Rotary cutting pics

[electrarc]

Already posted these on "today's seat time" thread, but I'll re-post them anyway. Mowing the fire break/shooting lane between my land and state forest. About three acres worth.

Joe

Joe,

Thanks for posting such great photos. Great tractor.

Cheers

 

[BlacknTan]

Already posted these on "today's seat time" thread, but I'll re-post them anyway. Mowing the fire break/shooting lane between my land and state forest. About three acres worth.

Joe

Nice!

 

[TripleR]

Already posted these on "today's seat time" thread, but I'll re-post them anyway. Mowing the fire break/shooting lane between my land and state forest. About three acres worth.

Joe

I've said it before, but I just love that tractor.:thumbsup:

 

[BlacknTan]

I've said it before, but I just love that tractor.:thumbsup:

I agree completely!

That tractor catches my eye..

 

[Chef Pa]

Some mowing/clearing in bottom ground over Labor Day. Took a couple days vaca and worked in the bush for 3 days - don't get no better...

Greg

 

[beppington]

Some mowing/clearing in bottom ground over Labor Day. Took a couple days vaca and worked in the bush for 3 days - don't get no better...

Greg

Now see that's why I got a Kubota ... I suspect there's a tractor in that picture ... & if it was orange you could find it. I guess you can use a metal detector ... or get yourself another new tractor :laughing:

 

[Verticaltrx]

Some mowing/clearing in bottom ground over Labor Day. Took a couple days vaca and worked in the bush for 3 days - don't get no better...

Greg

Nice old 3010, is it gas powered? What are you pulling with it that you need duals?

 

[Chef Pa]

Now see that's why I got a Kubota ... I suspect there's a tractor in that picture ... & if it was orange you could find it. I guess you can use a metal detector ... or get yourself another new tractor :laughing:

Bepp: If it were orange the weeds would see me coming 'Can you see me now?' - Have been looking for another smaller tractor, but can't promise what color. Trying to hold out for a good deal but the bug has bitten pretty hard, don't know how long I can hold out...

Nice old 3010, is it gas powered? What are you pulling with it that you need duals?

Vertical: Thanks, that tractor has been good to me. It's a gasser, and used to pull a 4 bottom moldboard, 12' disc and chisel (forget how wide). Duals helped with the disc and chisel quite a bit. That was years ago, though. Don't need the hubs but the axles stick way out there and it makes them easier to see - only reason I keep them on there.

Greg

 

[Dave5264]

When you get up to the 15' wide rotary cutters I have to ask: Why?

It looks like you are cutting a LOT of acreage that way. What is the land use? Are you maintaining low growth for livestock? If not, why not hay the area?

Just curious...not trying to ruffle feathers.

I do ~5 acres with my 6' cutter right now. 1 of those acres will be pasture within the next year or 2 for my goats so I don't want it over growing, but I haven't gotten around to fencing it. The other 5 are areas with trees that I just don't want turning into brambles and low growth woods. Not sure "why" but I just like it better this way.

If I had 10-20 acres or more that needed a 15' mower, I would be looking at hay.
ac

Here's another perspective, I have ~80 Acres of Pasture/Clear land, I only hay about 20 Acres of that, the rest (60 acres) I just Bush hog flat (with a 7' hog - wish I had a 15' bat wing and a bigger tractor). Now, there are several reasons for this:

1) Im new to farming, and im working on renovating/rejuvinating much of this remaining 60 acres, it was poor hay initially, but I expect by next year at least 1/2 of it will be useable.
2) I dont need al that hay for my horses, and since this is a part time thing ( I have a full time job other than farming), and a family (wife and 2 kids) farm, they tire of the haying after 20 acres. In addition and getting 3 days in a row of no rain each time I do a cut, is tough, I simply run out of time before the hay gets too mature to be of use/value.
3) ive advertised locally with land available be to hay -- no takers, even if its free.

 

[Jwhitehead23]

4530 Mahindra 7' Landpride

Before

After

 

[Chef Pa]

4530 Mahindra 7' Landpride

Nice shots, looks like the Mahindra handled the 7' Landpride well...

Greg

 

[Marveltone]

Joe,

Thanks for posting such great photos. Great tractor.

Cheers

Nice!

I've said it before, but I just love that tractor.:thumbsup:

I agree completely!

That tractor catches my eye..

Aw, shucks... That little ol' blue thang? I kinda like it too!
Thanks for the kind words.

Joe

 

[Degolyerent]

I have some new pics of a development up in Georgia that is 3000 acres that I cut 8 miles of right of ways that are all ditched and covered in Bahia grass, they where 60' wide, there where 5 entrances off the highway that I cut also, it takes 1 1/2 days
with a six foot cutter, there are deer and turkey everywhere. It has to be cut 3 or 4 times a year

 

[Jwhitehead23]

Nice shots, looks like the Mahindra handled the 7' Landpride well...

Greg

Yes I've been very happy with the 7' behind the 4530.

 

[Verticaltrx]

Got my fall bush hogging done today and managed to get a few pics. To speed things up I brought our 2550 down from the other farm so I could pull the 10' bush hog with it. I had been working at it here and there with my NAA and 5' bush hog, but it was getting time to get this task done for the year.

I've mowed hundreds of acres over the years with this combo, JD 2550 row-crop and 1008 pull type bush hog:

Field with a view:

Working in one of the back fields:

Same field near the top:

I've got a few more that I'll upload in a bit...

 

[Verticaltrx]

I ended up finishing about 8:00 so it was getting pretty dark. The last couple pics aren't the best, but were of the last field which was the most overgrown. Some of the autumn olive trees there were close to 10' tall with trunks about 4" in diameter, less than an acre but tough going.

Another pic of the field mentioned in the last post, cutting down 1yr old autumn olive growth (man they are tenacious):

Field after being mowed:

Last field, heavy brush and trees:

Hope yall enjoy, I know I have looking at everyone's pics. :thumbsup:

 

[Builder]

Very nice pictures. :thumbsup:

 

[OneMan]

I am doing some heavy bushhogging for my neighbor that lives on some low property that has a branch running through it, kind of slow going but it is better to be safe than sorry and tear something up,I am doing a little at a time as he has money to spend on it.I will come back later and root rake the palmettos out,and then add dirt and regrade as needed

Tour before and after photos look like my son's property here in TN after we get done cutting. Problem now is: How do we change it into a grass area that will look good from the back porch once the house is built. I'm talking about 10+ acres here. We have a BOXBLADE, BRUSH CUTTER, RAKE, AND 6' BLADE PLUS pallet pullers for small trees.

 

[Degolyerent]

Tour before and after photos look like my son's property here in TN after we get done cutting. Problem now is: How do we change it into a grass area that will look good from the back porch once the house is built. I'm talking about 10+ acres here. We have a BOXBLADE, BRUSH CUTTER, RAKE, AND 6' BLADE PLUS pallet pullers for small trees.

What I do is go from one area to another and dig holes with my excavator about 5' wide 5' deep and 30' in length, I dig these holes in areas where something is not going to be built because they eventually settle some and will need additional dirt, but with palmettos and vegetation from the top it is not much. Anyway I root rake the palmettos out along with top layer of vegetation and push it into the holes and spread the clean dirt out over the area and add more dirt as needed, plant grass and watch it grow. Ten acres will take a few days but it will look nice when you are done!

 

[TnWV]

Here's a few pics I snapped while mowing with my 8 footer I got this spring.