Recent content by rf33

Well, it has been several months of working, and I am making a little progress on my fences. I have been unable to devote much time to it, but little by little I have been able to put in an hour or two here, etc. First is a picture of the fence I built for the dogs. It is an area about 100'...

I was greasing my tractor today (a JD 5520), and the grease zerks on the top outsides of the back axles each took about 50 shots of grease, and I still never saw any come out anywhere. Does this strike anyone as odd? Should I just keep adding grease until I eventually see some come out? Could...

I finally got the time to start setting some posts this week on my fence project. Let me start out by saying that perhaps the end of July/beginning of August is not the best time to start a large scale outdoor project in Texas. It has been hovering around 98 degrees for the last two weeks, and...

The ground here finally dried out enough for the guy to come out and sprig our pastures today. My only mistake was that I forgot to bring along the camera. The equipment these guys use was pretty darn neat. They brought a Deere 7210 4WD tractor pulling the sprigger behind it. The sprigger...

I was changing the oil on my 5520 today, and I got to thinking: Why does a 4 cylinder diesel engine take 9 quarts of oil, while most gas 4 cylinder engines only take 5. Got to thinking some more, and wondered why my 8 cylinder diesel in my truck takes 15 quarts while my 8 cylinder gas engine...

Saw the neighbors two places down the road rolling up a little hay yesterday, so I thought I would take a pic.

I've been working on getting about 15 acres of our property disced up enough to get some grass going this year. After I get it nice and tilled and flat with the disc and the chain harrow, I am going to have it fertilized (pretty cheap to hire it done, guys are spreading 2.5 tons for ~$400.00)...

Just bought a new 13' (I know... a rather odd size), chain harrow manufactured by Tarzan in LA. After a little struggle getting it unrolled, I chained it up behind my 8' disk, and went to work. WOW what a great implement. Many I have seen are rather light and don't do much other than bounce...

I got this e-mailed to me the other day, and I thought that cowboydoc and some of the others from the midwest might find a little humor in some of these... For Everyone Who Loves the Rural Midwest! A message from the rural midwest: Because of misunderstandings that frequently develop when...

I just drove my tractor for the first time (at the dealership still) and I have to say that I love it. It is a Deere 5520 MFWD with a 541MSL loader, the power reverser transmission, and a Deere MX8 shredder. That shredder weighs a ton... I think that they are going to deliver it next...

I have been lurking on this board for a while, but here goes my first post. After much deliberation I decided on a Deere 5520 MFWD. I also gave serious consideration to the New Holland TL90, but I have always thought that a tractor should be green. I also bought a 541 MSL loader with a 84"...