The Wheel Horse disc harrow... I think it's cool that it's a Wheel Horse. Built really well, makes the ones at Sears look like junk. all the discs turn free, but I need to free up the adjusting bolts on the top. When I do get a sandblaster some day and restore the tractor, I'll clean up the disc harrow as well. You can put weight on the top of it (cinder blocks/snadbags etc...) to help it work, which is what I'll end up doing.
I couldn't wait, had to try it... the hitch pin for the trailer was too big, so I pulled a bolt off the parts tractor and hooked it up to the Cub, no weight in the tray, just pulled it around to see what it'll do.... I think it'll work great... get 80-100lbs on it and it'll really dig in nice, especially on freshly plowed dirt... this stuff is packed in.
Those 3 trees were fallen in my little mini-forest.... this was before I got the Cub, so I got my tow strap and tied them up to the Wheel Horse... I was surprised it pulled them right out... not bad for turf tires on layers of leaves
It was fun to work with that tractor, but it's really not made for too much more, it's a 200 series, the 300 series were a garden tractor. Mine does have a cast iron front axle, but a stamped steel frame, belt drive and Peerless transaxle.... still tho, fun to switch up the tractors now and then
just for fun, here are some recent pictures of the Wheel Horse.... hard to belive it was a year ago I pulled the mower deck and painted it up....man time is flying by!
These are the trees that are coming down. My property goes to the side road there (they are putting in a small sub divsion
) this is only about 1/3 the trees too. I was undecided what to do, but it would be nice to actually have a yard. I am going to clear most the trees out in the center, leaves some around the sides, but at some point I'd like to get Leyland Cypress trees all around the edges of the property. A few trees are staying, such as my two hammock trees, as well as the grouping of the 3 trees to the right of the hammock.... but other then that, and a few others.... I am already seeing my future PGA-quality lawn
It's alot of trees, they are all very tall, but pretty narrow. I got a new chain saw I get to play with, so it'll be fun
You can see the overwhelming leaves... I got them all blown away with the leaf blower... but now its just in huge piles. I was going to get all the leaves (even in between all those trees) and make a compost out of them... but I got to thinking of it, and when I do go to plow all the soil up, they just stay. I'll make a few extra rounds with the disc harrow to break them up good.
I thought this video is cool, not only is it a 100, but it's the same type of plow I got, showing it all in work... pretty neat... then use the disc harrow to go over all this to make it nice smooth and even soil ready for planting.