Nah, you ain't getting soft, you're just enjoying what you all have been working for so long to achieve !! Enjoy every minute of it while you can. Thanks for sharing the weekend with us, all the celebrating with birthdays, anniversaries, and FREEDOM . I have enjoyed every minute of it along with you all. Thanks so much. Fred.
Mike, I'm 60 years old and have never had a cab tractor until last year, I purchased a John Deere 5065e with a cab. I'll never be without one again, best thing I've ever bought!!
No Mike when you hit the ripe age of 54 55 like you and I we get smarter about having a cab tractor. I wouldn’t be with out a cab after my wife talked me into getting one.. gee I love her glad someone has some brains in my family. Lol. Take care.
Mike, love to see the big guy tractor working hard. MX5400 is a nice unit! You’re not soft relative to the modern technologies but all of us are soft relative to our ancestors! It’s good to have a relaxed day, we all need to relax and lower our stress levels. Thanks for sharing, Mike and Melissa!
Cabs and AC are nice. Years ago I put an air conditioner on my old lawn mower, didn't work too good, I kept running over the extension cord. Y'all have a great week.
You have been at this for way tooooo long for anyone to call you soft big guy. Awesome work on a well deserved lazy day. You guys deserve some down time. Always watching here in Michigan and the fireworks were as usual, AWESOME... Keep em coming Morgans....
Mike, great video. Glad you took a cool down lap. My wife and I spent about 2 hours in Zelieonople one afternoon on our way to Oil City. There was a fair or like event going and I-79N was pretty much shut down during heavy construction and repair so we veered off into Zelieonople, to skirt it. Seems all the northbound traffic had the same idea. LoL. And just a thought on the Japanese Stiltgrass (sp?). It can self propagate from cuttings, very similar to our kudzu here in SC. So if you have some stuck in or on your brush hog or tractor and it drops somewhere you don't want it, it'll transplant itself there if the environment is even slightly friendly. Always enjoy the videos, and the home feel it brings to this NW PA family. Thanks for all you do. Dale... Not 'that' Dale from your fireworks vid.🤣
Wow - What a worker. Melissa - Good on you. I don't have a cab on my L4701 - really didn't think I needed it. Moving logs from my neighbors yard last week in the NC heat definitely had me wanting one.
Neat video Mike. Your bumper music made mowing fun. My buddy purchase a Kabota with cab and heater for his daddy, and a year later is daddy passed. He said I never would have bought one with a cab for myself but now he won't be without it. Y'all be blessed
Mike, here is something to think about adding to useful tool or attachment for the kubota 5440 tractor is a 15kw pto generator to operate off rear PTO. Install a disonnect on house and outside connector on house and your all set for power outages. You have diesel storage for tractors already, your tractor has 47hp on pto, you could run up to 24 kwatt generator.
Never under this train of thought. Why would you want to tie up your main tractor with a genset? Buy a stand alone unit or if your dead set on tractor power, buy up something like an older Perkins powered Massey to run it.
@@silverbackag9790 Hi, the PTO Generator is like any other attachment, use it when you need it and remove when not needed, not tying up tractor unless needed.
@@silverbackag9790 That is true, however he does have more than one tractor, these PTO generators could be 3point hitch mount or trailer mount with PTO shaft, you disconnect and use when and where needed, if power is off for extended length of time, the diesel operation is a better choice than gasoline portable. I have run a portable 15kw generator for 3 days straight 2 years ago when gas was $2.50 a gallon at 1 gallon per hour usage . .Also have been in 1955 flood when all utilities were out for 3- 4 weeks, not much fun.The roads were torn up like the Grand Canyon, all gas, sewer and water pipes exposed 6 to 10 ft underground.
@@febbral Never said anything about using gasoline. They make diesel portables too. Kubota, Yanmar, Cummins/Onan, military surplus MEP units, and even cheap Chinese units.
No your not getting soft Mike. I don't have a cab on my tractor, but like you said their awesome. I'm 60 years old still working and I guarantee you my next tractor will definitely have a cab. I've yet to hear anyone say "oh I wished I'd never gotten a cab". They are so nice. You deserve what you have worked and earned.
I figured you were going to say cab! We're the same age and I have the same sentiments about a cab that you did but my fellow YT creators that have cabs say exactly what you did....it's a game changer. Making me reconsider!
It was over 100 here yesterday & that doesn’t count the heat index. I completely understand how you feel about the cab. You got things looking good on the brush hogging. Hope y’all have a great rest of your week.
Nothing like the peace and serenity of the country setting...I'm counting down the days to that life style....5 and a half years can't come quick enough...LOL...BTW...You guys seem like great people.
