Recent content by SanDucerro

Thought I'd post up my experiences today in an attempt to save someone a service call... While drilling holes with the L3130 today, the 3pt hitch brought the Post Hole Digger up out of the hole - but then it wouldn't go back down again. It was literally frozen in the UP position! Which - of...

Need to lay some water lines down. I can rent a 35-45HP ride on trencher for about $390 a day, or I could buy a Middle Buster or Subsoiler for less than $200. In the "reviews" section of Tractor Supply - both the subsoiler and the middle buster implements have reviewers who say they use these to...

I know three things about this photo - and that's all I know... 1) That's me with my hands on the wheel. 2) The photo was taken in April 1961. 3) it ain't a Kubota... :laughing: Heck - I have no way of knowing if it's even a John Deere, but I thought I'd start here first. Any ideas as to what...

What are the consequences of having too much PTO HP for a given attachment? I'm looking for a medium duty rotary tiller and the min/max ratings are in-between my available tractors PTO HP ratings. Our L3130 is rated at 24 PTO HP and the M7040 is at 64 PTO HP. Most of the medium duty tillers...

Looking at the purchase of a Muratori MZ6 185 Rotary Tiller. It's listed as "medium duty" and at 74" wide it will cover the tracks of both our L3130 and M7040. The literature on this model rotary tiller says it's rated at 45-50HP with a MAX of 55HP. Well, my tractor choices fall between with the...

Final Update - The ZD326S is on the farm! Gonna be a learning curve associated with this one. I've never driven a zero turn before - which made backing this one off the trailer an interesting challenge! :cool: Weather is suppose to be nasty for the next couple of days, so I may not get to...

Looking to pull the trigger on a mower this week. We have a home on just under 19 acres. The back half of the property is still "untamed" and will likely remain so for awhile. The front half has a 5+ acre vineyard (which is why I opted to NOT look at a zero turn). After talking myself into the B...

Taking a break on the M7040 while putting the deer fence up for the "garden"...

I'm interested in putting a weather station up and wanted to know what you're using. Reviews would be appreciated - good or bad. I'm most interested in one that can do soil and leaf mosture as well as weather. So far, all I've found is a unit from Davis, but I'm not real impressed with the...

So... Bought a new truck in January of this year. It's a 2012 Dodge Ram 3500 Dual Cab Dually 4x4 with the 8 foot bed. LOVE the truck, except for one itsy bitsy detail - it's white. Now, don't get me wrong - I really like white trucks and mine looks fantastic. However, white also seems to be...

Here's a shot of the liquid fertilizer truck...

How long AFTER the application of a liquid fetilizer can the pasture be tilled (disc harrow)? Is there a "rust" issue for the disc harrow if done too soon? Is it better to disc BEFORE the application? Liquid Fertilizer in this case is 20-20-10-10 (Nitrate/Phosphorus/Potassium/Sulfur) with a bit...

Croton Capitatus... AKA Woolly Corton, Dove Weed, Hogwort... Got a pasture full of the stuff. Tried shredding it but it just lays over and pops back up after I make a pass. Have to run the same row 2 or 3 times to get it cut. Now - this is the same shredder I set on fire a week ago, so perhaps...

Ran the shredder for the first time this year. Noticed it didn't seem to be cutting very well, but I needed to knock out some overgrowth before I hit the field with the disc, so I kept going. There was this "smell" inside the cab that I couldn't place. Kinda like electrical stuff burning. Tried...

It's a retorical question silly... However, I just spent two LONG afternoons going through THREE bottles of Turtle Wax Bug & Tar remover - all to clean a couple weeks of fly dodo off the new RAM 3500 Crew Cab DRW Looooong bed. Evidently, flies like to use white trucks as bathrooms and rest...