Above 1200 Sq/FT Out on Quaker Road

[Sifan]

"Pops and his 739yrs of tractor driving skills are mighty impressive. Every see someone back a 4 wheel trailer with a Farmall H in reverse wide open throttle in a straight line ?? How about two 4 wheel trailers "

Much respect, My Dad could back two 4 wheel wagons no problem, I mastered one but could never master two.

Dry soil sure takes the challenge out of tiling

 

[jblnut]

"Pops and his 739yrs of tractor driving skills are mighty impressive. Every see someone back a 4 wheel trailer with a Farmall H in reverse wide open throttle in a straight line ?? How about two 4 wheel trailers "

Much respect, My Dad could back two 4 wheel wagons no problem, I mastered one but could never master two.

Dry soil sure takes the challenge out of tiling

I can go as fast as needed with one but still struggle with two. Pushing things around with the mover on front of the skiddy however is almost too simple. Being able to maneuver with the skiddy takes the fun out of it almost

 

[cvairwerks]

Soil conditions can make pulling a cable or tile plow go fast. We were out on a job and dropped our dozer with a vibraplow and a 2000' spool of 1800 pair cable off. Less than 3 hours late, the dozer was on the trailer and we were headed for the hotel. We didn't make the splice at the 1000' mark, as that was another crew.

 

[jblnut]

Soil conditions can make pulling a cable or tile plow go fast. We were out on a job and dropped our dozer with a vibraplow and a 2000' spool of 1800 pair cable off. Less than 3 hours late, the dozer was on the trailer and we were headed for the hotel. We didn't make the splice at the 1000' mark, as that was another crew.

1800 pair cable Goodness !!! 3hrs is about as good as it gets putting that in with a dozer and vibraplow !!! That was cruising right along.

I've watch just about every tiling video on YouTube and the "pros" can put in 40-50,000' a day when doing pattern tile with 1/4 mile or longer runs. We did almost 15,000' the first day we had the plow out and we started at noon and went until just before dark with lots of short runs and starts to dig. I thought that was pretty good !! Averaging around 2,000'/hr is super awesome in my book with all the rocks and BS we deal with

 

[jblnut]

I snagged a battery out of the 884 to use on the RTK GPS Base station whilst tiling and it was low on water. I put in almost a half gallon


Off to the races !! Well ... racing around at 1.2mph is still racing I guess


That loop is getting a bit long to drag on the ground with the corn stubble but it worked ok. Per hour of use this is the most profitable piece of machinery we've ever owned. I love this thing !!


Pulling down 42" or so it really doesn't take much power. It's all about traction when you're only going 1.2mph or so.


We snuck into a wet hole in the oats field we're going to tile this fall because we were close. I got down around 70" to get though a few high spots !! The dozer was needed and I made a pass at 48" or so to break it up a bit before we made the run with the pipe going in the ground.


Looks like a small fry pan until I tell you there are 15lbs of bacon on there


10lbs of potatoes as well We went to my parents place and cooked them brunch for Mothers Day. I also made a loaf of Texas French Toast


The little dude has a mini farm setup downstairs that he works on whenever we go to their house. Lots of stuff going on. His main barn is a log cabin in built when I was in high school for some reason or another.


The corn ... and soybeans .... and oats ... and hay .... and straw .... and sometimes the cows all go into this one grain bin. I want a bin like this that can keep it all separate while in the same bin


We went to the in-laws for dinner and Leo got adventurous. He got in but couldn't get out once I put the metal rod in


I brought both lawn mowers in the shop and changed oil, sharpened blades and gave them a good going over Sunday evening. It's almost time to cut the grass for the first time this year


Both are ready to go !! The Hustler is for sale if anyone is interested. It is an awesome mower but doesn't care for my 45 degree ditches. It won't stick to the hills and I end up using the little Deere for the whole yard. I'm trying to justify a 1025r with loader, mower and tiller and I'm having a hard time doing it. We'll see what it takes to get Mama Bear's house built and see what if anything we have left over. Who knows ....


Monday morning back at it !!! The tile loop got a bit long so Pops walked along to feed it in.


There were a few runs going through hills that got a bit deep. We had to hook the dozer on almost every time it got deeper than about 52".


Plowing in another line I pre-ripped so I didn't need the dozer .... or so I thought. This one got close to 70" deep so it had to hook on anyway. Damn glad to have access to it !!


