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I go back to doing it the old ways, just because you embrace some new technologies doesn't mean you forget how it was done before.

Yep, I call it painting lines, and while it has many more features, painting lines is mostly what I use mine for.

I re-decked my gooseneck last year with PT pine, I put 2 coats of used hydraulic fluid and diesel fuel mix and that will be to do every year to make it last, but you are one and done with yours.

That should be a lifetime floor.

I also use a Raven GPS system and it allows me to put out fertilizer or spray herbicides and pesticides and be +or- an inch or so, I think they are a very useful tool to minimize wasting expensive chemicals and fertilizers.

I imagine everytime their priorities change so does the price, it's nothing but good for your bottom line and bank account.

I'd keep both and wouldn't worry about what someone else wanted me to do, they are payed for and when you get out and use them it helps to keep you from rusting up and that is priceless.

That happens to me a lot of times, I get to working and before I know it I'm done , or I get about half way home and say dang I forgot to get pictures.

I bet that transit takes all the guess work out of grading.

Thanks, I appreciate it.

Okay, call Brown Manufacturing in the morning and get them to send you one if not to expensive, if not have them give you the number off of the bearing and then cross reference it locally at Napa or any good local tractor/implement dealer, more than likely it is a common size.

I don't dig ponds, but I have pumped some down and put in some spillways and over flow pipes nothing more but the one thing I do know is if asking questions do it in general not in specifics and do not give them the location specifics or you will have more people and more departments from more...

Your profile says your in Georgia, take it to any Agri-Supply and they will have the bearing in stock, they have more plow and disc parts than anywhere.

Always better to ask for forgiveness than permission. 😀

Erath. isn't that down towards the gulf? I worked down in there and a place called Kaplan in 2005 for about a month, mostly poor rural area, seems like yesterday but it's been 19 years ago. Looks like you have a few pieces of specialized equipment to help get the job done.

I have been there to that one in Lafayette Louisiana.

I like it, I think it's good for us to see the different things that we all do to either pass the time and keep from rusting up in retirement or our daily job putting food on the table and raising family's, I look forward to more of your post's in this thread. Charlie.

Absolutely, I have mowed it with the tractor and bush hog but I can't trim up to the trees close because of the above ground roots.

It really is a beautiful piece of property once it's cleaned up, I'm actually going to try some herbicide on a section of it and see if we can tame it a little and get some grass established.

Have you considered a tilt deck trailer? I had a 20' 14k equipment trailer and I was using it to haul my skid steer and it was really over loaded, so I started looking at tilt deck trailers and found Kaufman, you can buy a 22' tilt deck trailers from them for less than 7k, I upgraded to the 8k...

Today's work was a mowing job of a piece of property on the edge of a big Prarie that is full of huge old live oak trees, I cut this a couple of times every year for the owner, you really can't tell it but he uses it for a moto cross track and it is by far the roughest piece of property that I...

I honestly can't say for sure but I don't think it can hurt, I think the best thing to do is keep your tank as close to full as possible.

I always use Power Service Bio Kleen diesel fuel Biocide in my 500 gallon bulk tank and have never had any problems, I also double filter coming out of the tank, one water block and one particulate filter

Yeah, they have been struggling for quite some time now, I retired over 2 & 1/2 years ago and we always had a top notch training program but as fast as we could get them trained they would get a better job offer, several guys that I helped train came to me and asked what to do, I always told...

That's where I retired from, it used to be a well run , well respected utility but unfortunately a liberal city commission ran it in the ground. Small world, I hope your plans work out , retirement can be a good thing, I was just afraid if I didn't start something else I would either not have...

No I retired from a municipality that had a little over 100k customers, I went there from the contractors while I was still young. I've worked storms in SC for Santee Cooper a couple of different times, Conway and Myrtle Beach were a couple of places.

