Show me what you used your tractor for today (pic thread) (Page 5 of 110)
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Originally Posted By sea2summit:
Built a treehouse <a href="http://s29.photobucket.com/user/sea2summit1/media/Mobile%20Uploads/image_zpsukj6h5ip.jpeg.html" target="_blank">http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c271/sea2summit1/Mobile%20Uploads/image_zpsukj6h5ip.jpeg</a> We really need a "Like" button on here......That is a great pic.....  !
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Originally Posted By sea2summit:
Built a treehouse <a href="http://s29.photobucket.com/user/sea2summit1/media/Mobile%20Uploads/image_zpsukj6h5ip.jpeg.html" target="_blank">http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c271/sea2summit1/Mobile%20Uploads/image_zpsukj6h5ip.jpeg</a> Damn that's a sweet rig! I went to the Kubota dealer today to get some stuff and I was scoping the 5800s out, very nice. If you were taller I'd be jealous! 
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Originally Posted By AS40:
Unloaded the new hotness, a Woods land planer/scraper. http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y101/hyk176/Mobile%20Uploads/36D0D0DC-EB29-43B1-B4D4-BDEDD37C1CB4.jpg http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y101/hyk176/Mobile%20Uploads/CA5E1812-0875-443C-BF45-3A09020F6D39.jpg Holy carp, awesome toys sir!! |
Started on the 200 yard rifle range from my walkout basement. It will end up being around 75' wide, 220 yards long, with a bridge over the creek that flows through at 180 yards. I will be able to set up run&gun stations throughout its length and be able to shoot skeet with the kids from my deck. I can't wait! I should have the trees and brush cleared by spring. That's my 74 year old dad keeping up with the 40 year olds that were helping.
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Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile ETA - a view from the deck. The open clearing is what we accomplished yesterday. It's 100 yards to thhe center of the clearing.....about half way done length wise....still needs to be widened out  " />
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Yesterday I used my Kubota L4330 with it's FEL to move some large Hackberry rounds so I could turn them into future firewood.
Pics of just two of the rounds: 
My process for large rounds is to split them down to manageable size by using my log splitter in the vertical mode, reload them into the FEL and then final-split them into the final firewood size. Intermediate pic of the semi-split rounds: 
Another pic with a gratuitous shot of the view up here: 
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Originally Posted By TheDevilYouLove:
Damn that's a sweet rig! I went to the Kubota dealer today to get some stuff and I was scoping the 5800s out, very nice. If you were taller I'd be jealous! Originally Posted By TheDevilYouLove:
Originally Posted By sea2summit:
Built a treehouse <a href="http://s29.photobucket.com/user/sea2summit1/media/Mobile%20Uploads/image_zpsukj6h5ip.jpeg.html" target="_blank">http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c271/sea2summit1/Mobile%20Uploads/image_zpsukj6h5ip.jpeg</a> Damn that's a sweet rig! I went to the Kubota dealer today to get some stuff and I was scoping the 5800s out, very nice. If you were taller I'd be jealous! Well the tractor takes off about two feet and 200#
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Originally Posted By AS40:
Unloaded the new hotness, a Woods land planer/scraper. http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y101/hyk176/Mobile%20Uploads/36D0D0DC-EB29-43B1-B4D4-BDEDD37C1CB4.jpg http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y101/hyk176/Mobile%20Uploads/CA5E1812-0875-443C-BF45-3A09020F6D39.jpg Bro, get those tires filled 
I need it too but for now I have the BH on. Lifted two logs in the grapple the other day without the BH and would have gone right over had I been any less attentive to the load 
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Originally Posted By TheDevilYouLove:
I finally set up a Craigslist search for b7100 and will get emails on hits. Gots to get me one of those. Originally Posted By TheDevilYouLove:
Originally Posted By sitdwnandhngon:
Originally Posted By TheDevilYouLove:
