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Thanks for your comments. I agree emphatically with everything you're saying. The money I have to work with is only going to buy equipment near its end, and yes, I'd like to have some toys to play with. I own a 60XT skid loader, a hydraulic powered saw (turbo saw), and pretty nice heavy duty...

Dang........ And I thought I had problems keeping stuff running!! Prices this year have been more eratic than any year I can ever remember. Hopefully you'll hit a high, and wait out the lows.

I had two places aerial sprayed with some chemicals around '97 or '98.. I think they used a mixture of Tordon, Remedy, and 24D. One 80 acre place got about 90%, the other 70 acres, probably about 70%. Don't know what the difference was, it was on the same day. In any case, over the years the...

I want to live in the perfect world with lots of toys. I was looking at you tube last night. there's some good videos of track hoes tearing trees out by the roots, then using the thumb to pile them up. Pretty slick. Also saw the loader with feller wackin' em down, too. Entry price for a hoe...

A dirt contractor close to home told me the exact same thing. He has a Cat tracked loader, 965?, that will root them right out. Then I got to thinking a big wheel loader would have nearly as much mass as a dozer, plus would be easier to move between my places, which is about 3 miles. I can...

A new pipe line was put in just a couple miles from my place last summer. I was very impressed with the great job they did repairing the land when they were finished. It's as if they were never there, and when the grass sprouts, you'll never be able to tell it........... Man those guys had some...

What kind of attachment would be mounted on the front 3-pt?

Hmmmm............ I never really thought about an excavator. The land is not flat, but slopes are not an issue at all. It's central Kansas dirt, no rocks to speak of. The cedars are up to 20" at the base, hedge trees any where from 4-18" at the bottom. There's places where you can't drive...

How long does this take, and what conditions promote the growth?

I'd like to buy a machine for the following uses on my farm land in north central Kansas: Clearing cedar, locust, and osage orange (hedge) trees from pastures Cleaning up some old building sites / burying what's left Building some small ponds Building some terraces I made a list and...

Check out the help wanted listings in the High Plains Journal. There's lots of people looking for exactly what you can offer. The large agri-business companies can certainly provide opportunity for you also. You'll be a grunt for a while, but people who work hard, show up every day, and who...

I took my truck in to Orschleins, a regional farm type store, because the batteries that were purchased there seemed to be weak. They have some kind of electronic gizmo they hooked up on the terminals. It measured the voltage, temperature, and CCA, then printed out a ticket saying if the battery...

Back when we farmed (prior to 1986), we had 75 or 80 stock cows, and kept the calves a few months past weaning. We put up silage for a long time, then gradually gave it up and fed hay. Silage costs a lot to grow, and a lot to harvest and put up, and is not really easy to feed, but it does make...

"I have over $30,000 invested but must let it go due to lack of time and money to complete." Damned poor investment.

I googled for those things, and the little hand held ones are hundreds of dollars. Looks like you got a bargain.

Nice, and looks like a lot of tractor for the $$. Did the loader come with it? Seems like they've been marketing those here in the states for probably 20 or 25 years, but I don't remember ever seeing one in person.

That's almost 22 amps. I'm surprised your breaker doesn't trip. Is it in a cold place? Keep in mind a breaker is rated for only 80% of capacity, i.e., 16 continuous amps on a 20 amp breaker, and your outlet is most likely only rated for 15, unless you have a heavy duty outlet. A 12 guage cord is...

There's a couple old dump rakes sitting out in the weeds at home. Makes my rear end hurt just looking at those guys bouncing along on that steel seat.

Sounds like a lot of the slugs we have in society.

We did a bunker type space under our garage when we built the house. It's a small two car garage, 20x20, but a similar clear span space below. The main support is two W12x50 beams, with smaller beams perpindicular and an 8" slab. I'm guessing for the same $$ we could have made the garage larger...