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Thanks for the tip. My dad's compact Deere 2210 currently does not engage the front wheels either, needs investigation.

My splitter does go vertical but I tried it once and vowed never again. Wrestling 200lb round into place just to shave off one piece of firewood at a time, then bend over to pick everything up... no thanks. I like to keep everything up at working height.

Oh for sure. It's just so much work to chainsaw through giant logs to make rounds, and you have to use heavy equipment or have a lift on your splitter just to chunk through it. It's a lot less efficient processing than just staying in the ~20" and under range, in my experience. My retired...

Well if that isn't the cutest little shed for a brush hog that I've ever seen, lol. Would probably be a pain to hook up inside that shed if not for the quick hitch eh? I still don't have a consistent storage solution for keeping my attachments out of the weather. It really takes a lot of roof...

Gosh that sounds like a whole lot of work just to get a firewood pole to your property. Why bother with such huge logs and rounds?

Thanks @dinoedwards for the timely thread. I am more interested than ever in getting myself set up with a quick hitch. But the idea of adding bushings to all my equipment sounded daunting. So then I found the good works tractor page and was intrigued by both the speeCo and their own quick...

That's a good point. It'll keep the rust dampened but then you may not have good conduction.

Oh and per earlier comments, I also had some difficulty getting the PTO shaft on. On the grinder side, I had to pry open the coupler a bit. On the tractor side, I had to file some burrs out of the shaft coupler before it would go onto my tractor. No big deal but worth knowing about before...

I was cutting my oak stump to at least 5" below grade and I could still drop my 3-pt further, doesn't seem like a limitation that will bother me. Oh and by the way, the extra carbide teeth I bought for my mechmaxx were inside the box with the unit. I have a feeling they will sit on my shelf...

Might as well add a post to this thread every now and then in case anyone reads all the way through. This 2019 Kioti CK3510 absolutely kicks butt. I'm at ~330 hours now and it has zero issues, solid as a rock. Some weeks she only gets an hour or two of run time, others 10+. Most routinely...

I love my Kioti CK3510, but honestly I would also love to trade it for a 2620 Cab with a turbo kit. I see more and more guys turning up the fuel screw on the 2610/2620s to gain power. Good for them, but I also see smoky exhaust that I would never want. But mostly I just want to hear a turbo...

Well I guess I should feel lucky that I scored the $1400 price and that mine arrived within a week! This thing kicks butt. Finally got rid of a 10-year old oak stump in my garage yard that was still hard as heck. I realized after that I forgot to take the pins out on the top that allow it to...

That is terrible. Sounds like your unit was very poorly assembled by the dealership. Missing bolts, poorly adjusted, hydraulic leaks, etc. Not cool. But I also have to say, reading through your list of issues, there is a lot of nit-picking : Noises you're not familiar with, some flop in the...

Ran 6 loads of gravel with my neighbor's 5x10 over the past week, zero issues. 2-yard loads of gravel are so meager, really sucks not to be hauling more - but would rather be safe than sorry and my landscape supply shop is just 5 miles away and only two intersections. It basically doesn't even...

Always fun to find presents on the loading dock. And to have an excuse to keep my forklift operator's license valid. Nice packaging, externally anyway. Hopefully my extra carbide teeth are in the box? hmmmm

I suspect R1s, R4 and turf are same cost (at the listed pricing), with R14 a bit extra. Sometimes a lot extra.

Yeah. The rugged made 22-ton states a 10 seconds cycle time, highly appealing for me. The thing is, when your ram hits a tough piece of wood, it slows way down and cycle time becomes much longer. Kinda hard to account for that.

That's good, sorry to doubt you at all. Bummer about the suspension bits though.

Zombie threads are the best though. This one is chock full of good advice, keep it rolling! Does a basic skid-steer flail mower actually shred woody bushes and saplings well enough for a land-clearing biz?

Unfortunately so. A 6x12 should have 14k axles under it, in my opinion. My neighbors 5x10 dual axle is a 10k rated trailer, and it weighs ~3k lbs itself and can hold 3 yards. 3 yards of wet gravel is easily 9k+ lbs of load. So I limit myself to 2.5 yd purchases when borrowing it.

I am SO very much on the fence to buy this sucker. Definitely seems like the best deal out there by far. My current MTD 6-hp splitter has a low beam height, no lift, slow cycle time, no 4-way wedge, etc. Works ok when you have helpers but is atrociously slow when working solo.

HOLY S%^&, thats some criminal trailer design right there. A 6x12 dump trailer can easily be loaded with DOUBLE that much weight. To the OP, if you really bought a 6k rated 6x12 dump trailer without realizing it, well first of all I am sorry. but second of all, c'mon.

Got a shipment notice today that shows it actually started moving in California yesterday. Next day shipment from California and projected arrival in one week flat. Pretty rad. Like others in here, it will probably take me some weeks to get it uncrated, set up and try it out. Need to repair...

One of the most recent reviews on their page says they got a partial refund by reaching back out to mechmaxx after the sale started. Which is pretty nice since they really have no obligation to do such.

Wow! Good lookin' out, thanks for sharing the news. Hmmmm, is it time to commit? If not now, when would I ever. Edit: I did it, joining the club soon. Got the extra pack of replacement carbide teeth, but not the rear camera or outdoor cover.

