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I use a 5 foot bush hog as well but when I make the 20 or 30 foot parallel pass in the other direction I go to the first pass and cut parallel to first pass then back parallel to second pass. So I travel the same distance on the end, every time, and when I finish the block it is twice as big as the part left between the first two parallel passes. My end pass is always the same 20 or 30 feet but I've now cut a 40 or 60 wide patch of the field. then I just move another 20 to 30 feet over and do it again. I didn't come up with this method but it's how I do it every time. And like you, I just sight something on the other side and mow straight to it. The field just looks pretty after mowing this way.
Great video! I have a big John Deere with s 90" land pride and thought today that there has to be a more efficient way of doing this. I have roughly 120 acres. Thank you for showing and explaining this.
I think the goal is to keep the mower cutting in as full width as you can and minimize the back and forth over little strips and slivers! Thanks for watching.
As a contract mower, I use a mower that is open at the back. That way I do a few laps to open up the paddock, and then instead of doing sections, I go backwards and forwards working my way across the paddock. My tractor is Kubota hyd shuttle, so same speed forwards and backwards. You should try it, cause I didnt beleive how fast it was until I tried it. I did like your video by the way.
Without hydrostatic it would make for a lot of clutch use and gear changes. Shuttle shift wouldnt be awful. Though I can see doing it that way with hydro
I have a kubota 45hp tractor 4wd and front end loader with a 6' woods bushhog. My biggest field is 10 acres, and is in my backyard. I try to keep it mown close, as it used for a golf driving range and plinking. I set the bushhog 1" lower in the front for best efficiency, and the discharge is on the left side, dictating a clockwise pattern. I will sharpen those blades this year. Thanks for that pointer.
I've got a few acres to mow and I use my late father's Massey-Ferguson 240 and a 6 foot brush hog. It takes me 3 hours or so to cut. I would really like a new Farmall to cut with but for now I am blessed to have the dependable MF. Thanks for the video.
When you section, the next pass thru the middle should be a bit further away. So both the edge and the center are moving the same direction, and the distance as you turn stays constant. No problem failing to make the turns.
I've always done 270 degree turns and went back into the cut. I can see how that'd be less efficient in the grand scheme of things but it's always made for perfect corners. I'll give this method a shot
Great infor! That style is excellect for botb level and sloped properties. I maintain a couple my fields using a 45hp jd with a 7' cutter though this year i need something easy on my knees and back so i went shopping for new cab tractor with better suspenion seat. Well long story short i accepted a dealer challenge that a 72' hyperdrive rear-discharged zero turn hustler with a 36hp engine would out cut and out ride my setup now, man was i wrong! It mowed 12" mixed johnson and rye with ease and in 1/2 the fuel and time! At least i can say im proud owner of a hustler
I've found that a zero turn in tall grass is not a good mix. It leaves lots of stalks if you try to cut it high and if you cut it 2-3", there's too much thatch to move. And the tractor is just more comfortable over the bumps. Here's a video we did on it: ua-cam.com/video/03fzY1XViIA/v-deo.html
@@PineyGroveHomestead yes a zero turn with side discharge will leave stems and doesn't like tall anything due to the fact it is passing the cuttings from one blade to the next! That why I haven't attempted it in the past though a rear diischarge deck is a different beast! It certainly can handle tall and short stuff with a better cut than my bush hog. The rear discharge is designed to cut such materials for road side right away maintenances for county and state use. Plus it able to cut at near full speed because it not passing the cutting from one blade to the next it very capable of -5-6 acre an hour in rough stuff and 7-8 acres in gud stuff Thanks Nate
I run in straight lines as much as possible. With a hydrostatic drive turning around and going straight back again is very fast. Like the zero turn mower guys do. Make a 3 point turn around instead of a wide U turn. Now with manual gears and clutch tractor it’s much more time consuming but with hydro a 3pt turn around is very quick
I like to mow in a circle from the center of the field outwards. This way I can keep moving forward until the mowed circle reaches the sides. Then I knock out the corners in a back & forth pattern. There is a limit to the efficiency in this pattern. A very large area like 10+ acres I doubt it saves much time over mowing in parallel lines.