No sir Mike, let's remember your logo -"the finer things of life!" Yessiree! May I say, that MX5400 looks brand new! Kudos to you for maintaining your equipment. You just told us a couple videos ago how long you've had the Kubotas, I now forget, a couple years anyway, boy is it ever clean! Levi showed us the other day the smashed grass where the deer have laid. I knew it was about time to bush hog. It's so bad the wildlife don't eat siltgrass. I feel your pain there. Keeping trees from growing is very bad. I have so enjoyed your channel these last couple weeks, so much excitement. I had such a scare day before yesterday, as I was surfing TH-cam, I saw the caption, "Some of you aren't going to like this." I saw Out......I clicked right away thinking it was you, but it was Out Of The Woods! Nathan's got a pretty nice setup going in Tennessee. Mike, thank you so very much for sharing your family w us! I love you guys and look forward to seeing you every day, the finer things in life!👍🚜❤🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Agree, i spent all afternoon yesterday in an air conditioned cab mowing around fields, pond and trails. Going to finish up this morning when the dew burns off. Hot days in upper 90s and 80 percent humidity.
100% agree. Traded my open platform for a cab tractor this year. Having the A/C and radio is great while working. I just wish I had a better cup holder (and more inside storage area).
Yup, I'm right there with ya on the cab thing! Got one on my little B2650 and the 72" belly mower. Makes me feel a little guilty when I'm mowing and it's 90 degrees out (NOT! ) We're not getting old We're just well seasoned!
I totally get it, I bought a TYM 574C this spring and everyone was giving me a hard time for getting a cab tractor. Well it's 101° in the shade today and I'm about to go move some hay bales around. Everyone else is hiding in the house and waiting till 7pm to try and do everything in an hour and a half before it gets dark lol. Love my cab :D
Mike try Vinegar, disk soap shaken together in a spray bottle, on your undesired weeds, it's natural. Do it when it's a hot dry day. Don't get it on stuff you want. Love your things you've got going on. 👍👏❤🤟 works on sidewalks, driveways, gardens (remember) don't let it get on (even over spraying).
Mike, you probably work more retired than you did employed! Enjoy the comforts of technology. And every once in a while surprise Melissa with some wild flowers and a kiss! Blessings.
my neighbours daughter is getting married and they were telling me about the cost which i already know about having kids of my own married off, they talked about the cost of hiring seating and well i suggested i make the seating for them, so i chose a number of tree's from my woodland and cut em down and basically carved out slots for short logs and made seating for oh id say a few hundred, im even letting them use the orchard for the ceremony instead of the registry office, hopefully this weekend will be a good weekend for a wedding.
I second that thought on having a cab, bought a new LS XR4150 tractor in 2018 first ever new tractor buy, made sure it had a cab love it and first tractor with FEL, even if you used a herbicide on your weeds it would always come back cause of so much you didn't spray, so mowing is your only safe practice,eh more a/c cab tractor time, love you guys
Now comes the hard part cleaning all the mess up but I know you Mike is got a plan like you always do you a great guy and I love watching y'alls Channel you have done a lot of work around that place I love y'all building love what y'all do and God bless your family your family is growing just want to thank
Mike try I gallon of white vinegar, 1/4 cup of dawn dish soap, 1/4 cup of table salt in a sprayer jug and shake it up and spray it!, we dont want to use pramitol in areas because of fhe newly born wildlife this time of year and our pets!, I'd try it on that Japan grass!, it turns weeds yellow in 24 hrs. I use pramitol around the barn and drive to kill weeds out for the year!. Great video!, Morgans good day!.
I’m with you on the cab. My tractor still does not have an air-conditioned cab but the skid loader does. Makes me not want to get on the tractor as much
I don’t miss the open station tractors when the sun, dust, and bugs were beating down on me in the summer and in the winter pushing snow and the wind is blowing 20 to 30 miseries per hour 🥶. Call me a softy, but I’ll take an enclosed cab tractor with AC/Heat, air ride seat, satellite radio, etc any time of the year. Lol.
When I read the title and watched the first few minutes, I thought you were referring to "a wife who would bend over and pick up lots of boxes"! That said, I agree with "cab". Downside is visibility, especially to the front, and low-hanging limbs. But blowing snow in a blizzard? There is no equal!
Josh over at Stoney Ridge Farm was using a weedkiller that is actually a very strong vinegar. That might be an option for the stilt grass in the areas that it has totally taken over so it wouldn't hurt other plants. Just a thought. I know that regular vinegar works on many of my lawn weeds and I don't worry about spraying it even near our well.
Nice Mike! I’ve never thought of grappling a limb in the trail and then just dropping it in my way to bush hog over. Pretty brilliant!! Cheers! --J.Andre.
Hey mike don’t forget that you will be moving the Japanese Knotweed( as we call it in the Uk ) spores all over your property on your brush hog and tyres might be worth thinking about a wash of some sort👍🚜🚜🚜
Beautiful area back there where you were brush hogging, Thanks again for the fireworks, 💥 it was much appreciated since I couldn’t get out this year to see any! It was fantastic! ✌🏼❤️🙏🏼
Hi Mike. It is very generous of you to host such a great gathering and fireworks show. Great feedback on the cab. My next Kubota will have one. Did you end up taking Melissa out for dinner after the brush hogging? Keep up the great videos!
