TODAYS SEAT TIME

[daugen]

moved about four buckets of mulch to do my new nut orchard, nice to finish it, now the long, long....wait.
my home brew water cart has made this all possible.

 

[PJSprog]

Finally got out into the pasture again yesterday to pick up the remaining fencing debris. Hauled two loads of the rusted junk to the dumpster, and two loads of keepers to the barn ... including this gate.

Hauled a couple of loads of concrete (pier) chunks left from the old deck removal, as well as some other various debris which also went into the dumpster.

Only about a 1/2 hour of seat time, but it was a rather productive half hour.

 

[Green Acres Homestead]

Here in Eastern Canada we had a blizzard so I had a lot of seat time last week cleaning up after the storm. 10 foot drifts, high winds, 1.6 feet of snow kept me and my kubota busy. Here is a video mostly from the cab.Cleaning up after the blizzard of Feb 2017 - YouTube

 

[jmh1783]

Due to the unseasonably warm weather I had to get out and do something. My pasture/front yard is very rough. Last fall I tilled up a couple of the worst sections and smoothed them out a bit. I was going to plant grass but never did. I noticed a few weeks back they are the only green parts of the field. I guess the pasture needed rejuvenating more than I thought. I got out the tractor and the 6 foot tiller and started on it after work. I know we have spring rains coming so I stuck to the flat part so I don't get a bunch of errosion. I managed to get five passes done of about 250 feet each before sunset. I'll keep working at it. Once I get a big enough section tilled one direction, I'll go back and do it the other way then drag it to smooth it out.

 

[daugen]

Ray, great video of "playing" in the snow. By the time you came in I bet you were pretty tuckered out. Did you get the worried ladies up the street taken care of? Marvelous view you have. The last winter I lived North of Philadelphia PA we got six feet of snow over the winter. I moved South the next year...
Now you could just move on down here and enjoy my 71 degrees today with my apple and peaches starting to blossom,
and even better, you could lose that funny accent and learn to say y'all....

Due to the unseasonably warm weather I had to get out and do something. JMH
now for the rest of us, no truer words have been said. It's time to get going and leave winter behind.
And if you have farmer genes, it's time to work the soil. You've already serviced all your equipment so it's all sitting there greased up, tanked
up and ready to go. It's time for some seat time.

Has been a relatively warm winter here so far. Zero frozen precip. Usually we get ice, but not so far and the temps are warm in the forecast.

 

[Sysop]

Received an EverythingAttachments grapple today, issue free. Examined it fully, the build quality is superb.

The hose saver kit bolted right up on the tractor using the bolt already on the loader crossmember, but is a little too tall as it rests against the brush guard when the loader is lowered all the way. I will likely heat and bend it forward to make an inch of clearance.

Hooked up the grapple, greased the fittings, and checked that all the hoses would travel freely and nothing would be pinched. Everything looked good.

Started cleaning up some brush piles and various limbs that've fell over the winter. Whether I was after a big bite from a pile, or just picking up a small stick to add to the top of the pile, it'd grab whatever I'd point it at. I love this grapple.

On the way back across the field, I was passing near one of the many rocks that've grown out of the field and are starting to cause cutter issues. I've been planning on taking the backhoe around and burying them all, but decided to see how well the grapple might do at a smaller one (basketball sized). I pulled up to it and bumped it to see if it would wiggle any, it did. I centered up on it and dug the lower tines in a few inches away, closed the lid on it, rolled it back and up popped a HUGE rock (about the size of a ball-bag with a dozen basketballs in it)... Carried the rock down out of the field and added it to my rock pile.

Feeling adventurous, I decided to go clean up the stones from my stone gate pillar out front where a drunk wiped it out a couple hours into the new year. Some of the stones were thrown about 40 feet away into a swamp. First two, the only two I originally knew about, were easy to pull down to the edge and nab with the grapple and pull up out of the mud. While down there, I saw a third that was a little farther out. I thought I could get it with just the front tires in the swamp a little bit, so I went back in for the attempt. I got in far enough to get the rock, but it couldn't back up the hill to get out. I tried putting old fenceposts across the muck and use the grapple against them to help lift and push me out. During this process, one of my hydraulic hoses was apparently pushed aside and got into a pinch-point and ended up severed. I got a second person to hold reverse while I tried dragging it up the hill with the backhoe. Hooked the truck up with a chain and pulled. Nothing worked.

