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Much progress being made since I last checked in the trusses are all made up and we started stranding up posts today. I was gifted a 100+ year old pine that I managed to get all the 2x6s for the girts and purlins from. Trusses under the tractor shed for safe keeping. Posts starting to go up...

All the beams done plus an extra 8x8 cant done rest of the weekend is gonna be resting and spending time with family.

First beams coming off the mill this weekend 3"x8"x20'

Big day today concrete went down so I took off to supervise and made a good bit of sawdust as well. First post off the sawmill. Soon to be lumber Finished stack for the day all posts cut and some bonus 2x6s.

Rough idea of my plan drawn up on solid works by my buddy at work, it's gonna have 4 posts instead of 3 and be 18x30.

Formed up a new slab two weekends ago now waiting on concrete hopefully this Thursday. And then the first tree fell today. I'll attempt to keep this updated but I tend to get sidetracked easily so no promises.

I've been talking about rebuilding my hokey shop for a long time now and I built a bandsaw mill with the intentions of sawing limber from trees on my own place to build with. Tore the crappy POS down two weekends ago, what a blast.

Demolition time for the new shop build! Tearing out some very poor concrete.

I am tearing down my current cobbled together scrap heap and I have an idea for the slab I wanted to ask opinions on. I would love to put one or mutiple pieces of t-track in the floor to use to bolt down various pieces of equipment for temporary use like a tube bender or router table. Has anyone...

When I went to get my new mower last week I had to lay a piece of ply down on the deck so the 800lb beast didn't fall through. I fixed that problem today, had some white oak left over from a customer who supplied logs to deck his gooseneck.

Good to hear, I brought it home today no grass to cut but I'm ready for when there is in the next weeks.

I'm in the market for a new zero turn this coming year and I have it narrowed down between a Hustler and Kubota dealers based on how I've been treated so far. I have an excellent relationship with my Kubota dealer and the Hustler guys are small mom and pop place who give me the warm fuzzies...

Here's what I got sawed up the weekend

This is the old growth pine I nabbed today.

Truthfully it took a 3 year hiatus but never the less I started this sawmill 4 years ago and finally decided to finish it in the last few weeks. It cuts amazingly well I'm super happy with it so far. Only have 10 foot of track built right now so I'm limited to 6' boards but as soon as I can get...

I have a very slight almost insignificant dent in the hydraulic filter on my manual transmission MX4800 and I'm thinking about changing it before I make a skid guard for it. I am wondering how much fluid I can expect to loose in the process, I see it has a magnet that needs cleaning so I won't...

Joking around with the boys at work.

Little pulse mig on some heavy plate brackets.

I can fill this one up from work here's some 7018 work I did on my bucket thumb recently.

Do we have a forum vendor than deals in Maschio products? I need some repair parts for a tiller and would like to use a supporter if possible.

OK here's V2, dad and I talked and he felt the rod failed because the mount failed and vice versa so I welded it up proper this time. Besides the repad I also changed the open width to 36" instead of 42" and that alone made a world of difference in the smoothness of operation. The gussets are a...

Had the same thought about the welding last night as I was settling down I think I'll just reweld it as is but maybe add a little preheat to the AR before I do. Here's the pics of the pin you wanted I took them then got sidetracked with broken stuff.

Fix or toss? Ovrszd

Well thanks for all the compliments but I'm afraid I have some bad news, I've already broken it. I was trying to grab a pile of brush and had the thumb half open and pinned it against a tree and rolled the bucket down at the same time and bent the rod and tore the mount off. I was a little...

42"

Built a simple little thumb to help clean up the pines in front of my house and other general use. To keep weight down I made it from 1/4 inch AR400, the weight of the thumb is 41lbs and the cylinder is 18lbs. I need a flow restrictor some kinda bad because it's super jumpy/snappy I'll run by...

Wondering where most people are getting 12 volts for the WR Long valve install on the MX series tractors. Absoutely amazed at the ease of install with this kit well worth the money in my opinion.

My wife is extremely selfless, I constantly spend money on projects, guns, hunting, tractor parts ect and in the 7 years of our marriage she's been nothing but accepting and giving. Her biggest hobby is growing things she loves orchids and odd stuff like succulents but anyway I digress. I want...

