Getting the Garden Ready with John Deere Equipment

[@travelinthru9519]

Wish this guy was still around

[@Rhodeislander]

Im new to the gardening thing, bought a new mini farms and your video was very helpful to see it actually done. Thank you for taking the time to share.

[@armmimfam00]

Glad to have you back!

[@JohnnyRebKy]

Nice herd of tractors you have Roy! I have a 1025R, X485, and a old 318 John Deere. Love them all!

[@hereforgoodmusic]

Glad to see ya back and well!

[@southernwulf6983]

What was that last song it was my favrite a couple years back.

[@royrector]

+Brenton Carter The very last song is "Little Bitty" by Alan Jackson. A few years ago a started opening and closing my videos with this song, adopting it as Gardening Greene's "them song." The point being -- my tractors are little bitty, but its okay to be little bitty. They can't move a lot of dirt, but they can move a lot of dirt a little bit at a time. ;-)

[@southernwulf6983]

+Roy RectoThank you and it is great to be little bitty.

[@schlaznger8049]

You have a nice setup and garden area

[@nkh1976]

wow.. how i wish this is available for me to buy in Malaysia. MMMMM.. will surely help me in my garden. Will be the first ever person to show this to the whole neighborhood.

[@AllenAutoGPT]

Great video! Thank you for posting!

[@popeyecop1]

I thoroughly enjoyed your video to include that great taste in your music selection. keep up the great work. you just got yourself another subscriber.

[@jewelboogie3495]

I'm glad your not dead.

[@zeb234]

I like the video a lot. Like the music with it. If you ever get the time, it would be interesting to see a time-event of planting, cultivating, pest control, and harvesting. I really enjoyed this.

[@sammysnead9670]

Welcome back Roy! Missed ya!

[@robby9610]

Why do they deliver the compost hot?

[@royrector]

They don't heat it up. Active compost is naturally warm while in its fermentation process. The compost temperature was probably 100 degrees. When they dumped it out of the truck on this morning, the outside ambient temperature was in the 40s. So, when the warm moist compost spilled out into the cold dry air, it made fog -- which made for a pretty cool video effect. ;-)

[@benscoles5085]

I have seen compost in Ohio be so hot, that it was half the winter before snow ever stayed on top of the pile, , it can get to the point it self ignites if you do not turn it now and then.

[@stephenlees9752]

Love your work man, feels good working for yourself, i have done t most of my life

[@benscoles5085]

nice work, you did a great job, , I have never used the ''tape'' but I am looking into it, do you cover rows with plastic for weeds and moistrue retention?, , if you covered this in another vid, I have not seen it yet, , but on this vid, your work is good.

[@crslyrn]

It's neat to see your method of putting out the garden with the "green team" . I find your choices of music for the videos interesting, actually, I like your choices. I'll be looking forward to the next installment.

[@fordman1944]

good to see you back. keep it up with the video's

[@MobyDave1583]

A great video. How long did it take to do the garden from start to finish. And how much for the tractor and attachments?

[@royrector]

I got it all done in a day. The actual "time spent" was about 7 hours from start to finish. There are actually two tractors featured in the video; a X748 garden tractor that I bought in 2010, and a 1025R sub compact tractor I bought last year (2015). The X748 with 3-point hitch, rear PTO and front end loader was around $20k in 2010. The 1025R with front end loader and backhoe was around $20K in 2015. The tiller was bought in 2010, I was in the $3k area. The hiller was a couple hundred bucks.

[@MobyDave1583]

Holeeeeeeeeeee Mackeral

[@royrector]

Holeeeeeeeeeee Makeral is the price of the machines the farmers buy. A brand new S660 combine with 40' header (both if which are not the biggest JD makes) cost just under $600,000! A quarter million on a new tractor is nothing.

[@mi2tn]

Finally, you're back. Nice that you could expand you fleet. Thanks for the video. You put more into your garden getting it ready then we do. The one thing I really want is a hiller like you have. Can't get the wife to agree. One day I'll get it with out her knowing and when I use it she'll wonder why we didn't get it sooner. 'Course I want one that I can add the S-tines so I can make it into a cultivator too. Good luck with your tractors. Like the 1025. I've got the 1026.

