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Went for my evening walk, this time around the grounds of the Iwo Jima Memorial. Saw lots of cars there last night and found out today why. There is a memorial of sorts for the Marines and others killed recently in Afghanistan. Flowers, candles, pictures and other possessions. Very moving…
Started feeling quite ill on Friday so decided to have a quiet weekend. Famous last words.
Got a call on Saturday morning from a friend whose husband has thrown his back out. She needed some help to pick up a load of hay from the seller round the corner from us, so I decided I might as well go get some for us at the same time. Trouble is, Farmtruck is stuck at the mechanic because we're in lockdown, so I pulled on my overalls (which was enough to make me start sweating), hooked up the not-quite-roadworthy trailer to the not-road-legal tractor and headed off.
I got her sorted out, then took 10 bales home for our girls, at which point my wife said I might as well do a couple more runs while the trailer was out and the seller was open. I did two more runs, and by 10am I had 25 bales on the ground outside the tractor shed, but nowhere to store them. Excellent planning, Matthew, well done.
This led to me cycling through a process of hooking up various implements to the tractor, moving them out into the paddock, dropping them off, then going back for more. I also manhandled a few of them from one side of the shed to the other. They start at 160lb and go up from there.
I lay down on a pallet for a while until my wife revived me with some much-needed water, then moved the hay bales into the shed with the tractor pallet forks. Once that was all squared away I just happened to have the flail mower on the back, so I figured I might as well top a couple of paddocks while it was there.
Mowing while unwell is not recommended. I set the height wrong on the mower and basically turned the first paddock into a football field. Thankfully it's early Spring now so hopefully the grass will come back strong before we need the paddock again.
By then it was 16:00, and I'd finally got everything squared away in the shed, except for the trailer. It was still light and I was on autopilot so I decided to go pull a couple of cut-down branches out of a paddock. Turned out there was a few more than a couple, and I finished some time after dark.
Sunday came, and I was definitely, definitely taking it slow.
BUT!
After yesterday's rearrangement of the shed, the PTO-driven wood chipper (capable of eating branches up to 5in diameter) was now easily accessible, and we have several stacks of branches that refuse to mulch themselves. So I hooked it on the tractor and headed out with my wife to put a few branches through to get started on some mulch for the roadside hedging.
The plan was immediately derailed when I remembered the tractor had a safety pressure switch that shuts off the engine if the PTO (a rotating shaft that allows other implements to be powered by the tractor) is engaged when no one is in the driver's seat, so my wife had to spend the day reading the Internet from the seat while I fed the chipper by myself.
Then on Monday I logged into work (I work in IT) to a series of messages from people taking the day off because they have a cold.
^ Wow! I don't know what to say. I just got exhausted reading all the things you've done on one weekend. I need to take a break. You must be a glutton for punishment. I wish more young people would have your work ethic.
For those of you who do not follow BAT (Bring A Trailer,) two S2000's were sold today at prices I could not believe. First, a 2004 with 42K miles sold for $36,225 (with 5% buyer's premium) https://bringatrailer.com/listing/2004-honda-s2000-86/
Next, a 2008 with only 8K miles sold for an unbelievable $59,325, also with 5% buyer's premium. https://bringatrailer.com/listing/2008-honda-s2000-38/ That's right up there in NSX territory! WOW!
08-25-2021, 03:52 PM
