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I noticed that at a dairy a few years back. I remember at home on the farm Dad didn't really like saving wheat straw because it wasn't very nice. He much preferred oats or barley straw.

Started one of those once - the 4020 diesel I was driving threw a spark when we were cutting hay next to a ripe wheat field. We had about a 20 mph wind blowing that day and it was good and dry so burned 250 acres or so before we got it out. The custom harvesting crew started cutting on the...

Interesting chart. US wheat production peaked back in 1981 and has been on a downward trend every year since then to where now we are producing about 2/3 of what we produced in 1981. During that same period US corn and soybean production doubled. A very major change in products and demand.

Not really - big combines with 45' header is how they do it in the US. The paddies have long been drained.

It is hard to believe they can make a living with machines like that as compared to the 45' heads on a regular combine.

All depends on how you rate it and what you are comparing it to. The rotary combines provided a major reduction in grain crackage and less dockage due to cleaner grain. That advantage carries over to hillsides. The overloading of the sieves to one side does still occur but usually not to the...

I find it interesting that the new Deere X9 uses two rotors but it looks to me like a good share of the threshing is done in the feederhouse more conventional style and then the rotors are more for the separation of the grain from the straw. Definitely a lot of moving parts on the new Deere...

Angled and heavy. How did you do it? I have heard of opening up the concaves and placing some wood around the lower part and closing the concave to support the rotor while you take it loose and then using a loader, forklift, liftall or whatever drag it out of the machine. A crane would be a...

Here is a diagram of a CIH 9250 - no walkers or pans - just the rotor and the transverse rotor for final knockout and chopping with sieves down below.

Here is a transverse rotor Gleaner video that shows the accelerator rolls and how they assist in the separation. It also mentions the sidehill capability versus an axial flow rotor. Not that I am a Gleaner fan but they have their advantages - one being that they are about 10,000#s lighter than...

I had not looked at the Fendt. The CIH Axial Flow just uses the rotor and then one cross rotor for separation and the straw goes out the back. A lot of ranchers do not like the rotaries as they grind the straw much more making it tougher to bale and handle. My brother says they remind him of...

Yep - they are gone. Out of the rotor and out the back unless it hits the chopper first.

Another option is a sickle bar mower that allows the bar to float up and down and then do one pass from the bottom and another from the top. The road sign will get in the way though.

I have mowed a slope that steep with my Deines front deck. I am not going to lie though - I did not like it. It was on a commercial lot I own and there was no good reason they left it so steep but they did and I chose not to change it - it was about three passes high and 100' long. The...

Not sure what you are talking about - maybe the straw walkers that separated the grain from the straw? The entire grain separation sieve system has not changed a lot in the last 100 years - the sieves today are basically the same as what was used in the threshing machines and are very much...

My Deines ZT with a fab deck does not leave windrows with the chute down. When the chute is up the air flow is changed and the clippings come out of the deck and just kind of go wherever but are spread across no more than one width of the mower deck. With the chute down it shoots out a...

My brother bought a Cub Cadet and after a few years yt was nothing but problems. The blades and deck are not near as robust as a good professional mower. One of the features that Deines has had, even on my 1007 model, is a flip up deck. And it goes to complete vertical. Another advantage of...

I still have my '97 Deines 60" front deck ZT and use it weekly or as needed. Other than blades and tires I have done almost nothing to it except the electric blade clutch went out so I replaced the main drive belts while I was in there. Oh - I did replace the seat as well - famous vinyl...

Corret - they are like 10,000 bushel and are not meant to be moved with grain in them. They just sit at the end of the field and get filled by the grain buggies and the trucks come in alongside and get filled. Then when they are empty they move to the next field. They do not have the...

It seems to me the more particular landscapers sharpen blades daily but then they are getting 6-8 hours of mowing time daily as well. I have been told by a few of them that it gives the nicest look to have clean sharp blades - dead sharp blades. A couple I know even stone the blade after...

Great job! It takes guts to try something you haven't done before and better yet to do it right!

Those massive "mother bins" at the end of the field get me. I know they are necessary there because of the long hauls for the trucks but it is just another piece of equipment to keep the combines running.

Not sure where you are at but there are plenty of junk NH 450 series mowers around. The sickle bar is usually not the part that caused its useful life to end. In fact most were just because people moved on to haybines. i bought a complete working 455 for $350. Having said that it is...

