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I have planted Sudan several times for additional summer forage and tonnage wise it is superior to most any types of millet, but I have always been told to never allow any livestock to graze it after a frost as it will be extremely high in nitrates.

Eddie I suspect you are putting out rye grass, I put in Cereal Rye which this year the cost is $16.80 per 50# bag of wrens Abruzzi type, fertilizer is running about $400 per ton so at a rate of 250lbs per acre your looking at $66.80 per acre + diesel cost to drill in winter pasture, pretty cost...

It is, this customer has a small herd of cattle ( around 20 head ) she has never planted any winter pasture but she buys so much hay and range pellets to get her cows thru the winter and I have shown her what I do with winter rye and how cost effective is verses just feeding hay. Green rye or...

Back at it, I no-till drilled a couple of different fields with winter rye for a customer yesterday and fertilized some rye fields today, I checked the field that I put in winter oats last week and they are coming up and looks like I am going to have a good stand, I'll try to get some pictures...

It might help if you gave the brand name of the tractor that you are working on , there are quite a few brand specific forums on this site , good luck.

Eddie, I was in the woods running my hounds about 1&1/2 hours away from my home and Saturday morning about 10:00 AM I started feeling a tingling or numbness in my left arm and hand but really didn't think that much about it I just figured I had jumped off the dog box wrong and maybe pinched a...

Me to, thanks.

FEL's are a lifesaver for sure, especially as we get older they make life easier.

It's all good, that's why we are all here to learn from and help one another, I just got home from the hospital, I had a mild stroke (first for me ) but the only lingering affects so far are left hand and left side of my face is numb, I'm hoping to regain the feeling in both, thank the Lord it...

The no-till drill uses a cutting Coulter to cut a slit in hard packed ground followed by a disc opener where the seed gets dropped in to and finally a closing and packing wheel which closes the trench and packs the seedbed giving the seeds good seed to soil contact, the no till part only means...

No sir. Lol, I have been running my hounds a little bit since it's hunting season down here and in between putting in no till winter pasture for myself and some customers, today I no tilled in 30 acres of oats to cut for hay in the spring and I have some finish up work tomorrow and then back to...

I like most others strive to bale good quality horse hay because that is where the maximum profit is but unfortunately the weather doesn't always cooperate no matter how hard we try to watch the weather reports and try to decide on a favorable pattern sometimes we just wind up with a lesser...

A weed wick with a 50% Glyphosphate mix will work on the existing Vasey grass without damaging the other desirable grasses by simply wiping over it, Impose herbicide will smoke it but it may also get the Bahia grass so you will need to read the label on that, the herbicide called Target (MSM)...

Usually if it's 15% in the field it will be 18% or more in 24 hours and it's been my experience that it will get a light dust or mildew to it if it doesn't get fed pretty quick so I just sell that for cow hay or feed it to my own cows, I try to get mine below 12% for horse hay but I don't think...

I wanted to roll it yesterday and really believed that putting it in a windrow with it being close to ready that I would be able to get it but the sun shined very little yesterday afternoon and it just didn't work out, I think I will flip the windrows about noon today and try it about 2pm and...

I will feed these rolls to my cows as I am sure the moisture climbed up more last night, I can count on one hand how many times it took a full week to get mine dry that didn't go through a down pour, I tried it again today and still no go 15+ % after I put about half the field in windrows so I...

If it was the gray stuff it had the same OD as CPVC and I have glued CPVC couplings directly on it under a sink in my old single wide trailer that I had at the time to add cutoff valves and it was still working leak free about 8 years later when I sold it.

All I can do is set under the barn, the sun hasn't shined for 3 hours in 5 days here, it finally came out this afternoon and I tried to roll 3 different times once every hour but I just couldn't get right, maybe tomorrow the moisture will be low enough for me to get it done, got my fingers...

Eddie, this particular field is 17 acres, the army worms hadn't hatched out yet so by cutting the hay I probably disrupted the cycle, while I was cutting it down this morning the moth's were coming out of the hay grass by what seemed like the thousands, this is a thin cutting but for as late in...

I checked the only field I have left to cut this morning and sure enough there were moth's everywhere so there will be army worms within a few days, so I hooked to the Krone cutter and flipped the blades to the un-used side and if everything goes right I am going to cut in the morning.

