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Price a little below market so a bidding war ensues...;)

If the fed stops the MBS bond buying, the housing market collapses. They will never be able to stop it fully. Meanwhile, the bubble gets bigger and bigger. But like I like to say...the best medicine for high prices, is high prices. How did we ever get to a point where a huge segment of our...

Don't be going all professor on me. What ever happened to him?> We could debate economics for days. I love it as he lived in the theoretical teaching world of economics and I live in the real life economics world. Two very different worlds that should have a lot of common ground, but as our...

Here is the thing about the last bout with inflation, it actually caused the greatest accumulation of generational wealth in the history of the US. When inflation was really bad in the 70's, the Fed at the time under Volcker raised interest rates very high to combat it. In Economics, there is...

This will kill a retiree's retirement planning pretty quick if interest rates do not follow along...

cool story...

Anyone that bashes the 6.0 that has never done a coolant change on it is just ignorant to diesels, and espically the 6.0... You change the coolant in the 6.0...you will save a lot on headache medication...

It's a gate of sorts, that keeps in large animals (Horses, cows etc). THe upper part stays fixed while the bottom can be removed to allow smaller animals to travel freely. Ranchers here are required to have these to allow migrating animals to travel unimpeded in migration corridors. Deer and...

Ravens. They love the trees around my back deck and everyday carpet bomb it with crap. One day...they're going to meet mr. double barrel...

I have a house in Steamboat for my winter time expensive hobby. I have been to that rodeo several times, but when your hometown rodeo is Cheyenne Frontier days, it's hard to watch anything but the best. Steamboat has changed so much from when I started going up with my buddies in the mid...

Well all is not lost, so that is good. When does the cabin building start? Start a thread about it.

You're getting closer...Working in the middle of the forest I bet is fun. Is this consuming all your time or are you still cutting down some wood?

Power is not free... I think the 500i is a fantastic saw. I feel it's stronger than the 462. I guess it depends on the wood you're cutting...

I beg to differ... Cam phasers on a 5.4 are not if, but when they go part. I have seen 6.0 with fluid maintenance (change the damn coolant) go hundreds of thousands of hard miles with little down time.

The link without having to go through the process of searching... https://www.ebay.com/itm/324740719320?hash=item4b9c0e22d8:g:6G4AAOSwNeVhCzG7 I grew up in one of these things going sking every weekend. Great truck. Fuel hog, but great truck.

Here is mine. She makes me take her hunting...she's better at it than me.

That is how we were last summer. There were three major fires, >400,000K acres, that burned last summer in northern colorado and Southern Wyoming. It takes nothing for a fire to start in that dry of weather. This summer, a complete 180 from last year. The sub moisture still needs a few...

You didn't need to have three different threads. You could do three posts in one thread. It' a tool...they will get beat up. They are not made to have perfect appearances. Noone is going to be driving any tractor across the concourse at pebble beach in 40 years.

I put a dent in the hood the first day...I rubbed some dirt on it and told the tractor to toughen up, it will be ok.

It's too bad you have to go bigger, the 1705, 1710, 1715, and 1720 have turned out to be very reliable and well built tractors. Dare I even say, a lot better than the new models made in India. The Japan made tractors are bomb proof. If you need to upgrade, make sure it's a noticeable step up...

you must of thought that applied to everything under the sun?

The 2021 economy...

We don't import wood from china. :cautious:

15.5k

Now the aftermath...

Very interesting about the tillamook fire. I just read up on it. We experienced that same phenomenon last year where we had a forest fire going and then over 3 days a strong dry wind wiped the fire up so hot and so fast, it was all anyone could do just to get out of it's path. It ran miles in...

serta hybrid I comfort with the added super cool package. Has traditional box spring and foam top. Fantastic...

Yeah...Larry.

They have a little weight to them, as the leather is thick. But that makes them durable. They are like the Toyota landcruiser of boots, you will be hard press to wear them out. The Zamberlan boots are good. I have no experience with them, but I knew a hunting guide that wore them and he love...

I prefer a good Italian made hiking boot for the good ankle support and high arch. I went to NOLS after highschool for a 4 week backpack trip. It was mandatory to either get Scarpa's or LaSportiva boots and spend a couple of months breaking them in. I went with the Scarpa's and they were...

