Well, the fields are seeded. Now I need to fertilize all 20 acres of it!

I disced over the course of two weeks, first on one part of the west field with the Massey 202 and it's little Ferguson disc, and since the D7 needed repairs, we used our '51 D8 attached to the 14' CaseIH Plow to disc the east field.

In the middle of it all, Mom and Dad invested in some 800 trees to rebuild our forests, so I had to help plant those, ranging from Blue spruces to Grand Firs.

After all of that discing, We seeded. And seeded. and seeded. and then used the Massey disc to cover the seed.

Okay, now the seed's in. We finally got a soil test kit, and found the solid was devoid of just about everything except phosphorus. As much as we expected it, it still came as a surprise! So off to the garden store to buy them out of fertilizer.

after some passes of fertilizer with the quad, the fields sprang to life. Now the grass is getting so tall, the clover at the near end of the east field, normally not a hay crop, is just about ready to be baled!

Now we are irrigating the crap out of the fields, so we should get a good start with the grass.

What I have been doing in the last week is cutting parts off the D8 blade. The blade was not original, it was a blade probably meant for a older RD-8 with a overhead pulley, back when they were still perfecting the first blade design. It was cobbled onto our D8 before we bought it. I hated it for not bulldozing a flat line, and it's short travel span, from mounting it on top of the Overhead pulley frame, made it rather hard to work with, and not very popular as a result.

So after I busted the blade pins off from trying to ram a stump out, me and Dad decided to replace the blade mounts with something from a later generation bulldozer.

Borrowing a 300-amp welder, I air-arced the central pivot off another blade, the angle mounts from a C-frame, and all the old-blade crap off the D8 C-frame. Now all I need to do is grind the stuff flat, and it's time to break out the welding rods!