TODAYS SEAT TIME

Ryansweatt2004 · Sep 22, 2016

Spent the afternoon pushing back sumac and poplar trees along one section of our half mile road. Hopefully will have a triaxle load of reclaim being delivered to dress up the road surface in this area sometime in the next week or so and this weekend I'll be spreading mulch hay along this side of the road. The plan will be to have it stay mowed all next summer.

Sawyer Rob · Sep 22, 2016

farmer2009 said:
SR. Nice pair of Cases there. What models? Nice spreader. We have to use spinner type spreaders with chicken litter.

JX65 and JX95, that H&S spreader works REALLY good with TP, the spreader chain is hydraulic drive, so you can adjust it on the fly, for the amount you want to spread.

SR

daugen · Sep 24, 2016

mowed the roadsides with the tractor instead of my lawn mower and it sure was easier. Plus no more beating up the lighter lawn mower on fire ant mounds.
LP finishing mower is skewed over to the right a bit which helps but a fixed 7 foot mower, even with four wheels, is challenging on these sloping ditches not to scalp.
Nice to finish in two passes instead of three.

Thall303 · Sep 24, 2016

Looks great. My finish mower is great....until I hit some Johnson grass.

Gordon Gould · Sep 24, 2016

Johnson grass ??? What is that like ?

gg

Thall303 · Sep 24, 2016

http://www.texasinvasives.org/plant_database/plant_images/SOHA.jpg

A big, hard to control "weed" i wish I had never seen.

Ryansweatt2004 · Sep 24, 2016

Finished up my section of road today. Dug out the ditch on the left side and graded out the right side. Finished it off with a round bale of hay for mulch/seed to get grass growing and help with erosion.

dragoneggs · Sep 24, 2016

daugen said:
mowed the roadsides with the tractor instead of my lawn mower and it sure was easier. Plus no more beating up the lighter lawn mower on fire ant mounds.
LP finishing mower is skewed over to the right a bit which helps but a fixed 7 foot mower, even with four wheels, is challenging on these sloping ditches not to scalp.
Nice to finish in two passes instead of three.

Beautiful pic daugen and nice job!

bubbacuse77 · Sep 24, 2016

Moved an old pile of logs to the neighbors

4570Man · Sep 24, 2016

I saw a guy hauling a motor cycle on a trailer. He had a dog chain on one handle bar and baling twine on the other. Then he yelled out the window "buy a Chevy and stop looking at one" my buddy yelled back "buy a Ford and stop following one. Then we proved the Ford V10 was A Lot faster than his 4.3 Chevy. Not to mention our load weighed more than 5 times as much. A bet he doesn't go trying to race a V10 anymore.

Sawyer Rob · Sep 24, 2016

4570Man said:
I saw a guy hauling a motor cycle on a trailer. He had a dog chain on one handle bar and baling twine on the other. Then he yelled out the window "buy a Chevy and stop looking at one" my buddy yelled back "buy a Ford and stop following one. Then we proved the Ford V10 was A Lot faster than his 4.3 Chevy. Not to mention our load weighed more than 5 times as much. A bet he doesn't go trying to race a V10 anymore. &#55357;&#56832;

Which one of you stopped for gas first??? lol

SR

4570Man · Sep 24, 2016

Sawyer Rob said:
Which one of you stopped for gas first??? lol SR

Whoops, meant to post in the towing something wrong thread. My buddy also owns a 4.3 Chevy, and I own a 5.3 Chevy and a 5.4 ford. All 4 trucks get terrible milage, and the V10 has considerably more power. It only took about 100 yards to pass him. Considering the Ford holds more fuel he stopped first.

dirt ditch · Sep 25, 2016

Took half a day changing engine oil and rear end fluid in the tractor, then an evening and morning to get the fall mowing out of the way. Usually a couple mowing's a year take care of the vegetation along my driveway and another area I mow. This summer it rained every week and sometimes every day so the native grass along my drive was 6' tall and the weeds in the other area were 8'. Took this picture about 5 minutes before a thunderstorm moved in and downpoured on me. By the time I was done I was soaked to the bone which was better than being ate up by Gnats.

PJS, I'm envious of your cab and cold AC. Friday afternoon I was sweaty, dirty, and dusty. It was 93 deg. with 95% humidity and 30mph winds. Saturday morning I was bug ate and wet. :laughing:

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dieselcrawler · Sep 25, 2016

After removing an overgrown flower bed a while back, the wife finally ok'd a gravel parking area. She's been parking there for about a month, on grass, and it was starting to get bare... time to do something!

After the wife finished mowing with the BX, I pulled off the mower deck and put the back blade on, having both tractors to use was handy.

