TODAYS SEAT TIME

[cat fever]

Only seat time for me was driving the LS up to the garage to weld hooks on the bucket (finally), then back to the barn. Been too soft here to do much with it so far this Spring.

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I wish you were closer, now that you are all warmed up you could weld some on my bucket.:laughing:

Looks great, one day I'll get some on.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

Rob, just how many days can you go without wrestling some wood? :laughing:

"Hello, my name is Sawyer Rob and I'm addicted to wood"...

SR

 

[PJSprog]

I wish you were closer, now that you are all warmed up you could weld some on my bucket.:laughing:

Looks great, one day I'll get some on.

I wish I were closer, too. Love the views in your pics, Lynn.

I ordered those hooks off Amazon last fall. It's taken me this long to get around to putting them on. Honestly, I wasn't sure if I needed to reinforce the bucket with additional plates, as I've seen others do. Someone else noted not long ago that the top of these buckets are rectangular tube, and probably don't need reinforcement. So, I finally had a nice day Saturday and went for it. They're not the prettiest welds, but they look like they'll hold.

 

[cat fever]

"Hello, my name is Sawyer Rob and I'm addicted to wood"...

SR

Admittance is the first step. Congratulations.:laughing:

 

[Reb954]

Seat time on the tractor was minimal last weekend, just filled in some low spots on the lawn and filled in a ditch that ran across the front lawn. The ground is still pretty wet so I used the ATV and trailer to haul in the dirt. Didn't want to damage the sprinkler system with the tractor.

Once I spread the dirt the box blade on the ATV made short work of spreading and compacting it. Notice how I also use the back winch on the ATV to dump the trailer. I still need to make a scissor lift on the trailer so I can lift the front a little higher.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Mowed the field, then put ratchet rake on bucket and pushed weeds from garden to get it ready. Anyone see the hot air balloon?.

 

[4570Man]

I mowed 4 yards. I’m starting to like the big deck on my Grasshopper. It sure lays down grass faster than my Dixie chopper does. It also holds a side hill a lot better.

 

[BrokenTrack]

I have about a hundred linear feet of carrots too and I've sure never dug them up before.
None of them are extra long so sounds like there's more to dig up with this tractor. Plow is on my 25hp Iseki Massey.

Also have a ton of beets in rows. Can you dig them up with a plow? pretty fragile I think.

I admit complete ignorance, first time doing this in row crop fashion.

This farm raised potatoes from 1838 to 1988, so I know I can raise potatoes on the ground I got, but I never had good luck raising carrots for some reason. Here the soil is gravelly loam, but depth varies, from only 4 inches to bedrock to 50 inches, depending on the lay of the bedrock.

I can get our old potato back, but kind of liked the looks of this design better. There are many homemade potato diggers on youtube too though. I am not sure if it would work for carrots or beets though.

 

[BrokenTrack]

I put the plow on today and made some furrows. The ground is still a little too wet, but I had to do it; a tractor upgrade was long overdue, so at least 2 years have passed since I've been able to turn the sod.

There is a lot of tasks I do with my tractor, but plowing ground is one of my most favorite. It is one of the few tasks too where the faster you go, the better it works.

My family used to own the field where the Common Ground Fair is, and that field has nothing but sand, no rocks at all in it at all, and we could plow that field so fast the sod would flip completely over and land grass side up. Now that is MOVING!

Funny story on that field, back when we only had a 16 foot disc harrow we had to run 24 hours a day during planting season to get the crops in, so one night about 2 AM I was near where the amphitheater is now, and fell asleep. I woke up when I hit the plow head at the end of the field, and only got the tractor into the saplings and not the woods before I woke up. I ran around the tractor and disc to wake up, then backed the tractor up, and went back at it again.

 

[daugen]

This farm raised potatoes from 1838 to 1988, so I know I can raise potatoes on the ground I got, but I never had good luck raising carrots for some reason. Here the soil is gravelly loam, but depth varies, from only 4 inches to bedrock to 50 inches, depending on the lay of the bedrock.

I can get our old potato back, but kind of liked the looks of this design better. There are many homemade potato diggers on youtube too though. I am not sure if it would work for carrots or beets though.

Thanks.
I studied the 3500 dollar potato digger that seems to be entry level at mechanizing this whole process. This first year I thought, let's see if these grow first.... Well, they sure do grow. But I'd have to plant an awful lot of potatoes to make that kind of investment pay off. And I'm not handy enough to make one home made either. The good news is I'm growing this for local food bank, have lots of pitch forks, and when harvesting, food bank said they would send volunteers to help. I'm 68 with severe arthritis and needless to say really shouldn't be doing this, but what fun.