Southeast Georgia 40 acres that was a former pine tree plantation. 5 acre pond in back full of wood ducks and geese. Timber was harvested 2 years ago in February. 3 acres stumped so far. I am starting a lavender farm (parent plants were planted last spring and are doing great) I have a Little Kubota 1870 with loader, a LS Xj25 with QD bucket, grapple and belly mover, a 74 Ford 3000, a handful of implements and a Can Am defender HD9. I have 5 more years till I retire but am making the transition. Only owned the property about a year. I work every day after work till dark all summer every day, and most weekends I am a teacher so I get a couple hours before dark even this time of year. It will not be long and I hope to have all my systems in place. Had an incredible gardening summer with over 5k ears of corn and more field tomatoes than anyone needs to even truck farm. Just finished tractor shelter over thanksgiving, got a green house to build this month, Going to start poultry tractors in the spring for family and neighbors. I grew up in the country and finally at 45 years young have a place like I dreamed of as a kid.
Wow, we love that story! We wish we had bought something like PG a little sooner in life, but we're happy we didn't wait any longer. Thanks for watching!
Hi there im in Northeast FL in Nassau county. We are on 20 acres, it was raw paper company land with rows of pines when I got it in 2014. Have a 1 acre pond stocked with fish, cleared out the front of the property some but left the hard woods and the back is pretty much un touched with pines and brush for the deer, quail and turkeys we have around. Hoping to purchase the 10 acre lot next to me one day as well. For equipment im running a Kioti NS5310 which I have been loving and we still have our old For 641 workmaster. I retired from the Navy with 22 years and have about 8 more years left with the Sheriffs office. I will be looking forward to being completely retired and having more time with my kids, fishing and my homestead projects! Love your content and happy to see another FL outdoorsmen!
I'm using the recently purchased Summit Tractor largely bc of your great channel. I bought 33 acres of rec hunting land in central TX. The wife and I have started developing hunting plots and soon looking at cabins/shops etc. Learning a lot from your videos and having fun. Keep up the great work🙂
Looking good, Brad! That pasture will be a hing of beauty before long. I'm in North Carolina. My place is 21 acres with 7 acres cleared. I have a Kioti DK5310SE Cab tractor that I use for about a million jobs, one of which is brush cutting with a 6' rotary cutter. I brush cut about 4 acres every 4 or 5 weeks during the growing season. I till my garden area (about 1/4-1/2 acre) every 2nd or 3rd year (I don't have the time or energy to take up and put back the woven weed cover every year). The rest of the mowing gets zero-turned weekly. I do love my tractoring time... Take care and God Bless.
Good morning, I enjoy your videos and find them helpful as I continually learn on my own tractor. I have a Kioti NS 4710 with 50 acres of raw land in the piney woods of East Texas and 7.5 acres near McAlpin, FL. There have been plenty of trials by error, but nothing too drastic. Videos such as yours help to point out wrongs and rights as well as needed equipment for the job.
We're prepping our homestead near Laurel Hill, FL. We've got 27 acres with some pretty knarly terrain and a John Deere 4410. We opened up about 5 acres this year to get us started and give us an area for our home site. I've learned a lot watching y'all with a similar property. Excited to learn more and put it to good use, crossing our fingers we don't have to tackle cogon grass...
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West Michigan, John Deere tractors, Kubota mini ex, track loader and side x side, Polaris Quad, 20 acres in northern Michigan and 40 acres in west Michigan, keeps me busy. Great video, beautiful planting, great job.
Columbus, Ohio. I own 2 houses on 10.8 acres. My aunt across street has 5 acres with fishing pond. All on a “no outlet”road. Called Family compound. We have our house and we inherited my mom’s next door and her 2 horses. Renting it until son finishes college next spring then he’ll live in my mom’s house which is where I grew up. Yards are around 1.5 acres, 2 horse barns with paddock and 2 pastures for each barn and the rest which is about maybe 5-7 acres we grow our own hay for our horses. Needs a lot of work. Very weedy unfortunately. We bought to small of a tractor. Own a zero turn which is my baby and a John Deere 1025R series. So we have to use smaller attachments and we hire out for someone to bale hay because we just don’t have the time and we’re afraid we’ll mess it up lol.
