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LarryNAA
04-03-2003 17:43:12
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Re: OT - Horse Pasture in reply to Philm in CA, 04-03-2003 16:09:35
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Small World. I bought an NAA two years ago, to develop our 7 acres in upstate NY for 2 Quarter Horses. 1'st thing I got was a 5' bush hog, and cleared 4 acres for pasture. Then I used a york rake (AKA landscape or stone rake)to rough up soil some. A disc or drag harrow would probably have worked better for this, but I needed the rake for other stuff, and it did OK on the pasture. Then I seeded with bluegrass, white clover and birdsfoot trefoil. I also tested the soil, and corrected for pH and nitrogen as required, prior to seeding. I got good, green pasture grass. Next purchase: Post hole digger (PhD). I put in about a million (+/-)posts in our 99 degree summer, and then moved the horses in. They could care less about the NAA, but they love that white clover. We don't stall them, but instead they have a run-in shed. This saves work, as they tend to spread their own manure: they are out in the pasture most of the day. A few passes with the york rake, every few weeks and the 'horse apples' are all broken up, nice. In all, I really like the Jubilee. It can handle the bush hog, any kind of 3 point cultivation implement, it literally turns on a dime (good when you have to move around in tight spaces), it relatively quite, so it does not get the horses all riled up. And I probably paid less for my NAA than than my neighbor paid in sales tax alone on one of those new green tractors. I did rebuild the engine in the first winter, but that was no surprise: I got a good deal because it basically had a weak motor. Now, it's a good, smooth running machine with plenty of power for my needs. This site has a lot of good advice, and I use it often.
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