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    M62 TLB for Maintaining Hilly Land ?

    My solution for outrigger feet. Then improved steps for climbing up and down. Unless you have a ground crew there seems to be a lot up and down.
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    Mess with the bull, sometimes gets the horns.

    Follow up. Hydraulic shop first tried to straighten the bent rod. Ok but still tight at some spots thru the new head nut at spots They took it a machinist to make a new rod. He thought he could straighten it better and did. Parts, seal kit and head nut $344 Labor, $175 Back on the tractor and...
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    Brown Tree Saw

    Blessed to grow up on a small farm and live and retire on one. Not so much as a living but a way of life. Nice when a hobby can help pay for itself. Just pointing out the potential value of the OPs crop of trees and effort involved in cutting them. We used cut cedar trees for erosion control in...
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    Brown Tree Saw

    No longer that it takes to cut a tree, that’s thousands of trees. Good market around here for cedar wood. Maybe have a band sawer cut on shares help pay for your tree saw, reduce tree waste volume? Bird houses, feeders, carpenter bee traps made from small lumber cedar. Shaving mill to...
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    Blueberries

    I sprinkle some sulpher too. Pine bark Beatles killed the pines around my patch 20 years ago.
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    Brown Tree Saw

    That low hp tractor would be too small for their smallest tree cutter but more than adequate for the saw. Goats would have killed those cedar trees and made lush grass pasture. Hard to fence the rascals. Cleared 15 acres of kudzu, multiflora rose on a steep hillside. Now growing back with...
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    Blueberries

    Rare to see honeybees in our blueberry patch. Their flowers are too long and tubular for them to reach. Mostly pollinated by bumblebee and carpenter bees. The later cheat usually by piercing the side of the flower to reach the nectar with less pollination. Bumblebees are better cold weather...
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    Brown Tree Saw

    Looking forward to your experience and review.
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    Blueberries

    Have to admit I’m a blueberry bear. Freeze a minimum of 4 gallons up to 13 gallons per year. Biggest predator is turkeys. Move a coyote decoy daily helps. Not only scares them but also attracts coyotes that help keep the deer and other critters away. Had a golden retriever that could pick...
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    M62 TLB for Maintaining Hilly Land ?

    Those rubber “street” pads for the backhoe stabilizers really make a difference. They came with B26 we got and was significantly impressed with the added traction and support on just the ground. Often soft ground and at a side angle on our property. The couple inches of height made a difference...
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    Brown Tree Saw

    Eastern cedar, juniper are interesting trees. One of the first trees to colonize after the ice age. Some cedar barrens ecosystem have lasted 10,000 years before being disturbed by man. In the woods still have cedar stumps cut over 100 years ago. Heart wood very resistant to rot. Danuser...
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    M62 TLB for Maintaining Hilly Land ?

    There are several startup garage companies that offer some impressive grill protection guards, differential lock step, light guards, etc. There are many options, guessing and misinformation comparing gear vs HST power and traction. Have had many of both. For our hillside, mostly wooded...
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    M62 TLB for Maintaining Hilly Land ?

    Lot of stuff! Quite a package! Need to improve front grill for grapple work. Wouldn’t go over 6’ with your grapple or 4 in 1 bucket. Some have had better reliability from Fit-Rite or other auxiliary hydraulic valves over OEM. Kubota Soft Ride available? WSM, filters and oil.
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    Brown Tree Saw

    No idea about the saw and backing precision but the cutter is forgiving and use a couple of trucker convex mirrors. Camera could help too. Also cuts low. Big advantage is still having the grapple on the FEL. The saw does have a clamping option to move cut trees. Both take some serious...
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    Brown Tree Saw

    Black walnut stump. Size 13/4E shoe. Can really tell how stumps flare at ground level. Low enough to bushhog over next time. This was before I sharpened the blades, refurbished the deck, unwinded 100’ of fence wire and replaced the pto shaft. Cuts better now. Stump sometimes push up rocks...
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