Recent content by hedgerow

After you get some seat time on that batwing and you see what it will do you will sell those other two mowers. One of the best days on this farm was when the fail mower went down the road. I had a twelve foot one and it was a maintenance night mare but I was putting a few hundred hours a year on...

The good old days. I have put thousands of hours on open station tractors farming. Back when I was getting started and was buying farms I farmed with everyone's cast offs for tractors. I couldn't afford a cab and AC. Working ground and planting in the spring with a heat houser and coveralls on...

Those type of bale forks left this farm thirty plus years ago. They like to tear the twine or wrap off the bales. Have used the spear type for years. You can buy those type of forks in my area for fifty to a hundred dollars. They do make a nice base for making a carrier. If your budget is tight...

If it were me and all I would going to use the L3902 for is pasture mowing I would sell the RCR1872 and buy a new batwing mower to use behind the M7060. You just as well sit in a nice cab to mow. I have a seven foot three point mower hanging around and the first couple summers I had my MX6000...

The old stake down style we had had no plate or name on it. There were a lot of makers of those old buzz saws. Some were local black smiths and some were national company's like dearborn and many more.

I have had a buzz saw or cordwood saw around the farm in one shape or form for forty years. Started with a staked down one ran with a flat belt and a G JD tractor. Had one on the front of a A JD tractor and several three point ones with shafts and gear boxes. The current two I have there own...

I myself would go with the heavier metal. I don't think you would bend the lighter metal lifting its the pushing moving the trailer. Years ago I bent my 3/8 steel SSQA plate pushing a fully loaded trailer up a hill to a building. Didn't have a tractor handy with a three point mover so I used the...

Those like to be for the old A-B-G John Deere tractors. Have some of them that have been on a JD A tractor since my FIL bought it new in 1950. You have your self a cheap weight set up.

I have been using some form of a loader moving trailers around on the farm for well over forty years and had hitches mounted to buckets, to forks but the best I have used and still use is one that I built thirty years ago when I got my first skid loader. Its built with a 3/8 inch SSQA plate and...

Welcome to the wonderful world of skid loaders. Haven't been around Kubota's skid steers but back in 2011 when I bought my Bobcat S-850 skid steer new ran into same issues with trying to control my tree saw. Bobcat only has a can buss signal coming out of there pin adapter. I needed twelve volt...

Didn't know they still made those new. Years ago I had one we used to move dirt away from fence lines back in the day when we used to disk fields and the dirt would build up towards the fence lines. Been no till farming for thirty five plus years now. I would do a Tempest Craigslist search and a...

Doesn't look like to good of soil. I would sure get that planted back to grass. Seen it to many times were someone cut a hill like that that wasn't going to be rocked and ended up with a huge ditch running down the fence line.

Its your money and spent it how you like but it were me I would just use the X758 you have coming to mow the pasture and lawn. Once you get it mowed down and keep it mowed the mower will handle that with no issues. Have a buddy that bought an acreage with a 5 acre pasture that hadn't been mowed...

Welcome to the forum. Out on my farm we run the engines at the rated speed to a 540 PTO RPM or 1000 PTO RPM. Tractors, combines, sprayers and such are designed to run at rated speed for hours on hours. Some tractors have a E range on the 540 PTO speed so the engine can be ran slower for 540 PTO...

This is what you need to do. My bat wing mower came from the factory with corn head grease in it. I don't think there is a gear box on this farm that has 80-90 in it any more and that includes the windmill gear boxes.