TODAYS SEAT TIME

[xring100]

Decorated with my daughter, drove the tractor over to the church for Tract'or Treat.

My tallented wife spent the week working to bring some of the peanuts gang along

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Tractor treat, that's cool!!

Branches catch my muffler, but if they catch on it they also catch on me. This is a small 20hp 205-4 massey, great little tractor. Bought it at an auction about 18 yrs ago, my first personnally owned tractor. Have bought 3 kubotas since.

And the deer came out to watch.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Finished mowing the field tonight, cleaned off the mower for the winter. Will need to mow the yard at least one more time.

 

[sixdogs]

to quote a wise man...

your pic so reminded me of the one I posted, got a chuckle out of that.

converted the muffler to horizontal so now when I mow it's a little quieter. That big 3 cylinder simply has a bark to it,
makes the Kubota sound like a swiss watch. Of course one is open and one has a cab.

That's a nice looking installation and good looking view going down the road. Were those all factory parts?

 

[daugen]

thanks, yes, about 400 bucks for the new muffler and header pipe, plus all needed parts, and the dealer will buy back my other muffler, amount yet unknown, which they have call for, clearly since they get knocked off. I mow along a treeline plus I wanted a tractor that could go into my dense woods.
Muffler came in Agco box.

My property has frontage on two roads and I don't like going through a neighbor's farm field to get to the other side, so around the block I go, and it's a good ride, wave to the neighbors, etc. I figure since I'm going past I might as well mow the roadsides. Two neighbors have thanked me so that's my motivation. Plus this way folks can walk outside of the road and not worry about ticks, snakes, etc. County mowers come along once or twice and scalp the sides horribly. They have come behind my beautifully mowed roadsides and just scalped the grass down to the dirt. That's all they accomplished, messing up something nice. Aggravating but nothing I can do.
Someone different each time. Wonder who they hire sometimes.

 

[xring100]

Thanks the kids enjoyed it

 

[daugen]

Thanks the kids enjoyed it

I've done that a couple of times on a boat, never a tractor.
Something to look forward to!
Did you run an inverter off the tractor 12VDC or a separate gen?
might be in your pic but I missed it

 

[daugen]

spent about an hour laying down 200 pounds of Oregon annual rye on a small piece of farmland I just bought, tide me over until the Spring when I can figure
out what to do with it. Even with the rain shower yesterday, pretty dusty out there.
The seeder is a combo drop unit and aerator with star spikes going about three inches down.
After I dropped the seed, I went back over a second time and leveled it off a little better.

 

[Tinstafl]

Spent a few hours with the box blade lowering the shooting range about 20 inches and pulling the dirt to raise up the other end. Building a deck to shoot off and wanted to reduce the height of the deck some. Already had the berm but now the berm tops the hillside and the deck is only two foot off the ground instead of four.

 

[Gordon Gould]

Did some road side mowing. I only mow the road side brush once a year because of all the birds and butterflies and other critters that need or use brushy habitat for foraging and protection. But now there broods are grown and they are gone.





gg

 

[daugen]

Did some road side mowing. I only mow the road side brush once a year because of all the birds and butterflies and other critters that need or use brushy habitat for foraging and protection. But now there broods are grown and they are gone.

great pics Gordon. Growing up mowing a 30 acre field with a JD B and a bush hog, it would make me sick when I hit a turtle. Or some big bird, since all that was left was bloody feathers. They hide and hunker down I guess and obviously you don't see them until the crunch. Just a very bad feeling. Had always hoped by the time the tractor went over, pucka pucka pucka it would scare the critters away. Unfortunately they would go to the unmowed area for safety and the problem remained. Rabbits too. While they were fair game when they went after our large farm gardens, they were just poor little rabbits when you mowed them down. My father had severe hay fever allergies and we could not let the fields get tall and become pollen factories. Most years the fields were planted, but not always and then I got more seat time on that uncomfortable tractor than I wanted.

I recently moved this guy successfully out of my way here in NC. Lots of turtles here, I try to be on the lookout.

Gordon, that road looks nice either way. But unless you mow it, Mother Nature will for sure take over.
My father was always saying we had to beat the woods back, because it would come right over us if we didn't.
And it would, given a long time.

 

[dieselcrawler]

I hate it when I hit turtles also. Not often do they get spotted prior to their demise. The worst case for me was a stray cat, hunkered down in the uncut hay as I was mowing with the sickle bar cutter. Poor critter lost all 4 legs. Nearly lost my lunch on that one. That is the reason I always carry a pistol with me now, should the quick and humane dispatch of injured critters become needed. (Other reasons as well, but that one tops the list) My apologies if Ive shared that gory story before.

Doesnt bother me near as much when I see snake chunks behind me...

 

[PJSprog]

Spent a few hours with the box blade lowering the shooting range about 20 inches and pulling the dirt to raise up the other end. Building a deck to shoot off and wanted to reduce the height of the deck some. Already had the berm but now the berm tops the hillside and the deck is only two foot off the ground instead of four.

Possibly the best use for a tractor ever! :thumbsup: :tractor:

 

[Sawyer Rob]

My "seat" time today, was driving out to my deer blind with a apple box to work out of,

so I could reach high enough to put some "battens" up,

Maybe I'll find the time tomorrow to mill out the rest of the battens I need, because I ran out of them today!

SR

 

[Sawyer Rob]

Well, I milled out the rest of the battens I needed, today.

AND seeing as it was sunny today and crowding 70*! I put the apple box on the forks of my tractor,

This shows ANOTHER reason pallet forks with a grapple is superior to a dedicated grapple. Without changing anything, I can lift this apple box, lock it into place and be completely safe in the box (I can lock the hydraulics)

Anyway, I was happy to get most of the battens put up, and I really like the way they look...

There's only a few on the south side left to do now as I ran out of time to get them up, I'll deal with those another time! BUT, my blind is now weather tight on three sides, and that's most important for the two "windy" sides, west and north. That's plenty good for now!

That's it for today,

SR

 

[Jim Timber]

I found the missing choker too.

 

[daugen]

SawyerRob, that is the most amazing deer stand I have ever seen. Nice job.
And I've never heard of forks combined with a grapple. I have both, separately.
But I'm really interested in your apple box.
I have 43 fruit trees planted, and this coming Fall should be my first harvest. Now I know it will be
a few years before I might fill up something like that big box, but it sure would fit on my forks easily.
And why use the garden tractor and cart when I could use the tractor? :dance1:

plus if I had a helper, they could pick the high fruit from the apple box. Not only a container but an elevated platform.
sort of like my avatar....

 

[Sawyer Rob]

Thanks daugen,

I use my grapple pretty much daily for all kinds of things, lately I've been using it while cutting firewood...

It's perfect for holding firewood logs, while they are being cut and with much LESS metal "in the way", it means cutting more of the log while it's in the air.

It's easily one of my BEST buys!

SR

 

[2orodd]

Day 2. winching logs to make firewood

 

[Luke'sScreenName]

That is gorgeous!