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I have a heavy piece of old railroad iron that I use like that but it's no match for the way a rolling basket smooths the field.

Looks like the same clover leaf blade carrier with carbide teeth and blades that are on mine. Mine is a MTL-XCT-7. What brand is yours?

I mix Oats and Rye, this year I am going with Coker oats and Kelly Grazer Rye and I pretty much like to have mine in by November 1 every year and never had an issue. I am doing all no-till these days and ideally would like to wait until a good frost so the winter pasture isn't competing with the...

Sometimes you just don't realize how fortunate you are and how much the good lord looks out for you, that was the case for me today. I finally got some time to replace the broken blade bolt on my forestry mower that broke over a week ago on a job, I hadn't even unloaded it off the trailer so I...

Loaded up and ready to head out tomorrow morning and get started putting in the first winter pasture of the year, also slipped in a little mulching job today of an eyesore in front of a customer's house, mulched up old azaleas some scrub bushes and trees.

Yes my neighbor the retired diesel mechanic says he doesn't believe that it's an injector, so we are going to get on it when we get time.

Very little smooths a harrowed field better than a do-all (field cultivator ) with rolling baskets, I have also seen them used directly behind a harrow with good results.

I went back and found your email address after I didn't hear anything from you and sent it again, maybe check your spam/junk folder if you don't see it, but you should have it.

If you are talking about my diesel, I'm still working on it, so far 2 new thermostats to allow it to get up to correct operating temperature, new hydro boost brake booster, new transmission pan gasket and filter with new spin on filter as well, new fuel filter and serpentine belt, but I haven't...

Took the no-till drill over to a customer's place today in preparation to plant her winter pasture for her cows, I cleaned each one of the seed tubes to ensure that dirt dobbers and other creatures that tend to stop these up are cleaned out. For any of you that have a grain drill these C pap...

They produce some big calves, big bone structure, they used to be problematic with heifers calving but I think they have gotten the EPD numbers down on calf birth weight/calving ease and they grow off really good, see quite a few Charolais down here in Florida. Good luck on finding a young bull...

That's just hard luck but I've been there . Did you get another bull? I'm a Brangus man myself, they do really good in o hot humid environment.

That last sentence , yes you do I sold some yearlings 2 weeks ago and they averaged out between 480-520 pounds each and went from $4.30 on the low end up to $4.85 per pound on the high end, I have never sold yearlings that high, this cattle market is unreal.

Well PM me your email again and I will re-send it, I forwarded it to another fellow on this site and he got it with no problems, so let's try you again and see what happens. Charlie.

Lou, down here in Florida they use a lot of baled pine straw on those projects, they call it 75 MPH straw.

I will go out on a limb and say that for about 90% of owners with a new tractor that is the problem when the 3 point hitch arms won't raise.

Knocked out another one today for a customer getting ready to move a new mobile home in soon, it was approximately 2 acres. Had something happen that I have never had happen, I had a blade bolt break on my forestry mower and it slung the blade roughly 100 feet, I was lucky to find it but I did...

This was in Interlachen, I don't believe that there is a dirt road in Interlachen that doesn't have at least one of these spots in it, I bout get stuck nearly everytime I go there, that 11,000 lb boat anchor on my trailer behind my truck doesn't help matters LOL.

I cleared a building site on a wooded piece of property, didn't take many pictures but here is a couple and one of the sand bed that I had to go through to get in there, I almost didn't make it in, so I pulled the truck and empty trailer up the road to some harder ground to load up and get out...

Alright partner, I sent it. Let me know if you got it, if not I will get one of my boys who is more computer savvy to help me.

I'm working cows this afternoon and hauling some yearlings to the market, but if you will PM me your email address I will try to forward you the email that they sent me either tonight or in the morning. Charlie.

I've never even seen one down here in a field , but someone uses them as yesterday I saw 2 of them at Weeks Farm Auction in Moultrie Georgia and both went for around $6k each and I was thinking about this thread, one was a Hesston and I don't remember what the other one was, but they didn't...