A "shearing" action requires a double blade like a scissors and typically both edges are very sharp like stamping die to get a good clean cut not a drawn out one. The other option is the old reel type lawnmower but I do not think that is what we are talking about here. Since there is only a...

I really do not understand that statement - unless you are referring to a front deck rear wheel steer. I much prefer my front deck zero turn to mid mount because I put the deck under the trees without me being in the tree.

Front deck would not require the jackstands and lying on your back reaching underneath. Makes blade removal/install much easier, nicer, and safer. I have never ground with a handheld grinder on the edge like that. Seems like a good idea but a llittle slower than laying the wheel down on the...

That guy is just annoying.

Never seen that done in the US. It takes too long to un-hook and re-hook. Usually the chopper never stops when cutting anything - corn, alfalfa, other crops for ensiling.

Why a 1/16" edge? That seems very dull to me. A sharp edge gives a cleaner cut, the duller the edge the more shattering of the blade of grass you are cutting.

Agreed. I clean my d4eck every mow but then I have a front deck that flips up 90 degrees so it is easy to do. Sharpen my blades every 4-5 mows cutting 2+ acres each time with a 72" deck.

Acceleration at corners tends to distribute the gravel into ditches but how does that lead to washboarding? I always thought the washboarding was the grader bouncing.

That is interesting and somewhat old school thinking. True there is some compaction from grazing but if there is enough plant matter and soil activity it overcomes it. Plus grazing processes the plant matter to break it down quicker and have nutrients available. the thing you cannot do is...

Not crimping only adds a day or two to the dry time depending on the dampness of the soil and the solar load. I typically lay grass hay down with a sickle bar and bale it on the third day. I have done it in two with the right conditions. Alfalfa about a day longer.

Cover crops keep the nutrients held in the soil in areas where there is not a sufficient winter to stop a lot of the movement so it makes sense that they are being pushed. They keep the nutrients in the plant matter and then when it is killed and rots down gives the nutrients to the crop. This...

Sorry to have missed this thread. I have two Deines mowers and cannot say enough good about them. I have had one since 97 and it does as well today as it did when it was new - in fact it has had very little maintenance because it is that good. I bought the second to have the double back...

Typically it is more herbicide when you start no till but less herbicide once you have been using the system for a few years. Please keep in mind there is no-till as in it wasn't tilled it was just planted and then there is never till where nothing that does tillage is ever brought to the...

It takes commitment to convert to this, and faith in slightly later planting as teh ground doesn't warm up as quick, and some early yields are not as good until the soil structure gets re-established but after about ten years the farmer is much better off with less fuel and other inputs and...

That may be really hard to find. I talked to a guy today who said they were almost done booking for 2022 for the asphalt side of the business. Hauling in rock and concrete side still had room.

Mine has been in great shape except it needs rock again - it has been 8 years. The problem I have is that plowing takes rock off and then it builds up along the sides and so you have to either keep building or scraping the sides down for drainage but that bring dirt up into the road. There...

That is what I was thinking for the 1/8 mile long driveway that would be a lot quicker and easier than forming all that up. I have seen them used in large open space manufacturing building concrete floors as well at a 20' wide section at a time. It might just be that the equipment is not...

I keep coming back to concrete but the cost is high mostly due to labor and staining because I would like it darker. My stone driveway - the actual 1/8 mile long drive - has been in place for 50 years and is int very good condition. I am thinking that it would be possible to just grade it flat...

When we moved into this house 30 years ago my wife and I saw a rustic stone walkway and stone patioin the Family Handyman magazine and she said that is what she wanted. So like a good husband i put it in. They were nice gray limestone I picked out of a quarry and hauled home. Even though it...

I didn't even look at that = I cannot believe that it has been five years. I bought a manufacturing business and have been focused on turning that around which wasn't helped by Covid and here we are. No I haven't done anything yet but the driveway has not gotten any better either.

Both in front of garage and about 1/8 mile of driveway. You have never walked across warm asphalt barefoot and had blackfeet when you got across? In Southern California and Texas?

Both in front of garage and about 1/8 mile of driveway.

