What did you do to or on your Kubota today?

[S-G-R]

There was a plow furrow left between our two lots. I started leveling it last year but ran out of fill. My fence line cleanup gave me the fill and I started moving it today.

 

[mcmxi]

welp, did my last job for the plumbing company today. The company was sold and my wife (GM) will not be working for the new owner...so neither will I.

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I had a good time doing the work, very enjoyable digging for me. So, I suppose I'll need to branch out more for the mini to earn its keep.

I hae

There was a plow furrow left between our two lots. I started leveling it last year but ran out of fill. My fence line cleanup gave me the fill and I started moving it today.

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At first glance I thought you were under attack from a bunch of little Yodas. What's in the box?! I mean, what's in the sacks?

 

[fried1765]

There was a plow furrow left between our two lots. I started leveling it last year but ran out of fill. My fence line cleanup gave me the fill and I started moving it today.

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Is the wind there so cold, that you must wrap those little spruce to protect them.

 

[S-G-R]

I hae


At first glance I thought you were under attack from a bunch of little Yodas. What's in the box?! I mean, what's in the sacks?

Blue spruce. We planted them last year and the garden center suggested wrapping them for the first couple winters until the roots get established.

 

[mcmxi]

Blue spruce. We planted them last year and the garden center suggested wrapping them for the first couple winters until the roots get established.

Nice! Those will look amazing in a few years.

I typically buy a spruce in a bucket around Christmas, put it out on the deck and decorate it (outdoor Christmas tree) then plant it in the spring. I have a couple of nice ones that did well and one went from 4ft to 9ft in four or five years. We see about 12" per year of growth at the most for firs, spruce, pine, etc. What sort of growth rate do you see in your area?

I have hundreds of trees on my property, but mostly in one corner. Luckily the fir trees are quite happy and don't need my help with their agenda to re-populate the entire property.

 

[NCL4701]

welp, did my last job for the plumbing company today. The company was sold and my wife (GM) will not be working for the new owner...so neither will I.

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I had a good time doing the work, very enjoyable digging for me. So, I suppose I'll need to branch out more for the mini to earn its keep.

Will miss your pictorials of your underground plumbing adventures. Hope you pick up something at least as lucrative and interesting.

 

[S-G-R]

Nice! Those will look amazing in a few years.

I typically buy a spruce in a bucket around Christmas, put it out on the deck and decorate it (outdoor Christmas tree) then plant it in the spring. I have a couple of nice ones that did well and one went from 4ft to 9ft in four or five years. We see about 12" per year of growth at the most for firs, spruce, pine, etc. What sort of growth rate do you see in your area?

I have hundreds of trees on my property, but mostly in one corner. Luckily the fir trees are quite happy and don't need my help with their agenda to re-populate the entire property.

Average growth would be 12-18" per year. I'd love to have two rows of them all the way around the property but that isn't in the budget. My goal is to get at least a 100 trees planted a year for the next five years.

 

[Sawburner]

We have bought trees and shrubs from alphanurseries.com for a couple years and have a good survival rate. They ship bare root and have several different size plants, they do have a minimum order, we order with our two son in laws. Very reasonably priced.

 

[In Utopia]

welp, did my last job for the plumbing company today. The company was sold and my wife (GM) will not be working for the new owner...so neither will I.

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I had a good time doing the work, very enjoyable digging for me. So, I suppose I'll need to branch out more for the mini to earn its keep.

Gonna miss your posts. Always like to see how others do things.

 

[In Utopia]

For a hack, I am pretty excited about what I got done on my B2620 TLB today. I need covered storage for a variety of trailers, tractor implements, and a bunch of other stuff. Plans for a container box pole barn got derailed by a host of issues so I have backburned that project and will erect a 20x30 carport structure for a tenth of the cost of the pole barn. So I cleared a wooded section of the property to get ready for the carport. I still need to so some boxscraping to get it a bit more level and then spread some gravel.

Here is what it looked like at the start

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And this is what I ended up with

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And here is some of the in-progress shots
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I learned alot and got much faster near the end. It is impressive what one can do with a compact tractor!

Good job.

 

[Snowman7]

Average growth would be 12-18" per year. I'd love to have two rows of them all the way around the property but that isn't in the budget. My goal is to get at least a 100 trees planted a year for the next five years.

I did that starting about 15 years ago( I think ). I put in Norway spruce, 100/yr., for 5 or 6 years. Purchased from the county soil conservation district. All of our Blue Spruce in this area (Northern Michigan) are dying. They are quite large and doing well. I was attempting to block road noise more than anything. Thinking about it now it could be closer to 20 years, lol. I think Norways grow about twice as fast as Blue Spruce.

 

[S-G-R]

I did that starting about 15 years ago( I think ). I put in Norway spruce, 100/yr., for 5 or 6 years. Purchased from the county soil conservation district. All of our Blue Spruce in this area (Northern Michigan) are dying. They are quite large and doing well. I was attempting to block road noise more than anything. Thinking about it now it could be closer to 20 years, lol. I think Norways grow about twice as fast as Blue Spruce.

I don't recall exactly what variety mine are. There is an issue here as well with the blues, a fungus maybe. Apparently you can spray for it.

 

[S-G-R]

Picked up a Landpride 60" soil pulverizer from a customer tonight. We're trading some work and I'm going to use it to level our adjoining lot. The grass died off over the winter and there are a lot of ruts so I'm hoping this will do the trick.

 

[johnjk]

New toy Saturday. Time for a cup of coffee and think about the unloading

 

[fried1765]

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Never have had one.
Don't need one now.
Folks who have 'em love 'em.

 

[jyoutz]

We have bought trees and shrubs from alphanurseries.com for a couple years and have a good survival rate. They ship bare root and have several different size plants, they do have a minimum order, we order with our two son in laws. Very reasonably priced.

For people who own land, most state forestry organizations sell tree seedlings every spring. You can’t beat the price.

 

[johnjk]

Plan a worked. Storms moving in so I will play tomorrow. Had to put on the box blade for ballast but she lifted around 3” and came out without damage

 

[flyidaho]

I started my spring cleanup of the deadfall around my bike trail, logging I guess you could call it. I'll take the fat tired trailer I made for my ATV down there, and the Greenworks chain saw, and start re-stocking the woodshed for the shop's wood boiler, winter is coming!

All the little branches will be run thru the tractor's chipper, and spread on the bike trail.

 

[RCW]

Gotta get this puppy a little closer to the tractor.

Tape with “No Oil” written on it will hopefully remind me to refill the gearbox before I fire it up….

 

[S-G-R]

The pulverizer is working as expected. There is quite a bit of dead material and I raise and lower it as needed. Using the grapple to move the debris to a pile although I think manure forks or a rock bucket would be better options.