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I have found my roller which is a home built 30" diameter by 7' water filled (about 300# per ft) does a nice job of smashing things flat in the wet spring but that by the middle of August the soil has revived itself into its rougher preferred state. I think all I am doing is flattening it...

Plus a commercial guy usually hires younger people who can stand all day and keep moving. I, personally, am past that point and prefer my sit on zero turns because I enjoy mowing and am not worried about getting it done the absolute fastest.

I would think for a commercial guy speed is everything and it is very quick to get off a Standon to move or pickup something versus a sitdown rider. I go through some effort to not have to get off my mower whereas it is a quick step-off and then back on a Standon type.

Congratulations! You are going to have fun!

Hadn't heard of a Bradley so i had to look them up - couldn't stop laughing. They are a walk behind or stand on and are talking about "Greatly reduce operator fatigue..." I'm thinking ues you could if you would put a seat on them. Sorry - not being critical of a mower just an interesting...

In the US McMasterCarr sells these "Xpower" o-rings as you can see in the upper left portion of the screen shot below. These are normally used for seals where shafts are sliding such as hydraulic cylinders. I am not sure how your valve setup works but I would use these o-rings made from buna...

Hard to tell for sure but they look like o-rings. Just measure ID and Cross-section and look them up and order them. Much lower cost than a seal kit.

That looks like it is doing a nice job. Very interesting!

In SD with the winds? Piling snow on the side like that would cause it to drift shut. Sorry grew up in SD and we always had to be concerned about the drifting when we plowed or piled it up. The state is famous for getting 2" of snow that you see 10X until it is allpiled up where you do not...

This is basically the method I use although sometimes the blade bounces a little when plowing snow and catches a few rocks and throws them off the driveway. In Kearney your weather is probably similar to what we get in NE Indiana where we cannot plan on just plowing high and packing down a...

About 15 years ago a gas station near me that I used to go to on a regular basis put in new pumps with "pay at the pump" . a few months later they turned that feature off. Once when I went in to pay which ticked me off because after dark it was prepay, I asked why they didn't have it and they...

They will in time - hopefully before it is too late.

I always find it sad that most of these barns indicate a farm that once had animals that often no longer does. They show a lot of little farmers that were crowded out of business. It is great to see some of these photos include barns with livestock but they are tough on barns and the ones...

Agree - many of the things we do would be eliminated and it certainly elimiane some of the freedoms we have to live "off-grid" so to speak.

People seem to think the mid-mount Zero Turn is the only style of Zero-Turn there is which I agree will flip over backwards going uphill. They are kind of like an old M or H tricycle style they tend to flip themselves with the torque in the drivewheels going uphill. I stated my "front deck"...

Why is that? My front deck zero turn will not flip or tip sideways. My biggest problem is staying in the seat. The thing is like a billy goat going up or down any hill but I do have the AT101 chevron tires not a turf tire. I would not hesitate to take it on any slope I would take a tractor...

You could set them to do that but normally the end of the tooth is more tangent to the ground and doesn't dig.

I do On my front and back lawn I do not like the little wood chunks to walk on barefoot - and I enjoy my barefoot time in the summer as I go in and out of the lake.

This may be a bit of overkill but who cares. Rowse makes rakes for haying that are essentially a modern version of the dump rake. One of their markets is picking up pecan tree prunings and bunching them to wither burn, mulch, or haul away. Since I have a few acres that surround a pond with...

And now you can see what happened to the company - they were into so many things that they couldn't stay on top in anything and all of the divisions suffered by the lack of focus.

My condolences Willy! You do have 56 years of memories though - should be lots of positive in that and seeing her go quickly and peacefully has to good as well. I just lost of brother who was fighting Prostrate cancer for 30 years and the best part of it once it took control it was quick and...

Here is an old school Spring Tooth Drag/Harrow Weeder made by the Melroe company in Gwinner, ND. I always found these very interesting as they were used to remove the weeds in the row when the corn was small. One pass with this and the corn usually got ahead of the weeds in the row at least...

I found ths one very interesting on sugar beets. I knew there were temperature ranges tehy try to harvest them in but I didn't realize that may mean they don't get to harvest some of the beets if they do not hit the proper weather window. Interesting video with lots of vehicles - like 50...

Here is a video of the Chain Mover mounted on a truck loading a stack of large round bales. It was teh same process for loading a stack. keep in mind who is recording the video - the driver - he is outside watching the truck load just to make sure i is going alright. He tippped the bed...

