Tractor Therapy

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Well, the last two weeks have been bad for me at work, so I decided to take today off and go burn some diesel to help clear my head.

I think I set a new "personal best" of about 500 cedar trees pushed over and stacked.

I did get into a big bee hive, the glass cab probably saved me from a clinic trip.



We got this wire winder attachment for the auger drive, works pretty well:

https://vimeo.com/201385341

Did have one close call; Dad had his Governor luckily:



We cleared about 1000' of fence line for new fence.

Also we cleared the cedar and brush around a spring/creek headwaters that's going to be beautiful. It was so thick, you couldn't walk through it before, we just found where the spring daylights two weeks ago.

The deer were in the food plots all day.

Thanks to Unclefish, Elgato, deerfarmer, and everyone else that helped me figure out food plotting!

God bless Texas.

[Laner7]

Looks good. You put in a lot of work. I need to clear off our fence lines too. Also notice that on about a section or 2 on our place tumble weeds. Gonna have to burn that crap.

[texashunter56]

Looks good!

[txoutdoorsman24]

Looks like y'all had fun. One of my favorite things is operating a dozer

[unclefish]

Heck yeah! Love that dozer!

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Heck yeah! Love that dozer!

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The dozer is just fantastic. It's a 95hp, ~22000 lb machine, basically equivalent to a Cat D5. My dad has been running bobcats for twenty years and is by far the best/fastest bobcat operator I've ever seen, but I can clear and stack brush 2-3x faster in the dozer than he can in that 75hp bobcat (and I'm not that great of an operator).

The machines work well together, I can push and stack the big stuff, he can clean up the stuff that's too small for the dozer and do the delicate work around fences, etc.