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Posted: 5/24/2023 3:25:33 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Oldgold: How many hay cuttings per season? 3. With the third typically being wet wrapped. |
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Posted: 5/24/2023 3:42:06 PM EDT
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Posted: 5/24/2023 6:04:40 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Oldgold: How many hay cuttings per season? If conditions are right and you get on it at the best times, you can get three per season. Many years it's two because of too much rain or too little rain. |
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Posted: 5/25/2023 3:16:55 PM EDT
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Yesterday's adventure with the '55 Farmall Cub
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Posted: 5/26/2023 7:48:12 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Andrapos: Yesterday's adventure with the '55 Farmall Cub Those ole Cub's are cool. |
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Posted: 5/27/2023 8:52:01 AM EDT
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Posted: 5/27/2023 3:54:33 PM EDT
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Electrifying the barn from the well service today. Glad I waited until the temperature is miserable. I am loving this little machine.
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Posted: 6/29/2023 11:51:02 PM EDT
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First berries are starting to pop up. Had the wife hop in the bucket to grab a few…as they were in the middle of the patch.
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Posted: 6/30/2023 3:00:07 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By cms81586: First berries are starting to pop up. Had the wife hop in the bucket to grab a few…as they were in the middle of the patch. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/2980/718515C9-FF59-4278-90F2-EC66AB157A3E_jpe-2868417.JPG Now there's a FEL use I never considered, reaching the hard to get spots of black raspberry patches. 
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Posted: 6/30/2023 7:31:08 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By PA452: Now there's a FEL use I never considered, reaching the hard to get spots of black raspberry patches. /media/mediaFiles/sharedAlbum/5ddc336bfd9db244c913783d-460.gif I wonder: did she still get chiggers? |
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Posted: 7/7/2023 1:02:36 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By sparkyD: I wonder: did she still get chiggers? We don’t have any up my way. Ticks have been non-existent over the past two years too. Ten miles down the road our friends kids can’t play in their lawn without coming in covered with them. |
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Posted: 7/7/2023 9:36:30 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By cms81586: We don’t have any up my way. Ticks have been non-existent over the past two years too. Ten miles down the road our friends kids can’t play in their lawn without coming in covered with them. It hasn’t been a bad year here for chiggers either. But then again I have avoided the black berries. I’m glad y’all aren’t getting eaten alive.🤠 |
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Posted: 7/8/2023 12:20:29 AM EDT
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No longer a team member to post pics, but our 1 year old kubota l4701 now has a smiley bucket over clearing saplings. We have 20 acres. 10 pasture 10 woods. Had a 22k dozer start the other week. Spent a few days with the tractor. Had a Deere 60g out today for 1 hours. It’s coming together. Guy with the 60g said he had a 50k excavator he’d rent to lay down the 80’+ tall trees when we get to that point. Just a hobby farm since the big guy doesn’t say we pay our fair share.
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Posted: 7/8/2023 10:17:05 PM EDT
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Posted: 7/12/2023 11:41:53 PM EDT
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Replaced the orange one with the green one. Wanted more power for running my round baler.