By far the best way to get this grain drill moved 85 miles, I sold a 10' John Deere grain drill and we took the tongue off and I loaded it long ways on the buyers gooseneck trailer, piece of cake.

When I was about 7 or 8 years old I watched an old man that everyone called a good for nothing drunk tote and lay every block on my uncles house all the while mixing his own mortar, now there would be a few Old Milwaukee cans scattered about but even at that young age I was impressed and for the...

Concrete work can be some hard work.

Today was gate hanging day, I hung 2 - 12' gates in a 24' opening going into one of my hay fields and a new 16' gate in my driveway replacing an old Rusty falling apart gate and then one more 16' gate going into the field I just fenced off. I forgot how helpful it was to have an extra pair of...

There are days when I wish I was sitting in my chair in the AC instead of what I am doing LOL.

I like my Chevrolet 2500 HD gasser, but like you when I tow heavy I will get somewhere between 7 and 9 MPG but it has been trouble free knock on wood since I bought it new in 2015.

Is your pick-up a diesel or gas burner?

I have been busy so far this past weekend and today but I got some fence built around where I built my last barn , I had built all my corners back in early September so they could set up and get tight and hopefully not give any when I pulled my barb wire. I think it turned out pretty good, but I...

Personally I have never heard anyone say "I wish I had a smaller trailer,"although someone probably will in a minute. I would go with the 14k trailer.

Well I have always heard that the RK tractors are nothing more than re-badged TYM machines, so I would be googling forced Regen on TYM tractors for starters. Good luck.

Yep a band aid fix that will last as long as he owns the cutter.

Some will say use corn head grease, personally I have pumped 2 gearboxes full of regular off the shelf grease and have never had another problem, pump a cartridge full in the fill hole of your gearbox and about once a year whenever you do maintenance on your mower pump a little in the gearbox...

Pump the gearbox full of grease and don't worry about it.

Actually Eddie all I had to do was cut it up and get it out by the road in piles and a government contractor will come pick it up with grapple trucks with enclosed bodies, any county that was considered or designated a disaster area has this available to the residents, just up the road from my...

Finally made it over to my own hunting/fishing camp over on the coast and spent a couple of days sawing up trees and cleaning up the mess, I was very blessed to not have any real structural damage, many people in these little coastal towns have no home to go back to.

I have a 2011 JD 5093E Limited and it's been a pretty good tractor, neighbor has a 5083E and his has been pretty good as well.

Looks like several others already answered your question but for me it's just a matter of if something was to happen while I was trailering my stuff, that I did everything I could to keep it on the trailer.

I bind my skidsteer down with chains and a binder at all 4 corners, only takes a few minutes.

I believe you would like it, I upgraded and went with the 8k axles and 17.5 super single tires with a spare for a little over $8000.00 and they were great to do business with.

In spite of everything else, they did a pretty good job of binding the machine down. 😁 Glass half full.

Yes I would, I haul my small tractor with FEL and 6' bush hog on mine and can load it forwards or backwards with no issues, and while I mostly use it to haul my skidsteer with , I haven't had any issues for my uses with anything I haul, I didn't realize what a pain messing with ramps on my old...

The kind of truck he gets to come has a body with high sides , so everything is inside with virtually no way to lose anything, they charge on average $400 per load to haul it away.

Another little hurricane tree cleanup today, some of these jobs take me about as long to get there and unload than they do to do the job, but they pay good.

This customer has a tree company with a loader truck on speed dial, he will call them and when the hurricane debris pick up work slows down they will come pick it up, his wife is against any kind of herbicide spraying and doesn't like burning either, if all goes well I plan on burning another...

Back to the moto cross track on Kanapaha Prarie that I mow 2 times a year except this year I have some extra days sawing up down live oak trees and limbs from hurricane Helene, it may not show the best in the photos but there are a pile of trees and brush in that pile, hope everyone has a good...

That's a shame that it ended up like that for them, but as hard as it is for us to understand sometimes, "there is a reason for everything".

I sympathize with you because all of that adds time to the job and many is the time you have other jobs that you are planning on heading to and time is money but at least the money he added on helped offset the additional time you spent on the job, looks like you did him a nice clean job with...

It has always seemed to me that a dairy farmer's job is never done, I worked at a dairy some during high school and those cows had to be milked twiced a day and there was always the corn planting for silage and then haylage , fence fixing, equipment breakdowns, repairs, etc, there was never a...

