CloverKnollFarms
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Tilled 1.5 acres to plant tomorrow. Got another 1.6 hours on the tractor.
That’s interesting. The Cub I have now is my second one. I bought my first one as a dedicated cultivating tractor. I bought into the “cultivation” hype, but after getting it, I was disappointed. The first single row tractor, that I cultivated corn with, was my grandpa’s 1949 JD model M.My first tractor at age 9 was a Cub. Dad & I built a homemade wooden snow plow. Push rods, hop hornbeam trunks, pivoted under the seat. Made a L shaped of square tube piece passed through the casting behind the front axle. A plank cross member there had a square hole to keep the push rods centered between the front axles. "Plow blade" was flat of three planks on 3" angle iron verticals as frame.
It wasn't the best snow plow rig in the north, but it was better than the little snow blower we had before it. I plowed 6 driveways in thosse days.
The engine was at a rebuilder in 2011 when a flash flood went through the building it was stored in. Drained it. It still awaits reassembly.
IF you have a good water source, hammering the logs with water really makes a difference, these were skidded through a sandpit,I took my chains off today. If we get enough snow to need them for plowing I will stay home until it melts. View attachment 862407
Then sliced up a cedar log. View attachment 862411It's been sitting for a year and a half and the bark has peeled off but it's unbelievable how much dirt splashes up when it rains. I don't have SR's water supply but have learned to wash them off with a garden hose. That way I don't ruin a blade until I bounce it off a log stop... which I still haven't learned not to do.View attachment 862412
I just have a garden hose but as you've mentioned in the past it's volume, not pressure that cleans them. I have a debarker for hemlock and other logs with heavy bark.IF you have a good water source, hammering the logs with water really makes a difference, these were skidded through a sandpit,
It cleaned them right up,
SR