I found duals too obstructive on my steiner 430. Now that I'm only using it for personal use singles with 3" spacers will do 95% of what i need. If it's too wet i can wait for drier weather, and there's nothing too steep for just spacers on my current property. I've also found that using the weight transfer springs and rear ballast really keeps the machine planted and going where I want it to on side hills.
Tim, I am Southeast Missouri. In this area active cemeteries are typically owned by funeral homes. However, there are a few (very few) active ones still associated with churches. However typically these congregations are older and upkeep suffers because of this. Also it is usually these older members that are placed there. Much more common for older cemeteries, is again associated with churches, but neither are currently active, often the church building is no longer there. The least common is a family plot, often the surrounding land is no longer owned by the family snd often there is no family in the area. These last 2 groups are often overgrown and totally uncared for. It is great to see that this one is taken care of and you helping to clear next to the field.
Those dual wheels going on and off relatively easy is a great design in itself. If one needs something like the Ventrac it would certainly be worth the price.
Hey Tim, thank you again. I know you have connections. Let me know if you get ahold of a dozer. And we can move some some dirt to make that mowable.. Yes the power rake could do the job. But one of your tractors and a dump trailer. With a dozer pushing grade would be awesome to do for this cemetery and for the people mowing.. Thank you again for your time and energy for our entertainment and education..
Great video tim Vinnie sure does a great job on the slopes and thank you and Kristy or helping out the cemetery that really helped them out hopefully we get to see the power rake in action.
Driving home a few days ago the New Jersey Turnpike Authority has purchased Vinnies to do the mowing very interesting. They are using the double wheels.
The GOAT of all things tractors is at the again! When do you rest? How many videos do you work on weekly basis... I am impressed with you work ethic and your professionalism. I love Tractor Time with Tim, the channel and content. Please keep them!
Part of my property in Florida had a fenced in area of a good size. It hadn't been mowed in years. The Live oak tree all the limbs were touching the ground. I started with a Cub cadet trimmer and it burnt up. So off I went to the stihl dealer and bought a 130R trimmer and working for a few days in the hot sun got the weeds down and they were up to my waist. I had a brand new Gravelly commercial zero turn mower but I wasn't sure what I might find and it was a good thing. One of the previous owners was a cop and that was where he kept his police dog and I found a metal bar with a log chain, which would have damaged my new mower. After getting rid of the bar and chain I could keep it mowed down. My property here in Missouri has been a challenge on it's own with all the junk laying everywhere.
It’s so hard to tell the topography from the video, but I wonder if you could adjust the grade from the edge of the road to the corn field and at least have a consistent slope? With the farmers permission and after the field is harvested of course. Great video and good luck!
Tim. Some dirt work would be helpful for his mowing. It would be interesting for a video too. Also, check out Altoz zero turn mowers. They have tracked models that are quite stable on embankments, although they may not be a capable as Vinny. They also have a rough cut deck option that has chain guards and swinging blades like your bat wing mower. Neat zero turn mowers for those who need dedicated mowers. No, I don't have one, nor need one. I just think they have some great concepts. Todd
Tim I have a friend from a city where I lived a few years ago that gas a youtube channel (mowing mostly). He has a Ventrac, and usually does steep areas up and down instead on running across the slope. I do not think he has duals for his.
Yes, definitely easier to mow slopes up and down. However, how could I do that in this area? Would take forever, assuming I could make the turn at the bottom without hitting corn.
When the Ventrac starts crab walking on a steep slope, nudge the deck upwards to put more weight on the front wheels and the tractor will track much better.
I would love to find a decent used ventral to reclaim a piece of farmland we just acquired that hasn’t been touched in 15 plus years I thought about using a skid steer and a mulched but for my purposes I think the ventral might work better
Tim, I have a question maybe you could look into. Operating on hillsides and soft ground, as well as doing snow removal almost necessitates a crawler, but since the original JD 420, there have been a dearth of small ag crawlers available in the US for the rural lifestyle market. Looking at what is available today, the closest fit for my operation looks like a Chinese made YTO c602, which seems to retail for around the same price point as a modest compact tractor, between $15,000 and $18,000. It claims to be based on a UK engineered design, presumably a Massey Ferguson. I think you will agree that this seems like an ideal solution for a rural homesteader type, where small woodlot and snow removal are key requirements, as is the ability to run 3 point hitch agricultural implements in the middle horsepower range. Yet, I can find very little reliable information about YTO sales in the US. Maybe you would be interested in this situation and would contribute your experience to answering some questions around this type of product. Thank you in advance for your consideration.
I have never heard of it until your comment. No idea where we could find one! You are right. No us small dozers anymore. I’m just not sure the USA market agrees with your premise anymore. Ventrac is a good example of wheeled hillside unit.
