I am joining in this conversation sorta late. I am sorry about your Dad passing. When people begin to decline in the end, they just do not feel like taking care of things the way they used to. My husband was having so much trouble with both legs, a couple of years before he passed, and he just did not stay after things the way he should have. And fences grew up and then here come those blasted rose bushes. They are OK in places, but not on the fence line where they like to grow up in your electric fence. Seems like there is always a huge wasp nest right in the middle of the largest bushes. FUN!
I know what you are speaking of when you talk about coming in behind and having to get things cleaned up. There always seems to be a tree or trees growing up through the middle of equipment. That is a mess for sure.
You have a great place and I bet your wife being a country girl is going to learn to love those cows.
You were talking about all the heavy duty bush hogging, and goodness my husband let some land go at the end that needed it.
We have a Brown Tree Cutter, one of the heavy duty jobs that if you go slow, you can cut some good sized trees with them. He tried it before with our John Deere cutter, and messed it up and had to repair it. So, therefore, the Brown Tree Cutter came to live with us. But that Brown Tree Cutter will eat them up.
You have a good looking bunch of cows and now you get to be the boss of things and do it like you want it done. Sounds like you are off to a great start. I have enjoyed reading about your adventures on the farm.
Enjoy those Spring storms as they come through. The Lord is preparing your land for timed harvests as he says, and it building up your water table. Let's hope that it doesn't turn off dry this summer. We had rains in Tennessee in the beginning when the crops were planted, and for a while after that, but it got dry at the end. People with crowded pastures didn't have grass. So they had to feed hay early. So, knock on wood, we get timed rains.
Keep on keeping on
@gman4691!!