Hmmm. I am wondering what a big PTO-drive rototiller would do. If you could get the glass onto the surface, could you rake it up by hand?

No offense intended, but I'm not sure you've actually driven a day-cab with a DD13 or DD15 engine anytime in the last 15 years? The fact that you have to clarify 4-stroke instead of 2-stroke implies that your experience is from many decades ago. They are absolute powerhouses. I dyno test them...

All the laboratory technicians working for auto suppliers in our area are making $80-120k now. Not a car dealership, no, but its comparable work in many ways. No specific formal education required, just have to prove your competency at wrenching, diagnostic/programming, and solid decision...

This whole conversation seems pretty crazy to me. The only part right about Kamala's slogan "we're not going back" is perhaps for well proven emissions control solutions. Diesel particulate filters and their periodic required regenerations works perfectly fine as an effective technical...

Yes the Tesla supercharger stations do appear reliable and effective, BUT, there's still not nearly enough of them available, if you consider the legislative goals to 10x the number of EVs on the road (not happening, but still their goal). In popular spots like California, or Norway, at busy...

I bought a brush grubber when I got my overgrown land. Used it about 2 or 3 times, then never again. It was very effective at gripping a sapling and yanking it out, but its awful for work for one person. Heck even with two people, the person on the ground fighting through brush to affix the...

I use my rear scraper blade for this. Maximum angle, and tilted aggressively down and forward using the top link. Some does spill to the outside, but very little.

I mean, you can always let it surface rust a little and just take a flapper wheel on your angle grinder to it once or twice a year to clean it up. A damp rag of WD40 should hold it off for a while tho. But some of you guys sound like you keep yours slathered in oily carcinogens, lol.

Kioti 2610/2620 w/ turbo would really be a sweet spot for a TON of CUT buyers, I think.

read the post.... : 14-17.5 rear tires/wheels from a late model 2032R/2038R 25x8.5R14 front wheels/tires from a 3 series (Or swap the 23x8.5R14’s from the 2 series to the 25x8.5R14 tires) I agree, that looks really awesome. When I was a kid I would always grab a 955 brochure from the deere...

I will say that GM vastly improved their cylinder deactivation strategy with their new DFM (dynamic fuel management). Instead of the same 4 cylinders turning off with the old AFM, the new DFM strategy continuously cycles through all 8 cylinder of the engine in as many as 17 different patterns...

The range chips to disable AFM work very well. No issues. A couple of my coworkers routinely trade up through GMC/Chevy 5.3L 1500s and always buy the range chip to disable AFM/DFM. If it were my truck..... I'd be doing an aftermarket ECU tune that increased HP and responsiveness as well...

The point of the dual fuel injectors (port and direct) on the 2nd gen EcoBoost design is to specifically avoid carbon build up on the intake valves (the port fuel injection washes them with gas). Each cylinder explodes gasoline at >1500° 50+ times per second, so there really shouldn't be any...

Again, just my opinion, but at 1600 rpm of just driving around on flat ground carrying firewood, you're not working the engine much, and the exhaust/turbo shouldn't be all that hot to begin with. In such cases I tend to idle for just 10-20 seconds and then shut down, no harm at all in that...

No way, thats not allowable as a default. When you need to turn the engine off, you need to be able to turn it OFF NOW. Say you had a hydraulic system leak, a coolant leak, oil, etc. Or you pull into your garage with no fresh air. I could probably think of a hundred reasons why I want...

Yeah, different combinations of burner settings on my Whirpool induction cooktop can produce some very strange robotic squelching noises. Not very loud, or annoying, but its weird. One burner at a time, nothing remarkable, but get three of them on different settings, and it could be the...

He... crushed a round cylinder tank to flat by using an excavator? And then drove across it as a bridge? Or was the tank then just a culvert pipe? That is about the most red-neck thing I have ever heard, lol.

Hey I recognize that footing! :) Such a fun project. I pretty much just used what I had around, spare CMU blocks, 3 course high on each side. Has held up very well so far. I only had 3 telephone poles, really wish I had 4 or 5 underneath my decking. But thankfully my decking is...

Lol, "knobs to turn" is a figure of speech meaning "what variables did they have available to adjust". Sorry, engineering speak I guess. Updating the software to "make it run better", resulting in increased temperatures in the exhaust, can really only be done by adjusting the timing and/or...

Guess which connecting rod below is from the big tough 6.2L, and which one is from the cute little 3.5L EcoBoost, haha Every engine ever sold to the public has had to pass durability testing of a similar severity: hundreds of hours spent sustained at peak-power, full-load conditions. The...

Thats good for your DPF regeneration, but what did they change to accomplish this temperature change? The only knobs they would have to turn to affect DPF/exhaust temperatures is from diesel injection and combustion in-cylinder for your engine. Not sure how carefully you track your tractor's...

Think someone already replied to you but just for further info: You hold the gas pedal to the floor and crank the engine, it wont start until you lift the gas pedal. Its meant to build fuel pressure after you do any fuel-system maintenance, all Fords and Mazdas can do this. Not sure how much...