Re: 2007 Bad Boy ZT 60" 26hp B&S In my opinion the drives are going to be the death of that mower everything else is easily fixed or replaced even the engine. I'd price the drives and place my bets on if I could live with buying a replacement drive but at only 500hrs I wouldn't...

8 teeth on mine I went higher as I use it a lot for grubbing and raking.

Looking at getting a new mower for my MX4800 to help maintain around the house more to take some load off my old zero turn the plan is to eventually get a nice commercial zero turn but that's just not in the cards at the moment until I get the tractor paid off first. I'm looking at RFM or...

Here's a shot of the roof line where my issues are, most of the house is brick and raised so I don't have the flooding issues elsewhere but PPP resulted in this being below grade. This is a shot standing at that corner looking back out into the yard. Plenty of opportunity for a french drain...

My yard is badly leveled away from the house and I have issues with my washroom flooding during extended hard rains so my next project is going to be gutters on the house and french drains. Trying to understand the drains do they need to enter on top of the ground somewhere or can they be...

Stole Sawyer Robs idea with his firewood pallets and managed to finally get one filled up and the Ol MX did manage to pick it up probably a little less than a 1/2 cord there.

I have about 1500lbs on the back of my MX4800 and I've not once wished for less thus far. I've hit the pressure relief several times and never seen the rear tires lift but I did have one instance where I had very little traction because of the lack of weight on the rear tires. This is with...

Finally won't be sad to see this job gone...

Does any one know what size hose threads go into the female quick connect on the MX series loaders? I borrowed a pressure gauge to check my pressure with I'm trying to grab the adapter I'll need while I'm in town today.

OK enough for today needs more smoothing but I'm not having much luck with that having all the roots and straw to contend with isn't letting the dirt flow like I want so I'll have to back up and punt on the finish work, might just let the rotary mower do the finish work.[emoji14] Here's the...

So went over to Pa's to grab the box blade this morning and had to mod it a little to work with the Pats but after I got that out the way I attempted to move some dirt, the roots and straw were making it impossible and I got bent out of shape and jumped off the tractor and started trying to pile...

Well I've kinda posted them around in different threads I'll share here as well too I guess.

Everybody checked all their antifreeze and water pipes tonight and tomorrow night are the kinda nights around here that are gonna kill engine blocks and burst water pipes.

Here's some more shots of the one up by the house and the one further down my road. I just want both gradual enough to bush hog and not wash out. Down the road

How should I go about grading this Work it from downhill side Work it from uphill side Or work it along the way I took this picture?

This is my first project with the loader and one of my main reasons for buying it. This little hill at the edge of our front yard has been an eyesore since we bought the place. The previous owners had let the azelas get completely out of hand and it had tons of saplings and bamboo briars in it...

Want to touch base here again I actually used the 160 pretty extensively this AM to weld out my tooth bar and it did and exceptional job. Want to apologize to SA for my 7018 skills I'm mostly a mig/tig guy don't get a lot of stick time in the shop. Power Arc 160 TSC Hobart 1/8 7018 Light...

Working on fabbing up my tooth bar and I'm wondering which way the teeth go on when I get finished, it's not super obvious they fit equally well both ways.

What's the general concensus concerning the use of 3pt limiter chains with a ballast for loader use? Thinking it would be good to get the load off the hydraulics or does it not matter?

Broke up some expanded metal today at work may get around to welding it on this weekend.

Just put together aluminum platform number 56 of 59 I can finally see the end of this job thank god.

OK so admission of guilt I found out this afternoon why it was so jumpy, somehow we overlooked hooking up one of the tilt cylinders last night and that was causing the issues. Got that straightened out greased everything up real good and topped off the fluid then the first thing I did with my...

I am thinking about making some wheel weights for my MX4800, my tires are loaded but I still struggle with spinning out in my sandy loam which really gets tiring when I'm working a 10 acre dove field or my food plots. I can easily make a 3" thick or 3 1" thick plates to go inside the rim about...

Started building a brush guard for my tractor tonight, gonna be put on hold now for a few days because my loader is coming in tomorrow and it's gonna take priority. Still need to gather some springs and roll pins to fab up a spring pin latch and figure out what size expanded I'm going to use on it.

My 3pt lever seems to have become real stiff in the last day or so wondering if anybody has any idea what could cause it. Looked for bent linkage or something but it attaches directly to a shaft that goes straight into the transmission so there is nothing to check it's almost gotta be internal.

