Adirondack case guy
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Well, I made it through my 44 daily cancer treatments with flying colors. Finished last one July 8th., and all geared up to start cutting my 2015 supply of firewood. A few days after that I developed sever angina and had two stents installed. Felt better for a couple days and then all heck broke loose. Back into the hospital and all kinds of scans etc. They found nothing further that needed imediate attention. The docs changed my meds around, but wasn't helping much. Still haveing angina attacks, and needing nito pills. Went to keeping an hourly log of my BP, activities and diet. Got an appointment with a NP and I think she is smarter than the docs. She told me to adjust my BP meds on the fly so-to-speak. I ame takeing a quick release with my other prescribed one in the morning after coffee, and another at noon. That is working. I also discovered that Pepsi was causing an instant rise in BP. Stopped drinking that. Also discovered that a couple barley pops at the end of the day dropped the pressure also.
I have spent the last 3 days up in the woods opening up another section of woods. Built this road, and cut down all the dead and distressed trees, and cleaning up all the downers that were worth saveing. I have a bit over 2 full cord of wood at two landings ready to be blocked, split, loaded and brought home and stacked in the woodshed.
Pics are of the 3pt skiding arch that I built for my B2150 Kubota. It is working out very well. I can drag the winch cable back into the woods 35' while the tractor is parked out near the road. Leaves minimal impact back off the road, and I don't have to worry about a stray stick doing damage to the tractor. The winch is a $54 HF 2500# with remote. Real handy setup. I just walk in and hand carry any good limb wood laying back off the road and block it, and load it into the tractor bucket.
I made the road wide enough for PUs and my cab tractors to get through to get to the 80A wood lot on the other side of the corn. We used to just drive in the fields around this little woods, BUT since I pushed all the brush back around the edges, and cut all the overhanging tree limbs last fall, this year the uncles planted corn rite to the trees, and it all grew tall, so I would have been in deep dew if I ran down a half mile of corn to get to the back woods.
Loren, the Acg.
I have spent the last 3 days up in the woods opening up another section of woods. Built this road, and cut down all the dead and distressed trees, and cleaning up all the downers that were worth saveing. I have a bit over 2 full cord of wood at two landings ready to be blocked, split, loaded and brought home and stacked in the woodshed.
Pics are of the 3pt skiding arch that I built for my B2150 Kubota. It is working out very well. I can drag the winch cable back into the woods 35' while the tractor is parked out near the road. Leaves minimal impact back off the road, and I don't have to worry about a stray stick doing damage to the tractor. The winch is a $54 HF 2500# with remote. Real handy setup. I just walk in and hand carry any good limb wood laying back off the road and block it, and load it into the tractor bucket.
I made the road wide enough for PUs and my cab tractors to get through to get to the 80A wood lot on the other side of the corn. We used to just drive in the fields around this little woods, BUT since I pushed all the brush back around the edges, and cut all the overhanging tree limbs last fall, this year the uncles planted corn rite to the trees, and it all grew tall, so I would have been in deep dew if I ran down a half mile of corn to get to the back woods.
Loren, the Acg.
