Rock Crawler
Veteran Member
- Joined
- Aug 15, 2017
- Messages
- 2,210
- Location
- Pittsburgh, Pa.
- Tractor
- 2021 Kubota L3560 HSTC, 2011 Craftsman Excellerator GT (680hrs), 2018 Husqvarna TS354XD, 2017 Husqvarna HU800AWD, 2019 Kawasaki Mule Pro DX (Yanmar)
From around late November to mid April you can't drive a tractor or UTV on our slope unless the ground freezes. You'll slide 400' down into the trees while peeling the grass from the wet ground beneath. Even at this point your sliding sideways trying to get across, screwing up the grass. I do roll it and plug it 2 times a year in an attempt to keep the old cow pasture looking like a nice yard. I also spend a little bit of time each year with 5 ton of screened topsoil chasing bare areas (lot of clay here) and depressions (often from animal nests or my dogs trying to get shrews and such)Well, I can only speak to our place, but the "yard" is old fields, and horse pasture. Has there been time in the last 50 years to manicure it, sure... Then drive across it once when it's wet, and you have new texture to bounce across from the ag lugs.
Don't drive when wet? That isn't really an option as we're the drain for our section of mountain. You can literally hear the water running underground in areas of our place. Doesn't take much for the top to go to mush. We have enough slope that running turf tread isn't an option on any of the tractors. The Gator, and the Walker run on turfs (and slide around), but that's about it.
An old farm pasture is a chore to convert to fairly smooth yard, no doubt. I've been on this ground since 1990 and still playing with it.