Recent content by MaineTom

Does anyone know if the new BX23 (80 series) ROPS will fit the older BX25D? I'd love to have that shorter ROPS so I could get into my 8ft door!

Here in China, Maine we've got about 20" but it's still snowing! I'm using the BX25 to clear enough so I can then get the plow truck moving without getting stuck. Wet heavy stuff! I use the FEL and home made back blade to put it where I want it. This is what it looked like outside the shed...

Since I have the 60" mower deck on, I have the BH stored so I needed some ballast while moving some dirt etc. Looked in the scrap pile and found a nice piece of "hanger steel", I'd been saving old brake rotors for some time thinking they might be useful at some point...here's the...

Well one "advantage" of this mount on the BX is that the BX is light enough that, IF I'm not hitched straight on, it straightens itself out pretty quick! ;) I use my grapple on the front to either dig into the ground as an anchor or if it's too hard, then I chain the grapple to a tree. I also...

Here's my winch solution. I use it to pull logs/trees out of places I can't get close to. First I put a Reese mount on the draw bar, and added an 8" extension to it. Then I made a box to hold my deep cycle battery. Add the battery and I've got a system independent of the tractors...

I had them pointed front, and the factory lights pointed back when I took this. The shed is lit by the factory lights. They are not as bright as the factory ones but bright enough! :thumbsup:

Just finished up a project I've been working on off and on this winter. I have the factory LED work lights on the ROPS but I wanted to keep them aimed forward and add some additional ones pointed to the rear. I picked up some LED "Off Road" lights at wally world and made some brackets out of...

I have the 2" spacers on the rear of my BX25D (clearance for tire chains) and just got the 1.25" for the front. Very well made. I made my own skid plate.

Here's my BX25D just starting on this drive...took a while to get to that garage!

A grapple turns your tractor into a beast!

Here you go! I just drew a straight line down the length, took the sawzall to it, then just get a BFH and pound it onto the edge of the bucket!

Probably uses one of these! :D

Truck was in the shop when it snowed this time so I had to use the BX - worked fantastic!

We just finished mine! :thumbsup: Used an old Craftsman front blade and built a frame to hold it. It has 6 angle positions, 3 facing front and 3 back. Just need to add some paint! I can't take credit for the welding as I had a friend do it. He just retired as a Millwright and does a pretty...

Bucket Forks - not on my original list but realized I needed them so... I looked in the scrap steel pile and found a couple of fifth wheel mounts for a pickup bed. They are about 4 ft long and real sturdy so I got some chain, chain binders, 3" u-bolts I had, a couple of 40" 2 x 6 and some...