Mowing Mud and Drainage Discussion
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- Опубліковано 25 сер 2024
- It has rained here a lot and our grass really needs to be mowed so Tractor Time with Tim puts the dual wheels on the Ventrac 4500 and off we go to the wettest areas in the yard. Mowing in the mud wasn't hard with Vinny!
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I have found thru experience when you are having a really wet Spring let the grass grow! It's easier to tackle high grass when dry then medium grass when wet... Great way to test the floatation of those dual tires though!!! Thanks Tim!
For sure. I've been planting cover crop into the wet parts of my property including oilseed radish clovers and winter grasses. Then in spring that grows nice and thick and helps dry me out. Then I flail mow. My infiltration is way up and I'll start switching away from this to a no mow deep rooted grass in the lawn next season.
I also have a 6" drain tile that gets overwhelmed in heavy rain and with my clay pan it gets really wet. I installed a 500 gallon septic tank at the near end of this and I use a sump pump to move that water either for irrigation or when wet I discharge back down the drain tile once the heavy rains stop.
Really nice to have that reserve in the dry months to water the yard and my hops!
I’d probably let that area go regardless of wether it needed mowing or not 😂. That areas pretty much trashed now.
Jeff Gootjes well hay if it gets tall enough it will be a privacy wall.
I'd have to agree.
Yeah, me too. Didn’t need cutting, IF you want it done, than you need a dual wheel Ventrac
It hurts just watching :)
I have a 1/2 acre property and move it with a 42" Craftsman Riding Lawnmower. My SE corner is a bit of a bowl and with a few inches of rain it becomes nearly unmanageable. This spring I upgraded from 8" Turf Savers to 10" Super Lugs which has made all the difference and i can mow, if necessary, in standing water without goring the hell out of the grass. It was interesting to me to see the Ventrac, with duels, struggle to 'float' over those soft spots. I would have expected it to perform a bit better but its hard to see how wet it truly was.
Really wet here in upstate NY also. The 2nd 1/2 of last summer was really wet also, to the point people were mowing wet saturated yards, and tracking them up with the mower wheels. Raining all day today🙃 We really need an entire week without rain. Hopefully Mother Nature will ease up on the constant rain a bit. Keep up the great work on the videos Tim, really enjoy watching them. God Bless you & your family.
Nice video showing what the Ventrac can do. This has been the wettest spring in a long time. There are a few wet spots in my lawn that I started to sink And leave ruts. I just continued on And left it until it dries out due to it being more work to fix later. This is the first time I wish I had duels. I was so happy to see you go back And blow the grass you put on the road back into your lawn. Drives me nuts when people blow grass on the road And leave it there. That's a dangerous situation for anyone on a motorcycle. Looking forward to your drainage videos. I have to do something by this fall on my broken field tiles, Cant handle it anymore.
Tim, Plant some CATTAIL in that low area 👍 it'll give you a maintenance free section of lawn and reduce your mow time.😊
Nothing wrong with putting the grass on the road. You did clean it up. Most people don’t clean it up. Nice job.
Always keep that clean y'all do a great job together.
Love the attitude and perspective of “unique opportunity” with the new property. You all certainly have the equipment and opportunity to control the water👍
What a mess. Thankfully you have the right equipment and attitude to solve the problem. I look forward to seeing how you tackle this one.
Personally, I'd try to solve the problem without involving your neighbor. That could turn into a bigger mess than the one you have now.
Great video! Really enjoyed you showing the ease of putting duals on. Thank you! Can’t wait to show my boss, if he hasn’t watched it already.
I sit on a bucket all the time,it’s my go to wrenching seat. Love the videos Tim and family 😀
Personally a would have just left that there instead of making such a mess
Me too, i do not understand why it is so urgent to mow. This Tractor should be able to mow way taller Grass. Even a week of rain would not worry me.
