TODAYS SEAT TIME

[4570Man]

Dumb question... wouldn't it be easier to use the backhoe to drop the whole tree? If you dig the backside of the root ball and use the weight of the tree as well as the height then the backhoe will push it right over, then you are cutting it in a safer environment? Just asking?

He had a root ripper and it was only a pine stump, but yes it is easier to dig out the whole tree.

 

[Larro Darro]

Dumb question... wouldn't it be easier to use the backhoe to drop the whole tree? If you dig the backside of the root ball and use the weight of the tree as well as the height then the backhoe will push it right over, then you are cutting it in a safer environment? Just asking?

Some folks think it is too dangerous for weekend tractor guys to try this maneuver, but not me. I mean, what is the worse that could happen? A tree fall on your head? People rarely do that twice.

 

[Xfaxman]

Dumb question... wouldn't it be easier to use the backhoe to drop the whole tree? If you dig the backside of the root ball and use the weight of the tree as well as the height then the backhoe will push it right over, then you are cutting it in a safer environment? Just asking?

Some folks think it is too dangerous for weekend tractor guys to try this maneuver, but not me. I mean, what is the worse that could happen? A tree fall on your head? People rarely do that twice.

I don't have a backhoe, I just push the tree over. http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/...ing-out-oak-stump.html?highlight=#post3818059

 

[Xfaxman]

Today I put the two Groundsmaster parts machines in the shop, out of the weather finally.

The TORO Thread: http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/all-other-brands/301894-any-toro-groundsmaster-fans-here.html

 

[sd455dan]

Dumb question... wouldn't it be easier to use the backhoe to drop the whole tree? If you dig the backside of the root ball and use the weight of the tree as well as the height then the backhoe will push it right over, then you are cutting it in a safer environment? Just asking?

i ended up doing a similar thing as canuck pt- we ran under ground power lines fairly close to this tree and after losing two trees in a wind storm last year that just brushed the house .
Decided this one needed to go, it is also fairly close to the garage and stormy weather is a possibility tomorrow.

Drove the Rhino tractor and FEL up to it for support to cut it and after looking at it- thought the dozer would be more appropriate -due to a much heavier ROPS even with the much lower leverage point.


tree measured out to about 90 feet, luckily the other trees we need to remove are much smaller diameter.

Thankfully this is the only tree that may have been a real danger to vehicles house and garage- glad it's firewood now.
That one had a little pucker factor when sawing and finally pushing it over...

 

[dragoneggs]

I needed my backhoe today for the 1st time since last fall to dig out a blue spruce stump. I dropped the tree last night & hauled it off to the woods. I'm still struggling to learn the nuances of efficiently getting the backhoe on & off!! Stump is gone though!!



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Yeah me too... probably taken it off four times so far in two years. It is a bit of a struggle but the BX dolly on a smooth flat concrete floor makes it easier for sure.

 

[wmonroe]

Hooked the brush hog to the 5240 and spent a few hours cleaning the place up. Worked the tractor pretty good since some of the ares were waist deep and really thick.

 

[terryknight]

spent some time sunday morning with my new $40 (one new bearing and 2 brackets) woods rm59 behind the JD 750 cutting grass at my fathers house. i may need to rebuild one of the spindles on the mower, but i can't complain about the price or the cut

 

[terryknight]

spent some time sunday morning with my new $40 (one new bearing and 2 brackets) woods rm59 behind the JD 750 cutting grass at my fathers house. i may need to rebuild one of the spindles on the mower, but i can't complain about the price or the cut

 

[dragoneggs]

spent some time sunday morning with my new $40 (one new bearing and 2 brackets) woods rm59 behind the JD 750 cutting grass at my fathers house. i may need to rebuild one of the spindles on the mower, but i can't complain about the price or the cut

Hard to beat that!

 

[dragoneggs]

spent some time sunday morning with my new $40 (one new bearing and 2 brackets) woods rm59 behind the JD 750 cutting grass at my fathers house. i may need to rebuild one of the spindles on the mower, but i can't complain about the price or the cut

Hard to beat that!

 

[Magicman710]

Did some spraying on a some of the pecan trees this afternoon in preparation for the upcoming rains this week.

 

[Eric C]

spent some time sunday morning with my new $40 (one new bearing and 2 brackets) woods rm59 behind the JD 750 cutting grass at my fathers house. i may need to rebuild one of the spindles on the mower, but i can't complain about the price or the cut

Going to get your money and more out of that one. Great deal!!

