What did you do to or on your Mahindra today?

[npalen]

A bit of tilling. (Last week actually)

 

[SimpleSimon]

Nice straight rows! What you planting, 'maters, melons or what there in Kansas?

 

[npalen]

This is a friend's garden where they plant melons in the strips.
I'm an old farm boy so take pride in making the rows as straight as possible. Think OCD.
I mounted the CMP Attachments 3PT tine harrow to help settle the soil behind the tiller. Seems to work fairly well in spite of the bindweed.

 

[duffer]

I am still thinking the 6 x 8 Mirrors similar to a Big Rig will work too but I am worried about too much vibrations,, we will see !
Keep us posted !

Update: Put on my 55 gal PTO sprayer and sprayed 10 acres in the last 2 days. The vibrations on the mirrors were minimal. I was running at 1600 rpm and barely noticed the vibration, and it certainly did not affect my visibility. Had one mirror on the last 2 spray nozzles on each side. Worked like a charm. No need to crank my neck around to the rear all the time.

My logic says the bigger the mirror and support structure holding it, the larger the vibration...

FWIW...

 

[Hamiltonville Farm]

 

[Molalla1]

This is a friend's garden where they plant melons in the strips.
I'm an old farm boy so take pride in making the rows as straight as possible. Think OCD.
I mounted the CMP Attachments 3PT tine harrow to help settle the soil behind the tiller. Seems to work fairly well in spite of the bindweed.

Yep, old farm boy here . . . very nice.

 

[Scrambler82]

Update: Put on my 55 gal PTO sprayer and sprayed 10 acres in the last 2 days. The vibrations on the mirrors were minimal. I was running at 1600 rpm and barely noticed the vibration, and it certainly did not affect my visibility. Had one mirror on the last 2 spray nozzles on each side. Worked like a charm. No need to crank my neck around to the rear all the time.

My logic says the bigger the mirror and support structure holding it, the larger the vibration...

FWIW...

Good to hear they aren't shaking all over the place... makes it hard to see out of... LoL !

I like your idea and IF I don't use the Mirrors I have on my '82 Jeep I might go your route.

Thanks

 

[npalen]

Update: Put on my 55 gal PTO sprayer and sprayed 10 acres in the last 2 days. The vibrations on the mirrors were minimal. I was running at 1600 rpm and barely noticed the vibration, and it certainly did not affect my visibility. Had one mirror on the last 2 spray nozzles on each side. Worked like a charm. No need to crank my neck around to the rear all the time.

My logic says the bigger the mirror and support structure holding it, the larger the vibration...

FWIW...

Nice mirrors! Can you post the Ebay link? Thanks.

 

[duffer]

Nice mirrors! Can you post the Ebay link? Thanks.

Here you go...

Pair for 87-2 Jeep Wrangler Passenger Driver Side Door Mirrors Black Manual | eBay

 

[npalen]

Thank you!

 

[JerryK]

Finished knocking down my last two trees south of my barn. Going to take the stumps out and lower this area about three feet for drainage to the south away from the barn. Have a small stack of the better logs [ 10'4" ] ready for the Sugar Maple buyer to see if he wants any of them before they get wacked up for firewood. Working on fixing up an old 1991 Cat E70B excavator that will be doing the stump duty to give my old 5035 a little rest. She has dug a lot of stumps. Glad to get this part of the project done before it got too hot, and the mosquitoes are just starting to get thick. In about a month, going to break in the new toy....

 

[JerryK]

Pulled a 3/8" wall pipe culvert out of my drive today. One that I put in years ago but was not really needed in that spot. Moving it down in front of my rock wall in an area I am going to build up with pit run gravel/clay mix and covered with Afton stone. Plan putting the culvert in tomorrow and fix up the grass on the side of the drive IF THE SKEETERS are not too bad. Supposed to be windy. Pictures are posted backwards for some reason.....

 

[Scrambler82]

Yesterday I got a few acres cut with the Brush Cutter, I have to say I love this thing.
Purchased a Country Line from Tractor Supply and thought it would work but didn't know just how well, thank you God !

 

[Hamiltonville Farm]

We got some grass cut. But it was a million degrees outside. Lol

 

[JerryK]

8 loads of pit run/clay mix yesterday and rough spread the loads in front of the barn [ whilst it was still windy enough to keep the mosquitoes away/not raining ]

 

[Hamiltonville Farm]

Put a down payment on a 2010 King Ranch F250 in Texas. I'll fly out to pick it up Friday. I've had several F250's and have wanted one with a King Ranch package for a while.

 

[Scrambler82]

8 loads of pit run/clay mix yesterday and rough spread the loads in front of the barn [ whilst it was still windy enough to keep the mosquitoes away/not raining ]

Wondering... Clay, doesn't that get muddy fast when wet, and slippery ?

Out here in SoCal, any portion of the dirt road with clay gets like an ice rink when it rains for a while.

We end up digging it out and putting in a mix of Decomposed Granite and 3/4 minus stone, sometimes we use crushed cement too.

Funny how that works out !

 

[JerryK]

Wondering... Clay, doesn't that get muddy fast when wet, and slippery ?

Out here in SoCal, any portion of the dirt road with clay gets like an ice rink when it rains for a while.

We end up digging it out and putting in a mix of Decomposed Granite and 3/4 minus stone, sometimes we use crushed cement too.

Funny how that works out !

The gravel clay mix forms a base for the crushed limestone [ we call it Afton stone up here ]. You level [ and crown ] the gravel/clay layer and pack it down some, then cover with the Afton. Any clay that does not get mixed real well with the gravel oozes up and mixes with the Afton. Once the whole shebang dries the gravel clay hardens and the Afton layer also hardens. The layer of Afton does not let any water get down into the clay mix. If you try to dig it up after that it is like digging blacktop and it comes up in slabs like blacktop. Scratching at the clay/gravel with a backhoe is a chore. You might get a little sponginess in the Spring as the frost goes out, and this is a good time to work it with a land plane if you need to. But it generally does not develop pot holes in a light driveway use.

 

[Scrambler82]

The gravel clay mix forms a base for the crushed limestone [ we call it Afton stone up here ]. You level [ and crown ] the gravel/clay layer and pack it down some, then cover with the Afton. Any clay that does not get mixed real well with the gravel oozes up and mixes with the Afton. Once the whole shebang dries the gravel clay hardens and the Afton layer also hardens. The layer of Afton does not let any water get down into the clay mix. If you try to dig it up after that it is like digging blacktop and it comes up in slabs like blacktop. Scratching at the clay/gravel with a backhoe is a chore. You might get a little sponginess in the Spring as the frost goes out, and this is a good time to work it with a land plane if you need to. But it generally does not develop pot holes in a light driveway use.

Thanks, something to keep in mind !

Afton, I will look that up, never heard the term before.

Once the road hardens after the wet season, it too is hard, in fact all the land is hard as can be and the backhoe scrapes over it.
But add some water, as in rain, and SOUP you get, sticky, slippery, muck ! Like a good Pea Soup, the spoon stands up in !
If I can get down about 10" then I can dig without a problem, and keep lifting the hard top soil from underneath; dug two LONG trenches that way, but getting to that level is where it take time, funny.

Ltr

 

[Hamiltonville Farm]

Picking up my new.to me 2010 F250 King Ranch today. Pretty excited about my new truck.