The renting angle was a little vague, but you clarified it up.

The only compliating factor is she is building on someone else's land. No bank wants that risk.

But if she "owns" land on which to build, she could then borrow against her land to secure funding. what am I missing?

Why can't the daughter just secure the loan on her own? Just give her the land on which to build. Seems so simple in my eyes.

You don't find it odd to talk about ford microchips issues in a Cummins water pump thread. OK.

Weird and random with no real point that is backed by fact. Good job.

There is a mathematical relationship that states...as the number of cellphones increase, the number of bigfoot photograph sightings have decreased. weird.

5.4% inflation from June 2021. A country just dosen't put that genie back in the bottle in a way that does not cause ripple effects. The cheap money is like a drug and the dealer has not idea how to wean the addict off their product. Sometimes this bitcoin concept of not tying value to...

Last summer we went months without rain and in September our forest fires burned hundred of thousand of acres. The air was so filled with smoke that street lamps came on in the middle of the day. The view was orange for days... it was weird. This summer has been wet and at the cabin, it has...

Is there an echo in here? I would get a pressure gage and plug it into one of your hydraulic lines to see what the pressure is at and if it's staying consistent while using the hydraulics. Start there and see what you get.

5030 is that you?

Not to brag, but our high on Saturday in town in 68. That means it will be low fifties at the cabin during the day, low forties at night. Might have to make a fire. Brrr...

Yep, two different things. At the office we just upgraded to Windows 10, build 20H2. Which basically fixes all the glitches in Windows 10. Now they're going to Windows 11, to then discover all the new glitches. I wish they would stop improving things.

If the weight is so good on a 2wd, what does weight do on a 4wd truck?

He was?

Same here. There is a bunk of 2x4 people have picked through at 1$10/piece, then you look up and see 3 more bunks of 2x4 waiting to be taken down. There is not a supply shortage.

How do you know this? Here, you would be dumb to drive a 2wd and not carry chains. Again...trading anecdotical examples is not proof of anything.

I live on a ranch and when it drifts, even 4wd trucks can't get through. The plows have to come through before people can travel again. I don't know what all of this proves, one way or another. One anecdotal example that is contradicted by another anecdotal example proves what?

Another advantage to 4wd trucks is the gearing you get with 4wd Low. I am always putting it in 4WD low to get up steep or go down steep hills here. There is no transfer case giving mechanical advantage on 2wd.

Thank god for city plow trucks to make getting around in 2wd easy.

I thought 2WD trucks stopped being a thing in the 80's. Every 2wd truck had a set of chains back then. Now with 4WD, people forgot how to use chains. That should tell you what you need to know.

It's topping out. It will probably make one more final run to the price top, and then fall. The lumber play is over, money has moved on... https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-11/lumber-prices-post-biggest-ever-weekly-drop-with-buyers-balking

Not surrounding terrain? Does surrounding terrain even matter beyond the ditches? So all your tale of being an AI expert is just from reading? Gotcha.

Well that sucks.

Ditches need to go down hill...but the road needs to drain latterly to get into the ditch. Which means the road needs to be higher than any ditch. Now your a civil engineer too. I thought you were a world renown AI guy. You're an expert in everything I see...

You selling it? If so I'm interested.

Shot, shot... Chaser So in other words, the road needs to the high point in the equation. Ditches always have a fall line down hill, but laterally, they still need to be lower than the road surface to drain water with the crown as the force of gravity.

Read your replay again, just this time really slowly. Report back.

Hydrogen fuel cells make more sense than Batteries. Toyota has invested a lot more into hydrogen tech than trying to invent a energy denser battery.

Your road is the low point of the surrounding land. Need to get the road higher than the surrounding land. Add in some ditches to keep the water off. Then crown it. It took considerable effort to build, but I have never seen a pot hole or standing water on my road. It's never muddy and is...

Plant shut down will add another $5/board. :ROFLMAO:

If you don't pay anything for an online service, you are the product. CL is dead. Good things online only have a limited time of being good. Then the scammers wreck it.

I know, was just playing around. The number layout on that scale is weird with having a space after the pounds. But yes, 6lbs sounds about right.

2.7 pounds is light for that big of a bar.

Any good ez out will have that out quick.

