Outdoor storage for attachments

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Rick Moran

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I own quite a few attachments for my Mahindra 3616 tractor and even some for my Husky TS 348d riding mower. Ive been keeping them outdoors in a designated lay-down area. They have been stored on pallets in the dirt but it seems whenever I want to use something it’s always knee deep in grass and weeds.

I moved everything out today, weed eater and scraped it smooth. This year I’m going to spray it down with Round Up 365 (good for 1 yr.). Once all the vegetation is killed I’ve been thinking about laying down gravel as a new base.

Any thoughts on the best way to store them outdoors?

Rick
 
Rick Moran said:
I own quite a few attachments for my Mahindra 3616 tractor and even some for my Husky TS 348d riding mower. Ive been keeping them outdoors in a designated lay-down area. They have been stored on pallets in the dirt but it seems whenever I want to use something it’s always knee deep in grass and weeds.

I moved everything out today, weed eater and scraped it smooth. This year I’m going to spray it down with Round Up 365 (good for 1 yr.). Once all the vegetation is killed I’ve been thinking about laying down gravel as a new base.

Any thoughts on the best way to store them outdoors?

Rick
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Rick Moran said:
My pics didn’t make it in the above post so I’m going to try again.
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Pretty sure you need at least 10 posts before you can do attachments. @Doc may be able to tweek your ID for an exemption.

Gravel works well. Works even better if you put road fabric under it. Asphalt millings also work well and are a bit cheaper.

I'm also a big fan of Fluid film as a corrosion preventative.
 
If you want to save some money and get a product that works much better than consumer oriented weed killers, go down to your local CO-OP or what ever farm store you have in your area and purchase fence row vegetation killer. It will be in the Farm Chemical section, not the "Lawn and Garden" section. Put a little dish soap in it when you spray it, for a surficant. FOLLOW THE DIRECTIONS EXACTLY AS THE PACKING STATES and wear the advised PPE.

The crap you get at Lowes or Home Depot is highly diluted consumer oriented products, which is 95+% inert filler and they don't work. Don't buy any weed killer product in the LAWN & GARDEN section of any store. They designed it for the weekend warriors that have never read a single product label in their lives and think that more is always better. You are paying dearly for the name "Round-Up" when there are much cheaper generic glyphosate options available that work just as good if not better.

Also, let some grass come back up and grow before you spray it. The chemical transfer is accomplished by absorption from the surface of the leaves of the plant to the roots. You want to kill the roots of the vegetation, not dump your money out on the ground. Follow the application rate exactly when working with real concentrate chemicals.

If you have your mind set on the Round Up brand, then make sure the labeling on the jug says "Pro" on it. You won't find it in any Lawn and Garden store. It ain't cheap, but it works very well.

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A couple thoughts on herbicides.

Like @Smilingreen said, the residential stuff is pretty much crap.

I see you live in CA so some of the good stuff may not be available in your State.

When choosing, pay attention to whether it is or is not a residual control product. E.g. The Round-Up you mentioned has residual properties so it'll (supposedly) kill for a long time. Many others only kill on the plants it comes in contact with and won't control new weed growth.

If you put down road fabric and stones, then cover the ground with implements, I wouldn't expect you to get a lot of weed growth so you may only need to do spot spraying.

MOST herbicides have a limited shelf life of just a couple years. Don't buy more than you can use in that amount of time.

RIGHT NOW (it seems to change every few years), my favorite herbicide is Scythe. It kills EVERYTHING and most plants are dead within an hour. Others may take a day.
www.domyown.com

Scythe Herbicide

Scythe Herbicide
www.domyown.com www.domyown.com

On that link, the 2.5 gallon is only $9 more than the gallon jug so obviously, I go for the bigger jug.

I do like that domyown.com site. In most cases, they have the best prices beating Amazon and the box stores.
 
Doc said:
Very timely post. Thanks Zoomer. I just ordered the 2.5 gallon size. :tiphat:
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You'll like that stuff Doc. It kills things faster than paint dries. ;) I "think" I use it at 3% mix.

We live relatively close. Do you have anything that looks like seaweed growing, mainly in gravel areas?
It's nostoc commune. INCREDIBLY hard to kill. Scythe is the only product I've heard of that will kill it (and it does).

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Hey @Rick Moran
Didn't mean to derail/sidetrack your thread. Do you have any thoughts on cloth/stone/herbicides/fluid film?
We didn't even discuss putting up a cheap shelter to cover the implements.
 
bczoom said:
You'll like that stuff Doc. It kills things faster than paint dries. ;) I "think" I use it at 3% mix.

We live relatively close. Do you have anything that looks like seaweed growing, mainly in gravel areas?
It's nostoc commune. INCREDIBLY hard to kill. Scythe is the only product I've heard of that will kill it (and it does).

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A little off road diesel "accidentally" spilled on that stuff works wonders.......:notthatway:
 
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Thanks for everyone’s thoughts on herbicides and methods of storage. I can’t build any sort of covered storage as much as I’d like too. My lay down area is behind a 4.5’ yard fence. Anything taller would block our beautiful view and the wife isn’t having any that.

I put down road cloth w/gravel for a turnaround road to circle the house and yard and it was good for quite a few years but I get a lot of seasonal lawn creeping in along the edges with no curbing.

I’m thinking I’ll just use good/new pallets. On the heavier attachments I’ll go with doubles or with a cut sheet of 1” plywood, that’s what the previous owner did. They’re easy to shuffle around when I need to go back and spray again and it keeps them out of the mud. My attachments aren’t new. I got them in a bundle deal with my used Mahindra 3616 so I won’t feel as bad as ruining new and expensive stuff.
 

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