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Here are some stumps I did a while back. They were Eucs that had been cut down several years ago and of course were quite dry and hard.

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I'm on a roll now. Here is a melon field, probably cantaloupes and then as I headed through the coast range to visit my uncle a picture of Pleasant Valley State Prison and a shot of the road going through the hills. Then I ran out of space on my camera.

I'll try it again.

drove down to my kid's place in Huron and I snapped some pictures of the farm fields around there. A little different than your picturesque British farms.

The first one shows the typical pump station. The water comes in an underground pipe to the blue pipe. It is pressurized by the diesel pump and goes out through the drip tubing.

The second one shows an onion field starting to lay down. These are onions for making onion powder.

The third is an almond orchard.

The fourth is a cotton field that has just emerged.

The last one is a wheat field that looks to be ready to harvest.

I drove down to my kid's place in Huron and I snapped some pictures of the farm fields around there. A little different than your picturesque British farms.

The first one shows the typical pump station. The water comes in an underground pipe to the blue pipe. It is pressurized by the diesel pump and goes out through the drip tubing.

The second one shows an onion field starting to lay down. These are onions for making onion powder.

The third is an almond orchard.

The fourth is a cotton field that has just emerged.

The last one is a wheat field that looks to be ready to harvest.

I'm probably 5 hrs drive from there. Someone from LA would be pretty close.

Job I did earlier in the week for an irrigation district.

Excellent looking projects guys. I've recently begun turning and should have something done in a week or so.

We recently trimmed the trees for our local post office. Mostly ginko with a few raywood ash.

I like the wind you can hear in the video.

Nice pictures.

The exciting world of the plywood highway.

Fabbed up a mini porty a while back also.

Incredible. I thought this was about raising owls.

I've had a couple of guys work for me who had previously worked in line clearance. They specifications from the power co. called for 10' from the lines, don't make look pretty, move on to the next tree. So if they did anything more than that they would get in trouble.

Work is kind of hard to come by here also. I have about one climber a week call me looking for work.

Here is a friend of mine's son using one of my homemade portys.

dont forget the air conditioning:laugh1:

It's missing a cupholder.

Nice. Looks to have quite a bit of clearance underneath.

Is that Brit made equipment?

It is a bitch. The only saving grace is that because it is low humidity it cools off at night pretty good. So you can get out early in the morning and get your work done while it's not so hot. Farmers have recently begun having to provide cooling stations for workers with shade,drinking water, and misting fans.

We have plenty of it here. It's kind of unusual to have any significant rain between May and Octobern here. Relative humidity is routinely below 30%. We will get a muggy day in the summer occasionally.

Here is a picture of the RD-6 pulling our CB Hays Standard model bean harvester.

Here is an antique. This belongs to my Dad and presumably if I outlive him I will get my mitts on it. It is a Caterpillar RD-6 and I think it was built in 1936. Big slow turning 3 cylinder diesel with a 2 cylinder gasoline starting motor. It was a very popular size of tractor and almost every farm in the area where I grew up had one or more during that time. Which was quite a bit before my time. Caterpillar tractors were very popular as the soil in the area I grew up in was clay and compacted very easily. The tracked tractors spread the weight over much more area than an equivalent wheel tractor and had better traction. The down side was you couldn't drive them down a paved road of course.

One of my Dad's tricks was to chain a post or railroad tie to the tracks. It will lift the tractor up and give it tremendous traction for a little bit.

Yeah, they're really hard to get out once the drawbar or the equalizer spring starts dragging in the dirt.