Yeah we were South of all the bad storms and Tornado's , Tallahassee got tore up pretty had, some of my old lineman buddy's from Lafayette Louisiana got there today to help restore power, I kinda miss the storm work , but so far not enough to give up my little skid steer/tractor work business.

I had him dump it just inside the driveway up by the highway and it worked out good , I should have remembered some final product pictures but I wanted to get out of there and head home since I got a late start due to getting rained out yesterday morning.

Today's work was for myself, drilled in some Tiff Quick bahia got it all in and everything cleaned up and ready for some upcoming pasture seeding jobs that I have coming up, I will put it back under the barn in the morning before church, got my fingers crossed for some rain next week.

A little Friday lime rock driveway job, I got side tracked and forgot to take some finished product pictures, but I spread a semi truck load (29 yards ) the driver couldn't get down this driveway, hope everyone had a good week. Charlie. .

Thank you, most people are well satisfied and they recommend me to their friends and some of them are regulars in one way or another, this particular customer has quite a bit of property and he uses me to forestry mow, clear, grapple work and seed pastures for him, so I have quite a few...

Not around where I live, we have good black row crop farm dirt, but where I did this job at on the far side of the county it absolutely is, there has probably been more fill dirt dug from over there than anywhere local, it's known as Archer fill and it's tough on pins, bearings etc.

You are the first person that I have ever heard say that, like anything else I'm sure there are others but mega ramps were a game changer on trailers to me, and tilt trailers are even a better fit for some applications.

Yes, those are before and after pictures ( roughly 10 hours from start to finish) and I am always amazed at how different a grown up property can look after a days work, this customer has a tractor with a bush hog and a grapple so he will be able to take care of it now, neither of the tree...

Today's work forestry mowing/underbrushing,even found a couple of tree stands in this mess.

Facts.

I use motor oil or used hydraulic fluid whatever I have an abundance of at the time but I try to cut it with an equal amount of diesel fuel. I try to apply it on a good hot day ( which where you and I are there is no shortage ) I use a paint roller on a stick with a roller screen in a 5 gallon...

Not really, I try to be very mindful of property lines and in this particular case the customer owns that piece of property as well, so no issues, but when I am forestry mowing I often have people come and want to know what I'm doing and the occasional do-gooder that says that i am destroying...

Been doing a lot of custom spraying jobs but this week I'm back to some skid steer work, cleaned out an old fence row and started cleaning a road way around the property where the timber has been cut , even popped out a few stumps where the road is going to be, some of this fence row was easy...

It would be a credit if it was.

Glad you had a good experience, I'm sure there are honest law firms, I just didn't have one in my case.

Me to, I have been victimized by a law firm myself, they always come out on top.

Why would you need duals? I have a 25+5 gooseneck flatbed with 2-10k axles with super singles and I have never needed duals. Just trying to understand where you are coming from.

A friend of mine was faced with the same thing a number of years ago and he went ahead and stubbed up his pipe for his toilet and cut a hole in an old garbage can and put over it and kept a little trash in it during inspection times and they never saw it and he has a toilet in his today. I was...

Congratulations on getting the LP boxblade, hopefully you didn't lose your money on the EA order.

Super nice, sounds like the only thing you are missing is a bathroom, that would make it liveable if you are ever in the dog house, LOL.

Nice looking grapple, hopefully it will work out for you.

Today's work was tearing up a couple of fields in preparation to plant them in some Tiff Quick bahaia in the upcoming weeks, nothing like good black dirt for farming, this whole area that I live in used to be nothing but row crop farms, those days are gone as it's now farms split into 5 acre...

It will work everytime.

No I mow that with one of my tractors, I try to keep the skidsteer off of those types of jobs and stick to forestry mowing with it, I can do a decent job mowing grass with it but it won't be near as uniform as with the tractor and you have to be gentle everytime you turn as the tracks are rough...

Kind of what I was thinking, he definitely had a following and obviously they made some good products , it's hard to imagine how it came to what it did and while I'm sure it was a culmination of things I guess the new building and issues with the contractor may have been the straw that broke the...

