Mowing Mud and Drainage Discussion 

I have found thru experience when you are having a really wet Spring let the grass grow! It's easier to tackle high grass when dry then medium grass when wet... Great way to test the floatation of those dual tires though!!! Thanks Tim!

I’d probably let that area go regardless of wether it needed mowing or not 😂. That areas pretty much trashed now.

Always keep that clean y'all do a great job together.

Love the attitude and perspective of “unique opportunity” with the new property. You all certainly have the equipment and opportunity to control the water👍

Great video! Really enjoyed you showing the ease of putting duals on. Thank you! Can’t wait to show my boss, if he hasn’t watched it already.

Nothing wrong with putting the grass on the road. You did clean it up. Most people don’t clean it up. Nice job.

Really wet here in upstate NY also. The 2nd 1/2 of last summer was really wet also, to the point people were mowing wet saturated yards, and tracking them up with the mower wheels. Raining all day today🙃 We really need an entire week without rain. Hopefully Mother Nature will ease up on the constant rain a bit. Keep up the great work on the videos Tim, really enjoy watching them. God Bless you & your family.

Ahh! That beautiful ventrac. I love that machine particularly with the dual wheels on.

Nice video showing what the Ventrac can do. This has been the wettest spring in a long time. There are a few wet spots in my lawn that I started to sink And leave ruts. I just continued on And left it until it dries out due to it being more work to fix later. This is the first time I wish I had duels. I was so happy to see you go back And blow the grass you put on the road back into your lawn. Drives me nuts when people blow grass on the road And leave it there. That's a dangerous situation for anyone on a motorcycle. Looking forward to your drainage videos. I have to do something by this fall on my broken field tiles, Cant handle it anymore.

I sit on a bucket all the time,it’s my go to wrenching seat. Love the videos Tim and family 😀

Tim, Plant some CATTAIL in that low area 👍 it'll give you a maintenance free section of lawn and reduce your mow time.😊

I love u guys!!! also I love seeing u guys mow because it looks really fun!

Good stuff, plenty of food for thought!!!!

Nice projects to pursue! That Ventrac has proven itself a worthy piece of machinery!

Awesome video thank

Very good video , I am really glad you mentioned motorcycles and grass clippings in the road , especially when there wet , it makes for a very dangerous situation.. Ty for that shout out ..

Great video!

That thing is a beast on mowing. Sure beats my Simplicity zero turn.

Tim you will get it figured out. Thanks for video's

Nice video tim and kristie it will be a lot of work in the garden, but your ideas are good and you have a lot of machines for the job ,and a lot of video, s for us too 👍👍

Also, as a motorcycle enthuse just I'm loving the clips being moved, thank you.

Finally! The real Tim comes out! That last blooper made my day! Been there, done that!

I am looking forward to this series as I just bought 5 acres to build on and this will help,with some of my future decisions. Good luck with the project.

Thank you for cleaning the road!

Can't wait to retire, by a nice place and purchase this tractor. WOW!

What a mess. Thankfully you have the right equipment and attitude to solve the problem. I look forward to seeing how you tackle this one. Personally, I'd try to solve the problem without involving your neighbor. That could turn into a bigger mess than the one you have now.

Fun is definitely the best way to think about it mate

Great video! it has been an exceptionally wet Spring in many countries this year.. . I think I would wait another spring and see if the problem continue.

You have a beautiful piece of property, it has been and will continue to be interesting watching you make it nicer... if only we could get a break from the rain.

Amazing video! Keep it up!

Wow - you bought right across the road from my grandparents’ house. I practically grew up there we were there so much. It’s the little white farmhouse with the big white metal barn behind it. Unfortunately my grandparents passed away 10 years ago, but I spent many hours picking up rocks and cutting down horse weed in the field. Along with riding on the fender of their Farmall and in the cab of the 1586.

Love the video

Great area for another dam! 😉

Tim, this looked like y’all had so much fun getting to go muddin and be productive getting the yard mowed. My yard is looking like this right now with all the rain but I don’t think I will do the muddin right now

Love your vids keep up the good work

The Ventrac is an awesome piece of equipment! Sounds like you have some “job security” dealing with this properties issues...nothing you guys can’t handle. Good luck, it will provide more experience that will be useful for your channel.

Tim, you have so much stuff to do there and a lot of equipment. You could have a Tractor Time with Tim Tractor School. Teach homeowners how to use and maintain their equipment and property. And I am with ya on the nap. 👍

Tim Christi lots of work you but we will enjoy watching thank you God Bless PaK

Hi Tim. . . Love the videos!

Cool deal 👍

Tim, When you first introduced us to the Ventrac I was skeptical but after watching what you and Christy have been able to accomplish with it I'm amazed. That's one heck of a machine. I recently noticed that a local municipality has one in operation and they really are interesting. My wife and I were driving by and I told her I saw that on Tractor Time With Tim. Keep up the good work guys.