Sometimes I use Reverse to avoid those mousy ears or triangles but i have hydrostatic drive and it's super simple and yet, I still get aggravated backing up my dad used to call those sections "running off a land"
I’ve got one for you. In my pasture that’s couple acres or so I make three or four passes around the perimeter and overtime. I’ve learned where the center is. I mow the center and I start making a left-hand turn concentric circles like a spiral get all the way out to the end I club off the corners and you’re done Mower is always mowing.
Some good information! Going around the field and giving yourself some edges to turn in is what we call “opening a field”. Get all of the edges and hard to maneuver areas cleaned up; give yourself and the machine enough area to turn around without needing it to do work. Spend a little time here, the rest of the field goes smooth. As you said, spending the most time going in straight lines gives the mower the most time doing its job, cutting. If it’s swinging back and forth, maneuvering, the blades arent always in contact with the material, making it less efficient. I think sectioning off the field into smaller sections is a good idea also as it allows you to maintain your speed (not slowing to back up, make a tight turn, or getting lined up correctly); the small amount of time spent driving over previously cut material is offset by never having to stop. Sectioning also gives you a sense of accomplishment because when you look at it, the cut sections get bigger and bigger as you go…. Some fields may take hours/days before you see the other side for that feeling. Also, making your driving direction match with the discharge direction of the mower is also more efficient, as you said. If the mower is cutting previously cut material, it’s slowing blades down, bogging down the tractor, or clogging up the uncut material, leaving a poor cut. Always discharge to the cut side if possible. Great video, thanks for sharing your experience…… but really, end the end, do you want to be so efficient that you dont get enough tractor time? I think the answer is no!
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I do the segments like you started except I keep cutting both segments until the first segment is gone. Then cut off another segment. It keeps the distance of my turn around at the ends the same all the time
You can mow in 2WD but it will turn much tighter in 4WD. I try to stay in 2WD but if I start slipping too much on turns or backing up, I will put it in 4WD. Here's a video we did on sharpening: ua-cam.com/video/gMu8frSiP8o/v-deo.html
Since you ran the video quite fast I wasn't able to get a good look of the back of the brush hog. I "think" that I saw that the brush hog had the back open, no covering to stop the grass from being pushed out. Am I right? If so, can you tell me why you have that open. I'm actually thinking about removing the back of my brush hog as I have some very tall weeds that when cutting I seem to get quite a large amount of cuttings that cause to brush hog and tractor to bog down.
It's funneled....that's the way King Kutter makes them. I've seen the round ones that don't have an exit chute. And some with the whole back open. Never thought about why they do it different ways?? More tractor videos here: ua-cam.com/play/PLG5yS75HLzo3RVqEuA0f6IioXV6FtFhHW.html
Call me crazy, but I like "plushing" the stripes with a brush hog like they do with a lawnmower. It makes the field more decorative for the view as we look out the window on our property. It has the feeling of symmetrical crop rows in the field. It also seems to last a long time when undisturbed. Unfortunately, doing it requires mowing each pass in opposite directions so the grass is leaning one way and then the other. That can be tricky with a tractor because normally you would need to back up and turn back to your rows. I found that it is more efficient doing it similar to what you are doing. You cut a straight path down the middle of the field and alternate two directions on each side. Then as the cutting widens you can do it with turns rather than stopping and backing up. It is still less efficient... but it trades some extra time for a more decorative look.
1 of our pastures is about 300' X 1/8 mile long. I split it in 2 then each I split in 2. I mow the outside of patch 1 back up patch 2 back to outside patch 1 this way I finish up the 2 patches at about the same time.
If you have a Kubota, the PTO selector and cable can stick. I haven't had your issue, but sometimes mine won't disengage right away when I turn the PTO off.
I do what I call a zamboni cut. I cut the perimeter then cut a line and turn almost as tight as i can but 1 row wider. I cut the return row then loop back to my second cut row along the first and repeat until the first section is done. No "mouse ear"
Trust me when I say that you have almost zero slope but it’s good that you’re considering soil conservation. Not only is this an efficient way of mowing, if you mow from the middle out it helps preserve wildlife, especially fawns. It gives them the chance to flush or be pushed out to the wooed or un cut area rather than be pushed in to where the only cover they have is that last few strips you have to mow making the chance of getting run over much greater
The direction of the winrows of cut grasss are doing very little if anything to prevent erosion. On the other hand, if the slope is significant, I've always heard and experienced it to be safer mowing up and down the slope vs across it.
