After bad weather and good family events (or something like that) had kept him away for several weeks, Himself found time to pull his new toys down to III. He had purchased the brush cutter about a month ago and had the new "toy" trailer at least a week before he could get away to Missouri. It took considerable restraint on his part, I think, not to run off south on his own and make an opportunity to try them out.
Finally, this past week, we took a couple of days of vacation and two little bairns and headed down. I and the Little Hofs stayed at Too most of the time as electricity, running water and television come in handy with the "wee" generation but Himself spent considerable time at the ranch. He mowed the lane and the clearing conventionally, hauled the Snapper to Too, hauled the "big" mower to III, did end-of-summer maintenance on all then assembled his new brush cutter, made the adjustments and went to work. I wasn't there to record the event with pen and camera so had to rely on Himself to report that it works great! He tried it out down the lane, pushing the brush back to the timber again and did the same in the clearing. (Beats having to cut each 2-inch tree with the loppers!) I think having the bigger mower there and this brush cutter will do one of two things. It will shorten his mowing time or he will be mowing 30 acres. I guess time will tell.
Meanwhile, I will have to put the Cedar Post bed project on hold as I need to make an old-fashioned sled to pull behind the Mule (wooden runners with oak planks for the bed). There are dead trees down across the river trail and Himself plans to cut the trees for fire wood. He would like to haul the firewood up to the cabin. Our trailers are too wide to pull down the trail. So that Himself doesn't have to widen the trail, a sled is the perfect solution! I found half-hearted instructions on the 'net so I'm set! I'm ready to getter done. I can sleep on the floor another month or two . . . the other side
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