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Broke it for real. Tie rod tube for the front wheels. One tire was in really soft soil the other was on hard packed drive way. And when attempting to turn....BOINK!!! No more steering rod.

Broke my tractor today. Well...not really. Broke a hydraulic fitting. Clearing out some small brush and dead trees for a horse shelter/ feed storage shed and somewhere in there I lost grapple controls. Looked things over and apparently had a trunk pull against the fittings in the center of the...

The 3-point top link hook makes an excellent holder for a funnel and tube to top off hydraulic fluid.

Finished a shooting berm several weeks ago...been burning through ammo like crazy. But this weekend I dropped the backhoe and used the disc to turn a small pasture and spread pasture grass. Then rolled over it with a home made roller I made from an old pressure tank. After that the grapple went...

Put the new shooting berm into action today. Used the LS to get that plate rack in place. The rack has to weigh near 500 lbs. There is a concrete base on it that is 30" in diameter and near 4-ft. tall. Not sure what that amount of concrete would weigh. But then up top is a used road grader blade...

Took down one of several widow makers today. Hard to tell in the picture but it's the tree above the right side of the grapple. The LS and grapple safely removed it and all the debris. Wahoo!

Hope surgery goes as planned for her. I love them forks. Doing a bit of evening burn so I'll have coals in the morning to continue with. I like night time fire pictures.

I used to work at a local power plant and we used the asphalt millings for the roads and pathways around there. We never used a sealer because in summer time, the millings pack in tight. We had a decent crown built in, but water always ran right off and the millings didn't wash away. Most of the...

Burning off some ice storm damage from a few years ago.

A few night time grapple pics.

Phew! Dang. Four trips to the hardware store to get the right fittings and a longer hydraulic hose....and BAM! Im'ma grapplin'. I picked up 55 gallon barrels, large wooden spools, literally tons of tree brush, and one steel frame press. Oh and unloaded a rolling tool box for my buddy from his...

Picked this guy up from the freight drop. Just waiting for 3rd function kit to arrive, plumb it up and hopefully be using it tomorrow evening. Oh yeah!!!

Bought the first stocking stuffer for the tractor. LoL. He will be happy not hearing me cuss when I have to drive back to the shed for a dang screwdriver.

Saturday night at about 10 o'clock, decided to get some work done. Removed post hole auger, hooked up backhoe, and drug the last large stump out of the way of our shooting range build. I was able to pull it about 100-ft. before it buried itself. Got behind and pushed it another 50-yds to a...

Drug this ginormous stump out to rebuild the shooting range. It took one 40-hp LS tractor and one 1998 Dodge Cummins to get it up to flat ground and the truck took it to the burn pit.