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Hey guys. Since we've had a few days of rain and its still too soggy out to work, I thought I'd share my new project with you. My (new to me) 1956 Studebaker President Classic. I'd been looking for an old sedan or wagon to tinker on when this car showed up at the top of a long driveway at...

Clearing out an overgrown property. I'll be back later to install a culvert and new driveway for their getaway cabin. The vines had taken over and the poison ivy was thick. No handwork here! While I cleared, the boys installed h-posts and a gate. It was so rocky that they had to use my...

Installing a 2-into-1 culvert. Here's why I won't install homeowner / standard grade (read Home Depot/Lowes) ADS type drainage pipe....even if the homeowner wants it. I've replaced miles of this junk...crushed and full of dirt. Since my supplier sent the wrong custom t-wye (and the...

Setting culverts and driveways for two new homes. The well driller tried to get his rig in before I built the entrances. It didn't work out too well (pun intended.) I posted this in Safety, but it deserves another look. The same driller. No chains, but at least he has a license...

And I worry about running legal. :rolleyes: Note the trailer license plate on the hoe. With just the hoe bucket holding it on the trailer (no chains :eek:), he headed out to the highway and down the road. There are a couple more photos of these wizards on my photo thread.

FINALLY got the pumping road and jello bowl done this week. Still had two areas pumping with the weight of the trucks. A big THANK YOU to a couple of very understanding homeowners and members here at TBN. :thumbsup: On the last day, I had an unexpected helper for a couple of hours on...

Yes, they are. I actually like the idea of an asphalt float better. Pic from a TBN members previous post..

In my opinion the multi-bladed thing looks a bit gimmicky. After using a landplane for awhile, the jury's still out for me on the whole idea in general. Although the landplane requires less operator input, I can run box blade and get the same results. Actually, I think a landplane would work...

I've had the SVL75 in pretty deep a few times with standard tracks and got out with a little work. A couple of times I thought I was goner for sure, especially when I looked out and couldn't see the top of the tracks. If you ran the wider tracks, I wonder if seeing the corners of the wider...

The volunteer's new bathroom/shower, conference room and storage building.

My view through the Lexan windshield. Working on the East side area. The volunteers will have their own park-side and street entrance and exit so they don't have to deal with weekend traffic at the gate. Cedar-B-Gone

Here's a few more pics. The SVL90 with FAE mulching head. Can you spot the snake? We used the Ratchet Rake on Dan's bucket to help the guys pull vines out of the trees and a brush hog to get the vines mowed up next to the tree bases

Just completed a clearing job for the Corp of Engineers / Our Lands and Waters for a new campsite. The campsite is being built for the park volunteers. Its the first of it's kind for the Corp, so they're using this one as a model for future projects. I'll be returning to grade and gravel the...

Replaced a section of 36" crushed culvert in a private community.

Just thought I'd catch up on a few photos. Here's a drainage cleanout I did for the local Cowboy Church pastor. He wanted to leave it as "natural" looking as possible. FIL Dan on the mini and Lane on the tractor practicing at my house.

Dan took advantage of a little down time to paint my trailer with Sher-Kem. Turned out nice.

Thank you Chris. Nice easy Friday. I moved an RV pad to a new location, set a few rocks for a fire pit and then re-graded an area after the fence guys buried their skidsteer. Dan took care of brush hogging the 14 acre site. Working on the wife's new arena.

I decided to let the road sit and dry out for awhile. No sense ruining all of my work trying to get the job done in a hurry. Here are a few gravel and soil prep photos from a local job. This is a result of me coaxing a stuck quick attach with a pipe. The QA won that round...and...

A few pics from yesterday and today. Got three culverts set and started cutting the road. The jello crossing was still pumping pretty bad, so I ripped it down some and added a few sacks of cement to the road to help firm it up. Finished out the day setting the crown and cutting flow...

I pulled off the jello bowl job last week with rain on the horizon. I figured it wasn't worth it to try to grade material that was pumping, even in the "dry" areas. Then I did what I always do when I get antsy...I start another job. In this case...two "easy as pie" one-day, Saturday jobs. Both...