Looks like any normal beginning of a tile run ....


Pops dug the start hole and got the Tee in without issue. As soon as I stuck the plow into the end of the trench about a foot water came RUSHING out like crazy !!!


Dad says "I think we burried a rock pile there when I was a kid" Yeah no kidding !! If you look a few pictures up you'll see where I dug in pretty good with the tractor pulling through it. All the rocks trapped this water and it all came out in a hurry !! Seems like a good place to put a tile


Pssst ... hey tree !! Can you please move over ?? Gee thanks


This area rarely gets planted because it's at the bottom of a few hills and never dries out. It is going to be super nice to be able to square this field off again and get it all planted every year !!!


Tuesday morning there was frost on the ground


Pops disked the newly tiled field and I went rock picking.


It looks like the field goes into the heavens.


Sometimes I get a picture that I just stare at after it's taken. This is one of them. The dirt and cloudy sky and dust make for a neat photo.


Oh look. More rocks !!


Filling the planter up with soybeans for the last time this season


We've decided to feed the littlest calves some oats in their ration so I loaded up a wagon to bring them by my place so I didn't have to run over here all the time again. Oats makes the calves nice and shiny and they look awesome. I'll feed it to them until they get to that 700lb size or a little bigger.

 

[Sifan]

Your kids will benefit from your tilework! Last fall I ran grain cart on a field I hadn't been in for 35 years (Yeah I said 35 ) Had one gulley running across part of the field and we had to avoid unloading on the go so we didn't damage the combine unloading auger on the side of the grain cart. Also had two low spots I didn't remember. Talked to 85 y/o brother in law about it and he said about 25 years ago utility company buried a pipeline across the farm north of him. In the process, they busted up the clay tile lines on neighbors farm. Instead of running out tile line, now surface run off neighbors farm through his farm. Says he should have tiled 20 years ago. Just a little run off year after year after year after year ...

 

[Bears Fan]

Just got caught up on your thread! Looks like you guys are having a good ole' time out there, your probably sleeping good at night

 

[drivesitfar]

so you found DAD'S 50+ year old pile of rocks?

nice that you had some good dietary food at your parents.

always nice checking in on you and love the family pics almost as much as all the shop and farming ones.

SO when you get done tiling your property are you planning on buying all the wet property in your area or offering your services to those farmers and developers that need tile?

hope you had a fun weekend (now back to work!!!).

 

[jblnut]

Your kids will benefit from your tilework! Last fall I ran grain cart on a field I hadn't been in for 35 years (Yeah I said 35 ) Had one gulley running across part of the field and we had to avoid unloading on the go so we didn't damage the combine unloading auger on the side of the grain cart. Also had two low spots I didn't remember. Talked to 85 y/o brother in law about it and he said about 25 years ago utility company buried a pipeline across the farm north of him. In the process, they busted up the clay tile lines on neighbors farm. Instead of running out tile line, now surface run off neighbors farm through his farm. Says he should have tiled 20 years ago. Just a little run off year after year after year after year ...

This tile is something that will cost a fair bit up front BUT will pay dividends for decades if we put it in correctly.

An inlet and a couple perpendicular laterals at the property line sounds like it'd work wonders for the BIL to get that water underground again. Or dig the clay up and replace with some new plastic in the damaged area. Utility companies don't care about anything they can't find with their detector deals I'd imagine

Just got caught up on your thread! Looks like you guys are having a good ole' time out there, you're probably sleeping good at night

Sleeping good at night indeed. Unless I fall asleep in the chair in the shoffice that I'm sitting in right now

so you found DAD'S 50+ year old pile of rocks?

nice that you had some good dietary food at your parents.

always nice checking in on you and love the family pics almost as much as all the shop and farming ones.

SO when you get done tiling your property are you planning on buying all the wet property in your area or offering your services to those farmers and developers that need tile?

hope you had a fun weekend (now back to work!!!).

Big huge old rock/junk pile I guess. Literally everything used to get buried back in the day. There wasn't really a scrap metal market yet so down it went, back into the soil.

Good dietary food lol. Bacon, french toast and potatoes are about as good as it gets !!!

I'd love to have a chance at buying the property in the area but I don't know when it'll become available if it will at all. Once we get done with our own ground I absolutely plan to advertise that we can do custom tiling !! Need some put in the back yard ?? It'd be a few weeks trip out there with the tractors but it'd be an adventure

We had tons of fun over the weekend !!!