That field is smooth enough now to be sprigged with hay grass in the spring. :D

I would want to disc or turn under now to start the breaking down process of the debris and then I would run over it again prior to planting as many times as needed to get it smooth for my future hay crop, but now I'm deep in the South and things can be different in other regions, it would be...

Yes sir, ya'll have it a lot worse than we do with that cold weather, I can remember when these tanks would get what we called waterlogged and you would get a lot of air out of your spigot's and would have to drain it down and remove one of the nipples/plugs from the top/side of the tank to get...

If you need 3 windshields replaced in 6 months I can understand being dropped, you would be better off with a piece of plexi-glass. :D

I don't blame you, there is to much easier wood to find to split.

Start with the ones that are easiest to get to and go from there and with any luck at all, well you know the rest.

I don't remember the exact amount I payed but it was cheaper than my deductible.

Unfortunately for me the only time I ever had a busted windshield was on a 1997 GMC hunting truck that I didn't carry full coverage on, so no free windshield for me, I payed for it out of my pocket and didn't even go through insurance.

Can't speak about that, but I do know if you have full coverage they are required by law to replace the windshield at no charge and no deductible. No full coverage, no free windshield replacement.

I use a particulate and a Goldenrod water filter on my 500 gallon diesel storage tank and I am a firm believer in more filtration is better, especially with today's common rail systems on diesel engines , they claim just a little water can be fairly detrimental to your wallet.

I didn't read through all 4 pages , so forgive me if this has already been said, but in Florida if you have full coverage insurance on your vehicle and your windshield is damaged for any reason , your insurance company is required to pay for it to be replaced in full at zero charge to you, no...

Eddie, it has been out in the open weather all of it's life, I changed mine at my house this year as well, it was originally put in to water cattle on our farm and it was installed within a year or two before this one before it sprang a small leak, it was out in the open all of it's life as...

Some of today's work, I changed out the well tank at my dad's old house where one of my sons is living, this particular well was drilled about 1962 by an old well driller named Wallace Burch, it's about 165' deep and was pretty much put together with all galvanized pipe and fittings with no...

Thank you, those particular cows and yearlings were the investigators, doesn't seem to matter what I'm doing some of them want to be in the middle of it, lol. We might be old but were still here by the grace of God. Charlie.

Took a break yesterday from skidsteer jobs to work on some of my own farm projects, I replaced a corner/gate post that me and my dad set about 35 years ago give or take a month or two when he and I cross fenced this field. I suspect that it will be the last time that it gets replaced as I don't...

I thought the same thing as soon as I scrolled down to the picture.

I have worked in Maryland for Baltimore Gas & Electric and they have service territory all the way out in farm country to the Mason Dixon line and in New Jersey for NJ Public Service Electric & Gas and couldn't get over how small the ROW's were with poles jammed right up against highway travel...

I have pulled one of my tractor's a John Deere 5093 E a geared tractor with shuttle shift from a field down the road from my house back to the barn where I could diagnose and work on it under the barn instead of in the dirt, it didn't hurt a thing.

This particular old big cottonmouth stretched out and acted like he owned the place and a snake that doesn't show any fear has got to go, so I brung the wrath down on him.

We today was my day for a job I do once a year every year in the fall, annual fish pond cleanup. I bush hogged the field last week and used the skid steer and forestry mower to cleanup around the pond this morning , only casualty was a big cotton mouth moccasin, also had a curious one horned...

I currently own 2 Bush hog brand mowers, one is a 7' mower that is over 40 years old and the other one is a 6' mower that is almost 20 years old and zero troubles from either one, no gear box troubles here, but if they quit tomorrow they don't owe me a thing for as hard as they have been used.

One of the positives of living in the flatlands lol.

On October 10th Rebel Auction is hosting an absolute government surplus utility auction and there is a BH-215 Bush hog brand 5' mower that looks like new, I have no idea if that model is medium duty but it looks like a stud, might get it reasonable.

I guess I do I figured 1 binder and 1 chain on all 4 corners and your running 60 MPH , seems like lots of days that's all I do especially when using different implements on different jobs, load , unload, swap implements and bind everything back down and go again.

