Ready for Field Work

[1978cub]

Ready to go on April 10th in Minnesota! Just need a little sunshine!

[Dale Finch]

You need to send that photo to Steiners for their calendar contest. Your caption is good or maybe something like "WTF...I THOUGHT IT WAS APRIL!!"

[tinnerjohn]

That picture warmed my heart! I read posts here in Feb and March from the guys down south who are getting ground ready and I can't even see my garden. April 10th my 3 1/2 year old grandson babysat me while Grandma and Mom went to a food show in PA, I helped Henry disc the garden with the Cub. Thanks. John

[Jim Becker]

Early in the week, my garden area looked just about workable, although I wasn't ready to actually try it. Tuesday afternoon I drove down to the twin cities and noted several fields that had been worked. Wednesday the snow started and WIND, what WIND! By Friday the wind stopped but snow continued into the evening. I don't know how much snow we got because most of it came sideways. I did measure a 12-inch drift in a place that normally doesn't drift. What accumulated was closer to slush than snow. If you were to dig down about an inch, you hit a layer that was really dirty looking -- some of west Texas was mixed into that layer.

The driveway was still AWD drivable. But with solid freezes expected the next few nights, I didn't want a thick layer of slush, refrozen with a few tire ruts. So I plowed snow on April 12! It didn't want to roll off the end of the blade either. It would just pile higher and push farther in front of the blade until the tractor stopped. I had to push up a pile then turn to deposit each pile to the side. Today it is mostly sunny and melting.

[John *.?-!.* cub owner]

I haven't found it yet, but somewhere in Mom's pictures is one of me holding my birthday cake on April 18 in about 4 inches of snow at the age of about 8. I ain't telling how long ago that was!

[Jim Becker]

. . . on April 18 in about 4 inches of snow at the age of about 8. . . .

Yeah, but wasn't that before the Gregorian calendar was adopted?

[Eugene]

Shucks guys. Today I started my annual spring rock harvest. Kinda wishing we had some snow so that I could have put off the task.

[Indy4570]

Shucks guys. Today I started my annual spring rock harvest. Kinda wishing we had some snow so that I could have put off the task.

rock harvest, HA!. I live on rockytop, when I dig a hole if I sifted out all the rock I would have less than half left in dirt. I feel your pain. I am parting with a 3 point rototiller because all it does is bounce from hitting rocks. guess I'll have to get my corn from a jar

[Eugene]

Shucks guys. Today I started my annual spring rock harvest. Kinda wishing we had some snow so that I could have put off the task.

rock harvest, HA!. I live on rockytop, when I dig a hole if I sifted out all the rock I would have less than half left in dirt. I feel your pain. I am parting with a 3 point rototiller because all it does is bounce from hitting rocks. guess I'll have to get my corn from a jar

I usually go to the gym every morning to get my exercise. Today and tomorrow the gym is closed. So, rock harvest for a bit of exercise.

WD Allis, trailer, spade, long pry bar, and gloves required. Only picking up or prying out rocks that will damage the mowers.

A trailer load, about a ton of rocks, is enough exercise for one day. Pick them up, pry or dig some out, toss or carry to the trailer. Then haul to ditch and unload.

Getting really old. Use to do 3 or 4 trailer loads of rocks a day. Now quit after one trailer load a day, with several breaks.

[John *.?-!.* cub owner]

I would probably be quitting after hitching trailer. Why don't you get Pat to drive the loader, and she can set loader beside you for you to fill the bucket, then her take it to the trailer and dump it, save a lot of lifting and carrying.

[Eugene]

Sunday, 6 AM, snowing. Rock harvest called off for the day.

Actually, harvesting rocks is not that bad of a job. Mostly, park the tractor and trailer, toss rocks into the trailer. Rocks over 50 or 60 lbs are rolled/pried to the surface then picked up with the skid steer.

Pat, wife, refuses to operate anything that does not have an automatic transmission.

Cattle are now on grass, pastures have greened up nicely. Up until about a week ago farmers were feeding hay to cattle.

[BullDAWG]

Here is my SA and 2 bottom plow along w/ a bush-hog that mounts an SA-140. I've been spending months restoring, well doesn't look new like it did a month ago, but at least here in Mississippi I got to finally bush-hog and turn my fields and planted 2 acres of iron-clay cowpeas...