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Yes... We got our first snow about 3 days ago.. About 5cm in the grass.. Driveway and barn roof melted off pretty quick... This snow started about 2 km east of us and went as far west as we can see over the bush.. From there on east 40 km into town it was dry as a bone... Like said...

Nice set up... Fortunately you have it on a tractor with enough extra gallons per minute to give a decent cycle time... I have been involved to make parts for some homemade 3pt splitters that worked well other than the compact tractors they were mounted on didn't have enough flow to make them...

As I have gotten older.. The more liquid a dairy product is, the less I can tolerate it... I can use milk, sour cream, buttermilk, cheese and like to cook with and all is OK.. I can eat a small gob of sour cream or cottage cheese on a baked potato OK... No more than 2 times a year will I...

I think the more appropriate word should be ....grill.... a good steak... Answer.... Not so much.. I can do OK, buy my step son is a MOST excellent grill operator...

The little experience I have had with brand dedicated attachments was with a 60" MMM deck and a front snow blower... Finding the attachments was not that difficult, although expensive.. The hard part seemed to be getting all the attaching hard ware compatible with the attachment and a given...

I am planning to add a step to our JD2032R... Besides the help getting onto the tractor, a shorter step off into tall grass, uneven ground, or ice and snow is where I go down many times...

According to my brother in law, who used to have a small tire shop.. Be sure you are dealing with INFATED ON THE RIM measurements to compare diameters..

Any concerns with using washer fluid ?? No... I did a DIY install of 25% antifreeze and 75% washer fluid.. The anti freeze used because of our growing zone 2 winter temps.. This mix is not as heavy as other alternatives, but much more available, cheaper materials and not hard to DIY...

Cut in half around the circumference.. Bolt halves together side by side.. Bolt on a V shape chain hitch.. Pull across pasture to break up cow pies, break down weed stalks... I made a drag like this out of a row of 4 light truck tires behind a row of 3 like size tires that works well as a...

If ...close... is important to you ...go for it... Maybe you won't get as perfect plugs as in open yard, but there are bound to be compromises needed..

Here we have a big, as these things go, motel and attached to that a small pub, and with that a restaurant that has a Sunday morning brunch.. Very good 3-4 times a year..

Pre covid, I got a Piranha brand tooth bar.. This before the prices, duty, taxes and all made all manor of implements as expensive as they are today.. Besides availability problems many have had getting tools.. I got it primarily to provide ware protection for the cutting edge of my bucket...

Late this past spring, early summer... Sweetie put up several 2 liter jars of water glass eggs.. This she learned how to do growing up on the coastal light house on an island.. Depending on weather they only got groceries delivered 3 never more than 4 times a year.. We haven't opened any yet...

FROG STRANGLER = heavy rain... I know this term from my red neck southern cousins.. To the person who said ....did you mean BEAR or BOAR... I have experience with bears.. What I have been told about BOARS, is from my southern cousins.. Restrictions of hunting a nuisance animal on your own...

Wild hog is fine, just don't consider it "pork". I agree that what animals eat is reflected in meat quality. --- --- Yes... Diet of the animal ....and time of year.... seems to make a big difference on how it taste.. We have that issue here with black bear depending if you get one in the...

You actually get winter in Northern California, right? I would think the hogs would hate that. --- --- Studying the biology and some history of feral pigs says so much of the population has some degree of Eurasian Wild Boar, Russian boar, that they can indeed thrive in cold climates.. --- ---...

Sweetie is a Frenches yellow mustard person... The only Frenches product she will buy... She also likes honey mustard mix.. I am a small dab of Dijon person...

I have made between a dozen and maybe 20 HOBO stoves out of 20# tanks.. I give them away to friends and family... I got the tanks from the local propane dealer with the valve taken out.. The valves recycle metal for good money.. The steel, not so much.. Once the valve is out if they sit...

Something like this? Grassland harrows - Düvelsdorf Handelsgesellschaft mbH --- --- This looks like an interesting DIY homemade designed project... Lots of ways to go about this...

Check with golf courses in your area... They sometimes have surplus Turfco and other brands of top spreaders that have been replaced with updated models.. Years ago in my tool and die shop, I did some proto type work for Turfco... At the time they were supposedly among the best at...

My little brother, the small engine professional, used to say ...you can't keep people from sharpening blades to shave with.. You don't need that, but what is more important is most people sharpen blades like they are cutting meat.. Too shallow an angle.. The blade should be 65-70 degrees from...

Like so many have said, blunt edge on brush hog blades... Anywhere about 1/16 to 1/8" blunt... Like said, this to shatter weed stalks in multiple places and as far down the stalk from where cut to the ground.. Field grasses will usually shear off and rebound and grow back more quickly than...

DRY Sand.... The key word being dry.... Paint one side of a sheet of plywood black, place on saw horses, spread a thin layer of sand, let dry, put in roller with it standing on end... Repeat until full... It isn't a fast fill process, but if you want something you can fill and...

In my "good idea" note book I have plans for several DIY implements For instance a 5' tool frame for chisel teeth, cultivator teeth, homemade ride on potato planter and a number of other things.. I'm surprised some people with fabrication set ups and talents are not making 4-6 units of...

--- --- Greetings neighbor.. From northern BC here... So I see this is an older thread.. How has this worked out for you... ?? ?? --- --- Two projects I have sketched out in my "good idea" note book are a set of manure forks to clip on and bolt onto my bucket like a piranha tooth bar...