[@Quik5oh]

Welcome back Roy!!! Glad to see that you added a 1 series to the lineup! Looking forward to new videos.... seat time master will be hard to top! :)

[@TheBarnyardChicken]

I need some smok'in hot compost in Goldthwaite, Texas lol I need twice that much

[@Drew-in-NoDak]

YOUR BACK YAY

[@mycvil]

you have to go to the dealer and get a fuel cap for an 8235r and see if it will fit if it does than you can officially join the 1025r red cap club

[@jeremylee99100]

Do you still have your loader for the 748?

[@royrector]

+jeremy lee (JohnDeere4960) I still have it. Keeping it clean and dry in a back yard shop building. Right now I have no plans to get ride of it. The 45 loaders are getting hard to find.

[@jeremylee99100]

+Roy Rector I'm getting a 1025 hopefully this week with loader

[@royrector]

+jeremy lee (JohnDeere4960) Well, get ready to have more fun than a man should be allowed to have! ;-) Congrats!

[@jeremylee99100]

+Roy Rector definitely ready I'll be posting videos when I get it

[@jeremylee99100]

+Roy Rector why don't you mow with the 748

[@Z71Ranger]

I'm also a retired federal employee... I remember the good old days... I made over $300.00 per hour... LOL... I only worked about one hour out of the 8 hour day... Oh yea... easy 8 hit the gate...

[@spike4u2u]

You have good work ethics. Very high quality with no shortcuts definitely a rarity now a days. Nice job man👍🏼🙏🏼 Nice to see your videos and thanks for giving me a million ideas.

[@ilovepinktacos]

nice view, how far can the tiller go in depth? in my yard there is very heavy clay soil and wanted to know if it will go a foot deep? i'm deciding between the x739 or x758.. please share your thoughts.. i really like the 1023 but don't need the FEL.. x758 diesel unit might have the torque i may need to dig into the soil.. please share your thoughts and idea for my project..

[@royrector]

Well, I finally got around (found time) to do a little video. Quality is not that great. I have a security camera trained on the garden area and I pulled most of the video from that source and had to fast forward the video so you wouldn’t have to watch all day. But it turned out better than I thought it might. So, if you have 14 minutes and 40 seconds of your life to waste watching Country Hick, Garden Tractor, SCUT Us’in, Front End Load’in, Heavy Hitch Ripp’in, 647 Till’in, Row Hipp’in garden soil getting ready video -- this is the one for you!

[@jamesreardon618]

whats the song at 3:05

[@joebelmaati]

"Brickhouse" by The Commodores

[@travelinthru9519]

No sound

[@mtrunk8570]

Can you recover the drip hose for the next season, seems like it might be hard just wondering, thanks for the video.

[@jamesthorson7025]

How weird I was watching videos and your name popped up and I am like oh I haven't reseat he'd Roy's videos in a while and I look and it said new video uploaded less than an hour ago and I was like perfect timing.

[@barbarahogan4796]

What size Tractor?

[@royrector]

Drew, garden is 60 feet x 20 feet

[@CashJohnston]

I enjoyed that thoroughly! I can't wait to get out there and do my garden area. I need to get a hiller/row maker though. Are you in the landscaping business now?

[@Drew-in-NoDak]

how big is your garden L x W

[@cory2146]

Is the backhoe worth getting?

[@royrector]

Oh, hell yeah! Takes the majority of back work out of dirt work. I have all kinds of projects around my property that I have been wanting to do over the years, but would not even attempt them with a shovel and a wheelbarrow.

[@travelinthru9519]

Why talk if there is no sound ?

[@royrector]

Humm, there used to be sound. I wonder what happened?

[@allanthompson2280]

@@royrector Can you re upload the sound please thank you

[@markvietti]

did you know plants get 99% of there mass from the air.. not the soil

[@jasperpetersen8241]

any work done in this video needs to be done in low range

[@MrGSF77]

Dang! I hope my wife don't see this.

[@royrector]

;-)

[@banditone00]

I had to sell my Deere when I had twins. It was the X595, which is the precursor to you 748. I think I'm going to to replace it with a SCUT. The good news is I bought mine used, and then sold it for $3,000 more than I paid. I sure do miss it, though. Enjoy your machines, and thanks for the entertainment. (My SGT makes me keep my face clean shaven, too. Looking forward to growing it out again. ).