Recent content by luke strawwalker

There are two times to be worried about prussic acid (hydrogen cyanide) in Johnsongrass... Live standing johnsongrass that's been frosted-- when it turns dark after a frost, give it about a week to make sure the prussic acid comes out of it before you turn the cows in on it. The other time...

If I were you I'd DEFINITELY stay away from the oilless type compressors... They run a lot faster and charge up a lot faster, but their service life is terrible... As someone else mentioned burning one up doing spray painting, if you do any heavy work at all you'll be lucky to get a year or...

My Stihl chainsaw ran great for many years... right up to the day somebody stole it out of the garage... Hope they cut their head off with it! Guess I'll have to buy another... OL JR :)

I'm baling grass hay and no it doesn't heat up... I unroll all my hay when I feed at Shiner and it's as fresh and green colored and sweet inside as the day it was baled and smells like sweet flue cured tobacco. No heat, no mold, nothing but the good stuff... :) Now, with heavy fertilized...

My vote would be for Stihl... I had a Stihl 270 (I think that was the model) and it's the best saw I've ever seen. Keep the chain sharp and you can cut anything with it. Run Stihl oil in the gas and unleaded plus so you don't get the ethanol in it and it'll start on the third pull after...

Depends on what your goals are... Natives will produce without fertilizer, or with very little, that much is true. They also won't produce anywhere near as much as improved grasses that are heavily fertilized. They won't do the same thing that a heavily fertilized bermudagrass field will...

Yeah I've had the same situation from the other side of the coin... A guy come asked me to come bale his place. Bottomland with a lot of weeds and stuff, older grass, etc. would be better off brush hogging it but he wants something to show for it besides a check paid for shredding. SO I look...

From my experience, the wheel rakes tend to just slide the hay to the center; there is nowhere near the amount of rolling action that there is on a rolabar rake. Not that the hay doesn't roll AT ALL with a wheel rake, far from it, but the rolabar rake does a better job of rolling it over and...

Well, I'm just west of Houston on the Coastal plains, we're usually in the high 90's and humidity in the 80%+ range so I'd be pretty tempted to say if it works here it'll work darn near anywhere, at least in the Deep South where our sun is so fierce. Farther north where the sun is weaker...

Yeah I've got one and I love it! It's a handy dandy little thing and really makes nice clamps if you take a little time with it, and if you tap the cut ends of the wire down the clamps won't snag on anything... almost as good as a crimped hydraulic type fitting... really slick! Now, the...

That is one of the biggest misconceptions about making hay out there... "Hay should be dry before raking" WRONG WRONG WRONG!!! Hay should be at 50% moisture when raked for the highest quality and to minimize sunbleaching and weathering. 50% moisture is basically when it's wilted flat. I'm...

Do a web search for the hydra-drill water well drilling machine. Just google "hydra-drill" and you should come up with something. There is a company out of Arkansas I think that makes these things to drill your own wells. They're about a thousand bucks, but definitely cheaper than hiring...

I've got one of these in Blue Paint... sold by Ford as the 552 round baler back about 1980 or so. We were one of the first ones in this area to switch to round baling. Grandpa bought that one in about 80 or 81. We still have it and bale our hay with it every year, and I did custom baling with...

Depends on what kind of forage you're raking and the acreage too. The real benefit of wheel rakes is in large square or rectangular fields where you have a LOT of ground to cover, as you can go faster with wheel rakes. The downside is that on rough or rolling ground you will probably have more...

No rain here in 5 weeks. We got just enough of a shower yesterday to wet the pavement. The raindrops turned to dustballs as soon as it hit the driveway. Sandy spots burning up, the rest is green but SHORT. Not a thing I can do about it tho... Could be worse... I could have crops in the...