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I put my own limerock driveway over 20 years ago and it is still in pretty good shape today, I have had several potholes develop in it due to heavy traffic during rainy weather, but the key to keeping a limerock driveway in good shape is when you see a pothole developing is to fill it so it...

Thank you Mr Back road, to be honest I know it comes from a limerock pit or quarry and they dig it with a dragline, but I imagine it's just a regional thing as to what it is called, I have also heard it called road base because every highway down in these parts has it under it and it's cheaper...

Got back around to building the customer a limerock driveway today and filled a sinkhole that was about 10' deep, I packed it really tight so hopefully it won't open back up, I forgot to get a before picture but I finished out the week by getting everything done that I had committed to and that...

Thank you the customer was very pleased with the change.

I get it and you are right it's not all about me but there are a lot of people like me that use their loader's everyday to make life easier and some task's doable, as a boy we row crop farmed and did everything with the 3 point hitch but my dad finally saw the light and we got a tractor with a...

I have a Gatormade 25+5 gooseneck deckover with 2- 10k Lippert axles and never had 1 problem.

Me to until I need one which is about everyday.

If it was planted pines like the new improved fast growing slash pines the stumps will usually be rotten in 2-3 years if they have had a little dirt thrown to them, when figuring on dragging it the heavier your drag is the better it will move dirt to level out the rutted areas.

I didn't really want a Chinese mulcher either but everything I read about the Raytree brand said they were solid and with good company support over here and so far that has been the case, I have reached out to them via email twice and have received a response within 12 hours and they sent me an...

$475.00 per 10 wheeler dump truck load $550 for a semi load which is about 10 more tons, problem is you can't always get the semi into some of these places.

New job today , customer bought a place and wanted the brush encroaching the driveway cut back and some azaleas and sago palms mulched and lots of tree and vine infested areas in the backyard cleaned up and finally some woods on the back of his property mulched/ forestry mowed, got it all done ...

Another vote for conveyor belt, I got a partial roll of used conveyor belt from a coal power plant and put a piece on one of my bush hog mowers probably 15 years ago and while it has frayed at the edges a little bit it is still working like a champ.

A big portion of my place is woods and creek bottoms, I fix fence all the time, it's never ending.

You already have the CTL , you would be amazed what you can do with one, I guarantee you that you would enjoy it.

I gave right at $7k for this one but it has carbide teeth on the bottom of the blade carrier to help with mulching and I got it with a big piston hi flow motor, so they can be had cheaper, this one is an MTL and it has been flawless, Rut Manufacturing makes good stuff as well as many other...

I use my forestry mower on my skidsteer, just did this job this morning for a customer, he is having a new fence built and needed the property line cleared, I can cut stuff about 10' off the ground.

Back to cleaning up the other 2 sides of this customers property for a new fence to be built, I finished this job today and will go to another mulching/cleanup tomorrow and Thursday.

It did and I did, if I remember correctly there were 136 rolls and it's under the barn.

Back to skidsteer work mulching out next to an old fence line for a new fence and a little cleanup next to the customer's house.

My old daddy was a hog hunter and he had a Plott hound named Sam that got his leg bone shattered by a big boar hog and the bone was split and the leg was not savable so he and I amputated Sam's left front leg nearly to his shoulder and he sewed the skin back and it healed up well. I figured Sam...

Got it all rolled this afternoon, wound up with 138 rolls off of this 25 acre field, it took all 7 days to get it dry, I think if I do this again this coming up winter I might try what LHF 2019 suggested and tedd it gently right after cutting to help speed the process of drying, I don't think it...

Yep the 2 for $5 Mcdonalds ad has about made me quit browsing as you can't get shed of it for anymore than about 30 seconds.

Got about 1/3 of it rolled today in some of the thinner areas it was on the verge of getting a little drier than I wanted which would have been more like straw if I waited but it turned out pretty good with 44 rolls, I think I can get the rest between tomorrow and Friday.

We have the ability to get 4 hay cuttings if the weather cooperates, BUT it rarely does so it's normally 3 and I try to wait and no till drill in the oats after the first frost so they are not competing with the existing grass as much, I believe I drilled these oats in the first week of December...