This thing is friggen incredible I cant beloved it keeps going through some of that

Your gonna need a big case two fix drainage problems. Cant wait to see this drainage getting fixed

Looks like the solution is right in front of you, dig the pond out a lot ! Mine is around 40 feet wide and I made it 12 ft deep . Then drain your lawn water to the pond . See if they will trade Casey for a bulldozer. Take the extra dirt and raise your low spots . I know you guys will have it figured out one way or another looking forward to seeing how you do it 😜

Great video as always! Happy Mother's Day christy! Your #1 fan from nj Carmine

I too live in a flood area and it can get scary as the water gets near your house. My tractor saved us this year when I finally in the worst of a storm, dug a swell across our dirt road. Luckily I have great neighbors that understood the situation and didn’t complain. Heck I’m the one that maintains it anyway. 😂

Look at the tracks it makes in the yard omg..

The term for "clamps" that tighten the duals onto the inner wheels is "collet". Not a whatcha-m-callet, but a collet. ;-) That looks like tall fescue grass, suggest cutting taller. It really likes to be at 4" to 4 1/2". Even if it makes hay, I would avoid cutting when that wet, you risk mold damage and brown spot.

Love this channel

Hi Tim you guy's got your work all cut out for this summer. I think Kirsty having fun on Vinnie.😊😊😊

Tim, you could fix that drainage problem in a few hours with just a box blade... It makes shallow ditches real quickly once you learn how to adjust it. You don't need to shave off much to get all that culvert pipe water to go around the edge of your property and right into that farm field... Good Luck!

Its the same if not worse here in southern Mi. Had to get my flat bed trailer out to put the tractor on to till my sisters garden and dang near buried the truck in the yard. Now I got I got huge ruts to repair. Rained on and off all weekend here and its raining as I type this.

Nice job wrecking the yard

Tim, what you really need to solve all these problems is a small dozer. Case makes a nice one called a 450. You can use your magnet laser reader on the side of the blade. Additionally it will make recutting your ditches and grading easy and fast! We do those kind of projects all the time and it’s usually a two day deal for a project that size.

The same company you bought that rig from sells a rear discharge deck. It has a special set up to keep it from coming up on the operator and is perfect for cutting close to the roadways. Call your local dealer.

Tim and Christy, After you dig out the pond, consider taking the hump and placing around the edge of the pond, sloping it out to a drain tile almost like a French drain around pond. This would help you shed some of the water to a collection point, but also increase depth of pond.

If i had a property like yours i ll be the luckiest man in the world water or drains you are able to fix it and tim i am glad to folow you on you tube.whish you all of luck on your upcoming projekts

I'm really looking forward to seeing what you do. I'm struggling with my own drainage problem, but not nearly as severe as yours. I think I fixed a good chunk of it and posted a photo of the drainage I put in on GTT. I still have to solve sitting water on the lot next to me, but I don't want to mess with it until I see what the state does about draining the road that floods out front. The road flooding comes through that lot and my property so without seeing what the state does, I think I'd be wasting my time.

I feel you pain Tim, the middle of our field gets flooded with all the rain we have and it looked almost as bad as yours. Plus I only have Johnny to mow it so he got a muddy mess all over him. Had to give him a bath afterwards.

I love ventrac mowers

For the ditch I'd just leave it in float. Works fantastic on my ditches which are severely sloped (hard to tell from video). As far as the discharge, I use the 72" rear discharge deck to avoid the whole problem of which side to mow on. That wet area? Maybe plant some pampass grass (or fountain grass). Mow it once in the spring and leave it go all year. Looks great in winter.

You doing a good job with a vented event today and you got to keep those drains clean though.

Tim what I see with the drainage that might be one of many options is getting a concrete drain culvert for that culvert at the road to drain into to pipe the water to the pond with a water gate valve and on hot days pump the pond down so the pond has the ability to hold the excess water from potentially washing your driveway out

Tim, wow that’s seemed like a tuff mow. And a part of me is sorry that you have to preemptively explain your approach to adverse conditions. You do a great job explaining your reasoning and hope people that Monday are morning quarterbacks understand this and refrain for negative comments and or rating. Again, thanks for showing real world challenges and solutions as most of us face them on a regular basis. Keep up the great work and God bless.

A good rule of thumb is if ducks fly away don't drive into the area. Yes, deepen the pond to create your own drainage area

Tim , for what its worth. The outer tire pressure is critical ----too high and the axle housings will break and it is a major job to replace them. Ventrac is a wonderful machine and will last a good long time taken care of Russ.

Hey that ventrac looks like it has a good smooth cut

what alot of people dont understand is when traffic is flowing well, that cleans the road just as good, maybe lazy but does the same thing

It looks like you already have some fish in your pond 👍🏻

Personally a would have just left that there instead of making such a mess

Lady commentating sounds like she works for the national weather service alerts lol.

hi Tim,like the mowing videos with Vinnie,you could really use a brushhog to or a tractor with a big deck to,im getting a new lawn tractor soon I think JD,i like mowin the grass when not raining,later Tim.