Don't even try to walk on this bowl of jello. I don't know where the bottom is, but I was in over the tracks several times. Graded out the exit end of the crossing, eliminated a couple of drainage berms and then spent an hour or so trying to clean the machine. I just noticed in the culvert...

My FIL was 70 miles away from my job mowing 14 acres.

Its a rat snake. I punched a hole in him while I was digging out the bog, so I put him out of his misery. I wanted to let the bog dry out for a day, so I stripped the driveway with the power rake. Neither solenoid would work for the angle function, so I took off one of the side plates to help...

And really wet! :D Here's a few photos from the bog today. My Father-in-law is here for the summer to expand the brush hogging end of my business, so I had him come out today to mow and help define the driveway.

I have a friend that runs a consignment yard here locally. He's also an estate sale junky, so he always has some pretty interesting equipment to look at. He gave me a call the other day to let me know that he was going to have his first auction and invited me to clean out some junk and come on...

Make the rod something like this. Nice work BTW.

The string is probably there to hold the hood on, but maybe they got the strap idea out of the Northern Tool catalog.

No kids? Kids grow up to be tractor buying adults don't they? My boy loves the NH dealership. Even got a neat little blue tractor (just like Daddy's) given to him by the parts guy the last time we were there.

Since everything is soggy around here, I got to participate in the Get Schooled in Gravelology webinar today put on by the Gravel Roads Academy and Forester University. Here's a couple of screen shots. Ken Skorseth gave an interesting talk on the use of liquid magnesium chloride for dust...

Finished up the clearing and spruce up job. Them bones... Put some road base in at the entrance and a little pad for an RV toybox. The wife came out and collected a few pickup loads for her wood stove. What a gal! :thumbsup: Picked up the tractor today and realized that my man Joe...

Setting a culvert and precast ends. Stumping a few trees. Finished out the day moving some dirt.

A few more pics of KX121. I rustled up some bees that had their hives built in the old semi tires. Happy to be in the cab! The wife came out to the job and snapped a few pics.

Joe kept giving me a hard time about only having square shovels, so I bought him a round one and told him to get to usin' it! :D Forgot a photo.

Removed a few Bois d'arc trees and started cleaning out a gully. We'll be putting in a culvert with precast concrete ends here too. The boys out grubbing a few dozen patches of cactus. The weatherman said it was going to be 68 today...he was wrong. Cleaning out the gully. Sure was warm...

Here's the "after" photo of the foundation area. Since we had five driveways to compact with three different materials, I figured it was a good time for Joe to get used to the compactor.

A couple of driveway driveway expansions, topped with recycled asphalt. We'll compact them tomorrow along with a couple of other drives. Then removed an old barn foundation.

I don't know if this has been posted before, but check out this guy's fleet of classic work trucks Our Fleet | Litzenburger Landscape

Interesting morning skies as a cold front moved through yesterday.

Did some debris cleanout for for a local HOA, so I can give them an assessment as to why they work so poorly. The headwalls were poured incorrectly, no wingwalls, pipes set too close together, both inlets are set at the wrong angle to the flow and one of the 36" culvert had collapsed. The...

A little double driveway re-grade and topping. Grading the old drive while my man Joe runs the plate compactor. Washing down the new gravel and before, during and after compacting. The other side of the house. And the homeowner's new '69 Z/28! Sweet!

Thought I should start catching up on pics. This driveway really needed 400 yards of fill before spreading the roadbase, but that wasn't in the budget, so I graded it to shed water to one side. With the way my schedule is running right now, I'll have to come back and compact it later...

After failing to duck low enough while walking between my truck and GN trailer yesterday afternoon...which resulting in me smacking my melon against it and landing on my back in the parking lot at my local fuel stop...I decided to take it a little easy today. I feel like I got hit by...

Could you post a link to your thread so I can check it out? Graded and graveled a driveway today. I'll be back to compact it along with a few others nearby. I can offer better pricing to the customers that way.

Did some clearing for a new private drive. Mmmmm...forgot to take pics of the big tree pile.

I picked up and dropped off a few culverts for a job today. The project is for a couple of members (husband and wife) here on TBN. Even though the job is quite a ways away from my main stomping grounds, I've been looking forward to it for quite awhile now. Great folks!