Out of curiosity why wouldn't you haul your tractor on your big gooseneck?

Been doing some mulching jobs, forestry mowing some interior roads that had grown up and were impassable on a customer's property and a long limerock driveway job. Hope everyone is having a good week. God bless. Charlie.

1. Property size about 112 acres 2.Very easy, I call when I am getting close to needing fuel, driver comes out within a couple of days and fills my 500 gallon off road diesel tank, my CC is on file and they charge it within a week and send me a sales receipt. 3.500 gallon ground level tank with...

I have seen a 5' rotary cutter that was galvanized at the Rebel Auction that they hold monthly in Hazelhurst Georgia and I remember thinking that they went for a very reasonable price at the time, you certainly would never have to worry about rust issues, also see a few Industrias America brand...

Seems like most people don't understand flashers, SMV triangle signs and fail to realize the speed difference between their automobile and a tractor, I have had people run right up on top of me to the point that you couldn't have slid a cigarette paper between us, and then them start blowing...

I have bought my last 4 sets of tires through E-bay and use there service to deliver the tires to a tire shop in my area who is one of their installers and for $99 they mount and balance new tires , re-install on vehicle and dispose of my old tires, absolute best price and service that I have...

What exactly is a patch plug combo ? I've seen patches and plugs but have never seen the two used together to patch a tire, I don't even understand how the two could work together.

One thing is for sure they won't go bad and if ya'll keep driving you will get another one.

I've been plugging tires since I was 16 years old, I'm now 57 and out of hundreds of plugs I only had 1 fail and it failed within a few miles of the house, my fault as the nail was right in the edge of the sidewall and had to much flex for the plug to do it's job.

I imagine they are getting hammered by FERC ( Federal Electric Reliability Commission ) it's a big deal when a transmission line goes out due to ROW issues and they are going to be asking lot's of questions, best I could tell from your pictures that line was insulated for about 115 kv, had it...

Rule of thumb down here is you need to be cut and fertilized back by Labor Day if you want a final cutting, that's not to say that there haven't been years where you don't get any cool weather and no frost in November and you can get an extremely late cutting but on average cooler night...

I think he meant since you are making heavier feed bales ( more hay per bale ) did you go up in price on them, that's how I took it.

Bought one of the cheaper Amazon versions of the range and installed it on my wife's 2011 GMC Yukon Denali with the 6.2 and when we traded it in last year it had over 250k on it and not 1 problem with the motor, I am convinced shutting off AFM is a good thing, I used a Flashpaq tuner to turn it...

This barn is 60' long x 40' wide, the purlins are 2 x 6's and the bays are 12' wide between the 8 x 8 post with a 14' eave height. This is an ag barn so no permit required but this one is engineered to 130 MPH wind codes, supposedly, my other barn is almost just like this one with the exception...

That dang drought has definitely put a hurting on your yields.

Got the hay rolled Monday, didn't take any pictures because I was trying to be as productive as I could and I got busy and forgot jumping from one tractor (raking) to the other baling , so it was a long day but it worked out and I only stopped the baler up once, I think the good Lord intervened...

The only bad thing about spreading limerock to thin is that it still looks good when you finish but doesn't last or hold up to the traffic like it does when you lay down a nice 4+ inch base, but I totally understand trying to make what you have work, and it's still the most affordable driveway...

Did several limerock jobs this week, went to a town about 45 minutes from where I live and bought a baler monitor from a farmer who's Vermeer baler burnt, so I would have a spare, came home and loaded out a 20 roll load of hay and finally got started cutting late this afternoon and was able to...

2,4,D, will kill wild onions.

Yeah no doubt that they have the right to access or be on the ROW to do the maintenance and make repairs, it's just sometimes there will be sections of ROW that are wet or row cropped, etc and a private road outside of the ROW is an absolute godsend, matting in to a pole can be very time...

If it doesn't take a special tool to remove, could you take a flat screwdriver and a hammer to tap it with to get it started backing off?

They are pretty simple to build, there are a couple of tricks that I have learned on my own and helping others build their's that can save you a lot of frustration, let me know when you are ready and we will talk. Charlie.

