Thank you for the like. Some people think it is vandalism on my part, especially in these days of conservation and rewilding, but the old chestnut was really so rotten that there was hardly a stump left to remove. "Daisy Etta" just cleared the stump in one run and did not even grunt! Daisy Etta was named after the book Killdozer by ~Theodore Sturgeon which they made into a rather poor B movie. In the film it was a D9 but in the book it was a D7 driven by a Mexican. When the civil engineering boss asked him at the beginning what machine he drove he said "De Siete" or Spanish for D7. The boss said he liked a driver who gave his machine a name because it meant that he would look after it. And so the misheard name stuck. The suckers had left a more impressive canopy than there actually was in tree. Anyway, being old parkland we had kept the trees at great inconvenience for arable farming but great for historic landscape. Have been replanting with Hornbeam, Oak, Walnut and resistant Elm. These are even more difficult to farm around and protect!
Someone has read Theodore Sturgeon’s “Killdozer.” It was actually set in WWII, so “the Seven” was an earlier model. Great story, though the Clint Walker movie used a D-9.
Yes, that short story made a big impression on me when I was a kid. Still a bit of a kid so "Daisy Etta" it had to be! The pulling power of a 1956 D7 is slightly greater than the pulling power of a WW11 1940s D8 www.tractordata.com/farm-tractors/002/9/8/2980-caterpillar-d7-tests.html 26286 lbs www.tractordata.com/farm-tractors/002/9/7/2978-caterpillar-d8-tests.html 26110 lbs The movie was very poor and of course they lost the ability to name the tractor "Daisy Etta" as it would have to have been "De Nueve" which does not have the same ring to it!
I only once disturbed a wasp’s nest when I was clearing brash by a pond with a Manitou forklift with no cab. The nettles were tall and flopped into the cab and I felt a vague pricking sensation on top of my thighs which I thought was the nettles. To my horror when I looked down there were dozens of wasps trying to sting through my jeans which were just thick enough to prevent my skin being punctured. I jumped off the machine and ran across the field as fast as I could. I felt two or three in my hair but miraculously I escaped without a single sting I had left the Manitou engine running and did not return to stop it for some time!
I disturbed nest of wasps when clearing flotsam out of creek bed with Case backhoe. Saw them swarming, lifted stabilizers and bucket, closed windows while on the move, then turned seat. Only 5 or 6 inside
Valdir, Este é um toco de árvore completamente podre no meio de um campo arável. Se for deixado por mais alguns anos, todo o crescimento que você vê lá certamente morrerá. Eu plantei uma árvore de carpa lá no lugar do toco morto que está indo bem. Então está tudo bem e o planeta está salvo
It was not a tree so much as a bunch of suckers growing out of a rotten stump. They all would have died anyway when the stump rotted. I replaced it with a lovely Hornbeam tree which is growing well and will be a fine parkland specimen in the years to come There is no way even a Caterpillar D7 would take down a large tree in one go like in the video Do not distress yourself, we have many trees on the farm here and have planted many more
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Good job! Amazing tractor
Same as mine but mine has a rops canope
Nice video. I wanted to see you grub out that stump though.
Thank you for the like. Some people think it is vandalism on my part, especially in these days of conservation and rewilding, but the old chestnut was really so rotten that there was hardly a stump left to remove.
"Daisy Etta" just cleared the stump in one run and did not even grunt!
Daisy Etta was named after the book Killdozer by ~Theodore Sturgeon which they made into a rather poor B movie. In the film it was a D9 but in the book it was a D7 driven by a Mexican.
When the civil engineering boss asked him at the beginning what machine he drove he said "De Siete" or Spanish for D7. The boss said he liked a driver who gave his machine a name because it meant that he would look after it. And so the misheard name stuck.
The suckers had left a more impressive canopy than there actually was in tree.
Anyway, being old parkland we had kept the trees at great inconvenience for arable farming but great for historic landscape. Have been replanting with Hornbeam, Oak, Walnut and resistant Elm. These are even more difficult to farm around and protect!
Someone has read Theodore Sturgeon’s “Killdozer.” It was actually set in WWII, so “the Seven” was an earlier model. Great story, though the Clint Walker movie used a D-9.
Yes, that short story made a big impression on me when I was a kid. Still a bit of a kid so "Daisy Etta" it had to be!
The pulling power of a 1956 D7 is slightly greater than the pulling power of a WW11 1940s D8
www.tractordata.com/farm-tractors/002/9/8/2980-caterpillar-d7-tests.html 26286 lbs
www.tractordata.com/farm-tractors/002/9/7/2978-caterpillar-d8-tests.html 26110 lbs
The movie was very poor and of course they lost the ability to name the tractor "Daisy Etta" as it would have to have been "De Nueve" which does not have the same ring to it!
@@duckpuddles 👍thanks for the data. Yep, still have SF I collected in high school 50 years ago. Sturgeon gave us a lot, including “Sturgeon’s Law.” 😁
@@lanedexter6303 You must be as old as me!
@@lanedexter6303 I just looked up Sturgeon’s law! The 90% rule is true for most things except politics where it is 100%!
@@duckpuddles hey I like that!
And then all the bumble bees 🐝 and yellow jackets come out !
I only once disturbed a wasp’s nest when I was clearing brash by a pond with a Manitou forklift with no cab. The nettles were tall and flopped into the cab and I felt a vague pricking sensation on top of my thighs which I thought was the nettles. To my horror when I looked down there were dozens of wasps trying to sting through my jeans which were just thick enough to prevent my skin being punctured. I jumped off the machine and ran across the field as fast as I could. I felt two or three in my hair but miraculously I escaped without a single sting
I had left the Manitou engine running and did not return to stop it for some time!
@@duckpuddles I have had it happen twice, once brush hogging and once while weed eater with a big bicycle handle unit. Horrible. Nice video!!!
I disturbed nest of wasps when clearing flotsam out of creek bed with Case backhoe. Saw them swarming, lifted stabilizers and bucket, closed windows while on the move, then turned seat. Only 5 or 6 inside
Bald faced hornets are the worse. Rollled out a nest with the breaking plow when i was a kid 44 massy harris continued on with out me
EEsta maquina e filho de santam
Maldito destruidor das florestas😔
Esse ganancioso envés de prantear mais árvores faz é derrubar as poucas que tem é mesmo um zonhao
Valdir, Este é um toco de árvore completamente podre no meio de um campo arável. Se for deixado por mais alguns anos, todo o crescimento que você vê lá certamente morrerá. Eu plantei uma árvore de carpa lá no lugar do toco morto que está indo bem. Então está tudo bem e o planeta está salvo
why YOu destroy tree?
It was not a tree so much as a bunch of suckers growing out of a rotten stump. They all would have died anyway when the stump rotted. I replaced it with a lovely Hornbeam tree which is growing well and will be a fine parkland specimen in the years to come
There is no way even a Caterpillar D7 would take down a large tree in one go like in the video
Do not distress yourself, we have many trees on the farm here and have planted many more