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ajaxlepinski wrote:

Ha ha

Scottish kitchen tractors.

soulsurfer wrote:

where did you get that pic of Pepi from???


or is that Lloyd?

I have a JD 750 with a tiller, trailer, brush hog, and drag attachments.
Makes the garden a little easier to do.
Jeff

Garden from 2 angles

I don't see any stage to play guitar on. Get to building that fucker!

I wanna see naked hippies getting stoned in wet sloppy mud whilst someone does their rendition of the star spangled banner.

or else get off my lawn!

soulsurfer wrote:I don't see any stage to play guitar on. Get to building that fucker!

I wanna see naked hippies getting stoned in wet sloppy mud whilst someone does their rendition of the star spangled banner.

or else get off my lawn!

I've got to get into high gear and get the 2 elevated deer blinds built first. It would not be
a problem playing loud outside as the nearest neighbors are about a 1/2 mile in either direction.
Serenity now.
J

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I miss living in the country. Our nearest (fulltime) neighbors were about 2 miles away. There were some hunting cabins peppered about that were closer...but they were only occupied a few weeks a year.

I'd sit in the barn's loft and play my guitar as loud as I could. I was about 14 or 15 at the time.

soulsurfer wrote:I don't see any stage to play guitar on. Get to building that fucker!

I wanna see naked hippies getting stoned in wet sloppy mud whilst someone does their rendition of the star spangled banner.

or else get off my lawn!

BTW, Love your avatar. I was saddened to see that BBC let Jeremy go. Matt and company will need some luck
as Jeremy was the show.

Jeff

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belleswell wrote:I have a JD 750 with a tiller, trailer, brush hog, and drag attachments.
Makes the garden a little easier to do.
Jeff

Garden from 2 angles

That place looks great! Where are you located? JD 750 is a great rig. Bet you have a lot of fun with that.

Within the last year, I've moved into a 1908 10 acre homestead and am in dire need of a tractor. Probably will bite the bullet and finance one, just can't afford it right now. All I really need is a brushhog and bucket, so pretty minimal. For now, I have 3 neighbors who all let me borrow theirs. One is a newer Kubota, another a brand spankin new Mahindra, and the third (which is my favorite so far) is a 60's Massey.

Welcome to the forum, sir. Saw your "new guy" thread and really enjoyed the pics/music.

Walt wrote:

belleswell wrote:I have a JD 750 with a tiller, trailer, brush hog, and drag attachments.
Makes the garden a little easier to do.
Jeff

Garden from 2 angles

That place looks great! Where are you located? JD 750 is a great rig. Bet you have a lot of fun with that.

Within the last year, I've moved into a 1908 10 acre homestead and am in dire need of a tractor. Probably will bite the bullet and finance one, just can't afford it right now. All I really need is a brushhog and bucket, so pretty minimal. For now, I have 3 neighbors who all let me borrow theirs. One is a newer Kubota, another a brand spankin new Mahindra, and the third (which is my favorite so far) is a 60's Massey.

Welcome to the forum, sir. Saw your "new guy" thread and really enjoyed the pics/music.

Hi Walt,
Humble thanks for the listen and nice comment. For a very insecure guitarist, I'll take all of the compliments I can.

We bought our dream home in the country last August, and because my better half was not retiring until the end of December, it
was January before we made the new home official. We had been in the capital city of Lansing Mi, for our entire lives until we
both retired last year and bought a home in the upper part of the lower peninsula.

The home has 20 acres, mostly wooded, a pond just over a half acre, and a huge garden area. Tons of deer, which is awesome
because I like to put one or two in the deep freeze every year. The home also has geo-thermal heating and cooling in which the
pond plays an integral part. The gent we bought the place from had built it as his dream home in 98', and as it turns out, it is also ours.
His wife passed suddenly last spring so he put the house on the market and moved to the upper peninsula to live with his boy.


