TODAYS SEAT TIME

[Toddxyz]

J - for? If you mean model its a Mahindra 2126.

If you mean purpose its because I am nearing retirement and mostly just want one. I only have about 1 acre of property, just a lawn really. But the lawn is pretty poor and I am contemplating fill and drag, box blading, or maybe even tilling. Plus I have done everything basically with a shovel to this point - clearing snow, small lawn projects, fixing culvert under my driveway, etc. My back is not what it used to be.

 

[LouNY]

Enjoy and have a bit of fun, hydrostatic transmissions are noisy whinny things, but they are easy to operate and learn to use.

 

[Gordon Gould]

Congrats on your first tractor !!

gg

 

[Jstpssng]

J - for? If you mean model its a Mahindra 2126

I was asking what tractor you had bought.
Purpose will evolve as you learn to use it; with a good counterweight, that'll lift more than you ever can.
Did you get a loader? If so I suggest at least one bucket hook but preferably 2, one mounted above each loader arm.

 

[Toddxyz]

Yeah, got the loader for sure. Put on a couple of bucket hooks yesterday mounted above the arms.

 

[grsthegreat]

Ive owned both, love the HST way more than the old stick. What noise.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

Ive owned both, love the HST way more than the old stick. What noise.

You know, all the whining noise you USED TO HEAR before it made you go deaf. ha ha ha

SR

 

[Thomas]

Congrats on the new investment Your bones and muscles will be thanking you in years to come.

 

[Toddxyz]

The good thing about doing everything with picks and shovels and wheel barrows is that it is some serious exercise. I didn't really mind it that much except it took forever to get anything done and at my age its getting increasing harder to do, kind of dinged my back up 2 times already this year.

I am also a runner and mountain biker and everybody wants me to get an e-bike. But I am trying to hold off on that too for as long as I can. Hoping to make it to 70 before caving in and getting a power assist bike. I guess my thinking here is ultimately to put off the day its just going to be in a wheelchair. I see way too many people much younger than me with serious health issues most of which were completely avoidable.

Sorry for the PSA on health and exercise, looks like I am hijacking this thread a bit. Future posts will be more on topic. But yeah, the tractor is meant to take some of the wear and tear off my body.

 

[CloverKnollFarms]

4.0 so far in the 5088 running the chisel plow. Probably do another 6.0 with the disc

 

[LouNY]

4.0 so far in the 5088 running the chisel plow. Probably do another 6.0 with the disc

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Those can get to be long days, I don't see many rocks that makes it nicer.
We used/ and still do chisel at under 2 1/2 mph because of the rocks, much easier to slow down and work rather then break things and have to repair them constantly.

 

[CloverKnollFarms]

Got 11.0 in today on the IH 5088. Plan the same for tomorrow. We chisel at 5.5 mph. Very few rocks. I picked them all when I was 10

Ran about 80 acres today!

 

[LouNY]

Got 11.0 in today on the IH 5088. Plan the same for tomorrow. We chisel at 5.5 mph. Very few rocks. I picked them all when I was 10

Ran about 80 acres today!

Ours are very prolific they continually grow and produce more.
Nothing like slogging through plowed and harrowed ground picking up rocks a never ending task

 

[Jstpssng]

They've been picking rocks from the potato fields up here for over a century. Yet every year they find more.

 

[Thomas]

We are known for growing good crops of rocks also,that's why we're call the granite state.

 

[CloverKnollFarms]

11.0 hours in the IH 5088 today. Put down about 80 more acres between the chisel plow and disc harrow. So 22 hours and about 150 acres by myself in this 115hp relic. Great tractor though, she has done a lot of work in her life.

Saw three bald eagles and 9 deer midday.

 

[LouNY]

Well my seat time today was mowing a soggy lawn, after a minor upgrade to my old F2000 seat suspension;

The mechanical suspension on the Kubota F2000 was pretty well whipped for some odd reason, couldn't have been because it was 39 years old or that I tip the scales at close to 320 pounds.
I had squeezed a toy football in under the suspension for a couple of years and that actually helped, quite a bit when the air pressure was right.
I picked up a seat air spring a year ago and put it on the shelf and promptly forgot about it until I was wanting to mow.
Well today I dug up the fittings and a bit of plastic tube and installed it.
Inflated to 10 psi and backed the old suspension spring down to mid scale, wasn't bad took the pressure up to a bit over 11 psi, dang that is nice.

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[Gordon Gould]

Well my seat time today was mowing a soggy lawn, after a minor upgrade to my old F2000 seat suspension;

The mechanical suspension on the Kubota F2000 was pretty well whipped for some odd reason, couldn't have been because it was 39 years old or that I tip the scales at close to 320 pounds.
I had squeezed a toy football in under the suspension for a couple of years and that actually helped, quite a bit when the air pressure was right.
I picked up a seat air spring a year ago and put it on the shelf and promptly forgot about it until I was wanting to mow.
Well today I dug up the fittings and a bit of plastic tube and installed it.
Inflated to 10 psi and backed the old suspension spring down to mid scale, wasn't bad took the pressure up to a bit over 11 psi, dang that is nice.

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I like the new seat suspension but the football gave it a special look. I had to look up Kubota F2000 to see what it was. I can't remember ever seeing one of those. Still going after 39 years is a testament for old fashion quality and good maintenance !!

gg

 

[CloverKnollFarms]

.9 tilling an acre on the 4820.

 

[Runner]

Planted a maple tree from the nursery that had wildly overgrown its container. Pallet forks are just the ticket for popping one of these things out of the ground (mulch). Should have been transplanted a couple of years ago, but couldn't decide where to put it, so just picked a spot in the pasture and said "there". Had to cut the plastic container away from the roots, but I think I did a decent job of saving the roots.

Switched to the bucket for keeping track of soil from the hole and holding some compost mix.

After planting, dropped off the excess soil and brought back some mulch.

Followed by some seat time in the Mule tanker for some water.

Now I've got four more to find homes for.....