That looks like the right tool for that job unless you have a big tractor with a brush hog on an arm. My setup is much like the other fellow with the Kubota and 5' but my pond bank is even steeper so I'll likely be attacking it with walk behind equipment or a weed eater. Thankfully my pond is only 1/2 ac.
I bushgog really similar way I’ll have four or five sections going. I tried just about ever way possible. I dislike going in squares around the whole field cuz my corners always get so wacky snd I don’t like the foot break cuz it tears the ground up so bad
That's what I do. I don't see anything here that appears more efficient. Every end is driven on cut grass and the more sections made, the more slivers. They are probably the worst for efficiency running the length of the field on a partial swat. If you had GPS with autosteer, it could be good, otherwise a lot of slivers. I do what I know as a "combine corner" where I drive off the uncut, make a turn and come back in as soon as possible around the corner. At the point where a side shrinks up to a short distance, I decide to stop cutting that side and bypass or drive across to the next side
We adjust height with the tailwheel settings. You can put it in 3 different holes, then lower the brush hog so it's level and riding on the tailwheel. I'd say 4" cut height....maybe a little shorter.
When you shred, do you use Low range and if so, which gear? My neighbor said to use 4th gear Low. I have a Mahindra 4540 for my 8.5 acres in Bellmead, TX. Thank you.
Depending how thick it is. How pretty you want it. You may get away with high 2nd. Depends a lot on terrain too. I know my uncles tractor will do it high 2nd but most the area won't allow for it anyway.
All good except you are creating slivers by constantly making the mowed patch smaller. Use a constant radius turn moving the cut line outward each pass. Think of it as leapfrogging.
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I had acreage to mow and I found by starting in the centre of my field an mowing in a circle saved me a ton of time and made the job quicker.
The key is to always have the mower cutting grass and moving forward! Backing up is time killer. Thanks for watching.
A sidenote from a circle mower someday I hope Google Earth will show my patterns in my field
If you started in a circle and worked your way out, wouldn’t you lose the time you saved at the end having to backtrack and get all the corners?
+1 clockwise circle mowers.
I use a 5 foot bush hog as well but when I make the 20 or 30 foot parallel pass in the other direction I go to the first pass and cut parallel to first pass then back parallel to second pass. So I travel the same distance on the end, every time, and when I finish the block it is twice as big as the part left between the first two parallel passes. My end pass is always the same 20 or 30 feet but I've now cut a 40 or 60 wide patch of the field. then I just move another 20 to 30 feet over and do it again. I didn't come up with this method but it's how I do it every time. And like you, I just sight something on the other side and mow straight to it. The field just looks pretty after mowing this way.
Great video! I have a big John Deere with s 90" land pride and thought today that there has to be a more efficient way of doing this. I have roughly 120 acres. Thank you for showing and explaining this.
I think the goal is to keep the mower cutting in as full width as you can and minimize the back and forth over little strips and slivers! Thanks for watching.
As a contract mower, I use a mower that is open at the back. That way I do a few laps to open up the paddock, and then instead of doing sections, I go backwards and forwards working my way across the paddock. My tractor is Kubota hyd shuttle, so same speed forwards and backwards.
You should try it, cause I didnt beleive how fast it was until I tried it.
I did like your video by the way.
Not sure my neck could handle that! Thanks for watching.
@@PineyGroveHomestead yep, but it will only hurt for a _________ time👍
Without hydrostatic it would make for a lot of clutch use and gear changes. Shuttle shift wouldnt be awful. Though I can see doing it that way with hydro
I have a kubota 45hp tractor 4wd and front end loader with a 6' woods bushhog. My biggest field is 10 acres, and is in my backyard. I try to keep it mown close, as it used for a golf driving range and plinking. I set the bushhog 1" lower in the front for best efficiency, and the discharge is on the left side, dictating a clockwise pattern. I will sharpen those blades this year. Thanks for that pointer.
Thanks for watching! We tried a finish mower last year: ua-cam.com/video/hyXh-gjfF0E/v-deo.html
Good advice! Thanks! I have several customers with 5 to 10 acre pastures that I cut once a month. I use that technique, and it works for me.
It also breaks up the monotony a little to think about the sections!
I've got a few acres to mow and I use my late father's Massey-Ferguson 240 and a 6 foot brush hog. It takes me 3 hours or so to cut. I would really like a new Farmall to cut with but for now I am blessed to have the dependable MF. Thanks for the video.
