Colt Case Ingersoll Garden Tractors

Toolslinger, those are some big rocks. By looking at the little rock sticking around the grass, I would never guess they were that big. Harry

Rocks are the most reliable crop ever to come from this farm.

Toolslinger wrote: ↑Mon Jul 31, 2023 1:34 pm Rocks are the most reliable crop ever to come from this farm.

I have a similar thought about the weeds from our garden, so strong and healthy

Would've enjoyed seeing the backhoe going at those rocks! That last one is not small by any means.

Harry wrote: ↑Mon Jul 31, 2023 1:24 pm Toolslinger, those are some big rocks. By looking at the little rock sticking around the grass, I would never guess they were that big. Harry

A couple of years after moving here , I too got tired of the rock obstetricals . When around with the shovel and tractor / no back hoe . Dug out all but one . Some were the size that one . But one just kept getting bigger and bigger the more i dug around it . Eventually I was looking at a rock the size of a VW beetle . . Need it out of the way , can't cover it where it is , can't lift it out ' what to do . A neighbour came over to see what I was up too , saw this big lump of granit and said you are going to have to bury it . He showed me how to dig beside it a deeper hole and use a pressure washer with a home made wand to undermind the soil and get the thing to slide down into the deeper hole . Out of sight , out of mind and below frost so won't be pushed back up . Tolk about week all in , but now it is nothing but memmory .

Hadn't thought about that method. Knowing how the ground is here, I don't know if I would be able to dig a big enough hole to bury a VW without finding a bus sized rock...
As the backup plan if I couldn't dig it out with the 646, or hoist it out with the JD300, or if it got serious, the Bucyrus Erie H3 crane, I figured I would go to a demolition grout. Never used it, but it looks great. Drill a bunch of holes in the rock (the company will give you a rough map with a picture and some dimensions), pack those holes with a dry powder, and walk away. No explosives. It pulls in moisture I guess, expands, and shatters the rock. I'd probably have to run a time lapse, just so I'd have a record...

Amazing what the steel brush and a little spray paint can do. I'm sorry not to have taken a before picture of this air filter assembly.

Looks like new!

I check the local CL daily. Lots of good stuff today! I already have to many projects in the fire and don’t need any more. But I can dream can’t I? Harry

@Harry , all of them get an official project "Eugen STAMP OF APPROVAL" guaranteeing hours upon hours of work, possible injuries, no profits, possible financial loss, with the and of course, inordinate amounts of fun!

Eugen wrote: ↑Thu Aug 03, 2023 6:22 pm @Harry , all of them get an official project "Eugen STAMP OF APPROVAL" guaranteeing hours upon hours of work, possible injuries, no profits, possible financial loss, with the and of course, inordinate amounts of fun!

Very well said and I agree 100%! That is just about the perfect summation of nearly every project I do!