If you were to look at your right hand with the palm facing you, and then draw an imaginary line between the ring and middle finger about a half inch down into the palm, that would be close. The closest small town is Barryton. And we are about a half hour away from 3 larger cities, with all of the box stores, and they are Mt. Pleasant, Clare, and Big Rapids. Just this morning, I added a bunch more pics to the New Guy post to entice some to check out all of the wildlife outside our windows. It's like a dang petting zoo.
I can't hardly pick up my guitar and start playing , when I look up and say to myself, "Where is the camera" as it is a constant source of inspiration and entertainment. We've been here 6 months and I've yet to hear a siren. It was almost an hourly occurance when we lived in the capital city.

The pond is awesome with the monster hybrid bluegills and bass that are in it. It had only been stocked twice since before I bought it. It was dug 18 years ago. Once after it was dug, and again 7 years ago. This spring I added 310- 4 to 6 inch hybrid bluegills, and 165- 5 to 7 inch perch. I also added 3 gallons of fathead minnows for the perch to have something to eat.

I'll be culling some of these for the occasional meal sometime after next spring when I'm hoping the perch have had a chance to spawn. For now, tossing fish feed to them is one of the highlights of my day, as they boil the water like piranha. The biologist at the hatchery told me the hybrid gills could be 1 to 1 and 1/2 pounds inside of two years, and that the 5 to 7 inch perch could be up to 10 inches by this fall. That is an extremely fast growing gill. Last July, a couple of days before we closed on the home, the prior owner had noticed I'd brought my fishing rod and told me to try my luck while he went inside to make a sandwich for lunch. I caught 4 bluegills and a couple of bass while he was inside. The largest gill was a whopping 12 and 1/4 inches. That is huge. I was sold on the place then and there. So not only are we farming the largest garden I've ever had in my entire life, ( hence the JD 750), but I'm now also farming fish. Yummy.

The JD with all of the attachments I bought from the prior owner of the home as a separate deal from the home. I bought a
Husky riding deck mower that was not that old, a new snowblower, and the JD 750 which is an older model from the 80s that still works great, with 5 attachments. We ended up at 7K for everything. Just about right I would say, having researched prices on used tractors. 7K was a number we were both happy with.

Next on my list is 2 or 3 bee hives.

Cheers, Jeff





Feeding the gills



One of the male hybrid gills from the last time the pond was stocked has been tending a bed hoping to entice a female to spawn.
He's about 10 or 11 inches long but a little camera shy and always swims off when I approach. The thing about hybrid blues gills, and why they are preferred in ponds, is it is much harder for them to overpopulate a pond, when you end up with many fish,but none of any size. Hybrid gills are the result of pairing a female green sunfish with a male blue gill. The resulting are called hybrids, and if a male and female hybrid get together to spawn, the resulting offspring are 90 to 95 percent males. This is why they are preferred for ponds as there will not be many females produced when spawning successfully. As an added bonus, they grow fast and get to be very large sized for a gill.





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Dude those bluegills are huge!
Living in southeastern WA for many years, I've caught my fair share of the spiny rays. I used to fish a lot, but not any more. No time!

Your place looks amazing. Congrats on settling in to your "forever" home. I can relate to finding a dream home. I got mine last August, as well. We run a little non profit (501c3) animal sanctuary, hence the 10 acres. We have dogs/cats and a bunch of farm animals. In addition to my full time job, this keeps me entirely busy.

Link if you got some down time.
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Wow, never thought the tractor thread would get much, uh, traction...

Now I wanna go fishin, thanks belleswell!

Whoa dude! you're not far from my old stompin' grounds. I lived in the north end of Lake County for years and had family in Cadillac, Arcadia, Manistee and Flint/Swartz Creek.

In high school we'd make runs down to Grand Rapids for all of our pharmaceuticals then run up to Traverse City

Bear, deer, owls, shittonne of scurrying little animals everywhere and the fishing is great!. Trout, salmon, walleye all great eatin'.

Not to mention all the basement wineries and back 40 stills.

We had a "woods" down the block from where I grew up. There were just enough trees so the cops couldn't see you from the street.

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