Another Adventure

It's been a while. I've been staying busy clearing woods and dragging dead pine trees off the hill next to our driveway. It's a lot of hard work with axe, blade, and tractor. I still have several acres that need to be cleared. Some of the trees have fallen into tangled knots. I'm generally leaving those alone.

Both tractors have been reliable and very useful dragging trees and running implements.

I just bought another 8N from eBay.


It was about 80 miles away, so I couldn't drive this one home. I rented a truck and loaded up my winch, ramps, and an assortment of chains, ropes, and tie-downs. We ended up finding a place where the ramps could sit almost level and just pushed the tractor into the truck. The rest of the trip was just a lot of driving except this is 4th of July weekend. There were a lot of people on the road dragging boats and campers. A large percentage of them appeared to be lost and confused.

Finally made it home safe, now I need to unload the tractor in a safe manner. That's no fun. I set up my ramps and started to give it a shove when it occurred to me that there was no way to do that without risking some part of the tractor hooking me or running over me when it got on the ramps and started moving. There just wasn't enough room in the truck to push and get out of the way.

The 2N and my longest rope solved the problem. There was enough length in the rope to allow the tractor to scoot down the ramps as I continued to back up and took the slack out of the rope.