As I posted a few weeks ago, I got a new tractor.  Man it was expensive, but DAMN this thing is handy.  I got it mostly to mow a field, but I use it for a lot of other stuff.  We had a storm blow through, and the tractor was a big help in getting a big limb cleaned up.  This is a small thing, but recently I changed my sister's oil and used it to carry the low profile ramps I made from the barn up to the driveway.  Of course I could have carried these by hand, but a tractor makes it a million times easier.  What did you do with your tractor(s) today?

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I want a 7100 very badly

Frisbee rescue!  Awesomeness!!

I love those Case tractors.

OSHA just called.

there are so many violations that they had to go to a second page.  

ar-jedi

I know its not much of a tractor but yesterday I killed my 1985 Deere 112L mower. I decided I was going to use it to aerate the lawn and about 1/4 way threw and she decided it had enough. Pushing the hydro all the way forward and no movement. I knew it was getting bad last year as I would mow the 1 acre the house is on and halfway threw it would get weak and by the time I was done it would be real slow.
So I got the inlaws Deere 455 to finish the lawn yesterday. and no one came by to steal it last night so I need to figure out what to do next with the old girl

Winter took its toll on my gravel driveway this year.   I drug the drive and cleaned up the ruts and pot holes.

Fuck OSHA.  

Looks like that poster is living life.

Now that I take a closer look you're right, lot of trip hazards on the porch, I should straighten that up

for 30 years my dad owned a building supplies store.

by age 14 or 15 i was an experienced fork lift operator. i knew nothing about physics, but as far as i could tell that old propane-powered Allis-Chalmers could pick up anything.

the Georgia-Pacific tractor trailer arrived one afternoon while my dad was out on a delivery. up on the bed there was a full bundle of 20' PT'd 2x10's ordered for a local dock builder. such a bundle weighs about 6000 pounds.

i nosed the forklift under the bundle, tilted the load back, and anyone who has lifted something so heavy and so wide with a forklift will tell you about the immediate feedback you get from the steering wheel -- since the steered wheels on a forklift are in the rear, a heavy load on the forks effectively feels like power steering. and having 10 feet of weight out to each side, and the load about 8 feet off the ground results in an interesting level of telling yourself, "pay attention here".

i slowly backed the loaded forklift away from the tractor trailer, cleared the bed, put my foot on the brake like my dad always told me to, and started to lower the load. at some point, for some reason, i thought to myself that the load wasn't actually clear of the trailer bed. subsequently i let go of the down control too abruptly. i had turned a static load into a dynamic load.

the bundle was in fact clear of the bed. or, it was at least for a moment. because of my ham-fisted antics the forklift now pitched forward, tilting and trapping the load AGAINST the side of the bed of the tractor trailer, with the forklift's rear wheels off the ground now by some 6-8". only my foot on the brake was keeping the forklift from ending up on it's nose with the bundle on the ground. i looked to my right and up near the tractor cab the crusty Georgia-Pacific driver was slowly shaking his head.

so now i had 6000 pounds trapped about 7 feet up against the side of a tractor trailer, and the back wheels of the fork truck were off the ground. i had a couple of options here -- one of which involved pulling the parking brake and then jumping off, hoping the brake held long enough so i would not be killed from all hell breaking loose.

i did some math in my head and concluded that as long as i kept standing on the brakes, the situation would not get worse. it was at this point it started to rain... LOL. i figured any minute my dad would be back and this was surely something i would never hear the end of.

i got the idea to lower the load, very gently, just a tiny bit. still standing on the brakes, i ever-so-gently nudged the hydraulic down lever a bit and although the bundle didn't move any the rear of the forklift came down a bit. i nudged again, and the rear dropped a bit more. finally i got the rear wheels back on terra firma. and eventually i was able to actually lower the load to near enough the ground that i was no longer in danger (physically or from a butt-whipping by my father). as i backed the load away from the trailer, i thought to myself that i would from then on pay more attention to what i was doing when 6000 pounds was up over my head.

i set down the bundle in the back of the yard and then came back up to sign the bill of lading. the Georgia-Pacific driver says to me, "son, i was 100% sure you were going to be picking up all those planks for the next couple of hours -- that is, if you lived through it..."

ar-jedi

Sign of a country kid  - Playing frisbee in his muck boots.

Jedi, where's the dang like button

One time when I was in high school I was using a New Holland skid steer to dump mulch in a customers truck.  Problem was, I didn't attach the bucket properly and the entire bucked dropped in a Chevy S10.  Fucked up the truck pretty good.

Heh, I used to work at a supply warehouse with stand up forklifts, pallets of concrete came in and if I recall they weighed 3,240lbs (including the pallet weight) which was close to the capacity of the lift, occasionally they would have a partial pallet with just one layer of bags on it which was another 600~ish lbs and I would stack it on top off a full pallet to reduce my trips back and forth... However now it would technically be over the capacity of the lift, but if you tilted down slightly and then lifted as much pressure on the load as it would give, then tilt all the way back, the tilt cylinders had more strength and you'd be free from the ground to be on your way.

I believe that's called breakout force. It's the force of both the curl and lift applied at the same time.