Had a great o experience with the Kioti. Zero issues that weren't self induced. If their new HX series was available, I probably would have gotten another. Found a deal on an American made 5100m with only 140 hours that I couldn't pass up though.  Attached File Attached File |
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Posted: 7/13/2023 6:34:00 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By avslash: Replaced the orange one with the green one. Wanted more power for running my round baler. Had a great o experience with the Kioti. Zero issues that weren't self induced. If their new HX series was available, I probably would have gotten another. Found a deal on an American made 5100m with only 140 hours that I couldn't pass up though. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/84724/image000008_jpeg-2883815.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/84724/Resized_20230712_114455_jpeg-2883817.JPG Can't tell what model the JD is, but the Kioti you bought has more HP? |
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Posted: 7/13/2023 9:02:16 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Wobblin-Goblin: Can't tell what model the JD is, but the Kioti you bought has more HP? Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Wobblin-Goblin: Originally Posted By avslash: Replaced the orange one with the green one. Wanted more power for running my round baler. Had a great o experience with the Kioti. Zero issues that weren't self induced. If their new HX series was available, I probably would have gotten another. Found a deal on an American made 5100m with only 140 hours that I couldn't pass up though. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/84724/image000008_jpeg-2883815.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/84724/Resized_20230712_114455_jpeg-2883817.JPG Can't tell what model the JD is, but the Kioti you bought has more HP? What is the 5100M just under 80hp? I see it has def so does that make it over 75hp? I haven’t kept up with the New JD nomenclature. |
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Posted: 7/13/2023 11:22:38 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By sparkyD: What is the 5100M just under 80hp? I see it has def so does that make it over 75hp? I haven't kept up with the New JD nomenclature. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By sparkyD: Originally Posted By Wobblin-Goblin: Originally Posted By avslash: Replaced the orange one with the green one. Wanted more power for running my round baler. Had a great o experience with the Kioti. Zero issues that weren't self induced. If their new HX series was available, I probably would have gotten another. Found a deal on an American made 5100m with only 140 hours that I couldn't pass up though. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/84724/image000008_jpeg-2883815.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/84724/Resized_20230712_114455_jpeg-2883817.JPG Can't tell what model the JD is, but the Kioti you bought has more HP? What is the 5100M just under 80hp? I see it has def so does that make it over 75hp? I haven't kept up with the New JD nomenclature. |
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Posted: 7/13/2023 9:53:30 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Merlin: 100 hp per TD: https://www.tractordata.com/farm-tractors/006/6/0/6605-john-deere-5100m.html Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Merlin: Originally Posted By sparkyD: Originally Posted By Wobblin-Goblin: Originally Posted By avslash: Replaced the orange one with the green one. Wanted more power for running my round baler. Had a great o experience with the Kioti. Zero issues that weren't self induced. If their new HX series was available, I probably would have gotten another. Found a deal on an American made 5100m with only 140 hours that I couldn't pass up though. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/84724/image000008_jpeg-2883815.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/84724/Resized_20230712_114455_jpeg-2883817.JPG Can't tell what model the JD is, but the Kioti you bought has more HP? What is the 5100M just under 80hp? I see it has def so does that make it over 75hp? I haven't kept up with the New JD nomenclature. I’m not to impressed with the light weight 100hp class of today’s tractors. I know my 6615 is a 95 pto tractor but the six cylinder engine helps with the torque of running a mixer or a baler. |
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Posted: 7/20/2023 2:10:39 PM EDT
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 Attached File. Finished baling hay yesterday evening. This field is on a very steep hill which the photo doesn’t do justice. I had to spear the bale as soon as it came out of the baler. Other wise they ran down the hill into a corn field. Caught all them but one. |
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Posted: 7/20/2023 5:24:04 PM EDT
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Today I gathered all the cut brush we had laying around our yard and my neighbor’s place. We had a tree service stop by and chip everything up for mulch:
  
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Posted: 7/20/2023 9:49:52 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Mick214: Today I gathered all the cut brush we had laying around our yard and my neighbor’s place. We had a tree service stop by and chip everything up for mulch: https://i.postimg.cc/fRSqx9Pr/Stacking-brush.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/CKyPJKTL/Chipping-brush.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/s2pnLRsP/Mulch.jpg @Mick214 Is that the full pile in that second pic that created that full pile of mulch in the third pic? |
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Posted: 7/21/2023 12:41:38 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By PA452: @Mick214 Is that the full pile in that second pic that created that full pile of mulch in the third pic? Yep....My neighbor and I cut down a couple of dead Elm trees when we first moved in about a year and a half ago. We have since planted several new trees around the yard and we will use this mulch around the base of those trees. |
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Posted: 7/22/2023 11:01:30 PM EDT
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 Storms rolled through Thursday evening and I lost a bunch of limbs. Time to break out the chipper and do some cleanup. |
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Posted: 7/31/2023 7:53:19 AM EDT
[Last Edit: Buckshot4U]
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Set trusses on the shop this weekend. My cousin welded up a jib pole to use his skidsteer to set them, but it lacked about 12" of height to comfortably do it (we could have made it work if we had to). So option B was rigging up jib pole on the 5055. The 9 speed manual wasn't nearly as handy as what the hydro skidsteer woulda been, but we made it work. As you may be able to tell from my sweat stained volunteer work force, it was hot as balls.
