Recent content by David P

some sort of play-house. "Play-house" is probably the wrong word given that my eldest is 14 and the other two are 11 and 10 but you get the idea. I'm just wondering if anyone here has built something like this for their kids? Just like most anything else, I'm sure you can go from quite basic...

Here's a pic of the Agri-Supply forks being used to transport a tank of maple sap. For the money, they're tough to beat. (You can't actually see the forks in this pic but they're linked to in this thread). I also use them to move our firewood around. I just started working with it this year...

Your field sounds like one of mine, which is a peat bog. I have 200' of cable, which according to Murphy means that I generally get stuck about 205 feet from the nearest tree lol. My tractor is much heavier than any of my close neighbors so I wound up buying a Mile Marker hydraulic winch...

Just like every other piece of gear on the farm, log splitters all have their strengths and weaknesses. A log lift would be really nice for working with large pieces of wood although I just roll mine into my loader bucket, pull up to the table and roll them back out. I gave consideration to a...

Well, for the second night in a row the fox is back. Here's a still I gleaned from a video clip. In the picture, you can see the chicken wire lying on the ground along the perimeter of the tractors with t-posts lying on top. It was very apparent from the video that the fox didn't care for it...

Well, I've found our number one suspect, pictured below (looks like a fox to me). I put some chicken bones, etc in the live trap last night and something was trying like crazy to get them but must have bumped the cage and tripped the door before it could get inside. Unfortunately, my trail...

Thought I'd post a pic of a similar chicken tractor to the one we built so you can see what I'm referring to. Last night after work I added 1.5 feet of chicken wire along the ground around the perimeter of each tractor. The part closest to the tractor was attached with a crown stapler and...

My wife woke me up this morning in tears as something killed 10 of our meat chickens. We had them in a Joel Salatin style tractor, although ours are 6 x 10, and whatever it was dug underneath and dragged them out into the field. One of them was dragged up the driveway, probably around 450 feet...

My wife and I purchased a home in January and I don't believe the septic tank has ever been pumped. How's that for a conversation starter? :dance1: In 2010 we purchased about 70 acres of vacant land where we have a small blueberry orchard and also make maple syrup. We gave consideration to...

Background details: My family and I were putzing around on our property (vacant) a couple of weeks ago and came across a couple of dead deer. One was a 1 1/2 year old 4-pt and the other a doe that looked to have been born this year. They were both pretty torn up by coyotes and other wildlife...

I've been looking around online and checking prices locally on tire chains for my 2wd tractor (1981 International Hydro 84) and have narrowed my choices down to a couple of online dealers. One is a name that most of you have probably seen tirechains.com and the other is tirechainsrequired.com...

I have an International Hydro 84 tractor that has either 14.9-28 or 16.9-28 rear tires (filled). I plan on using the tractor as a sap collector this winter. The property where it will be used has some pretty serious hills on it and it's just a sloppy time of the year to be in the woods so I am...

Background: I have a 1981 International Hydro 84 tractor that was running hot this summer. I pulled the radiator, flushed the fins and took it in for a pressure check. Everything was fine and after checking with the dealer I replaced the coolant with distilled water with the idea of running...

My wife and I are wrestling with our next course of action in the following scenario and I figured I would throw it out there for all of you and ask for some feedback as I often read great posts on this forum. Here's the situation: We closed on a lovely piece of property last fall and have...

Last fall my wife and I closed on a piece of land that we absolutely fell in love with. Between the time we signed the purchase agreement and the closing we discovered that the former owner had planted approximately 250 blueberry bushes on the property. This got us thinking about expanding the...