Ok Ok ok. Don't turn this into a d!ck swinging truck competition thread, haha. True, a '97 7.3 will last forever. But thats about the only good thing I can say about it. :ROFLMAO:

Nah, almost none of that is true for the 2nd gen 3.5L EcoBoosts engines built from 2017 onward - except for the Cam phasers. My 2019 3.5L is at 70k miles now (bought used at 54k miles) with zero cam phaser noise on the original units. I intentionally do a "flood start" to build oil pressure...

A one-ton mini ex in the rocks and boulders of central maine? Don't do it. You need a minimum 3 ton mini ex or ideally 5+. You'll want something that can pull an 18" or 24" wide bucket with power.

You only heat what is more or less directly against the flat cooktop. So you can heat up a wok if it has a big flat area on bottom and enough mass to carry it up. But yeah, no big fireball to torch the whole sides of it.

Oh, don't get me wrong, I do not support energy choice mandates in any way. I should have left that sentence out of my post, haha. Only point was that most people do not think about or understand their indoor air quality situations at all. High VOC paints, cheap furniture and carpets...

Our whirpool induction range / double-oven unit from 2015 is still going strong, no issues. Absolutely love it. Fun to show people who've never seen one how you can boil an inch of cold water in a pan in about 2 minutes flat. Has never built up any crud that required scrubbing in all 9 years...

No generator that you can hook up? My 6500 watt Generac easily runs our well pump. Yeah it kicks hard when it starts up, but never stalls or trips. Our house is all electric too. My biggest gripe is that our fancy heat-pump water heater doesnt like the square wave power out of my...

Wow, Don! nice work. So wait, did you buy a processor? I thought you were renting one periodically.

Whats your method for slitting the sched40 pipe to slide it on the plow edge?

Having the proper stability and loader lifting capacity is the primary reason I upgraded tractors from my old Cub Cadet (now my neighbor buddy's machine) to my Kioti CK3510. It easily lifts a full IBC tote bin of green split wood up to 6 feet in the air. Will tip forward without any ballast on...

https://midweststeelcarports.com/free-standing-metal-lean-to/ Doesn't necessarily have to hook onto the shipping container, right? There's free-standing options - "lean-to metal carport"

They generally do hold up "ok" for stacking. But after 5-6 years of use, they are getting a little bent out of shape - primarily because I cut all the fronts out of them for easy unloading. And also due to my occasionally careless operation with the forks, doh. I am often moving full crates...

Well no, not planning to burn anything split fresh. Since we only need to burn about 2-3 full cords per year, I may just squeak by on the ~1.5-2 year old split wood already on hand, very nice and dry (mostly cherry and ash). And since a lot of what I was just splitting now is long-dead ash...

Well the unseasonably warm fall weather continues. Hard to complain about t-shirt weather in November, but also, the ground is turning to dust. Thankfully a nice soaking rain today, but it wont be enough. Had to keep the kiddos engaged to press forward on firewood production this weekend...

Since I asked for the house pics, I'll help get back on track also. Set up a new log-splitting arena for this season, more room to work and shuffle bins, and doesn't block anything in front of my garage like I used to. And finally got my some help from father-in-law and my kid. Aiming to...

Wow! Can we see a pic or two, or do you have a thread on your historic house? Because my house is small (1650 sq ft) and super tight, we actually kind of like medium-BTU firewood. A few hearty sticks of solid oak when it's not frigid outside, and our living room temperatures can soar into the...

I think you post images on photobucket, no? I can never see any of your pics (work firewall blocks them). I was wrong about any oak species being below black walnut though, I retract that one.

I have a limited amount of oaks on my property here in southern michigan, they are very robust and beautiful trees so I would never dare cut one down on purpose for firewood. The Walnuts on the other hand.... abundant and detrimental to my garden/planting areas (juglone poison). The obscene...

They're pretty tough buggers. Don't let the rest of it rot before the firewood value goes to nil, though!

Huh? Black walnut is terrific firewood. Most firewood BTU charts show it above 20 MBTU/cord, better than ash, cherry, most maples (edit: NOT any OAKS, retracted) I burn a lot of black walnut, as I have a large grove behind my house that keeps trying to encroach into the yard and garden areas...

Absolutely - Put the third 4x4 atop the other two, centered over both of them. You just need to make your lumber stack into somewhat of a pyramid. But also, if you have a 6.5' bed, 8' 4x4s will fit diagonally and allow you close the tailgate, no strap needed. Just have to stack them atop each...

OP said it stalled whenever he tried to flow any hydraulic oil (load the engine). Not a good sign.

The main reason my OCD forces me to stack the wood in two rows in my IBC totes is: 1) critters. In a haphazard pile, they have so much protected nooks and crannies to build a stellar little nest. With two even rows, there is a 4-5" air gap down the middle between them that isn't so safe for...

I would plan on your service and any potential warranty work being done by the dealer you bought the machine from. Get the local dealer to price match the far away dealer as best you can. Asking another dealer to cover everything for you is possible, but a little rude. I did it myself, but...

Circa 2014 in Michigan: had a surveyor divide my 19 acre lot into 3 new, irregular shaped lots through thick forest/brush. Cost $3200, surveyor was kind of mad he didn't ask for more to do the job.

