TODAYS SEAT TIME

[Jstpssng]

Try explaining that claim to your insurance company???

Too funny...!

THAT would have been a youtube video!

 

[4570Man]

Here’s my 40 mini and M59 together. Just from working the machines separated I would have thought there was more size difference than there is.

 

[deserteagle71]

Finally, after a month of cold and snow the skies cleared. I fired up the old John Deere and spent a few hours out in the sunshine leveling badger dirt mounds to facilitate mowing in a few months. It felt wonderful to get out of the house!

 

[Gordon Gould]

Finally, after a month of cold and snow the skies cleared. I fired up the old John Deere and spent a few hours out in the sunshine leveling badger dirt mounds to facilitate mowing in a few months. It felt wonderful to get out of the house!View attachment 688367 View attachment 688368

 

[Alan W.]

Ice storms are good for bringing down all the deadwood.
One of a few loads I picked up with the jackass.

 

[jezreel]

Leveling Badger Mounds. . . That’s a hoot. Kinda-like us in the south having to level Fire Ant Mounds. I’d Lots rather have the Badgers.

 

[BackRoad]

Mr. DesertEagle...your northern Nevada is beautiful, and there is nothing like that first warm sunny day after a cold winter!

Your Badgers seem about like our Woodchucks - except bigger, meaner and on steroids!

'chuck hunting is generally encouraged in this area to reduce risk of livestock stepping in the holes...they can be destructive.

 

[racer34v]

Got to try out my new woodmaxx chipper. Seems like a heck of a unit and the pup agrees.

 

[deserteagle71]

Mr. DesertEagle...your northern Nevada is beautiful, and there is nothing like that first warm sunny day after a cold winter!

Your Badgers seem about like our Woodchucks - except bigger, meaner and on steroids!

'chuck hunting is generally encouraged in this area to reduce risk of livestock stepping in the holes...they can be destructive.

The reason for badgers is ground squirrels. Like prairie dogs, around here we get huge colonies of ground squirrels. During the winter months the badgers come in and dig up the ground squirrels (which are hibernating) and eat them. Squirrels leave little holes (~2" diameter) but when the badger digs down to get the squirrel the hole is more like 8" diameter and the mound of dirt is 1-1/2' high. It is amazing the size of rocks those badgers heave up out of those holes. And yes, they are mean and they fear nothing...I had one chase me back into my rig one time.

Ground squirrels cause major damage to farmers' fields around here because there are so many of them - they proliferate so quickly. In another month or so farmers will be running ads in the local paper asking people who like to shoot to come out and shoot squirrels in their alfalfa fields. Some of them offer 50 cents for each squirrel tail you turn in.

Photo I took of one of our Nevada badgers:

 

[BackRoad]

Immensely interesting! Thanks for that detail.

Sounds like it could be fun plinking...except with .22s at 10 cents per round...you can't afford to miss when shooting the ground squirrels!