joshuabardwell
Elite Member
I was doing some box blading today, trying to clean up the area where the pigs were. They root right up to their fence, which is only about 12" off the main fence, so there is a tiny berm of dirt all along where their fence was. Trying to pick it up, I eased the tractor right in next to the fence and made a pass. The ground slopes, so the tractor was leaned toward the fence. This meant that as I picked up my box blade at the end of the pass, it hit the fence and lifted a fence post right out of the ground! I lowered it back down and was presented with a different problem: with the loader and the box blade on, and me edged right up against the fence, I had some tight maneuvering to do to get off the fence without hitting it with the loader or the blade's swing-out. I actually ran into the problem before once while mowing; the bush hog stuck out even farther than the blade. Anyway, I raised the loader all the way up and was able to back away from the fence. While it was up there, I used the loader to squish back down the post that I pulled. Good as new!
I have some broken-off fence posts that I need to pull out of the ground, as soon as the neighbor mills replacements for me. Looks like the three-point is going to have no problem accomplishing that task.
Today's lesson: you can get real close to a fence by sidling up to it, but once you're at the end of the run, it's going to be a lot harder to sidle away. Also: when working close to a fence with heavy machinery, a tiny little slip will mess it all up.
I have some broken-off fence posts that I need to pull out of the ground, as soon as the neighbor mills replacements for me. Looks like the three-point is going to have no problem accomplishing that task.
Today's lesson: you can get real close to a fence by sidling up to it, but once you're at the end of the run, it's going to be a lot harder to sidle away. Also: when working close to a fence with heavy machinery, a tiny little slip will mess it all up.