OK..I am beginning to understand WHY you like weeds so much! You are Smoking it right???

Why would you think that?

I’m not sure how big that seed hopper was on those Ranchworx machines.....I dont think it was very big.... but you could make one of them even sweeter if you could install a long, flat seed hopper on it that would hold about 1500# of seed or more…….Load that sucker up…..set the spread rate how you like it and be like……

Here is a rough engineering blueprint of how I’m talking about this machine needs to look with the bigger seed bin…..I think it would work best to have the seed spread out in front of both rollers…….

Maybe someone will find the humor in the engineering blueprints……I started to mock up some “architectural drawings” of a cabin idea too but figured I spare folks……

While we’re designing this new machine though I got another idea that would make it better……So let’s say we’re gonna drop seed out of the front in a line the same width as the rollers as we go along….What would be cool is if there was another little wheel inside the seed bin that turned in some ratio with the big wheels so that as you went faster on the tractor the little wheel in the bin went faster and dropped more seed….and vice versa as you slowed down it slowed down and dropped less seed……That would keep you from trying to maintain an even speed all of the time like if the seed were being independently spread by another mechanism the way they have those made now.

Planting fall plots of cereal grains and clovers doesn’t have to be done with precision planting especially if the soil conditions are good. We really overcomplicate it. There’s no need in having to slow poke it along or worry about a bunch of excess chit to tear up and have to work on every time you use it…..You could simplify some of these existing machines down and increase productivity and ease of use greatly. You can spend numerous weekends at the club trying to plant or you can fill the hopper up on the machine above and go do it in a few hours.

Simplifying the process………All of these little plants already emerging are crimson clover……It’s just hiding out in the shade of the other plants……When it cools off the clover will explode …. Planting in October will be more like just “releasing” with a little overseeding.…..

That reminded me of this manure spreader...

That's a pretty cool old machine......

I cut down my sunn hemp on one field saturday and then subsoiled it. You talking about adding some biomass. It was 6 to 8 feet tall and thick... Even with the door opened all the way on the back of my flail mower, it would still plug it up. And we put out a load of horsemanure, which had a lot of saw dust in it on a clay field.

Take some pics next time.......It would be cool to see the progress.

I swear I think you could walk out here and take a picture of a different critter every day……I was doing it to liven up the thread with some pics and see how much diversity I could document but its kinda become a fun little challenge sorta like trapping or running trail cams……How many different critters are using this one field? Some of these critters are pretty cool looking and I don’t know that I’ve ever seen or paid any attention to some of them before……We talk a lot about “wildlife management” but we just mostly talk about deer and turkeys……There’s a lot of other wildlife out there apparently.

How much biological diversity do you have?

This is one of the prettiest ones yet to me……It’s either a Spring or Summer Azure I believe…….

I feel like this one might have been trying to send me a message......

C'mon hunting season...... (Sighhhh)

Something is wearing out chinaberry sprouts……I think its deer but sometimes bug damage can fool you……



Red Admiral

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Red Spotted Purple

Pearl Crescent

Instead of Mark Twain of weeds your new title should be Madam butterfly

Maybe so…….I know there’s a chit load of them……It’s really one in the same though with the diversity in the native vegetation. Looks like something tried to eat this one.


Palamedes Swallowtail