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Waskom John
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New to learning about tractors and this forum but long time ago I saw in a Mother Earth magazine that a good old fashion bed spring hooked to the back of a tractor is pretty good at leveling. Today it is very hard to find bed springs but if you burn a box spring you will find one inside. A few concrete blocks for weight and go to it. I have the spring but have not used it yet.
Good luck in the down under. Hope to visit it some day.
Good luck in the down under. Hope to visit it some day.
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Just dont lose it in the weeds and hit it with a bushhog. That will give you a couple of hours of fun cleaning it out...
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An old section of chain link fence will do that too.
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Sounds risky. At some point would it shed hardened steel springs allover your field? They would be invisible.
Cant cut that wire with a sidecutter, whatever it wraps around you have to use a grinder to cut it. I'd be real careful letting that get near a field, or as aaron said it would be invisible if the weeds grow up thru it.
Cant cut that wire with a sidecutter, whatever it wraps around you have to use a grinder to cut it. I'd be real careful letting that get near a field, or as aaron said it would be invisible if the weeds grow up thru it.
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I have used it in the past to smooth out the field and it did well. The one I hit with the bush hog was buried in 3' of blackberry bushes/weeds by the property line. I dont recommend doing that.
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I'm sorry Aaron, I laughed outloud on that one!!! I had an instant visual of the noise and thrashing around under the cutter before you got it shut off. Then the 30 minutes of cursing and throwing stuff to get it cut out from under. Heheheheheheh!!!!! I call that a "Life Lesson".
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30 minutes? It was closer to 90 minutes that I was under the mower. That was not a fun afternoon...I'm sorry Aaron, I laughed outloud on that one!!! I had an instant visual of the noise and thrashing around under the cutter before you got it shut off. Then the 30 minutes of cursing and throwing stuff to get it cut out from under. Heheheheheheh!!!!! I call that a "Life Lesson".
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Its been long enough that I can laugh at it now, but I was not laughing at the time...I'm not laughing at you Aaron,,, I'm laughing with you!!!! No wait,,,, you aren't laughing.......
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ovrszd, I've owned the Kubota for about 5 years now & do everything with it including launching my boat on a slippery, grass covered boat landing at our cottage. I love the nostalgic old 8N (my grandfather bought one the year I was born, '48 & the hillbilly that owns it - not being used or even running, won't sell it) but don't use it for much except go out the lane to get the mail or to my neighbour's farm for a beer!
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You are a very Blessed Man to have both. Our 8N had an over/under drive. One time when I was 10 years old I was pulling a two wheeled trailer with a load of bulk pig feed, heading out of town to our farm. The local town marshall pulled up beside me in his car and waved me over. I stopped. He chewed me out for speeding in town....... The ole 8N would run about 25mph in overdrive. When I got home I told Dad about it. He jumped in the pickup and went to town. I'm sure he gave the Marshall a piece of his mind about bothering me while I was working. Never had a problem with the Marshall after that.....
You are a very Blessed Man to have both. Our 8N had an over/under drive. One time when I was 10 years old I was pulling a two wheeled trailer with a load of bulk pig feed, heading out of town to our farm. The local town marshall pulled up beside me in his car and waved me over. I stopped. He chewed me out for speeding in town....... The ole 8N would run about 25mph in overdrive. When I got home I told Dad about it. He jumped in the pickup and went to town. I'm sure he gave the Marshall a piece of his mind about bothering me while I was working. Never had a problem with the Marshall after that.....
That would be a fun way to drive a tractor.
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I have no idea how many hundreds of trips I made to town on that old tractor. We were 2 miles from town. When I got out of school I'd jump on the 8N and head for town. The feed store knew me and would scale me in empty, fill me, then scale me out loaded. I'd never get off the tractor. On hot days the owner would ocassionally hand me a cold bottle of pop as I was leaving. When I got home I'd park by a feeder and Dad would hand scoop off the load. I'd be off playing. He'd holler at me when he was done and I'd jump back on and make another trip. At any given time we'd have 500 fathogs on full feed. Dad made a cab for that tractor so I could go in cold/rainy weather as well.
When I was 13 Dad bought a 90 bushel auger wagon. He was very proud of that wagon. I moved up to the Ford 861 to pull that load. I was disappointed, it didn't have over/under and had a top speed of about 13 mph. That bored me. A lot. But it sure saved a lot of work for my Dad.
Waskom John
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After reading a lot of the reply's about the bed spring for a leveler I apologize to everyone that corrected me. As I said before I am new to using tractors and really appreciate being set straight. I might drag it up and down my drive a few times but as one reply said about it falling apart. I burned a few in a pile and some of them did fall apart. This has been 2 or 3 years ago. I am still finding parts all over my back yard. They must have gotten picked up in my mower and dropped all over. Unless there was a box spring factory on this property years ago.
I don't know if I am posting this right or just to you. If I am posting this wrong can you post it for all to see and let me know how to post it right.
Again ,thanks to everyone that set me straight.
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Texas John, you don't need to apologize for anything. You'll soon see on here if you post an idea, someone will point out all the things wrong with it. Most times we all joke about it, like me teasing Aaron about his brush cutter story. It's all good. And if it's not, someone will soon tell whoevre the Grinch is to let it go.
Welcome to TBN and be a frequent poster.
Welcome to TBN and be a frequent poster.
Waskom John
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Enjoy the bond time with your son. I am sure there are a lot out there that envy you to have a grown son that still want to enjoy time with his best bud. I have one too.
Waskom John
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ovrszd,
thanks for the reply. And yes I enjoyed the dig to Aaron.
Keep warm. Spring is not that far away.
John
thanks for the reply. And yes I enjoyed the dig to Aaron.
Keep warm. Spring is not that far away.
John