Gotta have the cab!! I snowblow my long driveway and all around my barn and outbuildings. It takes a few hours but is great with the cab. You're not soft, just experienced.
Nope your not soft your enjoying YA'LLS life of all you have done to that place. You do great work with your equipment I live in cedar Town Georgia I really enjoy your videos. Bye the way how is your daughters head I'M still praying
Paying attention to the health and status of your property is never the same as getting sidetracked. You and Melissa are exceptional stewards of your land. Carry on.
Soft? Thanks Mike ~ needed that chuckle this morning. Just cut grass, hit the showers and watching O.W.T. M. JD riding mowers do not come with A/C ~ Heated Cabs. You deserve it! Have a day and Now go take Melissa out to dinner as you said. 😉
Soft is a sign of retirement! Ah ain't it grand , no calluses,ruff hands,dirty finger nails most of the time ! My wife loves the soft hands ! I was a tool and diemaker /welder for 45 years ! Now l lawn care, gardener ,tinkering in the wood shop, deer hunter ! I refurbish axes,hatchets,knifes and make old new again!
Hey, you’ve worked hard all your life, time to enjoy some creature comforts in your equipment. I don’t blame ya there! And it’s amazing how well that brush hog works. Thanks for the updates.
Just a big oh soft teddy bear! Like my Dad, that is until someone messed up, the teddy turns in Grizzly bear! Be safe, be cool! Oh thanks again for a wonderful 4th showing! Beach, NC
Totally agree on the cab Mike. Expensive hard pill to swallow at purchase, but ohhh what a luxury! I tell people all the time, don’t know when I appreciate it more. Hot “buggy” summer day, or frigid cold winter day clearing snow in my pajamas 😃. The LEAST regrettable purchase I’ve made thus far….
Mike, First please tell Hunter hello for me. With your invasive grass, have you contacted your state or county forestry contact for assistance? I have a 300 acre tree farm and I do a prescribed burn every year sometime between October and March. We burn 75 acres each year so we are on a four year cycle with the removal of the underbrush which keeps some of the unwanted foliage in check, keeps the fuel down to prevent accidental fires and brings the browse for the deer to keep it within reach and in general just makes it look better. It's amazing what grows back in just a couple of weeks after a burn. Wild flowres being the first to return. One other thought is will goats eat the grass? Here you can rent a herd of goats and fence them into an area and they will clean it out in just a couple of weeks. They will eat Kudzu which is another "gift" from the Japanese in the 1920s to asset with erosion. LOVED your 4th fo July fireworks!
We have about 2 1/2 acres back in the woods, and I do the same as you... I'll bushhog it around the 4th of July, then again around halloween. Keeps the multiflora rose from getting too carried away. I have always thought like you about tractor cabs... don't need one. But today, I would gladly have one, it's going to be near 100° F here and high humidity. If I had a cab, I would get that bushhogging done today... but it probably isn't going to happen. It's just too hot to do anything that can wait for a cooler day. I was just thinking about a solution for your Japanese stiltgrass. It would be some work, but it would be all natural, and no herbicides. What you could do is fence in the area where you want to get rid of it, and put some hogs (pigs) in there. Within a few days, they will have the ground stripped bare. I don't know exactly what to do from there though, as I'm not familiar, fortunately, with the stiltgrass. But that might be an option, and you could end up with some bacon in the end.
Hello Mike, Melissa & everyone out there in OWTM land. Hey Mike!! It’s “the finer things in life”!!! A/C & Heat in you heavy equipment. You’ve earned it. Good for Yinz guys Hello Huntman Have a Day
Many years ago I learned to drive an old JD “R” …… Brings back fond memories….. But times sometime change for the better… Power steering vs Armstrong steering, Hydrostatic vs Hand clutch, cab vs sun, rain and snow…… The cab ain’t soft…. I just be better! Crank up the air and mow to your heart’s content!
Speaking of fawns, my dog found a new born fawn in the middle of my lawn around Memorial Day. Left it alone, so mom could take care of it. By early August fawns can be independent. Another reason to stay out of the woods until July, adult tick populations will now begin to drop off. Still will have tick larvae in August and September, but they are ankle biters and don’t carry diseases. Adult deer tick populations will explode in mid to late October, just in time for deer season. DEET and permethrin treated hunting clothes to keep the little buggers off of me.
Looks good after brush hoggin'. Nothing wrong with comfort. Much as I like classic cars I still think of all the featuresi have now. There's safety that factors in a cab.
HI Mike to try to kill that grass you talked about try 1gallon of vinager with a cup of table salt and a table spoon of licquid dish soap. try it on a small patch.Oh put in a sprayer. a non subscriber but a watcher ED
Fence that trail in paddocks. Width of trail x 40' and get a few pigs. They root everything up. Move paddock down trail when they clean up that area. It might seem like a pain but they can clean up unwanted vegetation and the pork tastes good too. Good luck! Have a great day!
