Recent content by jdom84

Thanks! Getting it home was another story... almost felt like I just paid to get punched in the face! 30+ mph winds on ice covered roads and an empty cargo trailer...

We got 16" of snow on top of existing 12" and the temperature has been around -10°f to 3°f for the last 3 days. I was out pushing some snow, making a path to my skids of firewood which I store all the way on the other side of the property because of rodent issues. well... about halfway, the snow...

I have been looking at purchasing an enclosed car hauler/cargo trailers and have several options, but was wondering if its worth the extra for an all aluminum instead of steel/alum? Do they hold up better or worse? I have only ever owned steel trailers which the paint falls off and they get...

I have quite a few of these... but 4 years ago I set out to replace the entire heating system in my old house on a new basement. There is now 2000 feet of PEX routed in the sub-floor with a 10 port/zone manifold, each room has its own thermostat and the basement slab is heated but is only 1...

the stock lights on the XJ are just blocked by the loader and are not very bright I bought some 7" cheapo flood beam combo led light bar lights from amazon for $30 and 4 4" cubes for $10 each. I installed the 7" with 1 forward and 1 backward. The others were going to be for the sides (1-2...

Came home from the store and I seen my neighbor, who just got back from spending the summer in Alaska, trying to cut down his acre field with a hand string trimmer. I walked over and chatted with him for a bit and he said he tried to rent a tractor to mow the field but no one in town has one to...

1 trip is always better then 2, right?

Zip tied up 2 of the 6 LED lights to the ROPS and ran some wires along the frame with some switchs... Pretty freakin bright for just 2 small lights but not quite daylight!

Thanks Doofy! Google isn't embarrassed for me so here is what it looked like in 2012 when i actually cared to mow down my weeds. Hardly seems like the same house now!

Thanks! Sad I have no before pictures and no tractor work in progress pictures.... to embarrassed for the before shots ;) and my wife is to busy helping to follow me around with the camera

For 11 years I have lived with the back half of my inside yard being weeds and rocks... but now that we are selling the place, no expense is spared! Lures are great for catching the big fish! ;) over the last 2 weeks I removed 6-12 inches of rock packed soil from around the house and screened...

This was actually last week 15 week old puppy is already to heavy... need to move her around using the tractor!

It looked like what was coming out of mine was clear also until I pulled the bucket out from under the tractor and seen it in the bottom of a perfectly clean white bucket. In this image from machinery lubrication I would say my hydro fluid was either right at the third bottle or slightly less...

the SSQA plates are slightly less straight from the company. Mount Plates - Skid Steer Attachments I've been wondering about the different ways to do the float for the plows and the affects they have on the tractor. I noticed when using a fixed plow on the front of a loader with it in float...

If you are already wanting to build a ballast box/tool carrier, I think the size you are thinking would be good. The backhoe sits out further then a ballast box would so the tractor holds the weight different. This summer I'm going to be using a box blade to level out quite a bit of my "inside"...