Between frosts, birds, bears..... We have had a hard time getting more than a couple tea cups of cherries, wild, tame, or of any kind for the last 2-3 years.. But then we are growing zone 2, so it tends to not be easy at best...

If you look up "black thumb" in the dictionary, there will be a picture of me... But at a time I have tried to garden and grow berry bushes and fruit trees.. My best deer defense was to plant a number of large patches of Hosta plants around the edges of the yard.. The deer would eat and fill...

The only thing I can think of is ....some brands DO NOT include the gallons per minute to operate the power steering in there gpm figures available for different things.. For instance... If a tractor brand says the machine has 15 gpm gross available, and requires 10 gpm to run the tractor...

From the local store of a Canada wide auto, farm, hardware supply store I bought a Speeco brand phd (#70 ??) I got it on catalog sale flyer discount.. This is the first new phd I've had, the other one being a very well used and neglected one.. Also a Speeco brand (#65 ??) With some TLC it...

I once made the remark that "Jimmy Dean had a really great sausage until Sara Lee got hold of it". I instantly regretted my choice of words, and had some embarrassing 'splainin' to do. === === I have a feeling they knew what you were talking about, but were pulling your chain as much as...

In my and other tool and die shops I made parts for a company that made about 6 or so different top dressers.. From a 1/4 ton self powered walk behind to a 10 ton tractor towed spreader.. It might be an idea to check with local golf courses to see if they have surplus usable equipment they...

Sometimes it gets bouncy so I'm thinking of adding more weight --- --- Bouncy ?? ?? How do you do that unless you are going as fast as the tractor will move full speed ?? On my cheap, China built box blade there are a number of places to hang 42# suit case weights..

Up here in Pot Hole City and the surrounding local area.. We had a group of mustard products with the label "Marks Mustard".... The old people retired and sold the product... The new owners made it for a while then dropped the mustard line in favor of other products.. There was enough...

I have all the tough cuts ground into sausage. --- --- One time years ago, my dad, uncle, and grandpa had a whole hog deboned and ground into sausage by the processor.. The key to this being the meat processor had a mixer big enough to mix all the various ground cuts well.. As fresh sausage...

FINALLY got to really work with the culti-weeder today. --- --- Would like to see a picture of this implement. It would make it much easier to understand what it is does and what you plan to achieve with it.. Thanks..

I think it kind of depends if you are "primary" seeding (bare, tilled ground) or "over seeding" (established grass or hay field) You will get a lesser germination percentage using most anything less than a seeder type machine to plant with.. But repeat applications of seed can be a lot...

About 3 (?) years ago now... While on sale I bought a 5' China made box blade from our local Canada wide farm auto store... It is within 10 kilo of most of the cheaper other name options.. For what it is made to do, it does all I need it to do well... And it was way under half the $1100...

Greetings from far north west Canada... On my dads side, my great grand parents immigrated from Wales and Ireland about 1885 or so..

Greetings Y'all from far north west Canada.. I got red neck, Cajun, swamp savage kin from At'Lanta to Lake Charles.. I'm the bush savage Canuck of the family..

Greetings from far north west Canada...

Our favorite spice blend is Buck Board breakfast sausage spice mix.. Only use about 2/3 the recommended amount of spice per pound or kilo of meat.. We routinely use several Buck Board brand spice mixes, but I'm not sure where all they are available..

I would like to see some of the comments, and learn if there is a better way to order and ship.. Unfortunately I don't do face book.. I know... I'm a computer dinosaur, but there is usually other ways to move info..

I have a cheap China made 5' box blade from our local auto, farm store.. I plan to add bolt on 4x4 angle iron skids and a cross blade behind the box blade to make it somewhat more a land plane like attachment.. It may not be the best, but it surely will be useful and cheaper than 2...

Billrog... I run V bar, 2 link ladder chains on loaded 36x14x15 turfs, with 4x4... Has worked well up here..

WOW.... That is some ripper tooth.... In our ground..... I pull a Heavy Hitch type sub soil shank full depth.. The shank being like a box blade ripper shank... I use it to make places for snow melt and run off more available to our berry bushes and fruit orchard.... I plan to build a...

There are several things I would like to get... The problem is shipping to Canada... It wouldn't be so bad to deal with the shipping as distance = money... The tax and duty is a bit harder to swallow, but the way it is it seems.. One thing that really does jerk my chain is when a 3 rd...

I don't have a 3 point QH, but it seems since day 1 there are, have been many complaints about what it takes to make them useable on many or all attachments.. Are they any better now ?? ?? No worse ?? ??

tractorhouse.com tractordata.com Good info on what is available, where, and at what price.. Good info on specification details... Good luck..

You were right on the money about the holes, like for a 3/4" hole you use a 3/4" drill bit. --- --- With many years in the tool and die trade holes, threads tapped and turned and the like were some what my specialty... I found to use a 3/4 " drill for the holes in the tabs.. Bolt a bushing...

Mike.. First.. Greetings from the far north west of Canada.. You don't list a general location, and I have to presume with a planter you are doing corn ?? Here in our growing zone 2, we can't do anything like sweet corn, just not enough time.. One option..... I have planted sweet corn and...

A number of years ago I built two 3pt tool holder frames.. And a number of attachments for the frames.. It worked well.. --- --- First... At the location where you want the hole, drill a small hole first.. A hole about the size of the center tip of the drill.. A pilot hole, 1/8 or 3/16"...

