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Start the new year with a new hoe!

I use mine pinned up in place a ton. I usually pull it off for winter because even pinned up the tractor has fairly bad ground clearance. So if you hit a softspot the deck starts plowing real quick and brings you to a stop in a hurry.

Still for sale!

2000 woods groundbreaker 7500 with woods subframe for same vintage class 2 CUT. I used the backhoe on as a 3pt hoe on my 2001 NH TC33. I acquired the subframe which fits the same tractor (several others see attached image) but never used it. Good working condition. no leaking seals, however...

Turns out the draft control linkage got ripped off the control arm that goes through the housing. The reason was the control arm that pivots froze up. Had to pull the rear remotes and pull the 3pt control off the side of the tractor in order to mount it in the vise and get it freed up.

I just picked up a baby bobcat for cleaning out the old basement barn. Anyone have a pdf of the service manual they can send me. Looking for service info (fluids change, greese points) as well as adjustment because it creeps.

I've been around the block a time or two. I've mounted my fair share of troublesome tires. Wheelbarrows, yard carts, lawmowers you name it. However I have never had to mount one of the large rear R4 titans on my class 2 CUT. This past week was my first (unpleasant) experience having to...

the 3pt control on my TC33 has gotten.... odd? The 3pt lever is supposed to have the positional type valve. SO that the lever has a 6" stroke the top of the lever corresponds to the top of the 3pt travel, middle = middle hitch height, bottom is bottom and so on. The hitch has gotten...

So the time finally came. Time to update the ol 2001 1ton van. First on the list of reasons - the wife was tired of getting stuck in the winter trying to get hay out of fields in the 2wd van. The new ride is a 2013 F150 3.5l ecoboost Fx4. The above is 32 sq's and two 6' rounds I've...

What are the odds i could buy a C5 tub(title) on craigslist and it would bolt up to the Roxor frame for a street legal version?

I have a odd dash issue that shows up intermittently. Usually just after starting the dash needles max out. fuel max - tack does not work. Sometimes the dash "sticks" in this condition other times ill look down some minutes later and everything is reading as it should. Other times after...

The time to update the tow vehicle has come. The wife has complained about needing 4wd for the last time when we go get hay on the trailer for the goats. That and the existing 2001 E350 is getting a bit long in the tooth with 225K on it. On the short list is a 2011-2013 Toyota Tundra...

lets remember why its important to have that 10-15% tongue weight (bumper pull) http://i.imgur.com/dYz2tCE.gifv

The peoria area was hit with 1/8" of freezeing rain (ice). We had had 2-3" of rain before that and the ground was well past saturated. Then the morning of the ice we also had 30mph winds. That combo (soft soils, heavy trees and wind) ment power lines, poles and trees came down. We were...

I live at a location that is perfect for the local sheriff to setup the mobile scales. They do this bout 3-4 times a year from what i can tell. This morning was one of those times. Of note this morning was the line of "commercial" trucks with trailers he had pulled over. These type thats...

Could go in the projects..... this is on CL for $1000. 32' bucket lift Lets say, we bought a 4x8 utility trailer for it. mounted it over the axle. Built some outriggers and used some trailer jacks as levelers. Hydraulics provided by the tractor that pulls the trailer around the...

Finnally an answer to my "want a dump and a flatbed but dont want to trailers" thats a 14' dump 6' flat. perhaps a 16' dump 4' flat. no sides on the rear and standard 60/40 split for axles and im sold! FYI the want $9500 for the above

anyone think its worth trying to modify this (which i already have) into this (which is more of what i want)

2002 Duramax 2500HD 4door 4wd. pros and cons for this year truck? (i know nothing about them and have no brand loyalty to any flavor) Listed at $9K private sale.

I thought we had discussed this recently. I looked for a thread but didn't find one quickly so... new thread. Had a guy at work this past week knock his shin on a hitch in the parking lot and report an injury because of it. This prompted the company to release a company wide email pointing...

Anyone know of any limitations to back spaceing on standard trailers? Ive been looking for some 16" rims on CL for spare tires for my trailer, and i ran across a set of AL 16" off an GMC truck (6on5.5 that i need) but it occurs to me that stock truck tires from back in the day often featured...

Had my 2001 E350 in for a recall on the cruse control wiring for fire hazard. (as an aside, we dont fix the cruise control deactivation sensor, we just add a fuse to the wireing harness, so when it shorts out, cause its always on, it trips the fuse and you get to do the whole nine yards over...

2013 TRAILKING TKT12U TILT EQUIP TRAILER would you buy it for parts? axles? Can a trailer have a salvage title? Rebuild from the tongue V back with new steel in a non-tilting version?

So I know the topic as come up many times in the years I've been around here..... Here is a new one. Mud matts that large trackhoe's would use when working in soft conditions can span small creeks and take a lot of load. proof https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPQW2Tp1EtY

Just put 2 new green balls on my 5x10 utility trailer. from sams 205x75r15 LR-C (on the shelf) They will not touch the trailer, you have to take the wheels off and roll them into the shop. $83 for tires $15 for mount/balance/warentee tax $215(ish) out the door I have 2 more to put on my...

After years of helping a friend with alpaca's and wanting some ourselves we were finnally able to get 2 alpaca and a llama for our hobby farm. We had worked hard at building fences, cleaning woods, and were finally in a position were we felt we could take care of a few. This timming worked...