Start with buying a solar generator. These take all the guess work out of the equation. Hook up a couple of panels and your hooked up. There is no need to build your own system anymore. These things are great.

The best dog has been an Australian shepherd. Super smart, I mean smarter than a lot of humans I know. He goes with me everywhere on the Ranch checking things out. A frisbee is never far from him. The second best dog was my brothers dog that I took over when he passed away. It was a pit...

Duty cycle in a motor for the application is by far the most important factor. There is not enough cooling capacity in any of the trucks to maintain peak or even close to peak power for any length of time. Most newer trucks come with an engine power percentage PID. I very rarely see it go...

Interesting announcement considering Microsoft has a giant data center here. https://capcity.news/wyoming/2021/06/02/future-of-energy-is-here-wyoming-to-host-nations-first-natrium-nuclear-reactor/

All these write ups and policy positions about coal being done or will be. However nothing is replacing it in the grid at the same capacity. Down 33% from a peak sounds scarier than it seems. There is a disconnect somewhere.

I tend to believe this. Even though for my state all electric vehicles and tractors would be a boom as the power needed would require coal. There is no way enough solar and wind could be harnessed to power everyone charging batteries everyday. Tractor manufactures still need to hit price...

While you're at it, try to find an article of an Amazon data center in Wyoming. Nobody even knew what this giant building being built was for. No signs out front, no fanfare, nothing. It's like Amazon wants to keep it's dirty little secret of how it keeps it shopping site and all the other...

I doubt I will be able to show you from a link of this fact. You can be curious, I am that type too, but understand the realities here. There is a huge need for electricity to run a business that is a heavy power consumer. They are set up in a state that has the cheapest power in the...

Yeah, the bait you were offering was not that enticing. Might need to hit up the bait shop for some new lures.

I guess one needs to understand that carbon capture is new and therefore updates to a plant for those updates would require some refurbishing. I guess you want something in black and white, with a sentence that says, we refurbished on this date. I have nothing to show that is in black and...

Google's algorithm is very biased towards only promoting green energy search results. Try it for yourself.

Post 294.

I have beach front property too...

Anything pro coal and big tech is heavily scrubbed of internet things. I guess a person has to be on the ground to know what's happening. There is not enough wind capacity to power all these centers. Their trying, but it's far from being close. When you have Lowes, Amazon, Walmart, a...

Clearly Molly Taft is ill-informed...or biased. Take your pick.

It's a good thing the world does not revolve around links. All you had to do was one more step on your part to find out something a little more current, I even hinted at it for you. https://www.glenrockpetroleum.com/ Amazon will claim they carbon capture their coal emissions, which is good...

Now to Glenrock petroleum's credit, they are tying do to carbon capture...which when you have AWS money behind the scenes, you can do that.

https://www.argusmedia.com/en/news/1872332-pacificorp-may-have-buyer-for-its-dave-johnston-plant AWS is trying to keep quite about buying it, but's it's definitely AWS.

here you go... https://www.techrepublic.com/article/microsofts-750-million-data-center-investment-in-wyoming/

It's all connected by bits and bytes...even tractors.

Wyoming will market it's coal to any wanting customers. Amazon is a wanting customer. Microsoft is in the process of building their server farm and it's being ran by coal. We have the worlds largest super computer, and it too is ran off electricity powered by coal. See a trend here? Amazon...

I'm not sure I follow your logic here. Amazon is actually utilizing the cheapest and most reliable form of electricity to provide a product people want in a cheap and reliable fashion. How is that impacting your electricity rates?

Amazon just refurbished a coal plant to power their AWS server farm in Wyoming because coal is plentiful and cheap. You know, the company that is going to be all green in 10 years. Slight of hand is alive and well in the good ol' USA.

Who do you think will provide all the energy for the all the EV's? Slight of hand is alive and well in the good ol' USA.

I'm all for people voting with their wallets. Lets see if they can make it work. I hope their engineers visit the American West... Now would be a good time to invest in rebuilding gas/diesel motors. Their might be a huge future market for this service.

The batteries are still not there. There will not be a change over until batteries can hold bigger and longer charge times. No matter how much people want...the physics of election storing is not going to replace anything anytime soon. We need to harness the energy of splitting of...