Me too
Greg Shearer it’s called getting views on UA-cam lmao
Tyler Lucas and that effects what I said how
Greg Shearer I was agreeing with you.. lmao
The term for "clamps" that tighten the duals onto the inner wheels is "collet". Not a whatcha-m-callet, but a collet. ;-)
That looks like tall fescue grass, suggest cutting taller. It really likes to be at 4" to 4 1/2". Even if it makes hay, I would avoid cutting when that wet, you risk mold damage and brown spot.
Thank you for cleaning the road!
Ok, you can resign as safety police now.
Ahh! That beautiful ventrac. I love that machine particularly with the dual wheels on.
Nice job wrecking the yard
Fun is definitely the best way to think about it mate
Tim, When you first introduced us to the Ventrac I was skeptical but after watching what you and Christy have been able to accomplish with it I'm amazed. That's one heck of a machine.
I recently noticed that a local municipality has one in operation and they really are interesting. My wife and I were driving by and I told her I saw that on Tractor Time With Tim.
Keep up the good work guys.
Yes, it is an amazing machine.
Thanks for your comment!
Finally! The real Tim comes out! That last blooper made my day! Been there, done that!
A good rule of thumb is if ducks fly away don't drive into the area. Yes, deepen the pond to create your own drainage area
Very good video , I am really glad you mentioned motorcycles and grass clippings in the road , especially when there wet , it makes for a very dangerous situation.. Ty for that shout out ..
Tim, you have so much stuff to do there and a lot of equipment. You could have a Tractor Time with Tim Tractor School. Teach homeowners how to use and maintain their equipment and property.
And I am with ya on the nap. 👍
I would NOT do that. Best way to learn is from experience.
Nice projects to pursue! That Ventrac has proven itself a worthy piece of machinery!
Looks like the solution is right in front of you, dig the pond out a lot ! Mine is around 40 feet wide and I made it 12 ft deep . Then drain your lawn water to the pond . See if they will trade Casey for a bulldozer. Take the extra dirt and raise your low spots . I know you guys will have it figured out one way or another looking forward to seeing how you do it 😜
Wow - you bought right across the road from my grandparents’ house. I practically grew up there we were there so much. It’s the little white farmhouse with the big white metal barn behind it. Unfortunately my grandparents passed away 10 years ago, but I spent many hours picking up rocks and cutting down horse weed in the field. Along with riding on the fender of their Farmall and in the cab of the 1586.
The Ventrac is an awesome piece of equipment!
Sounds like you have some “job security” dealing with this properties issues...nothing you guys can’t handle.
Good luck, it will provide more experience that will be useful for your channel.
Awesome video thank
Your gonna need a big case two fix drainage problems. Cant wait to see this drainage getting fixed
Tim, wow that’s seemed like a tuff mow. And a part of me is sorry that you have to preemptively explain your approach to adverse conditions. You do a great job explaining your reasoning and hope people that Monday are morning quarterbacks understand this and refrain for negative comments and or rating. Again, thanks for showing real world challenges and solutions as most of us face them on a regular basis. Keep up the great work and God bless.
Thanks Benny. There are a small group of viewers who are watching only to find fault. There is a list of ‘UA-cam approved’ safety violations that these viewers pounce on.
Apparently they think they are doing some sort of a service to the community by nitpicking at any of these items.
These users never actually DO anything with equipment. Rather they spend all of their time complaining about what others do.
They don’t realize that the only impact they have is to decrease the quality and interest of UA-cam videos. Producers (like us) realize that we must self censor our videos to meet all of these unwritten rules.
This is sad. ...but I know of no other way to handle it.
Tractor Time with Tim that’s just sad. Thanks for letting me know as I had no idea that kinda of troll exist on UA-cam.
