Saw my first pair of hawks circle overhead yesterday. Came in from the South, did one circle and headed west to the property across the road, 800 acres. My neighbor with chickens is a little further North than that so maybe the hawks usually find a snack on the 800 and never make it to him.
S.E. of me there's a rock cliff a couple hundred foot tall so I bet the hawks live on the side of it.
Heard some rain on the metal roof last night but the ground looks dry so I thought I'd be able to burn some small areas but by the time it got light, it also got windy. Might still be able to get a few spots.
Being out there watching over fires yesterday, I had a chance to look around at To Do stuff. To Much stuff. A surprising amount of stuff I can't do when it's windy, let alone raining.
Roof of coup is a heavy fiberglass truck topper.
Can't move it until I can back the Chevy up to it and roll it onto the truck with pvc pipes.
Can't do that until I take down the little front yard garden fence.
Can't do that until I move a pallet of roofing tin and get a couple of comfrey plants out of there. They're buried in leaves piled up in a corner by the wind and really should be exposed to the sun so they can green up and get stronger for transplant.
Can't do that until I sturdy up the fence in that corner, else goats will get to them as soon as I uncover.
Then the topper can go on the F150 parts truck but I can't do that until I put a rim/tire back on and fill the other three tires and turn it around so the back is facing out. Then I can use the parts truck bed with topper to store all the stuff the goats knocked off every bench, shelf and hook in my shop/their barn. Everything's sitting on the dirt/manure floor, much of it buried in manure.
Little tractor's got a radiator leak but I can use it a little here and there for short periods of time. Used to be a radiator shop that would solder the old brass/copper ones but they're gone. Will probably have to do it myself and hope the copper tubes aren't too brittle. No such thing as buying one. Mitsubishi MT-180 only made for a few years in the early 80s. All I can do is get a custom aluminum one made.
India bought the blueprints and rights to these little tractors so technically, new radiators are being made but not available in the US. I wish they'd export whole tractors because I would buy a brand new one, slightly bigger model with 4x4.
Slight alterations but generally the same. I doubt India's quality is as good as Japan's was but who knows. Will the engine last 45 years like this one has?
I like the taller tires and ground clearance compared to a Kubota sub-compact that look like a riding mower with little AG tires.