Oops…….I Did It Again
I love my tractor.
It’s a wonderful machine.
It’s diminutive but mighty…
My Mahindra diesel 2615-HST
I suppose it could be bigger.
I’m sure I could do more damage if it were bigger.
Maybe it’s good that it’s not bigger.
Recently, I made a little mistake while taking out a compressed alfalfa bale…(approx. 900 lbs.)
The bales that were delivered this month are extra big and extra heavy…….but that’s a good thing…
If I don’t keep the tractor’s front bucket as low to the ground as possible, then the weight of the alfalfa bale on the back weighs down the forklift to the point that it lifts the front tires off the ground…
I don’t think that’s particularly safe.
Plus it puts a dent in my four-wheel-drive capabilities.
When taking out hay, I have to backup an incline to get through the gate into the pasture……..if I don’t back in, the bale will slide off the forklift blades right into a huge mud puddle that’s accumulated outside the gate.
(So see…….I have a lot of excuses for not watching what was happening with the front bucket when I swung wide as soon as my (2) tires stopped spinning in the mud and I cleared the gate…….)
But there’s no denying…….that front bucket took that gate post out right at the base…
It just snapped that puppy like it was a matchstick…
……..and then with all the tension being gone and the post being broken off, all the electric strands started dramatically shorting and snapping…
The good news is that the horses wanted nothing to do with it and cleared out of the general vicinity……….so we didn’t have to worry about them bolting through the now demolished gate aperture……………..
…….and now Paolo & I have our next project mapped out for us…
6 thoughts on “Oops…….I Did It Again”
That field looks like it is pasture for cracker cattle. Pretty scraggly, even by Fla. field standards. I’m interested in your permanent puddle. That would seem to be an anomaly, unless I missed something and the water table has suddenly risen in Fla, rather than the constant lowering that has been occurring.
I think the anomaly has something to do with big, heavy horses camping out by the water tank…….did you know that it’s illegal to bring in fill dirt other than for a house foundation? I believe a loophole is “wind erosion replacement”…….I just know we have A LOT of wind erosion in that corner of the yard. I just have to convince my spousal unit of that.
Lots of wind. Oklahoma dust bowl kind of winds, Alaska Kenai Mtn Range blizzard kind of winds. I’ll vouch for it. I saw the water tank in the corner after I looked real hard.
That’s the ticket……you get it!
Regarding the unknown machine, considering where you are, it’s probably a hay bailer, that makes big square bales like yours, or it may be a sod cutter. It looks like it doesn’t have something attached in the front. I know it’s not a good old Midwest combine, since there are no corn, beans or wheat grown around you. You are correct in your assessment of tractors. Bigger means more damage, and 4 wheels on the ground is always the way to go, whenever possible.
I think you’re right about it being a sod-cutter. That entire area was covered in citrus groves until “Greening” killed them all………..(“Greening Disease” that’s another BIG question mark). I believe I heard they were growing sod or maybe peanut hay…….but that field is not peanut hay?