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Long grass tends to build up small clumps around the neck of the hammer and then continue growing on the shank until it fills up the spoon. A little woody stuff will clear them pretty quickly., so cutting perimeter stuff is great with the hammers. The Y-blades are much narrower and don’t seem to...

I wish I wish I had bookmarked the page, but looks like I have to struggle through the search AI that shows me everything EXCEPT what I asked for. Blades are pretty hard stuff and making a set might be outside my skill set and capabilities. I don’t think I have enough know how nor a forge to...

Hammers swapped for Y-Blades. What I have learned is: Hammers are better for woody weeds and trashy cutting in overgrown undergrowth, but not so great with thick pasture grasses or stringy weeds that tend to wrap around the hammers, or worse yet, around the drum. HOWEVER, they do an excellent...

The grille was just under $150. No taxes on ag equipment in Alabama, so the quoted price is what we pay. I like that design, but it also makes additional (above the grille) lighting mandatory. The headlights on the LX aren’t very bright to start with. IIRC, they’re just 1191 equivalents. I’m...

Next up, swapping the hammers for Y-blades on the flail…… Gonna recut the fields that I cut earlier and hopefully get more of the weeds under control. They look better already but I cut them with the hammers which mostly beats the grass down because the clippings fill up the hammers and hide...

Gave SUzie a nose job. (Replaced the plastic grille) After 7 years of being careful and not poking holes, I finally did it last Monday. Not even sure how, but I ordered a new grille from my local dealer yesterday and had it today. Only took about 30 minutes to install, including R&R the badge...

Been there, done that.

Found a few holes poked in the plastic grille on the LX. Darn the luck. I'm pretty careful using the grapple to make sure all the long stuff that can get me is turned crossways, but I think maybe I did it piling stuff up really high. We cleaned up nearly 3 miles of fence line that hasn't been...

The ROPS on my LX has predrilled holes about 18 inches above the fenders. I made some spacers with 1” box beam and mounted ammo boxes on both sides of the ROPS with the option of adding two more if needs dictate. I keep a 20 foot 5/16” chain and an assortment of clevises in one, and a few basic...

The problem with the Callery pear is that it’s very existence is because it’s drought, disease, and pest resistant, which makes it the perfect rootstock for grafting and so many more sensitive thornless European cultivars are grafted to the saplings to create a hardier tree for fruit. The...

Ring the trees with a machete and spray the ring with TVC, but do it before the leaves start to fall. The TVC will be moved with sap flow in both directions if it’s done while active sap flow is at its peak. Or so Mississippi State says.

More of my one-day-a-week part time job at Ms. Lucy’s yesterday. Fantastic weather with overcast skies and a steady breeze, but still pretty warm at 85F. I’m 68 years old and learned something new yesterday. The hard way. When I was a kid, we had some pear trees on the farm that produced pears...

Yesterday, my son was mowing a neighbor’s yard with their Husqvarna Z-turn and the blades suddenly stopped. He found one of the idler pulleys and a few bushiy laying on the deck, and called me in a panic. So I go get the mower and ride it over to my place and back it to my tractor shed. Popped...

A small hole could/should have been patched from the inside and a tube would be no different than the inside of a new tire. I actually prefer tubes in offroad tires that don’t need balancing. As long as it’s just a puncture and not a gash that cuts the sidewall cords, it should be reparable. It...

Your bag is a lot bigger than mine.