A lot of people don't even consider the amount of time that going around obstacles, trees, downed trees, brush piles etc can add to a job rather than just being able to go straight and keep a consistent steady pace. I was fortunate this job had a few areas where the hairy indigo was close to 3...

Today's job a 10 acre mowing job at a new home build .This was all grown up in hairy indigo, I got busy and forgot to get before pictures so these are all after when I loaded up to leave.

I currently have 3 Stihl saws a 250, 251, 281, all have been pretty good saws, I own 1 Husqvarna a 440 no real problems with it either and 1 Dolmar can't remember the model number but it has been good as well. I am in the market for a bigger saw probably a 28" bar and am seriously considering...

I can't speak for everybody but it seems like it's always something, I cherish the days that everything goes smooth.

I have a Raven GPS unit, it doesn't have auto steer but it does use satellite's for GPS positioning and is pretty accurate supposedly + or - 1" not sure I believe it's that accurate but it's plenty accurate for what I use it for , spraying and putting out fertilizer, gone are the days of me...

I went to the doctor after spraying army worms this morning and had to drive under I-75 and the Northbound lanes were bumper to bumper at what looked like about a 15 MPH pace, my buddy told me US-19 which is a 4 lane off the West Coast of Florida was the same way, I'm just glad people are taking...

Had to get these army worms sprayed first thing this morning before this 180MPH suppository that's coming bares down on us, we will see what happens you never know with these hurricanes, help your neighbors and pray for one another, hope everyone has a good week. Charlie.

Thanks we just made it through Helene and now we have another hurricane knocking on our door, but other than lot's of down trees and power out we are doing good, no structural damage and we are alive so we have been blessed, many have nothing left to go back to.

Been doing nothing but hurricane tree cleanup and fighting army worms, this morning I had to wade into this pond and cut this tree and get a rope on it so I could drag it up on the bank, here are a few pictures from the past few weeks.

Farmtrac, Landtrac, Long?

It was made by LS , before they started selling their own tractors over here, they built some of the Farmtrac's as well, parts can be had off of the internet but it would have to be an almost giveaway for me to buy an 18 year old tractor with no dealer support.

Thank the Lord that you, your employees and none of your equipment was damaged. Did someone do something stupid on the interstate ahead of you all and cause a chain reaction?

I don't know what state your in but Farm Bureau is in most states and in my case no one else even comes close to the coverage for the money.

Cutting 80 acres in a day is unheard of down hear, that's getting after it.

I'm gonna say that's your best bet.

Today's work cutting down trees out of the fence row and adding to the pile, for some reason it was brutally humid today, with any luck I'm gonna try to cut some hay down tomorrow.

I hope I don't, I hit enough stuff already LOL. Did you tear anything up when you hit it? It's solid steel but the forestry mower brung it out of the ground and the blades aren't to much the worse for wear, the shovel was destroyed.

I own that one and I am a Milwaukee guy, but if you already have Makita batteries and tools I don't think you could go wrong with their stuff if they have an impact. Milwaukee was the innovator in the brushless technology withe M-18 Fuel line, but all the other brands such as Dewalt, Makita...

A couple of pictures of the many things that I found on a fence line cleanup job today, the round bar is I believe 1" solid steel it was drove in the ground about 3' and hidden by vines, the shovel was the same.

I haven't read through this thread as I just saw it so forgive me if I repeat what someone else has already said, I can't re-iterate this enough you want to plant bahai if you want ease of maintenance and an overall pasture grass that can sustain dry weather and grazing . UF Riatta or UGA...

Yeah , I don't want to wind up in the water, I try to take my time as some of the bank edges are steep and just under the grass it's all slick clay.

Today's job cleaning up and mowing around a fish pond, I generally do this one twice a year, spring and fall.

Carry on, I enjoy good discussion, and I often learn things I didn't know.

Like someone else said how the dealer handles the repair and if they were willing to provide me a loaner tractor then I would see how the tractor did after the repair and go from there, you may never have another problem with it, but if it nickeled and dimed me after the repair I would trade it...

I talked her into spraying the fence line, she was concerned about it getting into her drinking water, most of these people are city people and are dead set against any herbicide, I had 1 customer who said he wouldn't have any herbicide sprayed on his place and he didn't until dog fennels grew...

