Subject: Re: [Homestead] moving big stuff, and Magnolia
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 09:20:40 -0700
Maggie is the tractor, right?
Tut, tut! Magnolia is no mere tractor. She is six tons of big muscle
that digs, lifts, moves, carries and pulls heavy and bulky material
with aplomb. She dug out a hillside to create a flat place for the
pole barn shop built this last summer--one of Don's friends calculated
some serious yardage of material moved. She extracted and set aside
numerous stones for future projects. She is building a dam that will
create a trout pond and make a ram pump feasible as well as being an
all-weather passage over the stream. She digs out large trees and then
pulls them to a place for further work. She has dug well over a
thousand feet of ditch and is destined for more. She will dig future
cellars, basements, and a tunnel under the house. With chain or cable
she reaches far into woods and extracts large trees for building
projects. She creates fruit-planting holes quickly in the worst rocky
soil and then brings better material for backfilling. She scratch-digs
garden beds in few minutes. And she occasionally interrupts her travel
and turns compost piles for fun, lifting the good stuff high and
letting it tumble down. Tractor indeed! Harrumph!
Thanks for describing it to me. So, basically, he walks stuff around
just the same way we would walk a refrigerator or sofa around, right?
Nope. We move those things by lifting with our muscles and by using
dollies with wheels. He does not use his muscles to lift, nor does he
use wheels.