Wish I had a cap for my MX5200HST, great utility tractor, simple with heavier back end. My Kubota service tech said he loves the MX series over the L series.
Mike you guys are not the only ones that feeling tired.. my wife and i feel the same way after having friends and family over for the 4th of July weekend.. still trying to catch up on sleep lol..i feel it was all the heat and humidity that got us all not being used to it.. and as always stay safe and god bless from the buckeye state...
That must have been an amazing show of fireworks. We used to put on a fireworks show at our cottage and to put on a half decent show cost about 150 dollars Canadian a minute I've done 10 minute shows before and that was way more than I have had. Some fireworks are expensive here you can pay upwards of 60 to 70 bucks for one good brick here. I love doing it across the river from our cottages then our guests get the reflection off the water but almost burnt a boat one time came back across the river and got talking to friends and one of the bricks caught fire in the boat three of us there were firefighters so training and quick thinking saved the day lol.
I’m with ya on the tractor. I have power steering but it isn’t the best. Mines a 2nd 1968, and it doesn’t even have live PTO. So cabs weren’t really in our financial calculations. But, yeah, one of these days…
I'm still working with my dad's 1954 super A farmall. It gets the jobs I use it for done but one of those Kubota tractors with the cab and loader Mike is running would sure be nice, especially in this Georgia heat
Mike you may be alittle soft around the waste and so am I here lately (ice cream), but your still all man. No worries there. Yeah I like how the grapple works to grab all those vines and useless brush. Works great. That was nice of you mellisa to help Mike out and load all the fireworks in the bucket so he could dump them. Great team work makes the dream work 👍 Thanks God bless 🙏
We had a forester come out to our property in VA -- while walking with us, he said not to even worry about the stilt grass, since it's too hard to stop. At least it doesn't grow extremely high (at least ours doesn't) and dies down to the ground in winter so you have periods of time without it, albeit relatively short!
You might try a herbicide called "Grazon". It is safe to spray pastures with the cattle still in the pasture. I have used it to try to control iron weeds, and it works really well. Not sure if it will work on this Japanese stuff, But the safety factor was huge for me. Just thought I would offer a suggestion. Have a day...
Hi Guys i really enjoy your tractor videos. Have you ever taught of getting an offset flail mower. Would be nice to see the mx5400 with one. There are not many video of a flail mower on a mx.
Red ToolHouse who has a TH-cam homestead channel here in WV did a episode on stilt grass & how he’s attempting to combat it & some of the ways to try & eradicate it or diminish its damage.
Hahaha I don’t think you’re going soft, I’m 36 years old and just got a RK 37 Cab tractor. I don’t think I could ever go back to a non-cab, it does make life a lot easier and it’s a lot less tiring when you’re out in the sun all day.
Nah, you ain't getting soft, you're just enjoying what you all have been working for so long to achieve !! Enjoy every minute of it while you can. Thanks for sharing the weekend with us, all the celebrating with birthdays, anniversaries, and FREEDOM . I have enjoyed every minute of it along with you all. Thanks so much. Fred.
Mike, I'm 60 years old and have never had a cab tractor until last year, I purchased a John Deere 5065e with a cab. I'll never be without one again, best thing I've ever bought!!
Cab is a must. Over the years I've found most of the yellow jacket nests on the property, and noting will make you appreciate a cab more than that.
No Mike when you hit the ripe age of 54 55 like you and I we get smarter about having a cab tractor. I wouldn’t be with out a cab after my wife talked me into getting one.. gee I love her glad someone has some brains in my family. Lol. Take care.
Mike, love to see the big guy tractor working hard. MX5400 is a nice unit! You’re not soft relative to the modern technologies but all of us are soft relative to our ancestors! It’s good to have a relaxed day, we all need to relax and lower our stress levels. Thanks for sharing, Mike and Melissa!
Cabs and AC are nice. Years ago I put an air conditioner on my old lawn mower, didn't work too good, I kept running over the extension cord. Y'all have a great week.
Those cords don’t hold up well when the mower blade hits ‘em!
@@oldmanfred8676 Nope, but they make a nice show when a you hit them around dusk. Lol
@@mikemcguire8351,
You make me smile Mike!
@@oldmanfred8676 Smiling is good for the soul. 😊 Hoping you have a nice week. Take care.
@@mikemcguire8351,
You too Mike!
You have been at this for way tooooo long for anyone to call you soft big guy. Awesome work on a well deserved lazy day. You guys deserve some down time. Always watching here in Michigan and the fireworks were as usual, AWESOME... Keep em coming Morgans....
Mike, great video. Glad you took a cool down lap.
