Recent content by tommcintire

Long-time reader, very rare poster... I have a similar situation on my driveway. 1/4 mile through the woods, up a hill, with one part that is approaching about 8% grade. The wheel ruts tend to catch water and cause erosion problems instead of flowing into the swale. Driveway is built of...

I'm contemplating "sharing a rental" of a bobcat and rockhound with a fellow horse owner. I have an area of about 1/2 acre I want to pick for rocks (already harley raked it, but the rental rake was passing stones 1 inch and down, which doesn't work for my needs). My friend has an area of about 2...

I have a couple acres which we have opened up in the past year, and now it is time to pick the fine rocks out. It has been worked (to death) with a rock bucket, box scraper, and york rake after the dozer did its job (popping the truly big rocks). My question is "how wet it too wet" to use a...

I'm getting a sweet deal from an old family friend on his haying equipment. One of the pieces is a NH Super 68 Hayliner baler. I know it is about 102 wide, but I neglected to measure it for length, figuring I could pull it up online. Well, I haven't been successful at finding the length... I'm...

Slightly off topic, I know, but I've seen more than one thread on horse trailers :). Does anyone have experience with Lakota horse trailers? A local dealer offers good prices on them, but Lakota is relatively "new" to the market, so I am cautious. Kind of going on the theory of "if it seems to...

Was wondering about people's thoughts on grapple rakes versus grapple buckets for moving brush. I would think the rake would be the "ideal" for the task, but how well does a bucket do? My dilemma is that I can get a rake for about $2000 for my tractor, but a bucket will "only" be about $1200...

Anyone know of a manufacturer who makes root rakes for a backhoe? I have a Woods BH-90X on my NH 2310, and want to be able to better handle brush as well as pull stumps, etc. The 18 inch bucket doesn't work well for brush. The thumb and bucket meet nearly parallel, so stuff just slips out the...

We have a stock trailer which we had rebuilt, and in the rebuild, we put a ramp on back (moving draft horses along with their vehicles). The problem I have run into is that when we added a rubber mat to the ramp, it is now too heavy to lift (I technically can lift it, but I risk physical...

Want to add a remote function on the front of the tractor (think Grapple, Snowplow, etc). One option is obviously the override of the curl function. Lots of people have written about doing that... :) Has anyone added an electric powerpack to their tractor for an additional function? Something...

I have a 2 year old daughter, and I am thinking about safety "habits" I can adopt now to make myself safer when working with the tractor, etc when she is a few years older. Right now, she is always directly supervised when outside, and also is a bit scared of the tractor. But, given that she...

Did a quick search and didn't come up with much. So, here it goes... I'm in the process of ditching around the horse paddocks on our farm right now in my spare time. I'm cutting them about 2 feet deep, and about 3 feet wide (bordering on being a swale, but not quite), which past experience and...

Wondering if anyone has hauled a T2310 (the newer version of the TC40) in a dump trailer? We are getting one (being prepped now) and would like to keep our "trailer collection" to a minimum. To that end, we are contemplating a 16 foot dump trailer (with 9500 lb payload capacity). We are getting...