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Posted: 8/2/2023 2:38:28 PM EDT
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Late reply to my earlier post. Been covered up with my paying job.
The JD replaced the Kioti. 5100M is rated 100HP and 85 PTO HP. Kioti weighed 6,200ish pounds without loader, 5100M is 9000ish without the loader, so a substantially heavier and more powerful machine. I almost purchased a CIH 120C, but settled on the JD because the CIH was making that power out of a liter less of engine displacement. That didn't sound good for pulling torque to me. Also found a few places that could tune the JD up to 130 hp should any parts ever fall off of the exhaust system. That made sense to me since the 5115M model uses the same engine as the 5100M. I really enjoyed the Kioti and it gave me no issues through 3.5 hay seasons, but it was apparent in short order that the JD is a much heavier duty machine. |
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Posted: 8/3/2023 5:43:40 PM EDT
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Was out brush hogging and had a visit from a very unshy turkey hen. Didn't see a nest anywhere.
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Posted: 8/11/2023 1:27:10 PM EDT
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A "new to me" 2007 John Deere 410J's first task on the farm: pushing up piles of loam to get it ready for the screener. After it was delivered a couple weeks ago, we changed the engine oil, oil filter, air filters, fuel filter, fuel line breather filter, cabin air filters, transmission filter and fluid, drained and replaced front and rear axle fluids and all four planetary drive fluids, greased the entire machine, and then I deep cleaned the inside of the cab. The only thing I didn't do (as far as initial regular maintenance items go, anyway) is change the hydraulic fluid and filter.
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Posted: 8/11/2023 2:05:35 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By TheJMan1: Was out brush hogging and had a visit from a very unshy turkey hen. Didn't see a nest anywhere.https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/221907/PXL_20230803_192604552_jpg-2907338.JPG When I first bought my Bushhog, my fields hadn't been done for years. I was chomping at the bit to "get it done". Got started - then the turkeys started flying out of the bushes. I didn't think much of it, there was plenty of other places to go. Until the next day when I saw the turkeys back in the now mowed fields - looking for their nests, eggs and babies.  I felt like a fucking dumbass. It was only then that I started research, asked questions over on TNDeer.com and did some reading. Leave the fields alone March-July for the Turkeys! |
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Posted: 8/12/2023 9:25:45 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Merlin: Turkeys are why I wait until August to bushhog my fields. When I first bought my Bushhog, my fields hadn't been done for years. I was chomping at the bit to "get it done". Got started - then the turkeys started flying out of the bushes. I didn't think much of it, there was plenty of other places to go. Until the next day when I saw the turkeys back in the now mowed fields - looking for their nests, eggs and babies. I felt like a fucking dumbass. It was only then that I started research, asked questions over on TNDeer.com and did some reading. Leave the fields alone March-July for the Turkeys! These are pastures and rotated hayfields. They must be mowed when needed, it's not a nature preserve. |
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Posted: 8/27/2023 6:33:09 PM EDT
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Ran a disc over a 6A field to get ready for orchard grass seed next weekend.
 Attached File Attached FileSplit the McCormick to replace the clutch. First one and it’s an 2004 with ~4K hours.  Attached File |
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Posted: 8/29/2023 8:31:15 PM EDT
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 One of those days. Thought I could straddle a rut and well I fell in. We had to drag the skid steer out with a tractor to somewhat level ground. |
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Posted: 8/29/2023 8:47:35 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By sparkyD: https://i.imgur.com/ZcXPHwH.jpg One of those days. Thought I could straddle a rut and well I fell in. We had to drag the skid steer out with a tractor to somewhat level ground. How big of a rut? |
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Posted: 8/30/2023 8:43:15 AM EDT
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The machine bottomed out so I’d say 16” or so. It’s from the big tractor and mixer where we feed through the winter. I got to get in the feed pen with the dozer and push that mulch up and level it out before winter.