I snapped a few photos of this propane powered Farmall while picking up culverts today. Edited to add a photo of the suspension seat.

I posted these somewhere before, but hey...its an old iron thread right? And from the bathroom wall at the NH dealer...

Sure.

You're right, I love old iron. Keep 'em coming! Here's an old shredder I saw while picking up a new horse for my wife.

A culvert and grading for a new home.

I use my Ratchet Rake. The first time I tried it I pulled over 60 posts as quick as I could move to the next post. Only bent up the first two getting the right angle.

I took advantage of the rain earlier this week to get an indoor job done. The building was rented to a porta-pot company for a few years. This holding pit was the washout / sanitation area that pumped to the city sewer system. Not my idea, but the owner had some laborers chip out the containment...

I missed a few pics this week trying to learn my new phone. Here's a couple from today. I gave the homeowner some geotextile, so after I removed the grass for the extension and boat parking area, he laid it down and I spread base over it from the existing driveway. Then I spread 4-5" of...

Today was the second Sunday I've worked in the last fifteen years. Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do. Made it home for the Super Bowl though! Here's a couple more pics of the clearing job today. All done and headed home.

That's the place Jim. The guy that owned the house and the horse facilities knew that the bank was getting ready to foreclose, so he split the property and got a new parcel number for the horse property and the barns. When the bank foreclosed, they only got the house and the property it sits on...

Graded some wonderful black gumbo today for a basketball court. I used the Ratchet Rake to remove the grass and top layer, and tore out a few cedars. Verizon and Century Link cables run right through the middle of the pad. Made it twice the fun! Right after I unloaded the tractor this...

Started a lot clearing job this afternoon. I demoed a cab SVL75 with just 9.5 hrs on the ticker. It still has plastic on the seats. :D The customer wanted everything less than 4" in diameter shredded. I think there's actually more deadfall than standing trees!

So my favorite landscaper dug his sprinkler line yesterday. He stacked the mud from the trench on the gravel driveway instead of the hill and left the drainage swale a mess. Of course, I'll fix it. I'd say how I really feel, but this is a public forum. Finished up the wall today. I'm off to a...

I try not to do much concrete anymore, but this is a great customer that refers me to everyone they know, so when they asked if I would do their little wall and pad, of course I said yes. After I dug the footing, I dug a trench with the KX41 for the lazy landscaper to get water to the hillside...

Another little driveway expansion and topping job. Making a mess so I can fix it. Did some grading, and wheel rolled it. Then ripped up the existing base and spread it over the whole area and wheel rolled it again. Then topped it with road base and wheel rolled it again.

Finished up the the driveway today with the Kubota MX4700. I don't like the tractor much, but I do like the 1000lb Gannon BB. Just wish it didn't have that danged tailgate.

Well...TODAY was Monday! Started out grading out a gravel driveway and ended up spending the rest of the day getting my tractor to the dealer. My NH was dead in the driveway with the bucket and BB on the ground. I picked up a Kubota MX4700 rental to get the NH outta there and finish the job up...

The tractor started out with creep in both directions. Roller is cleaned and lightly lubed. Greasable fittings are all greased. I marked the concentric nut and began adjustments. 1. Started very small adjustments counterclockwise and got the reverse creep to stop, then kept on going in that...

I got a tip yesterday about a start-up concrete batch plant in the area that also had a bunch of crushed, screened asphalt, crushed concrete and select fill dirt. After some vague directions and a few wrong turns, I finally found the place. The owner's a pretty interesting guy. He started and...

Here's a couple of small jobs. On both of them I actually waited longer for material than it took to do the jobs. Little backyard fill job. Roadbase for a couple of small driveways at a duplex. Spreading wet roadbase is the worst! The view of Lake Lewisville across the road.

I'll second that idea. Here's a power (Harley) rake mounted on a CTL, but you should be able to find a pto powered unit for your tractor for rent.

Thanks Kevin. The trick to nice edges is to pull material along the edge with the box blade, go slow enough to control the height of the BB, and not to make too many passes which pushes too much material to the edge. If time and the job allow, I like to use the loader to make two or three...