I bid on two different skid steer post hole diggers at yesterday's auction, but they went higher than I wanted to pay, I have found most items at their Ocala auction seem to go high, while the same families farm auction in Moultrie Georgia seems to be more in line with reasonable market prices...

Three good things about the stock trailer. 1. A swinging and sliding door which can be priceless in certain situations. 2. An escape door, can be priceless especially with a solid top. 3.. The Chevrolet hub caps on the wheels. LOL. One good thing about the deck over trailer. 1. It's got a pintle...

The food source for these moccasin's are bull frogs and lot's of them, I believe removing the thick cover will help move the frogs back closer to the trees and water where they hide out, we shall see.

I've always heard that moth balls would work, but wherever there is water in Florida there will be sakes and gators.

A little WET Friday morning job, this customer was having problems with snakes coming up in her back yard and wanted me to clean up a perimeter outside of her fence, I told her it was extremely wet but I would do what I could, most of the stuff in the fence line is growing between 2 fences so I...

After 2 years I just changed out my original set of blades and I have beat on flint rock, steel, fence wire etc and they were still usable but I figured while I was changing the bolts and bushings that I might as well put on some new blades. The blades are sandwiched between 2 pieces of 1/2"...

I have an MTL XCT-7 with the hi-flow piston motor and it has been flawless for the past 2 years and I have used it pretty hard, I have a thread over in the Owning/Operating thread titled Pictures from a skidsteer mowing contractor that shows some of the work that I do, it will give you an idea...

Yeah, I have most of it out and the customer wants me to build a new one but I really don't like fencing but I will do it if she can't find someone dependable.

Had to go load and haul a bull to the market for someone first thing this morning, then it was back to another fence row cleanout , this is all hand work so I used the Milwaukee brush cutter attachment to cut the thick thorny vines that had taken over parts of the fence row. I have most of the...

You may want to do a little research on this before giving up on bidding on a tractor from an auction, it has always been my understanding that a tractor warranty follows the tractor and it starts when the original purchaser buys the tractor and would follow the tractor until it has either...

I have bought a lot of stuff from Agri-Supply and a lot of the stuff is imported, but I haven't seen them sell any junk, it's been of good quality, the biggest problem that I have seen is their shipping rates are usually really high, so I just make the 1&1/2 hour drive to the closest one if I...

I have spent many hours in those Altec AH high-line trucks as well as the Terex/Hi-Ranger telescoping upper and lower boom hi-line rigs, set up to do class A live line work that is a $300k setup new, I'll guarantee you when work plcks back up you could sell that rig to a contractor for a healthy...

IMHO if you need a backhoe buy one or rent one but most 3pt hitch tractor mounted backhoes are at best very limited for much real work, 4 wheel drive on a tractor is very handy when doing bucket/loader work, lastly if the trees are very big you could probably get someone to come in with a...

She is a regular customer and keeps me busy usually several times a year, I often times do little jobs for her on the way by for free, it always works out, she never has minded paying me and she pays me extra most of the time, she says she likes me because I always do what I tell her and a...

This is what I like to see, you know that your spray job worked.

Be very thankful, this has been a really bad year with them, seems like it's been constant, I smoked them today with about 2 ounces of Serpent pesticide to the acre, there is a real satisfaction walking across the field when you are done spraying and seeing them flipping and flopping on the...

Hay baler/round roller.

With or without the hi-line bucket?

I ordered some bearings from an online farm parts store and it stated these bearings were manufactured in the US , when they came in it says on the bearing box that they are manufactured in China, I really need them but am curious what others experiences have been with China made bearings, on a...

I remember Soundguy on here but haven't seen a post from him in a long time.

I was gone for 4 days and couldn't check on one of my fields and when I got back and pulled in the gate my heart sank, army worm infestation, good thing is this field didn't have a lot of growth but they got everything that was there. For those of you that have never dealt with them this is...

I have not heard of anyone that has had any luck with one of these mulchers other than a very short period of time.

MTL must have changed their policy because they delivered my skid steer forestry mower and grapple right to my driveway, the only stipulation was I had to have a way to unload them, which I did with one of my tractors with a FEL and pallet forks.

