Mowing 32 acres with a 4' mower

[IslandTractor]

Learn something new every day around here. I'll drop "quarter section" into a few conversations in Boston and see how people respond. Might be a good screening tool for transplants from the midwest (got a bunch of them here).

I'm sure our land courts would envy your squared off property lines. Ours are more often demarkated by cow paths and brooks than surveyors lines which leads to all manner of confusion.

Thanks for the geography and history lesson.

 

[riptides]

I'm sure our land courts would envy your squared off property lines. Ours are more often demarkated by cow paths and brooks than surveyors lines which leads to all manner of confusion.

More like rocks and trees, here........

-Mike Z.

 

[sandman2234]

They have started modifying every road in this part of the country to remove any straight stretches. The land around it is curved with the roads, and of course every creek or ditch adds to the miss shaped property.
Gives surveyors something to argue about.
David from jax

 

[Farmwithjunk]

I've always been told a section, 640 acres, is a one mile by one mile square.

Part of the 45 acres I live on is being looked at by a developer. He's making what I'd consider ridiculous offers, and MAY just own 10 acres of this place if his money lands where his mouth is. In reviewing the deed and abstract, I've found references to "big limestone outcropping", Tall beech tree next to a yellow poplar tree", "just west of the middle of small stream", and crest of small hill at the base of large hill" as "survey points" from the original survey, dated in 1797. I think we burned that "tall beech tree" for firewood last winter

 

[Z-Michigan]

FWJ, that is what is called a "meets and bounds survey". It's the ancient way of doing things, but everything mapped out before the section system was developed in the early 19th century is set up that way (except for some parts of Louisiana that are on the French "long lot" system).

Yes a standard section is 1 mile square and 640 acres, but I'm sure there are errors here and there as another person mentioned.

 

[Soundguy]

Speaking of 1920.. I miss mine.. I kinda wish i hadn't of traded it in on my 7610s... ( course.. I'd be 10k$ more in debt if I hadn't... ).

I honestly don't know about the kodiak / mahindra connection.

All I know is when i went shopping for inexpensive 10' mowers.. only a few brands were in my price range.. I'm glad I went with howse.. it has been tough and was cheaper than the kodiak.. etc.

You hit on a good point about intended usage and the JD mowers.

For instance.. my 1517 is actually listed as a light duty mower... intended for light brush and jobs like ROW mowing.. etc. Since I am mainly mowing clean pasture.. it is bang up for that job.. especially since it only cost 2k$ to buy.. plus a few hundred to fix up.. etc.

The howse 10' is a heavy duty model.. and as I mentioned.. it has no qualms about ripping small trees up and mulching them if you have enough tractor in front of it.. The howse is visually built heavier than my JD mower.. etc.

Soundguy

I didn't mean any disrespect to the KK line other then the Howse is very similar in terms of quality as KK along the line. I do have a 5' King Kutter mower that came with the Ford 640 when we bought it. It cuts great but is not very heavy duty and the deck has numerous cracks. I know nothing about the chopper other then it is a KK but it does a good job cutting grass behind the 1920

The one cutter I would never waste my money on is the Kodiak. Isn't Kodiak the one building implements now for Mahindra? If so I hope they didn't just repaint them in Mahindra red.

The John Deere's they are not very impressed with are the CX and HX lines. Here is a recent discussion on them Viewing a thread - JD CX-15 flex wing mower

Not everyone uses their choppers the same way but it seems the newer Deere choppers are not holding up to the heavy use some people buy them for.

 

[LBrown59]

I mowed 8 acres with a 4' bush hog behind a B7100 -- once.

I done it dummer than that once.
Mowed 7.75 acres with my 1966 Bolens 850 tractor wirh a 38'' mower deck.

 

[LBrown59]

155 acres with a 5' mower, snort, now that's funny.

5 acres with a 155' mower sounds better to me.

 

[Cacinok]

Learn something new every day around here. I'll drop "quarter section" into a few conversations in Boston and see how people respond. Might be a good screening tool for transplants from the midwest (got a bunch of them here).

I'm sure our land courts would envy your squared off property lines. Ours are more often demarkated by cow paths and brooks than surveyors lines which leads to all manner of confusion.

Thanks for the geography and history lesson.

the property lines get a whole lot more convoluted when you get down below quarter sections. even w/ the section lines as Pat described them, occasionally you'll be out in the middle of nowhere, w/ the dirt road running north and south (or east and west for that matter) and all of the sudden, for no apparent reason, the road will turn 90 degrees go for a small bit (e.g., 40') and then turn back and continue in the original direction, they call them section corrections. took me forever to finally understand why an otherwise perfectly straight dirt road in the boonies took a jog.

 

[IslandTractor]

occasionally you'll be out in the middle of nowhere, w/ the dirt road running north and south (or east and west for that matter) and all of the sudden, for no apparent reason, the road will turn 90 degrees go for a small bit (e.g., 40') and then turn back and continue in the original direction, they call them section corrections. took me forever to finally understand why an otherwise perfectly straight dirt road in the boonies took a jog.

That section correction thing, odd as it is, at least has a rationale. Come visit Boston sometime and travel on Milk St which now is lined with 40 story office buildings carefully aligned on a road that meanders, literally, like a cow path. Even Bostonians cannot figure out the roads in the colonial section of town. Only the cows understand the logic.