BX24 and blackberries

[tony123]

Enjoyed the photos!

I agree with the comment about property value increasing more than the cost of the tractor. I'm positive that ours has paid for itself in just the first several months of ownership! So maybe I can buy something nicer now?

 

[SkunkWerX]

Hidden barb wire usually gets me worse than anything else. It wraps around everything and is a pain to get loose. Even with gloves, you still get a nick or two when unwrapping it from the spindle shaft.
David from jax

David I know the feeling! I snagged one of those "invisble" dog fence wires, I wrapped about 50 feet of it real tight!!

I used a bucket (as a stool) and a pair of wire cutters, and snipped until my hands hurt. That yellow poly rope is also some stuff that will make you use 'colorful" language, too.

ore540, nice place you got there, and you were real smart getting that toothbar bolted on, looks like you have plenty of future use for it.
let me add one word for you, when you can afford it, GRAPPLE!
You'll never be sorry.

thanks for the pics!

 

[Tororider]

Not with a tractor but on my zero turns while I had the company every once and a while we would get kite string or regular poly in the deck. Man, those blades spin so fast it doesn't take but a couple seconds of winding around the spindle to cause a long time of wishing you were cussing.

 

[sandman2234]

Try barbwire and it will make you appreciate kite string, lol!!!
David from jax

 

[woodlandfarms]

There is something oddly pleasing about blackberry mowing. I think it is the unknown.

You are fortunate you are on flat ground and your blackberries are so low. For a few of us blackberries are more than 10 ft high and so thick they stop the tractor cold. And then the slopes... But your property looks beautiful, you are quite lucky...

But back to the thrill. I realize there is an adrenalin high for me in mowing. First the knocking of stuff down , the pleasure of turning around and seeing it so different from what i thought it would be. But also the thrill of the unknown. Will it be a piece of iron, steel cable or a random tractor part that will make me fill my shorts, or will it be the random hole the crack addict dug that I will drop the tire into and pitch me precariously forward, yet still not reveal itself fully because of the overgrowth... Or the D8 catepillar that the neighbors swear is down in one of the ravines, just waiting for someone to stumble upon and restore.... Or finally the holy grail, the mound where the body is buried....

Yes for me it is much more than just the loud roar of the engine, the high pitched whine of the hydraulics or the weird singing noise of the spinning blades... It is the thrill of the unkown...

Oh man is this writers strike getting to me..........

 

[sandman2234]

My wife is out there in LA this weekend hosting a meeting of some sort. Too bad I couldn't come with her and help with those fancy berry bushes!!
David from jax