Now that I've been through my first snow with my tractor, here is my list of stuff to pick up for it: and dump off to the side which is a time suck. An angled blade would be sweet, so I could just keep moving and the snow slides off to one side instead of accumulating in front of the machine. 4. Rear work light. I don't have a rear light which sucks when backing up in the dark. What say y'all? If you can find anywhere that is free to either drill a small hole, or if there is already a hole (3/8" I think these were) a set of these lights was less than $20 on ebay. Mounted right up to where the reflectors or maybe blinkers used to be. http://i1322.photobucket.com/albums/u576/sitdwnandhngon/WP_20150903_19_55_03_Pro_zpsn0xqomc8.jpg http://i1322.photobucket.com/albums/u576/sitdwnandhngon/WP_20150903_19_54_56_Pro_zpsdfdgvjb4.jpg http://i1322.photobucket.com/albums/u576/sitdwnandhngon/WP_20150903_19_57_05_Pro_zpshbpbt0zx.jpg http://i1322.photobucket.com/albums/u576/sitdwnandhngon/WP_20150903_19_57_37_Pro_zpsmwddjwih.jpg Paired with the lights I replaced on the front, I can see pretty much anything that might be in the way. http://i1322.photobucket.com/albums/u576/sitdwnandhngon/temporary_zpsd04ps6rs.jpg http://i1322.photobucket.com/albums/u576/sitdwnandhngon/temporary_zpstr7em2g7.jpg I finally set up a Craigslist search for b7100 and will get emails on hits. Gots to get me one of those. Look at tractorhouse.com they show a couple of 7100s in MD. link |
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Originally Posted By sea2summit:
Bro, get those tires filled
I need it too but for now I have the BH on. Lifted two logs in the grapple the other day without the BH and would have gone right over had I been any less attentive to the load Originally Posted By sea2summit:
Originally Posted By AS40:
Unloaded the new hotness, a Woods land planer/scraper. http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y101/hyk176/Mobile%20Uploads/36D0D0DC-EB29-43B1-B4D4-BDEDD37C1CB4.jpg http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y101/hyk176/Mobile%20Uploads/CA5E1812-0875-443C-BF45-3A09020F6D39.jpg Bro, get those tires filled
I need it too but for now I have the BH on. Lifted two logs in the grapple the other day without the BH and would have gone right over had I been any less attentive to the load I know it. I just can't bring myself to do it. It just doesn't seem right. I'm just gonna buy more wheel weights. |
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Originally Posted By Andrapos:
Heavy, wet, nasty snow. Farmall Cub went through it like a hot knife through butter! What took 20-30 minutes with the 26" TroyBilt snow blower took about 4 minutes, I should have bought one of these years ago!
http://i743.photobucket.com/albums/xx78/Andrapos/Arfcom/IMG_20160205_091223347_zpstjarpjfm.jpg It warms my soul to see that Cub beautifully restored and still out working hard! |
| In the next few months I'm planning to buy my great grandpa's old 1948 John Deere M from grandma. Great gramps bought it used when it was about one year old and it's been in the family ever since. I need the thing like I need a hole in my head, but all the other family members that would have any interest already have more tractors than they know what to do with. It's gonna need plenty of TLC and I have no idea when I'll be able to make time to wrench on it, but I'm looking forward to it anyhow. |
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Originally Posted By Andrapos:
Heavy, wet, nasty snow. Farmall Cub went through it like a hot knife through butter! What took 20-30 minutes with the 26" TroyBilt snow blower took about 4 minutes, I should have bought one of these years ago!
http://i743.photobucket.com/albums/xx78/Andrapos/Arfcom/IMG_20160205_091223347_zpstjarpjfm.jpg The MIL's farm was not so quick with my Cub. 8-10" of heavy wet snow. Didn't get any pictures.
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Originally Posted By Buckshot4U:
In the next few months I'm planning to buy my great grandpa's old 1948 John Deere M from grandma. Great gramps bought it used when it was about one year old and it's been in the family ever since. I need the thing like I need a hole in my head, but all the other family members that would have any interest already have more tractors than they know what to do with. It's gonna need plenty of TLC and I have no idea when I'll be able to make time to wrench on it, but I'm looking forward to it anyhow. Holy chit, that's awesome! Those are highly collectible, def post pics when you get it! If your time is limited, at least get the motor broke loose (if it's stuck) and then hire someone to get it running from there. |
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Originally Posted By TheDevilYouLove:
It warms my soul to see that Cub beautifully restored and still out working hard! Originally Posted By TheDevilYouLove:
Originally Posted By Andrapos:
Heavy, wet, nasty snow. Farmall Cub went through it like a hot knife through butter! What took 20-30 minutes with the 26" TroyBilt snow blower took about 4 minutes, I should have bought one of these years ago!
