Agriculture Degrees don't teach you anything about tractors

[grsthegreat]

i wish i could get my wife to read ANY operators manuals. Except for filling air in the tires, i have to do it all.

I have insisted that she read the operations section on the new Kioti tractor before she uses it again... period.

Ill see if that happens. Good for you for learning about the tractors/equipment. Its actually alot of fun.

 

[boomer1025]

Since you know the area, can you recommend any place that sells used implements? I am looking for a sprayer (trailer or 3-point), it may only be worth it to buy it new but I would like to look. I am in a fight with buttercups and need to get ugly.

Thanks in Advance!

I think Tractor Supply has some sprayers on sale

 

[k0ua]

Call me book learned but farm dumb, I have my degree in Agriculture but until this year had never sat on a tractor. Once I am taught something I can repeat it, ask the guys who hooked up the brush hog for me and then said next time send him a text message the day before he wanted me to hook it up (needless to say he got a text message that said I hooked it up and let me know if he wanted it off for any reason). I don't take being treated like I can't do something on the farm just because I am female, very well. It is not about things I can't do, it is all about things I don't know how to do yet.

I am the field maintainer at a 40 acre horse farm (and other assorted livestock), 20 min east of Washington, DC. The property owner has a Kubota (my favorite) and a Ford, and 10 or so implements (of which I have used 4).

That all said, I had to post a FaceBook photo for my friends; some thought the Kubota was a lawn tractor, some thought it was a combine. My goal is to drive a combine and harvest "something", anything really. For now I am having fun learning how to use the "all" the gizmos.

TBN, prepared to get asked some fun questions (I am hooked on the forum)! I think I found a wonderful wealth of knowledge .

Welcome!. You sound like the kind of person who likes to learn new things. So am I. Here is a little thread I responded to and it seems to have taken on a life of its own, it is related to maintaining tractors, and is a fun read if you have the time. Good luck

http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/owning-operating/203295-grease-gun-screwdriver.html

James K0UA

 

[Learning to Farm]

OK, for all of you that welcomed me to the site yesterday, here is what I learned yesterday:

-FEL= Bucket (I think)
-BH= brush hog AKA shredder
-Sharpening BH blades is a highly personal opinion (almost bordering on political)
-pictures help in posts
-grease guns are highly complex and before I get to my 50hr mark I should inspect the zerk/knurled tip relation (thanks k0ua, I had a eye opening laugh at what is "new" information to veteran farmers)
-The thing I have been calling the red mover is really a pallet attachment (we move round bales with it)

I "mowed" for another hour last night after work. Took a picture of the BH to post on the attachments page see if anyone knows the brand, would like to find an operator's manual, grsthegreat I have a movie reference for you when #5 read the manual to drive the food truck in Short Circuit. :thumbsup:

 

[grsthegreat]

OK, for all of you that welcomed me to the site yesterday, here is what I learned yesterday:

-FEL= Bucket (I think)
-BH= brush hog AKA shredder
-Sharpening BH blades is a highly personal opinion (almost bordering on political)
-pictures help in posts
-grease guns are highly complex and before I get to my 50hr mark I should inspect the zerk/knurled tip relation (thanks k0ua, I had a eye opening laugh at what is "new" information to veteran farmers)
-The thing I have been calling the red mover is really a pallet attachment (we move round bales with it)

I "mowed" for another hour last night after work. Took a picture of the BH to post on the attachments page see if anyone knows the brand, would like to find an operator's manual, grsthegreat I have a movie reference for you when #5 read the manual to drive the food truck in Short Circuit. :thumbsup:

that was a funny movie...No 5 is alive

 

[k0ua]

that was a funny movie...No 5 is alive

INPUT,,, need more Input!!:laughing:

James K0UA

 

[grsthegreat]

INPUT,,, need more Input!!:laughing:

James K0UA

now if i could just get my tractor to bcome alive, he could do my snowblowing while i sleep or watchtv.

 

[tchall]

I don't take being treated like I can't do something on the farm just because I am female, very well. It is not about things I can't do, it is all about things I don't know how to do yet.

TBN, prepared to get asked some fun questions (I am hooked on the forum)! I think I found a wonderful wealth of knowledge .

Did you ever think that it might NOT be "just because I am female"???

I've been working around tractors/equipment since I was five or six...

I pass my firefighter physicals, and am in OK shape at 250 pounds with only a comfortable bit of fat in the mix...

I STILL like having help hitching up my brush hog or fence-pounder... Can't BUDGE either of them by myself... (Just the slide on the pounder is nearly 400 pounds...)

Had my youngest son driving the tractor this morning while the neighbor and I wiggled things into place and pinned them...

Took five minutes to drop the back blade and mount the mower... with help... Usually takes three or four times that if I've got to climb on and off a few times in the process...

Four hours later the neighbor's Knappweed problem is solved for a few more months...


This is a terrific place for finding out things... you certainly got that part right<G>

 

[grsthegreat]

Did you ever think that it might NOT be "just because I am female"???

I've been working around tractors/equipment since I was five or six...

I pass my firefighter physicals, and am in OK shape at 250 pounds with only a comfortable bit of fat in the mix...

I STILL like having help hitching up my brush hog or fence-pounder... Can't BUDGE either of them by myself... (Just the slide on the pounder is nearly 400 pounds...)

Had my youngest son driving the tractor this morning while the neighbor and I wiggled things into place and pinned them...

Took five minutes to drop the back blade and mount the mower... with help... Usually takes three or four times that if I've got to climb on and off a few times in the process...

Four hours later the neighbor's Knappweed problem is solved for a few more months...


This is a terrific place for finding out things... you certainly got that part right<G>

yup....this is the 21st century, ya think that there would be levitation blankets by now to lift the unyielding equipment. Also, a nice light sprayer and "Hi-Dep" spray works wonders on that rotten Knappweed. its gotten rid of most of ours (90%+).

 

[dlwalters3]

Welcome to TBN. You will learn a lot just by reading and participating on this forum, but some things you just have to learn about by doing them. The more you use tractors and equipment the more you will learn about them. I grew up on a farm and was driving, maintaining and working on farm equipment by the time I was 12 years old. If I could have reached the controls before then I would have started sooner. My Dad told me that by the time I was 3 years old, I could tell him what kind of tractor was coming down the old gravel road in front of our house just by the sound of it before I could even see it. So you will learn more the more you are around the farm. You're not bashful about asking questions, and that will help you learn quickly. Look how much you've learned already!!! Don't be afraid to ask. Everyone here is glad to help.

Dan