@@TractorTimewithTim How do we import this little baby? th-cam.com/video/rYdukxrPPkE/w-d-xo.htmlsi=u9icRMxG3dCkWOpE Or better yet: th-cam.com/video/ji2bTPAL2AU/w-d-xo.htmlsi=A5kePdKmRMFxHiFG
Me and my family love watching your videos of farm equipment and how to use them that mower you are using in this video. Do they offer it in a diesel or is it just gas? Thanks you 😊
I bought a diesel with duals and chains,. Its a fantastic machine. I mow spoil banks on our reclaimed strip mine with slopes up to 28 degrees. Using a ventrac across slopes is so much faster then going up and down.
Im surprised you didn't use the flail mower would have cut that stuff down. Also I wonder if you can test the remote control tracked mower they use it exclusively overseas
I’d love to be buried on my farm. My dad died just over ten years ago and I feel I failed not to push for him to be buried on the farm. I think I will get a grave stone and put it there so there is some form of link of the farm to him. My parents bought the farm in 1972 and he loved it there.
@@TractorTimewithTim I love the fact they are built in my home state. I like the ideal of one machine that does it all. But the cost. Ventrac needs to get the price down and the sales up!
Two reasons. 1) it would take forever. 1/4 mile of 20’ back and forth 5-6’ at a time! 2) I don’t think I could have made the turn at the bottom consistently without hitting the corn.
the people in the cemetary (are not very active) comment ... i heard a two seater plane crashed there ... they are not sure of the death count as they are still digging up bodies
I think if you're going to use the phrase, "Where no man has gone before " you are obligated to use a William Shatneresque dramatic pause in all your lines during the video ... failing that, at least some Nimoy like logic .... it seems the dramatic pauses would be easier for you to convince people are genuine from you ... Hehehe
I found duals too obstructive on my steiner 430. Now that I'm only using it for personal use singles with 3" spacers will do 95% of what i need. If it's too wet i can wait for drier weather, and there's nothing too steep for just spacers on my current property.
I've also found that using the weight transfer springs and rear ballast really keeps the machine planted and going where I want it to on side hills.
Tim, I am Southeast Missouri. In this area active cemeteries are typically owned by funeral homes. However, there are a few (very few) active ones still associated with churches. However typically these congregations are older and upkeep suffers because of this. Also it is usually these older members that are placed there.
Much more common for older cemeteries, is again associated with churches, but neither are currently active, often the church building is no longer there. The least common is a family plot, often the surrounding land is no longer owned by the family snd often there is no family in the area. These last 2 groups are often overgrown and totally uncared for.
It is great to see that this one is taken care of and you helping to clear next to the field.
Always appreciate the neighborly and community support that you guys do. Happy Sunday 👍
There is no other machine I know of that could do that!! That Ventrac 4520 is Fantastic!!
For $40K better do som'n
That Ventrac is a wonderful and capable machine! Best wishes.
Those dual wheels going on and off relatively easy is a great design in itself. If one needs something like the Ventrac it would certainly be worth the price.
Hey Tim, thank you again.
I know you have connections. Let me know if you get ahold of a dozer. And we can move some some dirt to make that mowable.. Yes the power rake could do the job. But one of your tractors and a dump trailer. With a dozer pushing grade would be awesome to do for this cemetery and for the people mowing..
Thank you again for your time and energy for our entertainment and education..
A true artist with your machines. Thank you for sharing.
Great video tim Vinnie sure does a great job on the slopes and thank you and Kristy or helping out the cemetery that really helped them out hopefully we get to see the power rake in action.
Ole Vinny is a mighty little beast. Fun to watch you and Christy do ‘magic” with it. Blessings.
Driving home a few days ago the New Jersey Turnpike Authority has purchased Vinnies to do the mowing very interesting. They are using the double wheels.
Another wonderfully interesting & brilliant production. Love the history.
Gorgeous property. Ventrac is one competent piece of equipment. Perhaps one day I'll have one. Great job guys!
The GOAT of all things tractors is at the again! When do you rest? How many videos do you work on weekly basis... I am impressed with you work ethic and your professionalism. I love Tractor Time with Tim, the channel and content. Please keep them!
2 long form per week.
Then some shorts in between.
In this case the hilly, billy, GOAT! God bless you two!
Thats a tractor and side flail job you did very well with what you had
That Ventrac is amazing!
Wow, that was some steep terrain that you cut! Amazing video, thank you for posting 😀
Remarkable piece of equipment and operator.
Here in the Mid-South, cemeteries located out in counties the upkeep is usually lacking.
