There ain't nothing like...

[Hosskix]

The smell of freshly turned dirt!
I borrowed my neighbor’s disc plow today, I’d borrowed it several times with his tractor, but today was my first time with MY OWN tractor!

Sadly, it was probably a little to big for my little JD 790; it’s a six footer w/ 16” discs.
It didn’t cut as deep as it did with his 50HP Massey and the rows weren’t as straight; I could feel the tail end of my tractor moving a lot more.
But it got the job done!
I must say though that I think my “little tractor” could pull his sideways.
His is propane powered and I really think this diesel is nearly as strong, it’s just not as big and doesn’t have the weight that his does.

Anyhow, here’s some pics:
After the disc and a little bit of dragging. (We got .7” on Sat, it was really too wet still to be dragging, but I need to do it, you can see the furrows from where I’d disc it up before. The rain is fixin’ to start channeling if I don’t level it back out.)


The horse exploring her “new” stomping grounds:


I’ll finish dragging in a day or two, after it dries out a little more.
In the mean time, there’s still the drive way to work on!

 

[Cliff_Johns]

The horse exploring her “new” stomping grounds

Looks like she's saying, "Hey, who stole all the grass?"

Cliff

 

[Thomas]

Morning Hosskix.
Playing...opps...working the dirt w/tractor better than setting behind desk anyday,and I would say its in your blood,and there no cure for that type of addiction.

 

[Hosskix]

Yeah Thomas, I know.
I grew up in farming country and didn't really realize how much I missed the smell of damp dirt and the sight of a freshly plowed field.
Until I borrowed my neighbors tractor back in June in order to do battle with all the goathead stickers (puncture vine to some) on my place.
(I was about to go broke buying Round Up and about to go crazy pumping that dang sprayer.)

I turned the dirt and killed the stickers before they had a chance to bloom, did it again a couple of months later and the rest as they say is history...I was hooked and HAD to have my own tractor.

Hopefully I'll have the stickers killed out this year and get some gen-u-ine grass to growing.
But then again, like you say, it gets in the blood.
I may have to make a roping arena out of it so that I can keep plowing!