Thread: In the Garden 2016

Originally Posted by gssixgun

Well that was a fun experience,

I got 4 rows plowed the other day and got the Walla Walla Onions planted in one of those..

So today before the wife got home I decide I can get the rest of the plot plowed in, fire up the tractor and start plowing..

Breaking and Turning the plot with the Middlebuster got halfway through, and

Heard a big BANG !!!! just about crapped my pants,,

Looked back reluctantly, expecting the worst, and saw the Plowshare laying in the dirt I luckily had only popped both shear bolts, nothing bent or broken that I could see. That was a huge and well buried stump I pulled up hehehe
Guess I am going back to town tomorrow to buy bolt sets...

You got lucky Glen. The garden gods were watching. Here in Maine it would have been a rock.

Originally Posted by gssixgun

Well that was a fun experience,

I got 4 rows plowed the other day and got the Walla Walla Onions planted in one of those..

So today before the wife got home I decide I can get the rest of the plot plowed in, fire up the tractor and start plowing..

Breaking and Turning the plot with the Middlebuster got halfway through, and

Heard a big BANG !!!! just about crapped my pants,,

Looked back reluctantly, expecting the worst, and saw the Plowshare laying in the dirt I luckily had only popped both shear bolts, nothing bent or broken that I could see. That was a huge and well buried stump I pulled up hehehe
Guess I am going back to town tomorrow to buy bolt sets...

You've probably already been to town and back and I'm sure you already know this, BUT Make Sure that you use a soft grade of bolt/that's why they are called 'Shear Bolts' as they shear off (break) instead of the unit being bent or broken.

Much less expensive to replace the bolts then have the frame welded or straightened.

By the way, let's have a video of 'Farmer Glen' plowing out in the field!

Originally Posted by cudarunner

You've probably already been to town and back and I'm sure you already know this, BUT Make Sure that you use a soft grade of bolt/that's why they are called 'Shear Bolts' as they shear off (break) instead of the unit being bent or broken.

Much less expensive to replace the bolts then have the frame welded or straightened.

Funny you mention this

Actually overheard this while listening to a discussion in the Hardware aisle of the CoOp about "Shear Bolts for a 3pt Snow Blower"

Customer: I need shear bolts for my snowblower

Clerk: Well most of them are Grade 2 do you know what size ???

Customer: well they were 1/4" but they keep breaking in the heavy snow, so I want to upgrade them to either a Harder bolt or maybe I can drill the hole out to fit a 5/16"


I looked at the Clerk smiled and walked away ***SMH***

Originally Posted by gssixgun

Funny you mention this

Actually overheard this while listening to a discussion in the Hardware aisle of the CoOp about "Shear Bolts for a 3pt Snow Blower"

Customer: I need shear bolts for my snowblower

Clerk: Well most of them are Grade 2 do you know what size ???

Customer: well they were 1/4" but they keep breaking in the heavy snow, so I want to upgrade them to either a Harder bolt or maybe I can drill the hole out to fit a 5/16"


I looked at the Clerk smiled and walked away ***SMH***

Thanks Glen, You Just Made My Day! :

That guy is a Perfect Example of Wanting Something that he doesn't need, want, crave or desire, But he 'thinks' that it will solve the problem! OH! It Might! But there are more components further within that will suffer and be much more expensive to deal with.

Let's see: $1-$2's for repeatedly replacing shear bolts, VS more money than it would take to replace the snow blower.

Us old Redneck Country Boys have been the butt of so many jokes and derogatory remarks but when it comes down to common sense and years of experience, we do OK

Shear Bolts are always bought in replacement sets. one to use, one to save and one to drop.

Well we did it now

The wife and I got in 1 row of her Pumpkins, 2 rows of the Corn and she decided that we should try the Radishes and some Beets over in the new plot ..

This should be interesting because it is a total experiment,, dropping seeds and covering them up, awesome concept

I am really hoping that the Corn takes

Found out there is some serious water going through the SE corner, was trying to clear a path fully around the outside of the plowed area and found some MUD, deep mud, about 2 feet down...

Originally Posted by gssixgun

Found out there is some serious water going through the SE corner, was trying to clear a path fully around the outside of the plowed area and found some MUD, deep mud, about 2 feet down...

Possible spring seepage? At the place were my folks lived for over 35 years there was a field right next to them in fact dad's garden was an easy stone's toss away from where the farmers had to pull up the plows and skip over the area because of the seepage.

It never spread, but it's still there today as I drove by and the area hadn't been plowed but the rest of the field had.

Just wondering.

Going to start my special seeds tomorrow I think.

Cucumbers, squash, and the watermelon seeds went in today, jalapeños, and serranos, and the other a dish transplants tomorrow, walla walla onions are standing proud after there travel and transplanting. Tc

Well compared to others here my little strawberry patch isn't much but I hope they do well. There's a total of 20 plants.