Catch up is getting rougher with age!

Been neglecting some of my farm work doing other things as House Build, Truck Rebuild, Truck Herding, even vacationing.  Old place is becoming terrible as the day we bought it.

Started marking Cedars that are coming OUT, have a few odd others, Elm, other non saleable timber also gonna eradicate, then realized stumps my previous renter had left me near a decade ago were briar and brambling out so last three days managed to get near to all needed out(18) rolled out of the holes they were in and moved to ditch to continue rot away.  Three had evaded the old 7G a couple years back just as I sold it as were not easily access so those will get Stump Rot chemicals.  Then had a wind storm a few years back, had neglected a old elm needed removed, it split three ways from Sunday, so today started on that widow maker.  Got many limbs and section pieces of the banana peel split old Pizz Elm, then pinched the bar and bent several chain links getting the saw out.  Had a spare chain so all back ready for tomorrow and ordered a couple more in case manage that again.

Tomorrow out comes the wagon, load all the Elm I get cut away and take to a brush burn spot, have a few dead down trees along neighboring fence same pasture so those will get hauled as well.  Just in time for Rain TH FR and SU.  Next Week traveling to Tulsa, friend of mine is getting married and invited the wife and I, he was the KW Owner at one time.  Once back hone will start on Cedars.  MO Mulch was paying $60/ton for NOTHING Greenery Cedar, may get a few loads up there in the coming months.

Come Spring, will most likely purchase a New To Me large capacity sprayer, looking forward to getting Remedy or Grazon down in multiple fields.  Will be setting up a Wand for that tank so can hit Fence Row Multi Flora and Locust saplings.  Really want to clean the place up as next step is different better spacing Cross Fence and gate locations, bought a Shaver M8(?) and will be adding Steel Pipe Posts at spots for gates or corners.

Next summer will be adding another Cobett Waterer up by house off the well there.  Have a bunch of Dead or Dying trees need thinned at several points, more burn pile fodder.

One last consideration is may Disc Off a couple of smaller fields after the Grazon/Remedy attack, seed up more Brome for bales.  Thoughts are moving to the renter letting go of this lease so time to make Hay while the Sun Shines, possibly add a feeder or two just for our use.

Still for the life of me, How did any of us get all this stuff done and work too, am Retired now and seems cannot catch up.

 Yep,,Yep,,,I know all of us old codgers are finally realizing that we have got to learn easier ways to get things done and not even think about including any Brute Strength in any of our projects,,,,

 There were a lot of things that I could not even think about getting to while the wife was so sick and even worse when she passed,,,

 For the last month, I been doing a big clean up and have had to just grit my teeth and look that other way and I have accumulated a pretty good sized metal pile  and the salvage person has told me now is the best time to sell junk iron as China is buying anything they can get their hands on.

 I'm getting closer and closer to Ole Red that been hiding in the garage for ,,,,gosh,,,I don't even want to think how LONG it's been since she has seen the sun,,,,,

   Well,,,Steve,,,,I have NO IDEA why I ever thought I would need so many dang "projects" for my eventual retirement,,,but I saved a bunch of them,,,and that is exactly what I'm taking to the salvage yard in the next day or so,,,! 

 I worked all day today getting the backhoe hooked back up on the D14 as the loading will go much better with the backhoe and thumb than trying to load by hand.

 I just could not resist taking a quick walk around the junk pile for one last look before it all gets loaded tamorrow. Most of it has been moved several times thru the years and I ain't moving it no more,,,

Well was corrected on the 'Elm', is a Ancient Box Elder, just as junk.

Anywho, got started on it three days ago, the 27th, late day start and managed to hack away as well haul to the ditch some five Wagon Loads, have a old CASE steerable gear with a Hydraulic lift box on it, comes in real handy.

As of today the Widow makers are Down, with rain coming wanted as much as could drag away gone and will continue the haul off tomorrow.

The Two low Hangers are actually Trunk risers separated from the main.  Widow Makers

Progress was SLOOWW!!

Spot of blue beside my little saw was one of Two honey locust buried in that mass mess.

Then today as I closed up For The day

Main Saw is a MS290 18", the Little Bugger is a MS192TC, really like the both of them although the bigger is almost too small for some work.

The Ground inside that fenced area is NOT ours, is part of the remnant 4ac the previous owners son owns, We bale and keep it mowed, He has ZERO ambitions to do anything but Live There.  He has a 40+ in Elm in his yard that split similarly, half is laying on one of his Junk Cars, the other half is precariously balanced on his Well House.  And NO, I have NOT offered to help remove, He has ZERO Cash and ZERO Insurance, want to be no further on his plot than had to be here.