This field has a mix of Bahia grass and coastal Bermuda already established , so after the oats are rolled it will get sprayed in a few weeks for the weeds that will be showing then fertilized and cut in about 6 weeks weather permitting.

Yes sir I am for the most part a one man show so I have to try to make every lick count, and you are 100% right about the big round bales being less work than the small squares.

I have to do two into one because if I did three into one the middle one wouldn't get flipped, it would just get the two outsides piled on top of it and in places it would want to wad up on me because it's so thick. Some of it will be ready tomorrow but I think I will have to wait till Thursday...

Got these oats up in windows today, they are drying well, right on schedule.

I put the oats up in windows today, they are drying really well getting them flipped today should help get everything that was on the bottom up to the sun to finish the drying process.

Looking good, better late than never on the pictures 😁 .

Mower/Conditioner is what we use, would have rather cut them with just a straight disc mower, but you use what you have.

Just a matter of preference I suppose, if I didn't have this 7 plus day window of good weather I would definitely run the tedder over it, but in the past I have had good luck flipping it with a rake and it drying well, I will have to watch it over the next few days to see if it pays off to keep...

Yep I'm counting on those 7 days to get this dry.

It takes a little luck and some cooperative weather to get a spring oats crop put up.

I try to cut them in the milk stage if the weather allows, I believe it's different in other parts of the country, some want to cut them in the boot stage, but seeing those seed heads in the roll is what sells down here.

Some bearings are easy, others make you wonder what a designer/engineer was thinking when they designed it.

I posted this in my skidsteer thread but figured it might be more appropriate here, supposed to have good weather for the next week, gonna need it to get these dry without running a tedder through it.

We cut the oats that I planted in December they were pretty tall in most places , it's supposed to be good weather for the next week, let's see how it plays out. Charlie.

There is not a bearing on my Vermeer 504 that hasn't been replaced, the worst part is if I don't catch the ones on the roller tubes quick enough it flares the end of the tube and it's shot, and that's $750.00 a pop.

I could write a book on having non-greasable bearings on a hay baler go out while baling hay, it's a wonder I haven't burnt a baler up in the field. I bought an IR thermometer to shoot the bearings in the hayfield after baling for a while but even that doesn't always work as well as you would...

I haven't looked into them yet, but was told they were readily available through a company out of Canada, but I suspect that you are right and are probably available right here in the US, they are also available through the manufacturer.

Been working on changing bearings on baler on and off for 2 weeks,after completion ran it for about 5 minutes and heard that dreaded sound of a different bearing going bad, so it is ordered and hopefully that will do it, glad it did it under the barn and not in the field as I would have never...

I thought I would update this thread now that I have used this mulcher on a couple of jobs, it has done a really good job so far, the one thing I have learned is don't take to big of a bite on larger logs/trees or you will hang it up and shutdown your progress but I am learning and am pretty...

More work over by the lake, found an old 6 cylinder engine while cleaning up the scrap metal pile that I found the other day and found some barb wire with the mulcher while cleaning out an old fence line, took down several trees and made brush piles that I will burn at a later date.

I clear all kinds of thick properties with my skidsteer and forestry mower, most people are amazed at the transformation of their property, I have a thread over in Owning/Operating called pictures from a skidsteer mowing contractor if you would like to see some pictures over the last couple of...

I treated my tilt deck trailer this morning.

It usually takes about 5 or 6 days to get dry enough to put up, I haven't had any problems with it shattering but I don't put a tedder on it either or I believe it would knock all the seed heads off which makes it less appealing to horse people. I try to cut it when the seeds are in the milk...

I am about 99% sure that that is aluminum decking off of a flatbed semi trailer, at least that is what I took it to be.

That beats wood decking everytime, probably considerably lighter as well, which is good for trailer capacity.

Yes sir, I will sell some providing I get it put up dry and will keep some for my own cows, I haven't seen anything in a bale that will put weight on cows/yearlings like oats do, the last time I did this even horse people were buying it like crazy, I was sold out within 2 weeks of getting it baled.

Well today was a little weed spraying in one of my coastal Bermuda hay fields and then back to the Vermeer baler bearing project, finally me and my neighbor got all the belts back on and ran it about 10 minutes and started hearing a squealing sound and wouldn't you know one of the drive chain...