My youngest (2.5 y/o) found the dirt pile to be loads of fun... momma had a hard time keeping her out of my way! Landscape fabric was put down before gravel.

Almost done... needs smoothed out more, and about 3x more gravel, but ok for now.

DieselBound · Sep 25, 2016

dieselcrawler, I'm kind of at those first steps, though I'm having a garage+shop put up.

Here's my "2.5 year-olds" playing in the dirt (this was as of last Tuesday- I've still got to put down fill/base material; was hoping to have the new tractor available to do that, but looks like my B7800 will continue to be called upon)

Normally that boxblade is on the back of the tractor. I'd broke the adjusting arm, in which case I had to drop the boxblade and "finish" clawing off the topsoil using the tooth bar on the bucket!

Lockport · Sep 25, 2016

Time to test the backhoe in this 80% clay muck. This stuff is hard to dig through. The well is nearly 300' deep and a 50', 4" drop pipe held a 4" pump at 40' depth until the water table dropped by 20' one year. Now we're using a 3" pencil pump hovering 90' down on the 1" PVC hose. When the galvanized Pittless adapter let go of the buried cable at the saddle tap it was winter and we had to adapt a heated cable in another joining line to the house through a Styrofoam piece cut to the shape of a basement window with a hole in the middle and completed with an alarm system sensor screwed into it.

The valve is 8' down and the hoe digs to 7.5'. I started with renting a Hilti AVR 3000 electric concrete breaker. Amazing tool with a brushless motor and only 15A. Then cut the rebar with a 5.25' rotary tool and start digging.

I was impressed with how little, if any, complaints from the tractor were evident and I began thinking this has been dug before. Which I'm sure it has but it wasn't until I was down there that I discovered I was right in this stuff.

A tree spade will work if you can get leverage but I was finding that the flat end of a crowbar was working as I struggled to find the downpipe.

The next day I continued after locating the U-bolt on the pipe but for the life of me was unable to find the line to the house. Only then did I admit defeat and call in the big boys.

I will say this, after doing my own backfill and starting most of the job, I did get away with $500, of what would've probably me $1500-2000, not including the $350 for the brass Bulldog.

Between the durability of the PVC pipe and the quality of today's brass plumbing fittings I bet no one's down here ever again. Concrete in the spring!

Thanks all.

Luke'sScreenName · Sep 25, 2016

daugen · Sep 25, 2016

dragoneggs said:
Beautiful pic daugen and nice job!

thanks, my neighbor just emailed me, the fireman/EMT and he said it looked a lot safer than using my garden tractor. And he thought it looked just as nice.
And I got done in much less time. But driving the Massey makes me appreciate the Kubota's almost car like drive train. Having some problems with shifting, stiffness,
trans oil level is fine, maybe still not fully broken in with 173 hours on it now. 3 of which I have now put on. Still learning a new to me tractor. Sharpened the blades on my lawn mower today and got some seat time on the JD X750 mowing about five acres. Which now that I'm not mowing roadsides with it should stay sharper much longer.

I'm amazed at all the landscaping and roadwork going on. Wells being dug.
Giant logs going here and there. Slopes being mowed that defy gravity.
There's some real talent here. :thumbsup:

The weather finally broke locally and it's way cooler outside, quite overcast, just a lovely day to be outside.
Another nice day tomorrow and then the wet returns. My woods have lakes in them. It will have dried out tomorrow enough for me to mow my fields; thanks to sandy soil. All this standing water seems to have invited in a rash of invasive weed species, growing in the low wet areas. My last seat time of the day was driving around in my golf cart squirting Trimec on the nasty weeds. While also dumping some smelly toxic stuff that kills fire ants promptly. Killed over a dozen mounds. Sure washed my hands and took a shower carefully when I got in.

PJSprog · Sep 25, 2016

Was going to finish mowing the yard today, but Mother Nature decided to drop a surprise downpour on us just as I went out. So much for that. Get to it tomorrow, I guess.

The Wife had been on her youngest son to remove a few posts here and there around the property. Been asking him since about May.

He can seem to find every excuse under the sun not to do something. Got tired of it today and went out to do it myself, since I couldn't mow anyway. Her Grandfather wasn't messing around when he buried them, using almost 3 feet deep of concrete on each one. Got two of them dug out before I decided to quit for losing daylight. Last one was making sucking noises in the deep clay, so I pulled it out with the tractor. Easy-peasy.

dragoneggs · Sep 25, 2016

With the summer burn ban lifted... I got out this evening to celebrate a Hawks win with a little brush clean up. Now time to sit on the deck and conduct a fire watch.