myWD
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Topic: myWD
Posted By: sjerden
Subject: myWD
Date Posted: 08 Oct 2012 at 10:32pm
My WD with a post auger. Building a new pen last weekend.
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Posted By: Gary
Date Posted: 09 Oct 2012 at 5:42am
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Your PTO shaft must come pretty close to the tractor drawbar if you auger down to full depth ? Gary
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Posted By: Jim Lindemood
Date Posted: 09 Oct 2012 at 6:50am
| Orange at work -- great! What goes in the pen? |
Posted By: Jim Lindemood
Date Posted: 09 Oct 2012 at 6:50am
Posted By: sjerden
Date Posted: 09 Oct 2012 at 7:56am
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I guess your right. Never noticed that, or thought about it, but the draw bar moves over. I'll check that this weekend when I get back to building the pen and see how close it gets. Thanks. |
Posted By: Larry B
Date Posted: 09 Oct 2012 at 8:02am
| as hard and dry as it is here you would never get the digger in the ground. |
Posted By: LouSWPA
Date Posted: 09 Oct 2012 at 8:04am
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is that operated from the seat? do you have to move the tractor back and forth as you go deeper to keep the hole straight? the only down pressure it's own weight? ------------- I am still confident of this; I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord. Ps 27 |
Posted By: sjerden
Date Posted: 09 Oct 2012 at 8:18am
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Building the pen for my flock of Guinnies and Peacocks. Going to use 14' treated and put a net on the top of the pen. Here's another angle I took of the tractor and auger. Please excuse my miss-matched tires.  |
Posted By: sjerden
Date Posted: 09 Oct 2012 at 8:43am
| We were dry up until about the middle of September. The ground is soft now and it goes down easy. |
Posted By: sjerden
Date Posted: 09 Oct 2012 at 8:45am
Yes, its operated from the seat. I eye-ball it for straightness, but in the end its how you pack the dirt around the post that makes it straight. I use hedge since I have lots of it. I need a crooked hole for hedge posts anyway. |
LouSWPA wrote:Posted By: Bolivar Boy
Date Posted: 09 Oct 2012 at 9:04am
| you are forgiven for the mis match tires but having a bare shift tower and naked throttle / lift control lever could cancel your subscription to the " better farms and post hole auger review" publication ! lol. nice picture. thanks for the post.......tp studer. wooster,ohio. |
Posted By: sjerden
Date Posted: 09 Oct 2012 at 9:27am
Doesn't matter in Illinois. All bribes accepted, which will cancel any previous rules or agreements. :-) |
Posted By: Ted J
Date Posted: 09 Oct 2012 at 10:46am
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I was gonna ask if you painted that grass, but you said you have rain. I could take pics of our weeds (the grass is all dead), but who wants to see different shades of brown. We are just now getting some drizzle. We haven't had ANY rain for over 3 weeks and that was just 4 inches.4 inches between drops. It was less than .01. I can't remember when the last time was when we got any significant rain around here. Seems everything went north or south of us. Nice setup though! Have fun and be safe! I lost a shirt once around one of those. ------------- "Allis-Express" 19?? WC / 1941 C / 1952 CA / 1956 WD45 / 1957 WD45 / 1958 D-17 |
Posted By: sjerden
Date Posted: 09 Oct 2012 at 12:17pm
We had 10" of rain on weekend three or four weeks past. Since then, last week we had 3 or 4 inches. I'd think Southern Illinois was caught up by now, but it came in downpours, not long and slow, so the Kaskaskia River is still low. But, we'll take it anyway. I never get off of a running PTO, at least not off the back end. |