BX25D. Mod #1 and continued.

[4shorts]

OMG! 4shorts, you have just given me another reason to not want to be where it gets THAT cold! I literally laughed out loud. I'm sure your friend didn't find it funny at the time, though.

Well I never really finished the story so I'll tell it now. My buddy was in terrible shape after messing in his hood. You just knew it wasn't Avon calling when he walked in the cabin. The cabin was under construction. Outside was completed but inside just had pink insulation between the studs. No running water and a wood stove. We had a very limited supply of tissue and after that he was still in awful shape so he opted to wipe himself with some pink insulation. Well not only did he smell really bad he was starting to itch really bad. Ever see and old dog infested with flees? SAME THING. It was God awful.
We had only arrived and had to head back to town 25 miles away. Oh the name calling he had to deal with for years after that :laughing:

 

[farmgirl19]

I'm sorry, 4shorts, but that is hilarious! And I can imagine the "nickname" he had for years after that!

The thought of pink insulation being used as a corn cob or tissue makes my skin crawl. I'll bet he looked like an old bear scratching, when he got near a tree!

 

[4shorts]

I'm sorry, 4shorts, but that is hilarious! And I can imagine the "nickname" he had for years after that!

The thought of pink insulation being used as a corn cob or tissue makes my skin crawl. I'll bet he looked like an old bear scratching, when he got near a tree!

The poor guy missed a weeks work. Some say the glass in the insulation scratched him up pretty bad but I think the embarrassment was the real reason he was off :laughing:

 

[RaydaKub]

I believe that would be adding insult to injury. Or vice versa.

 

[4shorts]

Love reading this thread, getting ideas and thinking about how I can improve what I have with what I have (budget tight). Thanks and keep it coming!

Glad your enjoying the thread. Theres always room to improve no matter what a person has.

As for the thread. It started because of all the trees and dead brush on the back portion of our property. Then it led to us getting the BX that was small enough to get back there. From that it led to reworking the land, moving things around, putting in a road to getting a dump trailer to move material. Kind of crazy how it all materialized but it made for some longs days and evenings and it just keeps on going.
Almost like a reality show :laughing: there's a little bit of this and a little bit of that with folks laughing, getting mad, learning something, liking me one minute and despising me the next.
Wifey advised me to stop but I'm too pig headed for that. Made some good friends and enemies because if it. Just the other day one of the friends called from the US just to say hi and just chat about everything and anything. My enemies haven't called yet thank God :laughing:

I believe that would be adding insult to injury. Or vice versa.

Ha. So true. Good point :thumbsup:

 

[wwinter]

Farmgirl are you close to Weatherford?

 

[farmgirl19]

Reasonably close. I am in the same county.

 

[4shorts]

And the was told this week I NEVER listen to what others do for mods on there tractors :laughing:

Anyway what works for others may not work for me and the same goes for my location of the forward cam. This is about the only mod I've done on the 5740 that cost me zero money. I was given the extra camera two years ago and I had the extra harness so I said frig it and put it right on top of the light bar. The light bar was already there so it was an easy install. I can see the tips of the forks (Don't need to see in the bucket) and if I think I'm getting to close to a higher object I will switch over to the front camera and look with out getting out of the cab. I should have used my newer camera to snap the pics but that's what I had the shop camera for. Thanks Waxman :thumbsup:

 

[4shorts]

Well I got up this morning and there was no wind and the sun was shining. I usually don't like to work Sundays but It don't always work out. There were some tall trees close to the shop that really worried me. They had no branch's until the top 15' or so making them top heavy so today was going to be the day they were going. Between the 5740 and the BX25D we got the job done. A friend of mine who has had a tough year got three more loads of wood for the winter.
Here's a few photo's. The first few show just how high these trees were compared to the tractor and shop.

 

[dragoneggs]

Gotta luv that BX working! Are you also guilty of working the BH from the forward looking seat position?