Recent content by Morning Wood

If you have this need you should own a truck and trailer capable of moving your tractor. Driving the tractor that kind of distance seems insane. I would only do that if I was doing snow removal along the way. Like the tractor was actually being used over those miles.

You should have read all posts. The agreement was that I do maintenance on it as payment for borrowing.

It has it, but I don’t think the backhoe has ever been off. Although I did see a york rake kicking around so it might get taken off every once and awhile. Not my machine.

It’s really a sweet little machine. Very solid. My ford 1720 is a joke compared to it. This one only has about 475 hours on it. I was able to get the fitting to take grease and I’m not going to bother with trying to get the pin out. We can cross that bridge when we need to. Thanks for all the...

Fitting flows. I took it off and sprayed penetrating fluid in there with compressed air. Nothing. I’ll try scraping out the hole. Kinda crappy access.

I will add that the cylinder does move around on the pin, so I’m assuming the pin is rusted up on the sides to the thumb.

I’m borrowing a yanmar cbl 40 from a friend. The deal is I grease and change oil. I was not able to get the thumb cylinder at thumb to take grease. Fitting is ok. I did everything I could do. Next step is to remove the pin. Before I start bashing on things I’m wondering if the pin has caps or...

Air bags for sure. I have them on my F350 srw. I have front bags for snow plow as well. I use them all the time depending on what I’m towing and how loaded the trailer is. Having an onboard compressor and controller is the only way to do it imo.

I’ve never known anyone to use a snowcat to clear roads. I would think they would damage them as that isn’t what they are intended for. Anyway, hope he recovers fully. I think he is quite involved with private forest fire equipment acquisition and supplies.

I would always do conduit. And I’d add an extra conduit for future use to be safe. 2” for a coax seems a bit overkill. Definitely use 20’ pieces.

That was painful to read

I don’t see how you can do it safely without being over 26k combined. Just get the class A and outfit the truck (dual rear wheels) and trailer properly and be done with it.

They are a 6 ply.

I’ve got a Ford 1720 with R1 tires. We seem to chew through the front tires pretty quickly because we use the loader a lot. I like the traction of the R1, but wondering if a R4 or R14 will hold up better. Also, would I be able to put a different tire on the same wheel, or would I need new wheels...