TODAYS SEAT TIME

[RadarTech]

Just a little brush moving and tree jousting!

Working on cleaning up some property.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

I had a bunch of little jobs to do today, and one of them was to till down the weeds in the garden that I decided to "fallow" this year.

Letting a garden spot lay fallow helps restore the soil’s natural nutrient balance. Giving the land a rest can also get rid of crop pests, since they don’t have anything to munch on.

Only thing planted in it, was garlic that was planted last fall and that soon will be dug, and I did plant one hill of squash in it.

Tilling the weeds down will get them to "compost" out, to feed next year's plants.

SR

 

[kozal01]

Tearing down an old shed and loading it into the dump trailer.

 

[ptsg]

Did some mowing yesterday. It was mowed about a month and half ago, so it was only about 2 ft tall weeds and what not. Not too bad. I typically deal with stuff as tall as the ROPS and up to 3" thick.

Oh and somewhere in that brush cutter, there is a bearing going bad. It only makes a noise every once in a while but it's there. Probably just a bad cage on one of the bearings. May treat it with a new pair of chains as well.

 

[keony]

Finished excavating the pad, time to put down RC:

 

[ptsg]

Did some mowing yesterday. It was mowed about a month and half ago, so it was only about 2 ft tall weeds and what not. Not too bad. I typically deal with stuff as tall as the ROPS and up to 3" thick.

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Oh and somewhere in that brush cutter, there is a bearing going bad. It only makes a noise every once in a while but it's there. Probably just a bad cage on one of the bearings. May treat it with a new pair of chains as well.

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False alarm. Turns out there is a metal shield (2nd picture, around the shaft) to protect the bottom seal that got loose for some reason and was making noise on certain occasions. Since I have the gearbox out, I'll still take the cover off and inspect it and also try to figure out why the shield got loose in the first place. Probably brush got behind it somehow.

Other than that, everything looked perfect other than some wear on the cutting chains.

This cutter has about 300 to 350 hours. A lot of those hours were very hard hours on some though brush.

 

[Xfaxman]

Pushed over the dead tree by the back fence.
Stump bucket is on the V417 and against the tree:

Extended the boom, it broke at ground level:

 

[wolc123]

I planted some buckwheat tonight. The little Farmall Cub works great on the 7 ft cultipacker.

 

[CloverKnollFarms]

1.5 tilling under the first buckwheat crop. 1 acre

 

[Jstpssng]

Yesterday I put the mower on the L2800 at my mother's house, then worked on the field for a few hours.



My father is rolling over in his grave, but I left a couple of patches of milkweed untouched. Nobody is doing hay nearby anymore, what once was farmland is now houselots. Where the nearby dairy used to be is now Kohls. Home Depot, Lowes and Walmart have stores where the cattle used to graze.
The city has a big bullseye on her land for development; if not for the ag exemption there is no way she could afford the taxes.
This guy is finding it easy to find lunch. I laugh at "no-mow May", snakes and field mice love that tall grass.