Great area for another dam! 😉
Tim, this looked like y’all had so much fun getting to go muddin and be productive getting the yard mowed. My yard is looking like this right now with all the rain but I don’t think I will do the muddin right now
Can't wait to retire, by a nice place and purchase this tractor. WOW!
what alot of people dont understand is when traffic is flowing well, that cleans the road just as good, maybe lazy but does the same thing
Tim, you could fix that drainage problem in a few hours with just a box blade... It makes shallow ditches real quickly once you learn how to adjust it. You don't need to shave off much to get all that culvert pipe water to go around the edge of your property and right into that farm field...
Good Luck!
The same company you bought that rig from sells a rear discharge deck. It has a special set up to keep it from coming up on the operator and is perfect for cutting close to the roadways. Call your local dealer.
That thing is a beast on mowing. Sure beats my Simplicity zero turn.
Also, as a motorcycle enthuse just I'm loving the clips being moved, thank you.
Same and was biting hard on my tongue, so as not to be labeled a Sally.
It’s way to wet to cut grass
In the midwest right now, we don't have a choice. It won't stop raining.
Nick Adcock that’s a fact.
I am looking forward to this series as I just bought 5 acres to build on and this will help,with some of my future decisions. Good luck with the project.
Lady commentating sounds like she works for the national weather service alerts lol.
I can't believe you would mow a muddy area! We have 200 acres and the wet areas just wait till they are dry. You trashed your grass man! SMH
Look at the tracks it makes in the yard omg..
I too live in a flood area and it can get scary as the water gets near your house.
My tractor saved us this year when I finally in the worst of a storm, dug a swell across our dirt road.
Luckily I have great neighbors that understood the situation and didn’t complain.
Heck I’m the one that maintains it anyway. 😂
Great video!
I love u guys!!! also I love seeing u guys mow because it looks really fun!
Nice video tim and kristie it will be a lot of work in the garden, but your ideas are good and you have a lot of machines for the job ,and a lot of video, s for us too 👍👍
Its the same if not worse here in southern Mi. Had to get my flat bed trailer out to put the tractor on to till my sisters garden and dang near buried the truck in the yard. Now I got I got huge ruts to repair. Rained on and off all weekend here and its raining as I type this.
You doing a good job with a vented event today and you got to keep those drains clean though.
Tim and Christy, After you dig out the pond, consider taking the hump and placing around the edge of the pond, sloping it out to a drain tile almost like a French drain around pond. This would help you shed some of the water to a collection point, but also increase depth of pond.
Grass clippings are like black ice to a motorcycle
Not sure why you NEEDED to mow the swamp section. My guess is there won't be much grass growing in that area once it dries out and now you'll need to smooth out all the ruts and reseed. Might have been best to just leave it and use the capabilities of that mower deck when the grass is much taller but the ground is dry and firm.
I didn't realize the pond was still at 18" in (I gather) many places. Yep, cattails will take over in that so might as well use the dirt you pull out of it to raise the sides. Maybe the "big berm" can be used to raise other areas and create a swale do channel the water toward the edge of the property.
Well, we were fine mowing it...did no damage until the one mistaken pass uphill
I love ventrac mowers
You have a beautiful piece of property, it has been and will continue to be interesting watching you make it nicer... if only we could get a break from the rain.
Tim I move dirt for a living looking at the elevation numbers it would be pretty easy to cut a ditch and drain that through the farmers field but getting him too go along with that might be a problem if it was me I would tile the area where your having your water trouble now and dig the pond deeper and drain your low spot in to your pond now if you could do that also you could talk to your neighbor farmer and install a tile to catch overflow from your pond through that waterway that way there’s limited erosion and it works for both of you just an idea.
Love this channel
Thanks for watching!
thank you sooooo much for blowing the grass off, i ride a cbr 600 and grass on the road is like ice, thanks 👍
hi Tim,like the mowing videos with Vinnie,you could really use a brushhog to or a tractor with a big deck to,im getting a new lawn tractor soon I think JD,i like mowin the grass when not raining,later Tim.
Great video! it has been an exceptionally wet Spring in many countries this year.. . I think I would wait another spring and see if the problem continue.
