Too bad about the tracking coming off. Always enjoy watching you removing trees and improving there farm.
@randycharest45075 ай бұрын
I ENJOYED WATCHING THE VIDEO Ben 😊
@iowANFarmer5 ай бұрын
Thanks!
@SbrGrendel655 ай бұрын
Hopefully you guys haven’t been hit with any of the crazy weather that’s been going on. I enjoy your videos, fond memories of living in Iowa for a couple of years. Had a few buddies whose parents farmed.
@KevinChristiansen-i2q5 ай бұрын
Great job guys
@KevinChristiansen-i2q5 ай бұрын
Great video Ben
@tomnugent8455 ай бұрын
Ben, it looks like you need a push bar on that shears so they will quit falling on the skid steer, Be safe and have a great spring.
@iowANFarmer5 ай бұрын
Most of the time they fell to the side! A push bar would help!
@tomnugent8455 ай бұрын
@@iowANFarmer I really hate mulberries, I spend a lot of time each winter digging them out. We no-til most of our crops and they are a constant problem, especially in our non-GMO crops.
@billwhitman15295 ай бұрын
Well, I'm impressed with size of the trees the shear can handle. Best of luck this season. Gonna be a test of manhood I fear, lol.
@iowANFarmer5 ай бұрын
You could take down some nice sized ones. Sometimes have to snip your way around the tree
@gregcatlett14585 ай бұрын
Well, I can tell that video was made a few days ago. Where is all the tree leaves?😂😂😂😂 Thanks to all!!!
@monsterdogs5 ай бұрын
I had a track break but we didn't know it in a mud pit. took for ever to get it back on, and when we did it kicked off again. But we saw it was broken, so we had to get a spare. And do it all over again.
@chrissyfrancis89525 ай бұрын
I’m sorry you had a lot of rain, but am very relieved that you don’t have tornado or wind damage. I watch Ryan Hall cover the storms & was worried about your new bins. It’s been a crazy tornado season.
@iowANFarmer5 ай бұрын
That sounds like a fun day!
@iowANFarmer5 ай бұрын
Yep, everything’s okay thus far. Just lots and lots of rain.
@chrissyfrancis89525 ай бұрын
@@iowANFarmer so glad to hear that. I’m still banned from Big Tech SM so I can’t check in. I saw Marshalltown area was included in the state emergency, hoping the Cornstars didn’t get hit again.
@KevinChristiansen-i2q5 ай бұрын
Great job running the excavator Ben
@tyt89115 ай бұрын
I fully enjoy watching the videos. On the toro, I love using that stuff. I want to say that after about 2 years with some of the around 4inch trunks ive went back and popped the stumps out with a bucket. But in my opinion (yada yada), one thing i found with toro is. Grab a sprayer, and that will go a lot further on how many stumps you can get out of a bottle. (Yes, I've bought and used a case of that one time.) So this gets me to my next question: Do you have any more anomalies of trees where you need to track or move them halfway across the field? If you do, I've got a setup that I'd be willing to bring over and let ya try it for a day. I'd just ask for some secret drone footage if our work schedules would line up.
@iowANFarmer5 ай бұрын
Like a tree spade?
@billgardner93285 ай бұрын
Killingstumps is a pain without 24-d but we found going deep 6” with chain saw vertical and fill with roundup kills cheaply
@eldenoneil32975 ай бұрын
HEY YOUNG FELLA, JUST A SUGGESTION WHEN I PUT MY TRACK BACK ON ,I LOSEN THE GREASE FITTING LIKE YOU DID THEN I TAKE A 2 or 3in ROUND PICE OF FIRE WOOD PUT IT AT THE TOP OF THE MAIN DRIVE COG AND RUN IT BACKWARD , THE TRACK GOES RIGHT BACK ON . LIKE I SAID IT'S JUST A SUGGESTION .
@iowANFarmer5 ай бұрын
No, great suggestion. I’ve seen some fabricated ones that help. That’s what I was trying to do with the pipe and pipe wrench. Tools were very limited to us.
@iowafarmhandanf22665 ай бұрын
That was quite the transformation.
@ahotdogisasandwich57165 ай бұрын
Those are mulberry trees fyi. Pulling and cutting trees is an endless job!
@iowANFarmer5 ай бұрын
What’s the difference between that and a hedge tree. It’s hard to tell them apart. (I know hedge gets the balls)
@ahotdogisasandwich57165 ай бұрын
@@iowANFarmer I believe hedge trees have thorns on them and the hedge apples. Both have the bright yellow wood. I could be wrong, identifying that as mulberry. I live in eastern Nebraska and we have tons of mulberry trees that grow in fence lines. Birds eat the berries and shit them everywhere!
@chadjennings14165 ай бұрын
You can also drill holes in a tree and pour tordon in the holes, couple years the tree will be dead
@iowANFarmer5 ай бұрын
Or ring them!
@bigcranch2925 ай бұрын
Why does it seem machinery breaks down when Colt is operator...
@thepubliceye5 ай бұрын
You can't beat a forestry mulcher for a job like that, nothing too big nothing too small, and nothing to haul
@johnbucklerfarms5 ай бұрын
Hedge Trees the Hardest Wood on Earth!
@iowANFarmer5 ай бұрын
They aren’t a lot of fun!
@brianstielow91695 ай бұрын
Why are you taking the trees out?
@raprock50005 ай бұрын
They interfere with the farm machinery and they shade out the crops and rob the moisture and nutrients.
@fleminj2pa5 ай бұрын
You could have taken the root ball and everything with that excavator. Why didn’t you do that?
@ericgunter455 ай бұрын
He said early in the video that removing the root ball would damage the terraces and cause more work having to fix them. By cutting and spraying the integrity of the terrace is not affected.
@billupstateny91515 ай бұрын
🙈
@Ron-k8e7f5 ай бұрын
someone 's gonna get hurt you need to learn how to cut trees just saying spent a month in hospital because of inexperiance