I'm a firm believer in getting kids started early, I'm just not sure some parents use good judgement in doing so, take for example bushhogging on an open station tractor with a kid in your arms, no matter how fast you are your reaction time is probably not fast enough if the kid falls, one child...

I bought the Raven GPS system last year and it's a game changer on fertilizing, spraying pesticides, herbicides and even putting out granular fertilize, no more walking fields off and marking with ribbons or flags or foam marker systems, best thing is it puts you within inches of your last pass...

Today's job was a little 10 acre parcel that I mow 2 or 3 times a year, owner has been trying to sell it for 2 years but I suspect that the restrictions from the HOA are what turns potential buyers away, I don't know why anyone would purchase property with an HOA in charge of what you can and...

I finished it up this morning early and drug everything back home and watched the noon news on the TV while I ate lunch, this Raven GPS that I put in my tractor has been a game changer for putting out fertilizer , spraying weed spray or pesticides as it let's you get it down to within inches of...

Yeah this fellow has a business working on golf carts, he does it from home, has a little shop out back and appears to stay pretty busy.

Today's work was a custom spray job on a pasture that I re-seedeed last year in bahaia, it's got a lot of goat weed and various other small weeds that left unchecked would soon be out of hand , I only sprayed about 25 acres this morning and shut his cows up on the other 25 acres. I plan on...

If you read my post you would see that I said to another member who liked his Land Pride grapple that the other post said that he had a friend who's Land Pride grapple self destructed, I simply said that I thought that LP implements were pretty good, never said I had an objection, that's just...

I can still see it .

I would think a rolling cultivator would be what you are talking about, that's what I use between rows of peas, corn, etc.They are fully adjustable depending on the width of the rows.

According to Post# 109 they self destruct, I have always found Land Pride to be fairly well made implements.

Well the cambium layer is already healed over, so just cut a thin sliver off the top and apply the roundup around the outer layer of the stump and she will be through, add your fill dirt and don't look back.

I have always greased each side of the square part on the ball that slides down into the bed and have never had an issue with mine being stuck, I have used never seize, oxide inhibitor and plain old grease and all have kept the ball from becoming seized.

Are the stumps still green or have they been cut long ago and dead? If still green I would take a chainsaw and cut a thin layer off the top and immeadiately take straight glyophosphate/roundup and put it all the way around the cambium layer/bark which will ensure that the stump won't sprout...

The spray mix will do just as good as if you mixed it yesterday most likely, and on the farm we spray everything out of the same 500 gallon sprayer and have for years without any issues of any kind, If you have any doubts try a test area. Good luck.

Nice trailer, I'm sure it will serve you well.

I wouldn't have a trailer without mega ramps after having them unless it was a tilt deck.

That or fill the gearbox with grease, it will run forever.

You are not going to be happy with a 6 x 12 trailer, you need a little room on a trailer to adjust the load forward or backward to get the right amount of tongue weight, personally I would think a 16' trailer with 2 axles would be a much better fit.

Prayers for you and your family during this difficult time.

Yes, substantial green-up , but I will have to wait to pass judgement until I bale, that will tell the tale.

Well it's been 10 days and I can actually say that the product has definitely greened up the field, but the big question will be answered when I cut to see if it has helped any with production/tonnage, right now the grass is growing slowly due to 40 thru 50 degree nights but that should change...

Soak it good tonight with WD - 40 or PB Blaster or any other penetrating lubricant and you will be able to get it out tomorrow.

A little work this week cleaning up some more fence lines and piling and burning, I had to stay after dark one night till my fire burnt down a little.

Mine was a new truck, he told me they wouldn't do it on used except GM Certified vehicles and I think they had to be no more than 2 years old, but that was back in 2015, things might have changed.

The whole part about living within or below your means is always good advice, seems like a lot of people from that earlier generation learned to live that way, probably because they lived through some really hard times and had to do without.