 

[jblnut]

I mixed a couple loads of feed and filled the little calf feed bin up to the TIPPY TOP !!!

A fellow GJ member and his family came up to hang out on Sunday. I met him way back in the day while buying a wheel bearing and a set of cross-lace rims for my Grand Prix in an Applebees parking lot. Oh the simpler days of hanging out on www.MNCLUBGP.com. After the guy that hosted the site skipped town with the database and never looked back we both made this our new online home and haven't looked back !!! Apparently rocks are "desirable" down in the Southern Twin Cities

Lily says "Just let Dad load them. The skid loader will have them scooped up in 2 seconds duh!!" Oh silly Lily. Apparently some rocks were "more desirable" than others. They all look like rocks to me

I told him about the crazy wild granite boneyard where Mama Bear works and he wanted to go look. We ended up almost overloading the trailer he brought with and his Suburban was hanging pretty low once all the granite was in it. We snagged a few pieces as well and loaded them into the Mama Bearmobile.

They are a tad long for what I want to do with them BUT they are almost exactly twice as long as needed so ....

A couple gentle smacks and then a good WACK and apart they come, right in half

They made some really nice benches. This is a rainbow color granite of sorts and I think it looks really neat !!!

I drag a chair out here often in the evenings so now I'll have a place to sit and drink beer without dragging chairs around

 

[djones1a]

You can never have too many places to drink beer. Lol Well done, looks nice!

 

[XJSuperman]

Are the pieces of your new benches heavy enough they stick together pretty well, or do you need to drill them and insert rebar to hold them together better?

 

[jblnut]

You can never have too many places to drink beer. Lol Well done, looks nice!

I couldn't agree more !!!

Are the pieces of your new benches heavy enough they stick together pretty well, or do you need to drill them and insert rebar to hold them together better?

They have held up well the last few night after a couple good rounds of beers being consumed so I think they'll be okay ?? I was going to buy a couple tubes of epoxy to set them together long term once we decide this is where they will be. The seat pieces were a struggle for Mama Bear and I to put in place so they'll only be heavier once they're glued together

 

[jblnut]

My dirtwork guy Chris brought a load of crushed granite stuff out to put in the areas that keep washing out by the shop. It's spendy stuff at $240/load but it seems nice so far.


It looks very different than the crushed concrete that is everywhere else. I like it !!

 

[jblnut]

Hey look !! Mama Bear's house stuff is starting to show up !!!


Looks like a lawnmower on steroids has shown up !!!


A neighbor has a 1026r and found out I was looking at buying a little subcompact tractor and volunteered his to me for a day to see what I thought. They use this thing for TONS of stuff as is evident by the 2,000+ hrs on it !!!


Dropped the bucket off and started tiller'ing.


The littles were tasked with filling up the bucket with rocks and they did an awesome job of that !!!


Everything to be planted has been tiller'ed !!


I did two passes down the waterway that keeps washing out to hopefully get it seeded again. Whoo hoo !!


Before lunch I started raking all the rocks and clods and unwanteds down the hill. What an insane amount of work a nice looking patch of grass is turning out to be !!!


What a handy little lawnmower this is proving to be .... this little demo may well end up costing me well over $20k. Grrrrrr ......


We all went to a wedding reception last night and the littles all were crabby so it was NAP TIME !!!


I thought it'd be a good idea to put down some straw mat stuff to help keep the erosion to a minimum. Should work ......


Oats and a Kentucky Bluegrass mix planted together. Hopefully it turns out well ....

 

[jollygreengiant]

Those little tractors are handy for doing so many jobs. In your case though I wonder if, were you to buy one, a series 3 or 4 tractor would be better? Then you could use it for light farm work as well.

 

[XJSuperman]

Gotta love those little SCUTs but I would have guessed with your new skiddy you could do anything that 1026 can do? And if not, one of your larger tractors? Maybe @jollygreengiant has a point with his 3-4 series comment too.

If your weather is anything like mine has been for the last 2 weeks, you'll have grass growing up by tomorrow!

 

[jblnut]

Those little tractors are handy for doing so many jobs. In your case though I wonder if, were you to buy one, a series 3 or 4 tractor would be better? Then you could use it for light farm work as well.

