Gettysburg
I headed straight from a business meeting in Gettysburg, PA (where I stayed in the very hotel Lincoln stayed in!) to the farm late Friday.
Starting and moving the backhoe
Well, I finally got up the nerve (and found the time) to move the backhoe! I, of course, forgot which pedal moved it forward an reverse so I backed it into the back wall of the garage. It pushed out a few screws but its basically still intact. I don't think I will need to fix the problem.
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| A bit of a bulge! |
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| Popped the head of a couple of the sheet metal screws holding the siding on the garage. |
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| The pile of wood on the forks (left) is for the woodshed door (or wall, depending on what I decide) . That's all milled by me on my own mill from my own trees! |
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| A couple of the stringers got dislocated, but the wall seems to be pretty strong yet. Not going to mess with it now. |
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| I moved the backhoe to the front of the shop - I had some old scrape wood from building the woodshed in its frontloader. |
I moved the backhoe down in front of the shop. I had stored some scrap wood leftover from building the woodshed in the frontloader of the backhoe. The scrap was mostly too wide to put through the chipper, so I used the upright bandsaw to cut it into manageable strips. Then I used the chipper on the tractor to make some more wood chips.
Mulching the grape vines
I finally had enough wood chips to mulch the grapes! I first weed whacked around the vines and then applied the mulch. I was careful to make sure the wood chips weren't up against the vines themselves. I put down a fair amount of chips around the vines, but I didn't want to put down so many as to get into the way of the mower. I think I chose a good amount.
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| I am hopeful that the wood chips will protect these little vines over the winter! They are having a hard time thanks to the rust. |
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| It looks a bit better anyway! |
Leaf gathering
I fired up the husqvarna (just barely - it needed charging and some ether to start!) an got the leaf vacuum going. I vacuumed up the entire "local" yard, around the paw-paw patch, the red-barn and the driveway and hazelnut area. I didn't vacuum in the orchard, grape vines, and cherry trees; just wasn't enough leaves down there to bother.
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| I bent the frame of the vacuum bag trailer - I don't know when. I think it was this year. I had to dump the old sunflower seeds first. |
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| Front yard after vacuum |
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| piling the leaves near the front gardens this time |
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| You can see some of the frost in this picture. |
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