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Howdy folks, So yesterday I was doing a little bit of mowing and I backed my MX6 into a pine tree. DOH! What stinks is that I was in neutral with the power reverser just about to start going forward. I have actually done this a couple of times in the past, and nothing has ever broken. Anyway...

It's gray. Here's an older pic.

Howdy all, I had a 700' deep well drilled for our new home last September. The well sat there and didn't really run at all until we moved into the house this past April. After being in the house about two weeks, we started to notice that wonderfully aromatic smell of sulfur / rotten eggs...

Thanks for the replies, everyone! Got R done this AM, before the rain hits again tomorrow / Thurs. I'll leave it like this for a while and let the 1" rocks get good and packed into the clay base, then probably put some finer stuff down on top in a couple months. Where the trailer is...

Howdy fellow TBNers, Just about finished with our new build. We had a 30x20' concrete apron poured at the approach for our two-car garage for now. I wanted to wait to pour more concrete until we move out there and get a feel for our entering / backing out of the garage habits. So right...

I had a 50hp JD 5103 2wd with an FEL for almost a year. I spun the rear tires more times than I wish to recall with that thing. I traded it for a MFWD 5075E, and one of the first things I did with my new tractor was move this monster stump: I have filled rears and had about 750# of ballast...

I have an Echo CS-330. It is a little monster. After an initial tune up, it has run unbelievable well and has cut down trees it never should have. I've always used Echo products in years of lawn care, and they've always been superb. I'm looking at a CS-590 as a new saw. I just cut up a...

Here's why I did not buy a cab... Spent the money I would have spent on a cab on a nice new trailer! AND saved some towing weight by not having a cab! :D

And... It fits in my shop by about 1/2"! :D

Here's some detailed pics of the more "boring" stuff...

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Saw this today... wow! And that's with the OEM hitch. I guess it's some new hitch design? And 7000# payload?! :shocked: 2015 Silverado 3500HD: Diesel Trucks | Chevrolet Here are a couple vids: 2015 Chevy Silverado 3500 HD Diesel - YouTube 2015 Chevy Silverado 3500 HD Diesel 4WD First...

Well, had the welds redone on the truck this week. Here are the before and afters, side by side. Easy to see the new welds are a LOT better. The shop guy said that when he started grinding down the old welds, pieces just began flying off. Clearly the original welds weren't too strong. I feel...

Well, no trailer today. I guess the hot shot that was running a load of trailers to my dealer from OKC didn't run today - unknown to the dealer until it got to mid afternoon and his new trailers didn't show up and mine was still sitting in the yard. Looks like it'll be here tomorrow around Noon...

And if they are long enough to offer the same angle onto the trailer. I did the slide on ramps thing on a low boy that my grandfather in law borrowed me. No thanks ever again. I didn't like riding a wheelie onto the trailer! (Wouldn't have done that if I left the loader on, but I took it off...

Thank you for the replies so far, all! Here you go. This was just after I bought her, so she's looking nice and dirty! :D

I just bought a good, used 1999 F250 SC 4x4 V10 for a pulling / farm truck. It came with a J&I flatbed on it with a gooseneck plate, etc mounted in it. I got to looking at the mounting of the flatbed and had some slight concerns with the way it was mounted to the frame of the truck. First...

Howdy TBNers, I'm in the market for a new gooseneck trailer to yank my 5075E+MX6 around. My estimated weight: 5500 - Tractor 1500 - 553 FEL 1000 - Filled rear tires 1500 - MX6 9500 total, appx I just picked up a 1999 F250 Supercab 4x4 V10 with the 4.30 gears, so I have around 14K to play...

Here's a fun one from Malaysia... Proton Wira modified for cattle rustling - Latest - New Straits Times

I'm also a BX62 owner. No hydrofeed on mine either, and I definitely don't think I need one. The Wallenstein pulls the limbs in really well on its own. The simplicity and sheer brute-ness of the Wallenstein design is what endeared me to them. Check WoodwardCrossings.con (I think - just...

Just got the water report in the mail from our driller. Looks very good. I don't think we will need much filtration of any kind at all, thank goodness! Hope you can read these pics okay from my phone.

We recently had a deep well drilled here in East Texas for our new home. It's drilled 700 feet deep and I think the pump is hung around 580'? I could be wrong there, I don't remember. My well guy says I don't need to filter any of the water for sediment or contaminants, but he's also a...

Ran the chipper a little today on some dead hardwood that fell down on my UTV trail during all the rain this past week. Wow! What a beast! I put it right up to its limits with a limb that was close to 6" at the base of the tree. I cut it into about 4 foot sections and fed it through in this...

Look what came off the truck today! :drink: I didn't get the chance to fire her up and put anything through it yet, but I really love the quality of the construction. The paint job is better than on my new 5075E! :laughing: Perfect fit in the ole Chevy: Got to put the new Frontier pallet...

Finally have decided that I'm going to pull the trigger and buy a 3PT chipper. It seems like every time I rent a chipper for the weekend to pull behind my truck, the very next week some high winds come through and make a big mess of everything I cleaned up. :mad: So I have my eye on a...

Last night was the first time I've really gotten out on the road with my tractor. We did a hayride for my daughter's bday with some friends, and we probably went about 5 miles total. I wasn't more than a 1/2 mile from home, going about 10-12mph when I noticed a little wobble in the tractor...

I just bought a new 5075E with the Power Reverser package - but it is an open station. The size difference between it and the 5085E really is notable... My advice? If you're looking into the possibility of buying the 5085E cab, I would just try to find a 5083E cab sitting on some dealer's...