I have no problem with my tractor staying under the metal carport, except lately some critter (red squirrel?) keep packing the engine bay with oak leaves. Cleaned it out for the third time the other day, now I have to keep the hood popped open when parked, pretty annoying. Anything parked...

Yeah this is how it used to feel in southern Michigan, too. We'd often have continuous frozen roads and accumulating snowpack from ~ new years until March. So everyone had to know how to navigate slippery roads daily. But more recent winters? Any snow we get just melts within a week. People...

A coworker of mine borrowed our family's 4x8 utility trailer to move houses. Put a lightweight couch in it and hit the freeway, no straps. He said he watched in the mirror as it levitated up, started windmilling in the air behind him, landed on its feet on the pavement at 70 mph, and did a...

Perhaps your fence design is a bit, uh, over complicated. :)

Heck I would pay $1500 just to hear the noise of the turbo spooling when you cold start the machine, or lay into a pile (add load). I love turbos. While you are quoting a small increase in peak power (14% or 7 hp or whatever), keep in mind that the peak torque increase may be even greater, and...

The chicken wire to the cattle panels? Yeah I used zip ties. Probably some of them are cooked by now, but between weeds/vines/corrosion, its all staying in place just fine. You can buy more substantial quality of plastic zip ties, or even metal ones too. Good selection online with better...

I bought a sack of little mending plates, IE the thin metal strip of zinc plated or galavanized (better) with 2 or 4 holes in them already. Put over any section of wire in the cattle panel, and 1-1/2" deck screws to fasten.

Sounds like a pretty good plan to me. You're definitely over-designing it, but if that's how you like to do things, right on. My 2 cents: Ditch the framing nailer idea and just use outdoor/deck screws, everywhere. This way it is all removable/adjustable if you need to make any tweaks. Also...

Nah not really. Did you fully unbox and assemble it? Sounds like a fun project for a couple evenings in the shop to me.

They look pretty dang similar to me. Sounds like you have no direct evidence yourself, but wish us all to accept your assertions anyway. I mean cripes, they are probably made with the same tooling, in the same factory in China.

Dang, pretty excited to hear your feedback when you start grindin'. Can we get some teaser pics in the meantime? :P

^ haha, looks like a pretty boisterous time We had a cool daytime visitor in the yard recently. I hear these guys a lot at night, but very hard to spot them. Looked like nearly 2 feet tall, large bird!

Next time (hopefully never) find the corresponding connector for the hydraulic circuit on the loader (where you would unplug to remove the loader), unplug, and you can stop the leak completely. I had a branch snap over my bucket once in the woods, blew a bucket curl hose right off the fitting...

The Lowes website is so horrible, that I simply do not shop at their stores, ever. It is truly amazing to me that in the year 2024, Lowes cannot figure out how to let you search for products that are actually physically present in their stores in a functional, efficient manner.

I don't think it offers any good flavors. But yeah you can see the squiggly trails of the emerald ash borer beetle on the trunk of the tree under the bark that fell off.

Yeah, definitely looks like Ash to me. Great firewood!

Same, I thought for sure it would be a tangled brush hog picture, haha.

Wretched stuff indeed. My neighbor decided to use it around the 8' posts to secure his garden. All it does is cut up the deer who jump through it anyway, sad.

I got mine at Tractor Supply a couple years ago, was only $50 for 5 gallons! My Kioti ran smoother and quieter after the 200 hour service and full flush.

I once hauled "two" yards of wet compost that was probably closer to 3 (rookie skid steer operator), in my dad's '95 F150 5.0L w/ 8' bed (probably under 7k GVWR). Sagged horribly but it was already dumped in the truck, what to do besides drive home carefully. The rear end swayed back and forth...

The only Ford F150 spec that I feel is truly misleading in their ads is the "best in class" payload figure of over 2200 lbs, when they are like hen's teeth in the real world. But my 2019 still has 1850 lbs payload, plenty to accommodate a 12-15% tongue weight for my tow rating of 11,000 lbs...

Yeah, heavy towing fuel economy with the ecoBoost engines is a well known weak spot. They have to enrich the air-fuel mixture quite a bit in order to keep the pistons/valves/turbo cool enough. Whereas a larger displacement, naturally-aspirated engine doesn't have the same thermal issues and...

How often do you really move the excavator around? If just a few times per year, I bet you could manage. Like others have already said, the towing stability and stopping power are a bit sketchy with a half-ton towing over 10k lbs, basically due to the weight proportions. But my 2019 F150 with...

always amazing when people have zero concept of weight capacity. Probably an easy 2000-3000 lbs above the rear axle payload rating.

Hey OP, how about some pictures of your land/forest/driveway path already? Let's get some visual context here (please). :)

Yep. He primarily hauled in horse manure from the stables up the road, to amend his garden soil. So not that heavy a load, flat asphalt to get there and back. The trailer itself is still 3k lbs though. Funny addition to the story, he first hauled his 10k dump trailer with a ford ranger...

My dear neighbor, old man Bob, hauled his 10k dump trailer for YEARS using a 2" ball. I didn't discover it until my other neighbor buddy borrowed it one day and I saw up close what he was doing. Neither of them noticed any issue at all, thought it was fine. I bought them both 10k rated...