Got this in email to day. is "recently" 7 years ago? FYI not interested in the spam, I DID update my settings just now to disallow admins from sending me email. We will see if that changes this for the future.

you know the mini trucks that are greymarket anyone know where you can get just the bed from one? I want to make a yard trailer out of the bed with drop down sides.... bonus if it has the dump.

I seem to have a collection of vertical shaft single cylinder engines commonly found on riding lawnmowers. 12-16hp range. Some of these are still in frames of old lawnmowers others are sitting on a shelf. Id like to do something productive with them, and the idea of converting one or more...

As you may know I picked up a $500 livestock trailer. The goal was to have it road worthy by last weekend (i missed that date by one weekend) to bring some new animals home to the property. I detailed my brake rebuild in a separate thread as that is really independent of the trailer type...

So my $500 livestock trailer. Needs some rebuilds I figured id make a thread for the trailer, and a thread for the axles as the axles are rather independent of the trailer type and we have seen some other rebuild candidates come across the boards in terms of suggestions. The trailer is a...

Ive got my $500 livestock trailer to paint. I was innitally thinking of rolling on some rustoleum. Then i thought i might have Maco spray it after i prep it. But the I thought why not practice spraying rustoleum. I have plenty of other projects that could do with rustoleum paint jobs so...

So latest CL addition to the farm. $500 16' livestock trailer. (we are getting goats, a Lama and an alpaca in a month or 2) Yes it has some rust.... but it does have a good floor and the structural part of the trailer is sound. I guess the PO kept like 4" of manure in it all the time and...

In the past when ive wanted to lock the hitch on my trailer i usually put a paddle lock through the hitch release. Its enough to keep the honest guy from takeing the trailer all im really interested in deterring anyway. Anyone do this with a bulldog style hitch? i guess there is a hole you...

Anyone run an upright frost free freezer as a fridge? can they be run warm enough to not freeze (eg 34-38 deg)?

So most of you probably noticed by now that virtually all small engine driven items are now sold with engine size listed in CC. Doing some shopping for a few new small engine items and it occurs to me. Do i trust the new CC numbers anymore than i trusted the old HP numbers from before? i...

so short rant on 3pt log splitter. why is it its impossible to find a decent 3pt log splitter for less than $1000? i mean inexpensive stand alone units can be had for like $600. and that includes like $400 in parts i dont need. dont need a 5hp engine dont need a pump dont need a...

the little hampster inside my starter on my 2001 TC33D is retireing. Ive tried new batteries, charging batteries, jumping directly to the starter..... no change... just slow laborious grown as the starter turns over the tractor but at a speed to slow to fire it offf. Time for a new one or a...

So our current property is an old farmstead from 1910. (house, barn has a chiseled date cornerstone of 1914) Indoor plumbing wasnt until the 20's to 30's and rural electrification wasn't untill mid thirties. so the house predates both. As such the property came with 1) a cistern next to...

taken by a member of the local jeep club down in St Louis.

I have an abundance of broken concrete chunks that the previous owner of my current property liked to use for all sorts of things. These are mostly flat work chunks 4-6" thick and in various size slabs. I want to get rid of it, but i have a need for gravel. It seems like such a waste to spend...

So its been a project to get this dam delta faucet working right and it still isnt right. So im throwing it out there. I put a new delta faucet on the sink last fall. Pull out handle kind... The issue is, it wont mix hot/cold right. You can take the knob off and turn the stupid little...

Seen one in person sunday while running erronds. It was parked next to me when i came out of the Farm n Fleet anyone got any specs? kinda a sprinter competitor? Discuss.

An RV crash to remember - YouTube so would you rather have a PB or a GN? I think id stick with the PB and have my tow vehicle stay upright. I like the fact that at the end the tow chains have rear of the truck suspended.

Commerical Boat Transport Trailers step up to the big boys :thumbsup:

i went to change my location (as i have moved) and i edited the one field (location) went to save and it gave me an error... must enter a member type? huh? member type what the hel is that? so i go back to settings and figure out what "member type" is... oh look there is a drop down box...

Ive got some (unused) veggi oil that has sat around for a few years. Seems like a waist to just put it with the used motor oil.... what are the thoughts of mixing it at about a 20% ratio with pump diesel straight into the tractor tank? (ie 5 gal of pump diesel to a gal of straight veggi oil)

Ok so i brought home my very first WD hitch for the back of my new E350. While there are many vids out on youtube to document how to setup your WD hitch (even one for an E350) they all seem to feature a fixed tongue weight trailer (aka RV) So setting head tilt and bar tension (by takeing...

SO my friend that relies on her T190 to service her farm is having issues. A friend was running the machine and ran it out of fuel. So they put more fuel in it (15 gal) and still cant get it running. They suspected perhaps the fuel filter was preventing good flow so they replaced it. Still...

were do YOU buy AG tires? Trying to round up some prices and ideas of were to buy them for a set of rear rubber for a 8N. something like 10x28 or 11.2x28

Ive been helping a friend on her alpaca/llama farm. Shes great with the animals but doesnt have a handy bone in her body and neither does her husband, and her kids could care less about the farm. Ive been working one day a week at her place fixing stuff. (the list is LONG) so last week...

it sounds like a stupid question i know but.... So im helping a friend on his farm and on his T190 (ish) The lever that you use to adjust the forward/backward position on the seat will not move. What is the intended direction of the movement of the lever? pull up? push down? pull out?

