D&D Farm
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Need one bad. But for the life of me cannot find a replacement for the ACE I have now......
In the last 2 weeks:
1. Cutting an 8" branch off of a fallen tree, told him to use the 27 year old Stihl Farm Boss 028 instead of the brand new Husky 555 as it was just a rotten dead branch and didn't need a lot of power. I proceed on my way to finish another task. I hear a chain saw start, NOT THE STIHL and as I look back I watch him cutting on the underside of the branch without cutting a notch across the top. That's fine; but he just keeps on cutting, binds the chain, and then begins to pry back and forth with the bar to get leverage to open the cut. Finally he frees the saw and begins a cut across the top to relieve pressure for the underside......... the chain flies off.
I go over and begin to "softly" advise him about the fact that I told him to use the Stihl, and in the 5000 hours of chain sawing have never thrown a chain......... He laughed and said it happens to him all the time. NEVER WILL HAPPEN IF YOU ARE DOING IT RIGHT and TAKING CARE............OK..........So I give him another task to do and take the Husky and chain to replace the chain..........hmmmm the chain won't slide in the bar at this one section of links perhaps 6" long. Perhaps 3 links have the raker bent...........RUINED.......
He goes into his prison act and can't figure out how that happened. (oh, did I tell you that he was in the state guest school from age 17 until he got out at age 36....He is 43 now. Seems he got his term extended for shanking a black fellow over bad choices of words)
"Gonna replace it" I asked. ..............I walked away...........
2. While clearing the 60' area for a new round pen in order to train a couple of mules I that I have become interested in, we had to clear out two 8" to 12" oaks that were still alive and a bunch of saplings and undergrowth..........I had.... emphasis had....a very nice Fiskars lopper that could easily go through a 2" branch. I look over and the guy is using it on a huge root by cutting half way through and then pry back and forth on the handles, cut a bit more, pry more, and then pry some more.......... He really could not understand when I took the tool from him, walked over to a pencil size root (that he should've been cutting) and demonstrated that it would no longer cut cleanly; but left a strand hanging on that had to be jerked on again and again. Explained to him once again that just like the chain saw, if a tool does not do the job properly to get a tool that will....DO NOT FORCE THE TOOL and BREAK IT like he did with a pick ax handle, a shovel handle, a hammer handle instead of a pry bar to pull nails from a deck we were tearing down, the RTV tire that was driven on flat with 20 50lb bags of feed and no wonder it won't hold air anymore...................
3. We use the RTV to carry loads of manure from the pile that accumulates after a couple of weeks of cleaning out the goat sheds daily. He drives it down to the pasture and puts it behind a log "berm" that we use for water control in some of our steep pastureland. No problem as he has made the trips many times. We stand together on the top of the hill as I explain to him which direction to go, pointing out that there are maybe 3 ways that are no problem and 1 that is kinda shaky as it is on a steep slope...............
I go on my way, and as I am driving the B7610 towards the barn, I get a call from my wife as she is returning from town after picking up one of my grand daughters from "art" camp........ The wife is very excited on the phone and is trying to describe how the RTV has rolled over right next to her in the pasture.............N OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
I head that way, my grand daughters are perhaps 100 yards away when I see the RTV on it's side, wedged up against a fence................ later while relating the story to her mother, she, age 7, kept her 3 year old sister, from hearing grandpa explain the facts of life and the condition of his thought processes to the hired hand by holding her hands over sister's ears....................ON IT'S SIDE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What happened???
"Well, you know I drive my truck with one of my size 14 Brogan on the brake and one on the gas. I drive the RTV the same way and when that big white dog ran in front of me (our one eyed pasture livestock guard dog that has been dodging the RTV for maybe 8 years now) I had to do everything I could do to not hit her.......... so I guess I panicked and turned the wrong way while I was on the slope that you said was kinda dangerous"............................JUST FREAKING GREAT..........FAN F ing great................
We get the tractor, hook a chain to the frame and it pulls right over, starts up fine and the only damage is the horn button that he took out with his knee and the little catches that hold the windshield latch need to be replaced............." I'll pay for the parts Mr. Dennis"
OK..... God has blessed us once again. The guy was not hurt, the RTV is really gonna be OK, and the sky is still blue.................THANK YOU GOD.... amen................