We called them a Cole distributor, I had 2 of them set up on an old Pittsburg frame with a chain and a drive wheel, they were on top of the frame and the 2 Cole planters were on the back and we would side dress as we planted, I still have the frame and the 2 Cole fertilize distributor hoppers...

Here is the key to one of my diesel tanks under my old pole barn, hidden in plain sight. :D

I use used tractor hydraulic fluid mixed with diesel fuel and have had good luck on trailer decks, I re-decked my gooseneck last year because I failed to treat the deck with the diesel mix but as fate would have it I treated it this morning and plan on doing my tilt deck tomorrow , but the best...

Good luck, I don't think you will be disappointed for what you are planning on using it for.

I have a 2011 5093E and my neighbor has the 5083E both have been pretty good tractors both have FEL's and 4wd, I think they are pretty solid tractors, we both pull round balers.

I love my Kubota SVL 75-2, it's been flawless and I am able to service it myself , so it's not to bad.

I would do some pricing a 100 HP CTL if bought new is going to run you around $100k, a brand name mulching head a minimum of $25k, add stump buckets, forestry brushcutters, grapples etc, you see where I'm going. I have a 75 HP CTL and do a lot of work with it for other people as a retirement...

15-20" trees you might be better off with a mini ex with a thumb

I use the factory 3rd link on my Cat 1 tractor, have never needed to change it out but it's not hydraulic.

LOL. Good luck, there are some big bass in there.

This place is not far past there on the South side bordering the lake.

It's actually a public lake with a public boat ramp, the name of it is Little Orange Lake and it's supposed to be 576 acres in size.

I cleaned up as close as I could to it and the next time I go I will take my grapple with me and I will move it to a location of the owners choosing, for either a scrapper to get or straight into a roll off dumpster.

It usually doesn't bother me as long as I don't wallow in it, when I have a lot of hand work I usually have to deal with tic's and cat claw briars but I hate vines more than anything but they do get me a lot of work, being in the enclosed cab probably helps more than anything.

Worked on a little underbrushing job on a nice bass fishing lake that some customers bought and plan on building a house on, also cut down a tree that they wanted down while I was there, they say they want me to do a lot more work there over the next year or so, we will see, I also found a junk...

Play it safe and mess with it some more, possibly mow in some light grass to see if they will go ahead and break loose, maybe engage and disengage the PTO a number of times, if not after all that tear apart and replace disc's

You gotta love it.

15 GPM is enough flow to run many of the 30"- 40" mulching heads.

I use the Pat's quick hitch on my Cat 1 tractor but have never had the need for one on my Cat 2 tractor as both lift arms telescope like what 5030 is talking about, but the Pat's quick hitch is priceless on my smaller tractor and allows you a lot of flexibility with implements that the lift pins...

I walked outside this morning just before daylight and heard 5 different gobblers hammering away still in their roost trees here on the farm, I called my oldest son to give him a report since he was working and to give him a heads up on where to set up Friday morning when he is able to go.

Yesterday's job consisted of fertilizing some fields that I no tilled in rye back in December and some lower cow pastures of bahia that are coming out, one old gobbler had his hens gathered up and was putting on a show yesterday morning.

Since I started paying property taxes at age 21 I have been paying for county schools that I have never had a child in , I spent the money to send mine to a private Christian school to get them a better education than what our public school system offers, the farm that I bought from my grandpa...

It's the same here essentially, if you don't pay your taxes for 3 years where I am it is auctioned off to the highest bidder, so we really rent as well, but there is a big push in Florida where I live to either drastically cut or outright do away with property taxes and our governor is on board...

Another reason for me to be thankful that I don't live and work where you are, point being some government agencies will make it virtually impossible for a landowner to do anything on their own property simply by asking a few questions, yet they will gladly accommodate you if you are willing to...

As long as you have backed the nuts off of the slip clutch a little ways and then engaged the PTO several times to make sure the plates are broke free and slipping and then re-tightened them to spec then there should be no reason to not upgrade to a grade 8 bolt on the drive line and put it to work.

It's the work that I had and I already had it hooked up so I figured I would test it on the light stuff, I'm still new to these so I'm in the testing/practice stage.

