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ya I have a cheap 100 dollar mower mulcher push combo that sounds like a prius going 20, lol
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Here's what me and my tractor look like in case you were wondering ....
So c'mon down to Texas and I can have you plop your backside in the seat of something and we'll go do some mowing!
TT
Now THAT'S a mower. Pretty sure you don't actually have to cut anything, the grass just keels over at the sight of it
Our main home has small front and back yards, easy to do with a little self-propelled mower. The lake place has a good sized yard leading to the lake. Looking at a small Ariens riding mower from HD. DW is all "why spend the $, I'll mow it". Now, I love DW to pieces, but I also know her. Mowing an acre just isn't her cup of tea. Think I'll be getting that mower in a month...
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Don't see any markings on it but I'd say that is a Deutsch Allis, TT. Don't see many of those around here in real farm country. (Sorry TT couldn't resist) And what a gallant figure you make on your handsome steed. Not even thinking of mowing yet winters returned here today 25. You easterners can look for it tomorrow I'd imagine. How's those feral hogs TT still a nuisance ? All we got tearing up the yard is moles.
Well Moonlit, you sure do know your tractors! Very good! Actually its just a Deutz ... the Allis part came along a little bit later.
And you're right about the real farm country up there in Illinois. I did a consulting job there for a little over a year one time and got to see some of those magnificent farms you folks have. And one thing I can tell you with no B.S., that sweet corn you guys grow is the best I've ever eaten. Wife and I enjoyed it up that way and we met a lot of super nice people.
Down where I'm at you don't see a whole lot of farming. Its mostly ranching so our tractors are used more for keeping land cleaned up than anything else. After I retired (for the third time) I was running some cattle for a while then the drought hit and feed prices went sky high and cattle prices were dropping because everybody was getting out of it and I got out of it too. All of my ponds dried up, there was no grass growing ... real mess. That part is better now.
As for the feral hogs. Man, do we ever have those! If you can imagine a two foot deep pothole, along side another pothole and that goes on and on and on .... that's what we're dealing with. Its so bad that you can only crawl through them on a 4wheeler. The devastation to the land is just incredible. And its only going to get worse. They are breeding so fast and the herds of them getting so big, that they are even moving into towns now tearing up yards and gardens. Its a serious problem.
TT
Now THAT'S a mower. Pretty sure you don't actually have to cut anything, the grass just keels over at the sight of it
Our main home has small front and back yards, easy to do with a little self-propelled mower. The lake place has a good sized yard leading to the lake. Looking at a small Ariens riding mower from HD. DW is all "why spend the $, I'll mow it". Now, I love DW to pieces, but I also know her. Mowing an acre just isn't her cup of tea. Think I'll be getting that mower in a month...
LOL, we had TWO lake houses at a little, real fine bass lake about seven miles from our house. One of them I bought as an investment.
Anyhow, I was spending so much of my time (and money) keeping those places up that it was beginning to wear on me. The kids would grudgingly come help when we begged (unless they had something better to do) and it was becoming a pain. It was nice having them and a good place for overflow company to stay or when a lot of the kids were home.
So, I gave each one of the lake houses to two of the kids and now I don't have to mess with them at all. And now that the kids own them, they've suddenly become interested in maintaining them!!!! LOL, I like to think that I'm smart!!! And I just might be. We can still use them for company or the other kids to stay at so we get full use of them - without all the work!!!
I still keep our deck boat at the boat house at one of the places ... but the bottom line is that I can go and enjoy them and don't have to do all the work any more!!
Yep, I'm smart!!!
TT
We got a Craftsman electric start self propelled mower that was probably the first one they ever built it's so old. The battery is shot and I can't find one on it anyway so the starter don't work but it starts with the slightest pull so that's just dead weight. The propulsion still works though so all I gotta do is follow it around. Wish I could teach it to steer itself through the yard. Then I could just watch it mow instead of following it around.
TT does that tractor go fast enough for me to lawn surf behind it?
TT does that tractor go fast enough for me to lawn surf behind it?
Gotta figure out which way to go for the mower. 42" is the right size, based on property. With HomeDepot there's Ariens, the 6 speed manual gets good reviews, but the auto might be simpler for DW. If I go with Lowes, the Troy-Bilt Pony doesn't look bad, supposedly no messing with a clutch though it's still some kind of manual.
I might hold my own in a trivial pursuit game but spelling is not my strong suit.
Very kind thing to say thanks, TT.
Sounds exactly like my situation from last years drought.
That's a mean situation to have to deal with, hope they never move North!!
I've had an Ariens ZTR, we have a large piece to mow, for 6 or 7 yrs. and it's alright I guess, but I would not recommend highly. I would look for a JD or Kubota. But on just an acre the Ariens might be ok. JD and Kubotas hold their value better if you would ever want to trade in.
I'm thinking a couple goats
One of our neighbors has a few free-roaming chickens in the summer.
Yes, a guys got to look all kinds of things when making decisions. But speaking as someone who has made the repairs, running down parts, and fidgeting with it for 6 yrs, I sure wish that I had bought one of those others. That said I think personally I would go for Ariens over TroyBilt they're not the company they were years ago. Now you wanna talk X Mark that's a real mower.
Easiest = ask TT to come up with the tractor. Figure if he starts out now, he'll be here by the end of Summer
My neighbors have nice toys, I have to admit. One who has been in the area for years has a decent really old tractor, takes care of some road work (it's a private road). Other neighbor two houses down just finished building their home (he's a contractor), has a nice little excavator that made short work of running a new power line to the old bunkhouse on our property (His kids got a handful of decent sized maples we needed to take down, for firewood).
