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@@PainterD54 good suggestion. I’ll have to get some measurements and do that. I have enough wood to get us through this next winter also so I’ll be splitting more in spring 2025.

Right now. Our selves. We are trying to find someone that will do it in our area though, really don’t have time to do it plus no plucker yet.

@@doubleahomestead7794 Closest butcher that we have used is Smokin Butcher in Decatur. We have a plucker and have done our own as well, but it does take a lot of time.

@@aaronscovill5161 sound pretty local to me. If you got here from my fb then send me a message on there and you can come take a look at the tractor your self and test it out if you’d like to.

I have a video I did on it also. I think it’s titled how did we get this TYm tractor so cheap. So far I’m happy with it. 120 hours on it. Need to do another update video on it soon. I liked the 474 because it’s popular so parts availability should be long term and of course its ability for the price point.

@@KrayZJoy Thank you! We appreciate that. Andrew worked really hard to give our ladies such an amazing place to live.

@@francescohen8666 this was before I learned people show gardening videos on TH-cam so my pronunciation of DE is way off lol. But thank you for watching one of our original videos, glad it helped

@@graciemcclellan6875 every single duck is super happy right now enjoying their pool time. 0 injuries.

@@bastardoazteca8094 good luck to you. Idk how many we had when this video was made but now there are 8 hens free ranging. 18 in the run. And there’s an additional 5 babies hatched by our buff in the run.

That’s a great point. We played again tonight. They love a good game of stay away from the big scary man when it’s bed time 😂😂 All in their coop safe and sound though. Every day is getting easier thankfully

Glad to hear you are liking it. Bummer about the plug. I suppose these things happens here and there. Always sucks to be the unfortunate one though. I was just out mowing the chest high weeds in the field yesterday. It’s so wet I can’t do it until now. It’s still going strong, I just need to throw some new blades on it. Think I’m at 80 hours of hard mowing so far

I saw someone else mention that as well. If I had a cement driveway I think I’d feel more comfortable doing that

Can’t see any snakes 🤷🏻‍♂️

What? It was at one point. Need some more context with your comment 🤷🏻‍♂️

@@doubleahomestead7794 Sorry I meant you need to make sure the deck is all the way down when using the deck wash. I have seen other you tube videos that showed it didn't work very well until the deck was dropped. Then it made a world of difference. I liked this video.. I just purchased one of these and this video helped me to decide, thank you.

@@mikebarron8702 that makes sense. I don’t have a great spot to try that at. Dropping it all the way on the gravel driveway doesn’t seem like The best option for me. But I can certainly see why that would help. Maybe I’ll have to find a way to try that. Thank you.

May have to lol.

We just stopped it. Perhaps that’s why 🤷🏻‍♂️ They are all huddle up under the heat plate so I need to make adjustments to it as the temperature drops outside. The live should be getting posted to our videos so you can go and watch all 45 minutes whenever you want to 😁

I’d say it’s perfect. Seeing some recent comments go with the 50” as it comes with the better trans

Thanks for the tip.

I really appreciate the kind words. We don’t get much out of these videos but comments like this, make it ALL worth it. Now that we have our big tractor I still wouldn’t get a zero turn. I’d buy this lawn tractor again. Thanks again. Enjoy the new purchase. You won’t be disappointed.

No warranty?

Type that into Amazon. I did a quick search. It’s $750 but the trans is a tuff torq. I’m trying to do some more research. While doing my research it did seem this is the Achilles heal of the entire mower but so far so good for me. If mine fails I have nothing to lose but to take it apart and see if I can repair it. Unless Cub wants to help me out but you know how that goes. If I find another trans I’ll let you know CUB CADET 918-07207A Transmission Assembly Enduro XT1 XT2 LT LX 42 46 50 Tractor

@@RJJackson09 luckily it's still under warranty .

You have the XT1 LT50? Just did a little bit more research. Mind has the Tuff torq k46 supposedly. Then the smaller decks may have the TL-200 which is a weaker trans. I thought I had read a couple years ago guys were putting a slightly beefier tuff torq on theirs. I hope this info helps and sorry you are having issues. Please update us if you find a solution that’s cheaper

@@doubleahomestead7794 I like to know what failed in the transmission . It shouldn't have failed at 35.8 hours .