Reading back through this thread I keep thinking about pavers and although I like the look with all the beveled edges they can be kind of an uneven surface to walk on as compared to a concrete or asphalt slab. Also, since you are in Idaho I would think you would have a freeze/thaw problem that...

That is nice deep and friable top soil. He is plowing deep.

Why is it "hard on the knees"?

I put the AT-101s on my mower which is a front mount zero turn.

In the 70s I would pull into a quarter of native hay with a Super M TA pulling a 9' sickle bar mower and a 12' dump rake. 3 days later that quarter was done and I moved onto the next/ Two sickles a day and sharpen them both in the morning before I came out. Usually did not start cutting...

Yours must be what we call the topless Mennonites!

I wouldn't exactly include your foot as a road condition - maybe a bump in the road if it got in the way.

I have never heard of a 50% difference in mileage due to road conditions - do you mean hauling/towing and speed?

I would like to understand what drove the change to the larger vehicles especially the height. I know the requirement for child seats caused a need for a very accessible back seat but the height to me is just stupid. You can't reach over the side of the bed and reach the center of the bed so...

I do not have a paypal account because I would use it so little. I did use paypal through a CC as that was the only payment the company would accept. I never received the item. I called Paypal and they said I had to set up an account to make a claim. I had problems with them years ago and...

Reading the article it is just another fear spreader. The first thing is where is water "consumed"? Water is a cycle and it is just used and reprocessed naturally or artificially to be reused. The H2O is still in existence - the basic molecule still exists. As it becomes more valuable it...

If your fields are too rough it would be easier to change your fields, the angle you drive on them, or how you till. Growing up on a farm/ranch when we cultivated and hilled corn we smoothed them out driving diagonally - the longer the angle the smoother the ride. Hilling corn is rare...

You mean anti-social distancing?

yesterday - mostly to chew up the leaves but I was surprised that the grass had grown a couple of inches in the last three weeks.

The videos above are obviously selling tracks. here is Titan's video of LSW tires where they claim 38% less peak ground pressure and 16% less average ground pressure. All are sales documents - is there some real independent scientific data out there? The one thing we can all agree on is that...

Farm tractors never were allowed on interstate highways via the minimum speed requirement. However I believe some tractors now make 40 mph - correct? Did they just add this bill?

You got the sequence backward. You are supposed to string one strand of wire from corner to corner and then use it to guide you where to put your posts. It also helps keep your fence tighter because if you posts are not in line the tension of the wire will pull them over time and the wire...

Agreed - what is the psi produced by tracks?

I would like to see the data on the tracks ground pressure and compaction. If you look at the design there would be high pressure at the ends of the tracks directly under the main spindles and then under each bogie wheel. But contrary to popular belief and the way they are sold it would not...

That is some heavy foam!

Tat's funny! We have not had a winter since I moved to Indiana 20+ years ago. Have you ever really had a winter?

Wow! That is light in the derierre. I would never think of not loading my bucket as high as I can stack it, Sometimes I am not making much for tracks with the rear tires then but never had to worry about not getting home without having to dump it. Edit: After reading some others comments...

When I looked at where you are from I have to question your advice - it is frozen nine months out of the year there and so mud is not an issue.

Thanks everyone! You confirmed my concerns and I will pass on this one. Not having enough trailer to haul what you have - or being marginal - is not a good way to start. Too short for what I need. I'll be patient.

I probably don't look too hard. But if you cut the smaller stuff why not use the buzz saw? I would think it would be quicker than a chain saw.

I had not been on etrailer before. Thanks! Very interesting website for this project. I like that they are selling Dexter axles - it is a hometown preference for me.

Thanks for the axle price.

One of my concerns is being able to get the proper tongue weight on that short of trailer with a tractor that I believe is fairly well balanced in lbs/ft of length and what looks like kind of a short tailed trailer. I am thinking maybe this trailer is more for a skid steer or mini-ex where...

2002 TEXAS BRAGG 10k 14' x 81 1/2'' Trailer HD , NEEDS FINISHED , frame has ben taken down to metal, treated , primed and painted top and bottom , New fenders and backs installed , New shackles , bolts and bushings, New equalizers , New center bolts in springs . 2 5/16'' ball , 6 lug rims , HD...

