Good morning!!!!

[buckeyefarmer]

funny I was chuckling about that thinking of him asking his wife to sit on the pallet for more weight...though some kids would find that great fun until someone got hurt.
I've got it, a nice recliner on the pallet for his wife, so she can ride along and helpfully advise Buckeye on how to better drive his tractor. This I would like to see...

Good thing i saw this After i was done dragging the pallet , or it wouldhave been "Honey, can you come here a minute and sit on this pallet". Then after i picked myself up........

But i did have to add a couple concrete blocks for weight. And i forgot to take pictures.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Found out the 2" receiver on the ranger would not take my 2" hitch. Would not slide back. Felt inside the receiver, there is some angle to the inside, like it gets smaller in the back.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

A few days ago we had a conversation about various glyphosate herbicide brands and their effectiveness and how long they last.

I got busy and didn’t have a chance to respond.

Glyphosate:

The primary ingredient is obviously glyphosate, a systemic non-selective herbicide. A dilutable product that starts out in the range of 40-42% diluted to 4-6% in water will result in an effective kill of almost anything it contacts. The glyphosate is taken in thru leaves and stems and moves to the root system, it’s real target. Use of a surfactant increases the effectiveness significantly. Glyphosate has no soil activity so, no long term effect and its broken down fairly quickly by microbes in your soil.

Imazapyr

Imazapyr is added to some products to extend time of effective kill. Imazapyr does have soil activity, unlike glyphosate, and does not get broken down by soil microbes as fast as the glyphosate does.

Diquat:

A few glyphosate products also include Diquat. It is a contact herbicide and quickly “burns” the target plant to give you “quick gratification. It does nothing to improve or extend the effectiveness of the glyphosate, it just makes you feel like you accomplished something quicker.

Hopefully this will help as you evaluate various products.

Here is the Label for the RM43 that I use. Note that the active ingredients are;

Glyphosate - 43.68%.

Imazapyr - 0.78%


https://www3.epa.gov/pesticides/chem_search/ppls/084009-00003-20150710.pdf

If you take the course work and become a Private Applicator, you will always Remember;

1. Read The Label!

2. The Label is the Law!

Knowingly using these products in a manner contrary to the Label is a federal crime.

Thanks Rick.

Now if only there was an organic way to kill the nutsedge in my vegetable garden.

 

[lostcreekranch]

Thanks Rick.

Now if only there was an organic way to kill the nutsedge in my vegetable garden.

Here’s something I read about but, haven’t tried yet Kyle.

Use Horticultural Molasses to Kill the Dreaded Nutsedge – Organically! << The Healthy Planet

 

[RoyJackson]

Good day...chipper (a Woods 5000 chipper/shredder) has been sold and the backhoe is mounted on the tractor...ready to load on the buyer's trailer tomorrow or Tuesday.
The chipper/shredder is being replaced with a Woodmaxx 8H chipper

 

[ronjhall]

Good day...chipper (a Woods 5000 chipper/shredder) has been sold and the backhoe is mounted on the tractor...ready to load on the buyer's trailer tomorrow or Tuesday.
The chipper/shredder is being replaced with a Woodmaxx 8H chipper

You will like that 8H. Son and grandson came over today. Put my chipper on tractor and chipped everything 5” and smaller. No lost gloves or banged up arms. My 22 pro hp tractor cannot do much over 5”. Your larger tractor should work good. But not sure if a green one will works as well as a orange one.

 

[RoyJackson]

You will like that 8H. Son and grandson came over today. Put my chipper on tractor and chipped everything 5” and smaller. No lost gloves or banged up arms. My 22 pro hp tractor cannot do much over 5”. Your larger tractor should work good. But not sure if a green one will works as well as a orange one.

If it helps...I bought the chipper with orange paint...

 

[ronjhall]

If it helps...I bought the chipper with orange paint...

 

[daugen]

Washed the truck early this morning in the cool, boy did it need it after all the pollen.
Then worked on garden soaker lines and got everything working including building
a little dam at the bottom since no sense wasting the water. Still have another fifty feet of row, but wanted to keep
the water up where it was needed. I'll just knock the little dam down if/when I find something else to plant all the way at the bottom of the row.

