Lessons Learned
Some things you should never forget. Having grown up on a farm with various equipment, I remember that there was always something to be fixed. I got to the farmland yesterday to run the chisel plow through my food plot areas, trying to take advantage of the recent rains. A few things that I have always know but had to be reminded about:
(1) Always check nuts and bolts on "new" equipment. I had used the chisel only a few hours prior to yesterday. The pre-game checkup showed that three 5/8 inch bolts that hold the chisel pivots had lost their nuts, and one of them was about to come out altogether. Always check nuts and bolts before using equipment
(2) I am not stronger than those springs on the chisel plow
(3) When trying to pry the unit back in place to reinstall the bolt, my nuckle is not match against the plow metal when the crowbar slips
(4) Always keep spare parts for the equipment
(5) There is no way to get a stiff grease gun pistol onto a zerk that is a little bit offline. That is why you need a flexible attachment
(6) The differential pedal will not engage if you are have the crowbar under it.
(7) Bermuda grass roots and runners will clog up a chisel plow every time, even having been mowed two weeks earlier, and dry weather. In one patch I had to let it clog, drag to selected spots in the field so that all rows "clogs" were in same place, then push the whole mess to the woods. Actually worked fairly well.
All in all it was a good afternoon. The plow did a great job breaking up the soil, even in some areas that had been pastureland for years. Going back on Sunday to hit it again, this time with flexible grease attachment, replacement bolts and nuts, and a hurt nuckle.
P.S.
(8) An afternoon on the tractor beats a day in the office anytime.
--- I thought all that kind of stuff was supposed to happen? It gets me to thinking? Do other people really have farm eqp that doesnt need attention all the time and am I the only one that has these problems?.. 