Thanks for watching!
When you section, the next pass thru the middle should be a bit further away. So both the edge and the center are moving the same direction, and the distance as you turn stays constant. No problem failing to make the turns.
The only informative video of this nature I have found on UA-cam, I'm keen to give it a go.
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I've always done 270 degree turns and went back into the cut.
I can see how that'd be less efficient in the grand scheme of things but it's always made for perfect corners.
I'll give this method a shot
Great infor! That style is excellect for botb level and sloped properties. I maintain a couple my fields using a 45hp jd with a 7' cutter though this year i need something easy on my knees and back so i went shopping for new cab tractor with better suspenion seat. Well long story short i accepted a dealer challenge that a 72' hyperdrive rear-discharged zero turn hustler with a 36hp engine would out cut and out ride my setup now, man was i wrong! It mowed 12" mixed johnson and rye with ease and in 1/2 the fuel and time! At least i can say im proud owner of a hustler
I've found that a zero turn in tall grass is not a good mix. It leaves lots of stalks if you try to cut it high and if you cut it 2-3", there's too much thatch to move. And the tractor is just more comfortable over the bumps. Here's a video we did on it: ua-cam.com/video/03fzY1XViIA/v-deo.html
@@PineyGroveHomestead yes a zero turn with side discharge will leave stems and doesn't like tall anything due to the fact it is passing the cuttings from one blade to the next! That why I haven't attempted it in the past though a rear diischarge deck is a different beast! It certainly can handle tall and short stuff with a better cut than my bush hog. The rear discharge is designed to cut such materials for road side right away maintenances for county and state use. Plus it able to cut at near full speed because it not passing the cutting from one blade to the next it very capable of -5-6 acre an hour in rough stuff and 7-8 acres in gud stuff Thanks Nate
@@nathanhatcher7096We wanted rear discharge for our Kubota diesel ZTR but they are pretty rare in the used market!
I have '56 Farmall 200 3-wheeler , I pull a 5' Woods sling-blade. My fields are long and narrow, so I do pivots on the ends.
Sounds like a cool rig. Thanks for watching.
I run in straight lines as much as possible. With a hydrostatic drive turning around and going straight back again is very fast. Like the zero turn mower guys do. Make a 3 point turn around instead of a wide U turn. Now with manual gears and clutch tractor it’s much more time consuming but with hydro a 3pt turn around is very quick
Here's the way Deb mows: ua-cam.com/video/oMMntSEruYY/v-deo.html
I like to mow in a circle from the center of the field outwards. This way I can keep moving forward until the mowed circle reaches the sides. Then I knock out the corners in a back & forth pattern. There is a limit to the efficiency in this pattern. A very large area like 10+ acres I doubt it saves much time over mowing in parallel lines.
Many ways to mow. I'd get dizzy mowing in a circle. Thanks for watching.
@@PineyGroveHomestead When I can I alternate the direction I mow in circles just to unwind my brain. 😉
@@HardwayRanch Tractor Hard! 🚜💪!
Sometimes I use Reverse to avoid those mousy ears or triangles but i have hydrostatic drive and it's super simple and yet, I still get aggravated backing up my dad used to call those sections "running off a land"
I’ve got one for you. In my pasture that’s couple acres or so I make three or four passes around the perimeter and overtime. I’ve learned where the center is. I mow the center and I start making a left-hand turn concentric circles like a spiral get all the way out to the end I club off the corners and you’re done Mower is always mowing.
Awesome!
Some good information! Going around the field and giving yourself some edges to turn in is what we call “opening a field”. Get all of the edges and hard to maneuver areas cleaned up; give yourself and the machine enough area to turn around without needing it to do work. Spend a little time here, the rest of the field goes smooth.
As you said, spending the most time going in straight lines gives the mower the most time doing its job, cutting. If it’s swinging back and forth, maneuvering, the blades arent always in contact with the material, making it less efficient. I think sectioning off the field into smaller sections is a good idea also as it allows you to maintain your speed (not slowing to back up, make a tight turn, or getting lined up correctly); the small amount of time spent driving over previously cut material is offset by never having to stop. Sectioning also gives you a sense of accomplishment because when you look at it, the cut sections get bigger and bigger as you go…. Some fields may take hours/days before you see the other side for that feeling. Also, making your driving direction match with the discharge direction of the mower is also more efficient, as you said. If the mower is cutting previously cut material, it’s slowing blades down, bogging down the tractor, or clogging up the uncut material, leaving a poor cut. Always discharge to the cut side if possible.
