Show me what you used your tractor for today (pic thread) (Page 110 of 110)
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Originally Posted By Pennsilfaanisch: Not screened, and everything has clay in it around here. It looks like silty clay in the picture.  This is topsoil around here:  
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Grandfathering weapons only puts off until tomorrow what tyranny cannot accomplish today.
The only people made safer by gun control are criminals and tyrants.
The only people made safer by gun control are criminals and tyrants.
CAT 262 had a warning light go off, so instead of using that to unload cages of concrete panels, we used the 4707 instead.
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Grandfathering weapons only puts off until tomorrow what tyranny cannot accomplish today.
The only people made safer by gun control are criminals and tyrants.
The only people made safer by gun control are criminals and tyrants.
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Maybe a dumb question here, but has anyone ever seen a vertically oriented grapple, or a smaller feller/buncher for a tractor loader? I have a lot of dead trees that need to be cleared and having seen a grapple/shear thing on a skid steer in action, it make short work of them. Grab, cut and go put on a pile. Less clean up then felling and then grabbing with a claw grapple or something. Eta: all the skid steer ones are extremely expensive and require robust hydraulic flow. Maybe there's a reason I can't find one. |
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Originally Posted By Stonia: Maybe a dumb question here, but has anyone ever seen a vertically oriented grapple, or a smaller feller/buncher for a tractor loader? I have a lot of dead trees that need to be cleared and having seen a grapple/shear thing on a skid steer in action, it make short work of them. Grab, cut and go put on a pile. Less clean up then felling and then grabbing with a claw grapple or something. Eta: all the skid steer ones are extremely expensive and require robust hydraulic flow. Maybe there's a reason I can't find one. Here you go |
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Originally Posted By Faded-Brakes: Here you go I don't think log tongs are going to work for his purpose. |
"When you need it and ain't got it, you're singin' a different tune..."
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Originally Posted By Stonia: Maybe a dumb question here, but has anyone ever seen a vertically oriented grapple, or a smaller feller/buncher for a tractor loader? I have a lot of dead trees that need to be cleared and having seen a grapple/shear thing on a skid steer in action, it make short work of them. Grab, cut and go put on a pile. Less clean up then felling and then grabbing with a claw grapple or something. Eta: all the skid steer ones are extremely expensive and require robust hydraulic flow. Maybe there's a reason I can't find one. I've never seen anything like that for a tractor. If they did make one, I'd be scared to death to have me and my tractor under a dead tree operating it. The excavators that run feller bunchers are able to stay a good ways away from the tree, and I think most have ballistic glass or plexiglass as well as a cage over the lid to protect from debris. I think you'd also have to have a really heavy tractor to handle anything bigger than a pretty small tree. |
"When you need it and ain't got it, you're singin' a different tune..."
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Originally Posted By Stonia: Maybe a dumb question here, but has anyone ever seen a vertically oriented grapple, or a smaller feller/buncher for a tractor loader? I have a lot of dead trees that need to be cleared and having seen a grapple/shear thing on a skid steer in action, it make short work of them. Grab, cut and go put on a pile. Less clean up then felling and then grabbing with a claw grapple or something. Eta: all the skid steer ones are extremely expensive and require robust hydraulic flow. Maybe there's a reason I can't find one. I enjoy the humbolt and felling/wedging them over. Then trim the tops up and skid/drag the whole logs out with chains to a clearing to cut/stack/burn/chip/haul away. Safer/easier when its hilly trying to pickup logs with the grapple that get cut up where it fell out in the woods. Attached File |
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Attached File Attached File Mobile irrigation trailer. |
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Attached File Not mine. Buddy sent me this. Was getting it ready to do some plowing (gravel) and it said nah…not today. |
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Originally Posted By Stonia: Maybe a dumb question here, but has anyone ever seen a vertically oriented grapple, or a smaller feller/buncher for a tractor loader? I have a lot of dead trees that need to be cleared and having seen a grapple/shear thing on a skid steer in action, it make short work of them. Grab, cut and go put on a pile. Less clean up then felling and then grabbing with a claw grapple or something. Eta: all the skid steer ones are extremely expensive and require robust hydraulic flow. Maybe there's a reason I can't find one. Look up a westendorf grapple to see if that’s what you are speaking of. |
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The old barn was losing sheets of tin roofing yesterday in high winds, so my dad, my son, and I had to pull a bunch off. 4707 with upgraded FL series self-leveling loader and home-built man lift box. 