My wife and I spent about 2 hours in Zelieonople one afternoon on our way to Oil City. There was a fair or like event going and I-79N was pretty much shut down during heavy construction and repair so we veered off into Zelieonople, to skirt it. Seems all the northbound traffic had the same idea. LoL.
And just a thought on the Japanese Stiltgrass (sp?). It can self propagate from cuttings, very similar to our kudzu here in SC. So if you have some stuck in or on your brush hog or tractor and it drops somewhere you don't want it, it'll transplant itself there if the environment is even slightly friendly.
Always enjoy the videos, and the home feel it brings to this NW PA family. Thanks for all you do. Dale... Not 'that' Dale from your fireworks vid.🤣
Wow - What a worker. Melissa - Good on you. I don't have a cab on my L4701 - really didn't think I needed it. Moving logs from my neighbors yard last week in the NC heat definitely had me wanting one.
Your equipment is always spotless. That shows pride in your work.
You ain't soft! You are enjoying the fruits of your labor! Keep on keeping on!
I love ODWTM. THANKS FOR ALL THE HARD WORK THAT GOES INTO THIS.
Mike, you are not SOFT, you are WISE!!! Keep the videos coming. I love them...
Neat video Mike. Your bumper music made mowing fun. My buddy purchase a Kabota with cab and heater for his daddy, and a year later is daddy passed. He said I never would have bought one with a cab for myself but now he won't be without it. Y'all be blessed
It's not going soft, it's what you have worked for and now you are enjoying the fruit of your labors.
Mike, here is something to think about adding to useful tool or attachment for the kubota 5440 tractor is a 15kw pto generator to operate off rear PTO. Install a disonnect on house and outside connector on house and your all set for power outages. You have diesel storage for tractors already, your tractor has 47hp on pto, you could run up to 24 kwatt generator.
Never under this train of thought. Why would you want to tie up your main tractor with a genset? Buy a stand alone unit or if your dead set on tractor power, buy up something like an older Perkins powered Massey to run it.
@@silverbackag9790 Hi, the PTO Generator is like any other attachment, use it when you need it and remove when not needed, not tying up tractor unless needed.
@@febbral good chances you might need the tractor at the same time the generator is running....i.e. winter storm, flooding, wild fires in the region.
@@silverbackag9790 That is true, however he does have more than one tractor, these PTO generators could be 3point hitch mount or trailer mount with PTO shaft, you disconnect and use when and where needed, if power is off for extended length of time, the diesel operation is a better choice than gasoline portable. I have run a portable 15kw generator for 3 days straight 2 years ago when gas was $2.50 a gallon at 1 gallon per hour usage . .Also have been in 1955 flood when all utilities were out for 3- 4 weeks, not much fun.The roads were torn up like the Grand Canyon, all gas, sewer and water pipes exposed 6 to 10 ft underground.
@@febbral Never said anything about using gasoline. They make diesel portables too. Kubota, Yanmar, Cummins/Onan, military surplus MEP units, and even cheap Chinese units.
No your not getting soft Mike. I don't have a cab on my tractor, but like you said their awesome. I'm 60 years old still working and I guarantee you my next tractor will definitely have a cab. I've yet to hear anyone say "oh I wished I'd never gotten a cab". They are so nice. You deserve what you have worked and earned.
I figured you were going to say cab! We're the same age and I have the same sentiments about a cab that you did but my fellow YT creators that have cabs say exactly what you did....it's a game changer. Making me reconsider!
Love what you do beautiful property thanks for sharing
It was over 100 here yesterday & that doesn’t count the heat index. I completely understand how you feel about the cab. You got things looking good on the brush hogging. Hope y’all have a great rest of your week.
Good morning from Upstate South Carolina. Great job and video. Have a productive day.
Nothing like the peace and serenity of the country setting...I'm counting down the days to that life style....5 and a half years can't come quick enough...LOL...BTW...You guys seem like great people.
I have had a cab Kubota tractor since 2003 and you are right.
No sir Mike, let's remember your logo -"the finer things of life!" Yessiree! May I say, that MX5400 looks brand new! Kudos to you for maintaining your equipment. You just told us a couple videos ago how long you've had the Kubotas, I now forget, a couple years anyway, boy is it ever clean! Levi showed us the other day the smashed grass where the deer have laid. I knew it was about time to bush hog. It's so bad the wildlife don't eat siltgrass. I feel your pain there. Keeping trees from growing is very bad. I have so enjoyed your channel these last couple weeks, so much excitement. I had such a scare day before yesterday, as I was surfing TH-cam, I saw the caption, "Some of you aren't going to like this." I saw Out......I clicked right away thinking it was you, but it was Out Of The Woods! Nathan's got a pretty nice setup going in Tennessee. Mike, thank you so very much for sharing your family w us! I love you guys and look forward to seeing you every day, the finer things in life!👍🚜❤🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Agree, i spent all afternoon yesterday in an air conditioned cab mowing around fields, pond and trails. Going to finish up this morning when the dew burns off. Hot days in upper 90s and 80 percent humidity.
