First Day Home and I Put the Boomer 40 to Work !

[W8BYA]

Well the timing was perfect. When the morons who built the rear deck 25 years ago they forgot to support 4-5 key joists and 1/2 of our deck collapsed down almost a foot. The only thing holding up that part of the deck all these years were the top boards nailed down into all the joists.

Well anyway I needed a way to lift up 1/2 the deck so I could make the required repairs and today was the day I took delivery of my new Boomer 40 with loader. Thus I inched the loader up & over the railing, dropped a chain off the custom chain-hook bar I had made for the same size bucket and attached that chain to a nice towing "J" bar. The "J" bar was hooked under one of the fallen joist and in a minute flat the Boomer had the deck raised up ready for me to sink in a half dozen bolts. Mission accomplished in about an hour.

 

[LouNY]

a little bit handier then a jack and timbers

 

[void777]

W8BYA

congrats on the new tractor NICE rig

 

[CobyRupert]

...and you didn't even put the bucket through the plate glass window when you back away?!!" :cool2:

 

[W8BYA]

a little bit handier then a jack and timbers

Yes sir ! Especially since I do not own a bottle jack or even a "farmers jack".

 

[W8BYA]

W8BYA

congrats on the new tractor NICE rig

Thanks ! I traded down in size from my 54D for this one and it feels so much better. Not the raw brute the 54D was but I ran it all day today grading our 1000' muddy stone road and it did great.

 

[W8BYA]

...and you didn't even put the bucket through the plate glass window when you back away?!!" :cool2:

LMAO.....you must have ESP ! My wife looked at me and said if I so much as touch the house with the tractor I was gonna sleep in the barn <g>. I was able to wiggle it into place w/o issues and didn't even rip up the grass too bad at all. About the only thing I did was leave some tire tracks away from the house where the land drops off and holds more water and keeps the clay much softer.

 

[dalola]

Congrat's on the new rig, looks like a really nice size & the cab looks great. I wish NH made a SCUT.

 

[W8BYA]

Congrat's on the new rig, looks like a really nice size & the cab looks great. I wish NH made a SCUT.

Thanks ! By SCUT do you mean one with a cab or just a SCUT in general. NH makes a couple nice SCUT models with ROPS which I tested out when I started looking this last fall. The one thing that bugged me about their line up was you MUST go to a much larger tractor with a CAB in order to get a belly mower deck ! That just was idiotic IMO.

 

[dalola]

Oops! I see they do now, the Workmaster 25S. I don't recall seeing that available when I was shopping several years ago, so I'll assume they are new. Strange, the NH website shows the 25S with a belly mower.

Not a big deal, I've just always like Ford/New Holland tractors, had several back in my farming days. Not sure who makes them these days, but they still look nice!

No complaints with my Kubota, it's been an excellent machine so far.