TODAYS SEAT TIME

sawyer andy · May 3, 2018

Sawyer Rob said:
AND of course, something did.....it came right apart...

Then it was time to remove the old wore out U-joint,

clean EVERYTHING up, and put it all back together,

And, the "self unloading" firewood hauler is back in business!

SR

Did you have to buy the cheapest u joint known to man?

4570Man · May 3, 2018

Jstpssng said:
That was probably a pretty sweet price. Last year when I was looking, I was shocked at what older tractors are going for; about 3K less than what I paid for my 3301. Yet on reflection I may have been better off paying it... I hate what I have, mostly because of the HST; and am going to replace it as soon as I can afford to, but will take a pretty big hit when I sell it.

My Grandpa got like 15k trade in on his L2550. The l3800 was priced a little high so he really got like 12 k trade in. The L2550 needed tires, a loader valve and new loader hoses. Being over 90 years old the new HST tractor is a lot better for him. Besides that the old tractor was probably a better machine.

lostcreekranch · May 4, 2018

sawyer andy said:
Did you have to buy the cheapest u joint known to man?

Are you offering to pay for a more expensive one? Or just running your mouth?

daugen · May 4, 2018

rlgustafson said:
Are you offering to pay for a more expensive one? Or just running your mouth?

I had to laugh at this, thinking, that's a mighty fine looking universal joint, what in the world is the matter with it? Has a zerk at least...

so, funny reverse compliment or dumb comment? Flip a coin Rick.

daugen · May 4, 2018

started my day on a fine tractor seat, but no motor attached...just me rolling down the 1 degree slope to the bottom of the snow pea line.
Next morning, do it again, all full of peas again. I'm amazed how fast they grow.

Jstpssng · May 4, 2018

daugen said:
started my day on a fine tractor seat, but no motor attached...just me rolling down the 1 degree slope to the bottom of the snow pea line.
Next morning, do it again, all full of peas again. I'm amazed how fast they grow.

Is that your potatoes growing in the upper right hand corner?

Sawyer Rob · May 4, 2018

rlgustafson said:
Are you offering to pay for a more expensive one? Or just running your mouth?

Don't worry about Andy, I think he get's HIS "joints" down in the hood, from a guy on the corner...

SR

BrokenTrack · May 4, 2018

Jstpssng said:
Is that your potatoes growing in the upper right hand corner?

I am jealous, are you Jstpssng? I think we still got frost in the ground in places!!

Jstpssng · May 4, 2018

BrokenTrack said:
I am jealous, are you Jstpssng? I think we still got frost in the ground in places!!

I have mixed emotions about that, I guess; He's picking peas every day while I'm eating frozen Hannaford's broccoli. On the other hand I'm so far behind that I just finished planting my garlic... which should have been in the ground last October.

At any rate that's a really nice garden which Daugen has... and I like that little slope to roll down as he picks the peas. :thumbsup:

daugen · May 4, 2018

Jstpssng said:
Is that your potatoes growing in the upper right hand corner?

100 pounds of Red Pontiac and 100 pounds of Red La Soda
Almost all of this is being grown for the local food bank.
Though I'm chowing down on those snow peas almost as fast as I grow them.
I call them vegetable candy

BrokenTrack · May 4, 2018

Jstpssng said:
I have mixed emotions about that, I guess; He's picking peas every day while I'm eating frozen Hannaford's broccoli. On the other hand I'm so far behind that I just finished planting my garlic... which should have been in the ground last October.

At any rate that's a really nice garden which Daugen has... and I like that little slope to roll down as he picks the peas. :thumbsup:

I hear you. The last two years I have not been able to get either potatoes nor peas to grow.

I live on top of a hill for that nice rolling effect! It has some nice views, but does it every get slammed with wind. They were going to put (3) windmills here, but the town voted them out of town. :-( Katie and I designed an underground retirement house to live just because we both hate the wind, but the soil is too thin for that.

The outlaws (also known as the inlaws) are coming in from New Hampshire so I was trying to clean up my place, but blew a hydraulic hose on the Kubota so I did not get much done.

Jstpssng · May 4, 2018

daugen said:
100 pounds of Red Pontiac and 100 pounds of Red La Soda
Almost all of this is being grown for the local food bank.
Though I'm chowing down on those snow peas almost as fast as I grow them.
I call them vegetable candy

I knew that you were doing that, and laud you for it. :thumbsup:
It seems like it was just last week though that you were posting about planting them; now they're blossoming.

BrokenTrack · May 4, 2018

daugen said:
100 pounds of Red Pontiac and 100 pounds of Red La Soda
Almost all of this is being grown for the local food bank.
Though I'm chowing down on those snow peas almost as fast as I grow them.
I call them vegetable candy

How do you harvest them, by hand or by machine? I was looking at Everything Attachment's shaker potato digger pretty hard and was curious if that is what you used?

daugen · May 4, 2018

BrokenTrack said:
How do you harvest them, by hand or by machine? I was looking at Everything Attachment's shaker potato digger pretty hard and was curious if that is what you used?

plain old potato plow/middlebuster and help with digging forks

Jstpssng · May 4, 2018

daugen said:
plain old potato plow/middlebuster and help with digging forks

That's the best 150$ tool that I've ever bought; no matter how hard I try, I always manage to spear my best "spuds" when I dig them by hand. It also works great for digging carrots.

Slowpoke Slim · May 5, 2018

Finished seeding my bottom pasture today. Now all we need is some rain.

4570Man · May 5, 2018

I spread about 50 tons of dirt and then I tore field stone off a building. The Kubota served a crucial part in preventing the glass from getting broken.

check · May 6, 2018

Time for the Spring switchover! Rear blower off, boxblade on.

daugen · May 6, 2018

Jstpssng said:
That's the best 150$ tool that I've ever bought; no matter how hard I try, I always manage to spear my best "spuds" when I dig them by hand. It also works great for digging carrots.

I've done this once before but not at this location. In sandy soil I'm hoping it's easy. Just bought a tiny top link at TSC to increase the angle of
the potato plow; mine was maxxed out at what I think is too vertical an angle. Though I know they "suck in".
Rain has to stop before I can go experiment. Rather go too deep than too shallow, and thankfully I will have help
doing the manual pitchforking/harvesting from there. I read to let them sit out there and dry for three days.
Seems like I might be feeding some wildlife that way.

Potatoes are flowering away right now. So how many weeks from now until harvest? Is there some old farming saying?
Bet there must be one for Maine potatoes...and then there's the Idaho jingle...

daugen · May 6, 2018

I have about a hundred linear feet of carrots too and I've sure never dug them up before.
None of them are extra long so sounds like there's more to dig up with this tractor. Plow is on my 25hp Iseki Massey.

Also have a ton of beets in rows. Can you dig them up with a plow? pretty fragile I think.

I admit complete ignorance, first time doing this in row crop fashion.