Sounds like a great family setup! We have hay baling videos with equipment your John Deere can handle: ua-cam.com/play/PLG5yS75HLzo3qiXtZRXDZSZ7g2bDZ78NN.html
Good stuff, guys. The rye grass should take care of your problem with the stuff coming back. Rye grass is the best for that. It wouldn't hurt to brod cast some more rye seed around the area that hasn't been tilled yet
If you can rent or borrow one, a "Harley" power rake may work a little better for that. Lifts/moves the soil, like a tiller, just doesn't cut as deep. Expensive though.
Inland lake northern michigan, 2 acres, cub cadet sc2450 with mower, loader rear blade. Also chinese AGT 1 ton excavator with 8", 12" and 36" mud bucket, grapple, 12" auger. Cub cadet zero turn, 2 craftsman lawn tractors one with leaf vacuum one with scraper blade.
Hi, I enjoy your videos. I think if you give it a good deep plow and bury it completely and replant it in the spring. I run older machines, I have a small collection of tractors: 2 Massey Ferguson 35x, 5 Fordson Super Dexta, a Ferguson TED20 and a Ford 3600. All at different stages of restoration. Here in Ireland by far the most popular make of tractor (from that era was Massey Ferguson). I don't have any land. I worked on farms when I was a teenager and those were what I was used to. I use the tractors mostly for working day demos, tractors runs etc these events are run by local vintage clubs, churches etc to raise funds for charity and to show the younger people how it was done in the past. I also use them to plant potatoes and vegetables for ourselves on land that I rent from local farmers. (it's cheaper to buy them in the shops but I enjoy doing it as it the tractors moving and with 4 children all married with 12 grandchildren between them, it helps them out.)
I think the rhizomes would prevent that from being a good control method : Cogongrass is difficult to control because of its rhizomes. Removing the aboveground parts of the plant is easy, but the plant will quickly regrow if the rhizomes are not removed or killed.
I’m surprised that the Summit tractor will remain running with the PTO engaged without an operator in the seat. Most will not. My Kubota L4802 has a feature for “stationary PTO” use but the brake must be set and all shifters in neutral and then you push a button for 3 seconds to enable the stationary PTO and then you can engage the PTO and get off of the tractor.
Brad......GEAT comment on the divot at the end of each row. I'm been trying to work on that for sometime. Do you slowly lift it at the end of the row, or lift it as you near the end. Thanks, Bob
The key is to keep the tractor moving as you pick up and drop the tiller. It's hard to get perfect every time, so you can do a few passes across the ends of your rows to clean it up. Here is a video I did on that: ua-cam.com/video/yHqsKoZsBX4/v-deo.html
First year tractor owner, Kioti CK3520SEH Cab. 5 acres SW Arkansas, but I'd prefer to have 10 to 20 acres. Ideally with a pond and year round running water adjacent or going through it. Maybe some day yet Lord willing. 🚜🙏
lesson people refuse to learn.. Tillage, is one of the worst things one can do to soil, and it continually sets back succession in such a way that "weeds" can outcompete whatever you want. The key is quit tilling, and speed up succession, quit setting it back. If you're trying to make the area, whatever you call it, look like a golf course, you're fighting nature, and you'll never win. Nature always wins. Using the chemicals, is just a breeding program will a few will survive, those will be the more resistant, so you have to spray again, with more, and then again with maybe a cocktail of chemicals.
Southeast Georgia 40 acres that was a former pine tree plantation. 5 acre pond in back full of wood ducks and geese. Timber was harvested 2 years ago in February. 3 acres stumped so far. I am starting a lavender farm (parent plants were planted last spring and are doing great) I have a Little Kubota 1870 with loader, a LS Xj25 with QD bucket, grapple and belly mover, a 74 Ford 3000, a handful of implements and a Can Am defender HD9. I have 5 more years till I retire but am making the transition. Only owned the property about a year. I work every day after work till dark all summer every day, and most weekends I am a teacher so I get a couple hours before dark even this time of year. It will not be long and I hope to have all my systems in place. Had an incredible gardening summer with over 5k ears of corn and more field tomatoes than anyone needs to even truck farm. Just finished tractor shelter over thanksgiving, got a green house to build this month, Going to start poultry tractors in the spring for family and neighbors. I grew up in the country and finally at 45 years young have a place like I dreamed of as a kid.
Wow, we love that story! We wish we had bought something like PG a little sooner in life, but we're happy we didn't wait any longer. Thanks for watching!