Next snow that falls im going to post pics of how well this thing pushes snow! someone needs it I know!:thumbsup:

68 wheel horse. 32" cut runs great, does not smoke, starts right up. comes with front blade for dirt/gravel/snow includes rear hitch, and some spare parts $700

The story of how to use 3 spare tires in 2200 mile cross country trip. Had a good friend that recently complete a 2200 mile trip moving every single possession he owned with his wife and 2 boys, dog and cat from Alton IL to New Port OR. He purchased an old IH 26' (5spd diesel) 1985 uHaul truck...

So after useing the product for 7 years on my labs, with nary a problem with bugs (aka flees) we noticed flees on the dogs after return trip from my parents. We scratched our head and said... well perhaps we missed a treatment.... reapplied product at the beginning of sep. Thought that would...

So i knew i was in coal country... just never gave it much thought. So the fall fair was last weekend and i got to talking to the steam engine guy that runs the engine that they use to run the 52" circle mill. Its coal fired (100PSI) and i was talking with him about the coal. Turns out he...

My old Ford brushhog has an OLD school slip clutch on it. and its started slipping badly (like wont cut thick grass without slipping to a stop) So it seems its time to adjust it... but how :confused: I THINK that big nut is supposed to turn to add more clamping force to the friction...

Whats your ultimate tow hauler and at the same time family mover. Hears the setup. You live in rural area, have a hobby farm. tow farm stuff once a month on a 10K equipment trailer. tractors, sq bales, implements, project cars etc. You have a 22' RV trailer. Perhaps a ski boat.... 18'...

saw my first Uhual GMC w3500 today... one of these wearing Uhaul stickers.

I serve on our local VFD. This morning we were paged out for a tractor roll over with entrapment. (i was on the call) Unfortunately the operator was pronounced dead at the scene. A ford 800 (ish) tractor, stock with no aftermarket ROPS, was pulled over backward on its driver. We preach a...

see the full story here http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/projects/173631-move-shed.html

my buddy has a 12x12 shed in his small backyard. It needed to move because 1) it took up valuable flat space (his property is entirely hilly, if there is a flat spot it was man made) 2) It sat in an area that desperately needed to be cut down to drain most of the rest of his back yard away from...

So as my hobby farm grows, i find myself wanting to add a small AG tractor. 50ish hp. many other brands have a series name (new holland, TN series vs the CUT TC series, well they used to at least) seems JD just numbers there tractors. some 3 digit some 4 digit. and there seems to be NO good...

how many HP to pull this bad boy...

Ya so the tractor holds like 9gal of hydraulic fluid... it doesnt "leak" in the traditional sense although i do have a cylinder on the FEL that does leak (perhaps a 2" spot) and of course I loose a bit every time i take the FEL on and off, etc. So needless to say its a fluid i generally...

arnt the high-crop tractors kinda sought after? 1936 FARMALL F-30

After about 18 months of watching Craigslist I finally found my new trailer. 20' (im guessing home built) equipment trailer. 6" channel frame over 6" channel tongue. dual 5200lb 6 on 5.5 axles with brakes on front axle. (looking to convert the rear tag axle per my other thread) 15" rims...

need to build a mount to hold a spair for my new trailer. were do you like your spare? on the front on the tongue on the side under the bottom other? would be hard for me to mount to the front because the trailer already has a tool box welded to the front. i could see issues with the side...

Just brought home my new 20' equipment trailer (pics to come tomorrow) Wondering if i can just bolt on a kit to the second axle to turn it into a braking axle. Can a backing plate and drum just be bolted on to a non-braked axle? anyone done this?

So im in the farm store the other day waiting in like for like EVER because the people in front of me were morons trying to rain check some crap so i was left to wander around the tillers that were displayed next to the isle. and thats when i notced they all had a CC number on them.... not a...

your looking at $160 worth of gravel! yeah..... Ten ton or so. 5 ton CA-6 "mixed" with 5 ton of 3/4" clear. the CA-6 he had a lot of fines in it so i had him add the 3/4" clear to give me some more large material. He would put one scoop of ca-6 then one scoop of 3/4 clear in the truck...

The first spring we moved in, we had a swamp of a yard. due to some low spots and high water table. Shure they would eventually dry up but it took WEEKS. So we wanted to put in a drain tile. But not having the time, and with next spring aproching quicly i borrowed a ditching plow from a...

WOOT happy dance after 3 years of looking, wanting, yearning, putting off projects... has come to an end. we finnally bit the bullet on a $2900 woods 7500 that i found on CL. (w/ 16" bucket) but allas My happy dance lasted only a short time. for then it was time to figure out how to hook...

time for 2010 chicks! 2010 Chicks i guess the old code for linking to a big pic with a small pick is now broken so ill just post the huge size ones and let the forum auto resize them :(

and you thought your chains were a PITA to install! YouTube - pewag tire/tyre protection chains: ConeFit Mounting when they lay them out flat, you can tell the guy can barely drag a small section of them..

i was not a fan of this program to begin with and did my part to make that clear. seems it now may be dead on a national level, although it sounds like a state version is set to follow.. (although many point out there are already various state versions so no big news?) USDA ends livestock...

anyone have experience running a house on a 500 gal tank when temps drop to 0*F or below? im concerned that my furnace isnt putting out max heat due to reduced input pressure from the tank due to the cold weather. ps tank lvl at 67%

.22-250? 7.62x39 (ak47) 7.62x51 (.308) 7.62x63 (30-06) Have had a coyote hanging around my place. with my chickens its bad news. If i see him on my property my .22 is fine as the shots are usually around 40 yards. but often i "track" him to neighboring feild (this usually means watching him...

