Paint still drying so I'm doing some spring cleaning around the farm.

Processed the rotting wood from the old service pit. Salvaged an old but solid oak beam and two pieces of pressure-treated wood from that pile. The rest will make a few nice saunas when dried.

Some cleanup by the fence while it's briefly accessible.

Two young maples got molested by deer, I cut them down as they do not recover from this.

While picking up trash, I found another steel profile under some leaves by the fence. Payment! 😁

#Homestead #Cleanup #Spring #Treasure

Done with this side of the fence. Left a pile for the woodchipper. More to do around the corner.

Found more trash and a machine in a bush. Dragged it out with the tractor.

No idea what it was. It appears to have half a tractor mounting and a leg to stand on. The label says 1968. Wife can't guess the missing letters.

There's a springloaded pedal that still moves but most parts are missing and the inside is empty.

#Homestead #Cleanup #Treasure #Machine #BushFind

@yngmar Строймашин? Sounds a bit like Бутерброд or Почтамт.
@111 But what is a stroymashina?

@yngmar My least-distrusted search engine tells me:

A common abbreviation or short form, often used in company names or for types of construction machinery. It is a portmanteau of 'строительные машины' (stroitel'nye mashiny), meaning 'construction machines' or 'building machines'.

Yeah, that's pretty general.