When a company hires a contractor to preform work on their property, it usually asks to be covered as additional insured on the contractor's liability policy. Insurance companies know the drill. Just call up your home owners and ask about adding the kid as additional insured.

Plenty of trailers here to choose from. The lots are full. The dealerships that sell ford and GM are just about empty though, due to the microchip fiasco.

That is probably a good thing, TBH.

My state could care less about all this stuff... We have shops advertising this service. Hell, our governor was a rancher and pretty sure drives a deleted truck. :ROFLMAO:

The industry has moved on from programming and delete kits, those just attract the attention of the EPA. The new thing is to gut or block off the emissions and keep the computer thinking it's all there. These new engines make plenty of power stock now. The EGR is plugged off from the back...

I have a lot of McCulloch saws and thought I knew everything about Bob Mcculloch...needless to say I was shocked to see they also made tractors. I think that guy dabbled in everything. Sorry, no help on the parts as my parts hookups have only chainsaw stuff.

That is not inflation. I don't even know what "Value to support it" means in this context. Inflation comes in two different forms. 1. There is too much money competing for too few resources. 2. Currency devaluation. I think the current situation points more to 2 than 1, although 1 is...

I am an actuary. It is a good job until you have to deal with idoit consultants. Those MF are dumb.

Mods should delete...

I don't see the draw with these cheap off shore saws. It's a disposable saw, once it breaks, it's cheaper just to buy a new one.

The assumption all along is you want pre tax dollars to work for you and withdraw at a time when your tax bracket is not as high as your working years. The tricky part is, you have more tax write offs usually during your working years with the mortgage deduction. They get it one way or the...

This was an unheard of problem for the previous generation of GC tractor. The backhoe numbering has not changed as the CB65 name continues, but it's obvious the redesign was not better. Hopefully AGCO address this and maybe goes back to a proven design.

Mine still does, plus free health insurance for life if you have 20 years and retire at least at 55. People make more in retirement than they do working here. And we still have young kids willing to change jobs for another $4 per hour. I always tell them, your going to make four dollars...

Forrest mismanagement and urban sprawl are not examples climate change. I know wyoming's forest fires were due to the FS not being able to remove dead pine beetle trees. The sierra club sued the FS for wanting to cut down dead trees. It took 10 years to develop a plan for removal, but mother...

This is the sound of my youth on the ranch. Those cattle haulers all ran detroit's and could be heard miles away. Those cattle haulers are mean, they will run you off the road if you piss them off.

you can't direct load videos to forum software, it's not just this site. Forums are not site hosts for media, they don't have the server space to allow it.

The old ones sound different. I can tell if a the truck coming down the road is a cummins, powerstroke, detroit, etc. The newer diesels with common rail and pilot injection, all sound the same to me.

minimum wage should never be a career goal.

Wood is a renewable resource... If the climate is such a big deal for you, you should buy a lot 2x4's and store them for eternity so that you can save the planet buy doing carbon storage. If that wood is left to rot or burn, it's releasing carbon, which I now hear is bad. Or let's just let...

When you have to overly generalize to make a point...it's not really a point or a good one.

I don't know where this notion of more RPM = more power comes from, but the last time I looked at Facebook...it was being repeated as common knowledge on the Massey group. A perfect case of social media making people dumber instead of smarter.

No it's not. See the pyramids The great wall of china The great castles of europe Nothing is finite and everything is adaptable. A lot of tradesman are very grateful for "Selfish". Being concerned with how others spend money, is not a reflection on them, it's a reflection on you.

Sarcasm is a wonderful thing.

Inflation is not the only metric to consider when looking at how prices increase. Increasing the money supply will devalue the buying power of money and cause prices to rise because the money is not worth as much anymore. This is what is happening now, the Fed has increased the money supply by...

Guys that sleep with guns in rural america are some real bad asses. Have you shot your shadow yet?

Now you understand why transferring 40k to a stove is not really a bad idea. I would rather have a stove, that I may or may not use, than a pile of fiat money right now. People that just hold cash are really in for a surprise...

You would be amazed how many people can afford to pay cash for a house or second home. There is a lot of money out there...if you know where to look.

There is a principle in economics called velocity of money. Basically how many times can a dollar be spent in the economy before taxes,inflation, and savings reduce it to zero. Paying over inflated prices will reduce the money supply over time, someone will make enough money on the good to...