This week's work was a 10 acre bush hogging job, spreading 18 yards of limerock over new culvert for an additional driveway for a customer and spreading 4 dump truck loads of sandy clay mix under a 60x40 pole barn (mine) lol. Hope everyone had a good week, God bless. Charlie

It's very rare for a tree to fall into a transmission line, usually the ROW's are required to be wide enough to allow for such things without any disturbance to the grid, in many cases that kind of event can cause cascading effects and take out other grids, usually a narrower ROW is an older...

That last sentence.

Gotcha, I read it wrong.

Callahan or Yulee?

Look up Rebel auction, they have a monthly auction in Hazelhurst Georgia, also Weeks Farm auction both will often have these types of spreaders and will have an online catalog so you can view them ahead of auction time , that way if you see something you like you can do a road trip and check...

They are getting out of letting customers use them due to liability they say, there are 2 other outfits in my area that have done the same thing during this calendar year, so that only leaves one locally and they have a $100 rental fee everytime you use it. I see the hand writing on the wall and...

Go up early this morning and headed over to get some pesticide to spray for army worms today and came home with a used fertilizer spreader, they made me such a good deal I couldn't pass it up, couple of new belts and a couple of other minor things and this thing will be good as new, so I drug it...

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Did you get a response from the company about an owner's manual yet?

Did a job with the newly transformed Raytree mulcher and it definitely performed much better since swapping the pulleys, it did a good job on some 2"-3" hardwood oaks for a low flow mulcher.

Today's job was a little bit of residential forestry mulching, forgot to take any before pictures but I did get a couple of after, hope everyone has a good upcoming holiday weekend, God bless, Charlie.

Okay you win.

Look where you are located.

My post was in response to Mossroads post about additional fees and taxes above the actual price of the kw hours used, I didn't mention having a problem with the source which happens to be coal, but I do think a $37.00 per month access/customer charge per meter is a bit much, it equals $ 111.00...

Natural gas fluctuates and while low today it might be as high as a giraffe's bunghole tomorrow, coal is usually contracted out in multi-year deals which is a known fixed cost.

Natural gas can be great, it's about the only thing that kept my ex-employer afloat when they saw that they could run the gas turbines drastically cheaper than a bio-mass plant, but still nowhere as cheap as coal. I'm sure that certain renewables in certain areas are reasonable such as Hydro at...

Here is one for you, I have a water well for my cattle and last month I used 80kw for $6.56 charge, but then tack on a $37.00 access charge from the co-op and miscellaneous state and county taxes that bill totaled out to be $51.36 for the month for less than $7.00 worth of electricity use.

You can find anything out there on the internet to backup/support any cause that there is, but the truth will be in the mailbox in your monthly power bill, the company I retired from did it due to pressure from the do-gooder's, mandated no more coal and went with a mix of customer owned solar...

And most of the do-gooder's who put NO MORE COAL signs in their yards are squealing the loudest because they failed to listen to people telling them the true cost of green energy.

Also Post #42 has all the numbers that you wanted information on RPM's before and after the pulley swap

Yeah, it's not a high capacity machine but I do believe it's well worth the $6k that you can get them for, and it's well made. Mine paid for itself within 2 months of me purchasing it, and you aren't in debt $25-30k . The only thing I can"t figure is why in the world wouldn't the company set...

While I was swapping the pulleys this morning I snapped a couple of pictures of the grease nipple extension.

Alright so I swapped my pulley's this morning, prior to the swap I was getting a reading of 1115 rpm's on the drum pulley, after the swap I was getting a reading of 1970 rpm's on the drum pulley, for an increase of 855 rpm's, all readings were at wide open on the machine which is 2400 rpm's...

You don't need to drain whatever oil is left in the gearbox, just pump a bunch of grease in it and check it yearly when you do your Spring maintenance on the slip clutch, PTO shaft , etc, it will be good for the life of the gearbox.

The last sentence sounds like the best idea, the only better idea would be for them to be loaded with all of the owners stuff and never look back after crossing the state line.