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Sand will let the water into the soil more and will make it softer when it rains but it will also let the moisture out quicker if it is not trapped in the soil via hardpan or surrounding clay. Remember clay is what you line a pond with if you want it to hold water. Depending on your usage and...

Your pictures are always of the larger stuff that you have to split. Why do you not cut the 3-8" that you do not have to split that you could use these saws for?

I see that old buzz saw - reminds me of what we had when I was growing up powered by an IH H or M and flat belt. Everybody says they are very dangerous as they are obviously are not shielded but I have never had a close call on one or personally knew of anyone who did. If used properly and...

The drive is on mostly flat ground. There is a small hill at one end leading up to the parking area - maybe 20' of rise.

Never more than once per week for me. But then I do not have that hot humid weather you have even though it may feel like it sometimes.

I start 1st or 2nd week of April and usually stop in early November. I would have mowed today if it had not been too wet. Today probably would have been the last real grass cutting but one more is required to grind up some leaves.

I initially asked the question because when I grew up on the farm we used mostly local dealers - within 70 miles of our farm because we expected parts availability but my nephews that run the farm do not really even consider that anymore - partially because of the cost of tractors and finding...

Thanks for all the comments! Much appreciated. They made me think about watching an industrial floor getting poured where the machines spanned the area they were pouring. A paving machine has wheels under the middle which would make it very difficult to rod or wire held up off the ground -...

Because the asphalt area is already even with the garage floor height and consequently I have some poor drainage that I need to fix when I do this. Now the Asphalt is almost level with a few dips that doesn't drain well which means when it thaws in the winter some places are nice and others...

I only have to do half of the 1/4 mile long driveway which is where I got my numbers from. Sorry about the confusion.

I was quoted $118 a yard for 5 bag mix delivered with no waiting.

The library has set up their asphalt to handle the large trucks like the garbage truck, semis that I have come in regularly, and rock trucks for my driveway, pond, etc.

That is the exact problem I have locally. I have to find it when road construction is being done in my area and the contractor has to find a place to put it. The local plant mixes it back in and is always looking for it was well because they sell it in the mix at almost full price.

Did I read that right? You take your BMW to WalMart for an oil change? I'm sorry but isn't that expecting a miracle?

That was in the song Beautiful Boy and the line was "Life is what happens to you while you are busy making other plans". It was an old line that was reused but it was just line in a song with no content to explain why he threw it in there.

I have about 1/4 mile long driveway and 2700 sq ft of parking area. The parking area is currently asphalt that needs replacing. The driveway is about half limestone rock and the other half is on the neighbor's property that they maintain and is asphalt. All of the base is in very good shape...

It seems a lot of people focus on having a good dealer. I guess how much you focus on that correlates to how much work you do and how often the tractor breaks down. In the 28 years I have had my Ford, buying the muffler and the front axle seals are the only items I went to a dealer for and...

They are actually a high flotation implement tire with diamond tread that has limited traction but then I rarely pull anything heavy and when I need assistance I engage the front wheels and I have plenty. What i have found is that the high flotation tire ran soft has a lot of footprint which...

Nice article. Thanks for sharing it.

Isn't a mini ex good for splitting as well. You can pick them up move them into position. Drive the teeth down through rounds as needed. Move the splits out of the way and even pile them. Then grab the next one. You could even stack the pieces - it just depends on how much "practice" you...

I have to agree. My Ford has 13.6 x 16.1 diamond tread flotation tires that i run at about 10 psi. Definitely a nice ride!

Thank you! I figured there was a solution I just had to ask!

As I get older I cannot see nice clean oil on the dipsticks as easily as I used to be able to. Is there anything that I could dye the oils without causing other problems? Are there any negatives to doing this?

How can anybody like something so negative?

That is definitely what I have always heard called a chain harrow.

I would take a totally different approach. Remember there is a difference between soil and dirt. Soil has structure and life while dirt is just that the loose stuff you end up with that comes out of the back of a tiller. In the Spokane area you have a very similar climate as grew up in North...

My Ford kind of came with the house. I was not a Ford man but this little Shibaura has impressed me many times and has never failed me in 28 years except when the battery failed it. Times to the dealer - zero. Parts purchased for it - front tires, muffler, seat, filters, and front axle seals...