And we have a ton of them along our driveway.

When should I expect these issues to begin?

I’ve used it a couple times. Been a while. If memory serves me correct you push down the lever you use for the parking brake while moving and it’ll hold that speed?

@doubleahomestead7794 correct! I only have 2 acres to cut but mine is 90% straight flat runs so I'll definitely be using it from now on now that I know how lol

Glad you enjoyed it. Without watching it back, I believe that’s our ground works wagon that we got at tractor supply. I believe the capacity is around 800-1000lbs if I’m not mistaken. It was super handy around the homestead before we got our big tractor. Now it’s only used during gardening season. We have a smaller gorilla wagon that’s nice as well.

Why is that? Wouldn’t you want to disengage first as you want to start up with it disengaged. I didn’t read the manual so perhaps I missed something

Interesting info. Thanks for sharing.

Honestly, I don’t have a lot to say negative. The only thing that is frustrating is your knee can bump the key ever so slightly and it will turn off the mower in reverse option. I think I may just disable the safety switch so I don’t have to worry about it cutting out. No complaints though, I just fired it up 2-3 weeks ago from storage. Left the battery in mower all winter. No battery tender hooked up. No issues. I’ll pull battery to tender this winter though being year 3

Those old machines just won’t die. Love it.

That’s great!

Hahahahahahahaahahah

Then you better be subscribed, otherwise I don’t believe you.

Glad it’s working well for you

$2755.99 in July of 2022. With everything going up in price I would assume that it’s a legit temp sale. Hope that helps.

Thank you! Yeah I suppose it is still the promotion period of early season (no more free dump carts though). Lowe's is running a $100 to $200 gift card promo on the John Deere mowers as well. This Cub Cadet though is clearly the better (best in my opinion) value overall right now.

@@mattb9664 I can only speak for the Cub. But I didn’t have the battery on a tender for the 2nd winter now. Couple weeks ago I went out there and fired it right up and was mowing within minutes. Of course checking fluids and air pressure etc before hand. No surging or any other issues. I do run non ethanol in it though and it has stabil in there as well.

I believe the blades have been stopped on this one a couple times. This particular spot I mowed the year prior so I knew it was relatively clear. But our entire place was head high thick weeds and I found so many surprises like junk piles, random fencing, burn piles scattered throughout the field they claimed to have kept up years prior. It’s all clean now thanks to this mower

You get what you pay for. They're no worse than anything else at that price point.

When we bought this place it was all this tall. Different scrap piles and burn piles everywhere. It took me 3-4 weekends on and off just going slow and being careful to mow a few acres and getting it cleaned up.

Right on. I think just about every piece of equipment I own is a different manufacturer.

Thanks for the comment. I believe you are confusing lawn tractor with garden tractor. A garden tractor is certainly a different beast. However this is considered a lawn tractor. For example search for cub cadet xt1 on blains farm and fleet website and read the description. I will also paste something right from cub cadets website below. The base model of the Enduro Series, the XT1 tractors are loaded from the start-equipped for mowing, hauling and using a variety of attachments. The CC30H would be considered a riding lawn mower.

Glad you liked it. We thought it would be fitting to film it with them.

So I decided to go back and do some more research because you are right, why feed them things that aren’t good for them. I did some research on feeds prior to this last year as well which is why we decided to use this feed. Now here’s some info I found just now. Producers pride pellets did test highest of several brands tested for glyphosate. However it tested much lower than many organic brands when it came to arsenic, mercury, and lead. So does this mean that the food being produced by other brands is just using another product that doesn’t contain glyphosate but one that isn’t commonly being tested for yet? If you recall grazon became a big thing in recent years. It was found the herbicide was making it through the cows digestive system and into the high dollar compost being sold across the United States. We know all of the things I listed are bad for you. So without growing your own food for them, how do you decide what’s the lesser of two evils. More arsenic and lead or more glyphosate? Do you pay double the cost to get extra arsenic and lead or pay half and get more glyphosate. We don’t use any weed killer on our property but I can’t control run off or what the previous owners did to the soil they left behind. So I just control what I can. Growing food for 22 chickens for 365 days a year is not something I can control right now. Have a blessed day and hopefully that info helps you as it did me.