Kirk has been enjoying the use of our new road up from the pasture, using the tractor to haul up debris from down there that was a bit too scary to drive on the street. Much of what he’s retrieved are standard-sized logs, metal chunks etc that have probably arrived here from past floods.
But this mammoth looks like it may have been something from the original farmstead, back in the 1800’s. I know that the homesteader family logged the hill and had an on-site sawmill from which they cut boards to build the barns. It took Kirk some finessing to get this onto the tractor bucket (you can only see the tractor’s roll bar and Kirk’s head behind the log, it’s so big). But he did, and got it up the hill and into the to-be-processed scrap pile. Our little 30-hp tractor does pretty well carting big loads like this around.
We’re thinking of what we could do with this one, to keep it around for posterity. Maybe we’ll make it into a bench or something. Any creative ideas?
Wow, that is huge! Definitely keep it around. We would probably put it somewhere strategic for the animals to jump on and play. We’ve got lots of cool logs and rocks just for that. And that animals are always on them!
Good idea! I’m not sure if the adult sheep would be as adventurous as goats at climbing things, but the lambs for sure. They climb the llama, that’s all they have! 🙂
Love Michelle