I have loaded turfs, FEL, and 4x4.... I also use 2 link, V bar ladder chains in winter... The only limiting factor seems the weight of the tractor and attachment of the season.. Having way more power than traction.. This is not the fault of the turfs.... Any tread pattern would be like this..

Looks like you are strait west of Moscow... I am surprised as it seems you would be in a heavy snow area coming off the ocean.. Looks as the country there is flat as a dinner plate.. If I had a paved drive, parking lot, yard, or such I would like a brush like that.. It would be easy enough...

Not impossible it has been converted to SSQA from JD pin on.. That does exist.. However it sounds like it will be a hands on, tape measure thing to see with a sketch and measurements of what exists on your loader already.. Sounds like a road trip is in order.. Good luck..

UP Dave... I like the idea of the step big enough for both feet.. Going up stairs I use my good knee first.. Going down stairs I step with my bad knee first... On occasion when I forget and use the wrong knee going the wrong way I have landed on my back side for my forgetfulness... This would...

Being an amateur history buff of roughly 1914 through the 1940s, mostly North American history... I'm glad I found this.. Thanks..

Along with the chain in the box game, this looks like fun...

In the picture it lookes as the chissel digger has a hydraulic cylinder.. Does that raise, lower the depth wheels ?? Or does the digger telescope narrow, wider to fit the orchard lanes ??

Greetings from far north west BC.... There was a time, when I was a young guy, I spent time on both north and south shores of Superior.. But don't believe anything you hear about that....

Greetings from far north west Canada... My Sweeties family came to Nova Scotia from Scotland.. In the early 1890s (?) Sweetie is the keeper of all the old family recipes and makes the family supply of Chow-Chow yearly..

G'day Mate.... Greetings from far north west Canada... I have a group in OZ I communicate with.. My Sweetie has a pen pal in Brisbane who both belong to an organization that reshelves discard library books.. This called Book Crossing.. So I am learning bits of a new language.. Candian...

Greetings from far north west Canada, near the Alaska US border.. I am an English first language old guy and still get things wrong in how to say things.. Don't worry about that.. Posting useful information is the important part.. I had a friend who went to Kyrgyzstan to teach.. Also a guy...

Greetings from far north west BC.... Listing a general location will help put into context things you post about..

Greetings from far north west Canada..

I also cut channels with a sub soil shank around our berry bushes, and trees... This to attract, and keep maximum moisture near.. I plan to build a homemade shank with a mole plow type head to leave a better channel than the sub soil shank provides..

I pull 2 sections of 5' wide chain harrow side by side with a spreader bar in our pasture.. It works well breaking up any clumps, breaking down weed stalks, and messing up ant hills.. I also have a set of light truck tires (7) in a row of 3 infront of a row of 4, (about 8' wide) all bolted...

TC88.... Greetings from far north west BC... When I had my old JD855 it had a number 52 or 54 (?) loader.. I know they came with the number 70 loader also.. As much as I loved and miss that old tractor the compattable attachments could be found for it.. But the hard part was finding the...

My dad said in the fall of 1941 he bought a very nice 1938 Chevy.. This giving him good transportation through the war years.. Both my dad and moms families sold all there livestock late summer, fall of 1941.. Almost 2 train loads to the Chicago stock yards.. My grandparents leasing...

Umm.... My latest kitchen accomplishment was this... And this time I DID NOT use the smoke alarm as a timer... Kind of a "Dump" or "Body Slam" meal.. In the big couter top roaster, slow cooker... 2 rough chopped onions 2 packages of boneless, cubed black bear meat.. 1/2 package of fresh...

I went the cheap way to build a homemade cow pie breaker.. I got 7 light truck tires, free.. About $20 worth of 3/8 inch nuts, washers, all thread rod and 2x2x3/16 inch flat stock.. I made 2x2 washers out of the flat stock.. Bolted the tires together in a row of 4 wide behind a row of 3.. A...

I have skidded a considerable amount of timber using the 3pt arch from my post hole digger to lift the log end off the ground.. And the fixed draw bar to pull the log.. Important to use the drawbar to pull and NOT pull with the raised up 3pt as tipping is too easy to do... You DO NOT want...

Growing up in South Dakota, We are getting a dose of Texas winter today. Freezing rain....just a matter of time before they close schools and businesses. === === East river ?? === === So we are in a phase of early morning skiff of snow in the first light of morning.. Compacted by temps...

At least a year pre pandemic (?) I got a Pirhana tooth bar.. At that time it wasn't that expensive.. Fits well, works well for my intentions.. It digs well enough in our ground.. My biggest reason for having it is to keep ware off the bucket edge while moving snow.. There is a learning curve...

Someone mentioned setting the bucket on an old section of diamond harrow and chain it down.. Good concept, kind of long teeth for this application.. From there my thinking has gone to a kind of slip on thing, like a boot cleat, or foot in an old slipper with 2-3 rows of teeth, knives on...

Here in our part of the north, we are into our "broken hip slick ice" stage of winter.. This meaning too cold yet to thaw anything, but we get enough sun during some days to glaze the existing packed snow on the yard and driveway... Not enough heat to melt anything, but enough to glaze the...

Outstanding..

Adapt, persevier, overcome.... Outstanding..

Up here we don't have fire ants... Knock on wood... We do have ants that have built a mound almost the size of a VW beetle... I treat it with 20 Mule Team borax and table sugar mixed half and half... I treat the mound on 3 sides leaving the open side to encourage them to migrate away from...

