Recent content by JTMachineDesign

Time? you're a homeowner, you are never done. Cost just depends on how far you go..

Agreed. I store mine with the stabilizers down. But, I don't store inside because I simply don't have room for it and stuff tolerates being outside in the desert :) I park stuff under a roof just to keep the sun off, that's about it. The biggest issue here is rodents. We have over 40 species...

Where I live, plywood on the ground is prime mouse/rat housing, and therefore, snake magnets So you see, it CAN get complicated :)

yup, tried that.. no joy. Besides, I'm not looking for a "dolly" Just something to perch it on when I'm not using it. I have no desire to roll it around on a platform :)

I've got an MT1.25 with the backhoe. When it's removed I have it sitting on some big wood blocks but that gotten old now, Thinking about welding up a platform/stand/throne for the backhoe to relax on while it's off the tractor. Anyone else do that? Got pics? thanks! Bill in Joshua Tree, CA.

It's not been holding up in courts very well, even junior-league lawyers are coming up with arguments that courts are accepting.

ya, but to get that, you'd have to own an orange tractor.. 💩 ignorantia sit beatitudo

I'm in crapafornia and I burn all the used oil I can get in my foundry furnace.. problem is, I cant get enough of it, so I have to use propane instead. Way back in the 80s you used to have to pay to haul it away, for awhile it was a commodity and recyclers would pay for it.. now thanks to...

Broke ground on the new shop today. (i know it's not an LS but my MT125 would have taken a month to get this done....)

If I was going to do it more than once a decade I'd probably rig up something better. I used your suggestion to lift the boxdrag out of my trailer and got flamed by tractor nazis.. there will always be someone who thinks they know more..

I had a Yanmar with a vertical exhaust, now I have an LS which exhausts to the side and exits forward. never smell anything.

I dunno.. buying a tractor with more HP will speed up the work, maybe.. but it will certainly speed up your debt :)

I wish you lived close by, I added a waste oil burner to my foundry furnace since it causes less metal contamination in the melt, but i can never get enough oil :) I've actually used diesel from my tractors fuel container in a pinch.

AHAHAHaaa My Orange-Tractor'd neighbor asked to borrow my 125 so he could use the backhoe.. I remembered and used this line.. his reply? "I'll throw in a case a beer too"!! He's a riot. I let him use it, he brought it back washed and shined. :)

Used my MT125 to unload a safe from my trailer. Dug a hole to back the trailer into to lower the height, pulled it out, stood it up, then strapped it into the FEL.. Don't think I'll be doing anything heavier that this, it pretty much maxed it out.