[ftsibley]

Well it finally dryed up enough this week to start working on the roads at deer camp.
After a few passes with this there is no evidence of the damage the 35" superswampers caused all year.

 

[sigma74216]

Bring that on out to forkville for a few passes then I have another spot with a few roads that could use some work too.

 

[94LEVERFAN]

That sure beats a 8-n with a box blade! Can you get that thing over towards Clinton or Raymond?

 

[ftsibley]

Its a buddy of mine's that is the camp with us. He has the camp roads programmed into his autosteer so we just sat in tractor and drank beer while it mostly drove itself down the roads.
Bad thing was we only got half the roads done before it went to raining.
We buried his K5 blazer sat afternoon and almost buried mine trying to get him back out. Some of those ruts just dont have a bottom.

 

[Xd357]

Talk about making hard work easy.

 

[ftsibley]

the only hard part is feeding that beast.

 

[Beladran]

Looks like one of the 440 series.. them are nice.. just don't get her stuck!! WE had one buried to the belly an a D8 wouldn't budge it

 

[ftsibley]

Easiest to try and pull them out backwards (so i am told) He also has the big pushbar up front, they will just butt up to the bucket on the stuck ones and push them on through. He said they have had to have an escavator dig one out before.

 

[chuckusaret]

God! Looking at that picture I guess I was just not cut out to be a big time farmer/hunter/deer camp or fish camp owner. Looks like and I am sure it is a lot of work to keep them up. I am happy just to sit here in my "Media Room" and play my video hunting and fishing games, plus other type games, drink beer and eat pork sausage and venison that my friends have given to me. Gee, I'll bet that I save 10's of thousands, if not 100's of thousands of dollars and countless hours of work by not owning one those places. To each his own but keep up with the wild hog and deer hunts, and keep the fruits of the hunt coming, I love the stuff.... A retired country boy...........

 

[miker84]

Well it finally dryed up enough this week to start working on the roads at deer camp.
After a few passes with this there is no evidence of the damage the 35" superswampers caused all year

Send that joker over to Senatobia. I need some work on my pond!

 

[ftsibley]

"God! Looking at that picture I guess I was just not cut out to be a big time farmer/hunter/deer camp or fish camp owner"
The tractor is much nicer than our "camphouse" its a 70 model trailer that smells like a cowfart. We have 960 acres and based on others in our area our total cost/acre is actually very affordable.
Every member that we have has access to some type of equipment that we need whether its tractor/dirtpans or dozer or escavator or planters and disk. This is great b/c it means the camp doesnt have to buy anything except the disel fuel to run them.

 

[chuckusaret]

I envy you guys that have the areas to shoot, hunt or what ever. Here in my part of Florida you are not even allowed to discharge a gun, even a BB gun, no matter how much open land you have. Many years ago I did do a little hunting around the Aberdeen area.