TODAYS SEAT TIME

[downsizingnow48]

Planting laurel trees in an old driveway. The soil is poor so I dig a big hole and fill up with topsoil and mulch. A couple months ago had some large redwood stumps (6 ft) ground out, that made a bunch of good mulch of shredded redwood mixed with dirt.

 

[Larro Darro]

. . . . .Wife decided we should pick up the copious amounts of black walnuts on the ground before I mowed the back yard. . . . . .

I picked up about five gallons this morning over at the old house. I've been trying for years to sprout some of them with very limited results. But they never fail to come up by the porch where they have to be cut down.

 

[daugen]

Planting laurel trees in an old driveway. The soil is poor so I dig a big hole and fill up with topsoil and mulch. A couple months ago had some large redwood stumps (6 ft) ground out, that made a bunch of good mulch of shredded redwood mixed with dirt.

your "soil" looks like ground up concrete,are you planting in the ground up old driveway? Good idea to add topsoil. Might need to fertilize annually too to get them established. looks like a fun project and you're really changing the way things look.

after ten inches of rain from hurricane Matthew, I expected to have to do a lot of cleanup, but it's all manual raking. So much of it was on my paved driveway, and I can't run a rear rake down there without likely scratching the surface. Just had it topsealed... So I raked it off and a teenage helper will hopefully show up today to haul it off to the burn pit. Sure would like to give this pine straw to Larro; he grows and sells it and I spend way too much time trying to clean it up and get rid of it.
Still too muddy to get the tractors on the lawn, though I might mow some roadsides today with my "new" to me Massey, still having fun going from full auto to total manual. I'll try to get a pic of that today. Though nothing like some of the beautiful vistas shown here.

Before the hurricane hit I was up in PA with my travel trailer and kinda got chased home. On the way down, everywhere everywhere there were combines out trying to get the feed corn in before the rain hit. Definitely harvest time.

 

[sixdogs]

http://www.texasinvasives.org/plant_database/plant_images/SOHA.jpg

A big, hard to control "weed" i wish I had never seen.

Is that "nutsege"? If it is, there's a new spray out that will kill nutsege and not kill the grass that surrounds it.

 

[downsizingnow48]

your "soil" looks like ground up concrete,are you planting in the ground up old driveway? Good idea to add topsoil. Might need to fertilize annually too to get them established. looks like a fun project and you're really changing the way things look.

Thanks for the note. The top 4" is the old driveway, compacted crushed rock in the topsoil. Then 12" of topsoil. Then nasty hard white clay. That is what looks like concrete. I've had good luck with other trees by digging a large hole and filling up with commercial topsoil and mulch and fertilizer. Annual fertilizer a good suggestion will do that!

 

[daugen]

Thanks for the note. The top 4" is the old driveway, compacted crushed rock in the topsoil. Then 12" of topsoil. Then nasty hard white clay. That is what looks like concrete. I've had good luck with other trees by digging a large hole and filling up with commercial topsoil and mulch and fertilizer. Annual fertilizer a good suggestion will do that!

once those roots get into that clay they will sure anchor the tree.
might be something here to help you:
Heavy Soil and Clay - California Natives Wiki

 

[downsizingnow48]

Thanks for that reference, I did not know about that outfit. Good website.

 

[Sysop]

Clearing up my tree lines some...

Before:

After:

 

[farmer2009]

Spent an hour packing hay out to cows. Then 5 hours leveling the litter down in the chicken coops. Kubota hit 300 hours today. Won't be a year old until December.

Put a couple of hours on the Ranger checking fences and moving cows and calves. Had one calf decide to take a detour. But managed to get it back in.

 

[Thall303]

Is that "nutsege"? If it is, there's a new spray out that will kill nutsege and not kill the grass that surrounds it.

No, I don't think so.

Never heard of nutsege in Texas, but the leaf growth appears to be different.
It apparently has developed an immunity to the popular herbacides.

 

[Soldier415]

Started a roughly 300ft ditching project on my road yesterday afternoon. I figure I got maybe 80ft of it done with my L3901 and the rear blade. The grass and sand was easily 4 inches higher than the road in spots from getting washed out further up whenever we get heavy rains. It'll take me a few days of picking away at it but when it's done my hope is that it permanently resolves one of the biggest areas for erosion on our road.

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How are you cutting the ditch?

 

[Ryansweatt2004]

How are you cutting the ditch?

I was mainly using my woods RB84 rear blade for the majority of the ditching and then digging out the row of dirt left from the blade with my bucket. After I dragged each side with my landscape rake and guadge wheels before back dragging everything with my bucket.

 

[CanuckPT]

I got a project underway for a friend today who wanted a pond he had dug years ago made deeper so he can have ice to shoot pucks in this winter. I hope this works!

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[daugen]

I got a project underway for a friend today who wanted a pond he had dug years ago made deeper so he can have ice to shoot pucks in this winter. I hope this works!

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that sure looks like fun. Like having your own adult sandbox

 

[Sawyer Rob]

Well, today was a VERY good day! I spread the last of the TP! (turkey poop) and I'm so glad to have that done! Here's the last of it, going out!

Did I mention that I'm GLAD to have that done? lol

SR

 

[jimjumper]

Finally got some seat time on my newest acquisition! After 15 years of getting by with my 8N my neighbor finally gave me her deceased husbands old tractor, a Yanmar 240D! It had been sitting uncovered for 6-7 years and the last time she tried to drive it she put it in the ditch. I went down and got it out and she parked it. Left the key in it and never touched it again.
I got it up to working condition today and just drove it around for a half hour to see what leaked or made weird noises. Ran like a champ!

 

[dieselcrawler]

I spent some time on both tractors today. Used the BX to mow around the mud truck and logs in that field, and the JD to move some implements I had stored around the trucks. The mud truck and another old chevy like it have been sitting there a while, the goal is get the other one that belongs to my stepson out of the weeds, running, and road-worthy. He turns 16 next month. His dad and I built it about 10 years ago.

 

[Eric Salop]

Well, today was a VERY good day! I spread the last of the TP! (turkey poop) and I'm so glad to have that done! Here's the last of it, going out!

Did I mention that I'm GLAD to have that done? lol

SR

I can well understand your relief at getting that job over. When I was younger I used to fish a pond that was next to a huge pile of TP - but only when the wind was in the right direction.

The PP (poop pile) I was moving was from cattle and nowhere near as eye watering as TP.

If I had to nominate the best PP odour, for me it would be well rotted pig manure, mmmm

 

[daugen]

Finally got some seat time on my newest acquisition! After 15 years of getting by with my 8N my neighbor finally gave me her deceased husbands old tractor, a Yanmar 240D! It had been sitting uncovered for 6-7 years and the last time she tried to drive it she put it in the ditch. I went down and got it out and she parked it. Left the key in it and never touched it again.
I got it up to working condition today and just drove it around for a half hour to see what leaked or made weird noises. Ran like a champ!

Welcome Jim. You will have fun getting to learn that tractor; I'm sure it needs an oil change and filters sitting there that long. Or maybe that's been done (working condition your mentioned). Yanmar has made great products for a long long time. I always thought they were the Honda of diesel engines and small tractors.
There is a Yanmar area of this forum you can ask technical questions in and then take some pics of you operating the tractor and post them here.

 

[daugen]

I can well understand your relief at getting that job over. When I was younger I used to fish a pond that was next to a huge pile of TP - but only when the wind was in the right direction.

The PP (poop pile) I was moving was from cattle and nowhere near as eye watering as TP.

I hope you guys have lemon scented powerwashers for cleaning off after that manure. Does the smell permeate into your tires?