Small tractors doing big work.

[Gordon Gould]

How did you get them up in the truck. Those winches are pretty useful.

I picked up one end then backed the truck under. Then pushed it up. The butt log I couldn't even pick up one end with the tractor so I had to get help. The 4th and up the grapple could pick.











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[VroomVroom]

I picked up one end then backed the truck under. Then pushed it up. The butt log I couldn't even pick up one end with the tractor so I had to get help. The 4th and up the grapple could pick.

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Gordon, I noticed you have the jL 290 winch. J thought I壇 get the 351 if I can ever get one or the uniforest 350. But this is the next size up from yours. You think it痴 too big for a 28 hp. Your tractor has two more hp. Not sure physical dimensions between your tractor and mine, maybe the same.

 

[Texasmark]

My last "big" tractor (for a STO guy) was a 1979 JD 4230C diesel 2wd row crop (JD classification), wide front. PTO claimed to be 100 hp. I had implements that could make it snort under the right conditions.

I retired and quit leasing property just running the homestead. I wanted a decked out tractor with all the goodies and the 6530 was a perfect buy. It's rated 57 PTO hp, no idea as to the drawbar. I kept the implements and the 6530 runns them really well.

My take on it is that 4wd is what makes the difference. I can hook up an implement, start to work it, see that I'm getting nowhere, realize that I forgot to engage it, engage it, and off I go. Let's see if I can plug in a picture of one of them:

 

[RPW]

Our first tractor is a Power King economy. I'll have to see if I can find some pictures. We use it for mowing, has a FEL so all the uses of that, pulled the hay rake (IH16) and clearing land. Wish I had some videos of it but while the wife was using it I was on the JD5103 doing the same thing. Oh and by the way it only has 12HP.

 

[buickanddeere]

I'm finding a lot of that on this forum lately. Seems like a bunch of grumpy farts bashing things being done and how they're being done.

I'm glad you mentioned "abuse" and "limits". I used to autocross a sports car. We rarely understand the limits of the machines we own, and pushing a machine closer to its limits is NOT abuse like going past its limits are. Sure, you might decrease longevity a bit, and sure things might need repairing, but we buy these machines to work, and sometimes a job comes along that is big and we make it work with what we have rather than go out and rent a bigger machine that would make it easier. That's life.

It's easy for others to sit and gripe about something not being handled according to one's preferences and optimized their way.
From their computer chair.
That their dead butts are plopped in.
Behind their keyboard.
While you're out there working.

I will add to that by claiming to be a “grumpy old phart?

 

[buickanddeere]

I picked up one end then backed the truck under. Then pushed it up. The butt log I couldn't even pick up one end with the tractor so I had to get help. The 4th and up the grapple could pick.

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Getting to or past the point where there is more lumber than truck.

 

[buickanddeere]

They are referred to as "Keyboard Commandos".:2cents: Some of the comments I read on the internet make me wonder if that person would say the same thing, in the same way if it were a face to face discussion.

I will have you know that my loins are girded with Underwear while at the keyboard .

 

[MossRoad]

I will have you know that my loins are girded with Underwear while at the keyboard .

Oh no....

 

[Jstpssng]

I can稚 stsnd looking at gordons winch pics because I want one. If I could only win the lottery everything would be ok

You were born too soon. If your birthdate was 1990 or later you would just start a "Gofundme" and ask the rest of us to pay for it.

Gordon, I noticed you have the jL 290 winch. J thought I螢 get the 351 if I can ever get one or the uniforest 350. But this is the next size up from yours. You think it逞ｴ too big for a 28 hp. Your tractor has two more hp. Not sure physical dimensions between your tractor and mine, maybe the same.

There's only about a 60 lb difference, and the minimum recommendation for the 351 is only 17HP. If it meets your budget, I would go with the heavier winch. I've run Farmi's, both mine and my father's; I owned and worked the pee out of a Fransgard, and now have a UniForest35. They all are solid pieces of equipment, and I wouldn't hesitate to buy any of them. All things being equal though I would go with the Farmi or Fransgard.

You have one of those L275? I had to look it up as I'm not familiar with the models. That's similar to those little 7100's etc. What do you use it for? But you have the L3301 also?

Oh, I just looked again, its in the high 20's in HP?

I wish that I still had the 275, except in a little better condition than when I bought it in 2002. I ran the crap out of it and it kept on going, but eventually steel fatigues. It was a great little tractor and I tried to find another; but there's no way that I will pay $10000 for a 30+ YO tractor.

 

[VroomVroom]

You were born too soon. If your birthdate was 1990 or later you would just start a "Gofundme" and ask the rest of us to pay for it.


There's only about a 60 lb difference, and the minimum recommendation for the 351 is only 17HP. If it meets your budget, I would go with the heavier winch. I've run Farmi's, both mine and my father's; I owned and worked the pee out of a Fransgard, and now have a UniForest35. They all are solid pieces of equipment, and I wouldn't hesitate to buy any of them. All things being equal though I would go with the Farmi or Fransgard.



I wish that I still had the 275, except in a little better condition than when I bought it in 2002. I ran the crap out of it and it kept on going, but eventually steel fatigues. It was a great little tractor and I tried to find another; but there's no way that I will pay $10000 for a 30+ YO tractor.

Go fund me, there痴 an idea. Why the farmi or fransgard over the uniforest? The uniforest pulls as hard or harder and has much more cable etc. Just curious.