wmonroe
Elite Member
Beautiful piece of land. Do you farm any of it or was it farmed before?
TODAYS SEAT TIME
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dieselcrawler
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We pasture our horses/ponies, and have talked about getting some sheep and/or a cow or two. The former owner had cattle, until about 7 years ago. My father in law ran his cattle here 20+ years ago, my wife remembersaid building some of the fence as a kid. I have tryed to mow what I can since we have been here, but it's a full time job in itself. And now that I'm at a new job, working more hours, tractor time is even harder to find, but easier to find fuel money!
daugen
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Yesterday I bought a new Mahindra 4530
Congratulations RK! I bet you had fun discing with it. I have a neighbor with a very run down property who has farming equipment, implements all over the place, three feet of weeds growing up around things, he no longer farms. But some of those implements are massive compared to the utility stuff we normally see in catalogs, super strong heavy plows, discs, etc. That "old iron" could still be put to use; I just hate to see stuff left out and get ruined. Every time I go over there I'm looking around in the weeds for useful things. Unfortunately most has been used/abused/driven into the ground. Probably most of it is 40-60 years old. Perhaps one can just regrease a disc everywhere and start up again. Isn't too much to go wrong... I haven't pulled a plow or disc since I was a teenager, long time ago. Today for smaller food plots seems everyone has gone to a big rototiller.
for many of us it was always plow and disc. Today with low impact/no till farming, it's a new ballgame.
Greg, that's a lot of land to mow but you must get a great sense of accomplishment looking back at what you've done.
And I bet the ragweed/pollen count is going down with your work too.
Congratulations RK! I bet you had fun discing with it. I have a neighbor with a very run down property who has farming equipment, implements all over the place, three feet of weeds growing up around things, he no longer farms. But some of those implements are massive compared to the utility stuff we normally see in catalogs, super strong heavy plows, discs, etc. That "old iron" could still be put to use; I just hate to see stuff left out and get ruined. Every time I go over there I'm looking around in the weeds for useful things. Unfortunately most has been used/abused/driven into the ground. Probably most of it is 40-60 years old. Perhaps one can just regrease a disc everywhere and start up again. Isn't too much to go wrong... I haven't pulled a plow or disc since I was a teenager, long time ago. Today for smaller food plots seems everyone has gone to a big rototiller.
for many of us it was always plow and disc. Today with low impact/no till farming, it's a new ballgame.
Greg, that's a lot of land to mow but you must get a great sense of accomplishment looking back at what you've done.
And I bet the ragweed/pollen count is going down with your work too.
Mikejeakins
Gold Member
Greg that is a nice place. How many acres do you have?
dieselcrawler
Elite Member
We have a total of 117 ac. Prime grade A West Virginia hillside, the only flat spots are the floors in the house and barn! About half is woods, the rest is fields that have been neglected for the past few years.
Mikejeakins
Gold Member
LOL I guess it makes for a exciting ride on the tractor. Kind of like a roller coaster.
dieselcrawler
Elite Member
Yup, exciting is the word sometimes. Operational parking brake mandatory. I grew up in a holler where a parking brake was some what optional, not so much now!
CanuckPT
Gold Member
I have created a 10' wide opening in a stone wall & I leveled out an area to park my Tacoma with its plow as well as relocate my Shelter Logic structure that keeps my ATV, wood splitter & snow blower undercover. Today I used the rocks to rebuild the walls in toward the new space.
Tomorrow 48 cubic yards of material will be delivered to finish the space so that'll be some fun seat time!!
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Tomorrow 48 cubic yards of material will be delivered to finish the space so that'll be some fun seat time!!
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dragoneggs
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Nice job... way to recreate space!
RKrodle
Member
Hey daugen, I've been to Washington N.C. a few times. I used to go to the Stanadyne(SP) plant and service some of their machines.