I'm a big fan of super singles 17.5 tires both my 30' gooseneck flatbed and my 22' tilt deck trailers have them.

Same thing happened to me back in 2015 when I bought a Chevrolet 2500 HD, we negotiated the best out the door price and at the end I told him I would just buy it outright, at that point he told me that I could get $ 1000k more off the price if I would finance some of it with GMAC at like 1.9% ...

Post of the day. :D

Amazing, you mean you didn't have to replace the alternator?:rolleyes:

Two outfits in the State of Florida that has teeth and that's the railroad and the DOT, just in that order.

CSX seems to be the big one down here, they have a big rail yard in Baldwin just East of Jacksonville in North Florida.

That's why I missed it, I haven't seen or read the other thread. :D

Shameful and sad, there are still quite a few active RR tracks down this way, for the longest you would see hundreds of RR cars full of coal from up North, but the do-gooders have just about got coal eliminated for fuel to generate electricity.

To the OP have you pulled the 20 amp ignition fuse and ohmed it out to verify continuity, because they are notorius for blowing while driving along and a sensor goes out and leaving you stranded in the field the sensor on mine was a temperature sensor located up on the thermostat housing, that...

I guess I missed the part about it being an aftermarket hydraulic third link when I responded.

I took it that he had pine trees that had been on the ground for years from a pine beetle invasion and I would have figured that those logs would be past the time frame for sawing boards, but I could have misunderstood.

I wondered the same thing as any factory third link that I have ever hooked up to an implement was sufficient when screwed out, but with that being said the OP knows what he has so I am like some of the other poster's and would try to weld me one up and if not any decent welding shop should be...

I mostly find old fence wire, flint rocks, concrete blocks,bricks and general junk, but I guarantee the guys who do powerline ROW mowing and mulching get a lot of surprises. If there is any of that rail road track that is still straight it would make a fine drag behind a disc, not as good as a...

Also his review says a month ago and EA's response says 3 years ago.??

Seems like the places around here that charge the 3% fee for using a credit card have a sign posted right on the card machine saying so, I still write checks at the feed mill , tax collector and once a year when I pay my hunting club dues, I pay cash when I buy small stuff and when I go out to...

We all have a friend that could tear up a steel anvil with a feather, maybe even an EA grapple. :rolleyes: I for sure wouldn't want any brand that just self destructed, it's a wonder that they are still in business.

I have always found that most small engine shops have a graveyard full of spare parts from models that were deemed not worth fixing, the last time I needed a metal gas tank for a generator that is where I found mine when a new one couldn't be found.

Man, if they would have said anything bad about EA they would have been bashed into the dirt, EA had to fold to make this discussion possible.

Is that what you own?

This is a small forum in a big world.

You may laugh when I tell you this but back before I retired I have actually jumped off big hi-line bucket trucks with large diesel engines with a fully charged Milwaukee 18 volt battery and a piece of 12/2 romex wire when we were out in the middle of nowhere with minimal access , sometimes just...

Looks like a great way to channel water where you don't want to dig a ditch.

I have the Milwaukee pole saw and absolutely love it and I have used mine far more than normal homeowner use over the last 3 years that I have owned it, I don't ever plan on going back to a gas powered pole saw, but with that being said I think there is a fine line where gas powered just simply...

You reckon someone would provide the product and come spread it for $16 per acre because that's what it cost me per acre, but I put it out myself.

After scalping a spot a time or two with a rotary cutter you'll usually have it leveled off enough to not scalp it the next time you mow:). Seriously though I have never had a problem with a 3 point mower as long as I left some slack in the third link to allow for contour changes.

I have no reason to doubt that they probably made a nice grapple but the best one in the world is no good to anyone that's looking to buy a new one if they are out of business. I take it that you own one, did your superior EA grapple replace another brand that failed?

10-4 will do.