100% agree. Traded my open platform for a cab tractor this year. Having the A/C and radio is great while working. I just wish I had a better cup holder (and more inside storage area).
amazing how your forest goes from brown to lush green!...thanks 4 video. be kind.
Not getting soft, getting SMART! Cheers brother keep the content comin and god bless
Yup, I'm right there with ya on the cab thing! Got one on my little B2650 and the 72" belly mower. Makes me feel a little guilty when I'm mowing and it's 90 degrees out (NOT! ) We're not getting old We're just well seasoned!
Yep it would be nice to have a cab, but then I wouldn't be cold in the winter and hot in the summer. Yea I wish I had one.
I totally get it, I bought a TYM 574C this spring and everyone was giving me a hard time for getting a cab tractor. Well it's 101° in the shade today and I'm about to go move some hay bales around. Everyone else is hiding in the house and waiting till 7pm to try and do everything in an hour and a half before it gets dark lol. Love my cab :D
Mike try Vinegar, disk soap shaken together in a spray bottle, on your undesired weeds, it's natural. Do it when it's a hot dry day. Don't get it on stuff you want.
Love your things you've got going on. 👍👏❤🤟 works on sidewalks, driveways, gardens (remember) don't let it get on (even over spraying).
Mike, you probably work more retired than you did employed! Enjoy the comforts of technology. And every once in a while surprise Melissa with some wild flowers and a kiss! Blessings.
my neighbours daughter is getting married and they were telling me about the cost which i already know about having kids of my own married off, they talked about the cost of hiring seating and well i suggested i make the seating for them, so i chose a number of tree's from my woodland and cut em down and basically carved out slots for short logs and made seating for oh id say a few hundred, im even letting them use the orchard for the ceremony instead of the registry office, hopefully this weekend will be a good weekend for a wedding.
I second that thought on having a cab, bought a new LS XR4150 tractor in 2018 first ever new tractor buy, made sure it had a cab love it and first tractor with FEL, even if you used a herbicide on your weeds it would always come back cause of so much you didn't spray, so mowing is your only safe practice,eh more a/c cab tractor time, love you guys
Now comes the hard part cleaning all the mess up but I know you Mike is got a plan like you always do you a great guy and I love watching y'alls Channel you have done a lot of work around that place I love y'all building love what y'all do and God bless your family your family is growing just want to thank
Mike try I gallon of white vinegar, 1/4 cup of dawn dish soap, 1/4 cup of table salt in a sprayer jug and shake it up and spray it!, we dont want to use pramitol in areas because of fhe newly born wildlife this time of year and our pets!, I'd try it on that Japan grass!, it turns weeds yellow in 24 hrs. I use pramitol around the barn and drive to kill weeds out for the year!. Great video!, Morgans good day!.
Nice touch using the guitar slides at the end of the brush hog runs.
Love my cab tractor couldn’t live without it
Good morning Morgan family ☕️ currently overcast in Philadelphia and an extremely humid 80°… stay hydrated and have a blessed day
I’m with you on the cab. My tractor still does not have an air-conditioned cab but the skid loader does.
Makes me not want to get on the tractor as much
I don’t miss the open station tractors when the sun, dust, and bugs were beating down on me in the summer and in the winter pushing snow and the wind is blowing 20 to 30 miseries per hour 🥶. Call me a softy, but I’ll take an enclosed cab tractor with AC/Heat, air ride seat, satellite radio, etc any time of the year. Lol.
When I read the title and watched the first few minutes, I thought you were referring to "a wife who would bend over and pick up lots of boxes"!
That said, I agree with "cab". Downside is visibility, especially to the front, and low-hanging limbs. But blowing snow in a blizzard? There is no equal!
That spot would make a beautiful cabin site.
Josh over at Stoney Ridge Farm was using a weedkiller that is actually a very strong vinegar. That might be an option for the stilt grass in the areas that it has totally taken over so it wouldn't hurt other plants. Just a thought. I know that regular vinegar works on many of my lawn weeds and I don't worry about spraying it even near our well.
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Nice Mike! I’ve never thought of grappling a limb in the trail and then just dropping it in my way to bush hog over. Pretty brilliant!! Cheers! --J.Andre.
102 in Ash Flat AR today Mike, I would love to see 85! Great video my friend!
Hey mike don’t forget that you will be moving the Japanese Knotweed( as we call it in the Uk ) spores all over your property on your brush hog and tyres might be worth thinking about a wash of some sort👍🚜🚜🚜
Beautiful area back there where you were brush hogging, Thanks again for the fireworks, 💥 it was much appreciated since I couldn’t get out this year to see any! It was fantastic! ✌🏼❤️🙏🏼
Hi Mike. It is very generous of you to host such a great gathering and fireworks show. Great feedback on the cab. My next Kubota will have one. Did you end up taking Melissa out for dinner after the brush hogging? Keep up the great videos!
