What have you done to your Wheel Horse today?

[Handy Don 16,156]

 

The 854 got a spiffy new set of adjustable tie rods commissioned from @ri702bill. Beautiful craftsmanship!

Much improved steering now that the toe-out has been corrected. When giving it a test ride, I discovered that the tractor's left turn radius is a few inches tighter than its right turn radius when the spindle arms are hitting their respective stops. 

Only quirk is that the ball ends that I sourced have SAE threading on both the male and female parts, but the flats are metric! The shaft flats are SAE because Bill turned them from SAE hex stock. 

Edited yesterday at 02:37 PM by Handy Don

[Lane Ranger 11,926]

Treated the lawn today with Scott’s Max Weed and Feed.  Never used Max before but Weed and Weed in the past did pretty well!  

Used my 1962 Wheel Horse 702 and my Stryker spreader!  Took about one hour.  51% chance of rain this evening and 100% in Wednesday!   So i took a chsnce by spreading today!

[pfrederi 20,158]

If you fertilize it, it grows faster...I do not seed the snow clouds why would I want to make the grass grow faster... ???

[ineedanother 1,996]

4 hours ago, Lane Ranger said:

Treated the lawn today with Scott’s Max Weed and Feed.  Never used Max before but Weed and Weed in the past did pretty well!  

Used my 1962 Wheel Horse 702 and my Stryker spreader!  Took about one hour.  51% chance of rain this evening and 100% in Wednesday!   So i took a chsnce by spreading today!

 

Looks like some of my tall fescue. We don't have any rain in the 10 day forecast here in NC so consider yourself lucky!

[Ed Kennell 45,544]

4 hours ago, pfrederi said:

If you fertilize it, it grows faster...

I treated mine with weed and feed every spring for many years.   Then my well water started to grow some slimy snot..   After about three years of shock treating that only worked for about 3 months, I contacted Penn State and was informed the weed and feed was probably leaching into the well and causing the growth.    I stopped the weed and feed and the well has tested good for several years.   I have weeds and bare spots, but the water is good.

[kpinnc 17,659]

55 minutes ago, Ed Kennell said:

I have weeds and bare spots, but the water is good.

 

My property has oodles of weeds. Personally, so long as it's all the same color when cut the same length, it's good enough for me. 

Edited 14 hours ago by kpinnc

[ebinmaine 78,054]

4 hours ago, kpinnc said:

 

My property has oodles of weeds. Personally, so long as it's all the same color when cut the same length, it's good enough for me. 

 

 

 

Same here. We don't try to grow a lawn. In the rough area around the garden it seems like about 3 years after its creation there was more grass than weeds.  Rough. But green when cut. 

Good enough.  

 

Out front of the house we'll eventually need to replace the sand/rocks/dirt with prettier dirt. Or stones. Or maybe even let it go wild for a bit so it too grows green stuff. 

 

[DLF 1]

9 hours ago, ineedanother said:

Looks like some of my tall fescue. We don't have any rain in the 10 day forecast here in NC so consider yourself lucky!

We are 100 miles south and the same here. not calling for any rain until the 24. 

 

 

Lee1977

[953 nut 64,921]

9 hours ago, ineedanother said:

We don't have any rain in the 10 day forecast here in NC

Like many others I don't spend time and money encouraging grass to grow, it manages just fine on its own. Much of the yard is so heavily shaded that moss is the only thing that grows.

Over the winter we had a paver patio installed in the back yard and the track loader left some areas needing to be reseeded, I have to water those areas about an hour every afternoon to keep the tender new grass alive. May get a bit of rain this weekend but the TV weather lady didn't sound too optimistic about it.

[Horsin'round 397]

10 hours ago, Ed Kennell said:

.   I have weeds and bare spots

 

 

At my house in western Pennsylvania,  I had a neighbor that started telling me how he fed his lawn spring,  summer and fall. At one point,  I interrupted him and told him that I tend to propagate the native species.  We never breeched the subject again. 

 

Our homes bordered a native trout stream and my primary concern was with impact.  Our yard was full of wild flowers,  and dandelions.  They mowed just fine.  Mine was the only lawn that was green in August. 

[kpinnc 17,659]

8 hours ago, ebinmaine said:

Same here. We don't try to grow a lawn.

 

 

Don't get me wrong, a properly landscaped yard is beautiful. My neighbor owns a fairly large landscape company, so his yard is perfect. But he has a crew of employees that visit his place as much as 2-3 times a week during the summer and at least weekly all year round. I have neither that kind of free time nor can I afford it. So all I can do is battle my grass when I can. That will just have to do!