In Texas you’ve got to have a pickup truck and a chain saw.
Out here on “Agony Acres” I have had only 2 pickups since 1979. The former, a 1979 Silverado I bought new and parked in the front yard and the latter, a 1995 Silverado which I bought new and still use. I really hate depreciation so I keep my vehicles an extra long time. I’ll get back to the 1979 just as soon as the 1995 peters out. Wifey won’t ride in the 1995 any more due to some imagined image issues with the neighbors.
I have 4 gas chain saws, 2 electric chain saws and 3 generators of which I manage to keep at least 2 working at any given time. I prefer the electrics because they almost always startup when needed. Gas chain saws not so much.
I usually find or cut enough wood during the warmer months to tide me over during the winter with some left over. I’m retired, so it keeps me busy and out of wifey’s way fixing pickups, chain saws, and finding and cutting wood when I’m not on the Free Republic.
BTW, I’m going to buy me a new F250 pickup just as soon as gas well production is up and my royalty checks come in. Glad I kept those mineral rights. /SARC
I am on my fourth pickup truck since the 1980’s. One GMC, three Toyota Tacomas. The last one I just bought two years ago. The previous three I put over 100K miles and were at least ten years old when I sold them.
How did you end up with six chainsaws? I have two. One was left by the previous owner of the our current house. I would actually like to have one of those top handle arborist saws.
I have accumulated too many machines in my 51 years:
Stihl leaf blower
Honda 20” snow blower
Simpicity 28” snow blower (1977 model bought for $300)
Echo curved shaft string trimmer
Stihl straight shaft brush trimmer
Troybuilt sickle bar trimmer(bought at yard sale for $50)
John Deere lawn tractor with 42” deck
Stihl 026 chainsaw
Poluan chainsaw(left by previous homeowner)
Honda EV700 generator
DR wood chipper(another yard sale/moving sale buy)
This does not include the woodworking shop in the basement.
I had three snow blowers and a Echo gas hedge trimmer. I sold these machines to the guy who bought my last house 2 years ago. That house had over 50 bushes. I also had a 1989 Ariens self propelled lawn mower. I did not need that anymore with the current house. I put it at the end of the driveway with a FREE sign one day this fall. It was gone in less than an hour. I used it at the old house just to mow a small area inside the pool fence. No pool on this property thank God.
Do you have places around there that sell gasoline without ethanol? The only places around here are marinas 40 miles north of here. It really causes problems with carbs and cold weather. I have gotten so I run everything dry if I am not going to be using it in the next few days. Everything except the John Deere tractor and the two snow blowers. With those I add Startron(the blue stuff) fuel treatment religiously.
My next machine will probably be a Kubota or John Deere 25-30HP 4WD tractor. They are $12-15K used around here. Brand new $30K. This property has 12 acres. I also have a steep paved driveway. I use a bag of rock salt with every storm. I need something I can put a brush hog on. I also need a York rake or scraper blade to maintain about 400’ of gravel driveway. That is in addition to the main paved driveway up to the house.
I had a logging crew in last fall that selectively cut about 8 of the 12 acres. They put in another driveway and took out 5 truck loads logs and 4 chip vans. They were cutting for 5 or 6 days with a Timberjack. They cleaned up 99% of the tops, but there are still braches scattered all around the woods. They also left me a couple nice skidder roads around the back of the property. The problem is there are still quite a few boulders around that a skidder could clear but not my Toyota. They don’t call it the granite state for nothing.
I had a guy with an excavator come in this spring to correct a drainage problem from an intermittent stream. I had to divert that away from the leach field and the back yard. He piled up a lot of the brush and smoothed out one of the skidder roads. However, since I was paying him by the machine hour. There was only so much I could afford for him to do.