Gotta have the cab!! I snowblow my long driveway and all around my barn and outbuildings. It takes a few hours but is great with the cab. You're not soft, just experienced.
Nope your not soft your enjoying YA'LLS life of all you have done to that place.
You do great work with your equipment
I live in cedar Town Georgia
I really enjoy your videos.
Bye the way how is your daughters head I'M still praying
Paying attention to the health and status of your property is never the same as getting sidetracked. You and Melissa are exceptional stewards of your land. Carry on.
I'm glad you got to rest up a little bit!! I bet you were exhausted!! Everything is looking great!! 😊
Soft? Thanks Mike ~ needed that chuckle this morning. Just cut grass, hit the showers and watching O.W.T. M. JD riding mowers do not come with A/C ~ Heated Cabs. You deserve it! Have a day and Now go take Melissa out to dinner as you said. 😉
Soft is a sign of retirement! Ah ain't it grand , no calluses,ruff hands,dirty finger nails most of the time ! My wife loves the soft hands ! I was a tool and diemaker /welder for 45 years ! Now l lawn care, gardener ,tinkering in the wood shop, deer hunter ! I refurbish axes,hatchets,knifes and make old new again!
Love you guys 💗 Thank you for sharing all the years of hard work. "Murica" 💪🇺🇸🇺🇸
nothing wrong with being comfortable, you deserve it!
Hey, you’ve worked hard all your life, time to enjoy some creature comforts in your equipment. I don’t blame ya there! And it’s amazing how well that brush hog works. Thanks for the updates.
Just a big oh soft teddy bear! Like my Dad, that is until someone messed up, the teddy turns in Grizzly bear! Be safe, be cool! Oh thanks again for a wonderful 4th showing! Beach, NC
Morning all from Sunnyish Ontario
Just waiting for the Mike, here we go...
Pete from Canada 🇨🇦
Totally agree on the cab Mike. Expensive hard pill to swallow at purchase, but ohhh what a luxury! I tell people all the time, don’t know when I appreciate it more. Hot “buggy” summer day, or frigid cold winter day clearing snow in my pajamas 😃. The LEAST regrettable purchase I’ve made thus far….
we have that stilt grass hear and it makes it hard to keep food plots and trails with grass and clover. you have to keep it cut low.
Good morning Morgan Family 😃. I have a Bobcat CT5558 with a cab. I absolutely love it. We’re the same age, maybe I’m getting soft.
Well done Mike, you are an inspiration, looks much better
My JD 3032 has AC in the winter, works great!
Everytime you play that song it makes me get up and dance.
I sure enjoyed your 4th of July event, it was great. Thank you.
Mike, First please tell Hunter hello for me. With your invasive grass, have you contacted your state or county forestry contact for assistance? I have a 300 acre tree farm and I do a prescribed burn every year sometime between October and March. We burn 75 acres each year so we are on a four year cycle with the removal of the underbrush which keeps some of the unwanted foliage in check, keeps the fuel down to prevent accidental fires and brings the browse for the deer to keep it within reach and in general just makes it look better. It's amazing what grows back in just a couple of weeks after a burn. Wild flowres being the first to return. One other thought is will goats eat the grass? Here you can rent a herd of goats and fence them into an area and they will clean it out in just a couple of weeks. They will eat Kudzu which is another "gift" from the Japanese in the 1920s to asset with erosion. LOVED your 4th fo July fireworks!
We have about 2 1/2 acres back in the woods, and I do the same as you... I'll bushhog it around the 4th of July, then again around halloween. Keeps the multiflora rose from getting too carried away. I have always thought like you about tractor cabs... don't need one. But today, I would gladly have one, it's going to be near 100° F here and high humidity. If I had a cab, I would get that bushhogging done today... but it probably isn't going to happen. It's just too hot to do anything that can wait for a cooler day.
I was just thinking about a solution for your Japanese stiltgrass. It would be some work, but it would be all natural, and no herbicides. What you could do is fence in the area where you want to get rid of it, and put some hogs (pigs) in there. Within a few days, they will have the ground stripped bare. I don't know exactly what to do from there though, as I'm not familiar, fortunately, with the stiltgrass. But that might be an option, and you could end up with some bacon in the end.
It was 102 in Texas today....can't wait for 85!
Hello Mike, Melissa & everyone out there in OWTM land.
Hey Mike!! It’s “the finer things in life”!!!
A/C & Heat in you heavy equipment. You’ve earned it. Good for Yinz guys
Hello Huntman
Have a Day
Many years ago I learned to drive an old JD “R” …… Brings back fond memories….. But times sometime change for the better… Power steering vs Armstrong steering, Hydrostatic vs Hand clutch, cab vs sun, rain and snow…… The cab ain’t soft…. I just be better! Crank up the air and mow to your heart’s content!