I thought I would update the thread, I applied the liquid lime and liquid potash this morning, hopefully in the upcoming weeks and months I will be able to give you some facts on the results. Charlie.

I spent a lot of time and some of my best days in a Faraday cage. 😄

Big difference in 700 CCA and 900 CCA , I had a tractor battery that started that and I could slow charge it overnight and get a few days out of it but then right back to failing to start the tractor, it was out of warranty so I replaced it and not another problem for the last 2 years and there...

Yeah, generally when a dog gets bit by a cottonmouth it will swell them up and make them pretty sick, but Benadryl seems to lessen the affects of the poison, also usually the hair won't grow back at the location of the bite. I only saw one dog get bit by a rattlesnake in my life and it was when...

I honestly can't remember the last time I saw a diamondback in this part of Florida, but canebrakes or timber rattlers are plentiful, I really didn't know there was a difference between the two, I just thought it was probably a regional thing for what they are called, but I am much more skittish...

Yep they are out sunning, most folks around here don't like them in their fish ponds but they don't compare to the damage that an otter can do to the fish population in a pond.

Seeing as how they are EZ Lube Did you pack the bearings by hand first? If not I would put some more grease in to make sure I had enough, you should see it pushing back out towards the opening when the grease has thoroughly covered the inner bearing. I have heard of people overfilling and...

That's not real uncommon, I had the same situation when I re-did trailer brakes and bearings on my old 14k equipment trailer. Are they Dexter EZ Lube with grease fittings under the dust caps?

Just about every water hole around here has a gator in it, but I didn't see one in this hole today, but we are still having some nights in the 40's , as spring comes on full force in the next few weeks them gators and snakes will come out crawling.

Today's work cleaning up a big old rotted water oak from a field edge and mowing down a bunch of tall weeds and bushes around a pond edge for folks to be able to fish, I forgot to get any before pictures except 1 when I was almost through but you can see the after pictures. Hope everyone has a...

It's actually owned by a timber company and we just lease it from them, they own close to 400,000 acres in three county's and there are several other hunting clubs that lease the rest of it. The land was owned by the Foley family prior to being sold about 7 or 8 years ago and was reportedly the...

The picture of the size trees that you show would be a piece of cake for a skid steer and forestry mower (bush hog) and if it has carbide mulching teeth on the bottom of the blade carrier it would mulch it up fine enough that within a couple of years you wouldn't see any of it, I cut much larger...

If he would have just let it go a day or two you would have seen the EA fans that you haven't seen since the beginning of this thread shouting that they knew it was all rumors and speculation, you don't need a coconut to fall on your head to know that you are standing under a coconut tree.:rolleyes:

My farm is about 112 acres, I use for cows and hay, my hunting camp over on the Gulf coast is 3.5 acres of mostly pine and Live oaks, it's right across the road from the hunting club that I am in it's 96,000 acres.

I think you will like the roll-up overhead door like is on the Kubota and Takeuchi, that was a must for me, you can roll the door up and exit the cab with the arms lifted in any position, to me that is priceless.

I didn't bite. 😄

That sucks and the worst part is they already have a good head start on him, maybe someone can check around and ask all the locals just maybe someone saw something or heard something however unlikely. A thief has the advantage over a working man because he has to get some sleep after working all...

I have a 2011 John Deere 5093E that the A/C still blows cold as ice and all I have done is keep the filters clean/changed. Knock on wood.

Glad to see you finally did it, there was zero chance waiting around on them to call you " one of their most valued customers" back, but at least this way there may be a small chance to recover some of the money that they hi-jacked from you, and maybe a better chance to help them prosecute the...

Yeah better call Dan Newlin, those commercials make me sick. A number of year's ago a semi ran a red light and hit me but by the grace of God I survived, I will never forget the company that owned the semi asking me to sign a waiver to release them from any responsibility which I refused to do...