There is so much money floating around the economy these days. A person can only put so much into stocks. People want to change the funny money into something tangible, like a nice stove. It's not stupid, it's smart. Our money supply just grew by 20% in the last year. Think about...

I'm more of a fan on pull behind chippers, I don't like having so much inercia handing off the back of the tractor spinning. I just don't think a slip clutch would save the PTO if the blade jams up suddenly. I have a Echo bearcat 8" with hydraulic feed. I put entire trees in to about 6". It...

He does know his skid steers. Those takeuchi skid steers are probably the best ones on the market today. He knows skid steers. Hell, he knew the value of IHI before everyone else did. Most people look at the crazy japanese paint scheme and think it's a generic skid steer...LOL.

That is a pretty old video with real old stats.

The government has pumped 6 trillion dollars into the economy since 2020 started. They want 2.2 more as we speak. There is so much money out in circulation, these prices are not going to be coming down for a while. Money has lost 25% of it's value since 2020 started and prices on most thing has...

Not good. That one is a killer. It's good it hasn't spread, but damn... My thought and prayers.

Right.

Don't forget the ditches...

Potholes develop because water can not escape. The road surface should be higher than the surrounding dirt and it needs to be trenched to move the water away. On my ranch, my grandfather understood what it takes to make a good road. He raised the road bed up about 10 feet from the surrounding...

When I worked at the golf course at age 16, we would plug aerate every fall. Then we would have around 15 loads of sand dumped around the course. We would mix in a 50 pound bag of grass seed per load. We had a dump spreader that we would fill up and drive the fairways and tee boxes letting out...

I'm glad it made it 10,000 miles. Here's to another 10,000 miles...

Don't buy harbor freight cutting wheels...stick with diablo or dewalt.

The neutral just carries the current back to panel or transformer. If the neutral is cut, the current flows to the ground. Don't touch any grounds.

We put them on all bumper pull trailers. It's a no brainer. Sometimes it's hard to do on the 14k ones, and have had to weld the bracket onto the trailer frame because the frame is too big...but it's always worth it. The ability to steer is kinda a big thing. Plus, no platypusesing on dirt...

It could be a stuck open injector as well... If it allows, do a contribution test.

Welcome to the party...I am having the same issues. Somewhere in the code...there is a script error.

It's not outdated guidance by any means, it's just not the only thing that should be considered. I don't know where this notion that buying the dealer is the only thing to consider.

Tires I think is most appropriate here.

You also use disingenuous examples to make your case, as you have in this thread. It only takes one or two of these before you lose credibility in whatever you say or think. Modern technology is getting out a lot more with a lot less and being just as durable as the old hunks of cast iron...

My cabin is a 10/12 pitched roof. I did it myself. Tie off and use a ladder to walk up and down the pitch. It's not easy, but very doable.

I am having to log in again every time I visit the site, even though I have the check mark box to stay log in forever. I have cleaned out the cookies...I'm at a lost as to why it will not archive my request to stay log in. Any insight?

He casually made a factual statement about performance but attributed it to the wrong motor. Now I know this because I was the one telling him about it. I think the correct information should be disseminated otherwise, it's just more fake news to make a point. Which it was and clearly...

2017+ has the CGI block with the port and direct injection.

I have never really needed them before, I enjoy just breaking the last 200 yards into the cabin. However, we just had 35 inches of wet heavy snow and I could have used the pods. I chained up my 88 toyota and it was pretty unstoppable in the snow. I am now considering them for the rzr.

You should correct your post to be factual. It's the 3.5 ecoboost, not the 2.0 or 2.7 ecoboost. The 3.5 has more bearing surface, 6 bolt mains, CGI block, and piston squirters...which is mo betta than the cummins.

I have a polaris ranger and a Razr and they've been good to us. I like the plastic bed on the ranger and would not trade it for anything. The razr's plastic is holding up well. I put a soft topper on the ranger for the dogs, and we cruise around my cabin area hitting secret fishing spots and...

I would advise anyone without extensive knowledge of how injection timing, fuel shims, and injector pulse width works...to not adjust their fuel screw.