Chain harrows are different from drag harrows even though they both are drug through the field, pasture,etc. The chain harrow is made up of a chain like mesh where each link has one tooth. The drag harrow has rigid bars with rigidly held spikes where instead of moving individually, one bar...

If you stay with the main brands of tractors there will be parts for them. When I say main brands I mean on a world market? The Deere and Kubota are obvious but not so obvious is the Massey which are Iseki which is a long time Japanese brand and not going anywhere. Kioti, LS, TCM, Mahindra...

My question is what do you have now and what do you need the traction for? The Case in the photo posted has Ag tires - not going to get much more aggressive tread than that but as many have said you will get more flotation but not traction. if you have turf tires then the questions is where do...

I agree completely. My property came with a Ford 1710 25 years ago with rear Finish mower. Unless it is open mowing the time spent turning around things is a a lot of waste. Keep in mind when an implement is on the three point and you are going around something the implement is always moving...

Are you saying 2000 lbs of cotton per acre? that seems incredible! I never thought it would be that much.

Plus as the front end starts to come up you are out of normal position and balance.

I cannot imagine a chain harrow doing much to break up the material. I pull one quite often to smooth out the high spots in the lawn caused by the shifting clay soils we have and small rodents and it does a nice job of that. But it will either let the material pass through or bunch it. I...

Some of you guys make me feel very young. Thanks!

In 1979 my brother bought a new F150 base truck, i.e. 300 cu in in line 6 with manual transmission for use on the farm and pulling a cattle trailer. It was cheap but within a year it had lots of issues so my brother traded it for a slightly used 1980 Chevy 1500 with the inline 6 and an...

My appreciation of Deines came through again yesterday. The gearbox on my 2005 72" deck had a seal leaking. I called Deines for parts and I talked to John as I usually do and he knew what the seals were and recommended replacing all three while I had it apart and put the seals in an envelope...

You are confusing force with pressure. With R1s the force is concentrated in the area of the lugs only and therefore the pressure on that grass is much higher than if turf tires would be used to spread out the force. The less pressure on the grass the quicker it snaps back. This is why most...

Turf tires, due to more ground contact area, do not press the grass down like an R1 or R4. I am surprised you use R1s as they have the highest ground contact pressure of any of these style of tires,

So the R14s are not a softer flotation type tire? They are more stiff like an R4?

I didn't see a bunch of JD X9 combines on some of the big vlogs such as Farmhand Mike or Big Tractor Power this year. They featured them last year as demonstrators for machines coming out this year. This video as Arly said was probably and advertisement - did Deere not bring them out or did...

What happened to the feet on that black dog? He looks like a northern type dog, i.e. lots of hair.

It sounds like you are having a lot of fun just playing! Enjoy!

You really do not want the cornstalks to break down too fast. One of the secrets for never-till in the dryer climates is that the trash keeps the top of the soil moist. This does a few things - keeps the sun from hitting the soil directly and therefore cooler so it doesn't evaporate moisture...

I find it very interesting that Dr. Beck said that tillage means weeds when that was the primary purpose for all tillage to start with except to loosen the ground to plant which needs very little ground disturbance. The corn cultivator that the video starts with is obsolete on all but...

The Disc plow was supposed to be a replacement of the standard plow. Ford/Dearborn made one as well. The reason for the change was that since the disc rotated instead of dragging through the soil they pulled easier. Although I never use done those I have talked to said that in a lot of...

At 11 it was 1973 and Dad bought a new IH1466 for our big tractor. I had been doing field work with our 4010 and 4020 but with this jump up in size I did all the fieldwork with - I put over 90% of the hours on that tractor until I went to college. The truth was I loved that tractor, Dad was...

It is hard to see but it looks like they are just squeezing the pod with a roller. It seems like that would trap and squash the pea but apparently not. Thanks!

I have always been amazed by combines - how they can sort out whatever seed you try to get it to find and do it very rapidly and on a mobile platform. One thing I have not figured out yet is how the machines get the green peas out of the pods without damaging them. Anybody know of any good...

In corn there are a couple of style of headers - most of the newer ones have what are called stripper rolls under the header which are rollers that grab the stalk and pull it vertically and in doing so essentially shred the stalk. The other style was where the forward motion of machine forced...

Dr. Beck just retired but the research farm goes on - its called Dakota Lakes Research Farm. It is just south of Blunt right on the river. That your family doesn't irrigate is exactly the point - a lot of people quit irrigating because using what he is teaching you keep the water and nutrients...

