What you did on your property, farm or ranch today.

Got some nice rains last night and again today.
Pond got a little runoff and is at least filling up a little, only noticeable where I had dug it out the deepest.
Stull no inflow from the creek. Need a lot more heavy rains to get the creek flowing again.

jblaska said:

Spent 5 hours in a 5085M mowing pasture. Had 15.36 tons of gravel delivered to my shop and spent most of Saturday evening and Sunday morning leveling and grading the drive and a few spots in the yard where trees had been removed a couple years ago. Also burned two huge brush piles. At least it was almost done before the rains hit on Sunday.

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Cleaned out the mower deck on the Z530R.

I finished putting the chicken run together that I started Saturday. It will be nice not having to worry about the chickens getting in the road or pooping all over the porch, garage, and driveway, eating the cat's food, ECT 🤣.

Before my helpers showed up (my 8 year old and 6 year old boys) I had the farm hand (3032e) help by holding the first back section in place while I attached it to the coop.


I used the tractor to get the spacing between the coop and barn for the front section. It only needed to move about 4" closer to the barn.

Set some new posts for grape vines

I had some V shaped dips in the front yard, irritating to cut so I got 18 tons of screened topsoil, put it down yesterday and smoothed out with 7ft EA rear blade turned backwards.
I discovered if I lowered blade halfway then angled it with hydraulic top link it worked better. Then packed it. Afterwards we got 2" rain. It turned out well except they must have screened it with chicken wire...lots of rocks I've been hand picking up, most about walnut to #57 gravel sized .
Then the old tobacco barn, the bottom was in bad shape. Years ago a contractor cut bottom 18" out, replaced it with pine. I should have taken a before picture. I used pressure treated 2x6s horizontal then 1x8s air nailed on. It's sitting on gravel, pt should last longer.


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Son (#4) and daughter (#5) helped me weed the garden. I’m worn out, summer heat/humidity is here. Don’t know where boys 1-3 were hiding, but I couldn’t find em.




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Sevenhills1952 said:

Then the old tobacco barn, the bottom was in bad shape. Years ago a contractor cut bottom 18" out, replaced it with pine. I should have taken a before picture. I used pressure treated 2x6s horizontal then 1x8s air nailed on. It's sitting on gravel, pt should last longer.
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Kinda did the same thing back in 2014-15
I used plastic and had molding (flashing) made by a local continuous aluminum rain gutter company.

Some two wheeling. I was going to do a quick 4wd run through the mud but quickly realized that I probably didn't hook up the transfer case linkage when I was under it last time but thankfully I was able to make it out in 2wd before I got stuck.