PeteTheRookie
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Had a great day yesterday.
Finally was able to right a large overturned stump in the front yard. Stump is from a 70+ foot white pine that hung up on 2 beech trees when it went over in a storm on fall of '09. It had grown on/into a ledge and its root ball is better described as a root plate with a circumference of over 12 ft. Stump itself is still about 10 ft high and about 30" at its base. When the tree guy dropped it, it turned upside down over the ledge.
There it stayed as 2 other attempts to right it failed as it was still too heavy and I could not get near enough to it due to surrounded woods.
Well, yesterday I spent 2 hrs clearing a path thru the front lot woods and finally got right up on it. Nudged it couple times with the loader and then put a chain around it and pull it up right quick as I got it to do a barrel roll down a incline. Came up so quick I thought it was gonna fall and hit loader.
So I was all happy!
Then like my usual dumb butt self I set myself on a bolder sticking out of the ground. Get after it with hoe which I should know by now needs ALL the hoses changed except the one I did last time I blew a hose. POP, crap. Then, because I can't leave it in the front yard due to PITA locality, I quickly drove about 100 yards to where I keep it. By the time I went to pull it in power steering was gone.
Big mess again, hydro oil all over crushed stone driveway again.
WHY, WHY do I have a obsession with large rocks?
And why was I not smart enough to just shut it right down where it popped and leave it there?
AHH, DUH.
Pete the Rookie(and it shows)
Finally was able to right a large overturned stump in the front yard. Stump is from a 70+ foot white pine that hung up on 2 beech trees when it went over in a storm on fall of '09. It had grown on/into a ledge and its root ball is better described as a root plate with a circumference of over 12 ft. Stump itself is still about 10 ft high and about 30" at its base. When the tree guy dropped it, it turned upside down over the ledge.
There it stayed as 2 other attempts to right it failed as it was still too heavy and I could not get near enough to it due to surrounded woods.
Well, yesterday I spent 2 hrs clearing a path thru the front lot woods and finally got right up on it. Nudged it couple times with the loader and then put a chain around it and pull it up right quick as I got it to do a barrel roll down a incline. Came up so quick I thought it was gonna fall and hit loader.
So I was all happy!
Then like my usual dumb butt self I set myself on a bolder sticking out of the ground. Get after it with hoe which I should know by now needs ALL the hoses changed except the one I did last time I blew a hose. POP, crap. Then, because I can't leave it in the front yard due to PITA locality, I quickly drove about 100 yards to where I keep it. By the time I went to pull it in power steering was gone.
Big mess again, hydro oil all over crushed stone driveway again.
WHY, WHY do I have a obsession with large rocks?
And why was I not smart enough to just shut it right down where it popped and leave it there?
AHH, DUH.
Pete the Rookie(and it shows)