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Post by swilk on Jan 11, 2021 10:47:31 GMT -5
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Post by parrothead on Jan 11, 2021 11:39:55 GMT -5
swilk did you ck into renting one?
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Post by swilk on Jan 11, 2021 12:05:56 GMT -5
Im not aware of anyone local who rents one .... I was able to get done what I wanted to get done with what I had. Not as clean of a job as a mulcher would have done but one good flood this winter and the majority of debri will be gone. Be at least a couple of years before I try and disc it because of the roots but hopefully some carefully planned "throw and grow" will work for now.
There were a handful of trees that were just too big to mow .... I cut some of them down but others were Locust so I decided to leave them stand for now and will basal spray them with remedy/diesel to hopefully kill them and all roots.
I did manage to break a plate on the cutter 3pt mount .....easily welded. About 5 gallons of fuel and 7 hours of work .... along with 12 shear bolts. Not bad.
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Post by parrothead on Jan 11, 2021 12:21:13 GMT -5
If you ever hear of someone looking for a disk let me know I have a 6ft(I believe) 3 pt hitch disk. Heavy, Heavy sucker. Not like one of those at the Tractor Supply or RK. You couldnt pick this sucker off the ground an inch.
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Post by scrub-buster on Jan 11, 2021 14:34:37 GMT -5
Looks good!
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Post by steiny on Jan 11, 2021 14:36:42 GMT -5
Looks good.
I mow stuff like that all the time. My old 7' Bush Hog brand mower looks beat to death but it's still going strong, 1.5" saplings are no problem, just go slow at high RPM's.
Have never sheared a bolt on this mower. My buddy has another brand and is constantly shearing those bolts.
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Post by esshup on Jan 11, 2021 14:40:59 GMT -5
swilk did you ck into renting one? Last time I needed one I rented one from Wakarusa Equipment Rentals. |
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Post by swilk on Jan 11, 2021 16:08:39 GMT -5
This was the first time in 10 years of owning it that I did any maintenance on the cutter .... sucked the (water) and oil glob out of the gearbox and filled with fresh. Greased the tail wheel and sharpened the blades. Its just a cheap rural kink King Kutter brand but its done all i need it to do.
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Post by steiny on Jan 13, 2021 16:11:10 GMT -5
This was the first time in 10 years of owning it that I did any maintenance on the cutter .... sucked the (water) and oil glob out of the gearbox and filled with fresh. Greased the tail wheel and sharpened the blades. Its just a cheap rural kink King Kutter brand but its done all i need it to do. I wore out a King Kutter. Grease that tail wheel every time, I've had two of them go bad, but I probably mow a lot more than most. Last year upgraded to a 12' Deere batwing which really cut my mowing time down, but I'll still keep the old 7' footer for rough work and tight quarters. |
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Post by bill9068 on Jan 13, 2021 16:45:05 GMT -5
This was the first time in 10 years of owning it that I did any maintenance on the cutter .... sucked the (water) and oil glob out of the gearbox and filled with fresh. Greased the tail wheel and sharpened the blades. Its just a cheap rural kink King Kutter brand but its done all i need it to do. Try a flail mower atrachment for your tractor. I've got a Kioti DK5510 and my flail will take trees up to 3 inches and mulch them. I forget what ounce hammers I use but they do the job. You can get a offset so you don't have to run over tree's to cut them making a pass. |
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Post by swilk on Jan 17, 2021 19:21:33 GMT -5
I think I'm done investing in anything that doesn't have "no till drill" on it's resume...if, a big if, opening more brush becomes a necessity I'll be patient and hire a guy with a mulcher.
I'm going to try broadcasting soybeans this year and depending on how that works out I might bite the bullet and buy a drill.
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Post by steiny on Jan 18, 2021 11:41:07 GMT -5
Soybeans are pretty easy to grow, you should do fine broadcasting them. Only tip I might add is to do as big of a patch as you can, because the deer tend to mow down small patches as they are growing and they will never get to maturity to make many beans.
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Post by parrothead on Jan 18, 2021 14:12:13 GMT -5
You can frost seed some clover right now.
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Post by swilk on Jan 18, 2021 19:01:29 GMT -5
Soybeans are pretty easy to grow, you should do fine broadcasting them. Only tip I might add is to do as big of a patch as you can, because the deer tend to mow down small patches as they are growing and they will never get to maturity to make many beans. Because of the likelihood of flooding the neighboring farm ground is beans just about every year....only in corn once since 2008. I plan to let his get going before putting any out with the hopes his 80 acres will take some pressure off mine. I figure if mid August comes and mine are a bust I can always go with something else. Even if mine do good, as soon as leaves begin to turn I'll broadcast some of the normal fall mixtures into it. I'm going to lean heavily on buckwheat this year with all my plots...gonna try and follow the advice of Jeff Sturgis and see how it goes. |
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