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Someone posted a tip to use a concrete mixing pan: Concrete Mixing Pan I just did the fluids on my L3800 using a pan and it worked great. Second the recommendation on SUDT2. That's what I went with and the tractor has less whine now... more Wookie and less TIE fighter if you know what I...

A grapple is very satisfying to use, it's like having your own miniature Hand Of Man to play with: YouTube : Hand of Man at Bay Area Maker Faire 2013 I went with the WR Long 48" OBG2 grapple for about $1700 and have no complaints. -- Carl

After doing more research and thinking about the long term I decided to go ahead and get a drag harrow. Picked up a Loyal 6'x8' from Tractor Supply, looking forward to playing in the dirt with it this weekend. -- Carl

Hah, consider yourself lucky that you're over 2500 miles away... or I'd be over bugging you with how-to questions all the time! :) -- Carl

That magnetic drill press is cool, I had no idea such a thing existed, thanks for sharing! -- Carl

I had a 400 pound black bear come within 30 yards of me here a week or two ago. I'm sure he'd do a fine job of tearing up the nest and eating grubs, but would leave a bunch of ticked off yellow jackets behind for us to deal with! :eek: -- Carl

Haha, one of my brothers told me the same thing and asked how many he should ship! His issue with skunks is the birds of prey that kill and eat them while sitting on his roof. :) -- Carl

How about suffocating them with exhaust from the tractor, think that would work? -- Carl

He'd be my brother-in-law-in-law, which makes him someone else's problem! :) -- Carl

I'd like to ask a fabrication "how to" question related to your pictures. I see that your bucket has holes drilled in it: how do you make the holes in something that big? I have a hand drill I can take to small stuff, and a drill press that I bring larger things to, but a bucket is too big to...

The possibility of running into yellow jackets seems like a great argument for backing into new areas with the rotary cutter. If you have to retreat, your escape path is already cleared and right in front of you. I had the presence of mind to move the tractor out of the area and shut it down...

Yeah, that's exactly my concern as we have well water. I'm going to dig out the area I treated to limit the impact, but am collecting other ideas for the future. Seems like there are two stages, gotta get all the guys guarding the outside of the hole(s), then do something to kill everything...

One of my brothers suggested a plumber's torch. I think I'd want it on the end of at least a ten foot pipe! -- Carl

Oh, good question, I never said what the quality bar was! This is more about "not looking at dirt" for a year or so while we try to establish perennial peanut. The soil is so sandy I think any kind of organic matter is going to help. Haven't done this before, so figuring it out as we go. At...

I was using my rotary cutter the other day and a band of yellow jackets objected to me disturbing the peace over their hole in the ground! :eek: Got away with only half a dozen stings. While nursing my wounds (had to explain to my wife that the first-aid advice is to use ice for pain, and...

Guys, that's a lot of great information to mull over! We're looking at doing about an acre right now to get some cover down. Going with rye because the longer term plan is to plant perennial peanut rhizomes in the spring, so it dying off then is fine. This will be more of a one time operation...

I've been having a lot of fun learning to use my tractor and implements to reclaim part of our property that looks like an abandoned super-vine research station. I found something that will smother grape vines: air potato vines. I'd like to see kudzu and air potato vines go head to head to see...

Wow, love your work. I might have to chip in on that bucket of orange paint just to see you make more stuff! -- Carl

Nice setup, congratulations! I'm working in sandy soil in Central Florida and R4s have been fine. Which canopy did you get? -- Carl

It's also the "hey, you left the brake on" sound! :) -- Carl