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Was wondering if anyone here has ever sprayed cattle from a 3pt sprayer on tractor?

Kinda baffled. Back in the 80's and 90's I put many a hose replacement end on hoses and never had a problem. Most of them were those plastic green ones with two screws. The last ten years or so it's like they don't fit hoses properly any more and leak terribly. No matter whether it's the plastic...

After planting purple hulls for years in my small garden we switched to zipper cream peas the last couple years. I had the idea of putting some sections of cow panel (the ones with probably 4-6" squares) in the rows in hopes they might climb instead of just being a bush. Supposedly they are...

I've used ratchet strainers on electric fence but never a barbed wire fence. Can't recall ever seeing that done. Just curious if any has done it and how well it worked.

Only once have I had to run a generator because of a power outage which was Hurricane Ike in '08. We were three days without electricity then. Generator ran the refrigerator, freezer, tv, lamp, and couple fans. Got lucky and was able to get enough gas to run it. How many generators do you keep...

Today makes 33 years for me and the missus. Blessed.

We have a 14 x 32 metal building we're thinking bout moving from back yard to side yard. The tractor is a Mahindra 5570 70hp. The building has four 4 x 6 skids under it. Building is full of "stuff" such as tools and saddles. Wondering if I can drag it slowly with tractor?

Bought a Scag Cheetah in 2013. Two or three years later a mower deck spring breaks. Found a Scag dealer in a town closer to me than where I bought the mower. Friendly folks. Bought spring and blades. Fast forward to this past weekend. Different spring broke. Went and bought it and a set of...

Couple months ago I bought a large ( 40 pounds I think ) bag of birdseed at Walmart. Two new feeders in our front yard. Noticed a lot of blackbirds coming through for couple weeks. One day while weedeating I saw one sitting in grass just a couple feet from me. It would kinda fly/flutter for ten...

My entrepreneurial stepdad's latest thing to come up with. A combination holster and cell phone carrier. Looks like you just have a cell phone because your pistol is concealed. I think he's sold roughly forty so far.

This happened in my neighbor's yard across the farm road while I was in my front yard last Sunday. I heard a loud racket like tires squalling (doesn't appear to be any skid marks) so looked up to see an older model Lincoln Navigator fishtailing out of control across the other lane headed for the...

We have forty acres leased with some cows on it. The property is rectangular with the back fence probably somewhere between two and three times longer than the sides. Needed to take two strands of electric fence wire down and have been thinking on how to do it for a couple weeks. I made use of...

Stepdad has always been the inventive type. He built this rake and boom to drag weeds out of the pond.

Not sure how to put this on a pole. Do not have a pole yet.

No matter how many times I reset and retighten this bottom hinge it twirls right back around again. Not a newbie to hanging a gate but dadgum this one will not cooperate. If I was a welder I would be inclined to weld the bottom piece. Out of ideas at this point.

Been needing to haul calves for a few months but it never seems to stop raining here. Rained day before yesterday. Wife didn稚 shut the gates to keep cows from disappearing into the woods yesterday evening so wasn稚 sure how it would go. Got on four wheeler and headed across pasture. They came out...

Saw this today. Don’t think I’ve ever seen one before. Looks like quick attach levers but what for? The bottom of the pic is hood of my truck.

Over the last 8 or 9 years I have tried different ways of putting out round bales for the cows. The first few years I tried to keep using the same spot. Had a few spots but the idea was to mess up as little pasture as possible. Over time those spots just built enough and were nasty so I would...

We got lucky and found 40 acres 3 miles down the road to put some of our cows on. The fences on two sides are horrible. I have always said we had well behaved cows because they don稚 give me many problems. Wife and I patch on fence here and there every once in a while. The old barbed wire is...

Got it today! Mahindra 5570 w/ FEL Bucket Bale Spear Grapple Mower 3pt Sprayer Happyness

Who knows but maybe in the next year or so the wife and I will be in a position to purchase our very own new tractor. Been operating tractors since I was in junior high forty years ago. Mostly around 40 hp. As a kid we had a Massey Ferguson. Liked it. Then a small Ford. It was handy. Then a...

I don稚 know what I did to cause this or what to do to fix it. Sometimes when reading the threads I turn my phone sideways so I can blow up the text for easier reading. All of a sudden when I do it splits the screen in two parts. One with the text and one with the page where you click on google...

About a mile and a half from me on a state highway I致e seen a rancher several times move cattle from one side of the highway to the other. It痴 not straight across. They move them a couple hundred yards. There will be guys on four wheelers or atvs on each end with road flags communicating by cell...

Lost my best friend of the last eleven years Thursday night. Sure hurt on the inside.

The Mahindra 4500 is parked right in the way in my back yard but won't start. Was using it last Saturday and everything was fine. Sunday it wouldn't start. Starting some time I ago it started having issues with a safety switch I think. I could slide pto lever back and forth slowly while holding...

I've never planted pinto beans before. Was told our summers are too hot so wait til fall. According to DavesGarden website our average first frost is November 18. Will they mature and produce by then?

This happened today. I think the part in my hand is the arm steering knuckle. How do I remove the part from there to hub. Do you beat it out like a ball joint? Don't wanna tear anything up.

Why is it that tractor dealers won't put prices on their websites like car dealerships do? It would be nice to look online and at least get an idea. Don't wanna drive to another town just to walk around looking. Might as well not have a website.

