20 October 2012 - It's a Guy Thing

Even though we made it up to 73 degrees today, we are trying to put the yard to bed, to get ready for winter, find places to store all the yard stuff.  We had quite a shock today to see that we have SNOW in the forecast for Thursday.  We  have a lot to do before snow falls. 

 Last weekend we got started.  Pulled all the yard tools out of the breezeway and finally screwed the tool hangers into the wall behind the garage and now have them all organized. Rakes hanging together,  shovels together; it is great. Jack and I have his and hers of every tool. Add Pop's collection to that and it is a whole lot of tools. Five pick axes. That is definitely overkill. May have to send a couple home with David so he can use the steel in some blacksmithing project. 

We talked David into taking some of his stuff home: riding mower, industrial leaf sucker, more iron out of the garage. My only regret is that we do not have a before picture.  However, there was not even an inch of floor showing when we started, maybe you can use your imagination.
 


 

This is an amazing change, and we have a bit more room to organize and put some more things away, not to mention how nice it is to walk on the floor, not over and around things that snatch, grab and trip you.  Yay!

David started filling his truck bed with metal. Pretty soon it was so full he couldn't take the two big machines. David and Jack loaded the leaf sucker into the back of Jack's truck. It barely fit in the truck bed. Fortunately David brought his ramps with him. 

 The riding mower had to wait for this weekend. This is part where things get weird. 

Jack and I struggled to get the riding mower into the back of the truck. We had the ramps, but at the top of the ramps, where the mower should go into the truck, it got caught on the mower deck. With the help of a 6 foot pry bar, plus Jack holding the ramps waist high while I  pushed the mower, we were able to finesse it into the truck. 

This morning we took it to David's. I explained the situation. David listened calmly. "No problem," he said. "We can just lift it off."

Three of us? Lift the mower out of the truck? Is he nuts? Au contraire, that wasn't what he meant at all. Like I said, it is a guy thing. First he hops into the truck and starts tying rope onto the mower.

 He brings his backhoe into position, adds his lifting hook and wraps the rope around the hook. 
 





Me?  I'm just staying out of the way and mostly keeping my mouth shut. I did ask why, and the answer was why not? Okay.
Any excuse to use big machinery, I think I get it.

  
 It's gotta be a guy thing. Use the tools that are best suited for the job. Of course that is subjective.