My wife is a PE for a small surveying and engineering firm. Every now and then she comes home with some useful info. Thought id share this tidbit. Estimated costs for Livestock fencing. These numbers were revised back in 2005 so add a bit i suppose but it will at least get you ballpark. the...

like most rural peeps im going to be needing a livestock trailer in the near future (hauling alpacas) but i dont want to have to own like 5 different trailers. Ive seen add on cages for flatbed trailers before, but cant seem to find any commercial products out there. anyone have one? anyone...

dont know if i ever posted any pics from our house burn last year. I had hosted them on our website shortly after but never got around to building a page for them till now. anyway found a few tractor related ones in there also. a few teasers the astute observer will note that after...

a nice large golden garden spider set up shop right under neath my east bee hive. The girls are in the process of tossing out the drones for the winter and defending against the SWARM of yellow jackets that have moved in to take advantage of the ripeing pears. I had picked the first round...

DOH! mowing on the front ditch hill and i knew it was low but i guess all the fuel sloshed over on the non-pickup side. There is a bleed screw on the injector pump? I checked the manual and despite the fact that you would THINK it might mention something about "if you run it out of fuel"...

2002 Airman Mini Track Hoe who makes this one? never heard of Airman before.....

we have all seen those amazing (perhaps crazy) loading vids of how some people put heavy equipment in/on trailers/transports. add this one to the list. just a plane jane dozer vid (although the off camber work he is doing would have me buying a new tractor seat after i munched all the seat...

Ive been looking for a 3pt backhoe on CL for over a year. Bobcat/skidsteer versions are a dime a dozzen, but finding a decent 3pt one has proved to be a difficult thing. recently there has been one that came up for a good price and its not far from me. but its an older HEAVY DUTY version that...

anyone give any thoughts to the orientation of the blades on a multi-blade deck? /// or -|- or something else? finishing up getting my mower deck ready for the first cut (ya technically i could have cut once or twice already) of the year. Finishing up a 6-8 hr maintenance job. between...

im thinking about adding a small grain grinder to my collection of "farm" kitchen appliances. I could get fresh wheat and corn from neighbor farmers and am thinking id like to try grinding some. (mmmm fresh wheat bread and corn bread) So if you have one or have experience using one let us know.

For those of you who have used containers as the base of sheds, garages, barns etc. How did you choose to anchor them to the ground? Something as simple as set some steel plates (with re-bar whatever attached) in some concrete pads and simply weld them to the plates? Do some people just not...

there is an area in our front feild that is low... or should i say an area between the low area and the ditch along the driveway that is high and prevents the low area from draining well. not anymore. total cut at the high spot was about 6" down to about 0 at the ditch and oh ya turned...

you guys have seen these things does anyone have one they use for toteing water around on the property for various reasons. (spot firefighting for brush fires, or watering that new tree in the way off corner of the property) my question. If you do have one, how long have you had it and...

second rotary style hoe ive seen on CL in 2 days. (diffrent ones mind you) what are they used for? how do they work? what results do they give? oh ya that one is 7' wide

say this 20' stock trailer was for sale for $1000. can you cut the sides down to 18" tall and use it like a regular goosneck utility type trailer? or does it gain some of its structural integrity from the shell of the sides/roof like a unibody car?

Say you've been looking for a car-transport style trailer. (non-sided 5" ish C frame style trailer) say you have really wanted a 20' but the seem to be hard to come by. (say you dont want to buy a brand new one for $5K) Say you found one on craigslist that seems to match the first 2...

any idea were i can get a cultivator for my David Bradley or enough detailed photo's to build one from scratch.

say you wanted to upgrade to a larger lathe for your machine shop on your farm. say you found a Leblond 19x54 for $4k with tooling, and phase converter for 220v. say the only place you have to put it is your current pole barn/machine shop which features (not by my choice) a gravel floor. How...

I had seen a pic of one that i really liked. I never did find the pic again, but i built mine off what i could remember and some of my own design. we built it on the driveway in the gravel free of the mud in the yard/garden. Figured it would be easy to chain it to the FEL to move it to its...

I know this is were the mulcher guys hang out... dont know if its a good deal but id thought id let you guys know. local CL has one FS... 9K OBO... Fecon Bush Hog 74" Mulcher Head

What size tractor should it go on? To big for my class II TC33?

Ive dealt with the fall "coming in" of mice for a while now. living on a hobby farm (on ackerage) its something i expected. What i didnt expect was how many. This year seems worse than others. for the past 2 weeks ive probably avg just under about 1 a day. Victor snap traps are the gold...

for the past 3 days ive been involved in the local grape harvest hear in Central IL. Turns out the guy that "runs" Piasa winery is my "neighbor". Wed i picked 8500lbs of his Chardonel and 2500lbs of Traminette thrus was 3600lbs of Traminette today was machine pick at the winery vineyard...

