The Life of a Custom Mowing contractor

[LittleBittyBigJohn]

And manure??

Uh.... ManUre not right...

 

[Hay Dude]

We are meal prepping for the week and thought of hay for some reason? View attachment 882357

And manure??

Mushrooms are grown in a blend of hay, straw, water, lime, chicken litter and horse manure and some topsoil.
Each supplier of mushroom soil creates their own blend.

I get a chuckle out of people who are “grossed out” that one of the ingredients is manure or litter. Many vegetables are grown in manure. I’d much prefer that to genetic modification, chemical pesticides/herbicides in my food.

 

[Willman]

Hay Dude is right…. Chicken litter, horse manure with the other ingredients go into mushroom soil
I’ve been in mushroom grow houses and packing plants dozens and dozens of times
Its got its own special smells
I love mushrooms, especially on a good steak sandwich and deep fried mushrooms too

 

[Willman]

Uh.... ManUre not right...

that’s a good one!

 

[LittleBittyBigJohn]

that’s a good one!

Yeah people often comment that they can tell I'm a dad...

 

[Hay Dude]

Back at it today with the Challenger and the CX-15.
I have to access a field for a Customer through some residents back yards and a wooded trail. I got there to find a 75’ tall walnut fell across the trail.

Had to get someone to pick me up, and take me back to the shop for my truck & saws.
I got the tree out of the way just enough to sneak the tractor by. Sorry, forgot to take some pictures.

Anyway, I finally got to the back and got some cutting underway as a doe off in the distance is aggravated with my intrusion.

This field got taken over with Deer Tongue.

And now back through a narrow passage to the next field behind it….

My pictures were not good today. I was in a rush because thunderstorms are just a few miles west. I’ll get some good ones next time.

Headed home…

 

[sixdogs]

Even a bad picture is a good picture.

 

[Hay Dude]

We’ve had our share of rain lately. Haven’t been able to do the amount of mowing I had hoped. I squeezed in a customer yesterday and it poured twice while mowing, but briefly.
Just getting underway and it started to pour.

The tall grass below my cut line is reeds canary grass. Makes nice hay if cut early. I have hayed this field in the past, but its’ getting cut this time. Not enough time or dry weather to make hay.

Once rain shower was about 15 minutes, the other about 5-10 minutes. Makes a mess, but it takes a long period of rain to dampen tall grass, so it still makes an acceptable cut after a short rain.

I never liked to be seen working in the rain, but once you drive several miles with the equipment and start mowing, you want to try to finish.

Sometimes even after you’ve mowed a customers property for years, you discover things you’ve never seen there. Here’s a fence post with an insulator from back in the days when people raised cows. I remember when I was a kid and saw cows here.

Man those are some dark clouds.
Cutting real slow. It’s about 7PM and I have a lot to go.

8PM and finally heading home. That was a tough cut….

 

[japody]

We’ve had our share of rain lately. Haven’t been able to do the amount of mowing I had hoped. I squeezed in a customer yesterday and it poured twice while mowing, but briefly.
Just getting underway and it started to pour.

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The tall grass below my cut line is reeds canary grass. Makes nice hay if cut early. I have hayed this field in the past, but its’ getting cut this time. Not enough time or dry weather to make hay.
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Once rain shower was about 15 minutes, the other about 5-10 minutes. Makes a mess, but it takes a long period of rain to dampen tall grass, so it still makes an acceptable cut after a short rain.

I never liked to be seen working in the rain, but once you drive several miles with the equipment and start mowing, you want to try to finish.

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Sometimes even after you’ve mowed a customers property for years, you discover things you’ve never seen there. Here’s a fence post with an insulator from back in the days when people raised cows. I remember when I was a kid and saw cows here.

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Man those are some dark clouds.
Cutting real slow. It’s about 7PM and I have a lot to go.
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8PM and finally heading home. That was a tough cut….

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It's been too wet here to mow. I've got 100 acres to mow. I don't know if I'll ever catch up/

 

[Molalla1]

It's been too wet here to mow. I've got 100 acres to mow. I don't know if I'll ever catch up/

Join the club japody . . .