Recent content by Mennoniteman

Equipment dealers advise putting secondary bolt on cutting edges on all loader buckets to protect the OEM welded cutting edge, but the second edge makes the bucket bulky, with bolts sticking up into the bucket that rips all your feed bags you're hauling, and the angle isn't right for scraping...

Blackberries? For a minute I thought you had fenced the blackberries to keep them from deer! I've got hundreds of acres of blackberries in old logging areas, we like eating a few raw, and with cereal or icecream, but ultimately they are a "weed" around here, we mow them chop them, spray them...

I also had to unload a few kieffer trees, the pears were breaking them down, I usually throw them on a pile to make it handy for wildlife to clean up. It's a real gold mine for the lucky deer that finds that pile.

Fifteen years of plowing Pennsylvania snow in several big parking lots and all that scraping asphalt had this John Deere 7' snow bucket's cutting edge worn round and it wouldn't scrape clean anymore. It only got really bad this past winter because I had to set it on edge to scape clean and that...

Nothing more fun than teaching a youngster the ropes, nice rifle too, I love my M77 boat paddle 3 position safety in .243.

Now you're cooking with gas. He wouldn't be the biggest one on your wall, but he'd make great butterfly steaks! He'd better watch his steps or he'll be making a trip on your Ranger.

Dye is very handy when doing basal bark spray in the woods with a pump sprayer. But your hands will be blue for a while. I don't think it would work well in a field sprayer. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0049I9OBA?ref_=ppx_hzsearch_conn_dt_b_fed_asin_title_1&th=1

I use a really neat free app called Rain Drop that shows how much it rained anywhere in the US. The free version only allows you to have two pre-saved locations that pop up the next time you open it, but you can manually move the map to any location. The free version shows the total for the...

I enjoyed your great little story of buying the land grant farm and farming with a jeep for horsepower. My dad farmed with a John Deere M and a farmall M on steel wheels, so I grew up with hand sewn patches on the knees on my pants, raking hundreds of acres of hay with an 18 horsepower tractor...

If it doesn't rain soon in PA we won't have any fall plots left to hunt over, things are turning brown and dusty.

The biggest problem with a lime buggy is that they can be hard to find, in some areas they are not available.

Here's an alternative viewpoint to the cost of hunting: Back in the 80's I would take time off from my $15 an hour construction job to go deer hunting. Years later I looked back and realized that the time spent deer hunting paid better per hour then my coworkers were getting paid slaving away...

Lime is powdered rock, the value of it is by weight alone, liquid is a ripoff, granules are 4x expensive. Ag lime; $92 a ton in bags at our local ag supplier. If you have large acreage rent a spreader, if you have a half acre plot roll up your shirtsleeves, pour it into a 5 gallon bucket and...

Growing up on a farm we ate a lot of things that weren't quite 100% and I'm still here.

Wow that's a big lump on his eyebrow. He needs to heal some wounds before I'd consider eating those steaks.