Not that it has any bearing in this thread but those leaks can be avoided by simply putting the screws in the ridge, either pre-drill or take a sharp pointed punch or nail to start the hole in the ridge, this keeps the hole smooth and will not damage the rubber seal on the screw, water can't...

Use the flowmeter that he showed from amazon , shut it off at 5,10, 15, 20 and so on, take 2 short pieces of tape and place them on the tank leaving a small gap where the water is in the tank and spray paint a line when paint dries remove tape and you will have a painted line on your spray tank...

I would probably be talking to the district attorney in that county because I'm afraid he's going to find out that he isn't their #1 customer nor nearly as valued as he thinks, don't get me wrong I hope he get's his money back, but I don't believe he's gonna get it waiting on them to call him.

You would have better odds playing the lottery.

Have you looked at MTL grapples? That is what I have on my skid steer and it is very well made and heavy.

+1 and especially the part that if they were resurrected would you send them a second check? because they ran off with the first one, and after reading some of the poster's comments in this thread I do believe that they would.

The worse part for me about cutting stuff that is overgrown and tall with a tractor is the tractor tires mash down a lot of stuff ahead of the mower that doesn't get cut low like everything else, I try cutting back the opposite way that I made my first pass to help as much as possible, but there...

In larger scale operations I've heard it called corporate greed.

Could be, I couldn't tell for sure, for some reason you rarely see a chisel plow down in these parts, but they seem to be more prevelant in other parts of the country.

Can't tell for sure but it looks like that farmer has a do-all with a rolling basket behind it, greatest tool ever for leveling a tilled field IMO. Looks like you have got this project to the 4th quarter with a lot of hard work.

We might be shocked if we knew actual numbers.

Eddie, they tell us that there are 1000 people per day moving to Florida ( not 100% sure about the accuracy ) but I do know I am always asking myself "where did all these people come from?" in my daily travels, we have a country buffet resteraunt that I hit about twice a month and I used to know...

It never ceases to amaze me, see if just maybe that your credit card company might help you out if you paid with a CC, but at the very least acknowledge the fact that it is over and the order you placed isn't coming. Don't get me wrong I hate it for you but it's time to see if there is still a...

I have been all over the country doing power restoration before I retired and one thing I can say with 100% certainty is that if I lived within 10 miles or so of the coast where it was coming in at, I would get out and find somewhere else to go, that could be the good part about Hay dudes 2...

There are still some very rural sections of Florida , mostly North and West the further South you go the more it's like a foreign country, depends on what you want. Do you plan on getting a parcel of land with some acreage? So you can continue a scaled back version of farming, or do you plan on...

Back to cleaning out old fence rows, it's boring but it pays good. Fertilized cow pastures and 1 hay field this week and if you look on the picture of the roof top you can see we had a frost here in North Florida this morning but Easter is coming and that will be the end of the frost, hope...

Me to, I hope we mis-understood or he is in for a rude awakening.

Is that your new tractor? If so what are your first thoughts?

I think what you are seeing is just the morning dew on the grass where I haven't drug yet, it's all bahia.

Busting up tons of cow turds and spreading them out so they can work their way back into the soil, do-gooders call it organic :LOL: I just call it utilizing what is already there prior to putting out granular fertilize.

LOL and plenty of it.

Some people call it landing mat others call it steel grating, but it was an old catwalk at a power plant, I use this thing every year in the spring it's 4'x 15' and heavy but it does a pretty good job at pasture dragging and is also good for smoothing land or leveling a field.

Dragging cow pastures today.

I am a Milwaukee man and I own one of the chainsaws and it's pretty nice for limbing and smaller jobs but it doesn't even come close to replacing my gas powered chainsaws, but where Milwaukee does shine is their 18 volt Fuel polesaw, you can cut limbs for hours before needing to swap batteries...

Post #31 the 17k Kaufman trailer is the very trailer that I purchased and posted about, I don't remember the exact number but the sticker on mine says you can put 13k and some change on the deck, the 17.5 tires are something that I wouldn't buy any trailer without, I have them on my 30'...