Good place for a pond maybe? Stuck 2 tractors so far this spring: dozer comes in handy... We have had record rains in my part of Texas this spring:more to come this week.At the farm I'm pretty much completely shut down because of the ground saturation. Even on the uphill areas.Also been dealing with no power from a tornado that hit town last wednesday.....Power back on 4 days after it hit.
Love the video
Tim you will get it figured out. Thanks for video's
Good stuff, plenty of food for thought!!!!
Hey that ventrac looks like it has a good smooth cut
Dig out the wet spot and build a pond. Great for wildlife and fish. Swimming and it does not need to be mowed.
Grandpa's Farm rides again! My thoughts exactly! Would be easier and probably cheaper in the end with no need to make your water problem the neighbors problem, as the farmer will not really want that water in his field, regardless of how nice is he about it.
How many ponds am I supposed to have?
@@TractorTimewithTim Lots!
Tractor Time with Tim As many as it takes brother.
Ponds are not the solution to my problem. There needs to be an outlet. Woudn’t matter how many ponds or how deep they are.
Make the pond bigger and use the mound in the back as a Dam. You want the pond deeper with fish in it so making it bigger would be a win-win situation plus as wet as that area is it should fill fast.
For the ditch I'd just leave it in float. Works fantastic on my ditches which are severely sloped (hard to tell from video).
As far as the discharge, I use the 72" rear discharge deck to avoid the whole problem of which side to mow on.
That wet area? Maybe plant some pampass grass (or fountain grass). Mow it once in the spring and leave it go all year. Looks great in winter.
Tim what I see with the drainage that might be one of many options is getting a concrete drain culvert for that culvert at the road to drain into to pipe the water to the pond with a water gate valve and on hot days pump the pond down so the pond has the ability to hold the excess water from potentially washing your driveway out
Perhaps you can contact your county drain commissioner for help. Just my opinion you should wait for the yard under water to dry out. I believe they refer to that as common sense.
I believe I can refer to this comment as an insult? Am I wrong?
Not an insult tim. Maybe something your dad might have said.
Tim, maybe you should just dig it out and make a second pond there since it is such a wet area! Seriously as others have suggested, maybe you could find an alternate use for the area other than lawn. I'm worried that your neighbor might not want that extra water going across his field. It may leave the ground too wet to till and affect yields.
Hi Tim you guy's got your work all cut out for this summer. I think Kirsty having fun on Vinnie.😊😊😊
I am impressed with the tractor handling that pretty well.. But wow did you make a mess.. It appears you pulled more grass out by the root than actually cut it.. Have to agree with other comments.. probably would have left it alone myself. As for drainage.. Good luck with the farmer.. Depending on his crop plan, he may not be open to putting a drainage dip through the middle of the field. One solution is you could put in a tile and run it to the edge of your property then down toward the pond. Only thing you would have to be careful about is chemicals you put on the yard running into the pond then if you plan on adding fish. For me, I never use chemicals so one of our drainage setups leads to our pond and it works perfect. What sucks is the newer sewer mound systems they force everyone to have now. Which is ridiculous.. That is definitely what screwed up the area drainage. There is no reason the sewer requires a "mound" in it.. That could have been designed to be below ground level but whomever the engineer was that designed the spec, as usual, was a fool. And of course politicians just went with it instead of other designs.
Tim, what you really need to solve all these problems is a small dozer. Case makes a nice one called a 450. You can use your magnet laser reader on the side of the blade. Additionally it will make recutting your ditches and grading easy and fast! We do those kind of projects all the time and it’s usually a two day deal for a project that size.
I see heavy earth moving equipment in your future. Those are some serious projects you’re taking on.
This thing is friggen incredible I cant beloved it keeps going through some of that
Tim , for what its worth. The outer tire pressure is critical ----too high and the axle housings will break and it is a major job to replace them. Ventrac is a wonderful machine and will last a good long time taken care of Russ.
awesome machine. good job.
you call them sally's, i call them hairy backed mary's.