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Grandfathering weapons only puts off until tomorrow what tyranny cannot accomplish today.
The only people made safer by gun control are criminals and tyrants.
The only people made safer by gun control are criminals and tyrants.
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https://palletforks.com/products/12-in-rotating-tree-shear-attachment?variant=47327904170288 Fairly low flow tree shear. Probably mostly suitable for softwood and real small hardwood. |
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Logging the back of the farm for poplar. Attached File Attached File These are the small ones I cleared before I can get to the ones I really want. Still usable though. |
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It was a few days ago but my 33 YO garden tractor still earns its keep. Mowed the yard. Attached File |
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Originally Posted By Pennsilfaanisch: I used my box blade to grade my neighbor's driveway and then spread some gravel using the loader last weekend (roughly an hour's worth of work). She paid me with a dozen eggs from her chickens and a case of beer  
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Arfcom Call sign: Boner
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Attached File Closing soon on a new piece of land and decided to buy a new tractor. GREAT upgrade from my old ford jubilee. The ford will go in my shop for a much needed motor overhaul. Bushhogged a field that hasn't been cut in 2 years. |
The OP either shut it down for the night or is in the bathroom covered in shoe polish from belt to knees trying to get the lighting right -Sierra5
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Originally Posted By Pennsilfaanisch: This weekend I cleaned up weeds/brush around my one chestnut tree and graded out some of the low spots. Mulched and planted grass seed around it yesterday and found out my harbor freight sprayer tank mounts pretty well to the box blade. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/368464/trac1-3783116.jpg https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/368464/trac2-3783117.jpg https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/368464/trac3-3783118.jpg Every time I see someone else's Kubota I'm amazed at how many stickers are on them. I peeled all of those warning stickers off the day I got mine, so they look weird to me with the stickers on them. |
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Originally Posted By 57plymouth: Every time I see someone else's Kubota I'm amazed at how many stickers are on them. I peeled all of those warning stickers off the day I got mine, so they look weird to me with the stickers on them. It does have quite a lot of stickers, even the attachments. They put them on for a reason, though, because somebody did something at some point to necessitate them Now I'm probably going to take them off, lol. |
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A few new figs and drip irrigation. Attached File Attached File |
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Did about 5 acres of hay today. My chinese baler is a POS. Whatever solenoid controls the tailgate hydraulics decided it no longer wants to work. Quick trip to Harbor Freight and problem mostly solved. Still have to manually unlatch the tailgate though, which sucks. Attached File Attached File |
A few weeks back I used the '55 Farmall to try and make a small food plot at the property I hunt on. The field hadn't been tilled in 100 years or so, and the ground was tougher than at the homestead, so I made it a bit smaller than planned. It was an interesting experience and before enlarging the area I would mow/scalp & spray. I just didn't have the time for that this season.  This Sunday I went back and hit it with a chain link drag to level it out, then spread some seed, and dragged that in. Monday there was 1.25" rain and Tuesday 1.15". Hopefully it didn't all wash away all the seeds and they germinate nice and thick. The ground doesn't need to be pretty, it just needs to perform well! 
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LEGALIZE FREEDOM!
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Had my 6yo digging out the creek/ditch. Attached File |
Dan_Gray: You're right
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Attached File Knocking back 30+ feet of hayfield edges, autumn olive and Sassafras. Treating with Crossbow. Not fun, but needs to be done. Yes, I have a hydraulic fitting that leaks, it’s fixed now. |
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Originally Posted By FZJ80: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/434728/IMG_9690_jpeg-3830244.JPG Knocking back 30+ feet of hayfield edges, autumn olive and Sassafras. Treating with Crossbow. Not fun, but needs to be done. Yes, I have a hydraulic fitting that leaks, it’s fixed now. That's a rust inhibitor. Or was. |
"When you need it and ain't got it, you're singin' a different tune..."
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Originally Posted By Buckshot4U: That's a rust inhibitor. Or was. Originally Posted By Buckshot4U: Originally Posted By FZJ80: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/434728/IMG_9690_jpeg-3830244.JPG Knocking back 30+ feet of hayfield edges, autumn olive and Sassafras. Treating with Crossbow. Not fun, but needs to be done. Yes, I have a hydraulic fitting that leaks, it’s fixed now. That's a rust inhibitor. Or was. That's how I look at the main seal leak on my Snapper riding mower. The frame has a nice coating of oil on it
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