Posted by Billy NY on October 28, 2014 at 09:10:42 from (66.67.105.23):
In Reply to: Bush hogging posted by merlynr on October 28, 2014 at 07:00:32:
My old ford has not seen its radiator grill since long before I've owned it. Some years back I combed the fins, keep the radiator clean, and rigged a piece of insect screen, so there was a space in between, it helped quite a bit when you have those conditions. Around here, golden rod and some kind of thistle will become an insulated mat on the front side, it is definitely wise to cut that golden rod before it fuzzes up, same with the thistle I encountered.
Years ago while employed as a heavy equipment operator, I was on a D8k pushing 627 scrapers taking top soil off, on land that just saw its last year of crops, corn and pumpkins, somewhere near or in Flanders NJ, off Rt 206. Corn was harvested, pumpkins were not. The land was trying to make its last stand as the corn and pumpkin trash was covering the radiator grills on everything. The pumpkin crop being left out there, I was pushing up piles of very nice pumpkins. All the operators took pumpkins home, it was the strangest thing, being October, you'd have thought they would have taken them off the field.
Having grown up on and around farms, something was just not right with this work we did of converting really nice fields into subdivisions, some of the layers of top soil were quite thick, NJ does have some nice soil in places.
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