The 2 row planter in post #1 is what I would use here in our ground and the conditions I have thought of using it.. That being more a "food plot" type of planting in our big pasture.. In our growing zone 2 part of the bush we don't have enough time to get a crop of corn, dent or sweet... I...

I think this design has been used to mount something like an Earth Way, Cole, Covington planter in the center area between the 2 swept back arms.. This likely needing a homemade bracket of some kind.. I would try it if I got a cultivator for cheap.. If you need different spacing on...

Simple.... If you can fabricate at all, just make shanks out of square tube, bolt to frame, bolt a cheap chisel or small cultivator shovel to the shank.. Years ago I built a 3 pt tool platform and built all manor of chissel, cultivator, hiller bedder shanks to bolt on.. The combinations are...

I run a gently used, but cheap, 50" Buhler 3pt blower with 25 pto horse power.. A full cut will be slow going even with the hydro drive.. The remainer of the job with 1/2 to 3/4 width cuts runs smooth and a bit faster... But then when we get snow up here it tends to be a bunch at a time..

"The best brand of tractor is"....... What ever brand has the best price, after sales support, and service in your area.... REGARDLESS of brand or color... Coincidentaly, in my area that combination was the best at JD...

WOW.... Nice build.... I'm going to resume you have rock free, sandy enough soil to make that work well... ?? I would like to see a video of that working....

It was less expensive to buy a 100-ft 12ga, and some ends. I now have 50, 30, as 20-ft cords. --- --- I did this also... Got a nice 30 meter cord some one had chewed up several spots with a weed or something like that.. Cut out all the bad spots and made cords out of the pieces.. In all only...

Up here in the far north, we have cold weather flexable extension cords available.. They are not cheap but well worth the money.. On my tractor I assembled a 1 meter long extension cord from an old frayed flexable cord.. It is securely fastened to the loader frame and goes between the cord...

I'm going to say..... Yes.... It is likely designed to be tall enough to keep the tractor from going more than 90 degrees most of the time in case of a roll over on its side... My 5 cents of opinion...

I have JD, AP10F x 42".... Yes.. They are hard to see the tips when close to the ground as the back plate is just the wrong height for 42" forks.. But with a little practice you learn to adapt easily.. Most pallets are 48" x 40", so 42" forks work the best for me.. I move a lot of firewood...

Yeah, its a bit embarrassing to learn you just responded to a 10 year old question. --- --- I don't find this a problem.. As long as someone gets useful info to a question they ask.. That is all that matters...

Unfortunately.... The man hours time and fuel to trap, kill, compost feral hogs likely saved as much as a $ million in crop land.... Also unfortunately, there are times where disease will spread in a domestic herd and this may be the most sanitary and efficient way to handle it.. I have...

Bob... I like the big fan tail apron on the back end.. A place to bolt a trailer hitch of one kind or another and load the trailer right off the apron... Good job.... ...eh...

I have a pressure guage intened to check filled tires.. Refered to as a "wet" guage... When done checking, run it under warm water in the sink and move the stem in and out to assure it is clean..

I have 2 chain harrows, 5' wide x 9' long from our local auto, farm store.. I pull them side by side with a 5' spreader bar... Some times I pull a set of 7 old light truck tires bolted together to cover 8'6" wide behind the chain harrow, just because I can.. But then, I have plenty of...

I have a RC2060 behind a 2032R (25pto hp) Has worked well.. I have read different things about the MX series being very good frame mowers.. Quite desireable for that quality.. Never heard about gear box issues.. To me.... A used mower would get a very complete gear box oil drain and...

Brady D .... Thanks I should have no problem pulling it with my tractor then... === === Give it a try, you got nothing to loose.. If it doesn't work, make a change, try again..

Going on 2 (?) years ago, pre covid.. There were reports of sounders seen in southern Alberta.. Likely south west Saskatchewan... It is not hard to believe they will eventually migrate to southern British Columbia also.. At the time of these sightings the game commision did not want you to...

Interesting.... I want to see a report with pictures of how it works... Good luck...

You don't list a general location or type of ground... So it is not possible to give good advise about something similar or directions to someone with similar conditions.. I have a no name, older 5 shank tool like in the links that my mother in law gave me.. With 32 hp and in our ground I...

Here in our far north, very short zone 2 season many things do not grow well.. However.. Many vegie and fruits do grow well surprisingly.. I have a used garage sale cheap Earthway Planter ($15).. This a walk behind that came with 6 (?) extra seed plates.. Our ground is loose enough I did a...

Neat... My old knees would appreciate something like this on our trailer.. We don't use it often, but when we do, it would be helpful.. Hook into stake slot to step up or down.. Turn 1/4 turn back in pocket, pin in place to travel... This needs to go into my "good idea" note book to work...

Nice job...

Here in our part of the far north bush... We have not found any corn that will mature in our short end of zone 2 climate... So with that in mind, I do occasionally plant most any kind of corn I can get cheap to make some stage of fodder for our small livestock.. I have 24" between the tires...

I presume homemade ?? Does look well built all considered..

We have really good maple syrup available in the country.. But pricy, as it is mostly all the way across the country from here.... We use 4 liter bulk "pancake syrup" for most things.. One of my favorite ways to use this is to warm it well with an equal amount of melted butter mixed in...

When we have pork fat to render, we chill it, grind it before rendering.. Ground fat helps produce maximum rendering.. After rendering, we bag the cracklings in 1 cup or so size baggies and freeze.. It works well in many recipes, bread and such..