Bet they cost more than $8.99

Did a little job today that really needed minimal brush cutting but I wanted to try the new drum mulcher, I believe my forestry mower does a better job in this small stuff than this mulcher.

I have tried both and IMHO the needle tenderizer wins hands down, that's why I recommended it, but everyone likes something different.

Here is the one I was speaking of.

If I was smart enough I would post the link from Amazon but I'm not, but it is not a hammer and it does a much better job IMHO. I may try to take a picture.

The one I am talking about is not a hammer, look up meat tenderizing tool on Amazon , I bought the one that has a rounded handle for $8.99, but any of that style will work wonders.

I've worked a lot of storms in Louisiana, worked for SLEMCO, Lafayette Utilities System and one of the most satisfying trips was rebuilding the electric system in the town of Vinton in 2020 after a hurricane wiped it out, good times, good memories, and made a lot of good friends, I'm retired now...

IMHO, the hammer doesn't have anything on the ones that have about a dozen spikes that you press into the meat, I use one on all the deer ham fry meat that I cut up every year , it makes a huge difference in the tenderness of the fry meat, they sell them on Amazon starting at about $10.00.

The Kubota SVL-75 might not be my choice if using a drum mulchers day in and day out but paired with a 72" brush cutter will do an outstanding job all day long, just how much HP do you think is needed to do brush cutting?

If I found a deal on a used low flow machine I wouldn't pass it but I wouldn't buy a new machine that wasn't hi-flow if that makes any sense, with what you are doing you can get by with low flow and be happy, if you are using it to make a living you would want hi flow for the increased...

I don't know where you are located but Agri-Supply pretty much has the largest supply of disc parts, bearings, spacers, blades, etc, so if you can't find a readable # on the bearings just go to your local NAPA store and they should be able to MIC it and get the size to cross reference.

I didn't have a lot of time today to mess with it but I did spend about 10 or 15 minutes cleaning a section of field edge that had small scrub trees and really thick vines and it seemed to do a good job, I will post a picture of the mulch size. The only downfall that I have found was the bottom...

Well that is good to know, when I saw all the numbers and writing on it were in English I felt better, they even sent me an owners manual written in English.

LOL, there are several brackets that have been added to that harrow that are unique and only used on power lines, but all of us lineman seem to find ways to use those items at home, the anchor with the helix end cutoff was also a dead giveaway.

It appears to be a Rexroth brand piston motor, don't know if that is a good brand or not.

Possibly Ford or Long Agribusiness, by chance did your FIL work as a lineman or for a utility company?

I haven't had as much time to mess with it as I would like but I am pretty impressed with a few things about it, 1. There are only 3 grease fittings on it and 2 of the 3 have grease lines attached and are accessible without having to take covers off, the third one does not but will before long...

Thanks Eddie.

Today started mowing hay fields, mostly wild flowers and what we call red sorrel and a few weeds, won't be long it will be time to spray and ferilize.

Well I went and picked one up today, hooked it up and greased everything, there is only one fitting that is a little aggravating to get to, it runs smoothly with no vibration but only time will tell if it holds up, it has some big shoes to fill to outdo my forestry mower, I suspect it will...

What herbicide are you referring to?

Yesterday I burnt some brush piles for a customer where I had cleaned out a fence row last year and a little storm debris that was leftover, was finally able to get a burn permit and by 4PM only a few of the bigger logs were left that I bunched up before I loaded up and headed home and completed...

I don't know what is more amazing. 1. The people who continue to post about how to get the PTO shaft off without reading that the OP has already got the PTO shaft off or 2. The people that say there is only one way to get this PTO shaft off while the OP has already proven that that is false. 😁

I have put used tractor hydraulic fluid on trailer tires that were weathering from being out in the sun, they looked like new tires when I was finished.

I have been using a 6' forestry mower for the past 2 years with carbide teeth on the bottom of the blade carrier and it does a good job after you back drag over the material but there are jobs where the customer wants smaller mulch/debris and I can't justify $25k for this, that is the reason for...

I"m not interested in spending $ 25k for a name brand mulcher while these can be had for about $6500 and seem to have pretty good reviews with a 1 year warranty. My question was does anyone have any first hand knowledge about one, do you?

