Pictures from a skid steer mowing contractor

[Lineman North Florida]

Mr. Lineman, that's a trim, good looking storage area. What size is that?

And kindly, what dimension are your purlins?

Are you rated (or code inspected) for any hurricane force winds?

This barn is 60' long x 40' wide, the purlins are 2 x 6's and the bays are 12' wide between the 8 x 8 post with a 14' eave height. This is an ag barn so no permit required but this one is engineered to 130 MPH wind codes, supposedly, my other barn is almost just like this one with the exception that it has a 4/12 roof pitch instead of a 3/12 , I built it in 2006 and it has withstood several hurricanes so far, knock on wood.

 

[BackRoad]

Thank you Sir!

 

[Lineman North Florida]

Been doing some mulching jobs, forestry mowing some interior roads that had grown up and were impassable on a customer's property and a long limerock driveway job. Hope everyone is having a good week. God bless. Charlie.

 

[Lineman North Florida]

We today was my day for a job I do once a year every year in the fall, annual fish pond cleanup. I bush hogged the field last week and used the skid steer and forestry mower to cleanup around the pond this morning , only casualty was a big cotton mouth moccasin, also had a curious one horned buck that looks like he is beginning to go into rut judging from his swollen neck.

 

[EddieWalker]

Reminds me that I need to do my last mowing around my fishing pond. Hopefully I'll get a few snakes too!!!!

 

[workinonit]

I really don't like killing snakes that aren't too close to the house. They sure do keep the rat population down.

 

[EddieWalker]

I have chickens. When chickens go to sleep at night, the mice take over and eat all the chicken food that they want. The snakes show up to eat the mice and then they tell their friends, and more snakes show up. Eventually you end up with a year like we had with over 40 snakes killed by myself, my wife and my mom, combined!!!! Fortunately, that's when the cats showed up. Just one pregnant calico that somebody dumped. She had her babies and started hunting. Then her babies started hunting. Then a boy cat showed up, and she got pregnant again, and some of her babies had babies. By the time we had 20 cats, the mice were gone the snakes went somewhere else to hunt mice. This year we only killed two snakes, which has become our yearly average.

 

[Lineman North Florida]

I really don't like killing snakes that aren't too close to the house. They sure do keep the rat population down.

This particular old big cottonmouth stretched out and acted like he owned the place and a snake that doesn't show any fear has got to go, so I brung the wrath down on him.

 

[Molalla1]

I have chickens. When chickens go to sleep at night, the mice take over and eat all the chicken food that they want. The snakes show up to eat the mice and then they tell their friends, and more snakes show up. Eventually you end up with a year like we had with over 40 snakes killed by myself, my wife and my mom, combined!!!! Fortunately, that's when the cats showed up. Just one pregnant calico that somebody dumped. She had her babies and started hunting. Then her babies started hunting. Then a boy cat showed up, and she got pregnant again, and some of her babies had babies. By the time we had 20 cats, the mice were gone the snakes went somewhere else to hunt mice. This year we only killed two snakes, which has become our yearly average.

I consider my barn/shop cats a must Eddie, they are killing machines and for the most part, they keep it clean.

 

[Lineman North Florida]

Took a break yesterday from skidsteer jobs to work on some of my own farm projects, I replaced a corner/gate post that me and my dad set about 35 years ago give or take a month or two when he and I cross fenced this field. I suspect that it will be the last time that it gets replaced as I don't know that any of my children will continue on with the farm/cows when I am gone. This little project brought back lots of good memories of me and my dad working on this farm, seems like I blinked my eyes and now I'm old lol, hope everyone has a great week, God bless Charlie. P.S. I decided to hang a new gate while I was at it.

 

[Gregster613]

Took a break yesterday from skidsteer jobs to work on some of my own farm projects, I replaced a corner/gate post that me and my dad set about 35 years ago give or take a month or two when he and I cross fenced this field. I suspect that it will be the last time that it gets replaced as I don't know that any of my children will continue on with the farm/cows when I am gone. This little project brought back lots of good memories of me and my dad working on this farm, seems like I blinked my eyes and now I'm old lol, hope everyone has a great week, God bless Charlie. P.S. I decided to hang a new gate while I was at it.View attachment 4146059View attachment 4146060View attachment 4146061View attachment 4146062

"seems like I blinked my eyes and now I'm old lol," yeah isn't that a true statement! I feel exactly the same way! Nice looking cattle and property that you have. Enjoy it as much as possible!!