http://i743.photobucket.com/albums/xx78/Andrapos/Arfcom/IMG_20160205_091223347_zpstjarpjfm.jpg It warms my soul to see that Cub beautifully restored and still out working hard! Thanks! I use it on the "farm all" the time, grading, sickle bar cutting, towing, and as soon as I can locate a plow, plowing for corn |
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Originally Posted By ColtRifle:
Graded the driveway to the new house with my new (to me) grader blade. Worked great. Looks a little rough but works perfect. http://i1332.photobucket.com/albums/w613/onlinepicaccount/KIMG0146_zps8izvyj5h.jpg http://i1332.photobucket.com/albums/w613/onlinepicaccount/KIMG0147_zpssvxigj0o.jpg http://i1332.photobucket.com/albums/w613/onlinepicaccount/KIMG0148_zpsaucmtgwn.jpg Finally you post pics! Nice rig, I like it! |
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Originally Posted By ColtRifle:
Graded the driveway to the new house with my new (to me) grader blade. Worked great. Looks a little rough but works perfect. http://i1332.photobucket.com/albums/w613/onlinepicaccount/KIMG0146_zps8izvyj5h.jpg http://i1332.photobucket.com/albums/w613/onlinepicaccount/KIMG0147_zpssvxigj0o.jpg http://i1332.photobucket.com/albums/w613/onlinepicaccount/KIMG0148_zpsaucmtgwn.jpg My wife used to call that "re-arranging the rocks in the driveway."
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Originally Posted By ColtRifle: Graded the driveway to the new house with my new (to me) grader blade. Worked great. Looks a little rough but works perfect. http://i1332.photobucket.com/albums/w613/onlinepicaccount/KIMG0146_zps8izvyj5h.jpg http://i1332.photobucket.com/albums/w613/onlinepicaccount/KIMG0147_zpssvxigj0o.jpg http://i1332.photobucket.com/albums/w613/onlinepicaccount/KIMG0148_zpsaucmtgwn.jpg |
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Originally Posted By ejeviking:
Just a suggestion here. with that big of rock, you could try and grade your driveway with the blade backwards. You may need a little more weight on your blade though. Originally Posted By ejeviking:
Originally Posted By ColtRifle:
Graded the driveway to the new house with my new (to me) grader blade. Worked great. Looks a little rough but works perfect. http://i1332.photobucket.com/albums/w613/onlinepicaccount/KIMG0146_zps8izvyj5h.jpg http://i1332.photobucket.com/albums/w613/onlinepicaccount/KIMG0147_zpssvxigj0o.jpg http://i1332.photobucket.com/albums/w613/onlinepicaccount/KIMG0148_zpsaucmtgwn.jpg If the front end loader has a " float mode", he'd be better off using that and driving backwards with the bucket at a 60-70 degree angle... the rear blade would be better served bringing all the loose rock in from the edges to keep it out of the grass. |
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Looking to get a new (or new to me) tractor sometime this year. Probably in the 45HP range. Seems like everything I see has a FEL on it. Is it really worth it? I can see it being useful for a few months then being a huge PIA. Mowing with one seems like it would be in the way most of the time.
I would like a dozer blade on the front that worked off of the FEL hydraulics though. I worked on a ROW crew for a power company for awhile and we had a Ford 4400 and 6600 set up with the blade on the front and a Marvel tree cutter on the back. Worked great in that environment. Found the previously cut stumps and could be used to build a temporary dam for crossing creeks. It would be great for clearing snow or ice. Who make a FEL that isn't a pain to remove? |
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Originally Posted By Gopher:
Looking to get a new (or new to me) tractor sometime this year. Probably in the 45HP range. Seems like everything I see has a FEL on it. Is it really worth it? I can see it being useful for a few months then being a huge PIA. Mowing with one seems like it would be in the way most of the time. I would like a dozer blade on the front that worked off of the FEL hydraulics though. I worked on a ROW crew for a power company for awhile and we had a Ford 4400 and 6600 set up with the blade on the front and a Marvel tree cutter on the back. Worked great in that environment. Found the previously cut stumps and could be used to build a temporary dam for crossing creeks. It would be great for clearing snow or ice. Who make a FEL that isn't a pain to remove? I have no desire to have a tractor without a FEL. It's the most handy tool you can own. Once you own one, you won't care about mowing with it on because it's so handy when you need it. |
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Originally Posted By IH1026:
If the front end loader has a " float mode", he'd be better off using that and driving backwards with the bucket at a 60-70 degree angle... the rear blade would be better served bringing all the loose rock in from the edges to keep it out of the grass. Originally Posted By IH1026:
