Sounds to be running smoothly. It’s good to have a day when you achieve what you set out to do. I like those green rolling hills of yours, beautiful! Regards from Down Under.
The looks like it needs plowed under and maybe grow some corn or beans on it for a couple of seasons . Maybe beans first year then corn . Disc up you stocks and replant it the third year in clover ?
It's a big sand pile, it will be no till if anything. I was supposed to cut it for hay this season but with the equipment issues I had I didn't get to it. Some 2 4d and maybe it will make some decent grass. I think if I had been able to cut it early in summer it would have been pretty good by now.
I can't quite tell but did you remove the tongue from a pull type rotary cutter bush hog and make it so it connects to only the lower 3 point arms instead? Seems the cutter does not like sharp turns at all since the rear wheels do not pivot which may have led to your recent weld job on the rear wheel. With the original long tongue the bush hog would have made gradual turns even when the tractor did a sharp turn. Connected to the 3pt though tries to force the bush hog to make a sharp turn beyond its design limits on this cutter. Seems more design tweaks may be coming in the future as in welding up the 3rd link so the bush hog can be picked up for the turns and then lowered. Or converting the rear wheels to pivot style crazy wheels. Either project would make a good video. I myself like the bush hog on the 3 point arms as the angle is such that it is very unlikely the cutter will fling objects at the operator like it can when mounted way behind yah.
Well, it was a 3 point mower that was converted to a pull type but the tounge had no pivot for up and down. So it was constantly lifting the front end of my 484. So in the interest of time I made it what we call a semi mount to make it more reasonable for rough terrain. Yes I need to make the rear wheels castor type. I have decided how to do that but haven't taken the time to do so. In honesty I need a bit bigger mower. I greatly prefer pull types anyway. It's all about money and time. Like most I am always short one or the other.
@@rivervalleyfarm482 Taking what you have and making it work is what most of us who pay our own way in the real world do. Frankly it is why I watch this channel because it is real. There are other channels where people operate with nearly new $50k or more tractors plus high dollar equipment on top of that too. Harvest 3 to 5 acres of hay and then swear to you they are making money. Well they are from RU-vid money but it ain't from the farming. They mostly pimp their scantily clad female around in the process. I do not watch those channels as it is not real.
Is the hill comment you mentioned in the video due to the TA. I know 706 and bigger do not free wheel in low side of TA like the older models did but I expect most primary design intentions were for forward gears and not reverse. In other words reverse might be a weak side and result in damage?
No I don't use the ta in reverse. A friend told me it damages something in the ta gear set. I took his word for it since he has been working on these things for 40 or more years. Reverse gears are fast on this tractor. At pto speed backing downhill even in first reverse and hitting the brakes to change to low brings the front end off the ground. Which would be manageable on a straight grade, but is no fun at all with any type of side grade to go along with it
