That would be a really bad way to go...right there with family watching...Widow Makers everywhere you look when trees are involved...
"Whitetail Hollow" - 90 Acres NE Oklahoma.
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Protected by God - that little aluminum sunshade with the light duty angle under bracing is not designed to do what it did Saturday. It deflected the log from of my topknot and it did that well!
Yes he was...I don't usually think what is happening will be my demise but Saturday I certainly did...
The reason I am a rain pessimist on forecast...
Thank You - We got a little rain on our 80 but our Home 10 didn't get a thing
They make me nervous as well and is the reason I just nudge them a little to see if they are ready to go over softly. If you have to push at more than idle then they are not ready...
Yes, no rain stinks!
Thank you much sir. The top wasn't designed for anything like that but certainly protected me from a really bad injury or death...
I highly recommend the roof. Mine is made by Wells and I may just buy a new one but if not this one will be repaired. I have a little work to do today so I have the tractor with me now. Thanks Milt - I will try to be more careful...
Seatbelt is first thing I put on as well when I climb onboard. I was working at a loading dock once and a guy I was working with got the 2 side wheels off the dock and the lift started falling so he tried to jump out but he jumped the direction of fall and the cage mashed him and killed him. Had he stayed inside the lift he would have been alive today...
I love trees but they are very unforgiving...
Caution is a good thing dogg - I brushhog some pretty scary stuff with hills being the scariest but it didn't compare to watching that tree top falling toward me and knowing it would mash me right down into my seat...
The infamous Oklabucks! I see you browsing quite often but you are right - not many postings. I feel honored you posted on this one sir...Guardian angel was on duty for sure!
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G3 Ranch
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That's the truth, after that windstorm a couple months back I have snags everywhere.
Glad you didn't get hurt, hopefully the tractor is an easy fix. Stay safe.
I think the tractor will be OK. The roof is pretty wopper jawed and I have a new "character" dent in the hood but hydraulics are all still fine and I actually am using it as is until I can start straightening things out again...
That wind left a bunch of dangerous stuff hanging in the trees this year. Be safe!
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After the tractor fiasco was cleared up my wife showed up at the lease with 2 of our grandsons. Eli came to shoot his deer rifle while little brother provided support...lol
A couple of shots and Eli is ready!
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A couple of shots and Eli is ready!
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G3 Ranch
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Excellent!
I did manage a little trigger time with my grandson Haydn as well...time well spent.
I got a chance Sunday morning to run across the road to look at our north plot up on the hollow. It is really doing well. Planted in Daikon Radish, WR, WW, clover... Tree in center I killed with hack n squirt last fall...
This is what happens when you leave a tree in your plots when conditions are dry! The tree takes all the moisture and leaves none for the plantings within it's root zones
This is our south plot which has an armadillo infestation right now...
Deer trail around the head of 1 of the many hollows on our property...
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This is what happens when you leave a tree in your plots when conditions are dry! The tree takes all the moisture and leaves none for the plantings within it's root zones
This is our south plot which has an armadillo infestation right now...
Deer trail around the head of 1 of the many hollows on our property...
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catscratch
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It was bad. He laid in a hospital bed for a week with a wife and two young kids watching over him. The doc said he was improving and then he took a turn for the worst that night. I'm glad you had the roof protection that you did.
Armadillo damage looks just like mine. I have three traps set right now. Hopefully soon.
Still amazed that the rain missed you... again!
Here is a picture of farm logs. Our hunting properties lay north to south in tha same county with N80 (Whitetail Hollow) and the lease being the southern property and they both got rain but that middle property has a force field around it
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dogdoc
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I want one of those !!!
I want that whole package! If a guy does a lot of brushhogging (like I do) and has a cab then really you need to go around the fields and cut all the limbs that hang out and down that will get the cab...I get slapped around a lot by limbs
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I tell you what... it was really hard to make the trek to work this morning and had it been after the 1st of October I may not have made it. 41 degrees, calm, beautiful morning and 2 bucks in our backyard. First morning I have worn a jacket. Perfect type day I love to hunt...
Blizzard Ridge
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Glad you are alright from the tree. I cleared pipeline right of way in my youth. So cut a ton of trees and moved a lot of brush with small tractors, as well as mowed right of way after clearing. I have seen many incidents as the one you had, the difference was we had complete roll cages on our tractors but still saw guys get major injuries. You were definitely blessed on that day. I had a pretty good sized tree dropped on my back about 20 years ago and didn't realize how bad it was screwed up until the past 5 years. Be careful around those widow makers, they get their name for a reason. Hope you see some good rain soon.