This is not a problem it went on and it will come off, I wouldn't hesitate at idle to engage the PTO and let it turn for a few minutes and I would start with a large screwdriver slid in the middle of the yolk so I could apply pressure by pulling with both hands, as others have said apply...

Anybody have any first hand experience with one of these? I realize they are Chinese made but from all appearances they appear to be much better made than the Topcat and AGT Chinese mulchers and their current pricing is hard to beat.

This customer is an elderly man who takes care of his brother and wouldn't have been able to afford this if he jumped thru all of the hoops that the county wants people to jump thru permits, inspections, etc, they have gone as far as requiring a homeowner to purchase a permit to change out a hot...

I imagine that you do, but this was for a washing machine/dishwasher only.

Actually it's a rental, but if the demand for one stays steady enough I just might.

A little job for this morning putting in a new drain field for a dishwasher and washing machine, I was able to get it done and gone in 4 hours with a happy customer

At any given time, we are right where we are supposed to be, and while we don't often understand, it is by design.

This type of stuff happens a lot in my skid steer business, seems like in the last year or two everybody has went out and bought one and seems willing to work for beer money to get the job, but most of them won't be in business long because when the first big breakdown happens they won't have...

I doubt very seriously that this time of year that mature trees were damaged/killed, it's commonplace here in the South to do controlled burns until the sap starts to rise, it's getting close but I doubt they were damaged.

If it's not rusted to the point that it falls apart when trying to roll it up, just roll it up in hand coils as big as you can comfortably handle.

Try to handle it without dragging lawyers into it, the shoe could be on the other foot one day.

Yeah , I was just curious as I have never heard any good long term results, kind of like these Top Cat Chinese drum mulchers, you don't hear about anyone getting years of use out of them but you do hear about someone using them and having it grenade within 10 hours of use and then no replacement...

I use my skid steer and grapple to push old fence lines, works pretty good, I have cleaned quite a few for folks.

Is there anyone who has actually had long term good results out of a piece of Chinese equipment? In other words years of good service out of a Chinese skidsteer, mini ex, tractor , etc, just curious.

These birds down here are considered Osceola's as we are probably about 35 or 40 miles South of I-10 and people come from far and wide to get one, I think it's considered one of the species in the Grand Slam along with the Eastern, Merriam and another one or two. I actually had a guide approach...

I never give up on a frost in North Florida until Easter, but I believe your plum tree is probably right.

Yes sir that is the same place, I should have jumped on this wild mustard earlier but I have been busy doing other things and didn't check on it until yesterday, but fortunately for me this morning was still so no drift made for good spraying weather, I figure it will be in the boot stage within...

Thought I would post a few pictures of this morning's work spraying wild mustard that is trying to take over a field that I planted in oats to cut in the spring, as you can tell from 1 picture the wild turkeys already figure it's spring.

You could have waited till this time next year on me, I wasn't biting.

Do you have 10k or 12k axles on your trailer?

After greasing, rotate the FEL to a higher or lower position, same with the bucket and re-grease, this should get grease to other areas of the pins.

I have heard of that, I guess I just considered it insurance (with a Premium ) verses a subsidy which has no premium.

Unless something has changed there are NO subsidies for hay, hence the reason you see most hay farmers actually try to put out a good product, ie, keeping fields weed free, waiting to cut until they feel they have a favorable weather pattern to get the hay put up dry for feed customers etc, If...

I guess I don't understand the push to get rid of SAE and switch to metric, help me out, what makes metric superior?

My experience with most tractors with a mechanical lever to actuate 4x4 has been to reverse tractor while putting pressure on the shift lever. On the flip side you have the very tractor that every one of us wants " one that fixes itself ".

It doesn't matter to me, but doctors and lawyers don't need a government payment to make their farm survive until next year, but a small farmer/farm family might, doctors and lawyers do pretty good at doctoring and lawyering. Point is when yearly government payouts reach the level that doctors...

The problem with a lot of the farm subsidies is when you go to that EWG website database you will find that many of those subsidies go to farms with a corporation title, when you click on ownership interest you will find that the corporation is made up of doctors and lawyers, people who have...

A lot of people are government farming, just Google EWG Farm Subsidies and go to their website put in your state and then your county and you might be shocked at what kind of money some of your neighbors are getting from the government, then you will know how they bore with the big auger and...

