Lovely day here today so down in the woods with the quad and trailer chainsawing up some trees that Storm Bram kindly felled for me (but not so kindly deposited across my access tracks.)

For years I used an old grey Fergie for this job ... wonderful thing though it was, down in the wet patches it dug through the grass and rutted the ground. Then I got a quad .... not got the out and out pulling power of the tractor but it pulls over 1/4 ton in the trailer and that's enough limbing and logging in one go for me to be needing a cup of tea ... and as both it and the trailer have big flotation tyres it floats over the soggy bits and keeps mud to a minimum. Hung onto the Fergie for a year or two but just wasn't using it for the work I needed to do so parted with it.

Don't know if anyone else uses one, but, to me, they're one of the good things to spring from the modern world and I wouldn't be without one now.


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