TODAYS SEAT TIME

[sixdogs]

Well, today was a VERY good day! I spread the last of the TP! (turkey poop) and I'm so glad to have that done! Here's the last of it, going out!

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Did I mention that I'm GLAD to have that done? lol

SR

My neighbor, who is well over a mile away spread chicken manure recently and the smell is really bad, even from that distance. If your neighbors show up with pitchforks and burning torches they aren't there to help you with your hay in the dark. :laughing:

Finally got some seat time on my newest acquisition! After 15 years of getting by with my 8N my neighbor finally gave me her deceased husbands old tractor, a Yanmar 240D! It had been sitting uncovered for 6-7 years and the last time she tried to drive it she put it in the ditch. I went down and got it out and she parked it. Left the key in it and never touched it again.
I got it up to working condition today and just drove it around for a half hour to see what leaked or made weird noises. Ran like a champ!

Wait a minute. She GAVE you a tractor? Any pictures would be very nice to see. She probably knew you would appreciate and take excellent care of it.

Buff the paint out with some cleaner and wax, carefully touch up the running gear with an OEM spray can and lube anything that's rusty. Change all the fluids and flush out the radiator several times before new anti freeze. It will look and run much better.

 

[Gordon Gould]

Welcome Jim. You will have fun getting to learn that tractor; I'm sure it needs an oil change and filters sitting there that long. Or maybe that's been done (working condition your mentioned). Yanmar has made great products for a long long time. I always thought they were the Honda of diesel engines and small tractors.
There is a Yanmar area of this forum you can ask technical questions in and then take some pics of you operating the tractor and post them here.

^^ X2 - Welcome Jim.

Nicely stated daugen - What the TBN forum is all about.

gg

 

[farmer2009]

I can well understand your relief at getting that job over. When I was younger I used to fish a pond that was next to a huge pile of TP - but only when the wind was in the right direction.

The PP (poop pile) I was moving was from cattle and nowhere near as eye watering as TP.


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If I had to nominate the best PP odour, for me it would be well rotted pig manure, mmmm

I'll agree. Well composted cow poo doesn't have a definite oder. But well composted chicken poo smells like chocolate when you dig the loader in. .

 

[Sawyer Rob]

My neighbor, who is well over a mile away spread chicken manure recently and the smell is really bad, even from that distance. If your neighbors show up with pitchforks and burning torches they aren't there to help you with your hay in the dark. :laughing:

Any neighbors around here that would complain about the smell, are told to MOVE BACK TO TOWN, as this has been a farming area since the land was homesteaded...

Actually, the smell wasn't so bad, I load keeping the wind in the right direction, but it get's REALLY old putting those kinds of hours on a tractor, loading spreading, loading spreading and loading, spreading some more!

By the end of the day I'm just glad to get off the tractor... lol

SR

 

[lostcreekranch]

Any neighbors around here that would complain about the smell, are told to MOVE BACK TO TOWN, as this has been a farming area since the land was homesteaded...

Actually, the smell wasn't so bad, I load keeping the wind in the right direction, but it get's REALLY old putting those kinds of hours on a tractor, loading spreading, loading spreading and loading, spreading some more!

By the end of the day I'm just glad to get off the tractor... lol

SR

Just tell them it doesn't smell bad ........... it smells like money!

 

[DieselBound]

Any neighbors around here that would complain about the smell, are told to MOVE BACK TO TOWN, as this has been a farming area since the land was homesteaded...

Actually, the smell wasn't so bad, I load keeping the wind in the right direction, but it get's REALLY old putting those kinds of hours on a tractor, loading spreading, loading spreading and loading, spreading some more!

By the end of the day I'm just glad to get off the tractor... lol

SR

Yup, move back to the city where the air is nice and fresh:

 

[sixdogs]

Any neighbors around here that would complain about the smell, are told to MOVE BACK TO TOWN, as this has been a farming area since the land was homesteaded...

Actually, the smell wasn't so bad, I load keeping the wind in the right direction, but it get's REALLY old putting those kinds of hours on a tractor, loading spreading, loading spreading and loading, spreading some more!

By the end of the day I'm just glad to get off the tractor... lol

SR

Some partly snooty people were wondering about the smell and I explained it was from chicken manure at an organic farm down the road. They had a horrified look on their face since their mind's eye visualization of an organic farm was leaping angels, smiling critter families and flowing mountain streams. I'll bet they had a talk on the way home.

 

[Howling]

My wife decided it was time to cut down some bushes and small trees today. Instead of the saw I got the tractor and chain and pulled them out.

For weeding and clean up she started to load the wheelbarrow. I found a better way to 'push' the wheelbarrow.

 

[Gordon Gould]

You mean organic manure has an odor - oh my, who would have thought

gg

 

[Xfaxman]

My wife decided it was time to cut down some bushes and small trees today. Instead of the saw I got the tractor and chain and pulled them out.

For weeding and clean up she started to load the wheelbarrow. I found a better way to 'push' the wheelbarrow.

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Reminds me of my no wheel wheelbarrow, on the forks.