Senile Texas Aggie - comic relief for the rest of you

[Baymule]

If you waded through my postings on TEG about us buying this place and moving to it, I admire your tenacity and refusal to give up after perusing page after page of misadventures! Looking back, it is funny now, but I sure got mad over the sheer insanity of it all at times.

We still miss Parker and talk about him often. Sometimes a Blessing in a Dog Suit comes along, and that was Parker.

We have a new puppy now, Thursday will be 2 weeks. Parker was a Labrador and Great Dane cross and I found a litter of Lab/Great Dane puppies not even an hour from us. My husband is a happy man.

https://www.backyardherds.com/threads/lab-great-dane-puppy.38459/

 

[Senile_Texas_Aggie]

All,

Just now have time to post on BYH. My Beautiful Gal and I went to McKinney for a doctor's visit on Tuesday, returning the same day. Then on Wednesday I decided to burn the brush pile left from all the brush from around the pond. The tractor is to the right to give an idea of the size of the pile.


As I had finished piling all of the brush into the pile using the grapple, I started heading back to the shop and noticed something quite alarming about the tractor. I took a picture once I reached the shop. In case you cannot tell what it is, it is the pin that holds the right front end loader arm to the tractor. It had just about worked its way out. I shudder to think what would have happened had it done that.


Finally, in case you wonder if wearing protective chaps while using a chainsaw is worth the hassle, consider the picture below. This happened while I was trying to cut a small tree down and got close with my left leg.


Senile Texas Aggie

 

[Baymule]

Safety first. No short cuts. You have done your homework and it saved cutting your leg.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Whew...glad you weren't injured!

 

[Rammy]

Thats why I dont mess with chain saws.

 

[Latestarter]

Gosh STA... Surely do appreciate you doing all these things and taking pics to learn us what NOT to do, or what to watch out for... But wouldn't it be easier (and potentially healthier/less costly) to just find existing examples already posted on the internet to share with us? Glad the above issues didn't amount to anything more terrible. be careful out there now!

 

[RollingAcres]

Yikes STA! Glad you were not injured!

 

[Senile_Texas_Aggie]

We are currently working on clearing out the underbrush on a grove of trees near the driveway closer to the house from the creek that runs across our property. (It was there where I decided to try to cut off my lower leg but the chainsaw chaps prevented me from doing that.) I was unable to use the chainsaw today because I didn't know that the fibers from the protective chaps had wrapped themselves around the nose gear of the chainsaw blade. So I had to go to the hardware store to buy a new blade. Yesterday I tried using the pole saw but could not get it started. So I took it to Lowes (it was still under the factory warranty, and I had bought an extended warranty plan). Instead of repairing it, they replaced it. Because they no longer carried the model I had bought (a Troybuilt 4-cycle), they instead gave me a Husqvarna. I will try it out tomorrow after I have had a chance to read the owners manual. (Don't tell anyone that I plan to read the owners manual -- I don't want to lose my man card.)

After we finished for the day working at the grove of trees, we went to the pond to feed the fish some bread. While there, we saw the first hint of fall in a few of the leaves of a sweet gum tree next to the pond. Sweet gum trees are among my favorite of deciduous trees. I love the shape of their foliage and its color in the fall. I hope we get to see a whole lot of color this fall.


Senile Texas Aggie

 

[Rammy]

We also wont tell anyone you actually ask for directions when traveling.

 

[farmerjan]

I am VERY IMPRESSED that you are SMART ENOUGH to be willing to read a manual. You have stated that all these different types of tools are somewhat "new to you" and that you have asked tons of questions that are sensible... if you weren't married I would take a trip out to meet you; as a man that has common sense and is willing to read the manual first, has my UTMOST RESPECT !!!!! Man card or not... GOOD FOR YOU . I envy your wife..... I read manuals all the time for anything I don't know how to run. I read the manual in the subaru to find the fuse box and determine which ones were for the wipers when they quit, but it wasn't a fuse and the guy at the subaru place came out to look and took a screwdriver, took out a couple of screws and popped the arm back on the motor .. then showed me what to do it it happened again and DIDN"T CHARGE ME.

So keep up the good work and asking questions and reading manuals. All you have to do now is remember to allow for "headroom" when you are bushogging, and to secure any loads in the bucket...