2 years ago today we closed on our property we now live on full time. i had found my TC about 3 weeks before our closeing and had aranged payment and pickup the day after we closed. (fri we closed, sat morning we headed to pick up the tractor) per my tractor log book. dash hr meter read 233...

turn it off, give me an option to turn it off, something other than disabling JS on my end. its extremely annoying to click on a attached image and have it pop up in the middle of my screen.

anyone have a decent source for some gravely parts. I have acumulated about 6 L/LI tractors now. The one that i have been useng (ie electric start that runs) i thought was realy loud, but thats always been my experience with L's After doing some routine maintenance i noticed the exaust port...

got a line on a hoe finnally. good condion, no subframe I offered $3500, seller wants $3900 (its being included in a TC33 sale so he didnt list a separate price) one bucket and no subframe, used, im thinking $3000 was reasonable. what say you?

Car hauler and equipment hauler. what would you, or have you paid for this PJ Dump Trailers; Trailers For Less 18-20' length. dovetail is not really a feature im looking for. (thinking more like 20') 5K axles, 8 bolt wheels. 8K of equipment/car with an 1500lb trailer (give or take) = 10K...

We had great garden thread last year.... how about updates for this year. Our garden has really suffered. We had a really cool wet spring and ment we had a really late start (or what we did start, rotted/never came up) Greenbeans, beets, letuce has all been a desaster this year, all of...

john deere something... self powered combine thingie?

So i needed to run some power to 3 or 4 diffrent locations around the yard. Most under 50' runs but when you looked at all 3 or 4, it was quite a few feet of wire. Initially i thought about trenching and renting one, but really seems like overkill for such a project. The old guy next door...

Ok so i didnt know what forum to post it under so, i defaulted to hear. After the closeing of the house and i get to get a few new toys, i asked the CFO what SHE wanted in terms of "large item" toy. (got to keep her happy you know). She wanted an above ground pool. OK i said. So after...

Whats an avg condtion smallish used manure spreader (ground driven) go for in your area? International ground driven manure spreader $750?

well not exactly NEW, but new to me :D Theres a little forklift place in a town a few miles from me "out in the middle of no where" and ive ment to stop in for months and ask about forks. I finnally get a chance today while running some other erronds. I walk up and ask if hes got any old...

Bradco 609 To big for my TC33? (im thinking yes but have never seen one in person) looks to be a 9' depth with 1700lb weight supporting 12-36" buckets. if it doesnt have a PTO pump, set up for a skid loader, would my powerbeyond handle it or do i still net a PTO pump? what would you give...

Im going to add a 12-14' wide leanto/shed roof to the side of my pole barn. Do you just bolt the new rim board right over the sideing, or do you cut out the strip were the ledger will be? (either way its bolted to the posts)

well anyone could have them but i know Farmwithjunk has a soft spot for them so... i dont know why a guy would have 4 but he does. John Deere 3 Bottom Plow I-H 3 Bottom Plow Ferguson 3 Bottom, 3-Point Plow John Deere 2-14” Bottom, 3-Point Plow id like to take that 3 bottom fergy and use...

Today i upgraded from a friends borrowed welder to one of my own. A Lincoln Promig 175. Bought used (almost new conditon) from a private seller. $500 (Home depot price $620) Stop at CK welding supply pickup a #2 40 cu argon/co2 mix bottle (own outright) $140, fill $41 misc other stuff...

so assume the answer isnt all of them. my current collection includes -1946 L electric start (turns over, no spark doenst run) 5hp -1947 L manual "parts" tractor 5hp -1958 L electric start runs (ive mowed with it) 6.6 hp -1961 Li manual (havnt started it but complete) 6.6...

Official it took us over a year to sell our house in south st louis city. A quick history of what ive been through. In april of 2006 we activly started looking for property in IL. We had found a property that was in partial forclosure and tried to work a deal on it for about 6 weeks. By the...

JOHN DEERE #494- 4 ROW SEED & CORN PLANTER for $300 seems like the perfect planter to convert to a couple of 2 row planters. keep one and sell the other for $300. What say you?

Picked up my new farm truck tonight. $1500 1985 C30 chevy with dump bed and plow. (crappy pic from tonight) The dump bed doesnt go up all the way. im assuming it needs oil. I dropped Eddie a pm, hear was his response. My pump is intergrated into the base of the cylinder. so there are...

So in browsing craigslist i ran across an old Minneapolis Moline that was propane and it got me thinking..... At half the cost per gallon (i just bought propane last week at 2.29, but last fall i paid 1.73...who would like to pay a 1.73 instead of 4.50?), why arnt farmers going back to propane...

anyone looking for a LARGE gooseneck? 1992 Brooks Bro. Trailer For sale a 1992 Brooks Bro. Trailer $4,000.00. 38 foot long, 9 foot upper deck, 24 foot lower deck, and a 5 foot dove tail.

Was this just discussed? i think i remember seeing a thread, but couldnt find anything so ill ask. Advantages/disadvantages about brakes on the front vs rear on a tandam axle. is there a reason they seem to be on the rear when only one axle has them?

anyone have any idea what it takes (hydrolic GPM) to run one of these? local craigslist add for one but doesnt list any model numbers. Its my understanding that most bobcats have much greater GPM pumps than most CUT's. its 5 pto hp per GPM?

how big is this? local craigslist add for one. but no specs. to big for my TC33?

OMG make the **** "zoom-to-last-post" thing stop. i open a new thread and it dumps me at the bottom of the page on the LAST page of a thread ive never opened before. ive looked for a setting to turn off such a stupid feature (i have a feeling the "zoom to last viewed post" is broken)

Last year some time i came across a hoop house design that was great. I plan to put one in in the comming weeks and need to find the plan again. But i cant for the life of me do it. It was built on a raised bed, bout 2-3' off the ground. Had PVC arches and rope was used between eyelets...

