TODAYS SEAT TIME

metalbender · Sep 6, 2019

Bush hogged the bottoms of the ditches on the half mile drive, then did the steep sides with the verge mower .No pucker power for this old guy.

hunt4570 · Sep 7, 2019

Oldpath05 said:
Wow no rocks........... I have big rocks, small rocks, boulders with ledge coming up out the ground all around with the city of Rockland just 30 miles away, in fact theres people up here that sells rocks for a living.

I have no sand on my land that stuff ended up 2 miles east of me in a gigantic gravel pit, he made out $$$$. I wonder if you could make cement blocks out of the sand you have on your land?

Lots of sand around these parts, Big "Sandhill National Wildlife Refuge" just up the road a ways. We had a pool put in a few years ago and when they dug the hole.. ALL sand, not a rock or dirt in sight! Makes for easy digging, but makes setting posts and such a little problematic.

hunt4570 · Sep 7, 2019

Sawyer Rob said:
MY seat time was spent traveling most of the day with a friend. He bought a 10 dollar raffle ticket a week or so ago, and they drew his name!

Here's what he won,

We spent most of a day, traveling the 400 miles round trip, to retrieve it.

SR

OUTSTANDING!!

JohnMacca · Sep 9, 2019

Yesterdays seat time was removing the last section of an old farm fence. I don't know exactly how old the posts are, but I have been on this land for 40 years and this is an old section that always needing replacing. I know that my wife's grandfather would have put them in - and he died in 1955. Many of the posts are as solid as the day they were put in. I assume that they are ironbark posts as that has always been the timber of choice around here.

The 4 in 1 bucket really saves a lot of time in getting these old posts out. I grab them at the top and nudge forward and backwards a couple of times (the HST makes this easy) and then they usually just pop out. The stubborn ones I use the drawbar and a chain on the 3point hitch to get them to move. Because I have the drawbar on, I don't have any ballast on the back, so you have to be carefull to grab the post in the centre of the bucket and lift slowly. Even with filled tyres, the back can come up quickly if you're not careful.

I lay out the posts and wire in a straight line and then grab some wire and the first post with the bucket. I then run forward, "sweeping up" the old fence. I stop every so often to re-grab the pile and squash up the wire. After that I stack up a pile to burn out the posts and droppers.

Because it is mid spring here, I have been working around some great native flowers. I have been driving over dozens on native orchids, here are some pictures of two common ones. Lovely little flowers around 1 inch across. They grow from a bulb so they will come back. Also the golden wattles are out.

A great time to be out getting some seat time.

daugen · Sep 10, 2019

hunt4570 said:
OUTSTANDING!!

:thumbsup:

That B brings back a lot of memories, what I grew up with. Electric start and rubber tires thankfully.
pucka pucka pucka pucka
We had a snow plow that bolted on to the sides, I remember pushing the bolts through those holes.
Manual hydraulics, big lever next to hand clutch with round black bakelite knob on top
flipping the lever to go down sure was easy in comparison.

BRMyers · Sep 10, 2019

JohnMacca said:
Yesterdays seat time was removing the last section of an old farm fence. I don't know exactly how old the posts are, but I have been on this land for 40 years and this is an old section that always needing replacing. I know that my wife's grandfather would have put them in - and he died in 1955. Many of the posts are as solid as the day they were put in. I assume that they are ironbark posts as that has always been the timber of choice around here.

The 4 in 1 bucket really saves a lot of time in getting these old posts out. I grab them at the top and nudge forward and backwards a couple of times (the HST makes this easy) and then they usually just pop out. The stubborn ones I use the drawbar and a chain on the 3point hitch to get them to move. Because I have the drawbar on, I don't have any ballast on the back, so you have to be carefull to grab the post in the centre of the bucket and lift slowly. Even with filled tyres, the back can come up quickly if you're not careful.
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I lay out the posts and wire in a straight line and then grab some wire and the first post with the bucket. I then run forward, "sweeping up" the old fence. I stop every so often to re-grab the pile and squash up the wire. After that I stack up a pile to burn out the posts and droppers.
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Because it is mid spring here, I have been working around some great native flowers. I have been driving over dozens on native orchids, here are some pictures of two common ones. Lovely little flowers around 1 inch across. They grow from a bulb so they will come back. Also the golden wattles are out.
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A great time to be out getting some seat time.

That is a big fire extinguisher you have mounted on there. Makes our little 5lbs seem small.