I'm glad you found a piece of property and totally understand wanting to live in a less restrictive County, sounds like you did good.

I went by to help my customer today who I demoed the shed for yesterday and this morning I got about 500' of 4 strand barb wire fence removed and rolled up and I cut down some old wild cherry trees and some other trash species of trees and got them cut up and piled on top of the demoed shed in...

I assume that you purchased a new piece of property, I knew that you had been looking because I saw it in another thread. Which county did you wind up in? Putnam?

I encourage all my customers to let me drive a steel t-post at their corners since many of them have just bought said property and already have a very recent survey that enables me to find the corner markers or capped rebar.

Any property that I have ever bought I have looked for the corner markers prior to purchase, and I never could figure why others wouldn't want to know, but I would say 75% of the people that I work for don't know where their corner markers are.

She is about 75 years old and wanted it demoed and moved about 100 yards into a hole to be burnt with brush, I suspect it would have been pretty tough for her to do it.

A little job while on the way to some other tree removal jobs, demo a shed and clean up a few brush piles, I removed the window and some shelves and a light from the shed and was done in about an hour.

Most property when I am thru with it can easily be maintained with a small tractor and bush hog or a herd of goats 😁, whichever way the owner prefers.

Ain't no way I would do that unless I lived local and was picking up at their facility.

I would worry about hauling it to the dealer when and if it ever needed to go back and not before, 90% of the things that people worry about never happen, just know that there will be plenty of options to get whatever size tractor you decide to buy back to the dealer when and if it ever needs to...

LOL, I should have payed attention and realized that this was a resurrected thread.

You might want to search for the thread titled " Status of Everything Attachments" on this forum before you send them any of your hard earned money, I'm pretty sure there are several members on this site that got burned, so Buyer Beware.

Is it turning over? Or nothing?

Isn't the 90-2 pre-def?

To the OP you will find that if you take a scraper and scrape the moist dirt that sticks to the disc blades off when you are done using it and then squirt them off with the water hose it will probably last you forever, you can also brighten the blades up by discing your driest dirt last and then...

A little hunting club shooting lanes and food plot restoration for a Friday morning job. Hope everyone has a great weekend. Charlie.

I bet it can be challenging at times kicking out a round roll on some of those hills that ya'll have, that's something that we seldom have to deal with as it's pretty flat down here with a few exceptions.

Probably moisture of some kind, could be a different type of grass that was thick and clumped that never dried like the rest, down here if you have native crabgrass in your Bermuda fields it will usually require at least 1 extra day of drying after the Bermuda is dry because the crabgrass will...

We have to be on alert from June until the end of haying season, it seems coastal Bermuda is what they prefer but if I didn't spray contact killer on them when they are in their early stages I would probably only get a first cutting every year, I'm glad that they don't cause ya'll the grief that...

Yeah we got a little break last week with night's in the 60's but that is over and we are back to August weather, I'm rooting for Fall to get here.

Well I finished up all my hay baling for a little while and got back to fence row clearing and tree trimming, the customer asked if I could just start on it and I told her I could devote 1day this week to it and since I have other jobs the rest of this week but would come back to it next week...

For a small garden I believe I would just buy a couple of bags of granular fertilizer and side dress if possible if. not I would broadcast it.

I can tell you this much about the hybrids , if there is a patch of Argentine bahaia in the same field with it, the cows will walk thru the Tif and Riatta to eat the Argentine but I have seen that with Pensacola and Argentine, these hybrids are unmatched on density and fast growth but preference...

U-joints on my mowers usually two times per year, the beginning and middle of mowing season and sometimes on a rainy day I might grease everything under the barn because I can't get out and do much else, I also slide the PTO shafts apart and lubricate it so it slides easily, as well as the tail...

Always make time to maintain your equipment, or it will make the time for you.

It is Coastal Bermuda, the Alicia variety, one of my neighbors sprigged some Jiggs variety and it has come on as well. I have also been experimenting with a couple of different types of hybrid bahaia , one is Tif-Quick developed by the University of Georgia and the other is Riatta developed by...

I wanted to update the thread, I am going to say that the product has increased my yield overall, I was averaging about 3.5 rolls per acre before applying the liquid lime and as of my last cutting I averaged 5 rolls per acre, I will update again after my next cutting to see if the results...

