Rotary cutting pics

[TripleR]

Gordo 56,

Thanks for posting the pix of your land, it looks great. The farm we bought has 7 large ponds, 4 dams (1 broke), creek and river frontage so I am always on sloping ground. Hence the Italian hill tractor. The reversible drivers position is just great.

Cheers

Do you have any pictures of the interior of your cab; very interesting tractor.

 

[electrarc]

Do you have any pictures of the interior of your cab; very interesting tractor.

TripleR,

This link will take you to a slid show I made of the Ferrari at the dealers, it has inside shots of the seat facing backwards and forwards.

Ferrari Cobram 65 Rs reversible Cab - YouTube

Cheers

 

[Gordo 56]

Here's a few of my cutting from this past week

Glad I paid attention to everyone's advice to stop often and check the front screen/radiator while bush hogging. This was after just a few trips around:

I may have a slight dandelion problem :laughing:

Hey Mpking, I couldn't help notice what a nice place you have, great looking barn,good fencing,pine trees and moutains in the background. That's like a picture post card. Thanks for the pictures.

 

[Gordo 56]

Gordo 56,

Thanks for posting the pix of your land, it looks great. The farm we bought has 7 large ponds, 4 dams (1 broke), creek and river frontage so I am always on sloping ground. Hence the Italian hill tractor. The reversible drivers position is just great.

Cheers

Electrarc, nice place, don't look like you will ever have water shortage problem. with all those ponds and a creek and a river too. You can always use some of the ponds for irrigation on the pasture if you get a dry spell.

I can see why your tractor is called a hill tractor, it does have low center of gravity and looks like it wouldn't tip over easy. I love it that the seat turns around, I wish mine could do that.

What plans do you have with your land?

 

[TripleR]

TripleR,

This link will take you to a slid show I made of the Ferrari at the dealers, it has inside shots of the seat facing backwards and forwards.

Ferrari Cobram 65 Rs reversible Cab - YouTube

Cheers

Thanks for the video; just hard to imagine how all of that gets turned around.

I hate to even think what one of those costs.

 

[electrarc]

Electrarc, nice place, don't look like you will ever have water shortage problem. with all those ponds and a creek and a river too. You can always use some of the ponds for irrigation on the pasture if you get a dry spell.

I can see why your tractor is called a hill tractor, it does have low center of gravity and looks like it wouldn't tip over easy. I love it that the seat turns around, I wish mine could do that.

What plans do you have with your land?

Gordo 56,

It had Redclaw in the ponds but it had been treated very poorly. Then 3 months after we got it that nice river flooded. The worst in 60 years. We had about 50 feet of water on the farm.

The erosion is so bad it has cut the farm in two. The only access to our river now is via the farm next door.

So we are changing to small scale hydroponics and a few ponds of native fish.

A picture says it all.

cheers

 

[TripleR]

electarc, that erosion is unbelievable, I thought ours was bad, but now not so much.

 

[electrarc]

electarc, that erosion is unbelievable, I thought ours was bad, but now not so much.

TripleR,

Cutting grass picture. I had to get access from the neighbors to start to clean up our land next to the river.

Yep that river was above the height of the camera.

Still smiling

 

[electrarc]

Thanks for the video; just hard to imagine how all of that gets turned around.

I hate to even think what one of those costs.

It has a complete set of duplicate pedals on the floor. It takes about 30 seconds to change it around.

58 hp with aircon cab, full set of weights front and rear, 4 remotes, twin diff locks etc less than $50,000 on farm.

 

[Gordo 56]

Gordo 56,

It had Redclaw in the ponds but it had been treated very poorly. Then 3 months after we got it that nice river flooded. The worst in 60 years. We had about 50 feet of water on the farm.

The erosion is so bad it has cut the farm in two. The only access to our river now is via the farm next door.

So we are changing to small scale hydroponics and a few ponds of native fish.

A picture says it all.

cheers

Had to lookup Redclaw, they are crabs. The only look big enoungh for pets and not for food, is that correct?

That erosion must be where your river bends, The out side bend is where the water moves the fastes and cuts into the bank more. With record floods in your part of the world, we are seeing extreme weather all over. My farm in south central Iowa 30 miles from the Missouri border, we had record rain fall from May 15th to around July 6th. My bottom ground flooded 6 times during that period. Have you been following the thread here about the drought in Texas? No one can deny that global warming is happening and having a hugh effect on the worlds weather.

 

[electrarc]

Had to lookup Redclaw, they are crabs. The only look big enoungh for pets and not for food, is that correct?

That erosion must be where your river bends, The out side bend is where the water moves the fastes and cuts into the bank more. With record floods in your part of the world, we are seeing extreme weather all over. My farm in south central Iowa 30 miles from the Missouri border, we had record rain fall from May 15th to around July 6th. My bottom ground flooded 6 times during that period. Have you been following the thread here about the drought in Texas? No one can deny that global warming is happening and having a hugh effect on the worlds weather.

Gordo 56,

I am so sorry to hear that.....6 times. We went under 2 times, isolated for 11 days and then 6 days all with no power. 6 times!!!!!!

Our wet season is starting again and I have not finished fixing all of the broken things from last year.

