California
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- Joined
- Jan 22, 2004
- Messages
- 14,937
- Location
- An hour north of San Francisco
- Tractor
- Yanmar YM240 Yanmar YM186D
Here are some photos from an old ebay auction. Does anyone have the actual wall posters?
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I think it was Tractor Ernie who later saw that post and offered me his copies of the real posters, as he was closing down his Yanmar sales. I declined. I hope someone else here ended up with them.
Yeah. But I'm old, I'm up to my ears with projects like that, and I'm giving stuff away myself like Ernie did, to dig my way out of clutter. 20 years now of clearing my Dad's hoarding out of the ranch and I'm still not to the end of that.Bummer you declined. Should you of had them, later on, with a nice scanner, these would have been retained digitally. It's hard from the past to think of the future at times.
Yeah. But I'm old, I'm up to my ears with projects like that, and I'm giving stuff away myself like Ernie did, to dig my way out of clutter. 20 years now of clearing my Dad's hoarding out of the ranch and I'm still not to the end of that.
Photo, 2004 - dump run #9 or so. Inherited, unused, insulation from a yard sale that got stored under the house then gradually became an ivy-entwined mouse colony. I'm determined to not do this to my own kids. After a lot of Ebay sales and a couple of flea market adventures I'm finally down to excess duplicate tools, bedframes I can weld into something useful, lots more stuff I can realistically use. But there's still too much of that. I wish my kids had the experimenter gene that I inherited but they work with manipulating information. Not welders, farm implements, repairing the clothes dryer or loader cylinders etc that is natural to me. I'm sure many of you can relate to this.
Yep. Welded up a forks assembly for my q-hitch in 2007. Just back up into it, lift, go. Here I'm proof testing it with most of the 450 lbs on one fork. I've many times put more weight on it than either tractor can lift. No damage. It's mostly bedframe angle iron found here plus the forks are from a Relay Rack.Bet those bed frames would make some really useful trailers or implements or attachments. Maybe a carry-all or even a low ended pallet fork system
Yep. Welded up a forks assembly for my q-hitch in 2007. Just back up into it, lift, go. Here I'm proof testing it with most of the 450 lbs on one fork. I've many times put more weight on it than either tractor can lift. No damage. It's mostly bedframe angle iron found here plus the forks are from a Relay Rack.
Recent photo, practical use. - Another photo.
Different project with bedframe angle iron. Welding a trailer tongue reinforcement. HF's 4x4 trailer is too lightweight for how I'm using it as a watering trailer.