Pennsylvania Pictures

[jasonleonard]

http://s1297.photobucket.com/user/heath ... t=3&page=1

 

[J&D Cattle]

Very pretty place. Looks like your grass is really growing. Nice looking cattle and equipment too.

 

[larryshoat]

Looks good!!! What are you gonna weigh on that scale?

Larry

 

[TennesseeTuxedo]

Nice place jasonleonard. You should be proud.

 

[jasonleonard]

I appreciate your comments guys. My 15 year old daughter posted those pics for me. Those are just some gathered up, salebarn calves I have been playing with to send when our calfpool needs a few head to finish a potload. The tall grass I was standing in just got it's first rotation of cattle today. I am a big fan of chicken litter from under caged layers.
Larry, We use the scales to buy low-grade logs by the ton for our 2 mills. We have also sold some cattle across them....just weigh the trailer empty and loaded.

 

[denvermartinfarms]

I like what I can see of yor cattle and land, but boy you sure got the wrong dozer.

 

[ohiosteve]

I enjoyed your pictures Jason, reminds me a lot of where I live. I don't mind your dozer either, I think people just don't like case dozers because their controls are so much different than most others. Do you have a winch on it?

 

[denvermartinfarms]

I just had to make a dozer comment, most of the case track machines I have been around had a lot of transmission problems. But if I could buy any brand new backhoe right now it would be a case.

 

[jasonleonard]

Denver, that actually is the only piece of case equipment I have. We use it to build roads for our logging jobs. We have 2 JD 450 g machines we use to close out log jobs. We had just finished a fence job on that farm and used the dozer to push some tree stumps out. It does have a winch, it's strong but is slow. I have the 5.9 cummins in that dozer and in 4 log skidders, I really like those little cummins. I would love to have an excavator some day, what brand and size for farm use???

 

[denvermartinfarms]

Yes that 5.9 cummins is great. And so are g model John deere's. for most normal farm use I would have a 30k class excavator like a 312 cat or 120 Deere. Bigger is fine but that would be big enough and still very easy to move. For us on our kind of jobs a 50k size and a 30k are all we use.

 

[ohiosteve]

I would love to have an excavator some day, what brand and size for farm use???

Pound for pound I'd recommend a JD 35 mini-excavator. Hands down the best mini in my opinion and I run a lot of them. They will outperform a lot bigger machine, the hydraulics and ground speed are both really fast and powerful. They only weigh 8000 lbs so no problem for a pickup to haul and will dig over 10 ft deep. Get a full rotation hydraulic thumb and you got a heck of a machine that will go almost anywhere. I would stay away from a JD 50 its bigger brother, much slower. A Hitachi 35 is basically the same machine with different paint.
For a medium sized hoe I like the komatsu 138. It's 30,000 lb and digs 18 ft. deep. It is a zero turn (no tail swing) and has a swinging boom so you can dig parallel to your tracks. also has an 8ft blade. Again I recommend the hydraulic thumb especially since your in the log business.
For a bigger hoe the newer ones are all pretty comparable just make sure you get a quick attach coupler if your changing buckets often.

I still say a Deere 35 is about the handiest machine ever to have around. I forgot to mention if you put disconnects on your thumb lines and get an auger you've got a post hole digger with no equal. Only downside is everyone and their brother will want to borrow it all the time.

 

[denvermartinfarms]

I agree with Steve about how handy a small excavator can be, we had a e70b cat that was a 15k machine and was very handy, but not big enough for a lot of things also. I think Deere is the only way to go on a excavator made in the last 10 years.

 

[jasonleonard]

Denver and you guys from real cattle country... Do you think those feeders in the pics would make it in to the better money( grades) of cattle in the midwest?

 

[denvermartinfarms]

Yes i think so, I couldn't see them real good but i believe they would.