Yes, there are TWO things in life on which you can depend.
Gravity, and Triangles. Cats not so much, but definitely Gravity and Triangles.
By the way... I used Loader-Mutt today... digging out a large fish-pond. Actually, it'd be more accurate to say I thrashed the he11 out of it, and although it has a big crack in the back corner of the bucket, loose pivots everywhere, an engine that's now smoking a bit, wiring that has JUST ENOUGH integrity to energize the starting solenoid and ignition points... and a hood no longer attached, it still did a heckuva good job moving about 15 tons of dirt.
Of course, in order to rip that dirt loose, I used the '57 Allis D17 with New Holland backhoe attachment (wasn't originally a 3-point attachment, but it sure is now)... and I used the '50 Allis WD (with homemade 3-point) and an unknown-brand of scraper blade), but Loader-Mutt did all the transport work... scooping up the mostly-loose clay, and toting it up to the top of the dam, piling it just over the edge...
The pond area is about 75' long, about 25' wide, and when done, about 5' deep... 4' of which, will be under water...
![Pond 1.jpg (112.98 KiB) Viewed 20571 times I actually started breaking up the east (left) side soil last summer, after my arm healed up enough to get the hoe attachment operational... but winter came too soon to scoop it out... this is after last fall's dirt had been scooped out.](./download/file.php?id=9198&t=1&sid=dc192beff8ee75d69cfb2aa2502fc69b)
- I actually started breaking up the east (left) side soil last summer, after my arm healed up enough to get the hoe attachment operational... but winter came too soon to scoop it out... this is after last fall's dirt had been scooped out.
By the way- that's the Bobcat ZTR mower, behind it is a small dump-trailer, I've been putting SOME of the loose dirt into that trailer, and pulling it up to the north yard to level out areas where the new septic field has been settling in... so multiple birds with one stone...
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Yes, I'm a Mad Scientist... but I'm usually happy, even when things ain't goin right.