By this time, my front tires are totally under mud. Mud over the front axle. Mud over the front weight bracket and partly up the lower grille panels. The steps on the sides were setting on firm ground.

Went to a couple of the neighbors houses and couldn't find anyone home, so went across the hill and got a guy with a big wrecker to come winch it out. Interesting day to say the least...

Tomorrow I'll need to get the hose replaced...

 

[Musdalen]

Just a few minutes, but the first few minutes on a brand new 3039R. It was great - but **** cold...

But this was so much easier than "the old way". I think my life just got a bunch easier.

 

[dieselcrawler]

I finally got to do some brush hogging this evening... about an hour... really getting spring fever, need more tractor therapy!

 

[Ryansweatt2004]

Spent my morning grading out part of my 1/2 mile gravel road. Thought about digging out my box blade but figured it was a good excuse to play in the dirt with my new RB3784 blade.

 

[DieselBound]

Received an EverythingAttachments grapple today, issue free. Examined it fully, the build quality is superb.

The hose saver kit bolted right up on the tractor using the bolt already on the loader crossmember, but is a little too tall as it rests against the brush guard when the loader is lowered all the way. I will likely heat and bend it forward to make an inch of clearance.

Hooked up the grapple, greased the fittings, and checked that all the hoses would travel freely and nothing would be pinched. Everything looked good.

Started cleaning up some brush piles and various limbs that've fell over the winter. Whether I was after a big bite from a pile, or just picking up a small stick to add to the top of the pile, it'd grab whatever I'd point it at. I love this grapple.

On the way back across the field, I was passing near one of the many rocks that've grown out of the field and are starting to cause cutter issues. I've been planning on taking the backhoe around and burying them all, but decided to see how well the grapple might do at a smaller one (basketball sized). I pulled up to it and bumped it to see if it would wiggle any, it did. I centered up on it and dug the lower tines in a few inches away, closed the lid on it, rolled it back and up popped a HUGE rock (about the size of a ball-bag with a dozen basketballs in it)... Carried the rock down out of the field and added it to my rock pile.

Feeling adventurous, I decided to go clean up the stones from my stone gate pillar out front where a drunk wiped it out a couple hours into the new year. Some of the stones were thrown about 40 feet away into a swamp. First two, the only two I originally knew about, were easy to pull down to the edge and nab with the grapple and pull up out of the mud. While down there, I saw a third that was a little farther out. I thought I could get it with just the front tires in the swamp a little bit, so I went back in for the attempt. I got in far enough to get the rock, but it couldn't back up the hill to get out. I tried putting old fenceposts across the muck and use the grapple against them to help lift and push me out. During this process, one of my hydraulic hoses was apparently pushed aside and got into a pinch-point and ended up severed. I got a second person to hold reverse while I tried dragging it up the hill with the backhoe. Hooked the truck up with a chain and pulled. Nothing worked.

By this time, my front tires are totally under mud. Mud over the front axle. Mud over the front weight bracket and partly up the lower grille panels. The steps on the sides were setting on firm ground.

Went to a couple of the neighbors houses and couldn't find anyone home, so went across the hill and got a guy with a big wrecker to come winch it out. Interesting day to say the least...

Tomorrow I'll need to get the hose replaced...

Thought only things like this happened to me! :laughing:

Know this feeling all too well!

I had my pallet forks on my NEW Kioti and was fetching a cage of firewood just off the side of my driveway. This is basically a new operation for me for managing firewood; it was a complete FAIL Front wheels sank in as I started lifting the crate. Back wheels were on the driveway surface but couldn't get enough traction, didn't have enough weight on them (even though they're ballasted). Discovered that the forks can be used to aerate the ground :laughing: (readily shoved them, all 4' of them, into the ground like a hot knife into butter) :laughing: Winched myself out via my truck. And then there's the story of getting an excavator stuck...

Oh, yeah, I had my tractor out today! Dropped off the grapple (first time I've removed it) and hauled another crate of firewood up to the house- no getting stuck today! (crate wasn't in the wet spot). Bucket is back on so I can load up my dump trailer with some material.