By doing what you are doing it will slow entry down a little bit and give whoever is home a little more time to get settled in for good target acquisition, as unfortunate as it is they need to be broke from a bad habit.

Was it a Texas machine? Or did it come from somewhere else? Reason I ask is there is a guy in our area who tried to get in the mulching business with that exact rig , and it has been up for sale.

Well I am about 6 weeks behind on this hay field and have already sprayed twice for army worms but late yesterday afternoon I went and checked one of my hay fields and sure enough I saw the signs right on one edge where the spawns of Satan had already eaten their way out about 30 yards from the...

I know a fellow down here that more or less leveled his property by scalping with a bush hog mower LOL, although he had a slip clutch on his mower and he is still using it today.

I haven't used one so I don't know anything about them other than the side entry door is very appealing looking.

Both Kubota and Takeuchi have overhead roll up doors instead of conventional out swing.

Caterpillars and John Deere skids burn to the dirt at the same rate as the Kubota's but it usually is due to a machine that hasn't been kept clean and by that I mean dropping the belly pans , raising the cabs and removing all woody debris, sounds like that wasn't the case with 4570's but it...

Glad you are okay and hope you had it insured or KTAC, if so I would have let that mother burn to the dirt, I bet it will trace back to something in the emissions system, gotta love all these regulations on diesel equipment.

And an adapter plate to go JD to SS is about twice the money as an adapter plate to go SS to JD.

I couldn't say what type of steel mine is made out of, but it must be enough as I have and use an MTL 72" XT Series root grapple on my skidsteer and I put some serious pressure on it and haven't bent it in over 2 years worth of use.

I did , I went on vacation with my family last week, then we had the hurricane on Sunday night/ Monday so since then I have been fixing fences and working on fish pond overflow pipes, etc, also had to go over to my hunting/fishing camp over on the coast about 20 miles North of where Debbie made...

I have a SQ 720 and I'm pretty sure it's a little stouter built than the 172, if I remember right the deck on the 720 has two raised support braces the full length of the deck and raised bracing crossway's across the deck with the gearbox centering it and the 172 only has the raised bracing 1/2...

Some of my lineman buddy's that work for LUS in Lafayette live in and around Breaux Bridge, they probably have some kids that play on that field that you maintain.

I wasn't trying to take the wind out of your sails and anything is possible, I was just saying that IMHO to fix it permanently and right a little cutting and welding would be the best but for sure not the only way, the angle iron idea is good. Don't you think you could heat the angle iron after...

I like a roll up overhead door, because it doesn't matter where your lift arms are you can get out of the cab, this is important if you work much by yourself, most swing open door models must have the lift arms all the way down or way up to open the door and exit the cab, Kubota and Takeuchi...

There are 2 types of threads on grease fittings, SAE and Metric, so they may not be stripped, and you may already know this but just in case there it is, also Harbor Freight sells a kit of both SAE and Metric grease fittings, I have one of each and it has been invaluable.

I believe it's repairable but I think it's going to require some cutting and welding.

I feel your pain I have been wanting to cut hay for three weeks and can't get a 3 day window to do it, as a matter of fact it's raining here right now.

It's just a rat run to sturdy up the trusses before you get up on top of them, even with them in there it pays to have a string line or plumb bob until you get the first two trusses plumb and all the pearlings in between them, once you get the first two done right everything else will fall in...

Not 1 bad thing to say about it, I have been hauling my skidsteer 2 or 3 days a week and it has been flawless, for the money I don't think you can go wrong with the Kaufman tilt deck trailers, I'm sure there are trailers out there with a better quality paint job but I had no interest in paying...

Some of the ones that plan on maintaining it themselves do tell me what they want width wise, most just want about 10' wide strip off of the fence/property line so they have room for their tractor, the rest tell me to do what I see fit because I will be the one maintaining it yearly and that...

I would go over there to do a job as Branford is the halfway point between my house and my hunting camp over near Perry, shoot me a PM and I can give you my phone number and we can talk it over. Charlie.

Occasionally , I did one just a few months ago for a customer that I have been working for, for a couple of years and noticed that the 30 acres that joined him had sold and the new owner was mowing on the other man's land, so I told him that he was about 125' or so off the property line and he...

Today's work was more of the same clearing out and cleaning up property lines and fence lines, put a brand new set of $ blades on my forestry mower, it cut like a new one.