The only time that I have experienced the state man here in Florida checking for dyed fuel was at the livestock market one time when I was hauling yearlings to sell and he was checking every other vehicle, he took a sample from the fuel tank and did nothing at the tail pipe, my truck was a gas...

With all the work that has been done to it recently it should give you good service.

I've still got an old Milwaukee Thor corded drill that we used to use to drill poles with and if you weren't careful that thing would break your arm.

Did you copy and paste my post that was #2 in this thread , if not you and I think a lot alike. :LOL:

Back at it today, removing old fence lines and a few small trees and piling them for a future burn pile, some of these old fence posts are probably from the 1950's old heart pine.

That farmer had to have had the worst luck in the world , followed by a little good luck.

Eddie as far as feed spoilage goes, nothing says that you have to fill it to the brim, you will get a feel for how much feed your animals can utilize before it spoils.

Glad you had a good time, our state does have a lot to offer, especially getting a break from that cold that ya'll have to deal with. As a general rule when does the cold weather usually let up in your area?

I added 4 pints in this spray tank mix this morning.

2-4-D for weeds and the flowering red sorrel that you see in the background and some MSM for crabgrass and bahia, it's looking like an early spring here but we never count out a late frost until Easter comes, I am going to try to put out the liquid lime and potash next week if everything works out.

Had to take a day off of skid steer work to spray one of my hay fields, back at it tomorrow.

I have been nothing but pleased with my 75-2, hope the 75-3 suits you better, they sure do look nice.

Eddie, I use an Apache creep feeder for bulk cattle feed and cattle or goats or sheep, etc can just eat directly out of the feeder, but I'm not sure that it would work for what you are wanting, just keep in mind any type of feeder or feed wagon you get won't work well with feeds that have...

You won't see a commercial job around here without one of those on it.

There is an old saying. " You can pick your friends but not your family" and that is unfortunately a fact, I suspect we all have someone in our family that is not to our liking, and I know that I am supposed to love everyone , but you have to love some people from afar.

There is a shop about 40 miles South of where I live and that's all they did until about 2009 and then they started cleaning/baking those regeneration cannisters on diesel machinery and trucks and they were able to stay open for 20 or so years doing nothing but injector pumps, so I bet there is...

I don't remember the specs off the top of my head but they rate the tipping load at somewhere around 2300+ lbs and I would bet what's in my wallet that a bundle of OSB is heavier than that, I am sure they figure everything with a safety factor as I know these machines will lift more than most...

I could only imagine , I haven't had to deal with any shingles yet on any jobsites around here they put them on the roof when they deliver.

An old mechanic told me years ago that if you added MMO or ATF every other time that you filled your tractor up that you would never have to worry about rebuilding the injector pump, don't know if that is fact but it probably doesn't hurt by adding either of them for lubrication and he was a...

Usually within 2 years it will make a comeback and grass will fill in and you will never know there was a burn pile there, but nothing will want to grow there to begin with. I planted a field in bahai grass last year and the owner told me that they had a big brush pile burnt when his land was...

Eddie with a log of that size you can tell it's there but it's not tippy, now if this log was green and full of water I would have had it closer to the ground for traveling. The only thing that I have had that I felt like pushed my machines limits was a full bundle or stack of 5/8 OSB, that was...

Today's work, customer had some leftover storm debris and tree's, the grapple and skid steer makes short work when you don't have to cut the logs in short pieces. Also a little tree cleanup and fence repair, I didn't have to remove and pile this one, just get it off the downed fence and make...

Lots of it didn't but I just went slow and would keep taking bites at it with the grapple and some of it I just had to cut and pull out by hand because it had grown into the trees and bushes so bad, the job would have been a piece of cake if he hadn't been so particular about those little bushes...

Like Workinonit said they are in the hardwood oak family but they are not as hearty as a live oak as they usually have a much shallower root system and are very susceptible to mistle toe and other diseases, I also use a lot of it in my smoker firebox to cook with and use it in my woodstove to...