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Posted: 8/30/2023 1:18:37 PM EDT
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Prepped for Hurricane. Ready to assist folks that need access through driveways. Grapple, mulcher, chainsaws checked and ready to go....
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Posted: 8/30/2023 9:16:10 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By NCUrk: Prepped for Hurricane. Ready to assist folks that need access through driveways. Grapple, mulcher, chainsaws checked and ready to go.... https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/269478/20230830_122946_jpg-2937422.JPG 👍 I hope the damage is minimal. |
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Posted: 9/1/2023 3:14:02 PM EDT
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Working through splitting one hell of a firewood pile. We live near a state park and have been selling most of it. Makes an extra hundred or so a week and my boys help so they get some allowance.
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Posted: 9/1/2023 10:34:59 PM EDT
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Moving logs to the mill and then moving milled posts and planks from the mill to my work station for my timber frame shop project…..
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Posted: 9/2/2023 8:09:31 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Davidrw5150: Moving logs to the mill and then moving milled posts and planks from the mill to my work station for my timber frame shop project….. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/384426/IMG_1372_jpeg-2939945.JPGhttps://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/384426/IMG_1359_jpeg-2939947.JPG Looks like you’re making a good pile of sawdust. 🤠 when it cools down a bit I need to get my mill sawing again. Hay season seems to be taking up my time along with brush hogging. |
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Posted: 9/10/2023 2:58:48 PM EDT
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 Spent last two weekends recovering 2 acres that hasn't been mowed in 4 years to turn into pasture. Probably do a fall and spring weed killer spray before any seeding. |
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Posted: 9/10/2023 4:38:33 PM EDT
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In the past two weeks we've been touching up the berms for our sheet water ponds.
They bring in the ducks all season, especially after a freeze, because we run our well water into the ponds. We have open shallow water since it comes out of the wells at 55 degrees. Drone view of the swales (wide shallow ditches) and berms.  Attached FileWe use a 12' drag leveler to skim off a few inches of the soil to drag to the berm. We're only going for 6-8" deep.  Attached FileWe installed a couple 8" head gates to keep the water in the first sheet water then we can open it to flood the second, down to the third and fourth. The idea is to not drown the grass. Here it is after we flooded it to check our work.  Attached Fileand a quick video of the headgate and the first pond.  SHEETWATER |
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Posted: 9/12/2023 12:05:16 PM EDT
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No in-progress pics, but I used my tractor with it's forks to lift this +920 lbs work bench so I could rengineer the lower shelf.
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Posted: 9/12/2023 12:30:45 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By GoldenMead: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/482001/541871D8-BDAB-43CB-BB77-7AEDC0969318_jpe-2892481.JPG. Finished baling hay yesterday evening. This field is on a very steep hill which the photo doesn’t do justice. I had to spear the bale as soon as it came out of the baler. Other wise they ran down the hill into a corn field. Caught all them but one. Baler man can't quarter turn them? Lack of reverse? |
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Posted: 9/13/2023 9:00:27 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Merlin: No in-progress pics, but I used my tractor with it's forks to lift this +920 lbs work bench so I could rengineer the lower shelf. Before: https://i.imgur.com/bOXJ7Vj.jpg https://i.imgur.com/TetGpL0.jpg After: https://i.imgur.com/n7oKK1l.jpg https://i.imgur.com/jZct9s8.jpg That has turned out nice. |
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Posted: 9/13/2023 9:12:07 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By dirtyboy: Baler man can't quarter turn them? Lack of reverse? Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By dirtyboy: Originally Posted By GoldenMead: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/482001/541871D8-BDAB-43CB-BB77-7AEDC0969318_jpe-2892481.JPG. Finished baling hay yesterday evening. This field is on a very steep hill which the photo doesn’t do justice. I had to spear the bale as soon as it came out of the baler. Other wise they ran down the hill into a corn field. Caught all them but one. Baler man can't quarter turn them? Lack of reverse? I have a hill that when you quarter turn them they just roll after the baler. If you bale down hill. If you’re baling up hill then you either back down the hill or have someone catch them. The old JD baler it doesn’t have a bale ramp or kicker and sometimes you can kill the pto and open it slowly and let it kinda grab the bale. And it will stop it from rolling but not every time. I dropped one bale at the edge of a hill once. Thought I was safe and the bale took off down the hill hit a small terrace jumped the fence and landed in a beaver swamp. You bale hay long enough and crap that you think is impossible will happen. I’m totally surprised that the bale jumped the fence. My usual luck is I would have to fix fence. The bale disappeared in about a month. The beavers and muskrats pulled it apart. I guess they eat some of it and used it for bedding. |
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Posted: 9/25/2023 8:45:58 PM EDT
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I love the poor man's grapple (pallet forks)
 Cruised around the field mowing, spied an old burn pile with a big mesquite trunk in it.  Attached File Attached FileI'm getting pretty good picking up stuff with these forks. 
