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Glad it was helpful. Thanks for watching!

I’m not surprised to hear that. I’m sure the cab really moves the center of gravity!

Nah. The weed is either alive or it’s dead. You can’t kill it “deader”. Follow the recommended mix ratios and spray stuff as soon as you see it coming through the concrete cracks.

And chances are if you are bringing mowers into that parking lot, you are bringing all kinds of seeds into the lot with you so they are going to germinate and grow.

Glad you liked it.

Thanks! I wasn’t expecting it to turn out so well!

It was pretty cool to watch. Video coming soon!

Thanks! Glad it was helpful.

Glad it was helpful. I’m planning an autumn olive video as well. We have probably work 50+ acres to reduce the autumn olive. Some field and some in the woods. Keep fighting the good fight!

@@HardyLifeOutdoors So I just got out of the woods and tried a different tactic with these damn autumn olives even though it's summer (June 16). The week rental with the brush hog on the excavator expired but we have a John Deere 5055E 4 wheel drive tractor with a 520M loader which both are pretty beefy. I realized that after some trial and error, I can pop the root bulb of these things out of the ground pretty simply and consistently... then push them all into a pile to be dealt with later and drag them to a burn pile. I can't convey how happy I am that I didn't need to chem or buy another piece of equipment to deal with these things at this point!! If you're interested in more details, let me know. I may try to put up a video showing the tractor technique. 🍻

That is one of the techniques we have used. Definitely works well with a larger tractor. A few learnings from that. Be careful to keep the broken material in front of you. We have put sticks through the radiator and ripped hydraulic hoses off the tractors. Just need to be aware of what’s sticking up. Don’t pile your brush piles on top of an area where there was an autumn olive bush. The roots will grow a bush back and it will come up through your brush pile where it is hard to get at Popping them out will remove the large plant but there will still be a living root system in the ground that will resprout. If you spray them right away with glyphosate you will reduce grow back. Those that do grow back and can later be bush hogged or sprayed. We have used the USDA EQIP program to help with removal. They paid us around $150 an acre for removal and $25 per brush pile that we created. We were able to recoup around $800 for one 3 acre area we cleared. Good luck and keep at it. Take pictures, it’s nice to be able to see the before and after, especially when you feel like you aren’t making a difference.

@@HardyLifeOutdoors Wow! Thats excellent info regarding the USDA program! We're in western WV (Ohio Valley area - not too far from you) so we may also qualify for that program. Which USDA initiative would this project fall under? Great insight regarding the tractoring technique. You definitely have to keep the brush IN FRONT of the tractor as much as possible and clean up your immediate work area of other saplings and such that are more than happy to take out hoses and wiring (ask me how I know!) Our property is a lot of acreage and since the tractor will see a lot of time in the woods and brush doing this type of work, I have to upgrade the protection on the tractor and operator station or else the tractor will get damaged and I was at risk when in certain areas. We have massive mature vines (as big as your upper arm) that have grown out of the autumn olive (and other small trees) up into mature timber and trees that pose a hazard when pushing the brush around when the vines are tangled above and tug on the overhead limbs. Those vines are tough!! As such, I'm seriously considering a package from this outfit: www.grtractors.com/productpages/agriculturaltractorpages/agriculturaltractor (if the link doesn't post, search for grtractors.com - agricultural tractors. A John Deere 333G high flow skid steer (similar to what is shown @ 4:16 in your video) is in our future but we don't have it yet but will make much quicker work of these buggers. 🍻

If you buy one of those, I’ll be watching your CZcams channel! Eqip programs are brush management for covering autumn olive and if I recall correctly habitat for wildlife covers the brush piles. They were reluctant to do the brush piles but I told them I wouldn’t do the brush management with out it.

Thanks Andy! It was a good day for sure!

Thanks Dusty!

It’s coming along!

That might be the formula for a hand sprayer but certainly not how you measure for a sprayer on an atv or tractor.

And that’s the price coming down.

Heck yea! Always have to get the hat!

They have an auto cover on their pool. It’s like a heavy duty fabric garage door that locks into the sides and the end. When the pool is open, it rolls up and is stored inside the patio. Our area accepts that cover in place of a fence. We will have a fence as we don’t want to have to have the pool covered every time we are not in the immediate area.

Just talked to the guy that did the concrete in my barn and he says $7 a foot for prep, concrete and finishing. That’s in SE Ohio

Shot up during and after Covid but has come down quite a bit.

Biden....

Yep

Glyphosate acts on a plant by being absorbed through the leaves and stems so you should be fine immediately but I would give it 24 - 48 hours just to be sure the don’t make contact with any wet gly that might be on the ground.

Yea man! Can’t wait to see my plots and get some pics to share.

Glad you found a solution. I tried it without the bolts but didn’t use a non slip material and it slipped on the frame. I now own a frontier LS2006 and love it!

I tried that and the tank shifted on the frame.

Thanks for watching. Glad you liked the video. Jason

Glad to see you found me and the videos are helpful. I have a lot of 1025R videos. Let me know if there are any topics your would like to see me cover. Jason

Oh yea? Thanks! I’m a technology marketing guy but have done a lot of training over the years and have coached some youth sports. Hope the video was helpful to you.