It doesn't seem like you're going soft. Seems like you are working smarter. Be safe and have as much fun as you possibly can !
Speaking of fawns, my dog found a new born fawn in the middle of my lawn around Memorial Day. Left it alone, so mom could take care of it. By early August fawns can be independent. Another reason to stay out of the woods until July, adult tick populations will now begin to drop off. Still will have tick larvae in August and September, but they are ankle biters and don’t carry diseases. Adult deer tick populations will explode in mid to late October, just in time for deer season. DEET and permethrin treated hunting clothes to keep the little buggers off of me.
Looks good after brush hoggin'. Nothing wrong with comfort. Much as I like classic cars I still think of all the featuresi have now. There's safety that factors in a cab.
Good morning to all from SE Louisiana 6 Jul 22.
HI Mike to try to kill that grass you talked about try 1gallon of vinager with a cup of table salt and a table spoon of licquid dish soap. try it on a small patch.Oh put in a sprayer.
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Looks good when you get it mowed!!! Good morning everyone everyone 😀 😊 ☺
You do a great job on forest management.
May GOD bless you and yours. Keep up the great work.
Fence that trail in paddocks. Width of trail x 40' and get a few pigs. They root everything up. Move paddock down trail when they clean up that area. It might seem like a pain but they can clean up unwanted vegetation and the pork tastes good too. Good luck! Have a great day!
Wish I had a cap for my MX5200HST, great utility tractor, simple with heavier back end. My Kubota service tech said he loves the MX series over the L series.
Proper Tool for the job Mike
Mike you guys are not the only ones that feeling tired.. my wife and i feel the same way after having friends and family over for the 4th of July weekend.. still trying to catch up on sleep lol..i feel it was all the heat and humidity that got us all not being used to it.. and as always stay safe and god bless from the buckeye state...
6 more years until I can retire to my property. Thanks for sharing your amazing content.
Great video Mike and Melissa 🇺🇲
That must have been an amazing show of fireworks. We used to put on a fireworks show at our cottage and to put on a half decent show cost about 150 dollars Canadian a minute I've done 10 minute shows before and that was way more than I have had. Some fireworks are expensive here you can pay upwards of 60 to 70 bucks for one good brick here. I love doing it across the river from our cottages then our guests get the reflection off the water but almost burnt a boat one time came back across the river and got talking to friends and one of the bricks caught fire in the boat three of us there were firefighters so training and quick thinking saved the day lol.
Mike, age and wisdom let you more clearly see the benefits of the small things in life that make it worth living, enjoy your cab.
Mike you all do an awesome job clearing out land and leveling it your fireworks were awesome really enjoyed watching
One day Ill have a cab. Still in poor mode with my 1964 farm tractor . I think power steering and 4x4 would be a nice upgrade next . Cheers
I’m with ya on the tractor. I have power steering but it isn’t the best. Mines a 2nd 1968, and it doesn’t even have live PTO. So cabs weren’t really in our financial calculations. But, yeah, one of these days…
@@johnsadler8637 save your cash for when the crash comes. Lol
@@frankz1125 ‘Fraid so.
I'm still working with my dad's 1954 super A farmall. It gets the jobs I use it for done but one of those Kubota tractors with the cab and loader Mike is running would sure be nice, especially in this Georgia heat
Mike you may be alittle soft around the waste and so am I here lately (ice cream), but your still all man. No worries there. Yeah I like how the grapple works to grab all those vines and useless brush.
Works great.
That was nice of you mellisa to help Mike out and load all the fireworks in the bucket so he could dump them.
Great team work makes the dream work 👍
Thanks God bless 🙏
We had a forester come out to our property in VA -- while walking with us, he said not to even worry about the stilt grass, since it's too hard to stop. At least it doesn't grow extremely high (at least ours doesn't) and dies down to the ground in winter so you have periods of time without it, albeit relatively short!
Nothing soft about you Mike, enjoy the fruits of years of hard work. Retirement is great 👍
You might try a herbicide called "Grazon". It is safe to spray pastures with the cattle still in the pasture. I have used it to try to control iron weeds, and it works really well. Not sure if it will work on this Japanese stuff, But the safety factor was huge for me. Just thought I would offer a suggestion. Have a day...
Hi Guys i really enjoy your tractor videos. Have you ever taught of getting an offset flail mower. Would be nice to see the mx5400 with one. There are not many video of a flail mower on a mx.
Boy, that Melissa is a fast worker!! Lol
Red ToolHouse who has a TH-cam homestead channel here in WV did a episode on stilt grass & how he’s attempting to combat it & some of the ways to try & eradicate it or diminish its damage.
Hahaha I don’t think you’re going soft, I’m 36 years old and just got a RK 37 Cab tractor. I don’t think I could ever go back to a non-cab, it does make life a lot easier and it’s a lot less tiring when you’re out in the sun all day.
Old Dawg Dreaming is 100 % correct Mike. Stay safe.