Pictures from a skid steer mowing contractor

[EddieWalker]

Hope you're not in the path of Milton!!! I can't imagine how much worse it will be after it hits.

 

[Lineman North Florida]

Had to get these army worms sprayed first thing this morning before this 180MPH suppository that's coming bares down on us, we will see what happens you never know with these hurricanes, help your neighbors and pray for one another, hope everyone has a good week. Charlie.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Hope hurricane not as bad as predicted. My friend near Tampa went 2.5 hrs north, but it took him 10 hrs with traffic.

 

[paulsharvey]

Lineman, when spraying, do you eye ball, do you have the whole GPS suite with autosteer, or are you using one of the simple, like $500 and $10/month gps tracker screens where you input your working width, offset, ect

I've actually seen some systems, without autosteer, that really could pay for themselves in just a couple acres of spray/lime/fertilizer. Of coarse at those kinda prices, you donr get automatic sprayer start/stop, or 100% precision,

 

[Lineman North Florida]

Hope hurricane not as bad as predicted. My friend near Tampa went 2.5 hrs north, but it took him 10 hrs with traffic.

I went to the doctor after spraying army worms this morning and had to drive under I-75 and the Northbound lanes were bumper to bumper at what looked like about a 15 MPH pace, my buddy told me US-19 which is a 4 lane off the West Coast of Florida was the same way, I'm just glad people are taking this thing seriously.

 

[Lineman North Florida]

Lineman, when spraying, do you eye ball, do you have the whole GPS suite with autosteer, or are you using one of the simple, like $500 and $10/month gps tracker screens where you input your working width, offset, ect

I've actually seen some systems, without autosteer, that really could pay for themselves in just a couple acres of spray/lime/fertilizer. Of coarse at those kinda prices, you donr get automatic sprayer start/stop, or 100% precision,

I have a Raven GPS unit, it doesn't have auto steer but it does use satellite's for GPS positioning and is pretty accurate supposedly
+ or - 1" not sure I believe it's that accurate but it's plenty accurate for what I use it for , spraying and putting out fertilizer, gone are the days of me stepping off to start and having ribbon tied in bushes at each end of the field.

 

[paulsharvey]

I went to the doctor after spraying army worms this morning and had to drive under I-75 and the Northbound lanes were bumper to bumper at what looked like about a 15 MPH pace, my buddy told me US-19 which is a 4 lane off the West Coast of Florida was the same way, I'm just glad people are taking this thing seriously.

US1 and I95/I295 and US301 were all moving, but very slow yesterday. There were so many additional people going through St Augustine yesterday that cell phones did go to emergency calling only at least a couple times, but not for long periods of time. Around 9am had to moving a truck from St Aug to Jax, and I95 was probably averaging about 50mph with areas down to maybe 15 mph.

 

[Lineman North Florida]

Today's job a 10 acre mowing job at a new home build .This was all grown up in hairy indigo, I got busy and forgot to get before pictures so these are all after when I loaded up to leave.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I looked at a 10 acre lot today, mostly 4 ft tall weeds, few trees in the back.

 

[Lineman North Florida]

I looked at a 10 acre lot today, mostly 4 ft tall weeds, few trees in the back.

A lot of people don't even consider the amount of time that going around obstacles, trees, downed trees, brush piles etc can add to a job rather than just being able to go straight and keep a consistent steady pace. I was fortunate this job had a few areas where the hairy indigo was close to 3 ft tall but mostly about 2 ft tall, I told him this will allow his grass that he has coming up to get a little sunlight and not be shaded or choked out, he also wants me to come back in the spring and spray for weeds and the hairy indigo so he can have a nice grass patch.