TODAYS SEAT TIME

[chim]

Awwww. You guys are killing me. I can't play in the snow or the dirt. Was all ready for snow this year and we got zip. The ground is too soft to do anything and there's a 1.3 acre field that wants to be worked and planted with grass.

 

[94BULLITT]

I moved an old brush pile that was too close to trees to burn, to a new pile down the hill were it can be burned.
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That looks like a real good way to move brush.

 

[Xfaxman]

That looks like a real good way to move brush.

Thanks, it is a double A machine, Amazingly Awesome!

The 6' Monster Grapple opens 51 inches high, so it gets a big bite.

 

[sixdogs]

Thanks, it is a double A machine, Amazingly Awesome!

The Monster Grapple opens 51 inches, so it gets a big bite.
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Wow.
How much weight will that lift comfortably? It looks like it's balanced really well with a load. is it?

 

[Xfaxman]

Wow.
How much weight will that lift comfortably? It looks like it's balanced really well with a load. is it?

It is rated at 1850 pounds fully extended straight out, 4400 pounds, boom retracted or extended to max height.
In other words, pick it up, raise it all the way, then extend to 17 feet.

With this load of brush I had the boom extended about 2 feet and going down the hill, the back end came of the ground, retracted the boom, got to the pile, where it was flatter, extended the boom, took the picture, then opened the grapple.

Here it is with the 6', 1 cubic yard bucket and the boom extended:



More info here: V417 VersaHandler Telescopic Tool Carrier - Bobcat Company

 

[Gordon Gould]

Xfax that thing looks pretty useful with that telescoping boom. thanks for the photos.

 

[Gary Fowler]

Just finished disking up about 5 acres of pasture following my brother in law who was broadcasting some oats mixed with red clover. I disked it with my tractor and pulled a drag behind it after he spread the seed with his New Holland T2310. He then came back with some fertilizer. He is now hooked on to the drag, cross dragging my disked area to cover the seed and fertilizer.
So far we had a good productive day. This morning I hauled about 20 FEL buckets of soil into my new garden spot to build up the lower end elevation, then spread the topsoil back on it. Later cleaned out the chicken pen and spread the manure on the garden. I also dressed out the area where I got my fill dirt to level it back up for drainage, dressed up all my ruts from those 20 round trips and put about 4 loads of dirt in a low spot next to my creek crossing that I had made a big mess of crossing back and forth thru a low spring feed area. Left it all looking better than before. Not bad for the first 6 hours of the day.

 

[Xfaxman]

Xfax that thing looks pretty useful with that telescoping boom. thanks for the photos.

Yep, I sold my tractor, a MF240D 4WD when I bought my first Versahandler.

The best thing about it is, when you get stuck you can push, or pull yourself out, using the boom. :thumbsup:

 

[vtsnowedin]

I tested out the limits of my tractor chain combination. the house wood pile was looking a little skimpy and the sap wasn't running very good as yet so I had time. I knew that there was a blown down double ash tree near the top of the hill near the skid road but a snow bank and about a thousand feet of snow packed steep uphill road was in between me and the tree. I gassed up the saw and bungy corded it to the ROPS behind my seat and headed up. The snow bank where the skid road met the drive I maintain took just a few buckets to punch a hole in it then pick the bucket up and just try to climb the hill. Pretty good progress at first but when I got near the top the snow was deep enough that the bottom plate of the draw bar hitch was dragging in the snow and then I began to chew down to the dirt (not frozen) and bog down. I had to back up and try again a couple of times but I made it up to the tree and turned around. Then I cut off one of the logs and pulled it down to the yard and worked it up with saw and wood splitter. Tomorrow morning the road I broke out will be frozen and I should be able to run right back up without difficulty and fetch out the other three logs. All in all it is very impressive, not a skidder or a bull dozer but very good at what it is.

 

[wmonroe]

I spent about 30 minutes scooping the snow that drifts along the back of the barn. It was warm today and didn't want the moisture right up against the building.

 

[xring100]

Spent about 4 hours fetching and then cutting about 6 face cords of Dead ash. It never ceases to amaze me how harder Dead Ash is than Oak green or seasoned. Use the loader to load the large logs directly on to the rack.

Testing out the improved cord wood cutting rack i Built. I'm going to have to invest in some Stihl RSF full chisel skip tooth chains. The Semi Chisels RMF work great on the massive dead oaks i'm used too cutting as they are generally hollow at least someplace a long the tree and full of crap that would dull a full chisel chain in one cut.

The MS660 is thirsty it drank a tank of fuel in 3 racks or about 15-16 minutes of cutting approximately 1 full cord.

