Recent content by Spitzair

Haha, my yard didn’t burn but I did catch myself on fire while building this bucket. I brought the back sheet to the local machine shop and they curved it on their brake for me, I don’t have a good way of bending it here at my little shop…

Thanks guys. No, that’s not me in the pictures, that’s my son/top helper… I do have a chain hook welded to the back of the bucket, already came in handy a few times. This one you operate from a seat on the attachment itself, I still have to mount it, right now I just have the mounting plate on...

So I needed a bucket for my Bobcat 909 backhoe attachment that I just rebuilt. It didn’t come with one and the only one I could find for sale is so far away that shipping would be the same price as the bucket… so I built my own out of some material I had sitting around… I copied the dimensions...

Haha, thanks Doug, it’s been a running gag for us since I built it… I’ve been using it a lot lately, doing various chores… hauled 7 loads of gravel today for a flood berm… makes a great dump truck! Or logging truck… or machinery hauler… the list seems endless…

Thanks guys! No blade came with the cat, it was used as an ag tractor in its former life. I may try to find a blade for it but I’m mostly just planning on keeping it the way it is set up now, but I do want to add a PTO to it… I have visions of a small self loading log trailer to pull through...

So I recently picked up a D2 Cat and I’m pleased to say the trailer hauled it very well. At first I was worried how it would feel hauling 7000+ lbs 5 hours down the highway but other than pulling a bit heavier it felt no different than the trailer pulls empty. It also didn’t pick the back of the...

I recently bought myself a project D2 Caterpillar, but don’t (or rather didn’t) have any real good way of lifting the heavy pieces other than my bobcat. When I first dreamed up my little shop I had intended to integrate some I-beams into the ceiling to have a crane built in but to make it...

Looks real good! How do you like the extra stick on there so far?

I certainly aint gonna try to talk you out of it! My dad bought a mill in 1991 as a way to make some money when he was laid off from his regular job during the slow time of year. Yeah, his was top of the line loaded with all the options and hydraulic log handling package you could get at the...

Here I took 4 yards of topsoil to my buddy’s place. This is the first time I had this big a load of dirt on it. I’m happy to report it didn’t feel like the back of the truck was coming up at any time. I didn’t weigh the truck and trailer loaded but it sure didn’t feel like the tongue weight was...

Finally got around to building some removeable sides for the flimsy trailer and hauled 5 yards of black dirt with it, it hauled it and dumped it with no issues. Also hauled a few loads of crap dirt and sticks with it, and keep finding more things for it to do. So far it’s working out very well...

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