JohnMacca · Sep 10, 2019

BRMyers said:
That is a big fire extinguisher you have mounted on there. Makes our little 5lbs seem small.

Yeah, the law here requires you to carry at least 9 litres (2 USgallons?) of water on a tractor for putting any grass fire you might start.
I mounted it where it is after checking out ideas on TBN.

Most people, especially older farmers, will have a knapsack mounted on the tractor somewhere because it is common sense. (Is "knapsack" a word in the US? It is a hand pumped sprayer either designed to be used as a back pack, or made as a vehicle type).

What I have is a pressurised one that I can recharge with an air compressor. I have used it a couple of times working around burn piles.

I also have a 1kg Dry Chem extinguisher mounted on the ROPS for use on the tractor if the need ever arises.

5030 · Sep 10, 2019

Spent about 8 hours today on 2 tractors running hay in front if the rain we are supposed to get tomorrow.

dragoneggs · Sep 11, 2019

Too bad good seat time doesn't include sitting at a desk behind a computer. On second thought... thank goodness!

hunt4570 · Sep 11, 2019

My seat time lately has been loading logs on my trailer to haul up to my sawmill.

Sawyer Rob · Sep 11, 2019

Who says they aren't makin anymore land??

OK, I'm not making it, I'm just taking it back!! lol

As I find the time I keep chipping away at it, but there's tree's laying down in the row too, so once I get them out, I can get going again...

SR

BRMyers · Sep 11, 2019

Went out to the farm after work to get some mowing done. As you can see, I have to go slow when the weeds are as high as my loader arms.

I found a big old limb that had come down during the last storm. Guess this weekend, will bring out the chainsaw and get it cleaned up.

Scrambler82 · Sep 11, 2019

Got some seat time digging a trench for the electric wiring for the Patio Cover, 32 feet, took about two hours with my little Max28; this ground is like cement and I have time to dig the cross trench for the fireplace and the Potting Shed. Win !

Tennsawdust · Sep 12, 2019

BRMyers said:
Went out to the farm after work to get some mowing done. As you can see, I have to go slow when the weeds are as high as my loader arms.

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I found a big old limb that had come down during the last storm. Guess this weekend, will bring out the chainsaw and get it cleaned up.

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I was mowing some blackberry briars that big last week. In a couple of spots it was so thick the tractor wanted to ride up on it and take off in a different direction.

hunt4570 · Sep 12, 2019

Tennsawdust said:
I was mowing some blackberry briars that big last week. In a couple of spots it was so thick the tractor wanted to ride up on it and take off in a different direction.

BAD tractor!! BAD tractor!!:laughing:

Sawyer Rob · Sep 12, 2019

I fallowed most of my "front" garden this year, and just tilled it a couple times to turn in the green manure in.

Today was one of those days,

It should produce pretty good next season,

SR

Jstpssng · Sep 12, 2019

Sawyer Rob said:
Who says they aren't makin anymore land??

OK, I'm not making it, I'm just taking it back!! lol

As I find the time I keep chipping away at it, but there's tree's laying down in the row too, so once I get them out, I can get going again...

SR

The saying is that they don’t make more land... it doesn’t say that they don’t make more usable land. You have found a nice loophole to the saying, and somebody down the line will appreciate it. :thumbsup:

Sawyer Rob · Sep 12, 2019

Jstpssng said:
The saying is that they don稚 make more land... it doesn稚 say that they don稚 make more usable land. You have found a nice loophole to the saying, and somebody down the line will appreciate it.

Yeaaa, ME! I'm going to be using that spot for firewood storeing!

It's perfect for it, high, dry and get's prevailing winds... :thumbsup:

SR

shovelmike · Sep 12, 2019

I took delivery of my Mahindra eMax22 with front end loader today. I tried it out digging gravel out of my pile and distributing it on the floor of my pole barn, I got a lot done...much better than my previous method of scoop shovel to dump cart, then dumped in the barn.
It sure helps to have the right equipment to do the job!

hunt4570 · Sep 12, 2019

shovelmike said:
I took delivery of my Mahindra eMax22 with front end loader today. I tried it out digging gravel out of my pile and distributing it on the floor of my pole barn, I got a lot done...much better than my previous method of scoop shovel to dump cart, then dumped in the barn.
It sure helps to have the right equipment to do the job!

YAY!!! Congratulations.. and welcome to the forum!!