^ MTL also deliver Like lineman said, try calling them again and explain that you'll have your DK40 with QA forks (you have those, right ?!?) ready to go, to quickly and easily unload the truck when it arrives. That or see if you know anyone that works at any business in your town with a...

^ correct. However, Pine does spit and pop some sparks, and has relatively low BTU content per log compared to good hardwoods (species dependent of course). Hardwood also creates plenty of creosote if your burn it before fully dry. Millions of folks all across the western states have no...

Definitely on a downward trend here. What I notice most distinctly is that we never get long stretches of true deep winter anymore, where multiple snowfalls can pile up and stay. Instead we're lucky to get any decent snowstorm, and then it typically melts within a week every time. The worst...

Our annual snowfall average is around 50-60", but its very rare to get over ~8-10" at one time. I have no idea what the snow rating is on the carport, but if we got slammed with a blizzard, I might buy a roof snow rake

Quick thoughts. If you really dug out to as much as 12" below grade already to remove organics, you're going to be buying a lot of fill/sand/rock/gravel to get it back up to grade. Do NOT leave the driveway as your lowest area. yes, I always prefer a nice crowned road that sheds water easily...

No problems here with the top band being cut. I can't imagine reaching logs out of the bottom of the tote with that top bar in the way! no thank you. The only thing I will note, is that if you are stacking a FULL tote of wet wood atop another one that is cut out, yeah it can spread a bit. So...

Yeah not so fun to split, definitely no quick pops for easy separation. But it burns well and my family likes how all the strings on it is like "built in kindling". Nice to start a fire with once it's well dried out.

Yeah thats just painful, poor bridge. I drove across a lovely wooden covered bridge in southern PA a couple years ago in my 2500HD without even thinking about it, fully loaded with family and camping gear. Then turned around and the saw the same "3 ton MAX" load rating sign. Was probably a...

I don't jog much, but I switched to Salomon shoes for daily life many years ago and don't plan to ever go back to anything else. Waterproof, rugged sneakers with excellent traction, and the uber convenient zip-tightening system. terrific value for ~$120-140 depending on sales/closeouts. And...

Your pic? Those dashboard tape jobs are BRUTAL, man. Lol. :ROFLMAO:

Lol. Sounds like an expensive gambit. Would almost have to make a dam out of sticks first, so they can see the goal and then improve from there. Whats kind of funny is that I do get naturally occurring log-jam dams in my creek periodically, that can hold back up to 1-2 ft of water. They...

Key word being "imported". I'm rather skeptical that one can unload a beaver and convince it to dam a certain spot.

Ok, mythical imported beavers aside, who here has ACTUALLY constructed a dam? Sounds like basically no one, lotta dreamers (like myself) and folks who inherited one that was already constructed. We need some DIY examples

Interesting diversity of thoughts in this thread so far. I have a small creek through my woods that usually only runs a few inches deep, but can surge up to a few feet deep during extreme rain events or melt-off of a big snowpack. I also would like to dam it to create a pond/swimming hole in...

I agree, that picture offends me horribly. Just such an egregious violation of common sense.

This is too funny not to share. I guess the full story is a trio of wasted dudes repeatedly failing to extract their boat from the water, then trying it this way.

Yikes yeah I just watched that vid for first time. Dude made exactly the wrong decision, forward or backwards would have been fine. What could he even have done if he magically made it into the truck? Nada.

I had to get the special relay to help my retired neighbor be able to consistently start his TC33.

Bummer to hear about that. I suspect that continuing to do heavy duty mowing during regens would make for some VERY hot conditions under the hood. I presume you stay on top of keeping your radiator screen and front grille clear, yeah? If you're happy with the rest of the tractors reliability...

Um, ok? I will probably have a newer, better tractor by then, if I'm even still alive. I didn't buy this machine to last me 40 years, and wouldn't advise the OP to think that way either. Do you drive your cars and trucks for 40 years? Nonsense.

Not bad. I mean, thats a lot of money, but not bad. I took my own advice and made a build on the kubota site, and it was $42,000. Not that many years ago a Kioti CK3510SE with all the same options and similar capacities was exactly HALF that much. Inflation has been bonkers.

First, put your truck in 4WD so that the parking brake ties the front and rear axles together. I carry a pair of jackstands and just put them under the rear frame of my trailer. Like paystar says, gotta leave an inch or two gap so that they dont get stuck once you load anything heavy. Some...

L3901 is a great tractor but the loader is pretty weak, comparatively. L3560 is an amazing machine, strong with the optional LA805, but price it out on the kubota website (with loader, bucket, 3rd function, rear remotes, tire choice) and try not to spit your coffee on the screen. Which is what...

Also curious to hear what problems you had. But thank you for your feedback. I was fully aware that they are a chinese equipment importer who would not likely have good customer service in the event of a warranty need. It's a gamble. Buy some extra grinding teeth up front, and hope for the...

Those EBITDA numbers are impressive, if true. I'd love to run a company that profitable (on paper).

My suspicion would be: because they didn't actually finish the building, because they ran out of cash. And then simply found a contractor to blame. Pure speculation on my part here, but we've all seen it before.

Sometimes you do just get dealt some bad luck, or a bad hand to play. But it seems to me that this situation was all within EAs control, and they blew it. A stubborn contractor changing spec means you can't get a certificate of occupancy for months? That's ridiculous, change contractors and...