Tim Christi lots of work you but we will enjoy watching thank you
God Bless
PaK
I know I got to your channel late and I am sure you have fixed this problem, but I would suggest a rain cachement system. I t would be great for watering around the home
I feel you pain Tim, the middle of our field gets flooded with all the rain we have and it looked almost as bad as yours. Plus I only have Johnny to mow it so he got a muddy mess all over him. Had to give him a bath afterwards.
Tile drain the property and plant it all in sweet corn.
You have a lot of work ahead of you....at least with it being a wet yr you get to see the water issues front and center.
With that much water Tim may experience his first rice havest grown domestically
@@ram64man HAhahaahaahaha You just might be on to something there.... Start a wild rice plantation.
looks like the county needs to do some ditch work.
I'm really looking forward to seeing what you do. I'm struggling with my own drainage problem, but not nearly as severe as yours. I think I fixed a good chunk of it and posted a photo of the drainage I put in on GTT. I still have to solve sitting water on the lot next to me, but I don't want to mess with it until I see what the state does about draining the road that floods out front. The road flooding comes through that lot and my property so without seeing what the state does, I think I'd be wasting my time.
I have the same issue with water and springtime mowing, I just wait till it's dry enough not to make ruts. Jmo, but I would excavate the pond, spread the dirt over the low areas and drain tile it back to the pond and don't bother with the farmers field. If there's not enough dirt from the pond, then use the dirt from that giant mound also.
If i had a property like yours i ll be the luckiest man in the world water or drains you are able to fix it and tim i am glad to folow you on you tube.whish you all of luck on your upcoming projekts
That thing literally didn't notice that ditch this is is just unbelievable
Tim I agree with the person that said talk with letsdig18
By keeping that area mowed, it will dry faster. I have a natural drain on our new place that stayed wet until I bushogged it regularly.
Amazing video! Keep it up!
Have you guys decided what your plans are for the man made hill?
If you plan to get rid of it, a possible suggestion is to use that dirt to raise the low area near the road.
Use your laser heavily if that is what you do, several potential issues. The road, your drive way.
Perhaps you could add very little height close to the ditch but gradually slope higher into the yard. You may still get overflow from the ditch, but as water recedes, it flows into the ditch instead of staying in the yard. Yes your ditch was wet still, but not deep standing water
Love your vids keep up the good work
Great video as always! Happy Mother's Day christy!
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Carmine
Wow TTWT... as you mentioned before, you certainly do have water issues on your homestead. Not sure of the lay of the land within the square mile of your homestead, but it seems either a self water issue or neighboring water issue. Looking forward to seeing, and wishing you the best results whatever happens.
was out ur way Sunday night around -IDK for sure some time around 10:30 pm or 11. seen the sign (exit) for where u used to live at(Carmel) was on a mission, so i had no time to call ya. ha!
Yea, I saw that on GTT. You made time to stop at other folks houses, but no time for us!! Oh well! I know where we rank!
Hi Tim. . . Love the videos!
put the higher part of the pond on your hour house side make that ten feet tall and put the water to the field now
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It looks like you already have some fish in your pond 👍🏻
maybe you should make that section of the yard a rice patty or maybe a cranberry bog. If it was any wetter christy will need a rowboat in case she gets stuck out in it. what about digging a smaller pound in that low area, say 4-6 foot deep then when its full you can pump the extra water to the larger pound to help fill it to the max and to help water the yard when needed.
If you mow in the same direction all the time even with a push mower you will eventually runt your yard. The heavier the mower the deeper the runta. Plus the grass gets used to being cut the same way thus making your grass lay a certain way.
Try to go about 14-18 ft deep on that pond of yours. That way even after years of organic matter being added to it (run off, grass clippings etc..) you will have still at least 8-10 ft deep for the fish.
Fill the area with a sand dirt mix and drag it with a piece off grating to smooth everything out