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slept:7.5 weight:160.2lbs
Spent several hours with Zack spreading woodchips on the trails. Or not exactly chips, more like mostly shredded branches and leaves. We got a couple of big dump truck loads from the guys who are clearing along the powerlines in the neighborhood. At first I despaired of what I would do with them, because carrying them around by bucket or in the back of the Polaris didn't seem to make much of a dent, and then they needed some raking to even them out and that was not at all ok with my back. Then we thought up the idea of using our old manure spreader, which has been gently waiting since about 2000 for us to pay it any attention. Remarkably, we were able to get it to work, after applying a lot of grease and motor oil to some well rusted mechanisms. When I had used it years ago, I only had one tractor and so it was pretty laborious to fill it, then hook back up, take a load out and then unhook to fill it again, etc. Pretty sure I only used it for horse manure back then, and I had a pretty ready supply of it for several years. Anyway, only one part that I saw that is in serious danger of failure, and with two tractors (one to power the spreader and one to fill the bin) we made short work of the two piles, spreading it nice and evenly (and quickly) on the trails. I will try to acquire a new pulley for it, which seems to be working for now, but is seriously rusted out. Now we have used up all our free chips and have to see if we can get a bunch more. About 4 more loads like the two we had seems about right.