Our neighbors are all super people, glad that we're doing some improvements. The prior owner was a nice guy, but not a handyman, and his brother who stayed at the lake place in the summers was not exactly held in high regard; best I can tell a lot of the work I'm doing on the bunkhouse is due to the brother having messed things up doing bad "upgrades", net the bunkhouse was allowed to become a critter house, things lived in the walls. I'm totally gutting the bunkhouse interior, new power, replacing/adding studs, new floor, ...; once that's done, with new roof supports, it'll be time to pull the tarp we put on last fall and properly recoat the roof (low slope corrugated metal -- lasts a long time but it was allowed to get in really bad shape).
The main house is decent. Some electrical needs to be debugged/updated, looks like whoever added the living/utility room didn't run the grounding properly. Incoming water is getting new pump/holding tank/filters/UV system, should take one weekend to finish.
New dock, has to be a seasonal, come out in the winter.
A few more trees to come down. Some small ones I can do, a couple of bigger dead ones, one near a power line, I'll call in a pro.
Ahh, the joys of picking up a new place
(I'm also doing a new round of staining/chinking our main home, a two story log cabin. Wifie must have thought I needed more things to do )
My neighbors have nice toys, I have to admit. One who has been in the area for years has a decent really old tractor, takes care of some road work (it's a private road). Other neighbor two houses down just finished building their home (he's a contractor), has a nice little excavator that made short work of running a new power line to the old bunkhouse on our property (His kids got a handful of decent sized maples we needed to take down, for firewood).
Our neighbors are all super people, glad that we're doing some improvements. The prior owner was a nice guy, but not a handyman, and his brother who stayed at the lake place in the summers was not exactly held in high regard; best I can tell a lot of the work I'm doing on the bunkhouse is due to the brother having messed things up doing bad "upgrades", net the bunkhouse was allowed to become a critter house, things lived in the walls. I'm totally gutting the bunkhouse interior, new power, replacing/adding studs, new floor, ...; once that's done, with new roof supports, it'll be time to pull the tarp we put on last fall and properly recoat the roof (low slope corrugated metal -- lasts a long time but it was allowed to get in really bad shape).
The main house is decent. Some electrical needs to be debugged/updated, looks like whoever added the living/utility room didn't run the grounding properly. Incoming water is getting new pump/holding tank/filters/UV system, should take one weekend to finish.
New dock, has to be a seasonal, come out in the winter.
A few more trees to come down. Some small ones I can do, a couple of bigger dead ones, one near a power line, I'll call in a pro.
Ahh, the joys of picking up a new place
(I'm also doing a new round of staining/chinking our main home, a two story log cabin. Wifie must have thought I needed more things to do
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Plus if you have TT bring up the tractor it could double as a plow for the days that it snows.
When I was younger I built a racing mower (a rider). Anyway I was doing wheelies and racing up and down the steet and once when I took off it flipped ontop of me. Some guy was walking down the sidewalk and I had the mower on top of me looking like a helicopter, bleeding in a few spots and he just walked on by. Didn't ask if I needed help or nothing. Finally got it off and patched up my body with some help from a friend. Put a wheel on the back to stop it from flipping over.
When I was younger I built a racing mower (a rider). Anyway I was doing wheelies and racing up and down the steet and once when I took off it flipped ontop of me. Some guy was walking down the sidewalk and I had the mower on top of me looking like a helicopter, bleeding in a few spots and he just walked on by. Didn't ask if I needed help or nothing. Finally got it off and patched up my body with some help from a friend. Put a wheel on the back to stop it from flipping over.
TT, what a mighty fine looking picture! Growing up on a farm, I learned to drive a tractor before a car, altho I'm sure I wouldn't remember now. There is still nothing more beautiful to me than pastures and farm land. Our farm was mostly cotton, soybeans, and wheat. Our cows were just for enjoyment, and the mean ones ended up in the freezer
I had a JD lawn tractor when I lived in Tx, but I got it used and there was always something wrong with the blade deck. It ended up with chains holding the deck at the right mowing height lol. I miss this time of year when the blue bonnets and Indian paintbrushes are blooming everywhere down there.
Biz, thank you for sharing about your sister and family. Unless you've experienced it in your own family, it's hard for others to understand the emotional tug...even tho they are where they belong. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy, but at the same time I know it's what needs to happen. The marriage is over, but that doesn't mean I forget everything that ever was there.
Moon, are you strictly cattle, or do you farm any crop on your family place?
I had a JD lawn tractor when I lived in Tx, but I got it used and there was always something wrong with the blade deck. It ended up with chains holding the deck at the right mowing height lol. I miss this time of year when the blue bonnets and Indian paintbrushes are blooming everywhere down there.
Biz, thank you for sharing about your sister and family. Unless you've experienced it in your own family, it's hard for others to understand the emotional tug...even tho they are where they belong. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy, but at the same time I know it's what needs to happen. The marriage is over, but that doesn't mean I forget everything that ever was there.
Moon, are you strictly cattle, or do you farm any crop on your family place?
5Card, I can't wear my usual Stetson when I'm mowing with the tractor and bush hog - or even wear one of my real good ball caps the old guy at the Feed Store gave me. I can fly along so fast on that tractor that my hats get blown off and then I run over them with the bush hog and all that's left is a mangled mess of cloth!
Yessir, that tractor will get up and go! It has a real simple German air cooled diesel engine in it and in High/High it moves. I wish I could get it to El Dee to work his magic on! LOL, with your genius artistic abilities and his fabulous body and engine abilities .... you can only imagine what I would end with! I'd be the talk and envy of the Coffee Shop, that's for sure!
TT
We've been leasing the tillable ground for several years now. And I am going to lease most of the pasture this year. And since this one of the most desirable areas in the country for deer hunting we usually have no problems leasing that as well. Got some new guys from Pa. for this year.
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