This is a tractor oriented web forum that mainly has homeowner and hobby farm participants; this is clear and not lost on us. But EA didn't only make super heavy duty attachments. Their 55" wicked grapple was ~245 lbs of steel, for $3000. Meanwhile an MTL was $1200 and a bit heavier. If you...

But, dude. He built a 10 million dollar glass lake house while simultaneously collecting multi-thousand dollar payments for customer equipment that he couldn't get built in his shop for 4-6+ months. Welders who could have been making customer equipment that was already PAID for, were instead...

WTF man. License revoked. So stupid it is making me irrationally angry to look at

I want to add one more distinction here: Babies and small toddlers have no place on running tractors, I do agree. My daughter was 4 years old, intelligent enough to reason with, and sturdy and agile enough to take car of her body and motions already by the time I felt it ok to make this buddy...

Man, I sure hope they were making some margin when asking three THOUSAND dollars for a grapple that is only marginally better than a $1200 one from MTL, haha. EA did have some very sturdy rear blades, box blades, land levelers, etc. Heavy stuff, lotta steel and a lotta welding to get those made.

While these kind of child vs equipment accidents do happen with enough regularity to come across on the news/internet/word-of-mouth to keep them in mind, I think it's also important to look at the big picture. The vast, vast majority of kids coming near or on a tractor are having a blast...

My dude, this is not a riding mower. I do not have a mower deck on this tractor, and if you'd read my posts you'd see that this is for gentle cruising only. Also, tractors ARE fun, and important tools to be treated with great respect. But your point is still well taken, losing or maiming...

Yeah, good point. I don't even have one full day of grinding to do at the moment. But I'm typically willing to pay a premium to avoid the hassle of rental, scheduling a tight window for the work, etc. Owning such a tool, I could pick away here and there at stumps without any pre-planning at...

Nice work, hope this solution is sustainable for you. I know in my garage/barn/shop, that much floor and wall space just for durable attachment storage would become prioritized for other tools and items (shelving, cabinets, etc) before too long. I hope to build an outdoor lean-to/shed with...

Guess I might have to try it. The mechmaxx site looks legit enough, they have warehouse addresses and real phone numbers to call. Not sure the wifey would appreciate a $1900 hit in the checking account for a tool I'll only use a couple times.... haha.

Hey y'all, Anyone purchased one of these basic stump grinders from MechMaxx? https://mechmaxx.com/products/mechmaxx-24-cutting-wheel-stump-grinder-for-tractor-3pt-hitch-540-rpm-pto They look a LOT like the woodland mills WG24 (even use the same number, 24 in the product name) but are a...

Seems like it's been a pretty educational thread here, eh @Forest_Man ? Can we get some more pics of the driveway and property? Maybe even a video of you sloshing your way through it all? :)

... You have to put your foundation down to or below the frost line. Here in Michigan that is 42" down south, and even deeper up north. If you didn't have your structural posts down to frost line, you then need a complete concrete footing to frost line instead. Now you are adding five figures...

The Kubota B3200 sounds impressive at 32 HP, but it only weighs 1700 lbs. Without wheel spacers, only 53" wide too.

In my opinion, a multi-adjustable HD rear straight scraper blade is definitely the most versatile and useful, BUT, you really need a bigger, heavier tractor in order to do a lot of work with them. A small, light tractor can't carry and pull the 800+ lb blade that you need in order to cut into...

That low end price is nearly too good to be true. My suspicion is that a big dump truck would show up and tell you it has 15 yards in it, but in reality it spreads more like 10-12. Been there. The truck capacity is in CUBIC yards. If you spread to 6" thick, thats 1/6 or 0.167 of a yard deep...

Yeah he's more popular then sometimes seems he should be. Some good content though. He gets discussed here (dedicated thread if you search) but never seen a comment. He's too busy building stuff and buying huge machines. https://camaratapropertymaintenance.com/

Like, catskills or adirondacks? If catskills, maybe Andrew Camarata could make a new video out of tuning up your road. He gets so many view per youtube video that it pays him big bucks, dunno how that translates to his job pricing. https://www.youtube.com/@AndrewCamarata

I got a 7 footer for my Kioti, but it weighs twice as much as your Kubota. 6' probably better for your machine - I'm also thinking about heavy snow removal now that we know the location.

Is this a camp? or do you have a real house back there? So, just curious, if you have a house fire, do you just let 'er go? Never get deliveries by truck or van? I thought my own 1000' driveway was long to get hacked in and installed into my own woods, but mine had to support cement trucks...

I'm gonna chime back in to STRONGLY recommend you stick with a 5' box blade for your B3200. 32 horsepower of engine can drag a 6' unit well in the right conditions, but your machine is very lightweight. Inertia is often what keeps a heavy pull moving through soil, not just rated power...

Well hey, kudos to you sir. I don't understand how we don't see crazy ruts all of that drive in your pic, if you do drive on it daily? Sorry if my first reply was harsh, I've learned over the years here to be blunt with newer members to get their perspectives aligned with the true challenges...

Holy crap, thats your driveway? No offense intended, its just so, so far away from being ready for daily automobile/truck traffic. Is this your future homestead? Beautiful forest! You need an excavator first, not a box blade for your tractor. (ok you need that also, but not as tool #1). You...

