Recent content by Drstrangeglove

Nice machine. Get the hydraulic thumb. It's worth every penny. I have used mine countless times picking up random junk around my Daughter's new place.

I have the pioneer 1000. My 83 year old father has no problem riding in it. The power steering would make it easy to steer if he drove it.

The first two piles of wire and fence post I dug out today after buring. I restacked the burn pile and will get the rest out later this week. The grass is knee deep so while fire sitting I bush hogged and found more a few post with the mower.

Thats why i went for lamanated tires. I run over some really rough stuff.

You can get old airplane tries. I have seen some really big ones on bush planes. They are expensive new. Anything that will fit your rim and have clearence will work.

You will love the handyness of it. Which I would have bought mine years ago. Only problem i have is it's slow. Moving it a mile takes forever.

That's why I idle down to engage. But on my hst tractor or the m-5, the clutch just disconnects to wheels from the motor. It has nothing to do with the pto. It spins no matter what you do with the clutch. On the m-5 at idle, I can't just engage the bushhog. It will stall the engine. I must be...

Why all the clutching to engage the pto? All three of my tractors have a live pto. You can engage or disengage any time.

On our l5740 I never use the clutch except to start. I stop to change ranges. I have a GST a M series and the HST and to engage the pto no clutch needed. I do idle down to be easy on the internal pto clutch. On the M5, I have to be rolling to get the big bush hog spinning and not have the engine...

Until it crosses something else. My favorite locator was a rycom back in the 80s. The old dynatel were liked also. The other day a young fellow handed me a new locator with a color screen and asked how to used it. I gave it back and told him the last one I used had one needle and a buzzer on it...

I have been told, if you have a pile of tires and burn them at night, nobody will know. You can throw the metal in the metal dumpster.

Yes, the state water water board used one. If you use gps and have a laptop, or take it back to the office to process, it possibly can work. I have never seen one do this. I have seen the real time version and it's show a disturbance the the soil. Is it a pipe, cable or body or a tree root? No...

A lot of cable locating is the experience of the locator. With so many dead copper lines in the ground, it is more voodoo than science. I have a guy, when he puts a mark on the ground, it's where the cable is. He has been with us for 30 years. He might sacrifice a chicken before he locates.

I use a limb ninja. It looks like a cheap 48 inch brush cutter, but I was backing up and pulled up a 5 or 6 inch oak tree, and it didn't hurt it. It has been a tough little cutter.

Back in the latest 80s, we crossed an oil pipeline. They came and marked it, we started digging and noticed all the oil people were about a half mile up the hill. That's when we stopped the backhoe, and each of us got a shovel. They never said how dangerous it was if we cut it, but with them...