In a loader yes, forklift it's a little different but essentially the same idea. Not all the cylinders working at once, just lifting till it's out of travel, and then tilting back with the tilt cylinders. On a backhoe loader or other similar bucket loader you're using both lift and tilt at the same time to achieve the breakout force.

When I was a kid, we had a small Simplicity tractor.  Only had about an 8 hp engine but that thing REALLY had some torque.  It could pull some impressive loads.  I went one day to pull out a small dead fruit tree.   Hooked up the chain to the upper lift on the rear end.  I put it in low and began pulling.  It immediately drove the front end off the ground and would have flipped over if I had been going any faster.....and I learned an important lesson about pulling from below the axle!

Been a couple of busy last couple of weekends, have some time to update now.

Have wanted to "open up" my view a little since I built my house. I finally got the green light from the wife to take this:

I'll have to do this in a couple of posts, my puter is being difficult.

Throw in a little this:

you get this

then a little Cubbie action

I knew the midwest was flat....but that just looks really flat.

That just looks odd to me.

Nice view though, where is the 1000 yard target?

Get a few trees and bushes on clearance

Three more over here:

Last one here from this project:

From where my back deck is, it's 480 yards to the grass spot up in the alfalfa. 1000+ is down on the river bottom ground where it's really flat for miles! Here is a pic from Western Nebraska, just because:

That isn't flat. Once you get on top of the hill by town and head west, that is where laser manufacturers do their calibrations . Perfectly flat for miles and miles.

 

Now just 5 miles away at my neck of the woods, it is quite steep hills, up to about 40 feet.


Damn glaciers

Really? from my main door of the house I can see the next 3 towns and I can see the local ethanol plant that is about 9 miles away it is real flat by me I wish I had a spot set up for 1000y but I have no hills to use as a backstop :(







anyways for tractors. I used 4020 to gather more rocks before planting
messed around on the FIL case 9280 as the starter was/ is bad so I fixed that so he could work ground then we planted yesterday. Trying to beat the rain

If you can see 9 miles why do you need a backstop

because just because I can see the local towns does not mean there are no houses in between us. at least 1-2 houses per mile I can shoot across the field if no crops in and can maybe just maybe get a few hundred yards with no houses in my line of fire

Spring weed spraying grind here... 2.1 MPH.... all...day...long, with stretch breaks in the Chem barn during tank loading.
If there is anything more boring to be done with a Tractor, I don't know what it is.

Time to get rid of the old maple stump


Rock's a little too big for the little Kubota, gotta make it smaller


Part way there


One more split



Enough with the rocks, back to digging


Finally got it free


Stump was too big to handle, so I put the chainsaw to it until I hit a piece of gravel embedded in the root and trashed the chain, luckily I was able to split it the rest of the way with wedges


Hole filled back in, just need to finish leveling it off and seed it

Bold move, I'd just be hopeful they don't charge you for destruction of property

Nice Farmall Super A!  Brings back memories!

No pics but spread 3,200# of lime, 500# 10-10-10, disked all that, spread oats then wheat, raked all that for soil contact. Was planning to bed the garden but I ran out of gas

Tilled up a food plot on the mountain.  

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Did a little yard work, and since I still have the Cub in the garage and not at the farm, we took the easy route to get the leaves from the back yard to the truck.



It's a little tight in the back... (that's what she said...?)

a couple weeks ago:







Hate having to borrow implements, so it was time to make some (they are $$$ and my time is free and it is relaxing building stuff)


It is time to get some potatoes in the ground, all these years I have used a hoe..or is it Ho' to dig rows...that sucks so I built this "row-er" or what ever it is called

I purchased 2 row crop sweeper things from Agri supply, main purpose was to use them on my hiller etc to break up the dirt that was compacted by my tires, I thought as a went looking for ho's the other morning...that sounds bad hugh  how to do this with my tractor?

I saw them laying on the trailer and said "if I could hold them behind tractor and pull them..." out came cutoff wheels, grinder and welder

I needed an adjustable clamps so I welded this up and used pennies for a .06 gap..





here it is before bending it



it is designed to slip into my 2" rec. setup I built a few weeks ago

Bent to shape after first use



okay,just finished today's project minus paint and some bracing...if it works

working from home with no access to lathes and mills sucks, so using a grinder, hand drill and 15 year old Harbor frieght drill press...I pushed on

Spent an hour making $2.00 pins



pcs laid out



some old roll cage tubing for spacers



made some disc holders



done



used new tools to do this







nice wide hills with good deep rows



I am new to the Tractor world

Didn't know we had a tractor area, very cool

Very cool! I love the "shad tree" engineering!

I know the feeling.  How much for a pasture drag? Screw that, my uncle has a pile of old tires out back.  Add some cheap hardware, and there you go.  I'll probably try it out next week or so once the winter pasture can dry out.

Cool.  

That's a dang good looking tire to be ruined enough to use for that.

The sidewalls are shot, so I didn't mind drilling through it.

My thoughts also
Trees thru sidewall

The other side of this tire looks like somebody drove down the road a couple miles without any air in it.

Just a bit of bush hogging so far this year.  That's the FEL on my 3038e, BTW.



The clover was so thick it was bogging down in some spots.  A beautiful day though.  A couple of turkeys were pretty annoyed with me, though.

my makeshift sprayer setup, ready to roll with some Trimec to bludgeon the spring weeds.

ar-jedi