I'd primarily be looking at this as an oversized lawn mower so the little 1-series is already more than I think I need as far as a lawn mower goes. That being said .... the larger physical size of the 2, 3 or 4 series would be nice on a tiller and loader. I thought the loader on this 1026r would be a worthless deal but it proved to be SUPER handy for the little bit I did use it. It's a roughly $4,000 option so I don't really know if I'm going to be adding that on or not yet. For $4,000 I think it's too handy to pass up considering it'll save lots of hours on the skiddy around the yard.

Gotta love those little SCUTs but I would have guessed with your new skiddy you could do anything that 1026 can do? And if not, one of your larger tractors? Maybe @jollygreengiant has a point with his 3-4 series comment too.

If your weather is anything like mine has been for the last 2 weeks, you'll have grass growing up by tomorrow!

The new skiddy weighs 8,300lbs and the 1026r weighs around 1,450lbs so it can go all over the yard almost without making a track. I dunno. So yes, the new skiddy can certainly to WAY more than the little tractor but they are still different enough that I'm actively trying to talk myself into spending $23,000 for the tractor, loader, mower deck and tiller. Yikes !!!

 

[drivesitfar]

It’s easy to find ways to buy more good tools but wondering if buying a nice used one might work just as well since more than a few funds are finding your new digs?

love all the pics and I tried hitting the like button on your last post but not sure that’s what works best for us.

saying a prayer for good growing weather and some luck too cause I bet you can never get enough of that.

 

[WheelsNT]

If you just have to have green, I get that…. But if not, give Kubota a look.

 

[jblnut]

It’s easy to find ways to buy more good tools but wondering if buying a nice used one might work just as well since more than a few funds are finding your new digs?

love all the pics and I tried hitting the like button on your last post but not sure that’s what works best for us.

saying a prayer for good growing weather and some luck too cause I bet you can never get enough of that.

I've been watching good used little 1025r's and when all is said and done I could save $3,000 - $4,000 buying a used one vs a new one. That is a decent chunk of change but the peace of mind of buying a new tractor vs a used one is more than worth it in my eyes.

Thank you for the well wishes !!!

If you just have to have green, I get that…. But if not, give Kubota a look.

Up here a comparable Kubota is a few thousand more $$$$ so I think I'll stay green I guess. I am not color loyal other than to the color of money ... which is also green I guess lol.

 

[drivesitfar]

I certainly hear you on buying a NEW ONE and not buying a used (like new one) that might have some issues or painted yellow under that green. if you are planning on keeping it for a long time i'm certain it will pay for itself seeing as how you use everything to make more green.

I forgot to mention when you posted about your friend checking out your rocks that YES some rocks are definitely better than others. speaking of rocks those granite benches look like a nice upgrade and a good place to park your **** after a hard day's work.

lastly have you regained all your taste and smell and are you back to 100% after your Covid? also did any of your family catch it?

cheers!!

 

[jblnut]

I certainly hear you on buying a NEW ONE and not buying a used (like new one) that might have some issues or painted yellow under that green. if you are planning on keeping it for a long time I'm certain it will pay for itself seeing as how you use everything to make more green.

I forgot to mention when you posted about your friend checking out your rocks that YES some rocks are definitely better than others. speaking of rocks those granite benches look like a nice upgrade and a good place to park your **** after a hard day's work.

lastly have you regained all your taste and smell and are you back to 100% after your Covid? also did any of your family catch it?

cheers!!

Even after a few weeks and having demo'd one I still cannot get it right in my head that spending $20k+ on a lawnmower is a good idea lol

I know rocks have value but it baffles me that people would pay for them. I love the benches !!! A few beers have been consumed on them already. So far they've been well worth the $8 or so I have in them.

Taste and smell were only gone for a few days. I think the brain fog stuck around for over a month though. That seems to be gone, or I've learned to deal with it lol. My Mother, Father, Sister and her husband all had it at the same time basically. No on in our household got it other than me though thank goodness !!!

 

[jblnut]

Oh boy oh boy !! There is going to be another manure storage structure built here this summer !!! I applied for a program that provides financial assistance to young farmers for projects that help reduce the environmental impact of storing manure on the property and just got word that I qualified !! I've applied the last three years and didn't make the cut. This year my NRCS guy Lee suggested I plant 1.3 acres of "pollinators" around the chicken barn, new stacking slab and behind the shop to help my chances. It must have worked because I qualified this time !! This is going to be insanely handy as the manure will be stored right outside the barn under a roof so I won't have to drag it across the yard and lose a bunch when it shakes out of the barn cleaning machine I've got. Plus the pollinators are an awesome thing to help keep bees and other insects. Without them we couldn't grow crops.




