Taking a ride....come-along!

[Sparky-(Admin) 21,352]

  Dragged my Honda 5hp powered 656 out of the shed today, hasn’t run in five months or so. Typical Honda...fired up on the third yank!

  Decided to do something I haven’t done in awhile, cruise the trail that @Docwheelhorse and I blazed years ago for our kids to tear up with quads and dirt bikes (and tractors of course). It poured like heck yesterday so plenty of wet and muddy spots but she never got stuck. Just took my time...2nd gear with the motor just above idle. 

  Enjoy the pics!

 

This is the widest and deepest water crossing. Probably 15’ across and a good 10” deep today!

Hard to capture with a camera but this is a pretty steep hill, had to up the RPM’s before heading up this one.

Tony’s “woods art”.

Classic New England stone walls are everywhere around here.

Tree down!!! Somebody call maintenance!!

Long muddy uphill trek to get home.

And you can just see my house thru the trees...home safely!

[AMC RULES 37,133]

 Looks like an awesome place...

for a meet & greet Mike. 

[ClassicTractorProfessor 5,314]

Lots of  from your ride Mike, thanks for sharing

 

[mikeeyre74 289]

I knew I wasn't the only one who did that.  Best pics of the day!

[Sparky-(Admin) 21,352]

26 minutes ago, AMC RULES said:

 Looks like an awesome place...

for a meet & greet Mike. 

It’s not my property....gotta talk to the owner 🤔

[roadapples 6,983]

Looks like good deer and Turkey country too.. 

[Retired Wrencher 5,469]

Look`s like a fun ride Mike.  We are getting there with the weather SLOWLY.  

[stevasaurus 22,771]

Thanks for the ride Mike.  Love those stone walls...wonder how old that one was? 

[WHX?? 48,853]

You do that again Sparkeye you need to strap a go pro on... hate to be greedy but a vid would have been cool!

[Docwheelhorse 2,673]

Im not against a meet and greet... Ill start figuring out when and how. But it wont be for awhile, maybe after Stevebos extravaganza in October. A warm Saturday in November ?? 

 

Tony

[Retired Wrencher 5,469]

18 hours ago, stevasaurus said:

Thanks for the ride Mike.  Love those stone walls...wonder how old that one was? 

Steve Like Mike said they are all over. Probably turn of century time period.I Believe they used them as land markers like pegs today. Lots rocks Bad for plowing so put them to use.

Edited April 19, 2018 by Retierd Wrencher

[Docwheelhorse 2,673]

The land in the pics was an open cow field until 1965 from what I found / was told. There is a small pond out back with a small stream thst feeds it--stream dries up and the pond shrinks in summer. It never disapears so it must be spring fed too. It was the "watering hole" for the farm. I dont have / never looked for pics of the area back then.

 

Tony

[peter lena 8,654]

good pictures, thanks for the ride along, before you know it you will be thinking of getting a ( unimog )  so you can do anything , incredible road going power plant. pete 

[elliot ness 1,916]

Love the old stone fences, and your trail was great. Thanks for sharing.

[ebinmaine 67,766]

On 4/18/2018 at 11:39 AM, stevasaurus said:

Thanks for the ride Mike.  Love those stone walls...wonder how old that one was? 

 

13 hours ago, Retierd Wrencher said:

Steve Like Mike said they are all over. Probably turn of century time period.I Believe they used them as land markers like pegs today. Lots rocks Bad for plowing so put them to use.

 

 

Likely even earlier. 

Many of the stone walls in New England were built between 1750 and 1850 - Many many Farmers started moving West where there are few to no stones, hills.. and better soil in the late 1800's. That was the driving force of guys like Deere and McCormick.

Lots of very interesting info on the logic used when building stone walls online.

Here in Maine many were Not borders. Just so many rocks they had to make extra rows of them so they built them every 200 to 400 feet and left spaces for livestock to walk/pull through.

 

 

Love the pics!!

Thanks for sharing!

 

[AMC RULES 37,133]

 Any links to share here Eric...

to the stone wall history you've found online? 

[ebinmaine 67,766]

5 minutes ago, AMC RULES said:

 Any links to share here Eric...

to the stone wall history you've found online? 

https://www.earthmagazine.org/article/history-science-and-poetry-new-englands-stone-walls

 

I've read the book in the above mentioned. Stone by Stone. Interesting read.

 

More here, some same, some different.

 

http://www.primaryresearch.org/stonewalls/schweizer/

 

We have about 800 feet of border that's a stonewall here. I have no idea what is Sooooo fascinating about them but I could look at a stone wall half the day and be perfectly happy.

 

 

[AMC RULES 37,133]

 I'm thinking, it's all the hard work involved...

makes how they accomplished it back in the day, so damn intriguing. 

[ebinmaine 67,766]

I agree with that. Then.... Why is it there? Who built it? How long did it take? What did they farm there ? Look at the craftsmanship.... On and on and on...

[posifour11 723]

9 hours ago, ebinmaine said:

I agree with that. Then.... Why is it there? Who built it? How long did it take? What did they farm there ? Look at the craftsmanship.... On and on and on...

 

I love rock walls. Now that I'm at "the home place" where my great grandfather homesteaded, I'm planning to start a few. Partially for looks, but mostly to get them out of the way. It's hard to Imagine this place when he had stock and grew corn. He died in 1951 (I think) in his early 80s. 

[ebinmaine 67,766]

3 hours ago, posifour11 said:

 

I love rock walls. Now that I'm at "the home place" where my great grandfather homesteaded, I'm planning to start a few. Partially for looks, but mostly to get them out of the way. It's hard to Imagine this place when he had stock and grew corn. He died in 1951 (I think) in his early 80s. 

It's fantastic that you have that land that comes from your heritage.

Our property here in Maine is just plain riddled with rocks of all possible sizes. Every time we go to move any dirt around I separate the rocks out and my honey builds free-standing walls and retaining walls with them. Rock Gardens. Etc.

[Retired Wrencher 5,469]

On 4/20/2018 at 5:10 PM, ebinmaine said:

It's fantastic that you have that land that comes from your heritage.

Our property here in Maine is just plain riddled with rocks of all possible sizes. Every time we go to move any dirt around I separate the rocks out and my honey builds free-standing walls and retaining walls with them. Rock Gardens. Etc.

Some day I will have to get up there Eric.