Bush-hogging around the pond today, Herb discovered a hidden rut when the tractor fell into it.
Even with 4-wheel drive, he couldn't get it out.
So I tried to help him pull it out with the truck, but nothing doing.
Here came neighbor Jerry Williams to the rescue!
He hooked up a chain, revved the dozer . . .
. . . and the tractor sailed up and out of the hole. Jerry made it look so easy!
Most of the flatter parts of the fields didn't need bush-hogging since Tony just recently hayed. The grass is starting to grow long and green again.
But all the rutted, brushy areas that Tony doesn't hay need to be bush-hogged. Herb did all along the pond today, reclaiming new places to walk and access to the pond for fishing. He also went up the creek from the pond almost all the way to the neighbor's pasture in front of our property.
He spared nice little trees when he found them. This had been an area of solid brush over 5 feet high, and now it looks like it might become a field again.
He went all the way across the creek in the front pasture, uncovering and mowing the one place a vehicle can cross without getting mired down in the creek.
When I had finished cleaning the house within an inch of its life and Herb had finished the bush-hogging, we walked out along the pond to admire his handiwork. (We couldn't admire mine because we didn't want to walk through the house and get it dirty again!) The goldenrod is already in bloom, a harbinger of fall weather.
The bees were busy all over the goldenrod. I guess it was just a day for busy bees all over the farm!
