This video is of the Salt River, in the Salt River Range, Star Valley, Wyoming.
Last winter we had an unusual amount of snowfall. Some were saying it was about 170% snowpack up in the surrounding mountains. The sudden warmer days created a large amount of snowfall and run-off. This created some very high rivers, and some pretty impressive drone footage.
With the sun shining and winter only serving as a reminder as to how much more snow we are able to receive, I thought it would be fun to post a video of the DJI Phantom 3 drone lightly gliding across its glimmering beauty. As far as the experience is concerned, this comes as close to cruising across the fields on a snowmobile as I can get. The film was shot around the first of February, 2016.
Enjoying a hobby in old tractors means more than just tinkering and working on them. It means taking them out for a ride! Here’s a video I took while on the 1959 John Deere 630 while going over the dry farm.
Update: I also recorded a video that’s similar, but with the A and 630, on New Years Day.
Christmas was good to me this year. All of the family was up, and everyone seemed to have had a good time.
Growing up my cousin and I both had toy pedal tractors. We had a lot of fun on them, and tried to take them everywhere. My little nephew (slightly under two) is currently obsessed with tractors, so I thought it would be fun to get him a little pedal tractor as well. Christmas morning, to his delight, he opened up a beautiful John Deere 720 pedal tractor. Needless to say, he really enjoyed the gift and had fun sitting on it for most of the remainder of the time they were here.
My nephew on his 2012 Christmas gift.
The following day we went and fed the beef cattle. After I parked the cab tractor we fed with, his eyes glazed over the lineup of “big” tractors. He pointed at the Model A and called it his own. Seeing how it resembles his toy tractor made him want to go ride it. So, I fired it up and took her out for a little drive through the snow. You can tell by the look on his face that he had a good time!
Here’s a video that was taken up at the calves. This video is similar to the previous post, except it has more of the calves and shows the tractor stationary.
Our beef cattle calf in the spring, and we feed them during the summer on the range, so our beef is only Alfalfa and grass/range fed (organic).
Driving around the 1939 John Deere A after doing some work on it throughout the winter. We replaced the radiator core, muffler, and rebuilt carburator. This is the same tractor that I made the time lapse video reassembly of. It’s amazing how much work you end up doing any time you decide to tear down into one of these things. You go to fix one thing, and find that there are two more things that need to fix.
Since we had Monday off for Presidents Day, I took the opportunity to go on a quick ride up Deer Creek. The snow was pretty nice and it is close enough to home that it allowed the dogs to come and have a good time too. The video here shows me on my 2008 800 Polaris Dragon with a 163 track. The snow has been a little late coming this year, but the past few storms have seemed to be an attempt to make up for it.
Here are my photos from the 2012 Thayne Wyoming Snow Days. If you’d like to check out the video that I compiled at the event, please do so by going here. Snow Days is a fun filled day of various snowmobile family-oriented activities. If you desire to contact me you can do so by sending an email to kylew01@gmail.com or use the comments field at the bottom of the post. If you are not seeing the photos, please click “Read More” to see the remainder of this post.