Yes I have been following the situation in Texas my heart goes out to people with fish cooking in shallow ponds with no way to fill them up and the loss of stock.

Then there is the personal costs that us guys just don't talk about.

 

[TripleR]

TripleR,

Cutting grass picture. I had to get access from the neighbors to start to clean up our land next to the river.

Yep that river was above the height of the camera.

Still smiling

Will you be able to reclaim that land?

Just a few miles south of me, they had to blow some levies to prevent flooding in some cities and it will take years for the farmers to get their land back in to production. Erosion was terrible and billions of tons of sand was dumped on to fertile land.

 

[Bartcephus]

8404: Is that a flail mower? I've never used one of those before. How does it handle saplings? Is it faster than a rotary? How about maintenence. (Sharpening/blade replacement/etc.) I know... too many questions for a pleasure forum. I miss the green we had from this spring. I enjoy all the pictures. The dry conditions have me worried about hitting a rock and sparking a fire.

Bart

 

[electrarc]

Will you be able to reclaim that land?

Just a few miles south of me, they had to blow some levies to prevent flooding in some cities and it will take years for the farmers to get their land back in to production. Erosion was terrible and billions of tons of sand was dumped on to fertile land.

TripleR,

There is a new dam upriver and nobody knows what the long term affects will be. But I dare say it won't happen in my lifetime.

 

[electrarc]

Had to lookup Redclaw, they are crabs. The only look big enoungh for pets and not for food, is that correct?

That erosion must be where your river bends, The out side bend is where the water moves the fastes and cuts into the bank more. With record floods in your part of the world, we are seeing extreme weather all over. My farm in south central Iowa 30 miles from the Missouri border, we had record rain fall from May 15th to around July 6th. My bottom ground flooded 6 times during that period. Have you been following the thread here about the drought in Texas? No one can deny that global warming is happening and having a hugh effect on the worlds weather.

Gordo 56,

Sorry I missed the first part of your reply. Redclaw are grown commercially for food. They can be a foot long and are more like a cray fish than a crab.

Cheers

 

[Gordo 56]

Gordo 56,

Sorry I missed the first part of your reply. Redclaw are grown commercially for food. They can be a foot long and are more like a cray fish than a crab.

Cheers

I bet they are tasty, wish I could grow something like that in Iowa, but our winters are probably too cold.

I don't live on my farm yet (I live about 6 hrs away) so I wasn't effected by the flooding like you were. It did hurt alot of the 1200 hardwood and fruit trees I planted last fall. The flooding piled up debris and knocked some over and it washed away my pre-emergent herbicide. The weeds took over, robing water, light, and nutrients from my little seedlings.I had about 75% loses. I did cover 300 of them with tree tubes and weed mats and they did much better with only about 10% loss. They were well worth the money.







The pictures were taken this past spring before the flooding and before everything greened up.

Sorry folks about getting off subject, maybe I should start a new thread about extreme weather.

 

[electrarc]

I bet they are tasty, wish I could grow something like that in Iowa, but our winters are probably too cold.

I don't live on my farm yet (I live about 6 hrs away) so I wasn't effected by the flooding like you were. It did hurt alot of the 1200 hardwood and fruit trees I planted last fall. The flooding piled up debris and knocked some over and it washed away my pre-emergent herbicide. The weeds took over, robing water, light, and nutrients from my little seedlings.I had about 75% loses. I did cover 300 of them with tree tubes and weed mats and they did much better with only about 10% loss. They were well worth the money.
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The pictures were taken this past spring before the flooding and before everything greened up.

Sorry folks about getting off subject, maybe I should start a new thread about extreme weather.

Gordo 56,

Sorry to hear about your losses. All of that hard work & $ gone. Mother nature?

Cheers

 

[Mpking]

Hey Mpking, I couldn't help notice what a nice place you have, great looking barn,good fencing,pine trees and moutains in the background. That's like a picture post card. Thanks for the pictures.

Gordo - thanks for the compliments! We sure do love it here.

 

[8404]

8404: Is that a flail mower? I've never used one of those before. How does it handle saplings? Is it faster than a rotary? How about maintenence. (Sharpening/blade replacement/etc.) I know... too many questions for a pleasure forum. I miss the green we had from this spring. I enjoy all the pictures. The dry conditions have me worried about hitting a rock and sparking a fire.

Bart

In the feilds that i take care of it cuts in the same gears on my tractor as the 6 foot rotory cutter did so its not slower just as fast as a rotory cutter,but its cutting 7.5 feet wide at the same speed as it was cutting at 6feet. I cant say if its good on saplings it cuts through small saplings less than one inch just fine but i cut feild that ive been mowing for years and there are no larger saplings, it cut the feilds every month. but i did run over a 2by4 that hung up on the roller and it turned it into saw dust like a chipper does. ive hit some rocks and a few peices of steel rod iron and it made some noise but the blades are still sharp even after 15 hours of mowing. So far all ive done was squirts greese in 5 greese joints and cut grass like it needed to be done yesterday.

 

[Degolyerent]

I am doing some heavy bushhogging for my neighbor that lives on some low property that has a branch running through it, kind of slow going but it is better to be safe than sorry and tear something up,I am doing a little at a time as he has money to spend on it.I will come back later and root rake the palmettos out,and then add dirt and regrade as needed