Tractor Friday

With the exception of my own, every tractor in the county is on the roads, meadows, fields and forests today getting all the work done. Most of the slurry work was done by yesterday evening to make the best use of the near perfect rain.

Today it seemed the last of the cleaning up in the forests was the job of the day. Farmer Andreas popped by in his Deutz Intrac with foresters winch attached.

"Good" to see him after his milking parlour accident 10 days or so ago. Plaster tape all over his face and forehead holding all the various broken bones together. As always he laughed it off -  the first such accident he has ever suffered in 50 odd years. of milking. He was on his way to pull out some felled trees and just wanted to ask something.

While we chatted, MrB turned up on his small but powerful and fine Eicher "plantation" tractor also with forestry winch and he was also heading the same way as Andreas to pull together some trees to the side of a track where he could later saw them up.

Both were in a hurry though so they disappeared as suddenly as they had arrived. But before he left, MrB got my chainsaw started. In winter I would normally be using it quite a bit but have done nothing this year. Not a good idea to leave such petrol engines lying around with petrol in the tanks. Much better to run them dry.

I simply didn't have the strength to keep pulling but MrB has all the right muscles finely tuned and the knack too. Thank you MrB

Perhaps it's time to sell off all my firewood making machines.: chainsaw, log splitter, table saw and just buy in ready cut logs. Thinking about it, the same for tractor and all the various mowers etc.Lawn tractor although itself not working due to some strange electrical problem can do most of the work required, just takes a little longer.