Almost have my lawn back

The Sovereign has helped a ton recently getting my yard back to some resemblance of what it was before we dropped our two trees. It has moved so much wood.  I had no idea how long of a process this would be! But between the Yeoman and the Sovereign the wood has gotten moved!

Last day for the 616(again)

It warmed up enough to melt most of the snow and get Olivia's 616 Yeoman out one last time to help get some cut up limbs over to the wood pile. I think this time her Yeoman will be done for the winter, as from here on out I can use the Sovereign. But her tractor helped me out a ton with moving all this wood.

First snow!

I got to use the Sovereign to plow snow for the first time today, we got 3-4 inches of wet, heavy snow and she did great! Didn't have a problem even with the snow piling up above the blade due to my driveway.  The beast did awesome!

Yard cleanup with a pair of Simplicity's

Used the Simplicity Sovereign and the Yeoman 616 for yard cleanup today. The Yeoman has ran about 6 hours in the past 3 days helping haul wood.  It has been a workhorse. The kids helped out and we had fun trying to slowly get the yard back to normal.

Making progress!

Making progress with the wood from the tree, the 616 Yeoman ran for about 2 hours straight hauling wood from the yard to my stack. The Nath nieces were in town from Pittsburgh and even got in on the fun!

The 616 Yeoman helps cleanup

Well, after the branches coming through the roof debacle we decided to take the threatening trees down. They are huge. The Yeoman was helping me move and relocate the cut timber for about an hour today. And there will be many more trips!

The 616 helps again...

Well, I thought yesterday would be the last running for the 616 Yeoman for 2018, however when three large branches came down on the house today it helped with the cleanup. 4 loads of next summer's firewood!

Final run for the 616 in 2018

Olivia used her Simplicity Yeoman 616 most likely for the last time in 2018 today to haul the wood up to our fire pit for probably our last fire for 2018. Was a great night for a fire.

Abby's Broadmoor is ready for winter!

Abby's Simplicity Broadmoor 717 is ready for winter! It's nice having multiple tractors so I could get this ready while one of the others is still mowing and before it gets really cold. This will be the first winter I use this tractor with the snowblower, looking forward to it!

A cool anniversary

This past Sunday(September 23, 2018) was the 50th anniversary of Abby's Simplicity 717 Broadmoor originally being purchased.  The original owner bought it on September 23, 1968. So I posted the photo of the original receipt, and a couple photos of it still being used 50 years later and Simplicity commented on it. Pretty cool!



New well area done...for now

Alex and I got the area they had to dig the well and trench the utilities over to the old well leveled and taken care of. I still am not sure what to do with the area, I think I would need to bring in topsoil to plant grass again. But the Simplicity Sovereign and Alex's Simplicity Broadmoor graded the dirt very well, and we had a little fun even in doing it.

Some work and play

Tonight Abby hauled some wood up to our fire pit with her Simplicity Broadmoor 717 and I used the Sovereign to start repairing our yard from the new well. I used the blade to move the dirt pile and get it somewhat even. I have to pack it down and then grade it, so more fun to come!

A little hot

The other evening I mowed the lawn and after about 25 minutes noticed the exhaust was, shall I say, a little warm!  Guess I will have fun seeing what I have going on here!

Helping a neighbor

Our neighbor has not been able to mow his lawn in a while so I asked if I could help out. This gave me a chance to help a neighbor and teach Alex how to mow. Not a bad way to help someone out!

Before and after

Hard to tell from the photo but I had to remove quite a bit of mud and clay.  It was up to 5 inches deep up against the black barrier. Glad that's done.

Done...for now

I finished up cleaning up the area from the all the mud from the new well. I shoveled up as much as I could and used Alex's Simplicity Broadmoor to grade and flatten the rest out. Looks much better. They still have to come trench the new well to the old, so we aren't done yet.