If I decide to do it I will get a RPM tach and see what it is before and after swapping the pulley's, but it makes sense once you think about it. Thanks for the tutorial, it's always good to listen to someone who has done it, you ought to make a Youtube video, I bet it would get some views. Charlie.

If there are any farmers around you, you can bet that they know how to do it and can show you so you can do it in the future, as it really is a simple procedure once you see it.

Well for starters I have to buy an RPM tach to see what it is, but I should be able to figure out how to swap the pulley's , I just need to take the cover off and look it over.

So out of curiosity how much trouble is it to swap the pulley's, I'm guessing it's pretty simple/straight forward.

I emailed them at the email address that I gave you in an earlier post and they sent it to me. I don't know why, but none of them seem to come with the owners manual, but they sent me a PDF of the owners manual right away when I asked for it.

According to my owners manual you are just under max rpms which is 2100.

Alright try this email address as it is the one that I have gotten all my responses from. service@raymondy.com Now you got me wanting to swap the pulleys on mine to see what happens. 😁

Sorry, I have no idea, I just hooked it up and have run it on low flow on my Kubota SVL 75-2 which is a little over 17 GPM . Not real sure why they haven't responded to you as they have always responded to me in a timely manner. What e-mail address are you sending your questions to?

Different strokes for different folks, either way the new filter has to be filled with fuel, I like to see it full .

Good info above, the only thing I would do different is fill the new filter full of diesel fuel before installing it.

I do believe the post office in Graham is a modular building.

1 quart per acre used to work like a champ for me, always smoked the targeted grasses that I was after.

I used to use 1 quart per acre at 20 gallons of water per acre, have a John Blue pump that compensates for MPH to keep the output at 20 gallons per acre, spraying with a PTO pump and figuring MPH takes a little trial and error, but when I did spray with a PTO pump I had it figured on that...

Both have a post office but only one has a mini mart/gas station and a Dollar General, lol.

I live between Brooker and Gainesville off of 231, about 20 miles South of Lake Butler, this job was over near Archer.

I honestly don't know what the story is, but that would stand to reason, if I get some more work there I will see if I can get the story on it, I'd really like to know.

I never knew that there was a bed of bricks under a pitcher's mound, always thought it was just raised mound, learn something new everyday.

More fence line/property line clearing at a big old abandoned house and acreage, only surprises were a little bit of old fence wire and some big flint rocks, if you look close you can see the sea shells that have been hidden inside the rock till I hit it with the forestry mower. This place was...

But you still give up your bed space that you wanted to keep. ;) It's tit for tat, I find uses for both gooseneck and bumper pull trailers that I own.

August of 2023. I just looked at their website and it looks like the same trailer optioned like mine is about $8800 today, so a slight price increase but still a really good deal IMO.

2-8k axles with 17.5 super single tires instead of 2-7k axles with 16" tires , and also a spare 17.5 tire on a steel wheel.

I looked back at the sales receipt with all the upgrades this 22' Kaufman tilt deck was $8160.00 out the door from their South Carolina factory.

Exactly how mine works, piece of cake, gravity will work when other things fail.

I wouldn't trade my manual tilt for a golden egg, it works like a champ and when I need it to, and if put up for sale tomorrow it would sell before the end of the day.

Surely there is a herbicide that would control it isn't there?

That's interesting I have never seen any type of tree stump that could survive the straight roundup treatment when applied around the cambium layer right after cutting, but I have never seen one of these down here in the deep South, you learn something everyday.

I use used hydraulic fluid mixed in with diesel fuel and roll it on with a paint roller, it work best to let it set out in the sun on a good warm day and the boards will really soak up the mixture.

Kaufman makes a nice tilt deck trailer, very affordable when compared to some of the other brands, I bought a 22' with upgraded 8k axles and 17.5 super single tires with a spare for a hair over $8k two years ago.

The possibility exist that there could be a generation of young people who cannot backup a trailer without this type of technology because they never learned, just think about a manual transmission.

That is the very same grapple that I ordered from MTL and use on my skidsteer, I believe you will be well pleased.

