Recent content by treeboone

Saw this at the Spokane Co. Fair today. Picture attached, 2 more follow. Enjoy, Treeboone

My new Befco chipper arrived today, 940 pounds. The clamp-on bucket forks were just the ticket to off load it from the semi. While that is nowhere near the rated load for the forks or loader, when it is that far out, it is spooky. I will have a report on the chipper in a couple of days, soon as...

I have been looking at buying one of these. It seems heavy enough and has a geared feed. The Valby is available locally at higher cost for hydraulic feed. Can anyone speak from experience on how well the Bushmaster holds up? It looks like alot of parts make it up, does it take alot of...

This is one way to pile alot of snow in a confined area. Not a new idea, this is done the same way as a rock stock pile. This pile can hold alot more snow, but this year is a light one so far. The tractor is a L4610 with a 7 foot curtis plow on the front and a 7 foot back blade. The cutting edge...

got this at Walmart-88 cents. Im a Kubota owner, but I couldn't pass it up. They had some nice JD toy tractors too.

I would like to know what to do to convert my L4610 loader to a quick attach. With the Curtis plow, a forklift and the standard bucket, I would like to be able to interchange them without the grief of the linkage pins. Is this an expensive change? My dealer did not even suggest this until after...

Its been awhile since the last post on this project, other things had to be done also, but winter is coming, so the push is on. The site is eyeball leveled using the bucket and backblade on the L4610. Wet down and wheel rolled a few times for compaction. I hand dug holes for the concrete to hold...

I bought my filters for the 100 hour service on my L4610 HST from the local auto supply house (Wix). They had all but the transmission filter. Next I went to the local oil jobber and checked to see if they had the equivilant (Baldwin) but no luck. Next went to Napa and gave them the Kubota...

Got half of the poles peeled. Put the forks on the bucket and decked about 400 BF of fir logs (skidding is faster, but this keeps them clean for the sawmill) Then dropped the backblade and 3 point hitch, hooked up the Woods backhoe and spent the rest of the day digging stumps. Got 6 out by 4:30...

This is the beginning of a 20 by 30 pole barn (maybe larger, who knows...) This is my wife peeling poles with a drawknife, I just skidded in some more with the L4610. The site is being cleared and I hope to have a mobile bandsaw mill work up some lumber for purlins and rafters. Tomorrow I will...

Finally got the replacement thumb on (Backhoe broke my thumb, continued....) The Rankin thumb had unzipped, called my dealer and had him order this from Attachment Sales. It arrived in short order, cost 570.00 delivered. The Rankin cost 455.00 installed by the dealer. I weighed it after I got it...

This is a Rankin thumb on a Woods 9000 hoe, powered by a L4610 Kubota. I picked up a boulder that weighed over 500 pounds, swung 180 degrees and stretched out to the full extension of the hoe. The thumb just sorta 'unzipped' along the weld and crumpled up. I thought it looked like it was built...

Finally took delivery after a month delay. This is the 9000 on a L4610 Kubota. It is the new subframe (apparently the reason for the delay) with self contained hydraulic. The thumb is a Rankin. The dealer had my tractor to install the hoe and replaced a loader ram and the battery on warranty at...

I had the dealer stub wiring for worklights on the ROPS (both sides) I also bought a pair of Halogen 55 watt truck lights from a car parts house. Plenty bright, but cast a beam the size of a dinner plate at 50 yards. This would be fine if I was poaching deer, but not what I had in mind for work...