Awsome news Greg! My wife and I just placed a bid on a house today. I picked a heck of a week to quit sniffing glue.
Vance
Bought the farm
mkarkos those are nice horses you've got. Looks like a nice place from the picures too. It's not a whole lot warmer in Virginia I don't think but every degree helps I suppose. Summers can be quite hot but after my time in Atlanta and Texas they don't seem terrible.
Vance, there's never a good time to stop sniffing glue.
Steve, you gave me a great idea. The 3rd week of March, Plowfest 2008. Try your hand at planting crops. Refreshments provided.
C.R. you hit the nail on the head. My father in law offered up his Ford 8N with brush hog the day after we made the offer on the place. His neice and her husband have been borrowing it to mow their 2 acres for the last couple of years. He said he felt we needed it more than they did so he suggested that it was coming to our place. I don't think our riding mower (John Deere STX38) is up to the task. It would take forever to mow with that. As soon as you finished you'd have to start again.
Vance, there's never a good time to stop sniffing glue.
Steve, you gave me a great idea. The 3rd week of March, Plowfest 2008. Try your hand at planting crops. Refreshments provided.
C.R. you hit the nail on the head. My father in law offered up his Ford 8N with brush hog the day after we made the offer on the place. His neice and her husband have been borrowing it to mow their 2 acres for the last couple of years. He said he felt we needed it more than they did so he suggested that it was coming to our place. I don't think our riding mower (John Deere STX38) is up to the task. It would take forever to mow with that. As soon as you finished you'd have to start again.
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(no I don't normally wear a helmet but had to at that place. Kids always do)
Sounds like a wonderful farm you've found.
You should reconsider the riding helmet for yourself. Riding horses is dangerous, even in a ring or just trail riding. All it takes is a quick spook when you don't expect it, or a stumble.
In the past 15 years I've had three head injuries, one of which would have been fatal if not for the helmet.
Sounds like a wonderful farm you've found.
You should reconsider the riding helmet for yourself. Riding horses is dangerous, even in a ring or just trail riding. All it takes is a quick spook when you don't expect it, or a stumble.
In the past 15 years I've had three head injuries, one of which would have been fatal if not for the helmet.
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Sheee-it; you don't mow a lousy two acres with a Ford! A pasture, maybe. Paths through the woods, maybe. Give them your Deere and get yourself one with more power and a 48" or 54" deck. I used to have a 38" weenie (11 hp Murray) around my place for mowing about two acres. Increasing that deck width by ~25% and upping the horsepower by ~100% makes an amazing difference in mowing time.GregATL wrote:C.R. you hit the nail on the head. My father in law offered up his Ford 8N with brush hog the day after we made the offer on the place. His neice and her husband have been borrowing it to mow their 2 acres for the last couple of years. He said he felt we needed it more than they did so he suggested that it was coming to our place. I don't think our riding mower (John Deere STX38) is up to the task. It would take forever to mow with that. As soon as you finished you'd have to start again.
Must be a small Deere. Mine is a 32x something with an in-line three-cylinder Yanmar gas (not diesel) engine, real radiator, shaft drive, full hydro transmission and 52" deck (I think). It mows half my 6-acre lot across the street if two hours if the grass is higher than the engine cover. Much less time if I've mowed within the past six months. It handles the acre around my house in minutes, but then it will go 30mph, too.
Get a Dixie Chopper 8)
I've mowed with a kabota tractor with a pto driven mower and that was extremely quick. I think you'll be fine with the tractor listed above.
I've mowed with a kabota tractor with a pto driven mower and that was extremely quick. I think you'll be fine with the tractor listed above.
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We've confirmed with my father in law last summer that when he sells his Kubota 3430 HST we've got first shot. It has a front loader and backhoe plus a brush hog. He doesn't need it anymore and wants to get something a little smaller for gardening purposes. I think it was at my place once when you came by. He has too much equipment for 1 guy to use.tsmall07 wrote:Get a Dixie Chopper 8)
I've mowed with a kabota tractor with a pto driven mower and that was extremely quick. I think you'll be fine with the tractor listed above.
BMWCCA2 it sounds like your mower is a big step up from mine. Think 38" 12 hp belt driven and well used. It gets the job done but not in any hurry. It's been well maintained fortunately.
Thats pretty much the same tractor that I used. I absolutely loved it. We tried to get it stuck a few times and couldn't. The diff lock it has works really well. 8)GregATL wrote:We've confirmed with my father in law last summer that when he sells his Kubota 3430 HST we've got first shot. It has a front loader and backhoe plus a brush hog.tsmall07 wrote:Get a Dixie Chopper 8)
I've mowed with a kabota tractor with a pto driven mower and that was extremely quick. I think you'll be fine with the tractor listed above.