For the first time since I started this business, we had zero jobs on the board for January as of January 1st. It wouldn't have made much difference anyway since I came down with a dozen or so strains of the flu the day after Christmas and then pneumonia. :rolleyes: Last Wednesday was the first...

We're down to 26 now and still snowing just a touch. Here's a pic for you Eddie.

With practice, you'll be amazed at the shaping and contouring you can accomplish with a BB. I love my landplane and grading blade for their intended purposes, but the BB is still the most versatile attachment I own.

In celebration of the Mayan holiday, I did a little repair for one of my customers. He tells me that the neighbor had a little party and someone backed over the border that I installed awhile back. I shoveled (yes, I said "shoveled" :D ) back the peagravel and base material and installed a...

A little backyard cleanup. I separated the limestone rock (two trailer loads) and slabs, and took them to my stockpile at a future jobsite. Then I used some of the cleaner dirt to fill around the septic and aerobic sprinkler lines and hauled off the rest.

Moved a gravel driveway I put in last year to lineup with the new entrance. The existing material was ordered by the property owner. No way would I suggest 3/4" rock with very few fines for a new driveway. The owner is an estimator for a mid-sized excavation company, so he's always trying to...

I posted yesterday in an ignition thread, but that didn't fix it so I'll do the complete rundown here. 1. Yesterday, engine quit running. Shift to neutral and it fires right back up, but dies within a few feet. This repeats a few more times. Initially it seemed like a fuel problem, so I changed...

Another re-grade and an RV pad. Here's a before shot. Working the edges with the Ratchet Rake. The owner didn't have time to move his trailer. Figures it'd have a flat. RV pad graded and done. Job completed.

Can't wait to see the photos Lou. Here's one of mine from up North here. Last day of 2008.

You would think that anyone with an ounce of common sense would know better than to try to pull a batwing through this. I guess this guy was short of an ounce...

Did a few postholes. The customer had a cool '66 Ford that was purchased new by his grandfather and passed down to him. It has a swapped-in 302, the bed was built by his father and it has just 46K and change on the odometer.

Put in a couple of small driveways across the street from each other this week, then loaded out trucks for the material broker on Wednesday. Lots of homeowners ordering too much material and then wanting it removed before the holiday I guess. I really didn't want to leave the house Wednesday...

Did a little favor for one of my material brokers today. Not for free mind you. :D A customer had ordered 10 yards of clean fill dirt but only need 6 or so. The load had been sitting on their lawn for a couple of weeks, getting soaked everyday (including this morning) by the sprinklers. Met and...

Taken at 50mph on the way to the job. He was standing next to the road waiting to cross and didn't turn-tail and jump the fence until I got within 100 ft or so. I was on the binders hard with camera in hand hoping to save my radiator...or at least get a good photo of the wreck. :D I love old...

Finally got back to finish this job. The entrance and exit to the culvert looks weird in the photo, but its just the angle of the shots. And finally, laid some river stone in the swale that I cut earlier.

Busy day getting a few things finished up and returning equipment. Trenched and set the culvert and graded the catch basin area. Then took back the KX71 and dump trailer. Got the french drain set, rocked and backfilled, then set the water supply boxes and placed river stone over geotextile in...

Here are a few photos from today. I had help today so I started on the french drain. Apparently the pool contractor connected the fill valve directly into the main water supply without a backflow prevent valve. The homeowner knew better and had him change it but the pool company got the last...

The ground is more sandstone than dirt and a pain to grade. I wasn't too happy with the looks of the slope either. I decided to dig out next to the slope and sift through the junk, hoping that I would create enough decent dirt to dress up the slope and compact the area where I would be cutting...

Started working on the upper driveway and parking area today. Here's where the road will be located. I pulled out an old slab that wrapped around a propane tank and hauled it off to the crusher. Removed the fence and started up the hill. Benching in the parking pad.

Thanks guys. Started phase two of the RV access job and did some additional work on the bottom section today. Stockpiled road base for the upper road, gravel for a french drain and rip rap for more culverts. Started grading out another drainage swale. Removed a couple of feet of rip rap...

Finished up a little driveway in Denton today. Here's the start of the job and using the Rachet Rake to remove sod. Verizon's line buried 2" deep and 6' from their mark. Denton now requires some type of border, so I decided to use "usually easy to install" metal edging. Sometime in the...

