The little tractor comes through again! I love the auger attachment. It took me and two of the kids maybe 2 hours to put up 8 posts. "Casey" the tractor had plenty of might!

PTO Rototiller: who's got one and tips on using. . .
 

We should have grapes at the end of next season!


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You might angle the end posts outward. Center posts can be perpendicular and light. Depending on the yield, some varieties can weigh a lot.

If these do well, I'll be adding to the rows (to the left) so I might just have to anchor the ends. We'll see. The guy who supplies these to the place I got them from told memnot to expect 6' high growth since we don't have a very long season.

The posts are 4" and 3' in and 4' + out so hopefully they will be string enough.

We'll see. These are sort of experimental.

You also may like the privacy and aesthetic of a vineyard.

So strange. I clicked on this thread, and being pretty much a city slicker thought I would know nothing of the subject.

But I do recall sitting in a farm house with my mother, and some older folks, and a very distant, haunted woman. I was only 6-7 at the time, but I recall the day, how measured and formal everyone speech was....the oddness of it. The people were my grandparents neighbors (1/2 mile down the road), and their son in law had been killed just days before by a piece of equipment. A tiny exposed bolt on a drive shaft had caught his clothing.

Think, then do.

bringing up an old thread
be careful around those PTO shafts
last summer a friend of mine was using a PTO post hole digger out at his hunting camp and got tangled up in it. Got a little too close to the driveshaft and in a split second his jeans and underwear were ripped completely off.. left him with some bad bruises and contusions... buttt. it skinned his junk also. ripped the skin completely off just like it was a condom. months later doctors wrapped it with skin grafts taken from his sack. I had a bit of skin grafting long ago on my arm and thigh and it wasn't fun.. dried blood fused the bandages to the skin grafts and changing them was just like ripping the skin off again twice a day.. can't imagine what he went thru in a much more sensitive area.. I guess he was lucky just to get the full length circumcision and not the complete castration by farm implement instead.

Ouch!


I don't see why or how I'd operate my auger out of the seat. Are some of them operated with hand controls behind the tractor?

I have to be in the tractor seat to raise and lower the hitch and engage the PTO. The auger is so easy to use from the seat I just don't see operating it any other way.

Ouch for sure!

I was changing a pto drive shaft on a spray rig once and it slipped out of my hands (they are covered in grease) and my finger was in the u-joint. The 50 lbs drive shaft didn't even hit the ground. Luckily, all power was off. Almost severed my finger clean off at the first knuckle. You can never be too cautious, no matter how much you know the equipment. I left a blood trail all the way to the ER.

"I don't see why or how I'd operate my auger out of the seat. Are some of them operated with hand controls behind the tractor"

someone else was on the tractor, he was in back trying to add a little weight to the auger to get it to bite I believe.. he was distracted for a split second and crossed that fine line between "I'm getting a little too close to those rotating parts" to the "I knew I shouldn't have got that close, call 911" side