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muladzh
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The Grillo is an amazing machine - they are very uncommon in the US - most folk don't like to walk behind a tractor, they want to sit on it, and get fat.. Before we got the new mower, the grillo did all the grass cutting too, with it's brush hog - that doesn't do a very good job at that, but give it some saplings, or a bramble patch, and it will level it - it will cut up to 2.5 inches of sapling, according to the instruction manual.. It did cut a 3 inch dead one, with no problems though.
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I enjoy reading about all the progress y'all are making 
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This week, and last, we have filled the dumpster with junk accumulated over the last ten or more years. We have a small barn, a small shed and a slightly larger shed that are all overflowing with things that we have not used or wanted for years, so this last couple of weeks have been spent clearing small areas of each, and going through everything with a very prejudicial eye. If we haven't used it in ten years, we probably won't miss it; so into the dumpster it goes. I think we can keep this activity up for the next month at least, that will give me enough space to set up the small barn as the workshop I intended it to be when I put it there. I have a lot of woodworking tools and equipment, that have suffered terribly being ignored in the wrong place for so long. My SiL wanted a tarp to cover something, so she took one off my expensive table saw... I found it when I returned, rusted to a wreck.. That needs replacing, but without room to house it properly, I have shied away from getting another. If we get the barn empty, then the tools can get used! that will good. One good thing - I have a drill press that cuts / drills square holes, but had misplaced the bits for it - yesterday, I uncovered a tool box that had four of the square bits for the thing.. happy me.
I also unearthed my 10 ft by 2ft 6in work bench that I had not seen for a long time. We took three pickup loads to the recycle plant in Winamac, and another three to the Salvation Army collection place, and still have at least that many loads left for both places. I was hoping to build a greenhouse this month, but money ran out, and it will probably be a few months before we get the green house. Shucks. But then, you don't need a greenhouse until winter anyway.
Tomorrow I get to Grillo the tangle patch again - cutting the patch was painful fun, and then plowing up the ground it stood on is much more fun. This year it will be fallow, then next we plant fruit trees on the patch! We are sowing buckwheat on it in July, to allow us to plow it in, come December - that will put a lot of nitrogen into the patch, for next years saplings.
Eventually, hopefully, I will be happy with the completed project.
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TexasMadness
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Oh boy, do I need to clean out the outbuildings around here. I've got a shed and a shop. The shop you can just barely walk on a narrow path through the piles of junk. I'm sure a lot of it should be tossed, but a lot of it is good too - just buried in tangled piles!
Good for you for getting that started. I know how hard it can be!!!
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