Massey Ferguson 1135 farm tractor looks clean. i curious... what can you guys tell me about it?

1977 Ford F-800 Dump Truck Single Axle what do you think? Ive been looking for a "beater" truck to tow with. seems this might serve as a tow vehical and be an added plus of a dump truck....

So when we bought our property in aug of 06 most of the area used by cars was grass. (in front of the barn etc) The reason for this, after years of little use by the previous owner/grandma (who didnt drive) the leaves, dirt, grass grew over a very solid base of gravel that was put down by the...

dont think i posted these hear http://www.snjschmidt.com/pics/bird_1.jpg http://www.snjschmidt.com/pics/bird_2.jpg http://www.snjschmidt.com/pics/bird_3.jpg (as with any pics the scale is hard to get... the branch he is sitting on is about a 4-5" branch in my front brush pile) My bird book...

So i need a full size to pull a 18-20' trailer. Primary use is short haul (30 miles or less round trip) for my TC33 tractor and impliments for small jobs. (tiller for gardens, brushhog work etc) figure 1500lb trailer? and 4000-5200 lbs of payload depending on whats loaded. (7-8K rated trailer)...

So now that im around the hobbyfarm 24/7... (layed off from my 9-5) i find myself having to bust out the first aid kit more and more. SO im wondering is this an issue with me, or something in general. Now im not talking about "serious" stuff... just regular cuts, scrapes etc. Things that...

Well we are getting closer. This past weekend we called out a friend to come "locate" the water line so we could get it capped off. I asked him before if he had a locater, he said, i have a a backhoe, thats how i locate. Instead he brought out his trenching machine and trenched a 6' cut...

So it seems like a vast majority of the stuff we all buy from HF we are generally satisfied with. (at least the... i paid pennies on the dollar, so the fact that it lasted me only ______ was worth it to me) so to that end... it might be easyer to list what HASNT! gone well. to date the only...

last set i priced were nearly $1/pound. how about these Surplus Center Item Detail 280# for $40

I picked up my first Gravely walkbehind last year. This past fri i added a few more :D (4 to be exact) Index of /pics/Gravely Is there a website that will help me decifer the serial numbers... im curious what i got. <edit> found it Gravely Tractors - Links - StevenChalmers.com <edit> I...

looking for opinions on this Link to CL removed.

lets see your best welding pics... (they dont have to be your own) hears my entry to get us started and of course like all p0rn.. .theres bad also... so dont be afraid to post the worst also... you know.. the bublegum, bird dropping, glue gun pics also :p oh extra credit if it comes with...

Anyone know of someone that has acutally burried (either compleatly or partly) a shipping container to use as a cellar/storm shelter? It will be a couple of years before we have the house built but i want both a celler and storm shelter long before that! Im looking for long term water proofing...

need to carry a camera with me now that im routinly traving 15 or so miles of 2 lane (no center stripe) everyday.... this morning i rolled up on my second accident this summer.... this one had a recker recovering a compact trachoe (8K lb size?) from the ditch. the cab/ROPS was bent in half...

figured id start a thread and get the admins to move the left overs from the other thread hear.... http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/rural-living/105435-fta-free-over-air-satellite.html KC0TXH (basic tech hear) Yaesu 8800 2m/440 in my truck as my moblie. Yaesu FT60r HT. NO base stations...

dispite the title, it really has nothing to do with the desiel kind so it has to go down hear in the rural living:D i was asked to put together a tread of my build. I had entended on starting last week on it, but it went all the way till sat morning before i got started. for the readers...

the website says i can..... but its directons and what exists in the real world dont match http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/faq.php?s=&do=search&q=poll&match=all&titlesonly=0 what am i missing?

So we have an old guy next door.... like 85 or something.... Really nice guy, hes got a bunch of horses, sheep, chickens etc. So we've started to get more "neighborly" with him now that we are spending more time out at the property (almost full time now).... With our big garden going full...

1964 Ford 801 Powermaster Tractor $4750 someones got to snap this one up.....;)

Anyone know of a thing you can buy or build that will turn a trailer into a wagon? They have these things which are trailer movers im just wanting to build something that is self stable sitting there, but i can easly remove the "trailer" part and use it as a trailer again behind my truck...

whats the red thing on the lift arm that seems to serve no pourpous but you seem to see on lots of machinery that has a FEL arm setup? its not a the lift cylinder, its not a gard for the front hydrolic hose.... this case has one I see them all the time but i can never figure out what...

Not exactly a "yet another toothbar thread" as mine are weld on :D I could have sworn i started a thread last winter when i picked up my weld on teeth, but i cant for the life of me find it.. So a quick recap. IN trying to track down teeth locally i came across these weld on versions at my...

is the name for an "all wheel drive" were the fronts are designed to spin faster than the rears due to smaller front tires..... 4wd being reserved for tractors that have the same size front and rears and spin at the same rate. if my above understanding is correct.... so how does this work...

so you may or may not know... we have (mostly) moved into a single wide used trailer we set on our property in IL. I THINK the trailer was retrofit for natural gas (black pipe run along the bottom of the trailer (under the belly wrap.. its "exposed") I think its natural gas because i THINK...