Metal barns like that are just so economical vs a full pole barn or foundation/stick frame. Looks great, congratulations. I know you built a lovely home that we all followed along with, but your property never felt complete. It needed a proper barn. Shame its only for goats, haha.

I was afraid it would be a lot more. Getting ready to make a basketball court pour for my kiddos, bracing for the cost. Probably never see $100/yd again, eh.

@rs191 , any updates on your barn?

^ yum. What did the concrete run you per yard these days? Whats the shop for? Whats the old one for. and what's it full of now?

Hey @dbchaplin03 , is this your tractor? Just kidding, its listed as a 2013 model. Basically the same as what you had though, right? low hours on this one. https://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/threads/kubota-grand-l6060-tractor-for-sale.475758/ Buy a 6060 again, why not?

I like it. For a bucket or blade on a tracked skid steer, like shown. NOT for a flimsy CUT loader.

Yeah I actually had a piece of heavy foam ready to glue onto it, but after my daughter rode around on it a few times and said it was fine, I sorta gave up on the idea. Great link, how can they profit by sewing me a custom outdoor fabric seat cover for just 3 bucks?!? thats insane.

Ah, foot throttle. So you perhaps rev the engine up and down a lot? Maybe you've noticed on older diesels or anything without a DPF, that a puff of smoke typically comes out when you rev up. This is the soot that clogs the DPF. Most of us hobby tractor guys on here have smaller hydrostatic...

Shed is holding up well. A note of advice to anyone else who erects one of these - pay attention to the so-called "S" hooks that are pre attached on the ratchets for the cover straps. I don't know why they didn't bend the S of the hook down to a normal curve, but those stupid things barely get...

How many hours do you have on the machine now? That surprises me, I thought Kubota had things sorted out a little better than that. Do you do a lot of idling, or at least very low load operation? My Kioti is always in the 35-45 hour range between regens, which is not to brag about, but this...

Good record keeping. Every 10 hours on average is not great at all, but certainly better than every 2 hours.

That recent shed video is funny, he does a nice job and it's a fairly large building, but he still only gets a couple pieces of equipment in it. Then turns around at the end to pan across the 25 machines "really, none of this should be outside". Good luck with that idea, Andrew, haha.

You're back! Didn't read the whole thread yet but I remember chatting with you because I fairly seriously considered buying your L6060 back then. It would have been a lot of machine for my limited uses, and the price felt higher than I could stomach (very fair, though). But then I ended up...

Nice job of finishing and enclosing his big equipment shed. Previews the "new" castle project again at the very end. Busy guy.

Thanks. It was a fun project but she is growing so fast, might not work for too much longer. Plus she's no longer a terror when left alone inside the house, so she doesn't have to always come along on tractor chores as much. (IE mom doesn't kick her out the door to "go help dad" quite as much...

hahaha, he couldn't resist the sale pricing on that leftover warped lumber. I get tempted myself sometimes, Home Depot sells their cull lumber at 70% off.

:ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: Definitely some good patina on them machines. More pieces of equipment then we knew about!

Always amazed at those "put a whole scrap car into the truck bed" shots. The amount of energy, time, fiddling, and rigging it must take to get it plopped in there and secured. Combined with the surely high amount of damage sustained to the truck bed and rear end. All to avoid borrowing a...

Huh, really? MTL shipped mine to my workplace for free. Of course after I confirmed that we had a loading dock. Do you have any buddies who work somewhere with a loading dock and at least a pallet-jack, if no forklift? Or most mixed-freight semi trailers are driving around with a pallet jack...

The only reason I have the Kioti backhoe for my tractor is because I bought a used package of tractor, backhoe, a few implements, and trailer. I would never have spent the $7k+ myself otherwise, because my feelings were confirmed when I first went to use it - pretty weak, too easy to drag the...

Monsanto is paying a settlement of 11 Billion dollars, with a B, because glyphosate clearly causes lymphoma. I understand it still has appropriate uses - just dont let any of it get on your skin, or inhale any vapors, etc. Bkenobi, your driveway looks great! Maybe the best place to start is...

Good observation, there's no visible grease at all. My backhoe is covered in grease because I pump it well through every joint every 5-8 hours of digging work.

^ for sure. I know this, whenever I run my Kioti KB2475 backhoe hanging way off the back of my little CK3510 tractor, I am acutely aware of how much potential for damage there is. It's a light duty digging machine, as is any CUT backhoe. My rule of thumb is, if you are jerking the rear of the...

Oh dear. Thats a pretty scathing review. Sorry to head about all your troubles. Second pic didn't load for me. But the first one just looks like a normal view of a backhoe bucket... is it broken in that pic?

I just ripped up my entire 1000' gravel driveway using the scarifiers (rippers/shanks) on my land plane. Conditions were right for doing a full "reset" on the drive - pull all the stones up, smooth everything back out, and weeds? None to be seen anymore. So that's one option, just till up...

Yeah those do look pretty nice. Everything that Michigan Iron does looks pretty nice. The "second stage" grapple lid is an interesting design too, but adds a lot of weight for minimal capability effect. Nearly double the price of an MTL, but competitive with most other offerings.