Those kernel processers sure make a difference on how much goes through the cattle without being digested. When i was a kid we had free running hens that salvaged a lot of it out of the lots. By the time harvest came around and we were ready to clean out the lots they were picked pretty...

Great explanation of reality versus concept!

I was snooping today and I found this - basically it was the Farmhand F10 loader with modified mounting and bracing mounted on a Field Queen self-propelled forage harvester so that you could use the power unit all year round. Over the years there have been a lot of conversion systems like this...

A lot of equipment and screwing around for some two-bit logs. What do they use those for?

Where I grew up in North Central SD we normally got 13-14" of annual precipitation. Having dry ground to set you hay on was as important as not having the rain coming down from the sky in terms of spoilage. That is why we usually put our stacks near the top of hills and certainly not in places...

Just to be clear for those who are not used to it. This is a typical setup we used for loose hay before the loaf makers from Deere or Hesston. https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=Farmhand+F10+loaderwith+a+hay+basket#imgrc=JPsgEdqH7S0yQM The F10 was very common because it of...

Here is the Haybuster brand of stackhand.

Old thread but here is a video>

It has been unusually warm this winter and here in NE Indiana I have not cleared snow yet. We had a few inches one time but not enough to mess with. Even the Dakotas that got hit heavy this year are about bare.

I miss those old F10s. They had a great reach. Our hay baskets had the 8' long steel tines which we liked much better than the wood ones.

One of the problems with stacked hay is that if your ground is wet it will pull moisture from the ground and rot the hay. Growing up in SD we did not have that problem as i am sure Vsteel doesn't. It would depend where you are at in Tennessee as to if it works or not. Where I am at in Indiana...

For those of you wondering shat a bale stooker is - here is one example. Total mechanical and functions off the weight of the bales. By stacking the bales in triangle they shed water better than a flat square bale and also only had a corenr touching the ground which reduced spoilage there...

Here is a Haybuster brand stackhand that was kind of popular because of the round stacks that shed water well. It seemed though that these stacks did not stand up to the wind even as well as the others which was not great. There also tended to be a hole down the middle of these stacks which...

Once we quit free stacking it in 16 x 30' free style stacks using Farmhand F10 loaders we bought on of these JD stackhands and typically made about 1500 stacks per year including hay and straw. Here is a video showing the Hesston version which operated the same as the JD in he field. On a...

Who used those in our area? I never saw one of these machines other than at the state fair. For the most part people stacked hay either free standing stacks or with a stackhand. Very few people used small squares unless they wanted a few in the barn for special uses. We always made 2-300 of...

When the kids were younger I bought a well-broke pony mare not know ing she was pregnant. The next spring I had an idiot foal running around. That little bugger just spent his whole day trying to get out because he wanted to be around people (he scared my kids because he would run right at...

Yes but normally not in the threshing because the header feeds it in from both sides and the material is controlled by the feeder chain back into the cylinder that does the threshing. The problem is usually that the material overloads one side of the sieves making the effective cleaning area...

I have seen a lot of basketball hoops inside the upper level of the bank barns around here. Usually right near the door because that was the most commonly open place and had the best light.

That tree is worth a lot as a scratching post. Will save a lot of fences from being stretched. The cattle will really enjoy it.

Wish I did but I hae ont doe it myself. I have heard of a few people who have done it but now I have to remember who they were.

I would use a larger than necessary tank to hold enough water for a few days and use a solar powered pump with a float level switch on it and discard the extra electricity. Very simple to set up. Just the tank and panels with a small pump and a switch like most watering systems have. For...

My nephew on the farm in SD tells me he often runs #2 diesel all winter except for a few cold days - although he does use some additives in the #2. We didn't do that when I was younger. He said some of the additives are so good he rarely has issues. I wouldn't think there would ever be a time...

In Texas? When was the last time fuel gelled there?

Here is a new concept for agriculture. In case some of you are wondering what they are talking about one of the features of this system is that it always uses the same tire tracks so they do not worry about compaction - they just do not expect crop growth in the tracks. I find it very...

What i scratch my head over are people with a very high debt to income ratio and they have a high credit rating because they pay their bills on time. A high debt to income ratio means you have less ability to repay the loans which should mean a lower credit rating.

I just purchased a house last spring and put an ARM on it. It was 2.75% versus the fixed at that time were all around 5%. Since it is fixed for seven years and I only plan to own the house five I figure I am good. (The house is close to work which is two hours from my home and in five years...