True, more RPM does not equal more power. Anyone who has looked at a torque curve could easily see the diminishing returns at the higher RPMS. More fuel = more power. Same as it's always been. There is a reason the diesel power guys do all they can to shove more fuel into the motor...

I have so many office hook up stories it would make your head spin. I work in a office with a lot of woman, a 10/1 ratio. Nothing shocks me anymore. Luckily Wyoming is what America use to be. I have never had to sit through any type of training for these matters.

As one girl in my office put it.... If your creepy and ugly, it's always sexual harassment. If your confident and good looking, it's flirting. It's a trap.

The service manual is vage, probably on purpose, for the injection pump. It's not something homeowner joe should really be messing with. Very few people understand injection pumps, to the point they should be changing fuel shims and governor screw settings. The 25hp versions at the end of...

Fuel shims do not adjust fuel pressure... Fuel shims adjust injector to cam timing. Which does affect power settings.

Of course there are fuel shims...go look it up in the parts book like I did and you will see different fuel shims. I have no idea where your getting your info... In fact the 1715/1720 use a different injection pump as noted by the different part numbers

Well, yes, all those are the same...however, the fuel shims are different and those give more flow through one pump vs the other.

From the past... https://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/threads/found-actual-engine-torque-hp-sfc-gc1710-vs-gc1720-also-actual-hydraulic-flow-to-the.384983/

There is some bad advice being given...but you know what they say about unsolicited advice...

I'm an actuary for BCBS and do oversee the provider reimbursement methodologies for providers. It's a lot more involved than this, and there is a huge difference in reimbursement methodologies between hospitals (institutional) and doctors offices (professionals). We work off of charge...

Yes there is more to it than just RPMS's. There is different governor settings. Different PTO gearing. The injection pump is set a bit different to allow more fuel. About 5 years ago there was a good detail done on the differences, there are more than I listed, but I think I hit the...

What is the major expense people are worried about that keeps them from retiring? I hear it's healthcare costs, but do not know for sure.

Has anyone ever told you, you complain a lot? I bet you're great to talk to. The plastic on my Ranger can get hit with stuff and not dent, break, or look like crap. I wish truck companies would switch to metal reinforced plastic body panels.

thanks

I don't seem to have the preferences setting in my profile. I have logged out and in. Is this just me?

It was obvious all along.

I like it. Everything works fine for me. Everyone will get use to it in time. Change is good.

And too get some pictures in. A powerstroke, an ecoboost, a tractor, and the best of all...1988 Toyota truck. They don't make them like that anymore.

The number of views and subscribers says he's doing something right...despite the critics.

I've always had this sheet with the filter info on it.

$80 is theft. My dealer charges $40.00 for this filter. Jacks is $33.00. Order online then you don't even have to move a muscle.

Lumber peaked in August. It has fallen around 45% in commodity pricing since then. Prices will be falling here shortly.

For sheet goods...I like coated staples. Try and take apart a sheet of plywood or OSB with staples in it...you will destroy the sheet before the staples come out. I have and use a air gun for some framing, but I like hand nailing things. A 16 penny sinker should take 2 hits to drive home...

Guess the round... Should be fixed

Do post up pictures of the after. I was about to order a PTB, but I have a lot of rocks. I ended up using real bucket teeth that I made for the tractor. They do make a world of difference.

I have a echo bearcat chipper that is towable. I put about 30 hours on it chipping all the dead pine beetle up at my cabin and I have no more use for it. I am trying to sell it and I almost can't give it away. I paid north of 15,000 new and even at 8500, people think that is high. It's...

I have a FLIR camara mounted to top of my hunting truck that displays on the Nav screen. We have so many coyotes that I just drive the ranch at night with all the lights off and shoot coyotes. I usually do it in the spring as my way of helping out with the calving.

Put this one the 1710 a few weeks ago, need it to dry out a bit before I try it out. 150 in parts...

Made my own. $120 in parts. Super heavy duty, works amazing.

I have some property in the middle of the Medicine Bow National Forest. This land was close to a logging camp that harvested huge old trees for the railroad to be used as Railroad ties and trestle beams out west. The land sits between two mountain peaks and it's a catch basin for water and it...

