Recent content by johnjk

I was on tick tube duty and this guy showed up. 23 tons of 617’s or 57’s with dust. My son is learning valuable FEL skills and I now have him grading the drive.

Back in to the garage to finish them up. Pointers from this round. Each tube takes about 1.5 cotton balls shredded. I found that making a pile and then compressing to insert helps keep the cotton in the tube. Don’t try to hold on to the cotton while pulling it apart, you just compress it and...

I have 25 acres here with 11 being woods the big issues are the tree lines and the tall grass areas I don’t mow. This batch will be around 25 tubes and disbursed between the house mowed area and field where the pup is getting ticks. Will also drop some in the gardens around the house...

The cardboard degrades over time and I don’t have to go pick them back up.

Cotton is not dry. I moved it around in the sun today so I’m hoping I can assemble and deploy Monday after work

Had I been thinking I would have hit RK as well. TSC is about 30 minutes further in the opposite direction. I didn’t want to buy nuts as well since I have a ton but yeah, SAE would have been better

The wife ordered up these corrugated planters online. Some assembly required. Not bad overall. Took us about 40 min to get the first one together. The second one, well we are in a hold. Got 2 bags of washers and nuts and no screws. Each unit uses 80 screws. Hop in the car and headed to my...

Thanks. Nice catch. I will grab some when I’m in town

Greased up the deck and headed in to the swamp (aka yard) to mow. Power washed her and parked till next weekend.

I started building the tick tubes this morning. And a few lessons learned. I did a 4-1 solution. I got permethrin to make tubes for the next six years. Do the math and just mix up a quart. I will use the extra gallon jug to store the remaining solution. Get your dedicated chemical...

ABI was around 1980.00 to the door. The Land Pride is 2100 at the dealer, 4 six footers in stock. 120 is not that more expensive. Factor in shipping and wait times, with similar options (scarifiers) they are all pretty much the same cost. Im not seeing anything used in my area that is not...

So as a follow up to my question I emailed them and said I wanted to move forward with the purchase. Their response was that they no longer had the 6’ plane in stock and that was it. I guess they are not looking to build more or stay in business. I think I’ll head to my Kubota dealer and see...

Sounds similar to the issues I have where I am located. Relatively flat with little drainage. I was able to go on to the County’s property site and find topographical and soil maps for my land as well as the surrounding properties . Super useful to see where your high spots are and where water...

Anybody using ABI attachments and have any feedback on their products? Looking at a Land Plane for my driveway.

Mowed with the B1700 and gathered up all the corn plant debris from the ditch with the B3200. Time for lunch and then to wash the mud off them