Great video, thanks for sharing your experience…… but really, end the end, do you want to be so efficient that you dont get enough tractor time? I think the answer is no!
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I do the segments like you started except I keep cutting both segments until the first segment is gone. Then cut off another segment. It keeps the distance of my turn around at the ends the same all the time
That's a good system.
Just one more thing...I will rarely use 4wd because of the added resistance to the tight turns.
You can mow in 2WD but it will turn much tighter in 4WD. I try to stay in 2WD but if I start slipping too much on turns or backing up, I will put it in 4WD. Here's a video we did on sharpening: ua-cam.com/video/gMu8frSiP8o/v-deo.html
Since you ran the video quite fast I wasn't able to get a good look of the back of the brush hog. I "think" that I saw that the brush hog had the back open, no covering to stop the grass from being pushed out. Am I right? If so, can you tell me why you have that open. I'm actually thinking about removing the back of my brush hog as I have some very tall weeds that when cutting I seem to get quite a large amount of cuttings that cause to brush hog and tractor to bog down.
It's funneled....that's the way King Kutter makes them. I've seen the round ones that don't have an exit chute. And some with the whole back open. Never thought about why they do it different ways?? More tractor videos here: ua-cam.com/play/PLG5yS75HLzo3RVqEuA0f6IioXV6FtFhHW.html
Call me crazy, but I like "plushing" the stripes with a brush hog like they do with a lawnmower. It makes the field more decorative for the view as we look out the window on our property. It has the feeling of symmetrical crop rows in the field. It also seems to last a long time when undisturbed. Unfortunately, doing it requires mowing each pass in opposite directions so the grass is leaning one way and then the other. That can be tricky with a tractor because normally you would need to back up and turn back to your rows. I found that it is more efficient doing it similar to what you are doing. You cut a straight path down the middle of the field and alternate two directions on each side. Then as the cutting widens you can do it with turns rather than stopping and backing up. It is still less efficient... but it trades some extra time for a more decorative look.
You might like this video: ua-cam.com/video/xyDHt6ro4ks/v-deo.html
1 of our pastures is about 300' X 1/8 mile long. I split it in 2 then each I split in 2. I mow the outside of patch 1 back up patch 2 back to outside patch 1 this way I finish up the 2 patches at about the same time.
It's fun to mow in different ways to see which way is better. Thanks for watching!
The way you cut is the same way Zamboni clean ice at hockey rinks.
Exactly what I was thinking. Zamboni technique.
Was thinking the exact same thing
Zamboni driver here, i completely agree, the Zamboni pattern works really good for rough cut mowing.
When you're mowing the really thick stuff have you ever had your pto kick out of gear? I've been having that problem lately.
If you have a Kubota, the PTO selector and cable can stick. I haven't had your issue, but sometimes mine won't disengage right away when I turn the PTO off.
I do what I call a zamboni cut. I cut the perimeter then cut a line and turn almost as tight as i can but 1 row wider. I cut the return row then loop back to my second cut row along the first and repeat until the first section is done. No "mouse ear"
Trust me when I say that you have almost zero slope but it’s good that you’re considering soil conservation.
Not only is this an efficient way of mowing, if you mow from the middle out it helps preserve wildlife, especially fawns. It gives them the chance to flush or be pushed out to the wooed or un cut area rather than be pushed in to where the only cover they have is that last few strips you have to mow making the chance of getting run over much greater
I'm always worried about fawns when I mow.
My parents have a large back yard and I mowed their yard that way in sections.
i like any tractor with fat tires and running well. maint, maint, maint. like anything else. thank you for the well done vids.
Thanks for watching!
All of that's a no brainer.
Most people likely don't think about patterns when they mow.
This is exactly how I mow my pastures every year.
Awesome
Brush hogging is fun. Here is Mrs Piney Grove mowing this field: ua-cam.com/video/NBj3fSbMpCg/v-deo.html
The direction of the winrows of cut grasss are doing very little if anything to prevent erosion. On the other hand, if the slope is significant, I've always heard and experienced it to be safer mowing up and down the slope vs across it.