Hi there im in Northeast FL in Nassau county. We are on 20 acres, it was raw paper company land with rows of pines when I got it in 2014. Have a 1 acre pond stocked with fish, cleared out the front of the property some but left the hard woods and the back is pretty much un touched with pines and brush for the deer, quail and turkeys we have around. Hoping to purchase the 10 acre lot next to me one day as well. For equipment im running a Kioti NS5310 which I have been loving and we still have our old For 641 workmaster. I retired from the Navy with 22 years and have about 8 more years left with the Sheriffs office. I will be looking forward to being completely retired and having more time with my kids, fishing and my homestead projects! Love your content and happy to see another FL outdoorsmen!
Awesome! Thanks for watching!
I'm using the recently purchased Summit Tractor largely bc of your great channel. I bought 33 acres of rec hunting land in central TX. The wife and I have started developing hunting plots and soon looking at cabins/shops etc. Learning a lot from your videos and having fun. Keep up the great work🙂
Thanks! Sounds like you’re going to have a ton of fun with that!
SE Tennessee. 2018 LS XR4140, now on just 3 acres, but we were in Texas on 24 acres, overgrown mesquite.
Keep on, Brad and Deb.
Awesome! Thanks for watching and sharing!
Hello from Northeast georgia. Got 26 acres couple streams and small pond. I got a kubota mx5200. Enjoy watching your videos
Oh man, that sounds sweet!!! MX is nice big tractor too!
Not a farmer nor do I have land to do all you do. But I love watching and learning. Thank you so much.
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Looking good, Brad! That pasture will be a hing of beauty before long.
I'm in North Carolina. My place is 21 acres with 7 acres cleared. I have a Kioti DK5310SE Cab tractor that I use for about a million jobs, one of which is brush cutting with a 6' rotary cutter. I brush cut about 4 acres every 4 or 5 weeks during the growing season. I till my garden area (about 1/4-1/2 acre) every 2nd or 3rd year (I don't have the time or energy to take up and put back the woven weed cover every year). The rest of the mowing gets zero-turned weekly.
I do love my tractoring time...
Take care and God Bless.
Sounds like you are keeping busy just like us!
Good morning, I enjoy your videos and find them helpful as I continually learn on my own tractor. I have a Kioti NS 4710 with 50 acres of raw land in the piney woods of East Texas and 7.5 acres near McAlpin, FL. There have been plenty of trials by error, but nothing too drastic. Videos such as yours help to point out wrongs and rights as well as needed equipment for the job.
Thanks for watching and for sharing your experience! Piney Woods!!
We're prepping our homestead near Laurel Hill, FL. We've got 27 acres with some pretty knarly terrain and a John Deere 4410. We opened up about 5 acres this year to get us started and give us an area for our home site. I've learned a lot watching y'all with a similar property. Excited to learn more and put it to good use, crossing our fingers we don't have to tackle cogon grass...
Fingers crossed you don't have cogon! Good luck in your journey. It's hard work but nothing beats owning your own land!
Great Job Brad.... Love the tiller work love the video and content! You are the best!
Thanks! We appreciate you watching.
Hello from a nearby neighbor over in Mobile Alabama... Love watching yalls journey at Piney Grove...
Thanks for joining on our journey!
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47 acres with a Kubota L2502 in NC . A good bit has hardwood forest on it.
We've love to have double the acreage we have....or even more!
West Michigan, John Deere tractors, Kubota mini ex, track loader and side x side, Polaris Quad, 20 acres in northern Michigan and 40 acres in west Michigan, keeps me busy. Great video, beautiful planting, great job.
Thanks, sounds like you are busy too!
Columbus, Ohio. I own 2 houses on 10.8 acres. My aunt across street has 5 acres with fishing pond. All on a “no outlet”road. Called Family compound. We have our house and we inherited my mom’s next door and her 2 horses. Renting it until son finishes college next spring then he’ll live in my mom’s house which is where I grew up. Yards are around 1.5 acres, 2 horse barns with paddock and 2 pastures for each barn and the rest which is about maybe 5-7 acres we grow our own hay for our horses. Needs a lot of work. Very weedy unfortunately. We bought to small of a tractor. Own a zero turn which is my baby and a John Deere 1025R series. So we have to use smaller attachments and we hire out for someone to bale hay because we just don’t have the time and we’re afraid we’ll mess it up lol.
Sounds like a great family setup! We have hay baling videos with equipment your John Deere can handle: ua-cam.com/play/PLG5yS75HLzo3qiXtZRXDZSZ7g2bDZ78NN.html
thank you for the video
You bet! Thanks for watching.
