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Scotty; Bvance hit on a good point. The little light duty rear blades are usless in hard unscarified soil, they just aren't heavy enough to offer any penetration. A box blade with scarifiers will do two things the rear blade won't, it will loosen the soil plus along with move soil, plus the box blade is a great counterweight for your front end loader. Factory made rear weight boxes for a loader ar kind of a waste of money, spend a bit more and get a box blade instead. Far as rear blades go I had one that I traded for a landscape rake, a much more usefull tool, it won't loosen unscarified soil either, but will do a far superior job in leveling loose soil, crushed rock, move snow just as well as a blade without the sudden bang of hitting a hidden curb that a blede gives you, you may bend a tooth or two, but you won't break expensive things like blade frames, three point hitch componets, etc., not to mention your neck and back. Frank.

Kubota BX2350 BX2200 Price help
Kubota Tractors
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harvey; After the smoke cleared I ended up putting up a frame building with a conventional asphalt shingled 4/12 pitch roof, chipboard sheathing, coverd with regular vinyl siding on a concrete stem wall. When it was complete I did compute the final cost on a sq. ft. basis, but I can't find that post back, it is in here somewhere. The building did cost a bit more than a steel clad pole shed but only by the cost of the stem wall. It of course isn't quite big enough but it is going to have to do,the mrs has put a ban on futrue shed building around here, Frank.

Cost of pole shed
Barns Pole Barns
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Kleinchris; The original "Cub Farmall" tractors were built in the late fourtys into the late fiftys or early sixtys. Yes, they are kind of a baby, less than ten horsepower, but thousands of them are still in use on truck farms and nurserys. I have a 1947 model Cub that I just rebuilt, with an amazing amount of parts still available from Case/IH. They were a neat little tractor and with care it will likely run for another 60 years for someone. When John Deere brought out the 110 lawn tractors in 1963 International Harvester also developed a lawn tractor and named it the "Cub Cadet", so I guess the name just stuck. The original 110 Deere's and the first production Cadets are a collector item today. I don't own either, but am on the watch for a Deere that is still original, many of them have been modifyed with different seats, different engines, etc, so a truly original one is getting more and more rare, usually you have to buy two or three basket case types to get enough of the correct parts. Enjoy your day. Frank.

33 hp cub cadet
Cub Cadet
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Alexier; EW is correct a tiller will work fine "IF" there isn't too much trash or roots to plug it up. A mouldboard plow turns the trash and roots under to leave a fairly trash free surface. A roto tiller trys to mix whatever is on the surface with the tilled soil and leave the trash and roots on or near the surface. No disk will match a mouldboard plow when it comes to turning under trash. The plow will do the job in one pass and a disk will take lots of passes and never really eliminate the trash. A disk has a bad reputation for creating soil compaction, so another reason to not overdo it with a disk, one pass only, or two at the most in any situation. What type of seedbed is needed for planting garlic? If you need a clean trash free surface I'd suggest a moldboard plow followed by a disk to level it out. Please don't do either operation when the soil is too wet or all you will have is clods. If you haven't bought the tiller yet, maybe wait till you see if you really need one. Nothing tops a tiller far as making a superfine seedbed, but they are pittifly slow compared to a mouldboard plow, plus rocks and roots give them a hard time. Best of luck with the soil preparation, and maybe fill us in on garlic production, do you plant bulbs in the fall for spring harvest? Frank.

Ploughing advice
Operating and Attachments
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8x56mn; Murf makes a good point on the economics of your question, it is a poor investment, BUT. I'll use an example of my wife and I and her sister and her husband. Her sister and her husband both had good jobs, lived modestly and have enough asseta to do pretty much as they please. They go on two cruses per winter plus go to Alaska every summer to visit friends. I don't have any Idea what they would spend per year on travel, but that's their business. On the other hand my wife and I neither one care much for travel so our "cruse" money is spent on tools and machines that for the most part I could live without, and the wife collects artwork for the house, so either way for them or us the money is spent for the things we and they enjoy. If you would enjoy a backhoe for the Kubota and it don't put you in any financial bind, by all means buy one and enjoy it. I've had a #48 backhoe for my 4310 Deere for a long time, it probably hasn't had 100 hours of use since I bought it new, it spends 95% of it's life sitting in the shed, but when I need it, it is 10 minutes from digging a hole. Far as brands, I'm a big believer in putting a Kubota hoe on a Kubota and a Deere hoe on a Deere, they were engeneered to work together. Frank.

Kubota After market BH Backhoe
Kubota Tractors
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Somebody please explain why you would have to buy a membership to buy oil. That seems as silly as buying a Sam's Club membership to make the Waltons the richest family in the country, sorry I just won't do that. The Amzoil type thing likely has some benefit for the long haul never shut down engines, but most of us rarely warm our tractor engine enough in the winter to rid it of the water let alone the acids. The short run type use demands frequent changes just to keep the acids and water out. A friend of mine bought an 80-somrthing Ford E-150 van and ran it like 300 some thousand miles till the body fell off.
He used the cheapest oil that the Fleet Store sold that had the proper rating called for in his owners manual, but he did insist on a high quality filter. He was in the light delivery business driving two or three hundred miles daily. It just doesn't fit my type of engine use. Frank.

Amsoil Oil do you use it
Parts and Repair
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I'll toss in a little different question tbat kinda fits the thread. We have a common septic system with a 1000 gal tank and the distribution field liones. The queation is about a kitchen garbage disposal, can we have one without overloading the septic system? The Mrs. of course would like one but I've been kind of a foot dragger thinking it would cause more ferequent tank pumping. Any thoughts or experiences? Frank.