Arly - does your family believe in the DWayne Beck methods of farming? I grew up in NE Potter County the next county north of you. My family is using Dr. Beck's research as its primary focus on how to grow crops. For those of you who do not know Dr. beck has been a lead researcher in...

This was a great start! Corn silage is typically a very good feed because it has a combination of roughage for the bovines four stomachs to digest as well as the richer grain of the corn itself. The fermentation process does help break it down but in a non-oxygen atmosphere where it isn't...

You have a good mower and it will serve you well. Personally I prefer the trailer type even though it is not as handy to maneuver. Not having the weight of the sickle bar hanging out on the low side of the tractor makes me feel much easier about the slopes. A sickle bar mower does not...

I hear cottonwood is very good for horse stalls. They will not chew it like they do pine and if they kick it, it is flexible enough to not break - it just bends and comes back. Never tried it but that is what an Amish friend told me.

You hit that one on the head - what a game that was!

I do not know how anybody can say there is systemic racism (there is always a few idiots) in US sports in current times. Americans certainly have no problem cheering for anyone on their team - whether they are black, hispanic, asian, eastern european, etc. it doesn't matter. The American born...

But it is a great thread with a lot of good information that i have gone back to many times through the years.

Wow! What a bunch of Monday morning quarterbacking by guys with more opinions than brains. having played high level college football at a school that also had an elite hockey team and being over 300 lbs and running a 4.8 40 (but that is the best I ever did and I sure couldn't do it now), I can...

Wow! "Each player must execute his duties flawlessly." Sounds like ballet or robots. "Football has higher level athletes" - what was that stat that came out a few years ago - for less than ten minutes of action per game and in between time they are saying hi to their Moms in the camera. " An...

The biggest difference I find in the games is that once they are on the field soccer players have to figure it out whereas football is a play-by-play defined strategy that is all about execution on both offense and defense. In soccer the coach is basically a spectator during the game whereas...

I have looked at trading my 05 Silverado 2WD WT (Reg Cab, 8' bed, 4.8L V8 Automatic and 3.18 rear end that gets >20 MPH after all these years if I don't push it too hard) a few times as it has 245,000 on it but all of the new ones have a much higher entry and loading heights that they were not...

Most cars are paid off by the dealer taking them in on trade or at lease end.

Back in the early eighties I saw a dog ride on top of a fuel tank in the back of a half ton that had artificial turf on it - from Saskatchewan down to central OK for the wheat harvest. That dog loved being up there with her head pointing over the cab. We had to call her down when it was...

Requiring car seats for kids caused a lot of it. Suddenly a lot more people needed the extended or crew cab in the truck they had. Then of course they just kept adding bells and whistles. Another item was big box stores where you haul your own - now the family "sedan" also had to carry a...

"The new phone book is here - I'm somebody!"

Another form of "Shoot, Shovel, and Shut up."

Definitely more interesting than football and I played football in college.

Without the Offside rule soccer would be a very boring game. The players would have to remain strung out over the entire field and there would be a lot of long balls and chasing them or cherry picking. With the offside rule you will notice that most of the players are on about half of the...

Soccer is a beautiful game once you understand it. It is one of the few games that once the game starts the coach is mostly out of it and the players have to think for themselves - they decide how to set it up and play the game. It is very tough for coach to be heard across a field that large...

Not sure what kind of soccer they play up there but I have worked with our local youth soccer league - ages 4-14 and about 300 kids participating in each fall and spring - and i only know of one injury that required a doctor's care and that was where two somewhat non-athletic 13 year old girls...

My daughter has a 2013 Elantra that the left headlight went out. She wanted help changing and you just have to twist the bulb and cable and the bulb comes out of the back of the case. Of course this was winter time and she reminds me of it at 10:00 PM so everything is cold and dark. The...

Not taking your phone with you especially when working alone is being stupid. It is why you hear stories of people amputating body parts to get unstuck. At least give yourself the best chance you have by having the phone or radio with you. My brother had a horse slip on ice and go down on...

I would like to see her - she has to be gorgeous!