Grass clippings are like black ice to a motorcycle

Looks like you bought a golf course Tim. Good luck you all

Tim I move dirt for a living looking at the elevation numbers it would be pretty easy to cut a ditch and drain that through the farmers field but getting him too go along with that might be a problem if it was me I would tile the area where your having your water trouble now and dig the pond deeper and drain your low spot in to your pond now if you could do that also you could talk to your neighbor farmer and install a tile to catch overflow from your pond through that waterway that way there’s limited erosion and it works for both of you just an idea.

Wow TTWT... as you mentioned before, you certainly do have water issues on your homestead. Not sure of the lay of the land within the square mile of your homestead, but it seems either a self water issue or neighboring water issue. Looking forward to seeing, and wishing you the best results whatever happens.

awesome machine. good job. you call them sally's, i call them hairy backed mary's.

Good place for a pond maybe? Stuck 2 tractors so far this spring: dozer comes in handy... We have had record rains in my part of Texas this spring:more to come this week.At the farm I'm pretty much completely shut down because of the ground saturation. Even on the uphill areas.Also been dealing with no power from a tornado that hit town last wednesday.....Power back on 4 days after it hit.

I have the same issue with water and springtime mowing, I just wait till it's dry enough not to make ruts. Jmo, but I would excavate the pond, spread the dirt over the low areas and drain tile it back to the pond and don't bother with the farmers field. If there's not enough dirt from the pond, then use the dirt from that giant mound also.

We live just east of Indianapolis and can not get dry enough here to tip toe across the yard. Tried to cut the other day when the sun came out but nope. Nothing but ruts.

Make the pond bigger and use the mound in the back as a Dam. You want the pond deeper with fish in it so making it bigger would be a win-win situation plus as wet as that area is it should fill fast.

Good video Tim! Sorry that Vinney got stuck in the mud!

I see heavy earth moving equipment in your future. Those are some serious projects you’re taking on.

Run the tile into your pond and create an overflow bulkhead on the south side of your pond

Never seen a dual setup like that, I wonder how long that will last. I’ve used duals on other equipment and ATV’s, they all had an adapter to use the lugnut system. On the ATV’s the outer tires were slightly smaller in diameter yet higher PSI than the inner tires to allow easier turning on hard surfaces.

Looks like a good place to grow rice & crawfish.

By keeping that area mowed, it will dry faster. I have a natural drain on our new place that stayed wet until I bushogged it regularly.

Have you guys decided what your plans are for the man made hill? If you plan to get rid of it, a possible suggestion is to use that dirt to raise the low area near the road. Use your laser heavily if that is what you do, several potential issues. The road, your drive way. Perhaps you could add very little height close to the ditch but gradually slope higher into the yard. You may still get overflow from the ditch, but as water recedes, it flows into the ditch instead of staying in the yard. Yes your ditch was wet still, but not deep standing water

Tim, maybe you should just dig it out and make a second pond there since it is such a wet area! Seriously as others have suggested, maybe you could find an alternate use for the area other than lawn. I'm worried that your neighbor might not want that extra water going across his field. It may leave the ground too wet to till and affect yields.

Tim, when ever i mow my yard and if the grass is wet i at least wait 4 weeks until the water drys because if i don't wait then my yard will look muddy

ok tim you answered my question.

I wish I could put dual's on my JD 1445 mower! Only had her stuck once though, pulled her out with the Kawasaki Mule (both in 4wd).

Fill the area with a sand dirt mix and drag it with a piece off grating to smooth everything out

I thought you did a great job on that ditch bank👍

was out ur way Sunday night around -IDK for sure some time around 10:30 pm or 11. seen the sign (exit) for where u used to live at(Carmel) was on a mission, so i had no time to call ya. ha!

That thing literally didn't notice that ditch this is is just unbelievable

I am impressed with the tractor handling that pretty well.. But wow did you make a mess.. It appears you pulled more grass out by the root than actually cut it.. Have to agree with other comments.. probably would have left it alone myself. As for drainage.. Good luck with the farmer.. Depending on his crop plan, he may not be open to putting a drainage dip through the middle of the field. One solution is you could put in a tile and run it to the edge of your property then down toward the pond. Only thing you would have to be careful about is chemicals you put on the yard running into the pond then if you plan on adding fish. For me, I never use chemicals so one of our drainage setups leads to our pond and it works perfect. What sucks is the newer sewer mound systems they force everyone to have now. Which is ridiculous.. That is definitely what screwed up the area drainage. There is no reason the sewer requires a "mound" in it.. That could have been designed to be below ground level but whomever the engineer was that designed the spec, as usual, was a fool. And of course politicians just went with it instead of other designs.

I know I got to your channel late and I am sure you have fixed this problem, but I would suggest a rain cachement system. I t would be great for watering around the home

I have found that neversease in your friend on the duels the big pipe thread and the the on on the wedge as well as on the outside of the the wedge

I would suggest keep it in the ditch and use the ditch spoils to fill the low spots.