TODAYS SEAT TIME

[Jstpssng]

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Fortunately plants can handle an amount of petroleum. That's what commercial fertilizer is made from, after all.

 

[dieselcrawler]

Yesterdays seat time... post holes. Pictures are of the first hole, and post finished... hit rock, bent auger tooth, broke sheer pin. Had a heck of a time. Second post went easy, and the rain started... got cross brace in later in the afternoon, and got 4 more holes drilled, about half way around the field. One picture is wide angle, we are running new fence along the blacktop road, all the way around to the upper left corner... about half a mile.

 

[BrokeFarmerJohn]

Well I didn’t take too many pics or very impressive pics at that. I have this fenced in little area off a stall back at the barn that the cattle keep tearing up, it’s been nothing but mud for about a year, so much so that pond scum was growing in the puddles already. So I fixed it with about 11 ton of rock today.

Still need to throw down some finer gravel and hit it with a box blade. I just used the bucket and a rear blade today, kept running the tractor back and forth to pack it down, that mud swallowed a lot of stone.

My buddy was hauling with his truck and dump trailer, I was moving and spreading the gravel.




I also cut out part of my fence so I could get the 4320 in there.



Next will be fixing the propane tank in there, fixing the bad sections of fence and maybe hitting the fence with some paint. Always crap to do lol. At least the cattle don’t sink 8-10in every time they go to get a drink of water, I have tried to replant it last year and it’s just been too wet and muddy.

Good news though, I put 10 little feeder goldfish in the cattle waterer about two weeks ago, at least 5, maybe 6 are still in there lol.



Last pic I have of the actual tractor I have from last year, except I put the bucket on today.

The mud has been bad in there, my propane tank is sitting on two cinder blocks and it’s sunk to the point it’s about ready to fall over, my cattle feed trough was sunk far enough on one end that I had to put a chain on it to move it, they haven’t sunk like that before.

 

[hunt4570]

Well I didn’t take too many pics or very impressive pics at that. I have this fenced in little area off a stall back at the barn that the cattle keep tearing up, it’s been nothing but mud for about a year, so much so that pond scum was growing in the puddles already. So I fixed it with about 11 ton of rock today.

Still need to throw down some finer gravel and hit it with a box blade. I just used the bucket and a rear blade today, kept running the tractor back and forth to pack it down, that mud swallowed a lot of stone.

My buddy was hauling with his truck and dump trailer, I was moving and spreading the gravel.

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I also cut out part of my fence so I could get the 4320 in there.

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Next will be fixing the propane tank in there, fixing the bad sections of fence and maybe hitting the fence with some paint. Always crap to do lol. At least the cattle don’t sink 8-10in every time they go to get a drink of water, I have tried to replant it last year and it’s just been too wet and muddy.

Good news though, I put 10 little feeder goldfish in the cattle waterer about two weeks ago, at least 5, maybe 6 are still in there lol.

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Last pic I have of the actual tractor I have from last year, except I put the bucket on today.

The mud has been bad in there, my propane tank is sitting on two cinder blocks and it’s sunk to the point it’s about ready to fall over, my cattle feed trough was sunk far enough on one end that I had to put a chain on it to move it, they haven’t sunk like that before.

You put goldfish in to control skeeter larvae and other bugs?

 

[BrokeFarmerJohn]

You put goldfish in to control skeeter larvae and other bugs?

Alge, bugs and mosquito eggs and larvae, I read online horse people did it in their stock tanks, the horses actually preferred drinking out of the tanks with the fish vs the ones that were cleaned weekly. So I bought 10 of them to try it out, so far so good.

When I put them in the tank, mosquitos were flying around the waterer like crazy, I counted at least 6 mosquitoes buzzing around the waters surface, I didn’t see any yesterday, almost two weeks later.

The fish aren’t fed, they just eat what’s dropped in the tank. The cattle drop stuff in there also when the eat before they drink (corn, brewers grain, bread etc.)

 

[terryknight]

took the blade off, put the mower on and cut the grass for the first time this year. put the bucket on the loader for the first time in a year or so and moved some pine needles. no pics

 

[dieselcrawler]

Terry, dont tell my wife youre mowing... I've done some brush hogging already this year, mostly just knocking down the dead weed stalks from last season before the spring brings new growth. But the yard, it needs mowed... but the wife will not let me mow until after Easter, because her mom said it was bad luck!

I cut a few more locust trees today, skidded them into the lower field to cut up, got about 8 more posts, and longer thin ones for bracing corners. Peeled bark of a few of them, until the wife and a few kids came out to help. Strung the top strand of wire and put in about another 40 metal T posts too... arms feel like jelly, after pounding in posts. Im outta shape.

 

[terryknight]

I refuse to mow before tax day

 

[Sawyer Rob]

Strung the top strand of wire and put in about another 40 metal T posts too... arms feel like jelly, after pounding in posts. Im outta shape.

I don't pound steel post in, I use my tractor to put them in...

SR

 

[dieselcrawler]

SR, Ive heard of putting posts in with the loader bucket, pushing them in, but... my lil tractor might not have enough @$$ to do the job, nor am I working in an area where access is good enough to try. What we're building is on a bank, below the highway, and the field slopes away enough to make driving the post straight without rolling the tractor would be a challenge.

 

[dragoneggs]

I refuse to mow before tax day

That just doesn't happen 'round here. Two mowings for me. And I love it! Now come June I am not as giddy.

 

[Jstpssng]

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I would need to carry a very long chain hooked to my pickup to pull myself out of the mud every 10 feet.

 

[rangerfredbob]

Yesterday I attempted to mow, two rounds and the belt fell off the King Kutter FM60, investigated and the upper bearing on the middle spindle is shot... $90 for 3 new bearing/seal sets and I'll get it together in a couple weeks... sucks that the riding mower is out of commission right now too...

Switched to my 5 tooth ripper thing to work where I am going to build a shop and broke a shear bolt trying to pull a root up.

I apparently wasn't meant to go tractoring last night...

 

[dieselcrawler]

I drilled 4 more post holes... that was the easy part. Setting the posts, tamping in the dirt, that was the hard part. Had to line them up just right, its a corner by the highway, lined up and good side of the post 'just so'...

Peeled the posts earlier, got about 12 done. Easy to tell which ones I cut yesterday vs last weekend... that wasnt much easier than tamping the 4 posts.

 

[Molalla1]

That just doesn't happen 'round here. Two mowings for me. And I love it! Now come June I am not as giddy.

Funny . . . my wife told me to read your post . . . . . . now I've been forced to being an indentured servant now . . . :laughing:

 

[Mainahs70]

Driveway was a little soft for pickups so I used the tractor to move masonry materials to house. This is the picture after I got it unstuck. Gotta love mud season.

 

[Jstpssng]

^^^^
That's after you got it unstuck? I hope that you didn't lose your new building materials in the mud.

 

[Gordon Gould]

Driveway was a little soft for pickups so I used the tractor to move masonry materials to house. This is the picture after I got it unstuck. Gotta love mud season. View attachment 601150

For sure !! I realize it can't always be done but I am glad I can usually park the tractor during mud season now. Good picture.

gg

 

[Mainahs70]

Had bucket full of 10 bags of dry mortar and block for fireplace but luckily all stayed dry. Good thing I have the OFA studded chains. Exhaust was sputtering under the mud.

 

[Jstpssng]

It's hard to push or pull yourself back out with the loader, when it's full of things which you don't want to destroy.