Mowing Do you have enough tractor?

[tcreeley]

My 30hp NH is all that I need!. The other day I was slipping past my pickup when I caught the rear bumper of my truck with the corner of my bucket. It was in park and before I could react fast enough, I had pushed it two feet, sliding forward on the grass. No damage done except to the bumper.
Nice to know I can use my tractor to push around my truck!
I have enough tractor!

 

[kenmac]

Because we are all in a hurry! I mow my home place of 13 acres with a 15' batwing. I like to get it knocked out and I can go back to doing family stuff. I'll spend money to increase efficiency

Brett

I cut my 10 with my Kubota z turn. The other 30 gets cut by a 5 foot cutter behind this 35 HP yanmar. I'm not in a hurry anymore. At 59, I have slowed down

 

[shaeff]

For me, wet stuff seems easier to cut than dry stuff. Perhaps it's psychological, I'm thinking it lubricates the cutters?

That hasn't been my experience, especially with the flail which will load up much easier than a rotary cutter. Dead, brown, crispy cuts really easy. Wet and alive make for more bogging.

 

[Piston]

why do we always need a bigger tractor ? Back in the day, they were doing things with 30 HP tractors and mules, that we are doing today with 50-60 hp tractors

Because "back in the day" they didn't have to finish early so they could run in the house and post online to the rest of the world about what they just did that day.

That chit takes time man!

 

[3Ts]

Do you have enough tractor?

Why yes, I believe I do!

Well, there's always a bigger one!



(Note: This one is NOT mine, I found it on the internet. It's one I'd like to have and enough land to be able to use it. :cloud9: Maybe some day.)

 

[Mace Canute]

Well, there's always a bigger one!

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(Note: This one is NOT mine, I found it on the internet. It's one I'd like to have and enough land to be able to use it. :cloud9: Maybe some day.)

Indeed there are! :laughing: :thumbsup:

 

[DieselBound]

That hasn't been my experience, especially with the flail which will load up much easier than a rotary cutter. Dead, brown, crispy cuts really easy. Wet and alive make for more bogging.

Sorry, by "wet" I mean "in growth period." I've probably spent more time than anyone around here swinging machetes and I can tell you that I'd rather whack at stuff that's green than stuff that's brown.

But, yes, if the ground and everything is wet (the OUTSIDE of what you're cutting is all wet) then things can get cloggy.

 

[DieselBound]

Because "back in the day" they didn't have to finish early so they could run in the house and post online to the rest of the world about what they just did that day.

That chit takes time man!

I'll be laughing at this for a while!

 

[MutzFarm]

My 30hp NH is all that I need!. The other day I was slipping past my pickup when I caught the rear bumper of my truck with the corner of my bucket. It was in park and before I could react fast enough, I had pushed it two feet, sliding forward on the grass. No damage done except to the bumper.
Nice to know I can use my tractor to push around my truck!
I have enough tractor!

:shocked:

 

[mike69440]

We had 7 inches of rain spread over almost 3 Days. I feel for all the Hurricane survivors, some getting 3 X that in one day.

I took the dogs for a walk on the trail around the property to clean up branches and check for washouts. The only washout is where I have trench filled with rip rap sized stone and larger across the road where there is a seasonal stream flowing. During the heavy rains it overflowed and washed out some of the trail.

I brought the L39 don back with a load of gravel first moving some of the rip rap around, leveling and added the gravel.

Dark comes early now, and turning the tractor around I spied in the headlights a large rock maybe 15ft off the trail I never noticed before. It looked like a good "sitten" rock to place along side the trail to rest my bones and take in nature, so I started to did it out with the hoe.

It turned out to be much larger, like an iceberg. It did budge some with the hoe, and as I like a challenge so I go it out with a bit of effort.
I manged to get it to the side of the trail, It is tool large for a sitting rock being + 3' X near 4' x near 5 Ft. It would make a good landscape rock. Once out of the ground I could barley reach over it with the 10' hoe on the L39.
The loader bucket struggled just to roll it over.
My calculating eyeball puts it at 4,500 to 5000, Lbs, no way The L39 was not going to carry it.
It is going to stay where it is, until I have some other reason to walk my excavator down back, & I haul it out.
I will have to rest it on the front blade and pinch it with the thumb and bucket to carry it.

I wonder if my neighbor wants the rock? I'm curious if his SVL95-2 CTL could lift it if we used both machines to get it in his bucket. The rock would be tough to load, even in a skid steer bucket.

Edit,

Today I walked back on the trail and measured the rock.

A bit smaller than I thought. It was dark, That's my story, sticking to it.
Actual Measurement is +36"x +42" x 52" long, about 30 Cu. Ft. at 140Lbs/Ft^3 puts it at around 4,200 lbs. Granite weighs 170 lbs/ft^3, so maybe that is a 5,000 pounder?