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Gather Equipment and Soil Amendments

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Chainsaws, chippers, dump trucks, grain drills..farm work taking ya see...good livin!

What happens here

Begin by staging all the heavy equipment required for the task, such as a John Deere tractor with a bucket, a Ventrac tractor with multiple attachments (tiller, mower, brush cutter, bucket, rake), a Haybuster 107C seed drill, and a broadcast spreader. Load bags of Contractor's Choice grass seed mix (20% rye grass, 80% Kentucky 31 fescue) and Solu-Cal onto a pickup truck bed, ensuring they are readily accessible for filling the seed drill and spreader.

Goal: Assemble all necessary machinery and gather various soil amendments, including grass seed mixes (fescue, rye, clover) and Solu-Cal, in preparation for field work.

Tools and materials

  • Broadcast Spreader
  • Chainsaw
  • Haybuster 107C Seed Drill
  • John Deere Tractor
  • Land Rake
  • Pickup Truck
  • Ventrac Tractor
  • Wood Chipper
  • Contractor's Choice Grass Seed Mix
  • Ladino Clover Seed
  • Millet Seed
  • Solu-Cal

What they say

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we're going to be prepping some land over here across and I'll show you some land and we've already prepped if you've seen that video if you haven't seen that video right here scrolling across will be a link to it check that out before we start this it would be pretty cool for you we're gonna get busy we've got a lot of pieces of equipment to work with we've got a lot of things to do and I'll take you around we also have a new tractor that we leased for the farm so come along on the farm vlog today we're gonna have some fun we got to get busy get the drone in the air get the GoPro is going and show you guys what we're doing all right aren't the dogs good they know when I had the camera they just go chill out it's pretty cool so let's talk about all the equipment that's going on right now here on the farm we have a grass drill seed driller it's called the hey buster 107 see I guess that stands for 107 inches or something like that it's a 10 foot grain drill it's a 3 bay grain drill I'll show you how it works right over here we have some solu cow and some grassy this is a contractor mixed grass seed this has 20% rye grass annual rye grass and 80% fescue Kentucky 31 fescue grass seed and what we're trying to do is get grass to grow on this land quickly set in and not wash that's the immediate goal right here now we're going to climb up here I'll show you some of the features of this machine before we get started so you know what's going on so we've got the truck backed up basically here there's a step right there then I'll step up on the tailgate of the truck there are three hoppers one hopper for fescue grass seed one hopper for grain one hopper for clover we only have the grass seed one filled up right here and we already filled it up this is about six 50-pound bags of fescue grass seed and ryegrass mix we're gonna see this at about 28 to 32 pounds to the acre with this seed drill if we go back here to our last hopper we have Ladino clover this is clover seed white top medium Ladino clover now the reason we're planting the white top medium Ladino clover is we want to fix nitrogen to the soil without put and fertilizer the whole goal on our farm is to keep from using chemical fertilizers we're gonna have to use fertilizer to get these seeds started after that the goal is no fertilizer probably put down some lime or solute Cal well I explained a little bit of that stuff later on as we get to broadcasting that out on the farm so let's talk about the various…

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