Do I Still Love the New Tractor? - TYM 494

hello everyone and welcome back to the mindful Homestead I think it's about time we talk about this tractor so if you're new to the channel you probably haven't seen this before this is our 2022 tym 494. it is without a doubt the largest purchase that we have made on our Homestead so far to the tune of about forty six thousand dollars when all was said and done with implements and everything and it's been a great addition so far which I haven't really shown a lot on the channel what I want to do today is give you guys a little bit of the storyline of what we've done with the tractor so far since we've had it here on the farm so first things first let's talk about delivery day with the tractor [Music] we bought our tractor and implements from central New Hampshire trailers and Equipment they're great about getting us quick delivery day Mike their cameraman also came out to get some awesome drone shots from the channel [Applause] foreign I gotta say they did an awesome job going over things with me that I wasn't quite sure about having come from the Kubota which was a lot smaller I knew sort of how to run a tractor but I was pretty new to something this bit [Music] once the tractor was here on the farm the first thing I did was get to leveling out the driveway I've been working on the driveway with with the back there the auto throttle in this is great you don't have to throttle up if I let off you can see it goes down it'll actually go all the way down to idle if I have it there and then if I step on the pedal it throttles up and off you go we purchased a 72 inch York rake with the tractor and it's perfect for taking care of our gravel driveway getting the ruts out of the side leveling things out reclaiming some gravel that gets pushed off to the side of the driveway this project was a big one and this is one we've been talking about for a while so what you see behind me is our new pasture and I say New Pasture because it's only been logged for about two years we logged in not this past winter but the winter before so less than two years this is an area though where we'd like to eventually be able to have some pasture for small ruminants most likely sheep probably not goats probably not cattle just not enough space for that this is going to be most likely a sheep pasture after we had it logged and stumped the next order of business for me at least was to get in here and get some grass growing now we ran the pigs out here last year which definitely leaves it prepped for grass but if you're going to be looking to put other animals on it and you want to have a nice relatively flat pasture pigs tend to leave some holes and some ruts and some wallows and things like that you can see here these guys are due for a move they've moonscaped this pretty good they're going to be going back there but you can see just how well pigs prepare something for seed they get rocks up but they also leave some wallows and holes that you want to have cleaned out so once again I put the York rake on I got out here with the tractor and we did what we could do [Music] thank you [Music] [Music] [Music] I really didn't have a clue what I was doing with the York rake I had it set up straight across I played with the angle of it a few times uh both side to side and then the angle of the tines themselves up and down and I settled on a spot where I kind of made a bunch of straight passes where I'd pick up rocks and then just kind of deposit them in a spot and start back at the beginning but I did this multiple days you can see I'm wearing a different shirt in this shot of me driving the tractor but I basically just cruised through the pasture going over the same spots over and over and over again until I had most of the Rocks cleaned up and put piles on the edge of the field the cool thing here was with the cab I was able to work in conditions that with Kubota I would have definitely have stayed inside for in this shot you can see the windshield wipers going it's raining pretty good the ground is not super super wet it had been pretty dry throughout most of this job that I had been doing out in the field and and this little bit of rain didn't make too much of a mess you can see there's a spot there that I just passed through the tractor did a killer job of getting a lot of rocks out of here you can see just how non-rocky it is compared to over in the pig pen which is what it looked like over here the grass is really took to this side of the pasture over here a little bit less so over here we definitely still have some grass growing the left hand side really has to do because of how much water is on that side all that water comes from those trees that you see behind me and funnels down this left-hand side which made it a little bit tricky getting in there with the tractor because it was damp we had trees down in the field that I was able to pick up with the tractor and move the grapple has been just an awesome addition I can't believe I went so long owning a tractor without having a grapple on it exactly so we got a stump there and see if we can grab it there we go nice thing about it being so dry is I can kind of go whoever I want and not worry about getting sucked in but my truck is in the way of the log pile right now so these logs right here behind me were super easy to move after I cut them up with the chainsaw all of this material that you see behind me for the fencing project that we're going to be doing over there that was easily moved with the tractor if I wanted to move all those posts by hand there's about 65 of them there that's a very trying and taxing thing to do whereas with the tractor I could pick them up in one bunk right out of the back of my truck albeit a little bit gingerly and get them put where I need them I want to show you something else over here too this whole pile of brush and pallets don't mind them but this whole pile of brush which is not necessarily small by any means I was able to move this with the tractor and the span of maybe a half hour going all the way down to the end of the driveway picking up the brush bringing it all the way back up here and putting it in a pile that now I can just burn and not have to worry about it anymore without a tractor or even just without the tym if I was using the Kubota that sort of thing would take a long time with a grapple on the Kubota it might take less time but the Kubota wouldn't have been able to lift as much per grapple load as the cym does so where are we at we've got two about 20 hours on the tym so far I'm in love with it the air conditioning is killer in the summer it's gonna be clutch in the winter time the grapple has been awesome that's been a huge help in terms of picking things up and moving things that I don't want to move my hand necessarily overall I'm I'm super impressed so far with tym so still early but I'm not regretting my choice so far hopefully all you tractor fans out there got your fix with this video I know it's the first tractor-centric content I've done in a while as I get more used to to running the tym and get used to filming you know with a big tractor um we'll have more videos that that have the tracker in it shout out to all our patreon subscribers out there you know who you are otherwise everyone else who's watching the videos as always I thank you for watching and I hope you're having a great day bye

Channel: The Mindful Homestead

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Length: 11min 1sec (661 seconds)

Published: Thu Jul 27 2023