In my opinion there are only 2 things that are better about a bumper pull. 1. It leaves the bed of your truck open to haul tools, materials, coolers, etc. 2. A bumper pull trailer will follow or track the tow vehicle closer than a gooseneck will, making it a good choice where you don't have the...

You are probably right, but for some reason I took it to mean trailer weight.

I pulled a 16'gooseneck stock trailer all over the place with a 1992 Chevrolet K-1500 and never had a problem, that's what I had back in those days. My current gooseneck trailer is a 25+5 Gatormade deckover that is heavy built with 14" I beams for the frame and it only weighs a little over 7k...

Yes sir lucked up and saw the 3 bolt clamp sticking up, not sure how as thick as it was but I did, I'll take those blessings any way they come lol, and you are spot on, if I would have wadded all that up, it would have shut me down for a bit, hope it's cool weather up in your neck of the woods...

Think power company down guys, one end attached to the pole overhead and the other end attached to an anchor screwed into the ground lol. 😁

That's how I have always done it, I actually thought that if a moisture probe was used that's how everyone did it. If it reads higher than I like I just wait an hour and try another one, sometimes that's all it takes, if I know rain is coming I might push it a little but my preference is to roll...

That looks like pure old guy wire, it is tough stuff.

It's a brand new one that the outfit that I buy fertilizer from let's some of us use to put out fertilizer, I wish it was mine, but I am looking at buying a used one for myself and my neighbor so we would have access to anytime we need it, we will split the cost.

Well been busy fertilizing hay fields but got that finished and was able to squeeze in a property/fence line clearing job, it had stringy scrub oaks by the thousands which made it a little tougher than normal, but I got it done and only found a little bit of guy wire and barb wire, in one of...

Instead of windrow testing why don't you roll one and probe the bale right after it comes out of the roller, I'm not trying to be a know it all , just curious.

Thanks for following up and letting us know what you found, that's rare around here, also congratulations on figuring it out.

22-26% wouldn't concern me about burning my barn down but I probably would be storing it outside since it's not likely to be #1 horse hay, just gonna be cow hay, but cows got to eat to.

And that is a good thing.

I use an MTL grapple on my skid steer and when I say use I mean use hard and it hasn't missed a beat in the 3 years that I have had it, think it was about $ 2300.00, it's very well built.

They are also pretty good about sending you a PDF that you can download.

I despise a flipping rat, they can do some serious damage in a very short period of time.

Funny the difference in folks, I never realized so many people would want to add them to a trailer, I hate them , it seems I always have one going bad on one of my trucks, had two batteries die on two different trucks in the last two weeks. They can't be over a year old as they were all replaced...

I immediately started laughing when I read your response as I can't count the times that I have turned a nice shirt into a work shirt by just doing something as simple as loading a roll of hay for someone on the way out somewhere, only to realize that I had brushed up against some grease off of...

Better pricing up North, off road $ 3.27 per gallon delivered from bulk supplier, that includes federal tax.

Those teeth look just like the ones that are on my drum mulchers, quadco's or quad cutters I believe are what they are called, so far they seem pretty tough on wood and brush, not so much on steel and rock :oops: . If a person doesn't account for maintenance of equipment in this business they...

When I work in some areas West of me they have flint rock but probably nothing like what you have to deal with, now cinder blocks seem to be a dime a dozen on many of the jobsites I find myself on, but I pretty much obliterate them when I hit them. I envy you being able to get blades for $25...

Back to finish up removing some more trees for one of my customers, these were large enough that I used the mulching head, once I finished that it was on to some property line clearing a trail for the owner to access the property, had to work around a few fallen trees/logs that owner will remove...

Looking good.

Well between hay baling and cows I had let a job that needed doing for a lady set on the back burner , but she hasn't been in a hurry, so after hauling yearlings to the market and getting 91 rolls of hay baled I jumped on her project today. I strictly used the forestry mower today but will go...

Lou, Who makes that trailer?

Well I have been waiting for a 3 day window for a while and today was supposed to start 3 days of 24% chance so I cut one of my fields down and flipped it, well about 6 PM the weather changed to 96% and I got about 1/4" of rain on it, so no luck putting up hay that ain't been rained on down in...

