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MarkDarvin
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I tried for years to mow my white clover during the hottest driest parts of the summer to try to get grains up through, and it just never got hot enough to stop the clover. That's when I quit with white clover all together. Now I just use the biennial clovers. They are much easier to rotate around.
Mennoniteman
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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.
Mennoniteman
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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 really wears fast.
The 4" cutting edge was only 3.5" wide anymore and I wasn't sure what to do with it, I considered selling it on Marketplace and buying a new one, but the JD bucket retails for $2250 and it's hard to find aftermarket 7' wide buckets for JD Hook & Pin attach.
Yesterday I took it to our local Amish welding shop and after they removed the rounded cutting edge with a plasma cutter, they welded a new hardened cutting edge in that looks so close to factory the average person couldn't tell the difference, all for $380. You've got to get up early to beat those Amish for work ethics.
The 4" cutting edge was only 3.5" wide anymore and I wasn't sure what to do with it, I considered selling it on Marketplace and buying a new one, but the JD bucket retails for $2250 and it's hard to find aftermarket 7' wide buckets for JD Hook & Pin attach.
Yesterday I took it to our local Amish welding shop and after they removed the rounded cutting edge with a plasma cutter, they welded a new hardened cutting edge in that looks so close to factory the average person couldn't tell the difference, all for $380. You've got to get up early to beat those Amish for work ethics.
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yoderjac
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Very nice! Well worth the price I'm sure!
Mennoniteman
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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. At this price it really isn't worth messing with the inconvenience of a bolt-on cutting edge.
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