What did you do on or to your LS Tractor today?

[sodamo]

Looking great

 

[Grjfer]

Looking good so far!

I bet that PT lumber cost almost as much as the tractor!

1/2 as much as the carryall.

 

[Diggin It]

Ahhhhhh ......

Purchase total was a little under $19K. If I had paid the monthly payments as set in the contract, I would have paid a little under $22K and payoff would have been in October of '25. By paying about $40 extra each month, I knocked it down to where I could make a few bulk payments (Stimulus Checks, sold items, etc.) and bring it down to where I could pay it off a full three years early with a total amount paid of a little over $20K saving around $1,300 in interest.

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

Ahhhhhh ......

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Purchase total was a little under $19K. If I had paid the monthly payments as set in the contract, I would have paid a little under $22K and payoff would have been in October of '25. By paying about $40 extra each month, I knocked it down to where I could make a few bulk payments (Stimulus Checks, sold items, etc.) and bring it down to where I could pay it off a full three years early with a total amount paid of a little over $20K saving around $1,300 in interest.

Well, I think congrats are in order!

 

[TimberFarm]

So I got my MT573 a little over a month ago. I have been too busy working on my house to do anything with it.
A local guy came by this weekend to pickup all my old scrap from the remodel. I had an old heat pump that weighed maybe 400-450lbs. I have a set of those clamp on forks for moving small stuff around that I have been using with my JD. I knew the JD would not pick up the heat pump so I put the forks on the new LS to pickup the heat pump to put on the scrappers truck.
When I lifted the heat pump the bucket bowed out of shape. I was a little surprised since I never had the JD do that. I ended up strapping heat pump and lifting it that way to load it.
The bucket did go back almost to it's original flat shape on the blade edge.

 

[sodamo]

Congrats, Diggin, well done

 

[sodamo]

TimberFarm, maybe add a reinforcement to your bucket?

 

[TimberFarm]

TimberFarm, maybe add a reinforcement to your bucket?

I was thinking of buying that Extreme edge from Everything Attachements. That should stiffen the bucket edge up. A little pricey at $664, but the alternative is an aftermarket bucket that is heavy duty.

 

[Mud2Money]

TimberFarm. I bent mine in clay. I bent it back and put a wicked edge on. For sure worth the few hundred bucks. I would recommend you ask them to make the side tabs longer or lower. Mine ended up on the corner of a welded on strengthening plate.

 

[TimberFarm]

TimberFarm. I bent mine in clay. I bent it back and put a wicked edge on. For sure worth the few hundred bucks. I would recommend you ask them to make the side tabs longer or lower. Mine ended up on the corner of a welded on strengthening plate.

Thanks for that tip.
I will have to take a close look at mine.