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    Using lifting tongs on bucket

    Thanks to all for your comments and wisdom!
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    Using lifting tongs on bucket

    5 acre lot with 2+ acres of woods. I pull out mostly fallen trees with a JD 2305. I’ve always skidded them from woods to woodpile down the legnth of the property which usually leaves ruts so I’ve been looking at some 4 claw skidding tongs to hook on the bucket and do less damage to the yard. The...
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    Anyone ever had to clear thorny Locust trees?

    I had a lot of those when clearing my property. 2 things that got rid of them for me where a track hoe digging them up and putting on the burn pile. That only worked where he was working around the pond being dug. The second was to "girdle" the trees in the woods. Forester told me take my...
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    3 pt lift vs sickle bar

    Not sure if this is the right forum. If not hopefully someone can point me to it. I have a 1959 MF 50 that I bought last year. The guy never used any attachments on it just the loader. I have a JD 39N sickle bar I mow around my pond with. My old Ford 861 powermaster had no problems lifting...
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    battery size for MF 50 (1959)

    Does anyone know how many CCA's the battery for an MF 50 with a Continental Z134 should have. It's a 1959 and my thinking is to get the highest CCA's I can. The battery that came with it is from Wal Mart, is 2 years old but only has enough to start it once in a while even after a night on the...
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