Originally Posted By ejeviking:
Originally Posted By ColtRifle:
Graded the driveway to the new house with my new (to me) grader blade. Worked great. Looks a little rough but works perfect. http://i1332.photobucket.com/albums/w613/onlinepicaccount/KIMG0146_zps8izvyj5h.jpg http://i1332.photobucket.com/albums/w613/onlinepicaccount/KIMG0147_zpssvxigj0o.jpg http://i1332.photobucket.com/albums/w613/onlinepicaccount/KIMG0148_zpsaucmtgwn.jpg If the front end loader has a " float mode", he'd be better off using that and driving backwards with the bucket at a 60-70 degree angle... the rear blade would be better served bringing all the loose rock in from the edges to keep it out of the grass. My FEL doesn't have a float mode. I've used a buddy's tractor with a float mode but mine doesn't have it. I was trying to move the rock with the FEL and it wasn't working too well. The grader blade works great. We put 3 dump truck loads of large rock on the driveway. Once it gets pressed in, we'll put a few more loads of dirty base on the driveway and have a nice compacted driveway. |
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Originally Posted By TheDevilYouLove:
Holy chit, that's awesome! Those are highly collectible, def post pics when you get it! If your time is limited, at least get the motor broke loose (if it's stuck) and then hire someone to get it running from there. Originally Posted By TheDevilYouLove:
Originally Posted By Buckshot4U:
In the next few months I'm planning to buy my great grandpa's old 1948 John Deere M from grandma. Great gramps bought it used when it was about one year old and it's been in the family ever since. I need the thing like I need a hole in my head, but all the other family members that would have any interest already have more tractors than they know what to do with. It's gonna need plenty of TLC and I have no idea when I'll be able to make time to wrench on it, but I'm looking forward to it anyhow. Holy chit, that's awesome! Those are highly collectible, def post pics when you get it! If your time is limited, at least get the motor broke loose (if it's stuck) and then hire someone to get it running from there. The engine is free and after a minor carb re-build it is popping like a new one. The front end is pretty worn out I'm told, so I'll have to see what re-building that will entail. When I finally get it I'll take some pics and post them. |
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Originally Posted By ColtRifle:
[snip] My FEL doesn't have a float mode. I've used a buddy's tractor with a float mode but mine doesn't have it. I was trying to move the rock with the FEL and it wasn't working too well. The grader blade works great. We put 3 dump truck loads of large rock on the driveway. Once it gets pressed in, we'll put a few more loads of dirty base on the driveway and have a nice compacted driveway. I just discovered that my L4330 with FEL has a float mode and I used it for the first time today. I live at the end of a one mile private gravel road. For some reason, the owners of the property I currently own have always been responsible for upkeep of the road. When I bought the place in late 2013, I took over taking care of the road, mostly because that's the deal I struck with my wife: We would live out in BFE 30 miles from the nearest Walmart and I would take care of the road for her. Excellent deal, IMO!!! So today I ran the road, as I call it when I take my box blade and level and smooth the one mile road. No pics, sorry. After a couple years now, I am getting better at getting the road in good shape, if I do say so myself! I used the float mode today for the first time when I changed BB configurations to take care of some pretty bad potholes (essentially I lowered my BB scarifiers for those areas) and I used the float mode to level the resulting BB piles of dirt/gravel when I changed modes. Worked much better than when I previously tried to manually control the "float" vs using the float mode. I'm sold on it! I'll see if I can take some pics tomorrow. |
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Originally Posted By LOW50S:
Not mine but I used the father in laws 4020 to push snow. its a old girl but she does the job just fine. I have been searching CL hard to find a cheep tractor for myself but I have had little luck. 4020's are like my unicorn. They are things of beauty. This weekend I checked out the M that I'm going to be buying. She sounded beautiful. Also checked out the several implements that are coming with it. Hopefully I can take possession of it in the next few weeks and get to cleaning it up. |
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Originally Posted By Gopher:
Looking to get a new (or new to me) tractor sometime this year. Probably in the 45HP range. Seems like everything I see has a FEL on it. Is it really worth it? I can see it being useful for a few months then being a huge PIA. Mowing with one seems like it would be in the way most of the time. I would like a dozer blade on the front that worked off of the FEL hydraulics though. I worked on a ROW crew for a power company for awhile and we had a Ford 4400 and 6600 set up with the blade on the front and a Marvel tree cutter on the back. Worked great in that environment. Found the previously cut stumps and could be used to build a temporary dam for crossing creeks. It would be great for clearing snow or ice. Who make a FEL that isn't a pain to remove? It is definitely worthy it. I never felt that the bucket was a PITA, even while mowing. If you don't want the bucket out in front of you while mowing, get a quick-attach loader and just remove the bucket when you mow. If I was mowing level ground, I'd just raise the bucket up out of the way - obviously not a good idea on a hillside. |
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Originally Posted By Cacinok:
It is definitely worthy it. I never felt that the bucket was a PITA, even while mowing. If you don't want the bucket out in front of you while mowing, get a quick-attach loader and just remove the bucket when you mow. If I was mowing level ground, I'd just raise the bucket up out of the way - obviously not a good idea on a hillside. Originally Posted By Cacinok:
Originally Posted By Gopher:
Looking to get a new (or new to me) tractor sometime this year. Probably in the 45HP range. Seems like everything I see has a FEL on it. Is it really worth it? I can see it being useful for a few months then being a huge PIA. Mowing with one seems like it would be in the way most of the time. I would like a dozer blade on the front that worked off of the FEL hydraulics though. I worked on a ROW crew for a power company for awhile and we had a Ford 4400 and 6600 set up with the blade on the front and a Marvel tree cutter on the back. Worked great in that environment. Found the previously cut stumps and could be used to build a temporary dam for crossing creeks. It would be great for clearing snow or ice. Who make a FEL that isn't a pain to remove? It is definitely worthy it. I never felt that the bucket was a PITA, even while mowing. If you don't want the bucket out in front of you while mowing, get a quick-attach loader and just remove the bucket when you mow. If I was mowing level ground, I'd just raise the bucket up out of the way - obviously not a good idea on a hillside. Quick Detach FELs are common for modern subcompact and compact tractors. Take it off (easy), do tractor work while enjoying decreased turning diameter and increased visibility, put back on (easy) when needed. For some tractors where you will be using a mid mount mower or a front snowblower you may have to remove the loader mounting frame which is more work, though still not too bad unless you have to do it frequently. I have an old Ford 3000 with a permanently mounted HEAVY loader that limits access to engine and accessories. The next one will be QD. Coworkers have a Massey 1529 and a similar Mahindra, both with QD FELs. One built a snow pusher out of a 9' plow blade, the other bought one. Both work VERY well for moving snow off the driveway. |
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Originally Posted By Buckshot4U:
4020's are like my unicorn. They are things of beauty. This weekend I checked out the M that I'm going to be buying. She sounded beautiful. Also checked out the several implements that are coming with it. Hopefully I can take possession of it in the next few weeks and get to cleaning it up. Originally Posted By Buckshot4U:
Originally Posted By LOW50S:
Not mine but I used the father in laws 4020 to push snow. its a old girl but she does the job just fine. I have been searching CL hard to find a cheep tractor for myself but I have had little luck. 4020's are like my unicorn. They are things of beauty. This weekend I checked out the M that I'm going to be buying. She sounded beautiful. Also checked out the several implements that are coming with it. Hopefully I can take possession of it in the next few weeks and get to cleaning it up. I wish it was mine she's a old girl and seen TONS of use the hour meter is long gone along with every other gauge on it I would like to know how many hours she actually had on her and it still has never been opened up and the FIL has owned it since it was a few years old |
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While it's not technically a tractor, and it's not mine, I still thought it was ok to share a few pictures of some of the roads I opened with the Volvo L90E. This was after 30" of snow, and 40mph winds drifted some of
the back roads closed. No plow trucks were able to bust through, so I got to play for a day..... 
The next shot was taken before I went for a ride down over an ice covered hill..... just put the bucket down and pray for the best because I'ma commin through!! Managed to keep myself on the road and not end up over the embankment. 