No ditches are needed to collect surface water if the collection area is placed correctly. In the photo below the collection area had to be large since its channeling water off a slope and concrete driveway on a hill. I'm actually going back to this job next week to enlarge the collection area...

Here's a few pics from a landscape grading and base installation job, performed off and on over a few weeks, from early this year. A lot of trash removal,select fill lifts, compaction and contouring. Now that I've had a bit more time working my landplane, I sure wish I'd had it for this job!

Removed a bunch of grass then graded and spread 40 yds of road base in a landscape storage yard today. Limbs and trash everywhere when I got there this morning. Glad that I brought the Ratchet Rake! Had to jockey around and move a couple trailers that didn't fit under the shed, then grade...

Thanks Randall! And yes, using a roller makes a world of difference when it comes to the gravel driveway longevity. Here's another storage parking area I did yesterday. The tenant runs a fleet of mobile sign trucks. I had to move piles of banners as I worked and some framework too. Glad the...

Finished up the storage place today. And closed out the week by spreading a very thin layer of road base over an impound yard.

Back at the storage facility today. This job is very frustrating for me since I like all of my work to look...well...perfect. At least as perfect as I can make it. There is no straight edge to work with on the asphalt. It's been patched and broken off so many times its a mess. Some areas have...

DJB- Yes, using a vibratory roller will make it last a lot longer. The storage folks decided that they didn't want the material they chose for the topping in front of their new building (the last one burned to the ground). So I loaded it up and sent it back. The 3/4" road base they decided on...

Started a project at a storage facility today. I had a friend call early this morning letting me know that he was out of work, so I had a helper! :thumbsup: I found out two things today that I don't like about the Kubota CTL. The most annoying is that when the bucket is flat, it will not go...

I got about half of the limestone slabs and boulders separated this morning, then headed out to look at a couple jobs. Hoping for rain to come in!

Finished up the rock clearing project today. Separated and hauled off roughly 160 tons of rock, two loads of concrete and a few loads of rock/soil mix. I blew a hose on the 4in1. Nice mess.

Its like a miracle...I can post pics now! Here's a 2 acre build site before I brushogged it a couple of months ago. I'm back there now hauling rock out and I'll be back the first of the year to grade it. The builder used the lot for a dump site for all of the other lots. The buyer was a bit...

When trying to upload photos this evening from my computer I get a red circle with an exclamation point on the right side and no files will load. Anyone know whats up with this?

Robert, mine wasn't noisy after it broke. With the tractor shut off and when spinning the tires you can hear it though. It looks like the driver side housing unbolts from the center section to access the differential, bearings and thrust washers. R&P's are sold as a set so obviously the pinion...

I'm hearing a light clunking sound when going from forward to reverse in 4wd. Sometimes the clunk stays around if I back up quite a bit. Messing around with it this morning it did do a pretty loud bang one time then went away. If I take it out of 4wd the clunk goes away. A near as I can tell the...

Thanks kf4uda. I've actually only used the BB to scarify the last two jobs. I used the loader only to lay the road base. Working in the office today, but thought I'd share some grading photos and random stuff. The homeowner got this "dirt" (and I use the term loosely) from a pool dig down the...

Re-graded and topped a 450 ft driveway today. The driveway had veins of limestone here and there and I pulled out quite a few basketball and larger rocks to get it to grade and repair the potholes. Then I mixed and placed 73 tons of road base over the whole thing. Unfortunately the driveway...

Yeah, you're out in God's Country as far as material goes Jim! The 4-6" I used here comes out of Sanger, so pricing is pretty good. Finished up today.

Didn't get out to the job until this afternoon, but managed to get the additional culvert picked up and set. Graded for the upper catch basin, keyed in for the geotextile and rip rap and then placed the rip rap. Hmmm, forgot to get pics of the grading. The downstream end of the pipe.

Hey Steve. The asphalt float has sides that resemble an LP but have one adjustable shaving and cutting blade and a "thick steel "smoocher" at the back to smooth out material. The angle of the smoocher acts like a heavy blade when you drive in reverse. An LP with the blades mounted level or above...

