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I’m just starting the process of possibly replacing my CAT 216 skid steer with a telehandler. Right now I am looking at the CAT TH220B Caterpillar: Products>Machines and the Bobcat VersaHandler TTC V723 VersaHandler TTC V723 . Eventually I would also look into what JD, NH, and JB offer in...

I haven’t been on the board much this year because we have been adding on to our poultry farm with four new 60X500 buildings. The project was huge for me and my wife but we did get it ready for birds when we needed to. For the most part I am very happy with the end result but I do have one...

This summer I am starting a HUGE project. We are expanding our chicken farm by adding four 60X500. Each barn pad will have to be built up a couple of feet. A road will go between the first two barns and then loop back between the second two barns. The first two feet of earth is black soil with...

<font color="blue"> Sounded like they are sold in NE only?. </font> Out here in Oregon our local CAT dealership lot is full of Challenger tractors. They have everything from the large tracked machines, large medium and small wheeled tractors, swathers, large disks, bailers, just about...

I am in the progress of restoring my lower 20 acres of pasture from weeds and foxtail to grass hay this summer. Next year I will do the upper 20. I have the lots of 4-20” rocks. Most of these rocks are in one area of the pasture. The pasture has been picked before but I wouldn’t want to run any...

Last year my wife was at a farm auction and they had an older Ford 8’ flail mower. My neighbor had been looking for one for awhile and since we didn’t have any money she called him with the cell phone and told him about it. He drove right over and won the auction for $750 which included the...

I bought my farm a few years ago from some of the nicest people you would have ever wanted to meet. They were very old school. They didn’t have a TV, computer or use technology much at all. They were only in there 40’s but they lived like it was still the 40’s. That was kind of neat about them...

A couple of weeks ago I posted about how the hitch pin came off my manure spreader causing the PTO yoke to be damaged. This is the old post: $310 to fix a $3.60 problem That cost me $310 for a new yoke. So I bought a good hitch pin with a cinch pin to keep it in place. The rains have returned...

Two of my neighbors and I have gone together and built a nice spray rig. We each have about 40 acres so we will each benefit from the project. Mac had the stainless rears tank and pump. I added the 30’ demco spray boom, hoses and valves, and Jim is going to get a retractable hose line and spray...

I have a NH 329 manure spreader. The other day I was spreading manure. I was kind in a hurry because it was raining and I like to get that manure down while it’s raining otherwise our place stinks for a week. Anyways I was using a ¾ inch pin to hitch the spreader to the tractor. The pin didn’t...

Way back when, my chicken farm was a egg layer operation. Later it was converted to raising broilers. All the cages and feed equipment were just thrown out in the field and broiler equipment was installed in the barns. The next owner cleaned up the place by stacking all the metal junk in a pile...

I have had my CAT skid steer for almost 3 years now. In that time I have dug up driveways, wiped out all sorts of bush, loaded hundreds of tons of manure and the bucket still looks good. So how do manufactures get the buckets to be so scratch resistant? Is there some sort of super paint that is...

A funny thing happened yesterday. My wife found a super deal on a gooseneck stock trailer so she went and looked at it. The owner come out with a JD hat, shirt, and his property was littered with JD equipment. My wife was checking out a tractor and told the guy that we had just bought a new...

Now I realize that not too many, in fact nobody that I know of has a Kubota M9000 that is currently posting on this board but just in case someone someday is interested I thought I would go ahead and post what it took for the 50 hour service. I had this priced out at Mid Valley tractor co in...

So I just built a rather large implement for my tractor to clean my poultry barns. I’m guessing that it weights somewhere around 5 thousand pounds empty. I’m not done with it yet but I did take it for a first test drive. Now so far I haven’t needed any extra weight on my tractor but with this...