Neighborhood women had a "Pampered Chef" party to benefit young neighbor mom with breast cancer.. Sweetie bought a can opener that cuts from the side of the rim.. It leaves a smooth lid and can lip.. Works well... I was suspicious of how it would last, but it has done well.. We also...

As a retired couple here deep in the far north bush, this was our experience.. We went to 2 John Deere dealers and one of two Kubota dealers in our area... We telling them we want a no frills, side by side 2 person, 4x4, cargo bed UTV.. Pretty much all the models they had were the go...

I keep wondering about putting one in place of a backhoe bucket... <<< >>> I have seen pictures of that on a mini excavator.. Also on a skid steer.. Both upside down units.. I would presume easy enough to adapt to a tractor backhoe system.. Neither rotated, but both were capable of easily...

Considering our ground..... If I had that kind of issue in that size area.... Like said.. I would put in a base of 3-4" maximum pit run.. Spread and pack as well as I could then overlay with about 3" of compaction gravel.. I would NOT put down 1" of gravel then try to use it.. I would take the...

If you can buy it cheap enough.... Clean it up a little... Tune it up as needed... Sharpen it, adjust it..... .....Go for it.... Worst that can happen is you resell it...

One time we got 2 big dump truck loads of stove length rounds delivered to our yard free.. Problem was they were cotton wood and as much as a meter to meter and a half in diameter.. Being cottonwood was not a problem, just the diameter of a lot of it made it hard to handle.. Even with the...

All good useful tools.. My thought and the sketch I have in my "Good Idea" notebook is to make a sort of bridge.. This to slip over the forks of my pallet fork attachment on the FEL... This to give the set up as much strength as needed and easily slip on and off.. Anchored with a short...

I also make homemade, DIY tensioners.. I use dog tie out chain and springs just a bit smaller than recycled trampoline springs from our local freight surplus store.. I bend hooks out of stiff wire about 3mm diameter.. Also "S" hooks, if, when on sale.. This seems a lot of trouble, but only...

Either 2 - 3 years ago I bought 2 barrels, 55 gallon of K1 kerosene at an estate sale... Both dated 1999.... One sealed and one with maybe 5 gallon used.. Both have a slight red tinge to them.. This from red flakes the size of what fine ground black pepper would be.. NOT red dyed fuel...

I pull two chain link harrows side by side with a spreader bar.. The harrows are 5' wide x 6 1/2' long.. This to break down the weed and non edible plant stems in our old pasture.. It will clog up and self clean as it needs to as you go It seems to take care of itself pretty much.. Most...

You don't list a general location, so it is hard to tell what "winter" amounts to in your area compared to other areas.. You list a Kioti tractor.. I have to presume a compact of some kind.. Maybe the one blower will fit that... A hydraulic motor run by a skid steer is a whole different...

From the picture posted it appears the rims are not showing that bad of damage ..so far... The leak seems slow enough to buy you enough time to find options.. Be that new, used rims.. Tubes, clean and bondo bad spots, what ever is available in your area to solve the issue... It appears you...

Yesterday within 2 minuets of moving my car a live birch tree fell over that would have crushed my car. >>> <<< Some what similar situation here once... A 20 cm limb came down driving it almost 40 cm into the ground... I chose to pay a professional dangerous tree person to put the tree on...

About 15 or so years ago.. In my tool and die shop I helped a guy proto type a 3pt, cat 2, power opener over seeder.. The target buyer for this was to be golf courses and sports field operators.. I was told it worked great with higher germination rates than expected... I suspect this type...

Greeting from far north west Canada... Your general location ?? What are you "shredding" .... ?? Grass and brush ?? Crop residue ?? I presume the bigger shredder is 3 feet more than what you have.. If what you have is paid for.... Is that a consideration... Details will help....

Interesting thought..... My first thoughts were of a 3 point sub soil shank.... Use the shank on the 3 point for some preliminary cuts in the ground.. Then move the shank to an adaptor on something like a pallet fork frame on the FEL.... I'm thinking with the shank point facing the tractor...

one may consider a tire harrow a bar with a series of tires chained to it and then a second row of tires stagged from the first row, <<< >>> I built this... A row of 4 light truck snow tires bolted together with 3/8" all thread and 2x2" homemade square washers.. Then a row of 3 tires in...

Right now is the perfect time of year, plants are sucking nutrients into their roots for the winter. Herbicide in the sap gets into the roots and kills the whole plant. <<< >>> I'm going to guess, regardless of the chemical you use.. The most efficient time window will produce the most...

A boar hog? Sometimes they are not edible. It's hit and miss and you don't know until it goes in the frying pan. <<< >>> It can be that way up here with black bear some times... Neighbor got one once that had lived on frogs, crawfish, ducks, musk rats in the swamp between our places.. His...

When I get to clearing regrowth around our fence lines, I'm going to use strait Round up in a can on a broom stick, painted on the cut ends with a small brush on a broom stick.. I've been told to do this as soon as possible, within no more than a couple hours of the brush being cut so it...

Im in Near North Ontario Canada, short season here for hay , winters are long and hard with lots of snow and very cold. I dont have access to a combine to harvest the oats this fall so im looking for what my options are, or what the best options are. <<< >>> Up here in the far west this would...

I got a Piranha tooth bar to save ware on the cutting edge of the bucket... The Piranha bar being sacrificial on our gravel drive.. There is a learning curve learning to use the tooth bar on the gravel until there is a very solid frozen base.. You will get used to it in time with...

