What did you do to or on your Kubota today?

[NCL4701]

It was SO ugly "before"
Will be SO much better with 200 new houses!
Time to move?

After they finish the 200 houses on the other side of the road and a different development puts up about 75 more on our side of the road, this will still be my view from my house. The houses are $450K to $700K single dwellings so at least it isn’t Section 8 apartments.

Wife and I have considered moving but so far we like it here and not much excited about starting over somewhere else.

Neighbors will be in the city but we’re statutorily protected from annexation by forestry status and we’re zoned agricultural so our new neighbors have to keep their grass 3” maximum and can’t fire a gun while we can mow the grass or not and still have friends over for an afternoon of shooting clays or a morning of hunting. They can’t park more than two cars outside of an enclosed garage on their property while I can start a scrap yard on my place if I feel like it.

Not quite sure how that’s going to mix. We’re kind of in a wait and see mode for now. In the meantime, the value of the land isn’t going anywhere but up.

 

[fried1765]

After they finish the 200 houses on the other side of the road and a different development puts up about 75 more on our side of the road, this will still be my view from my house. The houses are $450K to $700K single dwellings so at least it isn’t Section 8 apartments.

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Wife and I have considered moving but so far we like it here and not much excited about starting over somewhere else.

Neighbors will be in the city but we’re statutorily protected from annexation by forestry status and we’re zoned agricultural so our new neighbors have to keep their grass 3” maximum and can’t fire a gun while we can mow the grass or not and still have friends over for an afternoon of shooting clays or a morning of hunting. They can’t park more than two cars outside of an enclosed garage on their property while I can start a scrap yard on my place if I feel like it.

Not quite sure how that’s going to mix. We’re kind of in a wait and see mode for now. In the meantime, the value of the land isn’t going anywhere but up.

Start the scrap yard!

 

[ctfjr]

2nd I beam anchor time today. It was hot and humid - more than I wanted to work in, especially with the buggies in the woods. Forecast is for rain and if that happens the swale I have to traverse will be an impassable mud hole for days. So today was the day!

Where it's going - there is an orange / white stake just to the left of the stump:

Dig the hole with new 18" auger. It really went well until I hit 4 or 5 6-10" rocks that were bunched together - manual post hole digger pulled them out.

Position the beam

Installed with 17 bags of 60lb quick mix (had to take 2 off the pallet to keep the rears on the ground)

and done

it really is level

 

[RMS]

Used the new z421 for the first time today. It was a pleasure to mow with a machine that has b@!!s. Areas that would have bogged down the old mower didn't affect this one at all. With the 60" deck vs the old 50" combined with more power and speed, what used to take 3 hours was done in 2.

 

[D2Cat]

2nd I beam anchor time today. It was hot and humid - more than I wanted to work in, especially with the buggies in the woods. Forecast is for rain and if that happens the swale I have to traverse will be an impassable mud hole for days. So today was the day!

Where it's going - there is an orange / white stake just to the left of the stump:
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Dig the hole with new 18" auger. It really went well until I hit 4 or 5 6-10" rocks that were bunched together - manual post hole digger pulled them out.
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Position the beam
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Installed with 17 bags of 60lb quick mix (had to take 2 off the pallet to keep the rears on the ground)
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and done
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it really is level

You mean plumb?

 

[ctfjr]

You mean plumb?

That too

 

[PHPaul]

Working on a little lawn repair project. The bozos that installed a 20 foot culvert in the ditch between my front and side lawns backfilled it with ditch cleanings and called it "loam". Sand and rocks is all it has ever been, with the odd clump of clay.

Between the poor excuse for soil and the lack of depth, grass has never grown there. Heck, even WEEDS struggle to survive.

I made a pass with my 4 foot tiller and have been digging the sand/rock/crap out to a depth of about 4 inches and replacing it with fresh compost. 90% shovel and rake work. It is kicking my boo-tay.

Got out there at a little after 7am this morning, thinking to work while it was "cool". Got three bucket loads of crap removed and two bucket loads of compost spread and I'm done. About an hour and a half. It's only 73° but it's also 84% humidity which didn't help much. Of course the fact that I'm 73 years old doesn't figure in...

The good news is one or two more sessions should finish it up.

 

[WFM]

Went out to bushhog the field out back.
I hadn't touched it since May.
Every day it's been 90*+ with high humidity. Not the best weather for a obese Yankee. So plenty of orders and the shop is 70* I weld and fab and avoid the heat.
I'm not sure how the farmers do it day after day.
Give me 35* and 6" of snow any day compared to this. Easy to put on a jacket alot harder to peel the fat layer off.

 

[matt-m]

I'm no S-G-R, but putting the watering rig to good use...

 

[JLE1982]

Sprayed some bug juice to kill Japanese beetles — you should buy some Welch’s Concord grape products next time you’re shopping!

 

[rc51stierhoff]

just a little mowing (got line of storms coming shortly), turning some compost, and a couple buckets of wood…did not take long for the humidity to get the best of me swinging the maul. Should not have to water the garden this evening.

 

[Siesta Sundance]

Sprayed some bug juice to kill Japanese beetles — you should buy some Welch’s Concord grape products next time you’re shopping! View attachment 132704

Welcome sir to OTT, from S. TX.

 

[S-G-R]

I'm no S-G-R, but putting the watering rig to good use...

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I like your setup especially being able to water from the seat. I can probably take another couple of days off on my end.

 

[S-G-R]

Sprayed some bug juice to kill Japanese beetles — you should buy some Welch’s Concord grape products next time you’re shopping! View attachment 132704

Welcome!

 

[rc51stierhoff]

I'm no S-G-R, but putting the watering rig to good use...

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That looks like a slick set up…is that homemade or purchased off the shelf? Any chance you might share some pictures from a couple angles?

 

[chim]

Mowed the only green part of the yard - a strip about 3' wide next to the road. It was nearly a foot tall and everything else is still brown and crunchy.

 

[Bmyers]

Went out to the farm Saturday and mowed. Also, went through a couple cans of wasp spray, they seem to be out in full force. Sprayed to nest that formed in the tractor barn. Went by the well house there was lots of wasp there. So many that I didn't get out to try to spray, I will have to comeback another day in the early morning hours and catch them before they get active. This is the third time I have sprayed this year.

I hadn't seen any and in the last three or four weeks they are showing up every where it seems.

 

[ctfjr]

Went out to the farm Saturday and mowed. Also, went through a couple cans of wasp spray, they seem to be out in full force. Sprayed to nest that formed in the tractor barn. Went by the well house there was lots of wasp there. So many that I didn't get out to try to spray, I will have to comeback another day in the early morning hours and catch them before they get active. This is the third time I have sprayed this year.

I hadn't seen any and in the last three or four weeks they are showing up every where it seems.

In our previous house we had a large deck about 10' above ground level. The wasps apparently loved that environment as they constantly built nests under there.
On the suggestion of a friend, I sprayed a water / peppermint oil mixture under there. It worked.

After that did it 2X a year - spring and summer. No more wasps.

 

[Bmyers]

In our previous house we had a large deck about 10' above ground level. The wasps apparently loved that environment as they constantly built nests under there.
On the suggestion of a friend, I sprayed a water / peppermint oil mixture under there. It worked.

After that did it 2X a year - spring and summer. No more wasps.

Thanks for the tip!

 

[WI_Hedgehog]

If you're looking to kill wasps, spiders, mosquitoes, ants, bugs in general:

Permethrin SFR 36.8%

Read and understand the directions, mix as directed and do not get it in your water supply. Lasts 2-3 years when applied to the underside of structures. I wear a full-face respirator when applying.