today after cleaning out the back of the rhino and cleaning pitch and gunk off of two saws, I cleaned off the zerks and greased the tractor and the backhoe. This week I'll hook the plow up and make sure that is working and I'll grease that.

I checked all the fluid levels before the last time I used the tractor but will check them again before the next use which I do regularly.