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.

 

[BackRoad]

Makes me want to cry Mr. Jstpssng.

Some would call it progress - I call it sad...

 

[scootr]

We too were once surrounded by wheatland... now 50% of that is homes.

 

[RobertEH]

It was a busy and varied weekend on the tractor.
1. A tree from my property fell across the road. Some locals got to it before me and cut it into 3-4 20ish foot sections and pushed it off the road. I used the forks to relocate those to a place that I can buck them into rounds. Put a pallet on the forks and removed all the branches and debris for burning later
2. Unloaded a load of wood for garden boxes from the truck onto a pallet directly onto the forks. no bending over and hurting the back (not yet at least). Then staged all that to the place I will build the garden boxes
3. Used the forks for a sawhorse to tweak some 4x6 posts I will use for my soon to be built implement shelter
4. Used the forks again to hold some 2x6x8' boards 10 feet off the ground so I could climb a ladder and secure them to the posts for the aforementioned shelter.

Palletizing heavy stuff so it can be easily relocated later has been an epiphany for me - and a use I uncovered after I bought the tractor. I am palleting up 55gallon drums of water, tractor implements, piles of lumber, cement blocks, and the list goes on and on.

 

[RobertEH]

Photo of the palleted lumber for the shelter from last week

 

[ptsg]

Yesterdays job was to mow about half an acre of 2 years worth of overgrown, brush, weeds and lots of giant reeds. No really good before pictures but some half way through the job. These pictures only show about half the land though.

Before, I did get new G80 chains and new oil for the gearbox on the cutter. I'll still milk this old chains a little bit more though. Till another link wears out so thin that it breaks probably.

Also, friendly reminder to not get lazy and go out and check the radiator multiple times during the work. Stuff like this can get expensive in an hurry. This was only about 1 hour into the job.

Luckily, it was very windy, so I just parked so the wind would blow from the engine side to the front and then tapped the screen with my hand and everything just fall out naturally.

 

[LouNY]

Had a decent day today, a benefit tractor pull just down the road,
My brother took his little WD's down and I ran one of them. He has 2 WD's and my Nephew has a WD and an IH 460 to play with
He pulled in the 3500#, 3 1/2mph, 5 mph and open class, he won in the open and did good in the others, beating his grandson by less then 2 feet in each.
In the 4000# class we both pulled along with his grandson,
In the 3 1/2 mph class all three of use did good a couple ribbons.
in the 5 mph class the tractor I was on did real well, pulled a second place and later we learned the 1st place was DQ'ed for speeding so actually ended up as first,
the others were in the top 5 or so.
Then we got rained out before the 4500# class could pull, I ended up coming home, the others waited it out and finished pull about 5:30 or 6 this evening.
Haven't heard how they fared yet.

My brother,

and the other WD that I pulled,

 

[Ricn]

Mowed the field, moved brush and two trees I had cut down for firewood, dug up a big rock that has plagued me for years then sat back with some whisky and good cigar.

 

[Williy]

I read in the Bible that we should let the land rest every 7th year

willy

 

[wolc123]

I read in the Bible that we should let the land rest every 7th year

willy

Soon, you will get to the part where Jesus Christ pays for all of our sins, so it’s all well and good to work it continuously now.

A little break for the land is still not a bad thing though. We use to work ours much harder, back when we had cattle and hogs (from a few years before the Civil war up until 1981, when we got rid of the last of them after grandpa passed away from a heart attack, while grinding feed).

Since then, I’ve been planting a few acres of corn for the deer every year, rotating with 3-5 years of white clover in between the corn years, and living off the fat of the land with the “free” venison.

Lots of them Old Testament Bible rules turn out to be in our best interest, especially the ones about what we should eat. Beef and deer are way better for our human bodies than pork is, and I like bass a lot better than catfish. Hopefully, the healthier diet will keep me here on this temporary home a bit longer than grandpa was able to stay.


Thanks to Jesus Christ and what He did for all of us, I am not at all worried about where my permanent home will be.

 

[Gordon Gould]

Had a decent day today, a benefit tractor pull just down the road,
My brother took his little WD's down and I ran one of them. He has 2 WD's and my Nephew has a WD and an IH 460 to play with
He pulled in the 3500#, 3 1/2mph, 5 mph and open class, he won in the open and did good in the others, beating his grandson by less then 2 feet in each.
In the 4000# class we both pulled along with his grandson,
In the 3 1/2 mph class all three of use did good a couple ribbons.
in the 5 mph class the tractor I was on did real well, pulled a second place and later we learned the 1st place was DQ'ed for speeding so actually ended up as first,
the others were in the top 5 or so.
Then we got rained out before the 4500# class could pull, I ended up coming home, the others waited it out and finished pull about 5:30 or 6 this evening.
Haven't heard how they fared yet.

My brother,
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and the other WD that I pulled,
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Sounds like a fun day and a great event for a benefit !!

gg