^ excellent advice, the rated payload of many new 1/2 ton trucks is pretty sad. A ram, or tarted up F150 will often come in ~1200-1400 lbs of total payload. Consider the weight of yourself and passengers, some gear in the cab, a few things in the bed, and what do you have left for trailer...

Did you read the listing? lol. "Elevate your experience by taking the elevator to the second level—a true spectacle awaits!" A real spectacle, indeed.

Call them on the phone. Have them tell you out loud that they have eyes on the exact piece you are buying.

Daaang, nice equipment! And nice storage for everything, too. What company is the loader mount chain box from?

Pretty light winter here. Kind of a bummer to be honest, not much sledding for the kids, I never went x-country skiing, only downhill snowboarded twice at a local smaller hill. So naturally the shed is holding up perfectly. I tried parking a couple different things in it over the last week or...

I'm still very happy with my cheapo ssqa trailer hitch. Used it the other night to bring my camper back over to the house, since winter looks pretty over with. And then shuffle my car hauler trailer as well, which I now sort of use as an attachment/implement drawer.

Yeah I already removed the 1.25" spacer blocks from my rear spring perches (4wd with FX4) to sort of "level" the truck and remove some rake. And partly in anticipation of getting roadmasters. I've only read good things about them.

You need to separate those two ideas, though. Sure, the RV dealers like to use them as a band aid on overloaded half-ton trucks. But go out to your 1/2 ton pickup and read the owners manual. It probably says that "in order to two over 5000 lbs, a weight distributing hitch is REQUIRED". My...

My 20' car hauler is like this also, axles set pretty far back. However this is the correct way to make and use such long trailers. If you put the axles right in the middle, there would be a huge potential for negative tongue weight, which we all know is a terribly dangerous situation. If you...

Yeah, walnut blasting the intake ports and backside of intakes valves is an accepted best practice for higher mileage GTDI (gasoline turbo direct injected) engines, some of which are more problematic for carbon-buildup than others. But this is a targeted cleaning operation, intentionally using...

OP posted that on Jan 22.... 6 weeks later and no update from them, eh. So maybe people join here to ask one question and then never follow up (edit: he said long time member, but only has 3 posts). Meanwhile, the TBN forum regulars just keep hashing it out for weeks, lol. In case it helps at...

Yeah. But the point of the dpf is to accumulate particulates, then to fully combust them during regeneration. So convert solid particulates (like PM2.5 partially burned hydrocarbons, nasty stuff) into CO2, which is inert and harmless to you. Not 100% effectively, of course. My Kioti, like...

I find that pretty fascinating. So your manager at the equipment dealer told you to do this, and you did. Ok then. But of course, absolutely nowhere in your master tech or Ford tech certification process was this process ever recommended, whatsoever. Right? Why did your dealership feel the...

Fair point. I suppose I'll just be pedantic and say that the purpose is not technically to make the particles smaller, it's to eliminate them completely, IE convert to gaseous form. I'm also not really feeling your final point, to be honest. I run my Kioti at ~1500-1800 rpm usually. Is that...

For real. That 6.0L was a great engine, zero problems ever. I just wish it had been given more than 4 lousy gears behind it in the trans. I bet with the newer 8-spd it could have picked up a couple more mpg.

Yes sir, 5-6k oil changes for life. I also typically do the Ford "flood-start" if it has been sitting for more than 6 hours (extra cranking before it fires to build oil pressure). And always disable start/stop.

Last year I finally bit the bullet and plunked down what felt like a LOT of money for a newer pickup. After 7.5 years of supreme reliability, I said goodbye to my '03 Sierra 2500HD (6.0L LQ4 gas). An absolutely bullet proof truck; not very fast but plenty of power to tow 10k lbs with ease...

Very clean! Nice to look at, too bad you also have to drive it and sit inside the Chrysler interior also. Lol, I kid, I kid.

I can't seem to find any cross reference news articles to confirm this posting from Jeff. He didn't cite his information with anything or give us a link. Is anything really changing any time soon for our tractors? I doubt it. EPA "announcements" do not immediately translate into machinery...

Right, the term "rated" means the engine speed at which maximum power is reached. IE the engine speed at which is is "rated" for its HP output. It's no problem to spin the engine a bit faster than rated, but there's also no real reason to do so on a tractor. Sometimes I spin up to max rpm...

Haha, nice connection fellas. Any snow left at Schuss? Was pondering one more trip north to ski... getting dicey.

I meant in a calm and rational chat between loving family members, not in a court of law. But you are absolutely right!

Yikes. I agree with others that your siblings must be forced to consider the real VALUE (emotional and financial) that you caring for your mother provided for all these recent years. You have the moral high ground if it comes to real argument. I live local to my 75/74 year old parents and can...

BOOOoo to your real world data. I agree with rScot, we wanted to keep arguing about this for a while. I still think it would have done it. 🤪 Were you at max engine rpm? Why couldn't you curl the palletized equipment/material being delivered back? Are you going to tell us what it was...

It'll do it. Forks all the way in, lower them down in the pallet as much as you can, first CURL back as much as is reasonable within the pallet, then lift up a few inches, tell the driver to pull away. No need to drive around with the load that high up.