I remember seeing these ventracs advertised ad-nauseum on youtube. They looked like quite the capable machine for being so compact.
That is a nice rig.
This was impressive to watch. I'll admit I was worried for a while about the tipsiness becoming an issue.
Part of my property in Florida had a fenced in area of a good size. It hadn't been mowed in years. The Live oak tree all the limbs were touching the ground. I started with a Cub cadet trimmer and it burnt up. So off I went to the stihl dealer and bought a 130R trimmer and working for a few days in the hot sun got the weeds down and they were up to my waist. I had a brand new Gravelly commercial zero turn mower but I wasn't sure what I might find and it was a good thing. One of the previous owners was a cop and that was where he kept his police dog and I found a metal bar with a log chain, which would have damaged my new mower. After getting rid of the bar and chain I could keep it mowed down. My property here in Missouri has been a challenge on it's own with all the junk laying everywhere.
Excellent result for the conditions!
Nice job guys. Looks much better!
Nice job Tim!
I sure like Vinny wish I could afford one. Great video Tim and Christy.
sneezed a few times watching the mowing
Another fun video, Thank you. Oh that slope, I think I could see a little cheek flexing on your part there😅
The slope looks much better. Vinny was perfect for the job.
Great pictures of crabbing on a steep slope which doesn't have much height!
Good Sunday morning
Wow that's a wide mower deck to cut that thick heavy material.Ventrac handles well.
yeah thats a pro tool ... even with those wide tires that slide has to induce a pucker factor
It’s so hard to tell the topography from the video, but I wonder if you could adjust the grade from the edge of the road to the corn field and at least have a consistent slope? With the farmers permission and after the field is harvested of course. Great video and good luck!
All good!
Great video!
GREAT video, you wouldn't do this without the VENTRAC (VENNY)... Have a great weekend.. 😅😊
Thanks for sharing.
Tim. Some dirt work would be helpful for his mowing. It would be interesting for a video too. Also, check out Altoz zero turn mowers. They have tracked models that are quite stable on embankments, although they may not be a capable as Vinny. They also have a rough cut deck option that has chain guards and swinging blades like your bat wing mower. Neat zero turn mowers for those who need dedicated mowers. No, I don't have one, nor need one. I just think they have some great concepts. Todd
Always here for a Vinny episode. 😎 Would like to see the power rake as you suggest in that spot, too!
Would it have been easier to do the really steep parts from top down, or that can be less controlled when you slide on the cut grass?
Tim I have a friend from a city where I lived a few years ago that gas a youtube channel (mowing mostly). He has a Ventrac, and usually does steep areas up and down instead on running across the slope. I do not think he has duals for his.
Yes, definitely easier to mow slopes up and down. However, how could I do that in this area? Would take forever, assuming I could make the turn at the bottom without hitting corn.
Ventrac’s are very cool. We will end up with one eventually.
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Get a big sacrificial v belt and a piece of pipe to remove the dual
Or get this handy dual wheel tool. Good grief!
Wonder if they make LSW single tires for that Machine.! 🤔
Thats a mowing beast I have a bush hog that wouldn't do what that has done I would be breaking shear pins
When the Ventrac starts crab walking on a steep slope, nudge the deck upwards to put more weight on the front wheels and the tractor will track much better.
Steeper cutting than I would be comfortable with Tim.
I would love to find a decent used ventral to reclaim a piece of farmland we just acquired that hasn’t been touched in 15 plus years I thought about using a skid steer and a mulched but for my purposes I think the ventral might work better
Something we could help with?
I agree with Christy people should treat cemetery and church properties with respect.
Was wondering, is that a finish mower or a brush style cutter?
Brush cutter.
Tim, I have a question maybe you could look into. Operating on hillsides and soft ground, as well as doing snow removal almost necessitates a crawler, but since the original JD 420, there have been a dearth of small ag crawlers available in the US for the rural lifestyle market. Looking at what is available today, the closest fit for my operation looks like a Chinese made YTO c602, which seems to retail for around the same price point as a modest compact tractor, between $15,000 and $18,000. It claims to be based on a UK engineered design, presumably a Massey Ferguson. I think you will agree that this seems like an ideal solution for a rural homesteader type, where small woodlot and snow removal are key requirements, as is the ability to run 3 point hitch agricultural implements in the middle horsepower range. Yet, I can find very little reliable information about YTO sales in the US. Maybe you would be interested in this situation and would contribute your experience to answering some questions around this type of product. Thank you in advance for your consideration.
I have never heard of it until your comment. No idea where we could find one!
You are right. No us small dozers anymore.
I’m just not sure the USA market agrees with your premise anymore. Ventrac is a good example of wheeled hillside unit.