Jacuzzi Tubs Bacteria Sanitize and Septics
Home Improvement
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Cutter; I'm hoping not to show mu ignorance here but, I've heard the term "adhoc" a million times. What in the world does it mean? Frank.

Windmills for electricity
Home Improvement
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Our standard sales tax rate here in Iowa is 5% unless the point of sale is in a city or county that has a "Local Option Tax" that has been voted in by the residents of that city or county. I think the L.O.T. has to have a definete use policy before it csn be voted in, and a definite date it will expire. The last couple years I ran the furniture plant it was always a challenge to know if you charged the "LOT" on something that was built outside the tax aeria ans hauled into the tax aeria, so finally on any that were questionable I would call my cousin who is a state sales tax auditor and ask her, she kept me out of jail. Frank.

Sales Tax Question New York
Home Improvement
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Some of you my age may remember the portable feed grinders mounted on a truck that used to go from farm to farm grinding feed for livestock. The coming of the PTO powered grinder mixers in the 1960's was kind of the end of their era. On a cold winter morning you could hear the thing with it's distincive howl as it went around the neighborhood doing the grinding. It had a GM two cycle engine, the guy never shut it off between jobs, he would back up to your wagon of grain, hit the throttle and man the chickens woke up then. Frank.

OLIVER 1900 FWD
Just For Fun Off Topic
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Murf; Wow, you better keep your address a secret, otherwise a bunch of us freeloaders may show up for breakfast. My kind of eatin. Frank.

What makes Canadian bacon Canadian Bacon
Just For Fun Off Topic
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KT; Maybe being Joel claims to be a farmer he can save me a spot on the beach at Key Weat. He'll know it's me when I pull up in my new Lexus I bought with my "Hand Out". Frank.

Price of Goods to grower
Parts and Repair
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Sometine this past spring Murf gave us a report on how to grow good sod, but I can't find the thread back. Anyhow the result is after following his advice we now have a nice looking rejuvinated front yard. First I sprayed it with 2-4-D to thin out the dandeloins and othere assorted weeds. I took soil samples, applied lime and fertilizer to the spec's called for from the soil analysis. I was way short on lime, and low enough on fetil;ity that I spread twice a month apart. Since spring I've reseeded twice just before a good soaking rain,(a bit of luck there). Thanks Murf. Frank.

Turf report thanks Murf
Garden and Landscape
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We purchaed a home from a lady in another town. She has a nice looking Cub Cadet #1320 Hydro rider sitting in the garage. It shines like a new one, her son comes by and mows the lawn when needed with it. Her husband bought it before he passsed away several years ago, so she knows basicly nothing about the mower. She has offered to sell it to me if a Grandson doesn't buy it. I've searched the tractor nets and can't find a 1320 listed anywhere. Anyone have any info on them, age,horsepower, fair price? Frank.

Cub Cadet model 1320
Mowers Field and Finish
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Kangaroo; Please don't try all the jack and plank stuff, you are going to get hurt. Call a tow truck and let them pull it out correctly without damage to your tractor or worse you getting killed doing all this. Frank.

Kioti DK40SE Purchased
Kioti Tractors
Replies 29 Post by hardwood

Thanks for the responses. I have indeed been fortunate that I've never had any issues with kids I've hired getting hurt, so I count my blessings there. Even tho our farm activity is on a micro scale now I still this past summer had two neighbor teen agers and two of our grandkids for a month or more help me move my shop equipment to a new building. They all worked hard and were well paid for their efforts. I couldn't count the number of kids I've hired in the past to bale hay, shell corn, cut weeds, etc. I see a lot of them as adults with familys of their own today around the community, and they are now hiring teen agers to help out.
I had a pickup plow for a few years mainly to do my own plowing, but never did turn down neighbors who had to get out to go to work, school or whatever. It never was or was intended to be a business, so I had no fee scheduel, it was kinda fun to do so a plate of warm cookies was plenty of pay. I just looked back at how much I've spent so far this year on maintenece items alone for our lawn care equipment and it's pushing 500.00. I know the owner of the lawn care service in our new community as a coffee shop acquaintence, so I'll contact him, this seems to be the most senseable approach, I can always tell him no if his fee seems high. Frank.

Cost of mowing service
Home Improvement
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Kleinchris; Tell us more on how your Gator diesel is messed up. Does it fail to start? Is the engine worn out? Use oil/ lack power? Cold starts are hard on any engine gas or diesel but not necessarly the death of an engine. Fill us in. Frank.

Could cold weather starts have killed my Gator
Utility Vehicles UTV/ATV
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Thanks Art for bringing up the milk thing. I was pretty hot under the collar about that staement too, but didn't want to get in trouble with Dennis again over straying from a subject. Never heard anyone grumble about the high cost of beer. Frank.

Kubota B2150 Engine life in hours
Kubota Tractors
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Sorry Dennis for breaking the rules, but when someone takes a swing at me or my profession with comments that have no basis or research behind them other than unfounded emotion or jealosy of my profession I AM going to come out of my corner swinging. If anyone is interested in knowing the un biased facts about the farm subsudy program then read the farm bill, it's all there. That's the last of it from me. Frank.

Farm Sale Price Kubota B7510 and implements
Parts and Repair
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jdc; I don't know about any hydro problems but if the dealer can document it was fixed under a Deere recall program then it likely is OK. The horsepower is 20 or less, they are at the low end of compacts far as power is concerned. The loaders on even the smaller compacts are kind of amazing as to what they can do a small bite at a time, but don't be in a hurry. Will it pull a hayrack with 15-20 adults? Probably on level ground on solid dry soil, but don't get caught having to stop in a hurry, the wagon with people will weigh twice as much as your tractor. Enjoy your day. Frank.

John Deere 4100 HST
John Deere Tractors
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