My forestry mower has some wire protection studs welded to the bottom of the deck to help prevent wire from wrapping around the spindle, but nothing is foolproof and I have had wire wrap up and spent about an hour pulling and cutting it out on a couple of different occasions. I used my grapple...

As you get older, it seems to get hotter and colder, (hey that rhymes) anyhow you will appreciate the climate controlled cab in in-climate weather, and as far as low tree branches go that"s what they make pole saws for.

I have been failing to take pictures on some of my jobs but did one today where the customer wanted about 300' of old American fence wire and posts removed with minimal damage to the existing bushes except for a couple of water oak trees he wanted removed, this was a pain but I got it done.

I wonder why they would make a tractor with 3 pt hitch in the front but no PTO, I'm sure there is a logical reason but I don't know what it is, you never see a tractor down in these parts with front mounted 3 pt hitch, that's why I thought your rig with the front mounted cutter was so sweet.

I don't blame the group for not building the facility with all the demands that were being placed on them, once again a group of do-gooders ruined it for all.

Ask the owner/seller when was the last time that the final drives were serviced/oil changed , if they can't tell you that , beware, ask if the owner kept service records, like all used equipment purchase's it can be a shot in the dark.

We still have one, but I'm not really sure why, the only calls we get on it are from people wanting to make an offer to buy my land , extended car warranty, law enforcement donations etc.

Oh believe me I have seen it on here, I bet a few of them are sulled up about it.

I agree , I keep hearing about these cheap or junk MTL implements and I have found mine to be well built and durable.

I would change it if for nothing more than warranty security, many manufacturers are going to pull an oil sample if the machine is brought in for warranty work on the engine or related components and you can bet if the oil doesn't meet the specifications there is a better than average chance...

I thought most all trailers were built with the axles rear of the center of trailer, seems pretty common.

You can always pump the gearbox full of grease instead of replacing the seals, it will last forever.

Looked like the Massey has the setup for your front mounted cutter, if your other tractor went down at least you wouldn't be completely out of business, every one of them are a lot of tractor.

I deal with Mayo Ag Services out of Lake City, let me know of you need a phone number.

Glad it all worked out for you, that's business and the way it should be, the supposed best grapple on the face of the earth is no good to you when you can't get it delivered as agreed, but you have a grapple now,enjoy it, a bird in the hand beats two in the bush.

Have you tried Mayo Ag Services or Helena?

100% Fact.

Tractor work/bushhogging is dog eat dog around my area, there will be a dozen new ones every year that will be out of business by next year because they want work so bad that they under bid everybody else to the point that they aren't really making any money, all seems to go well until they tear...

I read some of the reviews that indicated that, but seeing as how I prefer to talk to a real person verses internet ordering I called and they were no problem to do business with, answered all my questions and have been helpful when I have called back needing other things, I actually ordered o...

I wouldn't know about that, but it never ceases to amaze me at the people who swindle other folks out of their hard earned money then make sweetheart deals and minimum punishment. Ever watch the show "American Greed"?

There is a better than average chance that he won't serve a day.

I think I'm going to try some of the liquid potash as well for $16 per gallon. I'm always up for a little test project on something new.

5. Went with an MTL grapple for my skid steer, thank goodness.

It's strictly propaganda.

That's my plan at this point.

I talked to a rep yesterday and since they have a place about 50 miles South of me, I will just run down there and pick it up, also the sprayer I use has 3 different spray nozzles and he told me that the liquid nitrogen nozzles would work good, but that they didn't recommend using the herbicide...

They actually have a website if anyone wants to check it out. WWW.superlimeplus.com

Yeah, I am pretty sure if it works at all it will mostly be because of what the plant soaks via leaf when I spray it and the a little through the root but for the price I think it's worth a shot, I would be really surprised if it actually changes the PH at all, another good thing is that they...