Ok, that should be enough. Oh wait *tosses on more stuff* ok now.
Wait, that too *clonk* *clonk*
Oh, and that thing *clang*
Loading the trailer with some junk for the scrapmetal dealer.
Still gotta cut up the longer parts to fit and I've got another pile out behind the barn.
How much do you think this load weighs so far? 
I'm checking the tyres occasionally to see when its enough 🤷
Why I'm I Subsistence Farmer?
Picked this out of the forest so I don't have to get annoyed every time I walk past it.
Three metal tubs with the bottom rusted away and some plastic trash.
Birch is the new white meat.
Ok, not bad. Would like to go over it one more time to break it up a bit more. The goat pen hasn't been tilled in years/decades but clearly used to be, as I did not find a single rock in there. Better soil than the concrete garden, too.
This is about twice the area we had last year and our potatoes fed us through winter with enough left to seed now but that's it, none to eat anymore until new potatoes come in.
Since I want to furrow and also harvest with the tractor, wheel spacing decides everything. They're exactly 1 meter between center of tracks. Bit narrow for two furrows, bit wide for one. Mechanization problems 🤷
Since my furrower is pretty wide, I think one row.
Now that its cleared of thorny fuckers, roots, old fences and grass reinforced mole hills, goat pen #2 has been designated for potatoes.
Hooked up the rotavator and had a look what the soil was like. Looks pretty good, bit chunky so ideally I'll let it get rained on and till it again, but we'll see what the weather has to say about that.
Slight mishaps where something went clunk and the rotavator suddenly hung at a drastic angle. Thought I'd hit something big but what actually happened was the lift arm pin had fallen out somehow.
Luckily I kept every pin I found while sorting my scrap metal, so a replacement was quickly installed.
One of our storks came out and had a feast (storks love tractors for that reason).
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Too wet for doing much today so I only messed around with that wheel and tidied around the barn a bit.
Found a bunch of truck panels that were integrated into the animal shack I'm demolishing. It had all kinds of stuff nailed to it, steel, wood, rubber mats, even cardboard.
Broke down the furniture inside for sauna fuel (a hay feeder and some kind of rack soaked with animal piss), then pulled some more disintegrating plastic bags from the ground and threw them into the recycling bin.
Some days not much progress, but every little bit helps.
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Rob 🌱
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