Well, just as fate would have it, I moved the money Tuesday and by the close of the market today ( Friday ) the DJI had dropped over 1000 points, oh well I'm in now we will see what happens over the next few years.

He may very well know where the property line is as well, so you may not be able to force him to do anything, just saying.

Sounds like you got the last laugh at $1k per day attachment fee, it takes some nerve to go get a tractor of someones without permission, I'm shocked the judge didn't make them pay for your destroyed loader. I have dealt with a lot of customers through the years having to go on their property to...

Just curious what do the utility workers in your area do to "piss on your property and possessions"?

Shoot a bunch of grease in the gearbox and never worry about it again, just add a little more grease as needed each year when you do your maintenance. Charlie.

I have always used a roller in harrowed dirt for planting small seed and it hasn't failed me yet, it always seems to provide good seed to soil contact.

Don't feel bad for me as only a small percentage of what I saved went into the money market account all those years but it has turned into a fairly substantial pot of money that I feel could be working better for me , I also have a nice monthly pension that is a little over $60k per year, plus...

I appreciate all the advice, I may not have been clear in my original post. 1. I have a 457B that I have been putting money in for over 30 years, a lot of that money is in money market accounts and not really earning much while another portion is invested in a Vantage point long term growth...

It's always been my understanding that only the interest earned on your money that you invested in the Roth is what must remain in the account for 5 years to be tax free as the money that you initially invested has already been taxed when you put it in the account.

I've always been told the idea if you have money to invest in the market is to buy in cheap but the market has been high now for several years , seemingly not a lot of low points to buy in, bottom line is I have a little money that has been setting in the market in cash bonds which is a really...

Yep, that's what the dealer map showed, but that's in Georgia about 160 miles from me and a whole nother issue with taxes being out of state, I would need a dealer in Florida but with that being said with the OP mentioning that the Fendt tractor was around $200k , that rules me out, there are...

I look forward to seeing if they get a dealer down in this part of the country because if they do as you say, they will get some business from some of these large farmers and possibly some from us small ones.

I have been real curious about these Fendt tractors after reading about them on here and the fact that I have never seen one in these parts on anyone's farm, so I put in my zip code in the dealer locator and there isn't one dealer in the state of Florida, maybe that will change but until it does...

I would definately do the maintenance and service my tractor and change the filters, however I like LHF 2019 am leery of no name filters, so I would seek some filters from Donaldson, Wix, Baldwin , etc or OEM filters if reasonably priced. Someone told me years ago always make time to do...

I should have quoted you on my response above.

I had over 300 hours of use on them and they were still pretty good but where the bolts go through the blades was starting to get wallowed out and I wanted to change the bushings and figured I would go ahead and swap out the blades while I was doing it, I also bought a grapple from them as well...

Nice looking machine, I'm sure the mega mower should get anything done that you want to do. I heard and read about MTL customer service before I bought mine but they have been nothing but helpful to me, although I have only called once with a question and once to order replacement blades. Keep...

Down here the State man will sometimes set up at the livestock market and will test every other truck in the line to unload cattle, you can always tell what's up when they get to jockeying and switching places in line.

Never see them around here. Have you looked at the Kubota's and the Takeuchi's with the roll up overhead doors? Not side entry but the next best thing and no matter where the lift arms are you can exit the cab unlike a traditional side swing door.

I guess were pretty fortunate down here, if it's farm related you rarely get messed with by the state man, but them poor old boys trying to scratch out a living hauling logs get wore out everywhere they go, I would have figured up there in big farm country everybody would have a deckover trailer...

May Bird RIP and condolences to his family and close friends.

It's to easy to put a tractor on a trailer that can be towed at highway speeds for me to jury rig up a tow dolly to then get out on the highway and drag it around at 10-15 MPH, but to each his own I reckon.

Give it a shot and let us know how it pans out, who knows maybe ya'll will start a new trend, just kidding, nothing about this sounds like a good idea to me, make no mistake about it I am not saying it couldn't be done , just saying that just because you can rig up something to work doesn't mean...

The bigger question is of all the things that you could do, why in the world would you want to do this?:oops: There is definately reasons why you have never seen anyone pass by you pulling a tractor this way.:)

10-4 I was just wondering because I have a 9' offset disc with 24"disc blades that weighs around 3000 lbs and at times it's all my 93 hp tractor wants.