Thanks for watching. You may enjoy this video: ua-cam.com/video/ZImEAPwcSqc/v-deo.html
That looks like the right tool for that job unless you have a big tractor with a brush hog on an arm. My setup is much like the other fellow with the Kubota and 5' but my pond bank is even steeper so I'll likely be attacking it with walk behind equipment or a weed eater. Thankfully my pond is only 1/2 ac.
Great information! I’ve never used that method, but it makes sense. 👍 …and trust me, if they prefer a green tractor, they will tell you. 😂
Yes, folks tend to be protective of their tractor brand! 🚜 Thanks for watching Lucas. 👍
I bushgog really similar way I’ll have four or five sections going. I tried just about ever way possible. I dislike going in squares around the whole field cuz my corners always get so wacky snd I don’t like the foot break cuz it tears the ground up so bad
Agreed. Many ways to mow, but this is the way I tend to do all our pastures and food plots.
Thanks for watching.
I notice my bush hog is higher at the tail, and yours is level. Should I level mine?
I would if you want a lower cut. If you like the way it's cutting, I would leave it as is.
The less turns you make the faster you mow. I just start around the entire field and make rounds. You have less turns therefore saving time
The fastest way to mow is to always keep the mower cutting grass, but I'm not going to go around in smaller and smaller circles.
@PineyGroveHomestead exactly right! The smaller the circle the more turns
That's what I do. I don't see anything here that appears more efficient. Every end is driven on cut grass and the more sections made, the more slivers. They are probably the worst for efficiency running the length of the field on a partial swat. If you had GPS with autosteer, it could be good, otherwise a lot of slivers.
I do what I know as a "combine corner" where I drive off the uncut, make a turn and come back in as soon as possible around the corner.
At the point where a side shrinks up to a short distance, I decide to stop cutting that side and bypass or drive across to the next side
Is there a Pine Grove in every County in the south 🙂
Maybe a Pine Grove....but there's only one Piney Grove Homestead in the world!!!
Good video. What height do you have the deck set to?
We adjust height with the tailwheel settings. You can put it in 3 different holes, then lower the brush hog so it's level and riding on the tailwheel. I'd say 4" cut height....maybe a little shorter.
Or just simply hog the fence row and clean the corners then lap it. Same time and fuel usage either way.
thanks for watching.
When you shred, do you use Low range and if so, which gear? My neighbor said to use 4th gear Low. I have a Mahindra 4540 for my 8.5 acres in Bellmead, TX. Thank you.
We have hydrostatic drive, so we can vary the speed. I would say go as fast as you can to achieve the cut you desire and not bog down the tractor!
Depending how thick it is. How pretty you want it.
You may get away with high 2nd. Depends a lot on terrain too. I know my uncles tractor will do it high 2nd but most the area won't allow for it anyway.
I use a flail mower. More maneuverable and leaves the field much nicer looking than the brush hog.
We don't have one.
You can mow across a gentle hill,if you mow across a steep hill you will tip your tractor over. Only ever drive syraight up or down steep hills.
Check this video out. Cool way to mow: ua-cam.com/video/9ddbYmEJxhQ/v-deo.html
If you have so much to mow why don't you use a 12' Sickle mower??
We've used one before in this video: ua-cam.com/video/HDmVxpDuHAM/v-deo.html
Im gonna try this next time I cut my field..I definitely get the mouse ears and triangles 😅😅
Hope it helps!
Im gonna try a fat figure 8 next weekend. 8 acres spread over 4 fields.
That would look cool for a drone shot!
All good except you are creating slivers by constantly making the mowed patch smaller. Use a constant radius turn moving the cut line outward each pass. Think of it as leapfrogging.
Yes, the key is to always have the blades cutting new grass!
That’s right it’s a tractor
Correct, there is a tractor in this video.
I have goats they mow for me
That's smart!
@@PineyGroveHomestead I'm an old goat...
Dude, it's a pasture, not the 15th fairway at Augusta. Just mow it.
Right
Why didn’t you just say cut it like a good farmer cuts a hay field?
That's not how you cut a hay field.
Well around here that’s how you do it 4 to 5 head lands then your rows Big chunks you split then come back the other way
Best way is to let the wife mow it.
Like this: ua-cam.com/video/2DNHirrkTO8/v-deo.html
My junk tractor wouldn't cut that.
who cares, just cut the grass
100K people cared enough to watch this video.
nice polished field. i got gofers to the hundredth power.