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Did a few things on the homestead today, but only two tractor related. First was fixed the hydro lines for the FEL on the tractor. Dealer pissed me off royally, so I guess I'll buy all my filters and fluids from Amazon or the like. Second, scouting a flat spot for the younguns playset, and fished this out of the thicket. Any ideas what it was, and if it's salvageable for anything?  |
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Originally Posted By cucamelsmd15:
Did a few things on the homestead today, but only two tractor related. First was fixed the hydro lines for the FEL on the tractor. Dealer pissed me off royally, so I guess I'll buy all my filters and fluids from Amazon or the like. Second, scouting a flat spot for the younguns playset, and fished this out of the thicket. Any ideas what it was, and if it's salvageable for anything? http://i273.photobucket.com/albums/jj240/cucamelsmd15/IMG_20160227_170614881.jpg Used to break up chunks of manure on pasture land. I have one that belonged to my dad and that's what he told me it was for. I don't think he was bullshitting me... |
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Originally Posted By cucamelsmd15:
Did a few things on the homestead today, but only two tractor related. First was fixed the hydro lines for the FEL on the tractor. Dealer pissed me off royally, so I guess I'll buy all my filters and fluids from Amazon or the like. Second, scouting a flat spot for the younguns playset, and fished this out of the thicket. Any ideas what it was, and if it's salvageable for anything? http://i273.photobucket.com/albums/jj240/cucamelsmd15/IMG_20160227_170614881.jpg That is a drag harrow. A drag harrow, a type of spring-tooth harrow, is a largely outdated type of soil cultivation implement that is used to smooth the ground as well as loosen it after it has been plowed and packed. It uses many flexible iron teeth usually arranged into three rows. It has no hydraulic functionality and has to be raised/adjusted with one or multiple manual levers. It is a largely outdated piece of farm equipment, having been replaced by more modern disc harrows and hydraulically operated field cultivators. |
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Originally Posted By hihobrian:
Used our JD 855 and post hole digger to bury one of our barn cats. Tom was a mean rodent killing machine! Didn't get pics, but man having a drill makes it so much easier. I buried the cats by hand, but used the FEL to dig out the side of a hill to bury our goats on. We had an animal graveyard on the side of that little hill. |
Things were dry enough to get back on prepping an area for a parking shelter. I used the 3038e with the 6' landscape blade we picked up this winter (primarily for moving snow). It served a couple of functions today, moving earth to get the area more level/even, and also helped separate out some rock & roots from the clumps left from earlier work.
Back before the wet & snows came, I had cut several trees & removed those stumps (plus others) and some large rock with the JD 1025R FILB. I had started rough leveling with the 3038e & boxblade. The rippers had helped loosen a bunch of rocks & roots but things got too wet to continue before getting it all graded out. There is a lot of clay just below the sandy loam. Hopefully before long I'll get things evened out enough for a load of crusher run gravel to give me a flat/level base for the shelter. Thinking about a 22'x24' vertical roof metal shelter & most sites call for "level within 4" ". Nick |
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Weather has been decent, so got the 1025R FILB out to continue the work running "trails" out to the property corners. It is only 4.5 acres, but most is wooded & not tended for a lot of years.
The purpose of the trails is to make access via gator easier (chainsaw support), gives the grandkids some "exploring" possibilities and makes it easier to enjoy the property in general, check on things & move cut wood around. Here is the view for the path working towards the south-west corner, which is where I was working yesterday 
and a bit farther along: 
This is the sort of thing that made trail making necessary ... 
and after a bit of work with chainsaw, bucket & backhoe... 
That last little stretch included 3 stump removals (2 small, 1 large). I got maybe 100 yards or so done during the day and got pretty near the corner pin. The 1025R is compact enough for work in wooded areas even with backhoe & FEL mounted. The thumb on the backhoe is handy to lift a log and let me use the swing on the hoe to shift it sideways. Repeat a couple of times and I can sometimes get a clear path without cranking up the saw. Nick |
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Busted up the garden yesterday. That B7100 actually handles the middle buster quite well if you work it a bit. I've been working up this garden for about 8 years and never had it busted that deep, I have some work to do now, there was some huge rocks hiding under there, hopefully breaking through that pan helps with yields a bit.
I was able to knock the furrows out with the cultivator it came with too, worked out well, no more rototiller for this guy. 
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"The problem with some people is that they are still alive" - Grumpy Cat
I impressed the wife the other day. I picked up an old recliner with the FEL and put it in the back of the pickup to take it to the dump. Sorry no pics I never thought of it. till now.
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All it takes for evil to succeed, is for good people to do nothing. We have been doing nothing long enough. I support Free speech.
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Originally Posted By optimus:
Knocked down and spread out some snow piles at the MIL's and checked some fence since a lot of it's melted. http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j195/optimus_prime_1983/cubdrive.jpg http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j195/optimus_prime_1983/cubfield.jpg Then we brushed the girls and they were happy. http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j195/optimus_prime_1983/satin.jpg I have been looking more and more at these cubs after seeing your pictures I just wish they had a 3 point. and everyone still wants a decent amount for them. I have been looking for a little tractor for around the house. |