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I went through two def tanks for my m5-111. The last recall was the fix. No problems for the last few years. It regens often. Probably because I don't run it hard enough. I don't like that when I am mowing, and the dpf is about full I can't do a manual regen. It's not that easy doing loader work...

It's on my superduty, but I have never used it. I might id i did have to setup each trailer for it with stickers or something. Also, I turned on backup brake assist to try out. I put a set of traffic cones behind me and backed up. When the truck put the brakes on, my back tire was centered on...

Grease will dry out in less than a year.

I wish I had grandkids to take to the beach. I remember 30 years ago when I stayed at the Banff Springs hotel on my honeymoon. The dude at the desk asked if I would like to leave the room on my Amex card. I thought hard for while wondering what the heck a Amex card was. Then it hit me, he was...

Also, not everyone pays. Those that do pick up the tab for those that don't. My daughter's 1 week stay in the trama center and two surgeries were just over $100,000. Insurance picked it up. Blue cross is suing the guy who hit them to get their money back. He had the lowest tier insurance, so...

Is that a swing motor? All fords i ever saw had cylinders to swing the boom. You will never find a parts for that. Part it out, or junk it.

I have a kx080. But if I wanted a smaller machine I would have no problem with that one.

I thought my l4630 could handle most anything with a 6 foot cutter. Used it last week to cut a field and it struggled. Weeds were about 5ft tall. I have had my 8 ft on my m5-111 and it stalled the tractor down. Switched to a 10ft batwing and it never slowed down.

There is a women i know who owns 50k acres. The only machines I have seen is an old mack truck and D5 sized dozer. The dozer only really does fire lanes.

If farming or making money the hst will use more fuel than a gear drive. To me it doesn't matter about fuel. My time is more valuable than diesel, that's why I bought a 15ft mower and a 100hp tractor.

If all they sell mostly bx sized stuff, then yes. If they sell a lot of the M sized equipment, then no they won't go under. My equipment doesn't stay clean long. I bought it to do work.

That machine is new. It's just been sitting on a dusty dealer lot. Every machine I looked at in the past 30 years, they tell me to run it around the lot and try it out. The last one I tried the lot was muddy from rain, and tracks got dirty. That grease zerk pic tells me they at least put...

True. My wire less system can only do 600 mbits. If wired, I have seen 1.9 gig. My router has a 25gig to the isp. It averages 35meg. And we stream everything.

With g-pon it's not symmetrical. The company can make it symmetrical, but it's something like 2.5g down and 1g up. Very few people need 500 up.

They still are good for that. Just need to equip them for the job. I would drive through anything in my d6. It was an open cab with a nice cage around it.

Inland marine insurance. I don't worry about them stealing the tractors now. They are insured for what I paid for them.

I always try to use the track as a step. Ever slipped off that muddy metal step? It hurts. Digging over the blade for stumps, you have more power. Ditching either way works, but with the angle blade you have little room.

Lots of low income people here just run the pipe to the creek. Mine is up to snuff, but I have seen many trailers with a 4 in pipe sloping to the woods.

Don't know about his, but my bush hog and tractor are 33ft from back tire to front bumper and 10ft wide. I cut on uneven ground. One side always seems to be dragging. I always have a hand on the hydraulic level to lift it up.

I started using mig to hardface my excavator ripper last month. The 33lb spool was some where around $500+. My welder guy uses stick for now. We don't perheat anything and the hardface has held up well. We just need the operators to change them out when they wear the hard stuff off. There are...

The cable plows we use range from 12" to 46". They aren't made of hard metal . We hardface everything. Some of our plows are 40+ years old. They wouldn't last 3 months without.

My cutter wouldn't lift up once. It end up being a quick connect on the loader. Rehooked it and all was well. We once had a vibratory plow with several quick connects. The violent shaking destroyed each one.

My kx has a ripper. Definitely makes less mess when root cutting.

I have pushed over a few. You don't just drive up to it and push. You have to cut the roots. Unless it is a shallow root tree like a holly. I have a set of jaws I can push into the ground and welded a wedge to hook the roots and break them as i back out. My 46 horse can do it, but my 100hp M5 is...

Those above ground shelters may be ok for most storms, but I have seen where homes used to be and the tornado cleaned the slab off, and no debris was seen. Mine is underground and you could drop a D6 on it, and it will survive.

