Recent content by MountainMomma

So, pictures are hard to get a real good sense of it, but here goes. First one is a panorama, and I measured the left slope at its steepest, and it痴 70ｰ. The opposite side of the bowl is also 70ｰ. In the middle is a swale that is going uphill away from the camera for about 1200 feet, give or...

It is hard to put patterns into words, but I have all hilly land on my WV mountain farm, and I am going to start mowing it for the first time next week in my new Yanmar YT235. (It will have the wheels spaced wide and filled by the dealer. We did not opt for Ag1 tires because we also run this on...

Hi! Looking for advice on a specific model number of a Deere tractor to buy. So, we live in WV mountains on 40 acres. We致e been here for 7 years, so we have a pretty good idea of what we need a tractor for on our land. We have had a 1947 Ford 8N that has a PTO and three point hitch and has...

Hi, We have been reviving a small (40 acre) farm in mountainous WV for the past 7 years. We bought a 1956 Ford tractor that we have nursed along until now, but it is slowly dying. We have decided it would be a good thing overall to upgrade our tractor with an eye towards haying 20 of our acres...

MOSTLY want to mow. Also LIGHT landscaping (got friends nearby with HEAVY earth moving machines), transporting stones for landscaping, and LIGHT pushing of earth around. Planning to farm Angus and fruit trees, in a homesteading, part time, kind of way. OK: here are shots of my terrain, in...

So, we're about to pull the trigger on a Ventrac 4200 of some description (and, yes, we've already come to that decision through much research--see this thread), and are only looking at Ventrac's liquid cooled engines, which narrows the field to four machines: 2 gas and 2 diesel. In combing the...

Looking at Kubota's line and am seriously thinking of buying a garden tractor tomorrow... but was reading threads here and came across a term that I can't figure out. What is a CUT? Here's a quote: "he pushes the Cub Cadet garden tractors over the Kubota garden units, but pushes the Kubota...

I've been researching compact tractors and have decided that, for this season and as a first step, I'm going to hire heavy equipment needs and go for a mower that can tow dirt/rocks around for smaller landscaping jobs, mow, and (ideally and rarely) plow the driveway if we get stuck there in the...

So... we have 40 new acres to tame (mostly open and somewhat hilly). We're going to be mowing, mostly, initially. A little grading, transporting stuff around the farm. Someday, cows. Anyhoo, acting on advice from this forum, I hoofed off to drive compact tractors at two dealerships, shopping...

Hey there, We just bought 40 acres that has been neglected for 30 years. Has hundreds of large multiflora rose bushes growing on it, two ponds that need dredging, and some grading work. Two real questions: 1. How do you guys remove mature multiflora rose bushes? Please, be detailed and don't...