For the time being we’ll put the little grain bin right here to get it out of the way until we turn it into a gazebo to be placed where the old house is now.





Filling up another tote of water to put inside the bin to hold it down once it’s moved to it’s new home for now.





We plan to go camping in the next few weeks so Pops and I dug out the camper from the lean-to. Looks like the cold this winter cracked the flooring. Grrrrr ……





Friday was the last day of the 2020-2021 school year and they had the weekly Mass outside so Mama Bear and I went to hang out with the littles at Mass. We all had fun once it was over lol





This dirt was dug out when I cleaned out the little ditch here and I decided it was time to give it a new home around the house pad.





I very much enjoy everything about this S300. This thing is a beast !!




That’s a fairly large load of dirt for the little 884 !!!





Six loads moved and it started to drip so I didn’t get it leveled out. I’ll take the rain instead in a heartbeat !!!





Saturday we cleaned out the chicken barn. I put some foamy stuff in the cool cell to help clean it off and remove any scale that developed. It made a HUGE foamy pile on the ground. I don’t know why I didn’t take a picture of it but it was at least 5’ from the barn and came up almost a foot into the cool cell.





“Cleaning Poop” hahahahahahaha.





I’m usually the one that runs the wall cleaning blade I built but Pops did it this time so I got to see how it worked. From outside the cab it’s apparent that a few tweaks need to happen to make it a little more robust.







We finished Saturday off by hauling a couple loads of corn and filling my hopper bin. You can see part of my collection of stuff from this angle. Anyone need a couch on wheels ??

 

[jblnut]

What an insanely tolerant cat Missy is. He lets Leo carry him all over like this lol


It's not what you know .... it's who you know ....


and we know a guy named Joe ....


Joe works at the same place as Mama Bear and he travels the country working on specialty granite projects. Turns out he likes Busch Light and heard we were putting this GIANT piece of granite in our shower and wanted to help square it up for us. 39yrs of experience yielding an angle grinder led him to square this up in under an hour and it was almost perfect. "Perfect is good enough" he kept hollering lol.


He engraved the little peoples names (mostly) into the bottom of the slab while we drank LOTS of Busch Latte's. Mmmmmm .... way better than Grain Belt !!!


Next up was to drill some 7/8" holes so I can epoxy some 3/4" threaded rods in when the time comes.


One hole drilled to around 10" deep .... on to the next !!!


Both holes are drilled !! Miss Lily approves !!


And we realized Leo hadn't been heard from in a little while ....


What are those silly girls doing ?!?!


Oh. They are making a skid loader bucket camp fire to sit around. What a good idea !!!

 

[Bob Heine]

Mike, five years sure flies by fast....

My 3yr old helped me drive the Lull while the 1yr old guarded my bucket.

Oh look what I've spotted out in the wild. Is it? Yes it is!!! A fellow Garage Journal member holding my blocks down. The little rascals tried to float away a few times so he took it upon himself to make sure it didn't happen again Also appears the little supervisors are "helping" again.

 

[jblnut]

Mike, five years sure flies by fast....

You know it does ..... As I walk around and look at what we have going on out here with the feverish pace of building and everything that follows with it I sometimes wonder .... nothing in particular .... I just wonder .... and think .... and give thanks for what we've done and where we're going .....

The littles are getting HUGE OMG !!! Leo is going to be 4 this coming week. FOUR !!! WTF !?!?!?! The littles are awesome and wonderful and stressful and good grief time consuming but I love every minute of it. We spent last night in the camper ... in the shop lol. The girls had an absolute blast. "Can we do this all the time" Alyssa asks. Gosh I love you little people !!! I slept on the couch upstairs because "You snore too loud Dad, sleep somewhere else" they said.

We have a new house planned this year and I plan to build another manure storage facility and then I think we'll be done building things for a while. Well ... mostly. I'd like a nicer cattle handling area and a 12-15,000bu grain bin would be AMAZING but we shall see. I think 2022 will be a rest year. Maybe 2023 as well. Time will tell. Eventually the field will be full and I'll have to stop building lol.

 

[jblnut]

Once I filled that tote of water I thought it'd be a shame for it to get rained on .....