@@TractorTimewithTim The tracked skid-steer occupies an similar role in several ways. If it had a three point hitch and PTO it would be there.
@@MichaelK.-xl2qk well, they use hydraulic drive for the attachments on a CTL.
@@TractorTimewithTim How do we import this little baby? th-cam.com/video/rYdukxrPPkE/w-d-xo.htmlsi=u9icRMxG3dCkWOpE
Or better yet:
th-cam.com/video/ji2bTPAL2AU/w-d-xo.htmlsi=A5kePdKmRMFxHiFG
@@TractorTimewithTim By "the world," you appaer to refer to somewhat less than the planet we live on.
you can get flail mowers on grasshopper mowers
Shame on you Tim, you had the weight transfer lever in the 0 position, you are making Vinny look like he can't handle that little hill.😀😀
Looks like the mower wasn’t in float either. My front wheels never come off the ground.
i am not sure the name of the fuzzy leaf plant but some people use the leafs as a poltice for pain , etc
life is like mowing a cemetery, you never know what you are going to hit.
I think I heard all of them were buried there ??! A good set of chains on your regular mower and very little problems ?!!
You should try the new RC mowers.
Be careful when you change those blades. They’re contaminated with poison ivy.
That is a lot of Mullen in the beginning. You should have harvested and sold it.
What size of a trailer do we need to keep the duel wheels on a little space on the trailer on the sides? Steve from WV
Say 75” inside the fenders.
Mine is about 72”. I love my narrow trailer, cept for this one instance.
Ok thanks
Me and my family love watching your videos of farm equipment and how to use them that mower you are using in this video. Do they offer it in a diesel or is it just gas? Thanks you 😊
ventrac.com yes, a diesel is available. Only 24 hp.
@@TractorTimewithTim thank you
I bought a diesel with duals and chains,. Its a fantastic machine. I mow spoil banks on our reclaimed strip mine with slopes up to 28 degrees. Using a ventrac across slopes is so much faster then going up and down.
The church at the cemetery may be long gone but people are still dying to get in there.
I’m surprised the milkweed protection police didn’t shut you down.
Oh yea. If TH-cam had known, they woulda sent out the brown shirts.
those were yucca plants you mowed
They are nasty in a cemetery and actually hard to kill.
good old browns wonder.
Im surprised you didn't use the flail mower would have cut that stuff down. Also I wonder if you can test the remote control tracked mower they use it exclusively overseas
Think about it…rocks, concrete, tire, etc.
Would tear a flail to pieces.
@@TractorTimewithTim valid point glad you said that
Should attack the steep spots straight on back and forth. Would of did ez work with that ventrac
Yes, but woulda taken forever.
9:15 TRACTOR DRIFTING!
Courtney (GWT): Your tractor can tip over and kill you
Tim: Can't you see I'm drifting here?
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I’d love to be buried on my farm. My dad died just over ten years ago and I feel I failed not to push for him to be buried on the farm.
I think I will get a grave stone and put it there so there is some form of link of the farm to him. My parents bought the farm in 1972 and he loved it there.
I understand. However, dealing with a cemetery forever is a big challenge.
I’d love a ventrac but the cost is astronomical. The power unit is 30k+
Yep. Price has gone crazy.
@@TractorTimewithTim I love the fact they are built in my home state. I like the ideal of one machine that does it all. But the cost. Ventrac needs to get the price down and the sales up!
I can smell it from here 😅
"How many people are buried in the cemetery?" All of them!😅
The one thing I see that you may regret later is touching the tires when removing them with bare hands after you have rolled through poison ivy.
To answer your question about how many people are buried there... At the time of filming, all of them but three. 😀
Just curious not criticizing at all. How come u don’t go straight up from the bottom and back over and keep working your way across?
Two reasons. 1) it would take forever. 1/4 mile of 20’ back and forth 5-6’ at a time!
2) I don’t think I could have made the turn at the bottom consistently without hitting the corn.
the people in the cemetary (are not very active) comment ... i heard a two seater plane crashed there ... they are not sure of the death count as they are still digging up bodies
courtesy of the North Dakota Joke book
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Did you get a new truck? That look like an F-150 not an F-350
Brian’s truck. Mine had squirrel damage.
Tim, you wanted to know how many were buried there ? All of them ! 🙄
I think if you're going to use the phrase, "Where no man has gone before " you are obligated to use a William Shatneresque dramatic pause in all your lines during the video ... failing that, at least some Nimoy like logic .... it seems the dramatic pauses would be easier for you to convince people are genuine from you ... Hehehe
Even if it is capable, why take chances mowing the hill sideways
Vs. What? 1000 up and down trips, risking turning out into the corn each time?
That Ventrac is amazing!