Good stuff, guys. The rye grass should take care of your problem with the stuff coming back. Rye grass is the best for that. It wouldn't hurt to brod cast some more rye seed around the area that hasn't been tilled yet
The deer are loving that part of the pasture!!
If you can rent or borrow one, a "Harley" power rake may work a little better for that. Lifts/moves the soil, like a tiller, just doesn't cut as deep. Expensive though.
They are great tools for refurbishing gravel driveways for sure!
Inland lake northern michigan, 2 acres, cub cadet sc2450 with mower, loader rear blade. Also chinese AGT 1 ton excavator with 8", 12" and 36" mud bucket, grapple, 12" auger. Cub cadet zero turn, 2 craftsman lawn tractors one with leaf vacuum one with scraper blade.
Sounds like you have a good collection of equipment to tackle anything you need to! Thanks for watching!
Hi, I enjoy your videos. I think if you give it a good deep plow and bury it completely and replant it in the spring. I run older machines, I have a small collection of tractors: 2 Massey Ferguson 35x, 5 Fordson Super Dexta, a Ferguson TED20 and a Ford 3600. All at different stages of restoration. Here in Ireland by far the most popular make of tractor (from that era was Massey Ferguson). I don't have any land. I worked on farms when I was a teenager and those were what I was used to.
I use the tractors mostly for working day demos, tractors runs etc these events are run by local vintage clubs, churches etc to raise funds for charity and to show the younger people how it was done in the past. I also use them to plant potatoes and vegetables for ourselves on land that I rent from local farmers. (it's cheaper to buy them in the shops but I enjoy doing it as it the tractors moving and with 4 children all married with 12 grandchildren between them, it helps them out.)
That will keep you busy! Thanks for watching.
thank you and a happy christmas and new year to you all
just a thought but whenever I want to kill grass, I cover it with black plastic until it dies. I wonder if it would work with your evasive grass.
I think the rhizomes would prevent that from being a good control method :
Cogongrass is difficult to control because of its rhizomes. Removing the aboveground parts of the plant is easy, but the plant will quickly regrow if the rhizomes are not removed or killed.
I’m surprised that the Summit tractor will remain running with the PTO engaged without an operator in the seat. Most will not. My Kubota L4802 has a feature for “stationary PTO” use but the brake must be set and all shifters in neutral and then you push a button for 3 seconds to enable the stationary PTO and then you can engage the PTO and get off of the tractor.
Same, brake locked and transmission in Neutral to keep PTO running on Summit while not in the seat.
Brad......GEAT comment on the divot at the end of each row. I'm been trying to work on that for sometime. Do you slowly lift it at the end of the row, or lift it as you near the end. Thanks, Bob
The key is to keep the tractor moving as you pick up and drop the tiller. It's hard to get perfect every time, so you can do a few passes across the ends of your rows to clean it up. Here is a video I did on that: ua-cam.com/video/yHqsKoZsBX4/v-deo.html
First year tractor owner, Kioti CK3520SEH Cab. 5 acres SW Arkansas, but I'd prefer to have 10 to 20 acres. Ideally with a pond and year round running water adjacent or going through it. Maybe some day yet Lord willing. 🚜🙏
That would be a great set up!
deb steels the show again! good job deb! 😊 to bad you couldbt barrow or rent a pull behind burner to kill off that grass. that would of helped alot!
Let's hope we got it all!
West central Indian 15 acres plots 8 tractors big garden 10 to 15 hrs mowing trail maintenance 😀
You have a tractor for every 2 acres....I call that winning!
@PineyGroveHomestead 60 total 36 woods
Ohio, two hundred acres most of it in woods. God bless.
200 acres in Ohio sounds like big whitetail bucks to me! Thanks for watching.
lesson people refuse to learn.. Tillage, is one of the worst things one can do to soil, and it continually sets back succession in such a way that "weeds" can outcompete whatever you want. The key is quit tilling, and speed up succession, quit setting it back. If you're trying to make the area, whatever you call it, look like a golf course, you're fighting nature, and you'll never win. Nature always wins. Using the chemicals, is just a breeding program will a few will survive, those will be the more resistant, so you have to spray again, with more, and then again with maybe a cocktail of chemicals.
This video is about eradicating an invasive grass that can only be controlled with chemicals. Wish there was a different way, but there isn't.
Time for you to by your wife her own tractor