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Farm tools
New Carts
Sep 21, 2021
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One of the big projects this summer was to make up some new tree carts. Our old wooden ones are getting tired and I could not find any more of the metal “tree limos” that we really like using. So, what’s a farmer to do? Make our own. With a bit of pipe bending and a
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and so it goes
Jun 03, 2015
It seems the stars have recently aligned unfavorably. I had just put the mowers back together to start the summer mowing. The Cub needed a couple of minor parts to reattach the deck while the John Deere deck needed a complete overhaul. I had to weld reinforcement steel onto the dec
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Annual equipment maintenance
Oct 16, 2014
Each Fall we try to get the farm work wrapped up and get the equipment tucked away for a short winter nap. In the midst of my final mow of the property, my heavy duty John Deere rotary cutter broke. The two inch steel shaft that holds the blades on sheared right off. Yikes! as it
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Bio diesel
Sep 08, 2014
So, it seems that no one has noticed that I’ve been running the tractor on straight up soy bean oil all summer. Here’s my tank that I have stored in the barn — meaning that I have to go to the fuel station a lot less often. I got B100 from http://www.simplygreenbio
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New tool!
Jun 10, 2014
Check this baby out! I’m very excited to try out my new tractor mounted, three point hitch pallet forks. So many things around the farm are just too heavy for one person to move around very well, like that pallet of fertilizer that I just relocated. The real reason, though, i
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