Best Ford Pickup

Simple math, using the dimensions of the yard and the total depth of seasonal leaves, would tell us the volume.Consult your deed plat for property dimensions, or tax tickets for amount of acreage.for those, like me, who learn more visually, or you can...

“It's a very complementary relationship; it lets us give back to our guests and the farmers who grow our food.” Gillard, who orders most of the produce for his farm-to-table restaurant from Country Fresh Farm, came up with the idea to partner in their...

Long before balers, country folk hayed with scythes and pitchforks , a time-consuming, backbreaking task that was lightened somewhat with the invention of the horse-drawn sickle mower and stacker, along with grappling hook apparatus designed to lift cured...

The tarp is easy to load, too, a lot easier than a cart or pickup box. I used to use a smaller tarp, grab all four corners and throw it over my shoulder. In the past, I've used my pickup, a cart behind the ATV and even a small tarp, depending on the distance...

It wouldn't run, then it wouldn't move the clay, then it wouldn't run again. On a garden tour last year, one of the hosts said it only took her seven years to amass the luxurious garden that once was a mere yard.

Ford discovered one of my favorite chicken-keeping hacks. Ford positioned the pot inside the chicken run on her feeding station: a pallet set on bricks, where the small feeders had been parked.

The editors of Chickens magazine are always on the lookout for great chicken photos, and in a recent print issue they ran a contest they titled Shutterclucks. Debbie Smith of Snohomish, Washington 8.

The handlebar and seat of the scooter are enclosed in a little cabin, and the truck bed behind is about three feet by four feet. These Ape are by far the most common type of agricultural truck in all of Italy.

Well, actually, the work has begun on removing the old patio. He declined so I just started asking around. The worst part is that after all that hauling and four pickup-truck loads, we only managed to remove about a third of the patio! Another friend...

The blades do not have to dry before you start pruning.Prune faded and damaged blooms 1/2 to 1 inch above the nearest strong buds (the place where leaves and branches emerge) or branches.Avoid scratches and scrapes caused by rose thorns by wearing rose...

You can chip the trunk as well to use a raw mulch to cover paths and beds.The trunk can then be dried for a few weeks and turned into firewood. The tree can be recycled. The pine needles can be stripped from the tree and used to cover muddy paths.

Next came threshing, when the cut stalks of grain were beaten to separate the grain from the chaff. The combine can also be connected to a baling machine, which rolls the straw into bales to be used elsewhere on the farm.Loading grain from the combine's...

It can take a bit of effort to get the tractor and implement into exactly the right position so that the three points of attachment can be made—getting two of them secured tends to be easy enough, but I find that the third one can be quite stubborn...

Hanging a new barn door? The ATV units are good for operations with only a few animals stabled regularly, or with a larger herd that is on pasture most of the time. During the several household moves we've made since we purchased our trailer, it has done...

Each one is a little different in its own unique way. No additives or chemicals to worry about, grown right in your area by folks that you know. Chickens, apples, peppers and grapes all on their way toMarkets have been a main stay of towns both large...

And, I'm so very lucky to have a friend who is willing to share the good stuff. The whole system is about 5 feet tall and has three tiers of grow lights. I haven't decided where to put it yet but I may move it upstairs into the family room.

Treichler calls this model “beyond CSA.” By logging in to the farm's website , customers can order—or un-order (if they're out of town for the weekend)—anything from organic vegetables to free-range eggs to be delivered to a busy corner of the...

A fairly hardy bacterium, L. LeJeune offers these tips: Adequately compost all manure before applying to farmland. “Farmers working with animals, particularly dairy cattle, need to take precautions not to carry contamination into the household,” adds...

Mowing heavy brush or just keeping the weeds down is one of the most common jobs for a tractor. The loader—especially if equipped with forks—makes quick work of unloading building materials, moving sacks of cement, setting rafters or trusses in place,...

Lynn Friedman/Flickr Towing Packages If possible, get a truck with a towing package. The ball may be bolted or welded to the receiver hitch. Pickup and flatbed trucks have handled such farm tasks for nearly a century.

In that time before tractor cabs, working into the night meant getting a different view of your working world, one covered by a spectacular light show. It isn't that I would disk a field with my eyes on the stars.

However, excessive kinking, stretching or abrasion can cause a hose to fail. Depending on the size of the pump and the load it is bearing, hydraulic fluid can be under thousands of pounds of pressure.

“Everything now is experimental, but we are getting some very good results,” Lutz says. “Enough that we're interested in continuing and moving forward to further this technology.” The technology Lutz refers to is the process of breaking down water...

I realized that what I needed was a sledge or sled, what my father used to call a “stone boat.” The goal was something I could pile high with manure and tow behind my ATV. I really didn't want to use the wheelbarrow, and it would mean a great many...

Mulch is then used for city beautification projects or on local playgrounds. Some cities even offer their mulch for sale, so that individual homeowners can take advantage of this great green product.

Whereas an auger can run out of gas at an inconvenient time—like when you're at the far edge of a pasture and a quarter mile from your tool shed—an old-fashioned post-hole digger runs on manpower.

In dense urban centers with limited growing space, people are pushing the envelope of portable garden ideas by transforming old trailer homes into ornamental gardens and installing glass-encasedin the back of their long-bed pickup trucks.