Not being a smart alleck, but what type of 14' offset disc are you planning on pulling with a 65 HP tractor? Just curious.

Welcome to the forum. You might have better luck in the RK tractor threads or possibly the TYM threads further down this page.

When I was an apprentice ( about 40 years ago ) we had some old hi-line trucks that we used all the time that had a transmission with 2 gear shift sticks, seems like we did most of the shifting with the far right stick and the left stick was more of a hi-lo/ super low type gear, but I think they...

While I don't own land in California (thank goodness ) I do own land in Florida and raw land is a good investment here, for some reason people keep wanting to come here and they roll in with pockets overflowing with money ready to buy what they consider a farm usually about 5 acres hurricanes...

You can never go wrong with land Eddie, it like other things may fluctuate in value in the short term but will always pay off big in the long run.

Does the tractor turn over at all? Is the shuttle shift in neutral? Clutch pushed in while trying to start?

I saw right away that as much as I would be working by myself that the overhead roll up door was what I needed, your friends employee's only option was to wait on someone to come pull him out so that he could either raise or lower the arms in order to open the door or pull the ring on the back...

When I bought my Kubota SVL 75-2 back in 2022 Deere and Cat were around 18-20k higher for similar sized machines, which was just to much more money for me to justify, lastly I wouldn't own a CTL that didn't have a roll up overhead door, it's a must for working by yourself IMO.

I'm doing well, hunting season will close out after this next weekend in my area and I will let my hounds rest up and go back to work, Thanks for checking on me.

I disabled it on a 2011 GMC Yukon that my wife used to have, when we got rid of it, it had over 250k miles on it with no issues, also disabled it on a 2012 Silverado 4x4 that I still own with over 200k on it and no problems, there is a cheaper one on Amazon than the Range and it does the same thing.

I owned a bunch of 70's model Fords with the 351M and 1 with a 390 and several 80's model Chevrolet square body's with the 350 motors and not 1 of them would get 15 MPG , so my experience has been like the other poster as far as MPG on those models, now in 1992 I bought a brand new Chevrolet...

The radiator should not be boiling over, I would pull the lower radiator hose off and allow all of the existing coolant/water to drain out of the radiator then re-install the lower hose and re-fill the radiator with the correct mixture of coolant/water and try it again, then I would buy a can of...

Some politician or one of their family members has probably already came up with a plan to buy the panels cheap and sell them back to the government at a much inflated price, adding to their already highly inflated bank accounts.

Follow the top radiator hose, it's gonna be on the end not attached to the radiator.

Here are a couple of pictures of the oats that I no till drilled in a hay field 2 weeks ago today, looks like I got a pretty good stand.

On most models when that temp sensor on the thermostat housing fails it blows a 20 amp ignition fuse.

When no-till drilling in existing pastures I try to let the frost kill back the existing pasture grass so there is no competition between the existing pastures grass and the winter rye that you are trying to establish, if the rye has to compete it will lose everytime down here, so I let the...

Thank you, I was blessed it was just a small stroke.

I use foaming coil cleaner for A/C condenser coils periodically and let it foam up and push trash and seeds, chaff, etc out of the radiator fins and then rinse well with a water spray nozzle attached to a hose, you will be surprised at what all it will bring out of the cooling fins.

Thank you for the encouraging words. Charlie.

I have planted Sudan several times for additional summer forage and tonnage wise it is superior to most any types of millet, but I have always been told to never allow any livestock to graze it after a frost as it will be extremely high in nitrates.

Eddie I suspect you are putting out rye grass, I put in Cereal Rye which this year the cost is $16.80 per 50# bag of wrens Abruzzi type, fertilizer is running about $400 per ton so at a rate of 250lbs per acre your looking at $66.80 per acre + diesel cost to drill in winter pasture, pretty cost...

It is, this customer has a small herd of cattle ( around 20 head ) she has never planted any winter pasture but she buys so much hay and range pellets to get her cows thru the winter and I have shown her what I do with winter rye and how cost effective is verses just feeding hay. Green rye or...