Well, it can mean a lot of things. In this case the RV access has a "J" turn at the top and water travels straight down the hill towards it. I'm putting in a rip rap collection area there to channel flow under the new gravel area. At the bottom of the hill at the gate water flows down the...

Started an RV access today. Its on a slope with some drainage issues. Hmmm, A culvert pipe no one knew existed. I'll be installing a new larger and longer one here anyway. Picked up a couple new tinhorns for the project this afternoon.

Long story short. I ripped out the trailer wiring on a stump with my F350. This happened to be the same day that I was rewiring my gooseneck trailer. I hooked up the wiring back on the truck to the 6-way plug the way I thought it was supposed to go and then rewired the trailer and new 6-way...

By "green" I'm assuming you mean grass, etc. Round-up, if it's an existing driveway. :D Of course, when installing a new driveway using non-woven geotextile works the best. Another thing that works is to excavate for the driveway so that the finish elevation is level is just above the...

Finished out the week with another driveway re-grade, four cross-driveway drainage pipes and six truck and pup loads of gravel. I'll be back at this property later in the year to do some clearing and mulching.

Maybe they've been taking tips from a well known supplier's ratchet strap ad...

Got your red socks right here...

I do quite a bit of work in Pilot Point, mostly for new homes. Ya...it's all pretty flat. :D Here's a few from a 40 yard driveway today. The home was built in the late 1800's. The driveway looked like it was just a little newer.

The other day I saw a skid steer clearing off a lot for a new home in a subdivision up the street from my place. Since the soil here is pretty poor clay I figured they'd be excavating, importing select fill and compacting before digging the foundation. I guess I was wrong. Coming back from...

Here's a few photos of a job from the beginning of this week. I finally figured out how to get the photos in the correct order...now I just have to get the week in order...eh? :confused2: :laughing:

Sometimes you have to roll late to git er done. Sure glad this guy had lights!

Screenings spread over the top of a re-graded driveway.

Finished off the job today. A nice rain shower came through along with a nice breeze. I got soaked to my socks, but it did cool it down nicely. :thumbsup:

Here's a few photos from my job today. Treated corral board borders, a few 4" cross-drains, geotextile fabric and 5" of compacted base. Tomorrow the driveway will get a 1" topping of Red River peagravel.

I was really wishing for a cab after this run with Landpride's version of the harley rake. Just a bit dusty.

:D Here's some before and after photos of a road base driveway / parking area from a couple of weeks ago. I'll figure out how to get the photos in order yet! :confused2:

A concrete pour and xeriscape project we did last summer.

Here's a few from our Cowboy's Stadium tour and picking up the 9N project tractor.

Thought I'd start sharing photos from some of my jobs and some personal stuff.

One thing that will help as far as surface water is concerned is to crown the fill over the pipe (from side to side) so that water from the road is forced to go to the sides of your driveway instead of run straight down it. In this photo you can make out the slight crown in the driveway (over...

Mine is 68" like Jim's. It looks like the centers are reversed on the rear of your tractor and also like the fronts may have been reversed? I think that you'll find that all rear valve stems will be located on the inside for protection. Here are mine. Rear Front

Photo of my TC35D. The BB is a 6 footer. To post a pic click the icon third from the right after going to the "go advanced" mode. From there you can choose to post a photo from your computer or a URL.

Not all, but most of the threads in the NH section of TBN are posted in regards to problems with our tractors and how to go about getting them fixed and back to work. We're not alone, it's the same for all of the other brand-specific sections too. So I thought...why not share all of the good...

This is a little more extreme than your situation, but here are two methods I use to accomplish the same thing. The first photos are a buildup of soil to create a flat top (for a sidewalk from the door to the driveway) and sloped sides. The soil was placed in 6" lifts with the fel and compacted...

If you could provide photos of the surface and maybe a closeup of the gravel with a coin in the photo for size reference, it would help. Well, you can't stop it, but the best way to postpone washboarding is to scarify the section down a couple of inches, make a few box blade or land plane...

Mixed and spread 572 tons of road base over geotextile today for a parking lot. Three guys on the ground and me on the tractor. We're about halfway to completion as of this evening. Here's a photo of our noon load, putting us at 260 tons.