I do not know if there are many around your area but a Deines is a very heavy duty durable zero turn. Since they are not real popular the used price is usually pretty cheap. A few years ago I was looking to upgrade my 1860KT 60" to 72" deck with double rear wheel, electric deck lift, and...

Ok Moss! A compressed air locomotive - how far did any of those go? Did they have a power system to compress air?

Isn't that dangerous of the rootball coming up underneath the tractor? It appears that the front of the tractor is over the root system. Or is the tree just breaking off?

i had a locksmith come out and reprogram the vehicle so the fob works. What a pain.

Growing up in South Dakota we had it like Pennsylvania. And when we mailed something to somebody else later on the route the carrier stamped the letter marking the postage stamp and delivered the letter the same day. Then of course the stopped that service back in the late 70's and insisted...

Got a lock service to come out and re-program it. They cannot remove it they say.

I read this thread this morning and had a few good laughs. Then went out to get my lawnmower where it stopped on me last evening - in kind of a difficult spot partially under a tree on pretty good slope. I fight the tree branches and get on it and try to start it and it just clicked like a...

We used a Super MTA to pull dry chopped hay wagons and we had one short hill that was pretty steep. With the twp wagons holding more than 4-5 tons each there was no way that tractor was going to hold them back and since it was a short hill it didn't get going too fast so we pulled the TA back...

I understand the skepticism as I had it as well. If you read the description of the mower you will notice it takes a certain type of guard and section - this is called experience. I also specified that I cut off up to 3" cottonwood or willow but I wouldn't take it into a 3" hard maple or oak...

When I first bought my place I asked the County Extension Agent for suggestions to clean up the edge and reduce the weed growth in the lake. His only suggestion was about 2 gallons of 2,4-D aqua per acre for the lake and 2,4-D and some other chemicals for the edge. All I am thinking is that...

Sorry but my tractors clear their own paths or I wouldn't have them.

I have a 1999 F450 gas V10 engine that has an alarm system in it for which the fob does not work. I really am not to worried about needing the alarm system on this old of vehicle and would like to disable it. How does one do that?

Doesn't that tear up the pond bank and allow erosion of edge?

I strongly recommend a sickle bar mower. I use it all the time for pond edges and keeping saplings back along treelines. I have cut cottonwood saplings up to 3" (15 ft tall or so) with it but you have to slow down and give it time to chew thru whereas 1-1.5 inch you can just mow. It does a...

If the AT101s did anything for you like they did for my Deines it made a whole new machine out of it for slopes and hillsides. I would never think of going back - I rip out much less grass with these chevrons than i did with the turfs and turf IIs which seemed like they were always spinning...

What gets me is when one government body decides the building is costing too much to maintain and that they need a new building and get and move to that building and then another government entity sees the empty space of the old building and moves in and fixes it up. Its still my taxes paying...

Missed that detail. I was wondering why you had left it out.

Found a new thing last weekend. I had an old cultipacker that had been here since I bought the place 25 years ago. It was already very rusty and would not roll then but I had nothing to lift it and just never got around to cutting it up to get it out of here. And of course over time a tree...

Xfaxman - You do not even list that Massey in your tractors.

Rarely at first as LD1 stated. They are quite skittish and stay away from activity but as they get larger they are much easier to see and they do stick together so when they move they create a wake after a couple of years.

Agree Sawtooth 10-15 per acre but it all depends on what you are trying to achieve - 15/acre and many tell me I would not have a weed in my lake and that would kill the fish habitat. With 5/acre like I have stocked it I do not have excessive weed growth so that I have weeds lying on top, so I...

We have a 14 acre pond of which most is 8-10' deep but it does have a section that is about 24' deep. We put 70 grasscarp in 24 years ago and they did very well but a few years ago we had a long snow covered ice condition which caused a major fish kill including all o f the grasscarp. So we...

Good point. I was thinking pallet forks on the 3 pt and you were thinking loader. Either way you grabbed the idea of pallet forks for the 3 pt because then you can grab different things such as counter weight, a firewood cutting box, a fencing tools and supplies box, etc

Not sure why you would want a carry-all if you have forks. Put your hitch receiver on your forks. The forks can carry different boxes depending on what you want and it is easier to back under a new box with the forks than it is to hitch a new 3 pt implement. So the forks with different...