Sometimes the man who spends the least, wind's up paying the most.

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Well so far so good on this older diesel I bought, I have been towing my skidsteer with it 3-4 days per week and seems to get about 12 mpg loaded and about 17 unloaded, while my 6.0 chevy gas truck got about 8 loaded and 13-14 unloaded and I wouldn't hesitate to hook it to any load I pull as it...

I'm pretty sure that's what this customer is going to do here.

Finished it today , it rained the last two hours I worked, makes me thankful for a enclosed cab machine.

Glad you enjoy the pictures, some days I don't even think about taking pictures until I'm done or on the way home.

Looks like you are getting it done.

That's what this was an Egret, we just call them cow birds.

Yes, so far so good.

Been working on a 59 acre planted pine parcel, lots of downed trees from last year's hurricanes, so that slows me down a little. I had something happen today that I never had happen before, there were cow birds all around me all day but one had a real bad day, there was an old sprayer lid disc...

One thing that might help you is when you rake your hay, don't use the full width of your rake and make smaller windrows, you will have to make more trips up and down the field but the windrows will be smaller/shorter.

Yeah those sweet ones seem to always get away, the one thing I have learned is sometimes you have to strike while the iron is hot and pull the trigger which basically goes against everything I was ever taught. I missed one to, was actually first one to call on it and told the lady I would take...

I found me a 2006 Chevrolet 2500 HD with the LBZ Duramax engine and 6 speed Allison and it was still bone stock which is exactly what I wanted, didn't get a 3500 flatbed but this will do just fine for what my needs.

Makes sense now. I have a Kaufman gravity hydraulic tilt deck 16' tilt and 6' fixed with 2-8k axles and 17.5 super single tires that has 13,600 lbs of deck capacity and I believe you wouldn't have any trouble loading your low profile snowblower tractors on.

We had a saying painted on the wall at the lineman's bull pen that said "If it can happen it will happen".

Curious what kind of low profile tractors you have, I have never seen a tractor that was to low to load via mega ramps and dovetail.

I've had very little problems getting it established, although IMHO it is quicker to take in the fall of the year when weeds and other grasses are on the decline and are not competing with it, planting this time of year will require keeping the weeds mowed so it doesn't get shaded out. I can get...

More or less, but Bahia will grow just about anywhere as long as it can get a little water along and along until it gets established, once established it is extremely drought tolerant.

This week I have been doing a little tractor work, bush hogging a 12 acre area and the customer wanted a couple of different areas tilled up and 2 different types of bahia planted, so I took care of that to and rolled the seed in with my small roller, now he just needs some rain as it is...

Are the cylinders long enough to let down anymore? the wings can only go as far as the hydraulic cylinder will let them.

It will be good for the rest of this year, but if not maintained or sprayed will be back needing attention within 2 years. I have some customers who are really good about maintaining the areas that I have cleared for them but most will be asking me if it's always this hot out here and are the...

Thanks for the tip, mine has continued to be troublefree but I don't slack on maintenance and no telling how many cartridges of grease that I have gone through, I grease non stop, but you are correct when something goes wrong it's probably not going to be cheap to fix.

Absolutely fine, it has had zero problems knock on wood.

A picture or two from a couple of different jobs this week, one forestry mowing an overgrown driveway/property line for a new customer and the other was mulching a property line in a really tight place due to customer only wanting vines and small brush removed, it's warming up down here in...

I keep seeing it posted in this thread about not being able to get out of the skidsteer if the bucket or attachment is raised and while that may be true with some brands, but there are 2 brands that have overhead roll up doors and you can exit the cab no matter what the position of the loader...

I do one kind of work with my tractors and another with my skid steer, they both have their place and are as a whole polar opposite.The places I put this skid steer I would never put my tractors.

Yes sir, God has a plan for every one of us, sometimes we just have to slow down and listen, have a good week.

Whatever you do look at the Kaufman 22' tilt deck, I believe mine is 14' tilt & 8' fixed or 16' & 6' one of the two you will have a hard time finding more trailer for the money.