So LD1s thread has motivated me and I'm interested in setting up something similar to what he has done but with a single valve for a hydraulic top link. I have virtually the exact same tractor as he does and I am wanting some help picking the correct valve, I looked briefly but there are so many...

Pats came in yesterday and I am in love I can't imagine why I waited so long to purchase these things. Pulled the fire breaks right away with no issues then this afternoon I did a ton of blade work using this behomuth blade and never skipped a beat.

I need to do a little more crown work but after 4 and a half hours on the tractor in the 39* 10mph winds I'm officially done for the day. Blade works real nice but it's almost more than my tractor can handle without a goodly bit of front weight. All the steering was done using the brakes on the...

And to make matters worse I have these sitting in the living room floor and I walk past my brand new shiny pallet forks every day when I leave for work and get home...

I ordered a loader for my MX4800 DEC 13th, my dealer said it shipped invoiced and shipped on the 14th and should be about a week out now two weeks later he told me today that the freight line has lost it. I'm so mad I could chew nails right now I really wanted to get it in before the long...

So I want to regravel my road soon and I'm curious if I should remove this center median first or just leave it. I've never had a bit of trouble from this road in the 5 years I've lived here just want to freshen up the gravel. It's probably 6-8" in places and grassy.

What's the difference in this and Pats hitch? Just curious about it is all I already have Pats on order. Field Tuff Universal Fast Hitch System - For Life Out Here

I am considering this system for my MX4800 but I need some input on how it does with heavy ground engagement like a sub soiler and plow. I regularly push to the limits of my traction with loaded tires. Will it handle this level of use ok?

Looking for some used quick links for a 3pt hitch prefer ford style.

Got the paint on it this AM had a heck of a time with my spray gun I thought I cleaned it real good last time I used it but apparently I was wrong.

Yep I'm pretty happy with it as is but I'm only around 1200 lbs far less than the 2000 I was aiming for. I'll have to see how it responds with the loader installed. Moving this behemoth magnolia will be the first test.

Update hooked the tractor up to it for the first time and it picked it up no problem. I can deadlift the front end of the tractor and judging from what I can do in the gym I'm thinking I'm around 200lbs on the steering axle right now. I've got it in the shop ready to spray tomorrow and I have a...

Yeah I'm defiantly going to drill some weep holes right at the concrete level when I'm satisfied with the weight although I don't keep much of my stuff outdoors. Here it is with 13 bags of 80lb mix in it I won't be able to test it out until I feel confident it's cured enough to hold itself up...

So my big root rake needs painting and I'm going to tackle it over the holidays. Right now it has a nice rusty patina but no major rust. I'm going to wire brush it and I wondering if I can substitute Ospho for primer? Maybe Ospho and primer?

Building this counterweight box for when the loader comes in should weigh right around 1 tonn hopefully. Should I paint it before or after I fill with concrete?

I want to take advantage of the sale Titian has going on right now and I'm wondering if these forks are a good choice for my MX4800. I read something about buying forks with built in rollback once I know these dont have any. 36" Pallet Fork Attachment Tractor Forks Kubota Holland skid steer...

Does anyone know offhand of the LA1065 found on the MX series tractors has a 3 position valve or 4 position?

Anyone ever tossed around the idea of a front mount cultivator run off the loader arms? Of course it will need gauge wheels but it seems like it would be a lot easier to operate and keep out of the sweet corn.

I have a large pond on the back of my property that has been busted since I bought the place. It busted at some point due to beavers blocking the run around and now I have a 15' wide by 15' deep hole missing in the dam. What is the proper way to repair this what equipment would it involve. Could...

I'm in the market for a 48" grapple and I am looking for options on which to choose. I keep seeing lots of reference to the Wildkat option but can't find any results on a Google search are they still in business?

Any thoughts on these for bucket teeth thinking about making 10 or so to weld on my bucket, the shank is made from 1" thick A36 and the tooth itself is AR500.

Where is a good source for a 12 volt diverter valve to use my curl function to open and close a grappel? I understand the Surplus Center option is no longer avaliable but thei got to be another place to purchase one and I'm striking out so far finding it.

At the end of this year I am planning on building a nice shop and I am trying to get an idea of what I want/need size wise. My absolute requirements are that it be air conditioned and a nice vehicle lift. What would be the minimum size for a 2 bay shop be? My uses will include a '68 El Camino I...