Been taking out an old fence line down one side of my own driveway and due to years of using an offset harrow on that field I had a large hump that I decided I would try to knock back down and still leave my driveway higher than the field so yesterday I jumped on that and got it in pretty good...

I've got one of those for my skidsteer couplings and while I don't use it all the time when I need it, it is worth it's weight in gold.

Trust me you did some good.

28 rolls to the barn every trip isn't a bad haul,especially if you have someone at the barn ready to unload and get it in for you, but if it's like most of the time for me, you are loading it in the field, carrying it to the barn and then unloading and putting it in the barn then back to the...

We had a cabbed 4040 2wd and my dad said he was scaling back and was going to get rid of one of the JD's, he decided to keep the 2840 and sold the 4040, I always said that the 4040 was the best tractor that we ever had on the farm.

That is always a great sight to look over your field with your hay up and baled, the only better sight is when it's all in the barn, LOL.

I have been spraying coil cleaner on radiator fins for years with zero harm, you can actually watch the foam bring dirt and trash, seeds, grass, etc right out of the fins, but I like some others have said do this on an off day when the fins can be cleaned out and dry real good prior to going...

LOL there aren't to many trophy class deer here in Florida, but there are plenty of them and they still eat good, turkey hunting is excellent and we are South of I-10 so most of these birds are considered Osceola's, this particular piece of property is surrounded by large scale agricultural...

Today's job was mowing out hunting club roads and food plot areas with my small tractor because of the low hanging limbs, this particular area was used as a phosphate mining operation back during the 1920's thru the 1940's and there are deep pits that have grown over with vines and have walls...

Ah yes, the thriving metropolis of Hague, now you are getting real close to my home 20. 😆

You were in my area, I live about 15 minutes East of I-75 Alachua exit.

It's a shame you don't have a creek crossing or somewhere that you could use it for a solid bottom which would solve your problem.

Back to forestry mowing, clearing some property lines, as of late I have had a lot of these requests from people wanting this done, hope they keep it up, I needed some easy work after the barn build:D.

I imagine he was glad to have you, anytime you can get someone with specialized equipment and skill sets it helps you improve your own skill sets by learning from what they know.

No sir, I haven't seen any lately.

Well it took till 8:30 tonight but we finished it this evening and I am glad, it was brutally hot and we all were done in this afternoon, I don't know why I jumped on this in July but I did 😅.

Yeah they are pretty simple , just make sure that you get the ones made out of 2x2 angle and not 1&1/2, they can get a little wobbly but the trick is getting the first 2 plumb and get some ratchet straps on them while you set the rest and run your rat runs to tie it together.

No I plan on putting a lean to the full length down both sides, just don't wan't to jump on it right now, probably January or February.

No sir that's not me.

Skidsteer job till noon , barn building till 8:30 tonight, all trusses set and almost all pearlings up,with any luck get the tin on and finish it up tomorrow, here are a few pictures

4+ feet deep and 240 pounds of sakrete around each post.

Come to Florida the State and DOT lawmen wear them old boys driving log trucks out, mostly for being overweight.

You may not be able to tell it but all 12 post's are set plumbed and tamped and cut off to the right height, the only snag we run into was 2 big fat lighter stumps were right where 2 post had to go, so we had to dig around them and get a chain on them and pull them out with the skid steer, got...

I'm afraid if I stop I might rust up, I also figure one day I won't be able to get after it and I want the folks that know me to say he lived everyday the best that he could, I didn't think that I would but I miss being a lineman,but the other things I do tide me over.

To the OP there are a couple of different styles of bush hog blades, straight that are better suited for brush and or a rough finish on grass, and then there are curved or lift type blades which help create a vacuum or lift the grass for a much better finish and appearance and there is a big...

A little headway on the barn layout and 3 posts set yesterday afternoon and a little skid steer brushcutting job this morning, back to post setting this afternoon with any luck. Didn't get any after pictures, but people are always asking about things I find on jobs, well this morning I found 2...

Pastora, or MSM will kill foxtail, I have used both in hayfields with good results, I believe Impose will kill it as well.

It hurt's your feelings, at least it does mine but it hasn't got back to the Covid era price .

I know the feeling but you can't grow much grass without it, or no grass with any nutrient content. I paid $479.00 per ton for 20-0-20 last month down here, Is that comparable to what prices are up there?

