TODAYS SEAT TIME

[Piston]

Got to use my new roll-over box blade today. Scarified and removed the sod. Then the scarifiers again to "till" the soil and finally the box to level & smooth. Its a new area for my corn patch. A lot closer to the house - maybe I can keep the deer out of this patch. Sorry no pics - having too much fun with the new toy.

What size/type of Rollover BB did you get?


Gordon,
I wish you had posted that little tip last month, when I was sweating my butt off trying to hold up the 5 gallon pails of hydrualic fluid when I changed all my fluids in my tractor

 

[94BULLITT]

I did some mowing with the Toolcat on the steep side of the dam several weeks ago and wondered about the angle of the slope.
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I hung a chain from the rear work light, to show true vertical. It was very hard to push open the door, to get out to take the picture!
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I went back today in the Ranger EV. Took the protractor to get a reading of the angle. The straight edge is too short to work on the uneven ground, so I measured the back of the ranger.

It has a lot of body lean, so the angle is steeper than the slope.
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Don't have to worry about it rolling over, 8 batteries under the seat give it a low center of gravity! :thumbsup:

How does the Toolcat feel, could you go any steeper?

I like your angle finder. I checked, Sears does not make it any more.

 

[Xfaxman]

How does the Toolcat feel, could you go any steeper?

I like your angle finder. I checked, Sears does not make it any more.

I felt nervous, until the pucker factor subsided. I mow with the rear offset uphill and the mower offset downhill, feels good that way.


This is supposed to be 2 to 1 slope, or 26.6 degrees. I could go steeper, but traction is not good. There are places it would start sliding and all I could do was turn down hill, go around and start higher up. I need to add some ballast on the 3PH and see if it is better or worse.

I mowed some of it with the 4WD TORO and it slid sideways also.


I have had the angle finder for many years, it has a magnet in the base. There are other companies that still make them. Some now with a laser, even!

 

[94BULLITT]

I felt nervous, until the pucker factor subsided. I mow with the rear offset uphill and the mower offset downhill, feels good that way.
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This is supposed to be 2 to 1 slope, or 26.6 degrees. I could go steeper, but traction is not good. There are places it would start sliding and all I could do was turn down hill, go around and start higher up. I need to add some ballast on the 3PH and see if it is better or worse.

I mowed some of it with the 4WD TORO and it slid sideways also.
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I have had the angle finder for many years, it has a magnet in the base. There are other companies that still make them. Some now with a laser, even!

I bet offsetting the rear does help.

I have a tiltmeter on both tractors. Amazon.com: Sun Company 201-F Lev-o-gage Inclinometer and Tilt Gauge: Automotive I can get it to go a hair over 30* on the BX but I don't know how accurate it is.

I have a angle finder but it needs thrown in the trash. It gets stuck on a angle and you have to slam it down to get it to change so I question its accuracy.

 

[GBOUTDOORS]

Lightning hit one of the VERY large pines I left to close to the house and split it down the middle. So over the weekend we cut the 6 closest down got out the tractor and new Wally-BXM32 chipper and ended up with lots of fire wood and a nice clean area for the grand kids to play off the lawn.

I know some one is going to say DON'T BURN PINE it will start a chimney fire. Been burning it for years. Trees were so large Jane told me I needed a new and larger splitter. So I ran out FAST before she realized what she had said and bought a Ariens 22 ton

 

[Larro Darro]

My seat time yesterday was on another fellow's tractor. I had seen an orange tractor with FEL and RFM beside the highway on my way into work the day before, but I was running late and traffic was bad {for here, anyway} so I didn't stop. That night when I came back by, the tractor was gone. About 0830 yesterday morning I went back up there to have a look. {it is only about five miles from the house} At the house right by the highway there were two bad dogs and I didn't see anyone. As I backed out of the driveway I saw the back end of a 5' Land's Pride RFM sticking out under a garage door across the little side road. So I tried my luck there. It was the right folks, but the tractor turned out to be a B2300. It was only one year old and had 32 hours on it. They still owed $12K on it, and $2K on the mower. He was just trying to find someone to take over payments on them. I already have a 23 hp {B7500} and was looking for something in the high 20's or low 30's. And a lower price. But it was a very nice tractor. And I may still buy the mower. I will see if it has sold at the end of the month. That way he will have made another payment on it.

Larro

 

[nikdfish]

Trailered the 1025R FILB over to our rental property. There were a couple of standing dead trees and about four that had been down for a while, all in the back yard. Between trees, plantings and a storage building they had bought it was no longer possible to get a vehicle into the back yard. The 1025R just fit between a couple of big pines by the end of the house, with maybe a foot of clearance for the retracted outriggers. That made it possible to use it to transport 4' sections of tree from backyard to our truck on the street, stacked on a carryall attached to the bucket to serve as "forks". The backhoe was very handy for lifting the trees off the ground to make cutting easier.

We got the standing dead wood down & sectioned most everything but it will take two or three more trips to haul out all the cut wood...

Nick

 

[Gordon Gould]

Fire wood today.

 

[lostcreekranch]

Seat time after weekend storms;

















Like nothing ever happened.



Good to have a grapple and good to have 2 tractors.

 

[CanuckPT]

Fire wood today.

That's a pretty slick set up! Nicely thought out.

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