Another big basket full this morning.

Second haul got almost half a basket full this time.

Huh I felt it was pretty mediocre been awhile since I walked a cup.

Ok so said I would tig some with this machine but since life has gotten in the way and I just got around to it tonight to do a little artsy project for the wife. Only had some carbon around so I ran two quick passes on it with a bevel. Pretty satisfied with it actually the starts are really nice...

What are the tricks to getting good tie in down in inside corners with stick mainly 7018? I struggle with this it ends up being a big blob or having slag inclusions most of the time.

Picked the first beans this afternoon lots of small one on the bushes should be picking them by the handful soon.

Think the operator needed to change his underpants?

It did a little better on the other side I slowed down on my pauses and let it burn in more.

Guys I bought some 6011s to use on less than perfect joints I've got and I feel like it's running super cold any thought. This is at 120 amps electrode positive it's very cold looking and **** to start.

Coming up on lunch and here's where I've made it to. About another hour and it'll be operational but I'm going to completely rebuild the top link bracket next week at work and a little more minor welding mostly cosmetic.

Few pics of our maters this year they are loving this weather.

Decided to improve upon my rotary mower before this mowing season got into full swing. Missed on the tail wheel length the first time around so I lengthened it and decided to upgrade to a clevis style hitch while I was at it.

No sir on this table.

Made these parts last week for a job at work, the cuts are alittle choppy but when you get that thick every single bump or shake shows.

My NOS Everlast arrived today figured if give it alittle review first impression type thing. Little background on me I am a fabricator and have been welding for 14 years now. I specialize in stainless steel and aluminum and mostly run P-GMAW or GTAW but not much SMAW, I have however certified on...

Cultivated the beans and field corn this afternoon ain't nothing prettier than clean straight rows of groceries.

I need some reviews on DC gate openers, we want to put one on our main gate into our property but I'm concerned with the longevity of them. We use this gate everyday 4x a day possibly more on some days and I'm curious how many years of service I could expect out of one. Money is not really the...

Started working on cleaning up the pines in front of our house. Really wishing I had 4WD it kept wanting to walk along the downed trees instead of going over.

Where do you go to find out what the THD is on a certain generator? I have one of the troy built 6500 watt generators from lowes and I want to know. Power Generator | The 625 Watt Portable Gas Generator by Troy-Bilt

Pushing brush up with my root rake this weekend and had a limb come up and try and kabob me so I decided to add a little expanded metal for protection. This will also give me a good place to mount a chainsaw scabbard of some sort and a gun rack for storing guns or even hand tools like shovels or...

Put a golf cart top on mine just something I had laying around I repurposed.

Shot of the beans as of today, pulled the cultivator through them Sunday had to go back through and uncover some of the butter beans but the pole peas did great. Corn is still way too small to even photograph well.

Tore two more stumps out of the yard today the ground was really soft from all the rain which aided everything a lot. I had superb traction so much so that I was stalling the tractor before I spun out in low range.

Maybe ask this guy?

What are my options for an aftermarket loader to go on my MX4800. Wish I had purchased it with the tractor but I just didn't have the extra income at the time. I would love to buy used and am looking for information on models that will fit.

Weekend update, Got the irrigation done on the other half of the yard which is the blackberrys, scuppernogs and blueberrys. Then I got on a tangent, this old stump had been here since I moved in and the fir next to it had recently died. I made the drastic decision I wanted them gone. So...

Removed the other one too but it was a major pain compared. Took a lot of digging and axe work. Before After

Crap...

Delt with some old dead trees in the yard and rolled a rotted stump up.

I have finally destroyed the cheesy turn buckles on my MX4800 and I want to upgrade to the telescopic end links and tube sway adjustment. Anyone know how much the kit should run through my dealer?

Want some advice from yall. I have buckwheat to plant as a cover crop, we are supposed to get rain this weekend and I would like to take advantage of that but it's also supposed to cool off but then warm up by middle of the week again. Should I wait to put it out till the cool spell passes or go...

Looking for advice for putting crusher run under my 30x60 pole barn I use for equipment storage. Right now I only have about 4" clearance on my ROPS right now so I need to remove dirt first. For this particular application can I simply remove 6" of soil then add back 4" of crusher run?

For me it certainly is, my wife and I debated for a long time one what to buy before we bought our duramax and it was the only vehicle that fit all our requirements in one package. It's four door to allow hauling children when that comes, gets good mileage, allows me to move my Kubota and many...