My brother in law had a tire shop before he got his custom plant, harvest business... He said, read the manual, get all the advise you can, then dismiss all that information and go with the pressure listed on the side wall of the tire... This has worked well for me... My 5 cents of opinion...

We have 2 sets of 5' wide x 6'6" long drag like in post #1... I pull them side by side with a 5' wide spreader bar.. For us, this works well to pull over a little used pasture to break down un useful weeds and brush growth.. Pulling it over the pasture several times a year for weed control...

It has been many years since I have had anything made by my redneck, Louisiana Cajun cousins... As I remember everything was good, very spicy, and it was best not to ask too many questions about "what is this?" Just keep playing G chords when they played Zydeco music and enjoy...

KALE..... I have NOT found any of the ways I've seen it prepared that I could choke down the second bite.. TOFU.... Again.. About the same as kale.. SHREDDED COCONUT... I like coconut flavor in things.. Just can't get past the thought of it look and seem like the texture of finger nail...

Sweetie has tried to maintain a stand of hops out by the green house.. I have no idea what kind of hops it is.. If you Google..... how to make yeast from hops..... There will be a lot of info on that.. We never had to do this, but for instance at the start of the pandemic many complained...

Much like in post #5.... The last black bear we harvested, when it was all deboned, I broke up the bones to boil in an old 12 liter pot on the wood fired outdoor HOBO stove.. This kept our old short haired, short legged dog VERY busy and happy...

My Sweetie is a world class homemade break baker... She also nurtures a yeast base sour dough starter we call "Fred Sourdough"... Fred lives fall, winter, spring in his jar on the kitchen counter.. The jar sits in a diner plate as he is known to try to crawl out of the jar at times.. Fred...

By coincidence..... About every other year it works out to be, we run into a good sale on whole shoulder hams... Big 10-12 kilo shrink wrapped things.. Last spring we had freezer room and stocked 8 of these.. Our favorite process is to thaw, cut into manageable pieces.. Run through the...

My Sweetie makes homemade extract... Like said she uses cheap vanilla beans and cheap vodka.... The trade off seems she lets it sit a minimum of 1 or more years in the basement cold room to age.. She uses quart canning jars with a rubber seal and a plastic or glass canning lid... This is...

I make homemade smoked salt... Once, twice a year I have a steel cookie sheet to fit the top shelf in the old Bradley smoker.. Put in a layer of Kosher salt, smoke until it is quite dark.. Crumble it to where it will work with a recycled dinner table size pepper grinder.. The product and...

From the title I was hoping this would be about the mini round balers for compact tractors... The ones that make a 50 x 70 cm, 20x27 inch, string tie round bale... This would be handy for our operation... Anyone with experience with one of these ?? ?? Experience, facts, details, thoughts...

If all you need is a single row harvester up to 30 tractor horse power..... Sounds to me like a good reason to get a 30 horse power tractor...

I have had a bit of experience with live traps.. A couple homemade models from lumber and ply wood.. Here in the far north the thing that could chew a hole the size in the picture shown and escape from that hole would be a long tail weasel.. I routinely have to live trap one spring, fall...

edit: ordered one to test. Someone in the questions section said they had to modify theirs to actually fit their 3pt. We'll see.. +++ +++ Had to modify it to fit there 3POINT.... ?? Or to fit there latest and greatest model of the day quick hitch ..... ?? I would be curious about that...

The ripper in the link of post #3 appears to be a what is called a "mole plow" Used to create a cavity in the ground to drain surface water.. I use a similar shape tool to create channels in the ground to collect water around our fruit trees and bushes..

I see you list that you have a JD855.... ?? When I had an 855 with a 54 loader, I could take the hose to my local auto, farm store and they would make a new hose with the old hose ends..

Didn't some of the very early tractors with a PTO have a hole through the shaft so you could pin the mating parts together ??

One time I bought a used PHD with a well used auger.. I could not get replacement teeth for that auger so I made homemade teeth out of 3/8" flat stock.. I made several sets that I re sharpened as I could and replaced when necessary... It got the job done..

So there may be advantages of buying old "new" implements. I scored like a bandit. +++ +++ Yes... That can be an advantage... Pretty much my attitude.. They wouldn't budge on the price of a JD 5' brush hog... I walked... Pretty soon they were calling to say they "found some room" on the...

Like said in a combination of the other posts.. My experience with home builds has been to work backwards a bit.. First you look up a cylinder size to find what gpm it requires to have an average cycle time.. Then you match that to the gpm available over and above what is required to run...

I suspect Buhler, Allied, Farm King are the same machine, depending on what quantity the wholesale order is for.. ?? ?? We got our Buhler 50" gently used and cheap as things like this go.. I pulled the shear bold out of the auger drive, slid the chain sprocket off the shaft and reassembled all...

++ ++ ++ When I ran, had tool and die shops I always required and kept material certification documents and stub bar ends that all shipped to the customer at there expense with the parts.. Even with all this in place, occasionally there were mistakes made in material documentation, testing...

The only bamboo we see up here is in the form of a long handled back scratcher... However we do have creeping "bush" that will encroach into and swallow up pasture or hay fields unless you are diligent with it.. -- --- -- Anything left living will always spread of course, but if you can...