#3 as in all at once or just your 3rd in general. If 3 at once, boy is that a busy house. I am new to the Aussies and have an 11 month old mini myself, they are they a fun bread. Here I am talking my dogs down to the lower meadow to chase some tail...Cotton tail. They only stirred up one...

Well here you go...the kid made this of our Mini Aussie.

I put it on my cabin for a couple of reasons...fire and bugs. It has held up really well. Keep in mind this cabin can see snow loads up to 15 feet high. I would not see any reason to not use it, just understand how to instal it and it should see lots of years of use...

We had to redo the bridge at our cabin. There are about 20 properties that are only accessible by way of this bridge. THe beams are from a railroad car that crashed in the 1950's and repurposed. The steel has lots of nickle in it and even though we get 20 feet of snow some years, rust in...

My little spaz...

Here is how an engineered sonotube foundation is made. The snotube is not in the ground, the base foundation box is. The sonotube is held up in the box (see fist pic) with rebar and then a monolithic pour is made. Now we put the entire cabin foundation on top of an old glacial till area...

This is what we call poplar in Wyoming. They grow a little bit bigger in diameter than quaking aspens. Very similar leaves though. My cabin is at 10,000 feet, so the trunks grow in little bubbles due to the snow still being on the ground when the leaves sprout. Zoom in on the picture to see...

Here was my choice. It has the best lifting capacity and beefiest front axle of all the scuts... It has some amazing capabilitys. All those foundation piers were dug with the backhoe. I use it more often than my Cat sometimes.

This works, if the temperature extremes are not that great. I am in the same boat. I have temperature extreams to deal with and I want to be able to use it in the winter when I snowmobile in. The best for me in my situation is spray foam. I will have to bite the bullet and pay for the...

The weep hole has been a proven solution to the problem. The epa created a problem, that if you look at all the extra resources expended to address a problem, it would have been less of an impact to just let the old weep hole remain. It's good that some of these decision makers don't handle...

I finally had a little time to start getting some wood out. I have spent the last couple of years building the cabin to do much wood, but my stash was getting down to 1 year out at home. So I wanted to get a trailer load out. First weekend I hauled and stacked the wood by the road, then the...

That's right, a person still needs a front end loader to move buckets of dirt. I usually run the excavator and my dad runs the tractor.

Well, here you go. Trailer height - 25 inches From deck of trailer to top of rops - 64 inches. I built some brackets to keep rops off backhoe and keep it level. Rops is the tallest point.

The Massey has better lifting capacity and a more robust backhoe. I lifted a plate steel stove and it was over 1000 pounds, it did it fine. The king pin on the backhoe is high carbon steel, not cast pot metal. I have a cat excavator and I choose to dig these footers with the Massey.

Here are the oil filter on the left and hydraulic on the right. Both are spin on canister style filters.

Here's another angle and right before the snow started...

Two summers ago I started my cabin, it too was where no cement trucks could get to. We had an electric cement mixer and 250, 80lbs bags of concrete. We planned to spend 1 entire summer just on the pylons. We hauled 1 pallet of concrete at a time, 50 bags, and were able to get 1-2 pylons a...

So, I bought a New Massey 1710 a year ago this past weekend. However with building a cabin over the summer and fall, I have only put around 18 hours on the tractor. I will be, once again, taking it up to the cabin to continue my build and some tractor specific tasks. My problem I am having...

I know it's a lot of money for a purpose built machine, but I did what your doing and my mini ex got it done. The six way blade basically gave me a dozer to level ground. However I can't do without a tractor and sometimes you just need both. I moved an entire hillside to put my cabin back in...

I bought my cat excavator because of one reason. Cat has a huge repair facility about 20 minutes from me. Plus one of lead mechanics rents from me and was there with me when I bought it. He does the maintenance and runs it when he can. Here he is having fun.

Next year I'll update my hunting truck, once all the bugs are worked out.

I've been watching this guy for a few years now. He's been the dominant bull for the past couple of years. I know his pattern and when he leaves the river canyon and heads to the upper meadows to feed. I have one road through the canyon so I set up on a small clearing in the timber along it...

I have a gc1710, and its no slouch. I dug all these pylons with the backhoe which go down about 36 inches. Also built up a pad behind the old cabin to be able to slide it back. I even have a cat excavator and did this with the massy. It's easier to haul it up to my cabin than the heavy cat...