Hello folks. I'd like to have ya'll help me with a future build. Not sure whether this should be posted in the BUYING/PRICING/COMPARING, BUILD-IT YOURSELF, HYDRAULICS or what, so I put it here. A little background. Long before skid steers were the norm I grew up operating skip loaders, or...

This happened a few months ago but I've been too busy to mess with it. Now I'd like to get it running again. The Briggs & Stratton Vanguard 14 hp on my concrete saw has always fired right up, even after sitting for months, but that's not the case now. The saw was purchased new in 1995 and was...

Three times in the last week my tach has been dead on start-up, then starts working and stays that way all day. Yesterday the temp gauge quit working about two hours into a job, then started working a couple hours later. Any ideas?

Not the right forum, but here are a few pics of a retired moneymaker parked on the other side of the house.

Worked across the street from a pretty interesting collection yesterday. The property owner is an excavation and contract mowing contractor, third generation. All of the equipment and trucks are still there. I didn't have much time to look around, but shot a couple photos of his "yard art."

Finding any consistent help has been a problem for me ever since I moved here to Texas. I had a list of twenty or more guys that I could call to work at the drop of a hat, but I don't have those contacts here. I won't pick up illegals off the corner and even though I don't need someone every day...

This morning I went out to unload from the trailer. One clunk out of the starter then nothing. No dash lights, no solenoid clicking, no relays buzzing...nothing. I just replaced the battery so I thought maybe the alt wasn't functioning. Hooked up to the Super Duty but still nothing. I had a...

The canopy I have right now is metal and pretty heavy. I seem to get one or two jobs a week involving grading under a carport. Last summer I got three of those jobs in one week and ended up not bothering with the canopy at all. I'm looking at getting a canopy that's light and easy to handle...

A large percentage of my work involves gravel driveways, landscape grading and resolving drainage issues. We do a few concrete jobs as well. With such a mild winter, work began to pickup in December and I've just gotten busier with each week since. There's over a month's worth of jobs on the...

So I've had this bounce and bleed-down thing going for several months. It seems to be getting a little worse now. The bounce is present anytime the 3-point is positioned from just off the ground to full height. I swear I can feel it in the loader when doing small adjustments like sliding the...

Today, on the second day of a 1,200 cubic yard landscape grading job I noticed a small leak around the final drive housing. I checked the tightness of all the bolts but within an hour it was a total mess. I couldn't really tell where the leak was coming from with all of the select fill dirt...

Apparently quite a few. We all make mistakes and some of us (me) need to learn by making those mistakes. Maybe we can learn a few things NOT to do from this poor guys experience. This morning I was sitting in front of the picture window enjoying a hot cup-o-joe. A truck towing a new trailer...

I saw this ROW tractor the other day and though I'd share it with you Massey folks.

I keep a briefcase in my truck that contains manuals for my TC35D, 16LA loader, Bush Hog shredder, and sales literature for my business. Yesterday while at Speed Zone in Dallas for a birthday someone jimmied open the rear sliding window and took the briefcase, probably thinking that it was a...

Happy New Year to everyone and Happy Birthday to Roy! I have only one resolution this year and that's to get more work. Let's hope the economy turns around for the better this year.

Over the years my Bush Hog SQ720 has really taken a beating. I mow quite a few rough properties that no one else will mow and have even done some tree clearing with it. It will flat out mow down trees up to 3" with the heavy duty blades. With all of this abuse the welds on the tailwheel frame...

So what do you do when your loader joystick breaks off on the job? Improvise of course! :D

I developed a fuel leak at the pump on my job on Saturday. It looks to be coming from the hold-downs with pentagon-headed bolts. I have a tractor job on Monday, so I checked that everything is tight, and everything is. Couldn't really check the pentagon bolts since I didn't want to booger them...

So I'm looking through the farm & ranch for-sale section of craigslist this morning about 6 am, with plans to pick up a new grading scraper for my business and the first listing says "Ford 9N tractor and 5 implements, needs to go today! - $1,500 (Wills Point Texas). HOLD THE BUS!!! Three hours...

New member here from Sanger, Texas. I have a New Holland TC35D that gets used on a daily basis for gravel driveways, light grading and general construction use.