Then I hilled the potatoes again, and now done doing doing that, and took the hiller discs off. Unhappy about finding a grease zerk on the disc I had
never seen before. Now well lubed...it sucked up a lot of grease too. But once the discs were off I tried to install the cultivator forks.
A big no go. Even adjusting the attachment as far up as it would go, with the hydraulics at the max top, the bottoms of the four tines are in the dirt.
Something is off, I'm doing something clearly way wrong, there should be lots more clearance, unless these cultivators were not meant to go here.
Though the mounts fit perfectly...

Any of you guys who grew up with these things, any ideas? The rear linkage goes way far up, so I think the hydraulics are just fine, and it's so far off it can't be
an inch of adjustment. Well I ran the tractor then for two hours with just the rear V discs chewing up the earth right behind the tires, which was good as the corn furrows were full of weeds.
Did the whole field, corn and potatoes, looked much better when I was done.
A bit tuckered out.

Around lunchtime I set all my tomatoes and peppers out on the back porch to get some indirect light under the umbrella. This is day four of hardening.
Much to my dismay on returning at 4:30pm I find the green umbrella out in the lawn, having down a light air Mary Poppins I guess and all my little tomatoes were like
new nudists on the beach in Aruba without sunscreen. It was brutal, I think I lost about half of them. Even the peppers weren't happy but most looked like they would make it.
I brought them all in for a siesta day tomorrow, clearly way too much fun in the sun today.

 

[RoyJackson]

Don't get too rowdy...the green one cost another 50 bucks.

 

[daugen]

looking at those cultivator pics makes me wonder if I shouldn't have turned the whole assembly back one quarter turn. Is the answer that simple?

 

[RoyJackson]

looking at those cultivator pics makes me wonder if I shouldn't have turned the whole assembly back one quarter turn. Is the answer that simple?

Try it...and report back

 

[scaredychicken]

Greetings with my afternoon coffee. Haven't been here in awhile, so just checking in. Eager to buy my (first) SCUT tractor in a month or two. Decided on the Kubota BX23S with a few additional implements. The Downpayment is growing week by week . Bought some chicks yesterday.
Happy Sunday.

 

[LouNY]

looking at those cultivator pics makes me wonder if I shouldn't have turned the whole assembly back one quarter turn. Is the answer that simple?

I was going to suggest that, never set them up on an A but on our WD they would have been.

 

[txdon]

Thanks Rick.

Now if only there was an organic way to kill the nutsedge in my vegetable garden.

Vinegar for Natural Control of Nut Grass | Home Guides | SF Gate

 

[DABSGT]

Drew never set up an A but on the cub the point of the tines should be hitting the ground, say they are they won't cut into the dirt but run along the top. The point straight down and you may also try and move them out a bit to cover over the tire tracks. Do you have the full setup with the rears also

 

[lostcreekranch]

Vinegar for Natural Control of Nut Grass | Home Guides | SF Gate

Don, I was tempted to suggest vinegar plus Epsom salts plus Dawn but, you’d have to be careful as the vinegar, if over applied, would have soil activity and could potentially burn the roots of non-target nearby plants. The molasses would not create that danger.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

looking at those cultivator pics makes me wonder if I shouldn't have turned the whole assembly back one quarter turn. Is the answer that simple?

Probably, it don't look right in the pic.

 

[txdon]

Don, I was tempted to suggest vinegar plus Epsom salts plus Dawn but, you’d have to be careful as the vinegar, if over applied, would have soil activity and could potentially burn the roots of non-target nearby plants. The molasses would not create that danger.

Soil ph could go down using vinegar some plants like blue berries like soil a bit on the acidic side.

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 48F for the start, overcast, light breeze. Sky cleared off some and variable cloudiness until later in afternoon and back to overcast. Wind was a bit gusty, and high temp was about 65F. Chapel this morning, putter for a bit and then choir sang at a memorial service. That was the end of any useful accomplishments today.

Drew thanks for the link, sounds a lot like the Easter Hill Country tour 3 weeks ago.

Enjoying the weed control conversation, especially the natural controls, want to limit what drains in the lake.

Prayers for all.