The Life of a Custom Mowing contractor

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#501  
Believe it or not, I can turn around my farm tractors inside the current 40x60.
 
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I believe you.

Heck I could to, if I didn't have so much stuff in mine (40x70)
 
   / The Life of a Custom Mowing contractor
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#503  
It doesnt seem like youcan when you pull in, but these AGCO’s can turn tight-even with 4WD
 
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Kind of a neat day on Monday. It started off with the usual hustle of trying to get machinery & truck/trailer in place for loading hay.

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Once I got loaded at this spot where I had about 24 large squares stored, I began the second load.

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Then I heard the train horn off in the distance. I got a visit from East Penn Railroad.

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The engineer waived. Kinda gave me a boost from the Thanksgiving weekend hangover. They know me and I know them.
It seems like we appreciate each other’s work. I feel like we have the quintessential “small town” local railroad. Neat & clean, but small. Supposedly their single biggest investor is a retirement fund.

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Once I was finished delivering that load, I headed up the road in the tractor to the next field with hay bales.
This is a bad picture, but I had to take it in a hurry. Wild turkeys under the pine trees. Man they camouflage so well. You can barely see them.


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I will try to get some better picture of them in the upcoming weeks.
 
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Followed by a very crappy day today.
It started out fine. Today is my birthday. I thought “what could go wrong”? My wife made me a great breakfast.
Arrived at the farm to a “no start” on the Challenger. Batteries putting out plenty of juice. Turn key to run position….nada….

First I looked at wiring on starter. That seemed fine. Then I tapped the starter solenoid with a hammer got back in cab and it fired over. I have to remember to replace that solenoid before snowplowing, or it’ll die for good in the worst of snowplowing weather.

Then it was off to loading bales

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Got this trailer load delivered and returned to the farm to begin loading another. While bringing bales from another field to the farm and stacking them in piles of 3. I got an alarm and the tractor wouldn’t move. I had just rolled in off the street with tractor. Got out to start looking around and saw this on the driveway:

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The other 25 gallons is in the field. EPA would be proud of me. I lost like 25 gallons of transmission/hydraulic fluid in a matter of 100’ of driving.

Definitely blew a high pressure line.

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Took 2) 40lb bags of kitty litter for the driveway spill alone.

So now I have a huge driveway stain, I’m out a pallet of transmission/hydraulic oil, and still have an unresolved leak. OH, and one of my feed hay customers needs a bale and my tractor is down.

Then I got home and while moving some stuff in my garage a 80lb cast iron vice fell on my right foot. I severely bruised my metatarsal. I hope it’s not broken.

Happy Birthday, HD!

Some days you get the bear and some days the Loch Ness Monster gets you. Hahahaha

Might take a picture of my foot tomorrow. Let me know if you want to see it lol
 
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groundcover said:
Wow, what a terrible birthday! Hope things start getting better !
Take the night off and have some birthday cake !
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Or a bottle of Crown Royal.
 
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