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Posted: 9/26/2023 6:38:15 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 1Andy2: I love the poor man's grapple (pallet forks) Cruised around the field mowing, spied an old burn pile with a big mesquite trunk in it. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/55344/20230925_183837_jpg-2966495.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/55344/20230925_185743_jpg-2966496.JPG I'm getting pretty good picking up stuff with these forks. That's a nice tractor, I'm sure you appreciate the cab down there in Texas. |
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Posted: 9/26/2023 3:59:49 PM EDT
[Last Edit: 1Andy2]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Wobblin-Goblin: That's a nice tractor, I'm sure you appreciate the cab down there in Texas. Thanks, yeah. I did some mowing before dove season and its been so dry I was having to blow out the radiator every couple of hours. Kicked up so much dust, the radiator was getting so clogged it would start to overheat. It would have been absolutely brutal on an open cab. Between the A/C and the radio/bluetooth, it turns an otherwise miserable chore into a pleasant, relaxing afternoon. I will never own another tractor without both a front end loader and a cab with air conditioning. Still need to figure out where to mount a scabbard for my chainsaw. Thinking maybe where the slow moving vehicle triangle is. |
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Posted: 9/26/2023 6:18:12 PM EDT
[Last Edit: NCUrk]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 1Andy2: Thanks, yeah. I did some mowing before dove season and its been so dry I was having to blow out the radiator every couple of hours. Kicked up so much dust, the radiator was getting so clogged it would start to overheat. It would have been absolutely brutal on an open cab. Between the A/C and the radio/bluetooth, it turns an otherwise miserable chore into a pleasant, relaxing afternoon. I will never own another tractor without both a front end loader and a cab with air conditioning. Still need to figure out where to mount a scabbard for my chainsaw. Thinking maybe where the slow moving vehicle triangle is. If you have a compressor on your truck, I find this wand invaluable on my skidsteer when mulching. Its great for blowing out hard to reach areas. Airwand from Inovative on Amazon.  Attached File |
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Posted: 9/27/2023 9:42:38 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 1Andy2: Thanks, yeah. I did some mowing before dove season and its been so dry I was having to blow out the radiator every couple of hours. Kicked up so much dust, the radiator was getting so clogged it would start to overheat. It would have been absolutely brutal on an open cab. Between the A/C and the radio/bluetooth, it turns an otherwise miserable chore into a pleasant, relaxing afternoon. I will never own another tractor without both a front end loader and a cab with air conditioning. Still need to figure out where to mount a scabbard for my chainsaw. Thinking maybe where the slow moving vehicle triangle is. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By 1Andy2: Originally Posted By Wobblin-Goblin: That's a nice tractor, I'm sure you appreciate the cab down there in Texas. Thanks, yeah. I did some mowing before dove season and its been so dry I was having to blow out the radiator every couple of hours. Kicked up so much dust, the radiator was getting so clogged it would start to overheat. It would have been absolutely brutal on an open cab. Between the A/C and the radio/bluetooth, it turns an otherwise miserable chore into a pleasant, relaxing afternoon. I will never own another tractor without both a front end loader and a cab with air conditioning. Still need to figure out where to mount a scabbard for my chainsaw. Thinking maybe where the slow moving vehicle triangle is. Rag weed pollen was clogging up the air filter on both the Deutz and John Deere last week. Oh grasshoppers were sticking to the screens as well. A portable gas powered air compressor is a radiator saver. |
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