You should seriously consider a Bi-directional like my Versatile 150. To start with the first thing I hate about it is that the cab is way to small (I am a very large guy) - but my almost 5' daughter finds it great with the controls right where she wants them - she finds it a lot easier to...

They are supposed to do all those things - physics doesn't change just our understanding and awareness of it which is why these discussions are great- just to open and remind everyone about the possibilities to address before jumping in with the saw.

It would seem to me that if you have a continual problem you would get rid of it rather than everyone else. Life is too short to worry about those who just complain and cause problems.

Is that a diesel engine back a couple of spaces behind he steam engine?

That would be a lot of dirt to move with an FEL. A dump truck and back up to each hole and then a bigger loader - not a compact - or dozer to level them out.

There is nothing in the components that will be a problem. Seals are contained so that they can easily take the pressure created by various use which is significantly more than when stationary. The only issue I have see is that when cylinders are extended the rod can corrode or collect...

Consistent mowing over a few years will take them out as they run out of root stores to keep growing. The problem is when you get to the edges as it is hard to consistently mow around edges especially if there are trees. Full sun is the other thing - they are not a fan of full sun and the...

Don't kid yourself - the disc lifts and moves the dirt and there is an equal and opposite reaction. In other words the bottom edge of the disc is packing what is below it and will create a hardpan. Any tillage that lifts the soil will have this same reaction and will create the hardpan. The...

A lot of the solution depends on the problem and you need to use the right tool for the problem. If your problem is underground activity, i.e. moles, gophers, and the like rollers packing it down will be very helpful. The thing you have to remember is that nature loosens the soil with roots...

I wonder how many mice made up the snake skin parts.

Saw this earlier today - seems to me like a pretty comfortable "team"!

Had to move a little firewood up to the house yesterday. I have been using these crates for a couple of years and find they protect wood real well and hold about 3/4 of a cord. I pull a little out of the crate and add some ballast to the front in order to keep the front end down. Still...

Somewhere around a ton depending on how you have it loaded. On my 1710 I can haul about 3/4 cord of hardwood when it is under 20% moisture. Here is a photo of my "box". It is 48 x 64 at the base.

Sorry guys. The PDF opens for me. This format may work better.

I am looking for a new heating and AC system as my 23 year old Bryant is starting to have some problems. I am looking for advice and please keep in mind I live in NE Indiana. I have ruled out geothermal as we have Natural gas already. With the prospect of electric rates going up and the...

I was thinking today as I was cutting up some more firewood that I have not seen any posts on debarking firewood. It makes so much less mess and ash when it doesn't have bark. Who does it and how do you do it?

My little Junior will handle this one what's your tractor's excuse.

I am very aware of chimney fires and the damage they can cause and keep my chimney very clean and check it annually. But I got to thinking - a chimney fire is usually caused by having combustible material (usually creosote) built up in the chimney that when a hot fire gets going ignites this...

I for one have cut wood for 25 years and do not have near $1000 in equipment. Of course some of it was "re-purposed" and other was built from scratch and I do not have a powered splitter which is usually a big share of the cost. My tractor came with the house so i would have it anyway. My...

My spitting maul disagrees with you. It was complaining big time last Thursday.

Here is an interesting photo. This was taken around 1962 in north central South Dakota as they were allowing the new Oahe dam on the Missouri river to fill and flooding many farms built near the river.

We were getting a little off track in another thread so it was time to start a new one - what is the best tractor engine ever? Even though I am an IH 436 fan I am betting there will be a big argument between the 466 engines - JD and IH. Let's hear them roar!

With my Versatile 150 I can see the front edge of the scoop or the forks or whatever else I have on. It is not a problem.

The two bolts on the side are what attaches the dash panel to the framework for the dash. If you go a bit lower there are three bolts that attach the dash frame to the tractor. here is a photo of my 1710 from the right side. The three larger boltheads right behind the bend in the rod the bolt...

It is getting time to replace my asphalt driveway as it is old and the driveway needs to be regraded for better drainage. I am debating what material to replace it with. Asphalt is the lowest cost initially but needs regular sealing to last. Plus it looks kind of passe but i do like the fact...

My local Agco dealer seems pricey as well but then I talk to my brother who likes green paint and get my thinking straightened out.

I am confused as to why there is a question - AGCO still has dealers all over - are they not stocking parts?