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Shreadin

the_jersey_lilly_2000

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For those of ya that don't git to do this..LOL

Place is startin to look like a city park almost hehe

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Remember the hog roots that I posted a while back??? Ok now I'm gettin to ride over em with the tractor and shreader......dust flies, and ya hafta hang on to keep from gittin bucked off the tractor. LOL

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where I been, and where I ain't been yet, but will be soon.
 

HAY MAKER

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Dang!!!Lilly,I would be windrowing that stuff and baling it,believe it or not some folks are baling ditches and the sides of the roads for hay...........good luck
 

kolanuraven

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I just finished doing the same to my fields...and they dooooooooo look so good when yer done. yoiu just want to sit and look at them!!!
 

the_jersey_lilly_2000

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it wouldnt be worth cuttin and balin, sides it'd prolly tear up the cutter blades. It's mostly goat/pig weeds, and dew berry vines. Some other kinda sticker vine too. We're gonna cut the road side all along the place this next go round, but just along our place. Lotta people frown on lettin ya do that. Don't know why tho, most of the one's that frown at ya when you ask, don't have cows and don't understand the hay situation.
Bleave it or not, the shreader is set perdy low but I'm not cuttin any grass at all, just the weeds above it.
now if the 30% chances for rain friday saturday and sunday will come on a dump some, should help the grass a bunch since the weeds are gone. I'm still not finished yet tho, yesterday I had to quit about 5:30, sheard the pen holdin the shreader on the back of the tractor, and everthang came to a screechin hault when the shreader bogged down in the dirt. We'll get it hooked back up this afternoon when Mr Lilly gets home and I'll go somemore.
 

IL Rancher

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The fields do look nice after clipping. We tend to run our cows through, let them eat the grass and the edible parts of the weeds and than go in with the batwing the day they leave. Takes care of all the rank material in the spring and al the warm season weeds in the summer.. And keeps the boss happy when he shows up at the place that the field don't look all weedy. He wants us to live on a golf course :roll: in more ways than one I guess.

I think it really helps with regroth of grass to knock those weeds down to. 1) They can't compete with the grass as vigorusly and 2) the Organic material of the shreaded weeds helps hold some water in the soil and act as a bit of fertilizer as it decomposses. I know the grass under the thistle field I shreaded a month ago is 4 inches talller than the grass that wasn't... Probably because it wasn't grazed so hard.
 

the_jersey_lilly_2000

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I was readin an article on weeds not too long ago, and it said that they will use the water before the grass can get it, up to a foot circle around that weed. I don't know if the vines we have are concidered weeds, but them daggum goat/pig weeds are awful, and grow FAST. So it makes sense to get rid of them so the grass can grow. Also, that calf we have that had the "photosensitivity" I posted pictures of, well it's caused by the goat/pig weeds. So either way, it was time to shread and get rid of them. Its really hard to totally get rid of them, they'll be back next year again I'm sure, just hopefully not so many. Normal years when we have plenty of rain, we don't have weeds as bad as we have this year. But last year was dry too, and things were over grazed some, not real bad but enuff that the weeds had more chance to grow than previous years.
 

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