What happened to Soundguy?

[k0ua]

Maybe you techno types need to send a drone over his QTH.

Well, it is certainly possible he doesn't want to be found. But as near as I can tell, he is not under the daisies. And that is a good thing...

 

[MossRoad]

This wasn't a gotcha post or anything, I really was curious. Since I do use my tractor for more than just mowing or related tasks. I do use ground engaging equipment to plant and garden and I just couldn't imagine it working much any way than reverse and a tiller type attachment. And I couldn't imagine running around in reverse turned half way in the seat for hours.

I will click the links provided as I am curious of what they have.

Yeah, I understand that. If I did a lot of field work like plowing, disking, etc... I'd get a conventional tractor.

My neighbor does food plots, but his are only about 20' long x 8' wide scattered all over his 20 acres. A tiller would be fine for those. Drive in forward to break it up, and back out to smooth it off. Two passes and move on to the next one. It would go quite quickly, I'd think.

 

[MossRoad]

One other thing I just thought of, with those being gas motors, probably the larger V models they make how much fuel does it use? I know my Zero turn mower drinks fuel. It will use about 5 gallons to cut around 2.5 acres. Now I don't cut this weekly so it's taller than a normal yard but cut several times a summer and not overly tall. It has a 22HP motor. Contrast that with my Yanmar with a 24 hp diesel. I can cut easily 2x the acres on half the fuel out of my tractor and that's for grass that needs bush hogging and not lawn mowering.

Only their 3 smallest machines use gas engines. The rest are all diesel.

Mine is a PT425, with a 25hp Kohler, 2001 model year. They also make 22hp and 18hp gas units. I have a 60" mower, and probably take a 50" cut on each pass.

We live on about 1.2 acres. If I subtract the area that the house, driveway, garages, fenced pool area, and garden take up, I probably mow 3/4 of an acre in about 20 minutes. So I could probably do about 2.25 acres of grass per hour. I probably use between 1.25 and 1.75 gallons per hour when mowing, depending on conditions.

 

[MossRoad]

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Thread drift? What's that?

That's when I try to use my wife's sewing machine to make covers for my equipment that's stored outside. I ain't a very good seamstress.

 

[MossRoad]

Spoken by someone who has never been married to a stubborn mule :laughing: :laughing:

My wife and I are like minded on everything except money. I am a penny pincher, she can稚 be bothered with pennies.

Send all comments to geoduck, care of.... :laughing:

 

[MossRoad]

Little trick I learned courtesy of Farm Tek when my wife and I erected our 48 foot wide x 17 foot high x 100 feet long Clearspan truss arch building (it's a fabric cover as well and has been up over 15 years now, I use it for hay storage and keep the tractors and implements inside).... Tape all the joints where the fabric touches the metal with high quality DUCT TAPE, i mean every joint and keep the top fiddle string tight at all times. Gorilla Tape is recommended by me and them...

The picture is my tractors inside in the back with some rounds but it gives you the idea anyway....

No wind damage?

 

[MossRoad]

Well, it is certainly possible he doesn't want to be found. But as near as I can tell, he is not under the daisies. And that is a good thing...

Yep. :thumbsup:

 

[clemsonfor]

Yeah, I understand that. If I did a lot of field work like plowing, disking, etc... I'd get a conventional tractor.

My neighbor does food plots, but his are only about 20' long x 8' wide scattered all over his 20 acres. A tiller would be fine for those. Drive in forward to break it up, and back out to smooth it off. Two passes and move on to the next one. It would go quite quickly, I'd think.

Yea if I had them that small about anything would work.

I don't do many food plots. This year I did about 1.5 acres worth. But we were in a drought, I had to run around several times over it to get the ground broken up well.

 

[stuckmotor]

Maybe you techno types need to send a drone over his QTH.

That leaves me out. I bought a cheap drone and launched it. When last seen it was charging down the road beside my house like a bat out of the hot place.

 

[ovrszd]

I have an Autel Drone. It's never "ran off".

It has "critical landed" a couple times because I tried to squeeze out a minute or two more flying time.