Newbie having fun

I want to thank everyone that has answered my questions this spring and summer. Thanks to a lot of good advice I have had a blast working on our new property with my 8N this year.

A couple of weeks ago, I finally started using a Bush Hog style mower and had a ball clearing out some weeded areas on the property that were far to rough to attack with anything smaller. My back yard was instantly 30' deeper than it used to be. Now I can actually see the water in the pond. Man was that fun.

Next I needed a water line in the area that we are turning into a garden and a small Saskatoon berry orchard. I got up early last Saturday and started at 7am. By 8am I had ripped a 230' trench with my middle buster, layed a 3/4" poly line, attached all the fittings and filled the trench in with my rear blade. One hour to do all that by myself and now we have water where before we had to string out hundreds of feet of garden hose.

Wow this is fun. What next?????

Regards,

Brent Parkin
White City, SK
Canada eh!

In Texas, we call it a Sod Buster..It will not get you down 3 feet, but pretty close after a few passes..

And I'm in East Texas...

:-)
Steve

I also used it to trench a 4" drain away from the front of the house around the side and down the hill. About 120 feet of drain line and I placed the bottom of the drain line about 12" under ground. Took me a couple of passes to get that deep and I figure 8" of soil on top won't give the future lawn any worries.

My 8N didn't even notice the middle buster. Having not used any ground engaging implements before, I had to keep looking to see if it was doing anything, but sure enough no effort at all ripped me a nice deep trench.

Brent Parkin
White City, SK
Canada eh!

Getting ready to hook up the hay wagon for the Halloween party. Kids are dying for a long hay ride through the woods and on the gravel roads.

There is ALWAYS something to do on the tractor. Keep having fun.

I dug two drainage trenches from my barn to a drain field about two feet deep and about 100 feet long. Now I was not worried about a frost line so that is why I chose that depth. The middle buster goes through soil (including 2-3" think roots) like a hot knife through butter using 1st gear 1/2 - 3/4 throttle. You can adjust the depth of the dig by the hydraulics and the angle of the middle buster.

300' of water line is certainly doable but if you have to worry about a deep frost line, this may not dig deep enough. You may want to look around for ones that dig deep iffn you have a frostline. I picked mine up for $70 (it was brand new but I bought it from someone who thought he needed it and never used it).

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