Little House in the Valley

Our new tractor attachment : )

I wanted to share with you our new grass cutting attachment that we got for our Massey Ferguson tractor : )


I was browsing through the Buy and Sell paper (you never know what goodies you might find but didn't know you needed *grin*) and found cutter attachment right here in the town that we live in which is great because we didn't need to travel to get it! So we went to have a look at it and ended up getting it for $50 less than the asking price....


and he threw in a plow (above pic) as well! We needed that as well since our fields are in terrible need of re-seeding.


We finally got it off of the truck and onto the tractor. It is a really heavy piece of machinery and it took both me and my dad to wiggle it off. What is neat about it though is that it is stamped with made in Canada all over it. Even on the bolts : )


Here is the cutting blade. It is a large steel bar and then a row of teeth spaced out on top of the bar. The wooden drive shaft goes to make the teeth slide back and forth across the bar like scissors cutting the grass. It was seized up a bit and some of the teeth were bent so we had to replace some of them and oil it up really well to get it to move smoothly.


K got to help out to by fetching teeth, watching to see which ones were catching and using the grease gun on all of the moving parts. He knows just about as much about it as my dad now!


We finally got it freed up and here he is heading down to the field. We were all so excited to see it work : )


Yay!! Look at it go. It's actually cutting down the grass. We have never had our own machinery for cutting our hay or anything like that and have always had to rely on someone else to come in when they had time, cut and bale, and then of course they always took a portion of the bales. So this is a big achievement : )

Blessings,
HuberHof

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12:00, Friday, August 24 .. Posted by rellamom

I'm happy for you folks!

The pictures were fantastic!

Carrie