TODAYS SEAT TIME

[Williy]

Backroad yer grass cutter weak in the poop?
Wouldn't it be nice if the blades would suck up
the grass and cut it so we wouldn't have a few
lanes of high grass??

Very nice lawn you have there. Now you need a

willy

 

[Jstpssng]

Backroad yer grass cutter weak in the poop?
Wouldn't it be nice if the blades would suck up
the grass and cut it so we wouldn't have a few
lanes of high grass??

Very nice lawn you have there. Now you need a
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willy

I haven't played that in decades. It was a lot of fun when we were kids, especially at family gatherings while the adults tossed horse shoes.

 

[Jstpssng]

I take it where you live , there is an over abundance of rocks?

Revisiting this comment. These were taken yesterday, in an old field which has grown back to mature softwood.

The picture on the left doesn't do it any justice. It's a rock wall about 5 feet wide and 2 feet high, running several hundred feet along what was once a field.

 

[BackRoad]

Do ya'll put up those beautiful walls to keep the rocks in...or to keep them out???

 

[Jstpssng]

Do ya'll put up those beautiful walls to keep the rocks in...or to keep them out???

These were built by settlers who later moved west, where they farm soil, rather than stones.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

Sunny 80 here today, I did manage to get the back garden trenches in. I'll be dropping flower bulbs in this trench,

This makes it VERY easy to plant bulbs, potatoes or even to put plants in.

SR

 

[ptsg]

Sunny 80 here today, I did manage to get the back garden trenches in. I'll be dropping flour bulbs in this trench,

This makes it VERY easy to plant bulbs, potatoes or even to put plants in.

SR

I want to build something similar that I can use to plant potatoes and that I can swap out for a potato digger. Haven't got around to do yet. Maybe for the next year harvest.

Over here, it's common to mount the plows on the tiller. As it tills, it opens the furrows, ready to plant.

Like this:

 

[Sawyer Rob]

I got back to work on my back garden today, first thing I did was fill one of the trenches with flower bulbs,

With that done, it was very easy to cover them up,

Now I can ignore them until fall! lol

SR

 

[Jstpssng]

I got back to work on my back garden today, first thing I did was fill one of the trenches with flower bulbs,

With that done, it was very easy to cover them up,

Now I can ignore them until fall! lol

SR

See, THAT'S what I'm talking about. Where are the rocks?

 

[Sawyer Rob]

See, THAT'S what I'm talking about. Where are the rocks?

First of all, all the soil you see in the pict. was put there as bucket load after bucket load of cowchit that I cleaned out from around a cattle feedlot. I hauled it all in (by the bucket load) and made that raised garden, (it's now composted out) even then some rocks still come up/through.

Every year I pick the few that come up and move them out, so it "looks" like I don't have rocks on my place, but I do.

SR

 

[Eagle1]

First of all, all the soil you see in the pict. was put there as bucket load after bucket load of cowchit that I cleaned out from around a cattle feedlot. I hauled it all in (by the bucket load) and made that raised garden, (it's now composted out) even then some rocks still come up/through.

Every year I pick the few that come up and move them out, so it "looks" like I don't have rocks on my place, but I do.

SR

My compost pile grows rocks
Really every time I use compost there are new (composted?) rocks that appear. I throw a ton out of the pile when I turn it. .....Pretty sure they sneak in when I add random stuff to the pile but still.

 

[Jstpssng]

My compost pile grows rocks
Really every time I use compost there are new (composted?) rocks that appear. I throw a ton out of the pile when I turn it. .....Pretty sure they sneak in when I add random stuff to the pile but still.

I cannot tell a lie. I sneak in every night and toss a bucket load into the pile.

 

[Eagle1]

I cannot tell a lie. I sneak in every night and toss a bucket load into the pile.

Must have a big bucket.... it's the football/basketball size that get me down.
Reminds me I still need to try to sink on T-Post tried 4 spots the other day still not past 5" before I hit a rock.... May just dig it with the backhoe and put a cedar post in. I actually drove 4 without hitting rock this weekend, new record. Note that was in my swamp I pretty much could push them in by hand.

 

[Jstpssng]

Must have a big bucket.... it's the football/basketball size that get me down.
Reminds me I still need to try to sink on T-Post tried 4 spots the other day still not past 5" before I hit a rock.... May just dig it with the backhoe and put a cedar post in. I actually drove 4 without hitting rock this weekend, new record. Note that was in my swamp I pretty much could push them in by hand.

Not that big... about 7 cubic feet, if I remember correctly.

 

[Williy]

When I dug a trench for a water line all the rocks came up
it was just dirt before digging


willy

 

[Sawyer Rob]

I have my tractor with rotary cutter all loaded up,

to head to a big job that will last quite a while, rotary cutting at a tree farm. I always enjoy doing tractor jobs at this place!

SR

 

[Molalla1]

I have my tractor with rotary cutter all loaded up,

to head to a big job that will last quite a while, rotary cutting at a tree farm. I always enjoy doing tractor jobs at this place!

SR

Well SR come out my way for some charity work . . .

 

[Sawyer Rob]

Well SR come out my way for some charity work . . .

naaaa, Oregon state is MUCH too liberal for me to ever step foot into it, again. lol

SR

 

[Molalla1]

naaaa, Oregon state is MUCH too liberal for me to ever step foot into it, again. lol

SR

Not where we reside . . . I always think that it would be better to have people vote by the amount of land one owns, more land = more votes . . .

 

[Matt_Attach]

This project was a fun one for me this past weekend for a customer.
Sliced the center strip using the land plane and removed the center strip dunnage using the box blade and pulled to a dump area.
Then reconfigured back to land plane to pull up the compressed stone and evenly distribute.
To finish, I used the chain drag harrow.

The customer's husband had recently passed, so she was grateful to have some help around the property.
She has a few more areas for me to work on now that she has seen what I can do. (you will see a good size stone pile in the background of one of the photos)
These jobs are very satisfying to see the before and after results.