TODAYS SEAT TIME

[Carl_NH]

Very envious of your soil there SR and the tiller too - if we dig a trench or hole, it's one bucket of rocks to 2 buckets of soil. A tiller here would just destroy itself in our glacial till.

 

[jigs_n_fixtures]

I'm envious of soil you can run a tiller, or plow in.

We got 400-yards of rocks, and less than 100-yards of suitable 3-inch minus backfill, out of a trench. Most of the flat ground around here is prehistoric gravel bars, which is rock to rock contact with the voids filled with smaller rocks, sand, and then clay. Most soils you can go four feet vertical, and then start a safety layback. This stuff is 1.25:1 from the bottom of the trench.

 

[CalG]

We have had 2.55 inches of rain over the past 36 hours, and the run off played hobb with the steep drive to our place. The wash out was at least 8 inches deep and a foot and a half wide after the stream jumped the culvert. I sure hate to see all that material go over the bank, but there is nothing to do about it once it's done. it's an 8 foot drop.

I must have run 30 passes with the York rake just to start to restore the damage.

I need to bring in 80 yards of crusher run, but that's real money.

Meanwhile, the traveled part of the drive is so hard the rake won't even touch it.

The drive is 50 years old, it has held up pretty good, all considered. The bones are really starting to pop through though.

 

[Seven Gables]

Planted 170 replacement trees where I had taken out some older trees that had seen there better days. Now going through and putting tree guards on and 1/2 a bale of straw to each. Mulching newly planted trees is one of the best things you can do for them, conserves moisture and prevents weeds. Next issue is keeping the deer from eating the new growth and rubbing trunks in fall.

 

[scootr]

Just a little mowing today. Nothing special but good for the soul.

 

[Gordon Gould]

I should mow and weed-whack but can't bring myself to start. 2-1/2" of rain in the last couple days and sun today is making it grow.

gg

 

[scootr]

I should mow and weed-whack but can't bring myself to start. 2-1/2" of rain in the last couple days and sun today is making it grow.

gg

We had a year of exceptional rain a few years ago. It kept the bottom field so wet I didn't dare bring the tractor near the creek crossing or the field for months... I used to say I could hear the weeds and grasses growing. Time I got down there everything good and bad was 5 ft tall and had gone to seed. No so this year...I have mowed it twice.

 

[Jstpssng]

. Next issue is keeping the deer from eating the new growth and rubbing trunks in fall

I started putting an electric fence around my orchard to try to keep them out. Hopefully that'll be enough, it just needs to be there until the limbs get above their reach.
I forgo putting the trèe guards on until fall, as they are a great place for tree borers to hide.
I also only have about 25 trees though...

 

[Thomas]

I should mow and weed-whack but can't bring myself to start. 2-1/2" of rain in the last couple days and sun today is making it grow.

gg

Notice those darn blackflies first time this year while mowing....hint...hint.

 

[Jstpssng]

Notice those darn blackflies first time this year while mowing....hint...hint.

The wind is blowing too hard for them here. They'd need little jet packs.

I tried to put the BH on today so that I can start planting trees, but found the return line is broken and all of the hydraulic fluid ran onto the ground.
I changed the hose but need to pick up 5 gallons of hydraulic fluid.
Good time to change the filter also.

 

[Runner]

Twas a fine day for mowing the 4 acre pasture with the 2520 and RC1060. First mow of the year, everything is SO GREEN...

 

[Sawyer Rob]

Another nice day here, mostly sunny and 75*, just right for me these days.

Anyway, today was Cana planting day, so I put the "middle buster" on my tractor and made two pass' the length of the back garden. {The second trench will be used for the veggies I'll be planting later.}

With the trenches in, I dropped the Cana bulbs in the trench with the new dirt that I dug out of a ditch, and tilled a few days ago,

Then all that's left to do, is pull the loose dirt over the bulbs with a hoe,

All the buckets were full when I started, and the 10 left on the trailer in the pict., were delivered/sold to a local greenhouse.

Now, to get a few potatoes and veggies planted.

SR

 

[Runner]

Bagged up a couple of boxes of grass clippings for the compost pile.

 

[Gordon Gould]

Bagged up a couple of boxes of grass clippings for the compost pile.
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I like your dump box with the removable front !

gg

 

[Runner]

I like your dump box with the removable front !

gg

Thanks, that carryall is one of my most used attachments. The sides also come off which is very handy for loading/unloading mulch and I also have a seat/bench for it.

 

[Gordon Gould]

Thanks, that carryall is one of my most used attachments. The sides also come off which is very handy for loading/unloading mulch and I also have a seat/bench for it.
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Like it even better now

gg

 

[1 Old Man]

Not from today, but from this week. High winds pushed a widow maker into
a live tree. They got tangled up and the last storm knocked them both down.
Problem was they blocked my only road to my back pasture. Had to section
them up with the chain saw, then remove with grapple to the burn pile. Also
pulled up a small cedar with the grapple, roots & all.

 

[Toddxyz]

First use of my new tractor, or any tractor for that matter, was today. My brother gave me a 5 ft rear grader blade, since he just got a newer bigger one, and loaded it in my truck bed. Got home and used my tractor to unload it with some straps around my bucket. First seat time ever. Went slow but went good.

A bit nerve racking - tractor makes many different sounds and did not know what to expect. I noticed that going up hill it makes kind of a wining sound that I don't hear going down hill. I guess its just the hydrostat wining some going up hill under load?

 

[Jstpssng]

First use of my new tractor, or any tractor for that matter, was today. My brother gave me a 5 ft rear grader blade, since he just got a newer bigger one, and loaded it in my truck bed. Got home and used my tractor to unload it with some straps around my bucket. First seat time ever. Went slow but went good.

A bit nerve racking - tractor makes many different sounds and did not know what to expect. I noticed that going up hill it makes kind of a wining sound that I don't hear going down hill. I guess its just the hydrostat wining some going up hill under load?

What do you have for a tractor? Slow and easy is good, especially until you are more familiar with the machine.
Yes, the whining is the hydro. You will get used to it, while learning which range to run in for various uses.

I wear ear plugs religously... because I didn't in my younger days and my hearing leaves a lot to be desired.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

I wear ear plugs religously... because I didn't in my younger days and my hearing leaves a lot to be desired.

Best way I found to get rid of that obnoxious whining noise, was to NOT buy the "whiner" tranny in the first place! lol

SR