TODAYS SEAT TIME

[BrokenTrack]

From your profile:
Wow......6 women in your household?
How many bathrooms?

ONE (No joke)

 

[BrokenTrack]

That is for sure. And I think this year is way worse than most as far as branch out reach and foliage growth goes. Must be all the rain. Good exercise for me on our road, too good really, with my ArmStrong pole saw. The town hires a guy with a big JD tractor that has a side mounted HD mower on a boom. He makes two passes. First is vertical getting branches and such that stick out and the second is the shoulder and ditches getting the grass and any branches that fell from the first pass. A very impressive tractor implement.

gg

When we first started out, it was not bad; the ditches were full of small trees, brambles, and stemmy weeds, so we could mow them off at a fairly good clip, but after doing this for a few years now, those brambles have been replaced with grass, and now to mow it, it takes a lot longer. Some types of grass, it is first gear and 2500 RPM on the tractor to hog through it. Sometimes even then it plugs the flail mower.

And it is getting harder to please people too. When we first started, mowing back to the treeline...something that had not been done before, ended up with us being THANKED for mowing the sides of the road, but now if you leave a mohawk (sliver of unmown grass between passes) we get calls..."are you missing teeth on your mower?" It is almost like people expect a mowed-looking-lawn for a ditch line.

That really is not the goal. I never minded mohawks because next year it will get hit and no trees will grow there, but now when I get a mohawk, I have to back up and mow it to appease people. It takes a lot of extra time, with no real gain for the taxpayers, but it is what they expect now. In my defense though, it is hard to hit every square foot when mowing 34 acres per day, in some of the most difficult terrain possible, with a mower that is extended 20 feet out away from you.

 

[ericm979]

Why do they grow so much better in the center of the driveway vs anywhere else?

Because there's no vegetation on the tire track part of the road. That leaves a little more water for the plants on either side of the bare tracks. In the desert water is usually the limiting factor for plant growth.

 

[BRMyers]

Got up early and met dad at the farm. A friend of mine from work came by last Thursday and was able to get dad's MF383 running.

As you can see in the pictures, dad quickly put it to work


Here he is moving a big chunk of concrete


Then he drove into the brush line that we have been working on clearing


Here is dumping a load of brush onto the pile


This is what it looked like when we start a few weeks ago


Here it is today. Still have lots of work to do, but my dad is having a GREAT time and I'm having fun helping him.

 

[Thomas]

Got up early and met dad at the farm. A friend of mine from work came by last Thursday and was able to get dad's MF383 running.

As you can see in the pictures, dad quickly put it to work

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Here he is moving a big chunk of concrete

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Then he drove into the brush line that we have been working on clearing

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Here is dumping a load of brush onto the pile

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This is what it looked like when we start a few weeks ago

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Here it is today. Still have lots of work to do, but my dad is having a GREAT time and I'm having fun helping him.

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Having fun and getting the work done same time just can't beat it :thumbsup:your dad will sleep good tonight.

 

[hunt4570]

Got up early and met dad at the farm. A friend of mine from work came by last Thursday and was able to get dad's MF383 running.

As you can see in the pictures, dad quickly put it to work

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Here he is moving a big chunk of concrete

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Then he drove into the brush line that we have been working on clearing

View attachment 614653
Here is dumping a load of brush onto the pile

View attachment 614654
This is what it looked like when we start a few weeks ago

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Here it is today. Still have lots of work to do, but my dad is having a GREAT time and I'm having fun helping him.

Kudos to dad, great work!
But I see you get the cab tractor and make him work out in the heat!!:confused3:

 

[Sawyer Rob]

All the "little fields" are now baled, so it's time to pick up some bales. This is another thing pallet forks with grapple can do, that a dedicated grapple can't,

and with the trailer loaded I used the little Deutz to pull the loads out, and deliver some bales,

All of my hay is now sold...

SR

 

[Oldpath05]

All the "little fields" are now baled, so it's time to pick up some bales. This is another thing pallet forks with grapple can do, that a dedicated grapple can't,

All of my hay is now sold... SR

And the list just keeps growing, must up around 10 things by now for them pellet forks with thumb. And at $150.00/bale should be enough left over to buy that new piece of farm equipment you been wanting............

 

[Sawyer Rob]

And the list just keeps growing, must up around 10 things by now for them pellet forks with thumb. And at $150.00/bale should be enough left over to buy that new piece of farm equipment you been wanting............

Only 10? You must not have been paying attention!! NOW, I'm going to have start all over from the brginning!!!

SR

 

[Oldpath05]

Only 10? You must not have been paying attention!! NOW, I'm going to have start all over from the brginning!!!

SR

:thumbsup: Oh your right I did loose track what was I thinking, dont answer that. I do think you have the best set up with those forks though, I'd rather have them then a bucket grapple, maybe someday when I to get in the lucrative hay business....................