Back at it, I no-till drilled a couple of different fields with winter rye for a customer yesterday and fertilized some rye fields today, I checked the field that I put in winter oats last week and they are coming up and looks like I am going to have a good stand, I'll try to get some pictures...

It might help if you gave the brand name of the tractor that you are working on , there are quite a few brand specific forums on this site , good luck.

Eddie, I was in the woods running my hounds about 1&1/2 hours away from my home and Saturday morning about 10:00 AM I started feeling a tingling or numbness in my left arm and hand but really didn't think that much about it I just figured I had jumped off the dog box wrong and maybe pinched a...

Me to, thanks.

FEL's are a lifesaver for sure, especially as we get older they make life easier.

It's all good, that's why we are all here to learn from and help one another, I just got home from the hospital, I had a mild stroke (first for me ) but the only lingering affects so far are left hand and left side of my face is numb, I'm hoping to regain the feeling in both, thank the Lord it...

The no-till drill uses a cutting Coulter to cut a slit in hard packed ground followed by a disc opener where the seed gets dropped in to and finally a closing and packing wheel which closes the trench and packs the seedbed giving the seeds good seed to soil contact, the no till part only means...

No sir. Lol, I have been running my hounds a little bit since it's hunting season down here and in between putting in no till winter pasture for myself and some customers, today I no tilled in 30 acres of oats to cut for hay in the spring and I have some finish up work tomorrow and then back to...

I like most others strive to bale good quality horse hay because that is where the maximum profit is but unfortunately the weather doesn't always cooperate no matter how hard we try to watch the weather reports and try to decide on a favorable pattern sometimes we just wind up with a lesser...

A weed wick with a 50% Glyphosphate mix will work on the existing Vasey grass without damaging the other desirable grasses by simply wiping over it, Impose herbicide will smoke it but it may also get the Bahia grass so you will need to read the label on that, the herbicide called Target (MSM)...

Usually if it's 15% in the field it will be 18% or more in 24 hours and it's been my experience that it will get a light dust or mildew to it if it doesn't get fed pretty quick so I just sell that for cow hay or feed it to my own cows, I try to get mine below 12% for horse hay but I don't think...

I wanted to roll it yesterday and really believed that putting it in a windrow with it being close to ready that I would be able to get it but the sun shined very little yesterday afternoon and it just didn't work out, I think I will flip the windrows about noon today and try it about 2pm and...

I will feed these rolls to my cows as I am sure the moisture climbed up more last night, I can count on one hand how many times it took a full week to get mine dry that didn't go through a down pour, I tried it again today and still no go 15+ % after I put about half the field in windrows so I...

If it was the gray stuff it had the same OD as CPVC and I have glued CPVC couplings directly on it under a sink in my old single wide trailer that I had at the time to add cutoff valves and it was still working leak free about 8 years later when I sold it.

All I can do is set under the barn, the sun hasn't shined for 3 hours in 5 days here, it finally came out this afternoon and I tried to roll 3 different times once every hour but I just couldn't get right, maybe tomorrow the moisture will be low enough for me to get it done, got my fingers...

Eddie, this particular field is 17 acres, the army worms hadn't hatched out yet so by cutting the hay I probably disrupted the cycle, while I was cutting it down this morning the moth's were coming out of the hay grass by what seemed like the thousands, this is a thin cutting but for as late in...

I checked the only field I have left to cut this morning and sure enough there were moth's everywhere so there will be army worms within a few days, so I hooked to the Krone cutter and flipped the blades to the un-used side and if everything goes right I am going to cut in the morning.

By far the best way to get this grain drill moved 85 miles, I sold a 10' John Deere grain drill and we took the tongue off and I loaded it long ways on the buyers gooseneck trailer, piece of cake.

When I was about 7 or 8 years old I watched an old man that everyone called a good for nothing drunk tote and lay every block on my uncles house all the while mixing his own mortar, now there would be a few Old Milwaukee cans scattered about but even at that young age I was impressed and for the...

Concrete work can be some hard work.

Today was gate hanging day, I hung 2 - 12' gates in a 24' opening going into one of my hay fields and a new 16' gate in my driveway replacing an old Rusty falling apart gate and then one more 16' gate going into the field I just fenced off. I forgot how helpful it was to have an extra pair of...