Ok..... thanks for listening guys.......... I guess what I am saying is that this is the best person I can find to work for us around here. I guess I could go down to Mexico and bring in a family like the carpet mills around here do; but then I would loose my chicken coop in order to provide them a place to live. So, life goes on, and I guess I just need to be thankful that HE just keeps me breathing so I can deal with all of the joys in life.............. God bless........Dennis
In the last 2 weeks:
1. Cutting an 8" branch off of a fallen tree, told him to use the 27 year old Stihl Farm Boss 028 instead of the brand new Husky 555 as it was just a rotten dead branch and didn't need a lot of power. I proceed on my way to finish another task. I hear a chain saw start, NOT THE STIHL and as I look back I watch him cutting on the underside of the branch without cutting a notch across the top. That's fine; but he just keeps on cutting, binds the chain, and then begins to pry back and forth with the bar to get leverage to open the cut. Finally he frees the saw and begins a cut across the top to relieve pressure for the underside......... the chain flies off.
I go over and begin to "softly" advise him about the fact that I told him to use the Stihl, and in the 5000 hours of chain sawing have never thrown a chain......... He laughed and said it happens to him all the time. NEVER WILL HAPPEN IF YOU ARE DOING IT RIGHT and TAKING CARE............OK..........So I give him another task to do and take the Husky and chain to replace the chain..........hmmmm the chain won't slide in the bar at this one section of links perhaps 6" long. Perhaps 3 links have the raker bent...........RUINED.......
He goes into his prison act and can't figure out how that happened. (oh, did I tell you that he was in the state guest school from age 17 until he got out at age 36....He is 43 now. Seems he got his term extended for shanking a black fellow over bad choices of words)
"Gonna replace it" I asked. ..............I walked away...........
2. While clearing the 60' area for a new round pen in order to train a couple of mules I that I have become interested in, we had to clear out two 8" to 12" oaks that were still alive and a bunch of saplings and undergrowth..........I had.... emphasis had....a very nice Fiskars lopper that could easily go through a 2" branch. I look over and the guy is using it on a huge root by cutting half way through and then pry back and forth on the handles, cut a bit more, pry more, and then pry some more.......... He really could not understand when I took the tool from him, walked over to a pencil size root (that he should've been cutting) and demonstrated that it would no longer cut cleanly; but left a strand hanging on that had to be jerked on again and again. Explained to him once again that just like the chain saw, if a tool does not do the job properly to get a tool that will....DO NOT FORCE THE TOOL and BREAK IT like he did with a pick ax handle, a shovel handle, a hammer handle instead of a pry bar to pull nails from a deck we were tearing down, the RTV tire that was driven on flat with 20 50lb bags of feed and no wonder it won't hold air anymore...................
3. We use the RTV to carry loads of manure from the pile that accumulates after a couple of weeks of cleaning out the goat sheds daily. He drives it down to the pasture and puts it behind a log "berm" that we use for water control in some of our steep pastureland. No problem as he has made the trips many times. We stand together on the top of the hill as I explain to him which direction to go, pointing out that there are maybe 3 ways that are no problem and 1 that is kinda shaky as it is on a steep slope...............
I go on my way, and as I am driving the B7610 towards the barn, I get a call from my wife as she is returning from town after picking up one of my grand daughters from "art" camp........ The wife is very excited on the phone and is trying to describe how the RTV has rolled over right next to her in the pasture.............N OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
I head that way, my grand daughters are perhaps 100 yards away when I see the RTV on it's side, wedged up against a fence................ later while relating the story to her mother, she, age 7, kept her 3 year old sister, from hearing grandpa explain the facts of life and the condition of his thought processes to the hired hand by holding her hands over sister's ears....................ON IT'S SIDE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What happened???
"Well, you know I drive my truck with one of my size 14 Brogan on the brake and one on the gas. I drive the RTV the same way and when that big white dog ran in front of me (our one eyed pasture livestock guard dog that has been dodging the RTV for maybe 8 years now) I had to do everything I could do to not hit her.......... so I guess I panicked and turned the wrong way while I was on the slope that you said was kinda dangerous"............................JUST FREAKING GREAT..........FAN F ing great................
We get the tractor, hook a chain to the frame and it pulls right over, starts up fine and the only damage is the horn button that he took out with his knee and the little catches that hold the windshield latch need to be replaced............." I'll pay for the parts Mr. Dennis"
OK..... God has blessed us once again. The guy was not hurt, the RTV is really gonna be OK, and the sky is still blue.................THANK YOU GOD.... amen................
Ok..... thanks for listening guys.......... I guess what I am saying is that this is the best person I can find to work for us around here. I guess I could go down to Mexico and bring in a family like the carpet mills around here do; but then I would loose my chicken coop in order to provide them a place to live. So, life goes on, and I guess I just need to be thankful that HE just keeps me breathing so I can deal with all of the joys in life.............. God bless........Dennis
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