Been watching an auction tonight and have seen plenty of enclosed cab CTL's with less than 1000 hrs going from $29k-40k, it's getting cheaper to get in this game.

Let me know how the other teeth work out for you. Mine also had the 2 grease fittings on each end of the drum outside and accessible, not sure why they didn't do the same with the third on the top bearing, but it's much better now since I relocated it by adding a remote grease hose.

Just missed a 2017 3500 Duramax with a flatbed yesterday off of Marketplace for $9k, the lady said it ran but had an emissions light come on and she was tired of it and was going to buy a gas truck, I was the first one to message her and told her I wanted it and would be there in just a little...

I bought a new SS when I got started , new forestry mower and new grapple which ran me about $75k. I already had a 3/4 ton truck, gooseneck and equipment trailer to haul and pull it with, I have since bought a tilt deck trailer and a small mulching head for my business and am currently looking...

Some customers are like clockwork and I can count on hearing from them yearly and they recommend me to their friends which is new work for me, I also have a friend who drills wells and he meets with new people moving into our area needing a water well drilled and lot's of them want work done and...

Yes sir that's all it takes once it's been cleaned up and it makes for a really nice area.

Some of them keep it cleaned up and some don't, when I leave it can be kept up with a tractor and bush hog, I encourage the people with bamboo to spray it when it comes out after about a month. Some do nothing and stay inside in the A/C and call me to come once or twice a year.

Going back and fixing something from a year ago is called making things right, that's probably why you have an abundance of work and a good name in your industry.

Kinda been looking for an older model 3/4 or 1 ton diesel truck, I would prefer a Duramax and would love to find an 06-07 model but they are pretty scarce and pretty pricey when you find one so I may wind up with an 01-05 or possibly a Ford 6.0 if it's been studded and bullet proofed. What have...

Today's job more forestry mowing to give this customer more accessibility to his property.

A little Saturday morning job for an out of town customer, clearing for shooting lanes, making roads/trails on his piece of hunting property.

I run into them occasionally but none on this job that I saw, one place that I mow every year is full of cottonmouth moccasins, you can count on 4 or 5 encounters which is usually bad for them. As far as one getting in the cab, it hasn't happened yet and if it does he can have it, it's way to...

This morning's job was a thick wooded hillside full of bamboo and vines that was pretty slick in places as well as steep, pictures don't really do it justice, it was pretty challenging but the customer is very happy and I am as well to be done with that thick bamboo.

Did you get the low flow model or the hi-flow model? I have a Kubota SVL-75-2 with hi-flow but HF on this model is only right at 30 GPM which is 5 GPM short of the minimum requirement for the HF model so I figured I would be better off with the low flow model. So far no real complaints other...

Some jobs you are in and out every few minutes moving things and piling them where they are visible and out of the way, this job just had lots of hidden stuff, old tarp's fence wire, pipe, concrete, etc but I generally try to look places over before I start but some of these places you just...

Well I jumped on a couple of forestry mowing jobs today, got both of them cleaned up pretty good, both of these were pretty rough with cypress knees, fell logs and wire but I made it, hope everyone has a good week.

When I see that moisture on my tires I know I'm in for a waiting game, the sun may be doing it's job on the top side but that grass on the bottom is pulling moisture from that damp soil and it's just a waiting game.

I wouldn't be scared to drive over the drain field but I wouldn't be driving over the tank on purpose, most tank lids are only 2" thick.

Yes he had, when it came to farming, cows, horses etc he always had the answers I needed, I try to help my now grown boys out without being asked and like him without saying to much about it, time is precious and you are spot on about us being the older folks now.

Without a doubt the stump jumper is flexing everytime you hit the bolt, take a good bottle jack and jack it up on the stump jumper as close to the bolt hole as you can get it, then hit the bolt with a brass pin or whatever driver that you have and it will come right out. Many years ago I was in...

It's a hair wet ain't it, glad you found that shed antler before it found on of your tires.

I live about 40-50 miles North of the OP and you wouldn't even think of building an underground home in this part of Florida due to the water table, and while it is dry right now, the whole very little rainfall statement is unusual and I can assure him that will soon change as it will start...