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I wish I had a cab over tractor. I have a Kubota L4400. One time I was working on my prairie clearing dogwood and sumac out with a big Stihl Forestry trimmer, the type that have a saw blade on instead of heavy string. Anyway, the trimmer is heavy enough you have to have a vest on that has a...

I’m guessing they may be European hornets you have if they are that big.

Will dynamite get rid of them😂

This is the 12th Year we have lived on our 16 acre piece of land, a prairie remnant in NW Iowa. We have only had paper wasps, bumblebees, native bees and honeybees if a farmer was raising them nearby. But this year is different - we started seeing this unknown wasp/hornet in our garden and...

18” of mulch in the garden using the Ruth Stout method of gardening. We never have weeds in the garden. Look it up on YouTube if the spirit moves you. https://www.gardeningchannel.com/ruth-stout-gardening-method/ https://www.backyardgardenlover.com/ruth-stout-gardening-method/

We time any mowing and prescribed burns to coincide with the needs of the prairie. If we want more tall grass prairie i.e. Indian Grass and Big Bluestem, we burn or mow in the spring. If we want more forbs in our prairie, we have a fall burn or late season mowing. Our prairie is a prairie...

We garden using the Ruth Stout method and we have had hay/mulch 18” high. It is so much mulch that any weed seeds are blocked from the sun and unable to germinate.

I’ve got a Kubota compact tractor L4400-45 hp. Occasionally I mow My 10 acre prairie to help keep down invasives. I use a LandPride 6’ brush hog. I would like to have something to rake up what I mow and use it in my large country garden for mulch to keep weeds down. Probably only use 2-3...

Also posted in haying....... I use a bush hog to mow my 16 acre prairie. At times I need some of the grass that has been mowed to mulch my large country garden with. A month ago I mowed about 1 acre and used my landscape rake to attempt to pull it into a pile and use my grapple to move it with...

I use a bush hog to mow my 16 acre prairie. At times I need some of the grass that has been mowed to mulch my large country garden with. A month ago I mowed about 1 acre and used my landscape rake to attempt to pull it into a pile and use my grapple to move it with. The landscape rake did not...

Here is where things are at with me. I currently own a five year old L4400 all paid for. I desperately need a grapple for quite a bit of work waiting and ongoing on my wooded and prairie property. I have decided to go with a Land Pride 60 grapple weighing 400 lbs. My two choices are: (1)...

I have a BX2670 with a 60" standard mower deck. What rpm is it generally recommended to mow at? Thanks!

Previously I had owned a Ford 8n. With it, the three point arms always swung freely and I could easily lift an arm with one arm and attach it to the implement. With the L4400 with the control lever all the way down the lift arms won't raise except with the tractor running using the control...

I have been reading about the gear lube required for this tiller and I have been getting conflicting information from different sources. I read where GL1 140 wt is the definitive lube to put in the gearbox. Another source of information informed me that GL4 140 wt is considered "yellow metal...

I'm looking to spend about 25k on a newer (<7 years old) bobcat that won't require much servicing initially. Is that reasonable to believe I could pick one up that won't need work at this price point? I live on a 16 acre acreage with no livestock. Small trees needing removal, prairie and...