 

[dieselcrawler]

spent some time sunday morning with my new $40 (one new bearing and 2 brackets) woods rm59 behind the JD 750 cutting grass at my fathers house. i may need to rebuild one of the spindles on the mower, but i can't complain about the price or the cut

Nice find there Terry... my ol man has one just like it, spent my teenage years keepin the homeplace mowed with it behind the ol MF135.

Finally got a little seat time of my own, got to do some brush hogging for an hour or so yesterday evening... like pullin teeth to find the time and opertunity to get out there. New job means more hours away from home, and my daily driver F250 blew some rings or cracked a piston, so I've been getting the F350 put back together and making it ready to drive while I swap motors in my F250.

Always something....

 

[Larro Darro]

Good deal on the mower Terry. I got a pretty good deal on my 27 year old B1750 and Woods RM400 RFM last year. I used to use it at the Civic Center {work} to mow the grounds, but we bought a Scag a couple of years ago. I offered $1.5K right away. A year later they sold it to me at my price. {It looks rougher than it really is. I've welded on an exhaust pipe and cleaned it up since this photo. Still <300 hours.}



Yesterday I used the B7500 with Woods RM400 RFM to mow the back yard. The B1750 just doesn't have enough umph for grass that tall.

 

[terryknight]

That suck Greg

Good deal on the mower Terry. I got a pretty good deal on my 27 year old B1750 and Woods RM400 RFM last year. I used to use it at the Civic Center {work} to mow the grounds, but we bought a Scag a couple of years ago. I offered $1.5K right away. A year later they sold it to me at my price. {It looks rougher than it really is. I've welded on an exhaust pipe and cleaned it up since this photo. Still <300 hours.}.

Can't beat that

 

[PHPaul]

Wow...I had no idea what I was missing.

I just peeled about 15 cubic yards of sod off an old field with the bucket on my B2650, dragged the loam under it somewhere near level and then tilled it all up good. Took about 3 and a half hours.

It's not awfully hot here today, but it IS humid as heck and the bugs are out. If I had done that job on my old JD 750 with no cab, no power steering and a gear trans, I'd be beat to a pulp right now.

As it was, sitting in the cab on the suspension seat with the AC blasting, spinning the steering wheel with one finger and scooting back and forth with the hydro trans, I'm fresh as a daisy! (Well, almost...)

I'm also impressed with just how quickly it went with only a 26 HP tractor to work with. Then again, any bigger and I'd have been stuck up to the floorboards on the low side of that field. Also the single joystick bucket is a HUGE improvement over the two-lever system on the ol' JD.

Shoulda moved up years ago...

 

[KevT]

I got to spend a little time in the seat this afternoon. Had to carry another bale of hay to the big horses, and then went and bush hogged an old flower bed in the back yard that got over grown with wild Blackberries and poison oak / ivy. Now the little mower can keep it under control. I even let the wife drive the tractor after I unhooked the bush hog to the front. Not brave enough to let her back it in the carport/

 

[dragoneggs]

Wow...I had no idea what I was missing.

I just peeled about 15 cubic yards of sod off an old field with the bucket on my B2650, dragged the loam under it somewhere near level and then tilled it all up good. Took about 3 and a half hours.

It's not awfully hot here today, but it IS humid as heck and the bugs are out. If I had done that job on my old JD 750 with no cab, no power steering and a gear trans, I'd be beat to a pulp right now.

As it was, sitting in the cab on the suspension seat with the AC blasting, spinning the steering wheel with one finger and scooting back and forth with the hydro trans, I'm fresh as a daisy! (Well, almost...)

I'm also impressed with just how quickly it went with only a 26 HP tractor to work with. Then again, any bigger and I'd have been stuck up to the floorboards on the low side of that field. Also the single joystick bucket is a HUGE improvement over the two-lever system on the ol' JD.

Shoulda moved up years ago...

You cab guys have it made... what's next a in-seat massage function? JUST kidding... jealous of the cab but honestly it is overkill in my neck of the woods and my particular situation. Still jealous... tunes, A/C, surround sound? :laughing:

 

[PHPaul]

You cab guys have it made... what's next a in-seat massage function? JUST kidding... jealous of the cab but honestly it is overkill in my neck of the woods and my particular situation. Still jealous... tunes, A/C, surround sound? :laughing:

Yup, I used to poke fun at the folks with the fancy tractors, but it don't take long to get spoiled!

There are speakers mounted in the cab headliner and a blank slot to slip a radio into, but I don't see that happening. I have to wear headphone-style hearing protection against the hydro whine as it is. Plus, I don't even listen to the radio in my truck 99% of the time, can't imagine trying to hear it in a working tractor.

'course, I'm old and more than half deaf too...