Working Tractors, Tired Operator

[HeadExam 1,783]

I've mowed and edged the property, tilled the garden again, now to tackle the the trees and brush at the West entrance to the property down by the pond. I have a large steel water tank to remove there, but that's for later. I felt full of beans as you guys say when I started this morning, but right now I'm smooth knackered, trying to hydrate my old body. It was 98 today with a heat index of 108. Early I used the string trimmer and edged and mowed all the yard, then from 2 pm to 5 pm I cut small tree, vines, brambles, and saw grass. I cleared half the West driveway entrance, and after I burn out the vegetation around the tank area I will cut the rest of the brush down. Working tractors are great, but they don't operate a bow saw or a machete that's what I used on all this. But they did get me the 1/2 kilometer from the house to the West  driveway. Next I will have to cut the fields and check all the fences.

[Triumph66 1,256]

I am not only envious of your tractors but also the amount of land you got as well. It's good to see the tractors working for their keep.

[HeadExam 1,783]

I am not only envious of your tractors but also the amount of land you got as well. It's good to see the tractors working for their keep.

Thanks Andrew, its a small plot for around here. It will seem even smaller when I get it mowed and get the steers on it. I'm working on a couple gates now and waiting for cooler weather to mow. Its been between 36 and 38 Celsius here for over a week or so, with heat indexes over 39c. Its real nice to have a tractor or two for each chore, each gets a work out, but none get over worked.

[OldBuzzard 186]

Nice looking tractors.

 

Looks to me like you need a Haban Sickle-Mo in the worst way.

 

One of them would have handled that fence line in short order.

[HeadExam 1,783]

Nice looking tractors.

 

Looks to me like you need a Haban Sickle-Mo in the worst way.

 

One of them would have handled that fence line in short order.

I've debated the sickle mower, but have been drawn more toward a flail mower since I can get fairly close to the fence with the Brush Hog. Are you selling a sickle bar? The sickle bar like the brush hog would handle the saw grass in front, but behind that is small trees and thick vines, some several inches thick, spreading from tree to tree. I take a machete and hack my way in a couple of yards and start hacking everything around me, then move over and start again, the bigger stuff I use the bow saw. The area by the tank is 24 yards deep of thicket, by 30 yards long. I've encountered badgers, armadillos, possums, snakes, rats in this area, I am almost sure I also saw a wild hog, I know I smelled one, and that black hair seemed too coarse for a dog.