So we moved the little grain bin Mama Bear wants to turn into a gazebo one day and placed it over the tote. Lol.

 

[XJSuperman]

I saw that Grainbelt comment.....I'm pretty sure they'd kick you out of Minnesota if a native read that.

The grainbin gazebo is growing in popularity very quick. Esp down here where there are so many small bins that were damaged by the derecho last year. I think a friend is looking to build one this summer, and my uncle wants one too. There are a few around the area that are really well done.

 

[jeepxj]

my corn is coming in nicely. bunch 15 hour days in the 4wd. untold hours troubleshooting RTK. but they're in and up

 

[DennisK]

my corn is coming in nicely. bunch 15 hour days in the 4wd. untold hours troubleshooting RTK. but they're in and up

You need to space your sweetcorn about 6.3 inches to give a pop. about 32k an ac. 4.3in will give 56k acre bean spacing. 30 in rows.

 

[XJSuperman]

my corn is coming in nicely. bunch 15 hour days in the 4wd. untold hours troubleshooting RTK. but they're in and up

Been fighting RTK and activations myself this morning. I'm on my 5th receiver now. Kinda nice having a giant rack of them to choose from when one is being tempermental.

 

[jeepxj]

Been fighting RTK and activations myself this morning. I'm on my 5th receiver now. Kinda nice having a giant rack of them to choose from when one is being tempermental.

look at mr money bags over here with his rack of receivers. /s

 

[XJSuperman]

look at mr money bags over here with his rack of receivers. /s

Perks of working for the company that makes them, I get to play with all the toys before they get released to you. When theres a software issue I get sent to test it out. Suppose I should have clarified I don't own them lol.

 

[jeepxj]

Perks of working for the company that makes them, I get to play with all the toys before they get released to you. When theres a software issue I get sent to test it out. Suppose I should have clarified I don't own them lol.

ohh right i forgot you worked there. do you work in that specific division?

 

[jblnut]

I saw that Grainbelt comment.....I'm pretty sure they'd kick you out of Minnesota if a native read that.

The grainbin gazebo is growing in popularity very quick. Esp down here where there are so many small bins that were damaged by the derecho last year. I think a friend is looking to build one this summer, and my uncle wants one too. There are a few around the area that are really well done.

I read this morning Minnesota's new state zoo was going to open soon .... as soon as the fence around Iowa was completed that is :+)

This grain bin was damaged by a winter storm a few years back. Nothing major .... just a big dent in the roof from where a skid loader bucket smacked it when I was pushing snow around it lol.

my corn is coming in nicely. bunch 15 hour days in the 4wd. untold hours troubleshooting RTK. but they're in and up

I could ship you some ************ and then they'd REALLY grow

You need to space your sweetcorn about 6.3 inches to give a pop. about 32k an ac. 4.3in will give 56k acre bean spacing. 30 in rows.

I have a coworker that told me a few days back his wife was bragging that she planted the sweet corn without him this year. Come to find out she spread it with a grass spreader and raked it in. He said it's all up and looks nice but is scattered around like crazy lol.

Been fighting RTK and activations myself this morning. I'm on my 5th receiver now. Kinda nice having a giant rack of them to choose from when one is being tempermental.

Pssst ..... if you wanted to send a few this way along with a couple monitors I could do more testing for you

 

[jblnut]

Good grief when did this happen !?!?!?!? He's turned into a giant !!!


Dirtwork guys showed up in full force with a "little" excavator to dig the footings for the house. It's a baby little 315 Cat. They had a 328 Cat out here last fall and they have a 365C in the fleet as well. That thing is a MONSTER !!!


I got to help unload and place a pair of brand new Lely A5 Milking Robots today !!


I carried them into the barn with the New Holland LS190 skiddy we have at work.


Robot in and set, scale installed and the area is blocked off again. We'll go back in a few weeks and start the actual install to get it running.


When I got home this afternoon they had the footings dug and were working on the water lines and the 8" solid pipe for an outdoor wood boiler one day.


They sure made a mess of that nice flat pad they made last fall !!!

 

[davo727]

Is your area too cleared out for bears? Wondering if frying 15 pounds of bacon is enough to bring one around?

 

[jeepxj]

isnt it amazing how small the bucket looks as the machines go up in size? then you realize its basically a 2.5t dump truck bed scooping each time.

 

[drivesitfar]

Best of luck with the new home build!!

fields starting to green up yet?