I run a 50" blower.. A 3pt mount Buhler/Allied brand.. This on a JD 2032R with loaded turfs and 2 link V bar ladder chains.. This tractor could handle a 60" easily enough, but the blower was purchased gently used and quite cheap.. I also use a 72" rear blade until winter overwhelms it...

"How Do Manufacturers Paint Implements"...... Some... Very badly... I have a China made box blade that looks like a job I would do with spray cans... It doesn't matter as it does the work I need it to do, and I don't require keeping things "show room" sparkle... The things I have built and...

On my equipment there is a ring with a step in it on the pto shaft that another ring in the guard, with a step rides in.. The grease goes in-between the rings, or close enough to keep all turning more easily than without grease.. It is all plastic on plastic and eventually will ware out, so...

Umm...... Looks like good material for other projects ?? ??

Well I looked at it, and it was in very poor condition. So I respectfully passed, I would like another welder, not another project. + + + Sometimes you go on many, many missions before scoring a trophy.... That is the thrill of the hunt... Always worth the effort rather than just throwing...

Like in the picture posted, I have used the arch portion of the post hole digger to skid timber.. Using the arch with the top link and not the arm portion of the PHD... Using a hook on a heavy quick chain link pinned to the point where the top link attaches to the arch.. This to lift the log...

Nice... Required finish product pictures...

Any idea whether a Deere 71 seeder with the appropriate plate would do a decent job planting bromegrass/wheatgrass seeds? +++ Try it... Even with a corn plate, you have nothing to loose.. Do some short rows and see... The only thing I can think of it may be a little tough, irregular...

If I were to build a tool like this, I would make it like the one in the first video.. The difference I would make is to make the vertical legs about 3-4" longer than you think you need.. And make the blade out of, maybe 5/8 or 3/4 mild steel about 8" wide... If your ground is abrasive...

I run turfs and bar chains. The combination has worked well for a decade. + + + Standard turf, filled, and V bar ladder chains is what I have used on 2 compact tractors now... If I were to have to replace tires I would look into the R14... What little research I have done tells me there are...

.....be a heck of a lot cheaper and less time consuming to broadcast the seed with a hand spreader and set it with a drag mat. You won't get the consistency of germination but you will get a much cheaper date.. + + + Years ago I worked with a design engineer, soil scientist that also was an old...

I have 7 attachments... Tractor came with FEL, so that doesn't count to me.. Snow blower Box blade Chisel digger Disk Brush hog Rear blade PHD Also have a chain link drag harrow Home made tire drag to break up cow pies.. Not too old yet to hook up PHD... Assemble one piece at a time.. I have...

Zip ties.... Duck tape... Pool noodle... Best wishes...

I've got the material... Just need the time and ambition to put it together.... The sketches in my "good idea" note book are for an angle iron side frames and back blade to bolt to the sides of my box blade... I'm thinking adjusting the top link will be the key to getting it to do what I want...

More detail..... From some more study, and what Alien said, a popular system seems to start at the ditch, pull a ground opener like a modified middle buster at the nose.. Behind that is a open ended V shape trough kept full of washed gravel.. This leaves a kind of vertical gravel wall for water...

When I set up the brush hog (60") on our tractor I made sure the tire pressures were where they should be.. Did all this on the flat garage floor.. I set it up to cut about 15cm (6") high.. Adjusted the tail wheel as needed, adjusted the top link as needed... I measured the top link center...

It appears to be a well weathered twin to my 2 year old Speeco 70... It is likely a good PHD, with an oil change and some TLC... However that price is a bit much as I got mine on spring flyer sale new for $400

When I am brush hog mowing in the pasture, if I see it in time I like to stick the forks into an ant hill and mess it up.. Then kind of hover over the ant hill with the brush hog a bit.. It really messes up there day..

We don't have hogs here.... But a black bear will do about the same kind of damage in a more localized spot digging up an ant hill in the pasture or hay field... The ant hills can be a meter in diameter and half a meter high in little more than over night it seems... The bears will dig a...

or that he had an issue with following technical procedures. + + + + There is that also.... Many people will read the instruction ...first, assemble tab A into slot B... But not believe it.. At least that is what I have to suspect... Every time I got a new machine in the tool and die shop, I...

they are intimately acquainted with it, know every nook and cranny and, by simple human nature, unconsciously, take lots of stuff for granted. The engineers write them, the marketing department embellishes them then the lawyers redact them :rolleyes: + + + Many years ago I learned to write...

Here in the far north west of Canada, I also got my 3pt snow blower off yesterday... Greased, checked over and parked in machinery row.. The rear wheel chains will stay on a while yet... Put the 3 pt blade on and committed a neatness on the driveway.. Hooked the chain drag harrow up and...

Not all lynch pins are created equal.. Quality lynch pins are worth a little extra money.. None are fool proof.. Like said.. If it is necessary to not loose one, use a 3/8 bolt with a lock nut.. The extra work to use a bolt and lock nut is worth it in the long run than to have issues with a...

I helped the neighbor drop and cut up a VERY large black walnut several years ago. He also had two very impatient friends helping and neither of them ever watched what other people were doing. + + + + I have also seen this a couple times.. A couple of them were "weekend woodsmen" who only come...

Turned up, roots will die in the sun. + + + + If your bush is anything like the bush here... It is not going to hurt to paint all the cut ends of bush stumps and root ends you can with Round Up, right from the bottle, even if you eventually turn most of them under.. Good luck...

How do you totally wreck an anvil ?? Give my big brother a marshmallow....