Hey Steve. They are coming along. For the age they are they would be doing much better if we had better soil but no major complaints. I am hoping the pruning results in a better crop of apples. Need to get out there and do some better cleanup and mulching around them. Hope you are doing well.

I’ve heard that as a rule of thumb as well. Lots of people out there damaging these small tractors without realizing it. It may not break right away but overtime you are going to damage the tractor if you go to large on implements.

Thank you! Hope it was helpful!

Thank you! Others have mentioned that.

I can imagine a cab would change the COG quite a bit. I would be curious to see how much you gain with every inch of wheel spacer you add. Does it give you 1 degree. 2 degrees? I also wonder about being “tippy”. I’ve never rolled a tractor but a pucker factor has made me nervous. Was I really that close or just a bit puckered?

Interesting that the math for these problems are nonexistent. I found a nice ballast vs front axle video last week. Tip angles should be more accessible vs the bullshit tippy stuff. I get concerned over 15° but many do up to twice that. I plan to level out my property holes. FYI small plot BX but some challenges.

Yea. I need to buy a gauge or something for my tractor to get a sense for how out of level I am. I think the pucker factor kicks in well before the rollover is imminent.

Hope it was helpful. I was hauling my tractor all over the place on my trailer thinking it was insured and then I asked. News to me that it wasn’t!

That’s what I was thinking as well just wasn’t sure if it is safe for switchgrass? Do you know?

Not to Expensive here in Virginia. Get a gallon and try a Small area. Been using it a long time on my yard but I'm afraid to say about Switch grass . M.D.Sears

Thanks I’ll do a little research.

I’ll check that out.

Thanks for the tips. I still have all the parts so I might just try a repair. I tried mounting one of the tanks without the bottom bolts and it didn’t stay put on the frame.

I’ll have to check that out sometime.

Yea I don’t wear them for hours at a time so can’t comment on that. I can vouch for pockets full of seed though!

We are very excited about it. Definitely looking forward to some relaxing pool days!

Well..actually. I had a 2016 1025R for 6 years and I sold it after I bought the 4052R. I found that the 1025R was just sitting in the barn. After selling it I started to realize I still had some use cases for it so in 2023, I started shopping for a new 1025R and purchased one. I am really liking the flexibility of having a 1025R and a 4052R. Definitely some mowing jobs that are easier with the 1025R. Thanks for watching and commenting!

Sorry to hear about your dog. I am aware of the lawsuits and am aware that it is deemed safe when used properly. Using it in high winds is not proper use.

Between my brother and I we own 6 different models of tractors of 3 different makes. All will collect debris on the front screen, and need cleared, when working in an environment that kicks up leaves and fluffy pollen. When I hired a guy to clear autumn olive with a CAT skid steer and mulching head he commented that he would check his radiator through the day for leaf and debris collecting. The fans are designed to pull outside air across the radiator fins and cool it. The grill screens and secondary screens are designed to catch debris before it lodges in the radiator screen. A pretty good design that apparently is flawed by at least 4 top tractor manufacturers and their engineers. Please share your credentials and experience so we can understand what your feedback is based on.

This one cost me a little over $2000. No regrets! Thanks for watching and commenting! Jason

Hey Josh. Thanks for asking. The Hardy Brothers channel still exists but is focused on Josh and his content. We made the decision last year to split our content so that long term we would each have an asset we could grow into retirement. Appreciate your continued support! Jason

You aren’t kidding Jim! Other than my dumb mistake of leaving water in the filter over the winter and letting it freeze, this sprayer has been awesome! Thanks for watching, commenting and always supporting the channel! Jason

Sorry to hear that happened to you. Very frustrating! I’ve had mine for years and never had a problem. I’ll have to take a close look at it. Thanks for watch g and offering the heads up! Jason

I’m assuming you are referring to farmers doing no till. I try to use minimal tillage and herbicide as much as possible. These have not been tilled in years. My gasline hasn’t been sprayed in over 10 years. It’s time to do some spraying to set back some invasive and give the plots a good start.

I use a Chapin backpack sprayer and it has done well for me. Good quality unit!

Thanks for watching and commenting. I just shot a video and will publish it in the next week about the one you see in this video. It is a Frontier LS2006. Below is a link to the entire LS20 line. The one I have is boomless and I really like it. www.deere.com/en/attachments-accessories-and-implements/utility-tractors-attachments-accessories/landscape-equipment/ls20-series/

@@HardyLifeOutdoors ok cool. Yeah I’m looking at a 65 gallon fimco right from there website , it has a 10’ boom, and is pto driven. I seen the boom less ones but am hesitant with wind drift. I also watched your fimco 40 gal video. I bought one a month or two ago and returned it the next day. It ran off the battery and the cables were about 5 ft too short, and it was not what I thought it was.

I know plenty of people have had good luck with Fimco, it just didn’t work well for me.

Here is the new video E26: The Frontier LS2006 Boomless sprayer can be paired with a John Deere 1025R for your food plots! czcams.com/video/xgimrsYDVdE/video.html

Fimco sent me at least two replacement tanks and I finally quit putting it on the tractor and it still split. I was so fed up with it, just done! Good to hear from you. Jason.