Marking location of holes in the pasture

[StuartDK45SE]

Every time I brush hog my pastures, I'll run across a few holes where armadillos and other critters have a dug a hole big enough to make me say ^*@*)&_&!!!! It is not practical to stop and mark them with a stake, so I just keep on rolling. And trying to go find them later is like looking for a needle in a haystack at times. I need something I can throw out to the side that will mark the grass/ground well enough to come back and fins them later so I can fill them in. I am rehabbing my hay fields and when I switch over to a disc mower I will be going much faster and the bumps will be even worse. Any ideas?

 

[Buxus]

When I am on a lawn tractor I carry a squeeze bottle filled with flour to mark weeds that need attention, but I don't think this will work for you. I would use either one foot sections of those brightly colored foam pool toys called noodles, or similar sized foam crab pot markers (basically small buoys). Both are foam so if you forget one and run it over, no damage.

 

[oldballs]

How about a spray can of marking paint? That stuff stays put and visible for several weeks.

 

[hosspuller]

Depends on how many holes you want to mark at a mowing. I would tie an inflatable beach ball to a bag of sand (about a pound worth) to keep it from blowing away. Throw it over the side when you hit a hole.
After filling the hole, deflate the ball and use it again. Get a ball large enough to see in a mowed field.

A few thoughts: A balloon may pop. Putting sand in the ball may be an option. Wind might roll the ball with sand in it.

Yet if you forget the marker, it won't damage a cutter.

 

[Deere Dude]

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[Deere Dude]

When mowing we sometimes use marking flags which have a orange flag with a 18-24" thin rod. We see an ant hill mound we stick a flag in and come back the next day to poison them and retrieve the flag. They last a long time in the weather and are cheap and easy to see.

I am tall enough where I can just reach over from my garden tractor seat and stick them in the ground but from a big tractor you might have to get off the seat.

 

[jaxs]

I like the spray paint idea. If you don't want to get off tractor,use parking lot paint with the stick made for them.

 

[stuckmotor]

You might mow a circle around them and not mow inside that circle, then come back later, and just look for the tall grass. When you fill them in cut the grass.

 

[/pine]

Fwiw...a hand held GPS unit will plot and take you right back to them after mowing for filling...

 

[Luke'sScreenName]

Fwiw...a hand held GPS unit will plot and take you right back to them after mowing for filling...

Best idea yet! How accurate are the cheap consumer ones now? I don't think my phone would be accurate enough.