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wjytexas

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Wed. I mowed my back couple of acres which were very grown up and really too wet but needed knocked down. Thurs. I mowed the front and back yard and around the trees in the horse lot with the garden tractor then yesterday mowed my Aunt's pasture. It had a mix of Texas winter grass and turnip weed/wild mustard up to 4 ft. tall. It has another name but the auto edit won't let me use that name. When I was on the downwind leg I was in a yellow cloud of pollen and flower petals. My allergies weren't too bad but I did cough a lot when I inhaled the bug. Just sitting in the house waiting for rain showers.
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It may be a weed but sure is pretty. You can just see a hint of green here if you look real hard. May have to put the lawn divots back from plowing snow this winter, I made a couple of real big ones before the yard froze. It isn't the first time, that 9 foot bucket moves a lot of sod and dirt in a hurry under the snow. Oops.
 
(quoted from post at 09:51:21 03/30/20) It may be a weed but sure is pretty. You can just see a hint of green here if you look real hard. May have to put the lawn divots back from plowing snow this winter, I made a couple of real big ones before the yard froze. It isn't the first time, that 9 foot bucket moves a lot of sod and dirt in a hurry under the snow. Oops.
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I did the same thing many times before I realized what really needed to be done was some landscaping and contouring.

Put the peeled up sod back in place and it will be waiting to be peeled again the next year.

Get rid of the shaved off piece and re-seed the bare spot, the next time your bucket goes over the spot it will slide right by it.

Come spring I used to have enough torn up pieces to fill a truck, the past few years I can clean up a winters worth of scrapings with a wheelbarrow.
 
AS a kid my dad had me disk down a 20 acre field of giant rag weed while it was in bloom. IH 350 Utility and 8 foot FH disk. I was making a yellow cloud as I went along. the pollen stuck to the back of the front axle 1/2" deep shaped like an air foil. I had to change the oilbath pan 4 times in the 3 days I was doing it. The weeds were 8 inches taller than the radiator cap. I think it would have killed some individuals. I (evidently) don't have allergies to horseweed (Our local name for it). Thanks for sharing that image, Texas is beautiful. I married a Texan. Jim
 
this invasive weed crowds out the native wild flowers and is taking over fields and roadsides. very difficult to control.
 
I should try that, is that 1 1/2 or 2 inch. I have 2 skid shoes on it but they don't float enough to keep it out of the dirt early in the winter. The real problem is my lawn, should be torn up landscaped and reseeded. The lawn still turns green and has to be mowed often so probably is on the back burner for now
 
Most every weekend, my husband starts up one or two tractors and takes them each for a cruise to the far end of the farm.Too eatly yet here, for any mowing.

Friday, he had a vacation day scheduled, and hauled our old van off and sold it for scrap... it still ran decent - but no license tags, already dropped ibsurance on it ladt fall, and kind of poor tires so he drove it onto the trailer and hauled it in.

He just had me order some bushings and other parts for the Wico X magneto on our B John Deere.

Lawn tractors have been ready to roll since last fall. At the end of each mowing season, he cleans them up and does maintenance.
 
Or get a snow pusher. Believe it or not, I use a 12' one on my 2WD Ford 655A TLB. A little smaller would be better, but location was right on this one.
 
I got my summer hay crop "mudded" in and mowed some grass. Usually it's mid to late April and sometimes May before i can get it in.
 
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