Just used my 5075E w/540E for the first time today with my MX6. I LOVE this feature. It was so nice to run at 1700rpm and not 2400. And the cutter ran flawlessly. So that made me wonder... how many of you guys with 540E on you tractor run your PTO like this a lot? How much - all the time...

Resurrecting this thread I started... So I got to use my MX6 with my new 5075E for the first time today. Did about 2-3 acres for a friend that was pretty thick / tall. I was astonished at how well it cut! To the best of my guestimating, the mower was set exactly the same as it was on my...

That's actually good news to me, ha. I put the 5075 on a trailer today and took it about 10 min down the road to mow a friend's small pastures. I was working the gas V8 F250 Super Duty that I bummed from my wife's grandfather to tow it! Here are a few pics... I REALLY like this tractor...

I got it Wednesday night, yes! :cool2: Today was the first day I got to really USE it. I spent a little over an hour shredding about 2-3 acres for a friend of mine. I REALLY love the tractor. The size and power upgrade from my 5103 is really substantial. Trailering it was a lot different...

Goodness gracious, those are some big rocks! You are really working for those 256 feet! I trenched in about 1000' of 2" conduit, 36" down for mainline power service this past year (plus 1" for cable service around 24" down). Two pad-mounted transformers. And I thought I had it bad sitting...

FINALLY got my new machine last night from the dealer. It came in almost two weeks ago, but didn't have the 2nd rear SCV that I ordered. So that took ... 2 weeks ... to get put on. :confused: Anyway, it's all a wash now as the new machine is sitting comfortably in my shed! Here are some...

I got a call from someone with this outfit out of Omaha - The Ultimate Marketplace He said he saw my listing for sale on TractorHouse.com and told me that he works to facilitate private buyers by getting them financed to move on machinery they don't have the cash for. So they have a network of...

A couple of weeks ago, I ordered a brand new JD 5075E MFWD with the 553 FEL. I took advantage of the new transmission package offering from JD on these open station 5000E series tractors and got the PowrReverser / 540E PTO package that also comes with the digital dash. I had been scouring the...

Ha! I was pretty happy about that, too, until I went on Ag Power's website and saw this... So it looks like all he really threw on the deal was one more extra year of power train. Which is nice and all, but the "4 year onsite service" appears to already be in place with the purchase of a...

I reached out to a couple of dealers about the prices on new 5065E/5075E machines. My local dealer seems to have a pretty good quote thus far: 2013 JD 5075E MFWD -553 Loader -PowrReverser 12/12 Transmission -ePTO / MFWD indicator / digital dash (part of the PRT package) -Std. features...

Howdy all, I've been stepping into researching a tractor that I could upgrade into from my 2007 5103 2wd / 512 FEL. I bought this tractor from a guy that I bought some rural acreage from, so it's not my ideal tractor, but it's done well for what I've asked of it! Only has 250 hours on it, so...

I'm wondering if anyone else out there has suction issues from time to time with their MX6? I have mowed with it three times this year now and each time, I am leaving behind rows of bermuda sticking up that the mower doesn't seem to be cutting. Specifically, it seems that when the tractor is...

Howdy all, I have a 65 gallon spray tank that I have elevated about 3' off the ground to water a small garden on some land that has no power or running water right now. I only have 8 plants to water, and have an irrigation system set up. The problem I am running into is that I cannot find a...

Howdy all, Any of you guys running your MX6 shredder with the rear wheel down as far as it can go (raising the rear of the cutter as high as it can go when cutting)? I'd like to cut my smaller side pastures a little higher this year before summer sets in, and wanted to see if anyone else had...

Balmy 72 here in ETX. It's actually darker down to the SSE than it is to the WNW... which is odd, because I know that's where the weather's coming in from. Glad it's not going to get down as cold here as it is for you guys, jinman and txdon! Stay warm over there! (weird saying that in nearly...

Got into the truck this morning, looked up at my temp gauge on the mirror and it flashed "ICE" at me. :confused: I didn't even wear a jacket! 35 and sunny on the way into work. By the afternoon, she's gonna be juuuuust perfect around mid-50's! :thumbsup:

I just bought a piece of property that has an appx 2 acre pond on it and I'm definitely a pond noob! It's been there for around 40+ years, according to an older neighbor who knows everything about the whole section. :laughing: Anyway, the neighbor to the east of me has a nice sized pond...

Howdy all! I have about 15 acres of bermuda that hasn't had cattle on it for at least 6-7 years. It's mainly just been cut with an MX-6 a few times per year. In the next 1-3 years, I'm going to start bringing in natural grasses to replace the bermuda all-together. I'm not interesting in...

Howdy all, I have a Frontier BB2172 box blade for my JD 5103 (with FEL)- with the 5 steel shanks. I just mowed about 3-4 acres that had quite a few 3-5" trees that had grown up that the previous owner of the land I purchased did not clear. I cut most all the trees down to about 6-12" of...

Howdy everyone! I've been reading around on the site for a few weeks now and thought it would be time for a formal "hello". My wife and I are closing on appx 100 acres in a couple of weeks - first time land owners. We're excited! So I have a lot to learn, and am looking forward to doing so...

Hello all! My first post at the forum here. I've been lurking for a while now, doing some research on buying a UTV for some land my wife and I just purchased. I really went back and forth between the Polaris Ranger 800 and the JD Gator 825i. I like the workhorse qualities of the JD, but...