No there are several places around here that sell these kits, the place I went and bought mine put the 40 x 60 x 14 eave height kit on sale for $8k with 8 x 8 post, so I decided I would save the delivery charge and go pick it up today since it was raining, it was about a 50 mile trip over there...

Thanks for the tip, that is my plan to add a 24' deep by 60' long lean to on both sides, probably next year, this barn will be for more hay storage and equipment, hence the lean to on each side for next year. With heat advisory's everyday this is about all I want to jump on right now, my brother...

It has been raining this morning so I went over and picked up my 60x40x14 pole barn materials, should be able to start on it this Saturday.

Thanks good video, always something to be learned.

Seems like just a little grass , trash, weeds or whatever makes finish grading dirt problematic, especially so in what you are trying to accomplish I imagine.

I will say this about Good Year Dura Torque R1 ag tires are a long lasting top of the line tire, I've also found Firestone ag tires to be good as well.

That looks like a Bush hog brand Squealer, I have a model 720 which is a 6' and while I bolted a piece of heavy duty conveyor belt to the front of mine for the occasional piece of debris of rock mine is not a front discharge.

I'm certainly glad you enjoy it , feel free to discuss any and everything that you want about your experiences/teaching, prescribed burns, etc as it is all related and we can all learn from other's methods and experiences

I'm sure, the big surprise on this piece of property was that come one in years past had either bedded some of this up on 6' spaced rows or had got out there practicing with a turn plow and made huge lands as it was so un-level that I had to cut it long ways with the beds because they were far...

Between everything that I do I usually work 3 days a week most weeks but some weeks everyday except Sunday, I like to run hounds during hunting season so I lay out a lot during the fall and winter and don't take on a lot of work during that time of year.

That's what I recommended but not what they wanted, so I did as requested, the woman said she wants more cut the man says not, but she is the one that paid me and wants me to come back and do some more so next round I will take more of the scrub pines out, it's probably hard to tell from the...

Check Craigslist under Services or if you have Facebook look on the local word of mouth groups, I put pictures of my work on my business Facebook page and share it to local Word of Mouth groups, but 90% of my work is from plain old word of mouth recommendations from people that I work for.

Today's job, customer wanted underbrush gone and pine trees left and that's what I did, this is an unusual situation the man doesn't hardly want any trees cut and the lady stops me and tells me to cut and remove more, which if I had it my way I would have made a pasture out of it.

Had a couple of driveways to spread some rock in, one of these I did last year but the customer recently had a tree company come in with a crane and they did a number on it, the other one was his next door neighbor that wanted rock installed and spread under his small carport and all the way...

What does that have to do with anything in this thread?

Some right here on this forum are still out money ( their checks were cashed ) and no attachments were delivered and they have yet to get a refund and there are still people singing about the greatness of EA and how they hope they come back etc, etc, personally I hope they are held accountable...

If you live in the South it's that time, I had to spray for them this morning, I wasn't done but an hour and it rained but I did spray contact killer so it should have got the job done, for anyone who hasn't ever seen the damage that these spawns of Satan can do, they can turn a beautiful hay...

I don't know the legality of it, but what I do know is it ain't right nor decent to do someone that way.

No I picked it up at a government surplus auction, I never have had any luck at the Weeks auction in Ocala, but I have bought from the Weeks auction in Moultrie Georgia.

Honesty should have come at the beginning of this mess and an explanation as to what to expect as a customer waiting on an order that wasn't coming and worse yet continuing to take orders that they knew weren't going to be delivered .

I don't generally spray anything other than weed and vine killer in fence rows, I have on two different occasions seen a whole tree line of massive oak trees killed by people practicing with chemicals that they didn't know anything about and spraying it in the drip line of those big trees.

I thought it left a much nicer finish than any of my rough cut bush hogs leave and the customer yesterday commented on how much better it looked than when cut before, and he doesn't know a thing about tractors and mowers. I do believe it can probably get expensive when you have to replace the...

Thanks for the info, looking under it and counting yesterday there appears to be 3 rows with 14 attachment points on each row totaling 42 with 2 blades each so that would be 84 individual blades to sharpen, so I am definitely going to flip them first before replacing.

I'm glad you like it, I will try to keep posting some before and after photos along and along.