So we are thinking we want to add a small pond. What others may call a "water feature" to the yard. I posted over on pond boss thinking it was a great place to post such a question but.... not so much :( turns out most of the guys over there are into real ponds...measured in acers, not...

well we have a war going on at my place.... the first wave of attack and the casualties http://www.snjschmidt.com/07-05-07/DSC02919.JPG those are to my best knoledge cheery trees. But for the past? (at least 2 years) they have been decimated by the beetles. The reason they look red is all...

so like many ive wanted to add a canopee for a while now.... Along the way i saw someone mention the idea of getting a busted golf cart top from a golf cart place.... So i went on a golf cart place hunt.... Turns out theres one on an outer road on my way to work, back in a corner, hard to...

they are cutting winter wheet in the Midwest these past week or 2.... ive noticed they seem to be cutting it high... leaving about a foot left standing on the ground which they then cut with hay equipment and bale.... is that normal? i cant say ive ever seen it done before....

i need to keep a little cheezy digital camera in my truck.... pasted a flatbed semi today on I-70 headed west. FULL, i mean PACKED with King Kutter attachments. had ohhhhh 20? tillers on the back, 40? box blades in front of them, then a HUGE pile (like they just tossed them on the truck) of...

So its my front yard, hay grass and some alphalph..... The neighbor (an old guy with a bunch of animals) had a deal with the previous property owner. His buddy down the road, comes and cuts the front, takes half, and bob, my neighbor gets the other half..... So he wants to continue the deal...

So for some of you old timers, a blog = web-log i a journal thats online. There are various services that help you do this. With the new property we (with wife and i) finally have a reason to keep one. You may already know i post most weekend-update pics over on our website under property...

Front Drivers 31" mud tire - 0 FEL - 1 ;) what have you jousted!

after running the new tiller for a few hrs its time to put it away..... what/how much do you clean off on the underside?

so im puting in a new garden this spring. (perhaps im late but with the other irons ive had in the fire, by my persective, im doing good ;) ) i had picked up a 2 bottom plow some months ago and at that time decided to make a mess of the yard in an area that would become the garden. (it was a...

a weeks worth of growth and its not even summer yet. i need nearly full "540" speed (aka 2200 rpm) for avg mowing. Taller grass requires less HST peddel. thats a full 72" of MMM.... (my aunt mowing)

So i grew up seeing hay feilds bailed, square, round whatever. Well theres a LARGE farm i drive by when headed out to the property. His "stageing area" is on both sides of the highway, he usually has at any given time 6-9 tractors (ranging from a large CUT to quad tire articulated 300hp...

so i JUST mounted the mower deck last month, checked it over, greased it up, servced etc. then while walking the yard yesterday for the first time in weeks due to the great day and a bit of extra time, but what do i find laying off in the brush... but a big round hard black "wheel" :confused...

if you were going to add an inverter what size would you go with? lets say general tool use, (only one at a time) skill saw, recip saw, drill, drop light, dremel.... anyone ever rigged up a heavy duty inverter to run off the pto? say a LARGE 24 v alternator runn off the PTO with dual deap...

the new spetic was put in last week. We were WAY busy trying to get the house ready for sale (first showing is today at 6:30) :eek: anyway new tank and drain feild set. dont have a lot of pics because we were so busy trying to get the house ready. but i get to have fun with the box blade...

So when you buy and old piece of property your never quite shure what your gonna find. in the past 2 weeks we have gotten 1.6" of rain and we are at full "seasonal high water table" being a scant 2' below the grassy surface. Who ever built the house/property did a great job on the...

figured id pass it along 1956 Ford Tractor 600 Series tractor $2500 brush hog 300 box blade 200 package deal $2800 good deals if your in the midwest area.

Ok ive got a number of threads floating around, usually weekly as we do yet another project..... SO instead of having 15 threads sped out throughout the forums, ill condense things hear as most of the posts will be .... last weekends pics are now up April Pics tis was the trenching weekend...

nearly an inch of rain at the propery sence last sunday. (.9 to be exact) more on the way this weekend..... The trenching project last weekend ment i scraped/tore up most of the grass infront of the barn. Working the box blade i cut the top of down to the hard gravel/chat base, but there...

So i think ive got a line on the hoe that comes off the BX size machines. But looking at it it seems to clamp? on to the rear of a BX somehow not useing the 3pt. Im fairly shure i can get the hoe for slightly less than an entry level cheepy (taylor way etc). the question is, is there any...

Picked up a David bradly today isnt much to look at yet, but its complete. (less attachments) runs? mmmmm no but the motor is free Price was right $35 ill see if i can post another pic or two of my own ;)

My lovely 32x60' pole barn does not have PT poles. Which never occured to me till i started digging at the front this past weekend for the new electrical, and noticed that one of the front posts is damm near rotted off flush with the ground :eek:. so i think i want to cut them back 1' above...

How much manure can you spred on pasture/hay feild? you guys talk pounds per acer? number of application times per year? My old neighbor has about 15 horses in way to small a space. He has quite a few piles of manure out back, and was considering spreding some on my 3 acer front "hay...

so This is the first spring ive had my property. We purchesed last aug. So now we are finding all the low spots that hold water. And i have a tractor with various impliments to both eliminate low spots, and or cut proper drainage. but :mad: :mad: :mad: hears what ive found. its to wet to...

