Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[Creamer]

Yeah we subsoil every few years. It really breaks up the hard pan, but also brings up the rocks.

I HATE picking rocks, but live in the wrong state to have that opinion I suppose.

We also use certain varieties of grass to break up the hardpan, like alfalfa. The crazy stuff can drive a root 20 feet down, finding their way into cracks in the ledge and everything. That helps pump nitrogen from the air, down into the soil, but other types of crops do that as well. But despite being a farm, I am moving south. I am now 517 feet south from where I grew up, so I am moving south...just at glacier pace! (LOL)

Now go a few steps farther and get rid of that plow, subsoiler, and all of your other tillage equipment Then you will stop making dirt out of soil and crops grow better in soil.

 

[4570Man]

Here’s a little tree I hauled off. It was rotten and totally useless for anything but it was a heck of a tree.

 

[hunt4570]

Now go a few steps farther and get rid of that plow, subsoiler, and all of your other tillage equipment Then you will stop making dirt out of soil and crops grow better in soil.

So then you just go fling your seeds on top of hard packed soil?

 

[Sawyer Rob]

Now go a few steps farther and get rid of that plow, subsoiler, and all of your other tillage equipment Then you will stop making dirt out of soil and crops grow better in soil.

There are farms here who keep REALLY good records, and for a time they tried corn and bean, no till. And when they did, their yields were lower! So they went back to doing tillage.

SO, no till just doesn't work everywhere.

SR

 

[52wej]

And here in Central VA farmers are seeing an increase after a few years. Different soil different climates. Interesting to see differences. W. Jones

 

[Oldpath05]

Where MAX strength is needed, I use screws, otherwise, it's nails.

I have them designed now, where I can take them apart if needed, IF I break a board or two.

Only Time I have a problem is, if I get crazy and ram into one, or in the winter if one gets froze down, and I get LAZY and don't break the runners loose before I try to pick it.

I normally don't have a problem with them freezing down, but every once in a while...

SR

What size nails? Nail guns will shoot 2-1/2-3-1/4, I cant stand doing much hammering nowadays. Looking at that last picture, you have 6x6 on one side and 2x6 on other holding side boards, hope you know that will drastically offset the wood rack balance and cause a catastrophic failure requiring more wood boxes to be built.....

 

[Oldpath05]

The best way to find nails is by eyesight or luck instead of a blade hit.


I'd like to see SR back his 4 wheel trailer in here...........

Loading 6x6's - YouTube

 

[4570Man]

The best way to find nails is by eyesight or luck instead of a blade hit.


I'd like to see SR back his 4 wheel trailer in here...........

Loading 6x6's - YouTube

I used to help one of my buddies feed hogs and we hauled grain in wagons. I could push them pinned on the skid steer bucket but I never got enough practice to back them.

 

[hunt4570]

The best way to find nails is by eyesight or luck instead of a blade hit.


I'd like to see SR back his 4 wheel trailer in here...........

Loading 6x6's - YouTube

About that video...You need to just build a skid to put them on, much easier loading with a skid.. And whats with that pile of 2x4s, 5s, or 6s laying there.. no stickers or are you cutting hockey sticks for the long winters up there??

 

[Sawyer Rob]

What size nails? Nail guns will shoot 2-1/2-3-1/4, I cant stand doing much hammering nowadays. Looking at that last picture, you have 6x6 on one side and 2x6 on other holding side boards, hope you know that will drastically offset the wood rack balance and cause a catastrophic failure requiring more wood boxes to be built.....

I drive in 16's, there's not so many nails in one that I can't hammer them in. And yes I do have a nail gun...

Some of the parts in that box were from OLD broken boxes, and I no longer use a 4x4 on the sides, I've learned they don't need it.

As for backing up a 4 wheeled wagon, you could get a 4 wheel wagon out there, pay my way round trip and then bet me I couldn't do it in "one" try.

I'll warn you now, I'm a farm kid, so be prepared to loose! I've been backing up 4 wheel wagons since I was a kid!

SR