Recent content by newcountry

I know very little of skidsteers, but I have 5 acres of thick full-grown cedar thickets to clear and an 863 for sale down the road. Could I use just the bucket to knock down and pile cedars for burning later? If not, would the 863 be able to with the right attachment (which I'd rent) to do the...

I've been reading with interest http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/projects/133637-road-costing-advise-opinions.html and have some additional questions about my own road project later this spring. My current road consists of two layers of road rock during home construction (necessary just for...

I saw in the Harbor Freight flyer an attachment to the 20lb tanks - it says "Propane Bottle Refill kit' Item 45989. It got me to thinking about this again - I've thought it several times :confused:. There should be some way us normal folk can fill our smaller tanks from our bigger home tank...

I've done a poor job the last two years on my lawn and consequently it has been a broadleaf wonderland. My nice fescue mix is now about only half my yard. I've broadleaf-sprayed two weeks ago and now I'm trying to figure out the next steps, and in which order :confused::confused: Do I - need...

There is nothing in life like finding a gift you never even were expecting. Tonight while mowing for the first time on MY Kubota, my lovely wife stopped and started waving her arms. I turned, looked, and what was my first thought? "Oh my gosh, what did she do now?":eek: But instead she...

I have been the one person mowing for the past, Oh fifteen years, but today my lovely wife wanted to mow. I was conflicted -- frees up time for me to do other projects, but also introduces her to the wonder of tractordom. Visions of waiting for tractor time ran through my head. In the end I...

I haven't been around much lately, but I saw this clip and knew I had to share it here!! YouTube - John Deere 1270D with 754 This is so cool!!

My father-in-law and I are trying to figure out what to do to clear some of our land. We think our best options is to buy a dozer and share it. How much would you expect to spend on the smallest dozer that can down up to 40-ft trees (though most are very spindley). Maybe, more accurately I...

I've been getting by, but now that mowing season is over I want to get this fixed. I can not set the dial to Top, which can be irritating if I'm trying to do something else w/o taking off the mowing deck. I had read a thread long ago about how to fix this (I remember the poster had tried to...

Last night my wife and I were awakened to an extremely loud clap of thunder. She thought it struck the house and it took some convincing on my part that indeed it didn't. Well, this morning, we're going out to our car and notice a bunch of small pieces of tree on our car - not branches, but...

I've got heavy brush with some small trees (<2 inches diameter) to clear- bought my rotary cutter and thought I was ready to go. This weekend my father-in-law warned me about a couple things. He's afraid that the small stumps from the brush and the trees will puncture my R4's and tear them up...

I removed my loader for the first time recently with no problems and locked my joystick controller. Yesterday I tried to reinstall it with some minor issues which I think I can figure out on my own, but I noticed that after unlocking the controller the stick is floppy front to back (raising and...

OK, it's only a puddle, but it seems way too big. The land at the problem spot slopes from west to east (driveway runs north-south). When the excavator put in my asphalt millings he didn't cut into the ground to make the driveway level so it sits several inches higher than the surrounding...

I've got asphalt millings for my driveway which have cured for 6 months and compacted nicely but have some pretty bad potholes. When I first started using the box blade the scarifiers would cut little paths but not really pull up the surface (not surprising). So I decided to take them off...

My dealer recommended 42-inch (will be Land Pride BB15 series), but all the other dealers I spoke with prior to buying from this one said 48-in would be fine. His reasoning was that he'd been told by a couple people that the 2230 had difficulty with a fully loaded 48-in box blade. What have...