Recent content by SteveV

The valves on my Woods 6500 BackHoe has three 'shock relief' assemblies, one set at 2400 and two set at 2100 psi. Does anyone know which functions require shock relief? I suspect that swing would be one of them- maybe the two 2100's but would have to trace the line for the other function...

Does anyone know how to loosen the PTO plastic shield on the implement end? I want to get the grease gun into the shaft ujoint. The plastic 'bell' seems to turn a few degrees relative to the long plastic sleeve but still seems fixed at the 'bearing' area at the end of the shaft. Sometimes...

Bldg\'g in farm land Has anybody got an idea of what's being built east of Syracuse NY at milepost 252 south of the thruway? Seems kind of out of place in the cornfields. Watertower maybe? 4 big cranes on the job, the jib of one of them is just visible behind the structure. Your ideas would...

Here an newpaper item from Foster's Online (Dover, NH) about a town owned rubber tired excavator. The machine rolled as the outrigger caught a rock while decending a grade. http://www4.fosters.com/News2003/September2003/September_17/News/ro_0917b.asp

\'Bota brings in the harvest We did a little backyard peach harvest today. The bare forks seem to work best without a pallet for the workers in the trees, since the forks themselves don't seem to get mixed up with the branches. After working for awhile, finding the fork with your foot becomes...

Maybe you remember my poor carryall which has been also mounted on the FEL during the spring of last year. Well, since I got the real forks, it spends most of its time on the 3PH. Since it was shortened and beefed up in its previous application, it has been used for those loads of palletized...

We picked up a quick 6 inches of snow on the Rt 495 belt of Massachusetts. It was classic wet heavy snow ball snow. The foot that fell at the begining of January is still underneath this new stuff making nice packed snow to ramp the front tires up for higher piles. SteveV

I used to think orchard pruning machines were the top of the heap, surpassed only by the James bond helicopter with the three buzz blades cutting the dock in half, but I figure this baby is good for at least 60 feet with its three blades at the end of the boom. The next picture will have a...

All those users last night must have caused the system clock to move west to central time. Maybe us DST users are a minority and CST rules! If this is the biggest problem the forum has, we got it made! SteveV

Back in Nov of '01, Hayden had a thread for "Rediculous uses of tractors" and I think it ought to be updated on a regular basis during the busy season. My current project is painting a utility trailer, the one that was under the logs in my earlier posts. I run the forks on the loader most of...

Maybe the hydraulic tree shear is needed just because there's no way to carry a chain saw on a stock compact tractor. I've tried wedging the saw just about everywhere on the 'bota 2400, but haven't found a spot that didn't either damage the tractor or the saw. The other solution which was to...

Spring is happening real quick here in MA. Us wood burners are having trouble keeping up as the developers plant their spring houses. The wood on the back of the tractor was picked up, I figure 2-3 cords (like 5 loads) and another 6 cord arrived by truck. Now the problem is, the grass is...

Is this forum really well behaved or do we have a bunch of good editors behind the scenes? or both? I know some of the group edit as they read but I haven't seen a request for editing lately. The new system must be working; it has a more easy chair feel. Keep up the good work!! SteveV

I was poking through the dealer lot today, and low and behold, an EF 3 in the rental row. It was an open cab and had some hours on it. Seeing it in person really makes the specs stick in your mind that this was designed as a spec buster with the high lift over and maximum loader lift possible...

My humble bronze status got revoked. This is something like a wife's charge card, when you're not looking, the credit limit goes up. I'm not that windy...silver! It'll take some gettin use to. SteveV