Got my 'China built' on sales from Princess Auto for $600 last week. It's 5', weights 500lb + + + + Exactly what we got... A couple years or so ago it was $500 or a bit less (?) on sale.. Cheaper than I could buy the steel and make one at that time.. You are lucky your boulders are only 6-10"...

I have to presume from what has been said you tractor is 30 hp or so.. We got a China built, 5' box blade from our local auto farm store on a catalog sale flyer reduced price.. We use it on a 32 hp JD.. The blade is 2" a side wider than the tractor foot print that has loaded turfs.. When...

From what little I can assume from your description, you are trying ti mow a steep bank, road ditch or the like ?? ?? With my old JD855 I could do that with the 60" MMM, but not with any kind of 3pt attachment.. Just too steep an angle involved.. You may be able to find a MMM deck for your...

Neat tool... You can lift the end of a log and still pull it from the fixed draw bar with another chain.. Much safer to pull with the drawbar, and easier with the log end up even just a little.. The log end doesn't have to be lifted as high as possible.. Unless you have a strap on dolly...

I had that problem once.. Kept scalping a rock about the size of my palm with the MMM deck.. Decided to dig it up.. Used bucket, shovel, sub soil shank where I could.. Rock ended up the size of a wash tub... Luckily didn't break or bend anything..

my buddy added several suitcase weights to his..........i've never asked him if it helped or not.......i assume it did.. but it was ugly:rolleyes: + + + + We are far enough off the highway ugly, beautiful, implement color, brand name can't be seen or cared about.... We have a China made 5' box...

OK... All you Kiwi, Aussie, and Brit folk... Why is it that you (your country) tend to use a 'mole plow/plough' rather than lay drainage tile? And... how does it work? + + + + To my understanding... Using a mole plow goes along with having drain tile, pipe in place.. The mole plow tunnels move...

How about building a plywood "sand box" type base set up on blocks off the ground. Maybe 4' square, by 2x6 deep, with additional joist... Fill with sand. Cover with a slotted floor so any spill will go into the sand.. Build shed walls, roof, door around the sand box platform... Or on skids...

I would not use it in a motor... I would use it to treat new fence post ground ends, burn barrel starter, and other uses.. This is apples and oranges.. But a number of years ago I was given about 20 or so old gas cans.. As it worked out I reclaimed about 60 liter of gas, mixed minimum 5...

Good work...

I use an auto receiver hitch carry all on my 3pt receiver hitch attachment.. You just need to remember to bungee everything down well.. I got this at a garage sale for $20 a couple summers ago.. Works well...

It appears the bar with the 3pt pins is in backwards... The lower 3pt pin is usually on the right to keep the plow more level as the tractor wheel rides in the furrow.. This of course when the plow is laying off dirt to the right..

What I think I am seeing from the pictures is you are to use a 7/8 diameter bar between the 3pt arms.. back the bar into the slots and the hook holds the implement to the bar.. Hook up and adjust your top link and farm on... I am curious that the hook up on the left side of the implement is...

I have had a couple of the pull back collar type that were difficult.. One on a JD mid mower, another on a new PHD... When I had time, I took them apart and scraped what looked like chunky black paint off every surface I could.. The inside of the splined area was OK.. The sleeve, spring...

I would like to have a belly mount sickle bar mower to run off the mid mount pto.. Much like on the old Farmal A or B small tractor.. I'm sure that will never happen as it would be too model, year specific to sell.. Unless.... Someone was talented enough to do a home built.......

I have an older, much used, but still useful disk my mother in law gave us.. It is angle iron frame, non adjustable, about 5'6" wide. The last coat of paint on it was red.. None of this matters as it is useful and was cheap.. The big thing seems setting it up.. This was done on the garage...

A 3pt logging winch is not in my budget, let alone remotely available used in this area.. I bought a length of roofers safety rope at a garage sale.. It most be 50 plus meters long, and even though technically expired for safety use, I have done a lot of skidding with it.. Using it to move...

For pasture, road apple issues, this is what I have done that works cheap, easy... I bolted together 7 heavy duty light truck tires.. A row of 4 wide behind a row of 3 wide.. Bolted together at each tangent point. A length of chain to pull it with.. It breaks up and spreads road apples...

If I were to need to replace my turfs, I would consider them.. If they were available in the correct size.. The biggest complaint I seem to find is the R 14 is not available in all sizes.. And the fact it is not available as a radial pattern tire in only a smaller number of sizes... My...

I would learn towards "aggressive", +++ I run 2 link, V bar ladder chains on our loaded turfs... The V bars are nice to have when the packed snow glazes over to broken hip slick ice... No problems..

My opinion = Go for it.... If it doesn't work like you want.... Back to the drawing board and modify, or build something different... I have an old 6' rear blade that was 9/10 wore out when we got it.. With some TLC it is now only about 7/8 wore out, but does everything we have attempted...

When I click on the image links, it says "can't find that" Are you trying to rebuild, restore, use the planter as is...?? I would love, love to have an old planter to plant areas for wild life near our pond.. No matter how good or how bad it worked at the time.. I have used a disk to do...

Wondering your opinion on your snow blower setup? +++ We have a gently used 50" Buhler, Allied blower on 25 pto hp... With the snow we get, the tractor will start to bog if you go too fast.. - - - Is it difficult to plow backwards? Do you have an HST on your tractor? +++ Yes at times it is...

To me it is an older cultipacker... Put a tag on it and send it to me... No one wants these .... I will get it out of your yard.. :rolleyes: :)