 

[Lineman North Florida]

"seems like I blinked my eyes and now I'm old lol," yeah isn't that a true statement! I feel exactly the same way! Nice looking cattle and property that you have. Enjoy it as much as possible!!

Thank you, those particular cows and yearlings were the investigators, doesn't seem to matter what I'm doing some of them want to be in the middle of it, lol. We might be old but were still here by the grace of God. Charlie.

 

[Lineman North Florida]

Some of today's work, I changed out the well tank at my dad's old house where one of my sons is living, this particular well was drilled about 1962 by an old well driller named Wallace Burch, it's about 165' deep and was pretty much put together with all galvanized pipe and fittings with no unions so the Sawzall was a blessing. I pretty much went back with schedule 80 pvc and tied it all back in underground to still solid galvanized pipe, at 63 years of service before it sprung a leak this old tank didn't owe me a thing, I hope my people don't have to do this again for a long time, I tried to do a good job with no short cuts, just like old Wallace did the first time, God rest his soul. Hope everyone has a great weekend, God bless. Charlie.

 

[EddieWalker]

Did it just sit out in the open like that for all those years? no building over it?

 

[bsekf]

Can't quite wrap my head around the thousands of dollars people pay for a skidsteer and brush cutter.

Over here, a 100HP tractor with a chain brush cutter will cost about $100 to $120/hour and will run circles around the skidsteer while leaving the same, if not a better finish most of the times.

About the only thing that would beat it in finish would be a mulcher, but even that is ran off the tractor.

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Tell me more about a "chain" brushhog. Do you just replace the blade with chain? Or is it a special machine?

 

[ptsg]

Tell me more about a "chain" brushhog. Do you just replace the blade with chain? Or is it a special machine?

These are built this way from factory meeting all the safety standards. Blades are usually offered as an option. The hubs are design and built to take an absolute beating without getting bent out of shape. The chains are grade 80 chains, varying from 1/2" up to 5/8" on the bigger cutters for high HP tractors.

The beauty of the chains is that won't care if it hits any objects like stumps, rocks, whatever. It just skips and doesn't get damage or bent like blades do.

You can read more about these here on scootr's thread: Brush Hog mods

 

[Lineman North Florida]

Did it just sit out in the open like that for all those years? no building over it?

Eddie, it has been out in the open weather all of it's life, I changed mine at my house this year as well, it was originally put in to water cattle on our farm and it was installed within a year or two before this one before it sprang a small leak, it was out in the open all of it's life as well, so that tells me that galvanized well tanks from that era if left uncovered had a life expectancy of 60+ years lol. Both tanks rusted through right above ground level at the very bottom of the tank.

 

[Gregster613]

Some of today's work, I changed out the well tank at my dad's old house where one of my sons is living, this particular well was drilled about 1962 by an old well driller named Wallace Burch, it's about 165' deep and was pretty much put together with all galvanized pipe and fittings with no unions so the Sawzall was a blessing. I pretty much went back with schedule 80 pvc and tied it all back in underground to still solid galvanized pipe, at 63 years of service before it sprung a leak this old tank didn't owe me a thing, I hope my people don't have to do this again for a long time, I tried to do a good job with no short cuts, just like old Wallace did the first time, God rest his soul. Hope everyone has a great weekend, God bless. Charlie. View attachment 4181971View attachment 4181972

Good job replacing/fixing up the old tank -- but what a chore that must have been! Mine sits out in the open too but it's attached to everything with plastic pipe already. Todays galvanized metal wouldn't be "near" as tough as that old stuff.

 

[Lastkidpicked]

I sure do enjoy reading these posts. Not sure if the following is an @EddieWalker paragraph or a Dr. Suess chapter:

When chickens go to sleep at night, the mice take over and eat all the chicken food that they want. The snakes show up to eat the mice and then they tell their friends, and more snakes show up. Eventually you end up with a year like we had with over 40 snakes killed by myself, my wife and my mom, combined!!!! Fortunately, that's when the cats showed up. Just one pregnant calico that somebody dumped. She had her babies and started hunting. Then her babies started hunting. Then a boy cat showed up, and she got pregnant again, and some of her babies had babies. By the time we had 20 cats, the mice were gone the snakes went somewhere else to hunt mice.

 

[EddieWalker]

I sure do enjoy reading these posts. Not sure if the following is an @EddieWalker paragraph or a Dr. Suess chapter:

You compared me to Dr Suess!!! Thanks, that's fun.