THere have been a couple of time when ive found myself stuck by most standards.... had it not been for my FEL id had to go for the snatch strap and or logging chain a couple of times already. Well this past weekend.... the FEL wasnt helping :mad: so ya shure your thinking, he could get...

Ok so not exactly an attachment, but as i will be wearing it ATTACHED to ME, i figured why not. I was surfing the intarweb the other day, and ran across Leathermans new tool. A combo pruning shear/mulit-tool. I had to have it! :D Now a little background, ive had a leatherman in my pocket...

props to whoever can name this plant that is sprouting out of my front yard.... didnt see it last year (we got the property in aug) rhubarb? the asparagus isnt up yet... (note the fullsize is a BIG pic to get full detail) and yes, the mower deck is going back on the tractor this weekend...

There is a rather old (15+ year) peach tree on our new property. It has suffered from years of neglect including storm damage that was never pruned off. When i got to it late last summer/early fall me and bow saw were busy. Last summer you could hardly tell there was a peach tree mixed in...

looking for a good veggie gardening book. Perhaps to include various methods of putting veggies up for long term... canning, freezeing etc. a breakdown of various gardenging styles..... what veggies go well with others, dont plant your xyz next to your abc.... standard rural garden size...

yep thats what i did yesterday! house is in, the trailer people will be back later this week/weekend to level it up etc. for all the pics Property Pictures started at 9:45, worked continusly till about 2:30. Backhoe was much better at tugging than my small truck ;)

so im down in memphis this past weekend visiting the family and whatnot... and my dads good friend has his 2wd TC40 in his shop. so im looking it over and happen to notice something odd... the wheel weights on the back seem to be on backwards? so as i look at it some more come to figure out...

so its been slow at work for the past week or so... so i took the opertunity to finnally get around to updateing the website with all of the property pics. most were simply pulled off the camera, resized and posted. We are looking into blog type stuff to go with but for now you can look at the...

ran across this.... figured someone might be intrested could be yours for $1800 1951 B John Deere tractor 3pt hitch. NICE!!

anyone identify this plow? no info given with the listing could i pull it behind my TC33?

dont think the wife will let me start collecting old iron just yet... so im going to have to pass on this one.... but i figured someone else might snap it up.... 9N FORD TRACTOR listed as $600

so our property was largely overgrown in many areas due to neglect. The area in question (this week) was an area that was orginally set aside to grow rasberries that were brought back from CA when the previous owners moved to the propert in the late 70's. This was the spot we wanted to set the...

Ok the previous owners of my property raised asparagus. i have aprox 5 rows 60' long of asparagus that has been growing in the patch for 15+ years. (i have a lot of it aparently) the trouble is it hasnt been kept after for the past few years. the rows (garden) you can still make out but is...

so i got a buddy that is trying to get an idea of what to sell this thing for.... take a look and let me know..... Seems like google says that "decent" condition ones still go for as much as 10k+ with 4x4 and loader..... runs great, starts right up... needs some new tires and or tubes...

last weekend was the last use of the deck before i took it off (for the first time) and put it up for the winter. a few pics (cause everyeone likes looking at pics) doesnt look like it was ever taken off and cleaned under the belt sheilds. the DIRT was thick. picked up some color match...

Well at only 253 hrs i went ahead and changed all the oil in the tractor (300hr service) so a few notes on my experience 1) the dealer thinks filters have platnum filter eliments or something $60 for all 3 oil filters. :eek: 2) got 10 gals of "generic" trans fluid at the rural king for $30 a 5...

So for 40 i can get "Good sheet metal, matched knobbie tires , wheel weights ,no engine or implements" worth it? i mean its only $40 and i now have lots of space to store junk... (just have to convice the wife its ok to start collecting old "junk" ) :cool:

Sense we were having so much fun debating the finner points of tire pressure in the other thread.... i thought this would be kinda fun... a plane is standing on a movable runway( something like a conveyor).as the plane moves the conveyor moves but in the opposite direction.the conveyor has a...

so i finnally got around to getting a draw bar for the 3 pt and picked up the premade stablizer dohicky that is suppose to slip over the end of one of the 3pt arms..... all was good till i went to put the stablizer thingie dodad on and hmmmmmm ive got the delux 3pt arms.... and the widget wont...

so we are in the process of biding our septic (new) for our new apt/house on the property. got the soils test back today seasonal high water table is 18" (yes thats inches not feet) NOW WHAT! toward the back of my property it starts to fall off a BIT... (im talking 5-6' tops) so im...

So ive had my 5' ford hog for a month or so now. most ive done with it is make a pass or 2 through my front "pasture" which is a wheeny knee high. Ive taken out some brush with it around the house... nothing really "up to the task" kind thing.... well my neighbor has an area (1/2-3/4 acer...

finally got around to getting a page put together of pics from the Carlinville fall fair / tractor show etc. This was last sep 19th weekend. Was a great craft show, they have an ausome blacksmith shop (looking into takeing some classes this fall/winter) and tractor show was ok. (lots of...

looking for pros and cons for bolt on tooth bar vs weld on style tooth root. So far i have bolt-on alows you to take it off weld one allows you to have a virtually flat bucket profile. im in the process of acumulating parts for adding teeth to my bucket. Locally i can find a 2a size weld...

Installed the rear remotes yesterday i bought when i got my tractor. really straight forward. I SAID i would take some pics of the install, but alis, i was without camera :( also took a sec to loosen that castle nut on the 3pt handle which makes that MUCH nicer. now if i could trouble shoot...