Recent content by galaxie428

Hi All. I have a BH80X on a Bobcat CT230, today while digging up a stump, I noticed that when I let go of the stick, the boom would keep drifting slowly to the right. It would do this whether I had the tractor running or not and it didn't matter if I had the hydraulics shut off to the hoe. Any...

I think just the hard winter although maybe I need to look at it more closely to check for the EAB. We have a lot of trees in our yard and most of them are ash, I hope this is not the start of the EAB getting all my trees! I think it did well, it only took about 20 min to get it down. The tree...

One of our trees didn't make it through the winter. As much as I hate to lose a mature tree, I was excited to hook the hoe up and get to work. Now the fun is over and it is cleanup time!

It is called a quick hitch. It allows you to back up to your implement while lining up the hitch to the pins on your equipment so all you have to do is raise your 3pt and you are attached and ready to go unless you have PTO to hook up. It is great! The only problem is that not all implements...

Here are some pics. The tall tooth is in the way As you can see, I have to get the QH up over the shaft on the first cutting wheel and then lower it. The QH interferes with the adjustment lever which by the way I have to twist around to get each lower pin in the QH anyway. Frame...

Anyone using a 3 bottom plow with their CT230? I picked up a real nice Ford 3 bottom at an auction a few weeks ago and I am dying to try it out. Unfortunately, it is still too wet and still a little frozen underneath I think. I should add that I beleive it is a 3-14 if I measured correctly. I...

We haven't had a lot of snow but there was some drifting in front of our house Saturday morning. This is where our sidewalk is. The bobcat came in pretty handy. This drift was not there Friday night when we went to sleep but it was there when we got up Saturday. I sure am glad I did not have to...

I just bought a 4 row planter to plant some food plots with. Now I have been looking for a cultivator. I came across a 4 row cultivator that looks to be in pretty good shape. I am just not sure if it will be too much for my CT230 to handle. Any of you use something similar? Do you think it can...

I know I saw a thread on here a while back on tightening your loader mounting bolts. I tried to search for it but I didn't find the thread. Anyway, I ignored the original thread because I was too busy to mess with it. I noticed after tilling a garden the other night that my loader seemed to be...

I have a CountyLine tiller from TSC and was tilling a garden for a guy last night in a field that had some stumps. Had I known this, I would have turned the job down. Anyway, I hit a couple of them but was able to push the clutch in before I thought I did any damage. I had been tilling for about...

I have a CT230 with several attachments, backhoe, tiller, box blade, bucket, forks and so on. I have found myself here lately doing some side work for other people and never know what to really charge them. My time is not free and with the cost of fuel and wear and tear, I want to get a fair...

I have a 2 car garage that is around 30x30. It is built on a slab, the walls are built right on the slab and the wood is constantly getting wet every time we pull one of our wet vehicles in. The doors are not tall enough to allow me to pull my truck in. I have heard of people having to jack up...

I was working on cleaning up some brush this past weekend, pushing some of it into a burn pile when I noticed my mit PTO light was on. When I checked it, it was not engaged. I got to looking and on the left side of the tractor where the lever goes down on a CT230, there is a bracket that holds a...

I passed a gas station the other day, not far from my house. I noticed they had a sign out that said they had off road diesel. What is the difference between off road diesel and the diesel you normally see at the pump? I was going to call and see if the price was cheaper vs the normal stuff if...

I thought I would post some pics of my latest project because I was impressed with my CT230 and Woods BH80-X hoe. I wasn't really sure it was going to be up to the task because this is by far the biggest tree I have attempted to take down. But, I thought if I could get the roots all around the...