Planted another style of tomatoes, some bell peppers and jalapeño peppers on the 10th. I'm probably a little behind but oh well. Wednesday I put in 8 rows of silver king and 6 rows of silver queen. Should be room for 4 rows of okra on the far end and the cukes and squash will go on the near...

Today went well got the irrigation put on the orchard but I'm still playing around with it may need a different sprinkler head. Planted cangreen beans and tinder greens. Tinkered with the fertilizer sidedresser some but ran into needing some bushings to finish getting it all together...

I have a Cole side dresser I want to mount on a Pittsburgh cultivator frame and I'm wondering if anybody has any pictures of such I'm not seeing the appropriate way just from looking at it.

So yesterday I did manage to get corn planted, did 8 rows of silver king and 6 of silver queen. Not much to see but here's a pic. Now today I decided to tackle the old side dresser and cultivator frame I plan to use this year. For now the plan is just to do the bare minimum to get it all...

Got home from work this afternoon and got that blasted gang back under the harrow frame and completed a little more maintence on it then I decided to put out fertilizer and till the garden in anticipation of planting tomorrow. Ended up getting interrupted by grandpa wanting some help up at his...

75 of this year's tomatoes

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Here's the pics of the irrigation. Used the subsoiler to pull the line way to lazy to dig trenches. Didn't get many pictures the wife was running the tractor and I stayed pretty busy. Semi finished arrangement the right side of the wye goes to the drip on the maters and peppers, left side...

Hitched up to the tree digger with my handy helper at the wheel. Now with that out of the way I reconfigured this raggedy old cultivator to lay off some beds for plastic for this year's tomatoes. This is also one of my restoration projects coming up. Got interrupted by the fellow I let fish...

Start a thread here to share the ins and outs of my small hobby farm. My goal is to go into early retirement working myself to death on a market garden one day right now I'm focusing on putting a significant portion of my income into buying tools and implements needed and improving the land...

Is there a simple non evasive way to bypass the seat switch? Whenever I get on a slight grade I can't stay in the seat well enough to keep it engaged and it's highly annoying. Today I was mowing round the pond and if I tried to look back to watch the mower I just couldn't keep the seat down too...

Had company coming fishing tomorrow so I needed to tidy up around the pond some. The fellow I let fish is actually selling me a 3pt sprayer with a brand new in box pump for 150$ so the least I could do is trim around the pond for him.

Sorry this took so long this week has been crazy for me.

Looking for a spring tine cultivator or rotary hoe in the Augusta area or surrounding parts of Ga travel as far as Macon or Athens for the right thing.

Can a homeowner go and rent either of these items? I have some work I need to do that my tractor won't handle but is such small scale it's hard to hire out. I know I probably won't be able to rent anything large just looking for thoughts from people who have been in my shoes.

What oil s needed for a rotary mower gearbox? I bought my gearbox and built my deck and frame so I have no manual. Will just any good gear oil suffice?

Working in clearing up some cutovers to make dove field and food plots and I needed something to pile up limbs and pull out small gums and cherry trees. Made up this sorta root rake type thing and it's quickly becoming my most favorite implement. Today I was working in a food plot and was...

Is it possible to add a remote kit to my tractor without buying it through Kubota as in an aftermarket kit? I regret not getting it now but it was a 900$ option and at the time I couldn't see it need now I have tons of ideas.

Any one feel like sharing any information or thoughts on building a plastic mulch laying machine? Looking to expand my operation in the next 5 years or so and this is going to be a major player. No easy options for buying one I checked my dealer can't source one.

I would like to refrain from the general bashing of tier 4 and so on just facts. Stick to personal experiences and not what happened to your neighbors uncles tractor. I want to specifically know how many hours on your tier 4 tractor and what issues have you had how many regens how many hrs...

I was even impressed with this one.

Can anyone tell me if there is a standard Wix filter number for my MX4800?

Wife wanted to do some landscaping and decided these old azelas needed to go. The MX4800 and homemade root rake made short work of it.

Been doing a lot of looking for used planters and got sick of looking at overpriced junk so I bought this lightly used new set from the dealer. They had them laying around for a few years and one of the employees had used them to plant a dove field once. Picked them up yesterday afternoon and...

2013 Duramax hauling next year's load of wood for heating.