 

[94BULLITT]

It wasn't today but this week I played in the snow.

I tried the BX out. It is impressive for it's size. I was pushing 12'' of snow 80' without the blade angled just to see what it could do. I could have gone farther. Here is a picture of the pile I made.

I then took the L4240 and moved the BX's pile. (excuse the finger in a couple of them:laughing

Here is a short crappy video of me pushing it. It was hard to film, drive, and work the loader. (click to play)

 

[Xfaxman]

It wasn't today but this week I played in the snow.


Here is a short crappy video of me pushing it. It was hard to film, drive, and work the loader. (click to play)

That is the first tractor that I have heard, that sounds like a vacuum cleaner!! :laughing:

Did the deed though. :thumbsup:

 

[Gordon Gould]

xring 100 your rack seems to work pretty good with that long bar. Dead ash is hard. You should try some dead hop hornbeam (iron wood) Is that ash a result of EAB ? If it is and you are in a quarintined area how far can you deliver the firewood ?
I notice you always work in face cords and wonder why - that must be a locally accepted thing. Around here if a firewood guy mentioned face cord he would be out of business real quick. Around here face cord is a term deemed to be a meaningless measurement used to dupe people. That is just a situation I find interesting. People here order a cord of cut and split wood and they may want it cut anywhere between 12" and 30" so dealing in face cords gets real complicated..

94Bullit - that does sound like a vac. Pretty strong little guy though. No end to the things we learn on here

 

[xring100]

It wasn't today but this week I played in the snow.

I tried the BX out. It is impressive for it's size. I was pushing 12'' of snow 80' without the blade angled just to see what it could do. I could have gone farther. Here is a picture of the pile I made.

Nice Roger. I'm surprised you even got the BX out to move snow you have a Cab on the L. Its actually surprising how much snow a little tractor can move. I was always surprised how much snow my parents 18hp Ingersol garden tractor could push with a front blade

 

[xring100]

xring 100 your rack seems to work pretty good with that long bar. Dead ash is hard. You should try some dead hop hornbeam (iron wood) Is that ash a result of EAB ? If it is and you are in a quarintined area how far can you deliver the firewood ?
I notice you always work in face cords and wonder why - that must be a locally accepted thing. Around here if a firewood guy mentioned face cord he would be out of business real quick. Around here face cord is a term deemed to be a meaningless measurement used to dupe people. That is just a situation I find interesting. People here order a cord of cut and split wood and they may want it cut anywhere between 12" and 30" so dealing in face cords gets real complicated..



94Bullit - that does sound like a vac. Pretty strong little guy though. No end to the things we learn on here

We don't have much iron wood around here the ones i've seen are pretty small. Yes i think the EAB wipped out all the ash in the southern peninsula.
The quarantine zone is the entire lower peninsula http://www.michigan.gov/documents/mda/mda_EAB_Firewood_Fact_Sheet_181108_7.pdf
I sell it as a 1/3 of a cord or face cord cut to 16" in length. Here in south eastern Michigan it seems like everyone sells face cords cut to 16" I drive by about 10 people in the area that have a face cord rack with a forsale sign in front of their house. With all the dead ash firewood is usually $50-55 a FC although 15 miles south east of me closer to the city its routinely sold for $75 a fc your pickup. I have a trailer but rarely use it for moving wood as almost all of our customers purchase wood on demand even though i try to save them $40 on delivery if they order a full cord.

 

[94BULLITT]

Nice Roger. I'm surprised you even got the BX out to move snow you have a Cab on the L. Its actually surprising how much snow a little tractor can move. I was always surprised how much snow my parents 18hp Ingersol garden tractor could push with a front blade

Thanks. I did not open the whole driveway with it the BX. This was the deepest snow we had a since I got it. I wish it had a front blade it would do realy well. It got up close to 40* after it stopped snowing so it was not bad on the BX. I had run the ac a little on the 4240.

 

[94BULLITT]

That is the first tractor that I have heard, that sounds like a vacuum cleaner!! :laughing:

Did the deed though. :thumbsup:

I guess it was the tablet i used to film making it sound like that.

 

[wmonroe]

Got the tractor out and did a quick wash on it. It's been covered in mud for the last couple weeks.

 

[Ralph Copp]

Relaxing today. All I did was bring a bell buoy down to the house to show my wife how it is coming along. It has been a lot of sanding to get a shine on it. It washed up on the shore about a 1/2 mile from my home. It was painted grey and dented up pretty bad. It is solid brass and weighs over 200 lbs. I will be mounting it on logs to match some swings I put up for the grandchildren. I have a lake on my property and spend lots of time maintaining throughout the summer. Good stress reliever.