I don't live in Oregon or claim to be a lumberjack. Really don't use a chainsaw that much but in 51 years I've used one enough every year that I should know the basics. Never cut anything really big. Have a tree that died last year between our back yard and pasture shed. Got a new chain...

Went to Home Depot Saturday and bought two pallets of red 12" x 12" landscape pavers to please the wife. Gonna make a "patio" in our back yard. Never thought about the specs involved. Each paver weighs approximately 17 pounds and there's 168 on a pallet. I believe that's 2,856 pounds. Took the...

Father in law had a Mahindra 4500 til he passed several years ago. Doesn't get a lot of use. Mostly putting out a couple round bales each week. Recently was on it and it just started running very ragged then seemed to straighten up a bit then died. I don't know where the manual is and thought...

Started building a shed couple months ago. Only work on it on weekends and have been sidetracked away from it the last few. Something for horses or cows to get under. Looking online I've noticed them called loafing sheds. Never heard that term before. Doing it by myself with the help of the...

Went to turn water faucet on to water tomatoes and okra. It was dark out and I spotted this fella. Around here we call pretty much any snake that isn't poisonous a chicken snake. He was on the faucet slithering onto a shrub.

What is your preferred method of fire ant control in the vegetable garden? This year I built a few raised beds and debating on putting fire ant bait in the beds or mixing pyrethrin in a sprayer and spraying them. Need to do something soon.

The other evening the wife needed to dry some clothes but the dryer wouldn't cooperate. Wouldn't start. No noise, nothing. I'm not the most gifted mechanically speaking but decided to give it a whirl. Took the iPad in laundry room and started googling. Several hours and YouTube videos later I...

Have you ever shot a buzzard to keep em from getting a baby calf? Or have ya lost any calves due to buzzards?

My father in law gave my wife and her sister a couple acres some years back for their own homestead. We trenched across the pasture (maybe 200 yards) to supply our homes with water. So there are three households on this well. In the summer of 2000 the pump went out. He was the kind of fella that...

Kinda cool

Ran across this today.

In my forty seven years all the tractors in my family have been geared. Recently I got on my soon to be son in laws kubota HST. Just to drive about fifty feet to the truck. Gotta admit pretty darned cool.

Thought I saw a hydraulic leak on loader lift hose. Took both ends loose but the fittings on the ends won't fit to pass thru space between cylinder and loader arm. How'd they install these at the factory? I could cut hose into but still wouldn't be able to feed new one in place. Don't get...

So just wondering. The wife told me yesterday that I have a problem staying on TBN. It was in a joking manner of course but maybe I was spending too much time with you guys. Does that make me a TBN pervert?:laughing:

What kind of snake do you think this may be? At home with bum knee, was out in the front yard with the wife watching her get ready to paint when we noticed her mom's German shepherd barking non stop. We can see her drive so I was pretty sure there was nobody there. Wife says there must be a...

Saw this driving down the road the other day. Makes me think of some kind of German WWII fence. I'd be interested in seeing pics of unique fences.

This was lying on the ground in the edge of the woods behind my father in laws house. He's been gone since 2010. I thought it was some kind of root plow. It has a v shaped groove but if ya notice the placement of the 3pt hookups its facing the wrong way. Also the top link hook up is odd. Anyone...

Soooo. The tractor is Mahindra 4500. The backhoe is Bush hog 852. My FIL always used to get me to help him when he needed to hook up or unhook the backhoe cuz its a real booger. He passed away in 2010 and had the backhoe sitting on some cinder blocks but it had fallen over. So one weekend I...

How long would you search for a tool. Some folks are packrats and dont throw anything away. FIL was like that but most of the time even years later, if a tool or part was needed he knew where it was. I on the other hand wouldnt find it two weeks later. So how long will ya hunt before ya just go...

Mahindra 4500 makes a noise when tilting the forks up and seems to be weaker than it should. Raising the loader is not an issue only when tilting (such as a round bale). I have not noticed any oil that has leaked. Awaiting your expert opinions.

How would you dig the post holes. Built a section of barbed wire fence with a gate in the middle, so there were eight posts set for the h-brace. Put the auger on the mahindra and thought I was good to go. It barely made a dent in the hard Texas soil. My two hundred pound son jumped on it for...

compressor quit a while back (we had a spare, so not in too big hurry to figure out what happened). I disconnected from the 220 romex. power cord has black, white, and green wire. Have a fluke 75 multimeter if any of y'all can explain to me what do. Set to ohms? anyway be specific as dont...

how bout them rangers? go rangers!

Just curious as to what folks thoughts are when it comes to putting out round bales 1) put a ring around them or 2) roll them out. I've always just set em out in pasture with a ring around them. Father in law has one of those 3pt implements to roll them out so thought would give that a try but...

If anyone wants to chime in, thought it might be interesting to know what attachments or anything else to do with tractors have you seen on TBN that you either never have heard of before or just plain dont know what the heck it is. There will be many for me I'm sure but here are two right off...

someone give me a learnin lesson on roller pumps. Been looking on internet and see there are many. I wonder what is the difference between 4,6, or 8 roller pumps? The more the better? Interested in trying to "fix up" my late FIL sprayer. Found his old roller pump under the shed. Its a...

father in law had old pull behind spray rig. Its a fiberglass tank i'm guessing 300 gallons. Been sitting in pasture under a tree for who knows how long. Drug it out, amazingly tires were still up. Has a nozzle at the back, old worn out hoses, and no pump. What do i need to get it working? A...