They did for the last pipeline here. They cut our fiber cable and admitted they f'd up. That was a first. Then they gave me and my splicer a team of Mexicans and a 330 cat to dig it up and fix it. One of the contractors told me they were expecting a $50,000 bill. The most the accountant could...

Pipeline people will pickup the rocks and leave a road like they found it. Unless you ask them to leave them.

We have tried to hire people to replace me for years. The schools are crap and we are in the middle of nowhere. The people that live here can't grasp the technology. Most can't spell vlan. Everyone else won't live here.

I have been on call 24/7 for nearly 30 years. About 15 years ago the company priced a charter company to fly to yellow stone to get me if something happened. I wouldn't know what to if I were like you. Back to ai, I have gotten lazy and use chatgpt to write a python script to any api that I...

Nice machine. Get the hydraulic thumb. It's worth every penny. I have used mine countless times picking up random junk around my Daughter's new place.

I have the pioneer 1000. My 83 year old father has no problem riding in it. The power steering would make it easy to steer if he drove it.

The first two piles of wire and fence post I dug out today after buring. I restacked the burn pile and will get the rest out later this week. The grass is knee deep so while fire sitting I bush hogged and found more a few post with the mower.

Thats why i went for lamanated tires. I run over some really rough stuff.

You can get old airplane tries. I have seen some really big ones on bush planes. They are expensive new. Anything that will fit your rim and have clearence will work.

You will love the handyness of it. Which I would have bought mine years ago. Only problem i have is it's slow. Moving it a mile takes forever.

That's why I idle down to engage. But on my hst tractor or the m-5, the clutch just disconnects to wheels from the motor. It has nothing to do with the pto. It spins no matter what you do with the clutch. On the m-5 at idle, I can't just engage the bushhog. It will stall the engine. I must be...

Why all the clutching to engage the pto? All three of my tractors have a live pto. You can engage or disengage any time.

On our l5740 I never use the clutch except to start. I stop to change ranges. I have a GST a M series and the HST and to engage the pto no clutch needed. I do idle down to be easy on the internal pto clutch. On the M5, I have to be rolling to get the big bush hog spinning and not have the engine...

Until it crosses something else. My favorite locator was a rycom back in the 80s. The old dynatel were liked also. The other day a young fellow handed me a new locator with a color screen and asked how to used it. I gave it back and told him the last one I used had one needle and a buzzer on it...

I have been told, if you have a pile of tires and burn them at night, nobody will know. You can throw the metal in the metal dumpster.

Yes, the state water water board used one. If you use gps and have a laptop, or take it back to the office to process, it possibly can work. I have never seen one do this. I have seen the real time version and it's show a disturbance the the soil. Is it a pipe, cable or body or a tree root? No...

A lot of cable locating is the experience of the locator. With so many dead copper lines in the ground, it is more voodoo than science. I have a guy, when he puts a mark on the ground, it's where the cable is. He has been with us for 30 years. He might sacrifice a chicken before he locates.

I use a limb ninja. It looks like a cheap 48 inch brush cutter, but I was backing up and pulled up a 5 or 6 inch oak tree, and it didn't hurt it. It has been a tough little cutter.

Back in the latest 80s, we crossed an oil pipeline. They came and marked it, we started digging and noticed all the oil people were about a half mile up the hill. That's when we stopped the backhoe, and each of us got a shovel. They never said how dangerous it was if we cut it, but with them...

On our 700+ mile rebuild, we will have built over 9 different water boards. Only 2 have any idea of where their pipes are. The rest may as well throw a rock and say that's where the water line is. One area has a pipe no one makes any more and no idea where it is and no way to repair it.

A few years ago, we were plowing to a new tower and hit a unknown spur to the gas line. It was feeding the next county over and they paid to leave the plow in place for about a week with the gas line leaking and a team just sitting there. Don't remember it all, but I think they were looking for...

It always depends, lonfleaf can burn every leaf when young.

I had a limbinator, a hydraulic chainsaw on a pole. It was slow and har to use and hard to maneuver.

It would have been their problem or their insurance company. That is in every contract.

If you cut this cable, i am told it is $800,000 per hour till it is back in operation. This is a fiber optic cable the runs between Houston and Atlanta. It is a main east west internet cable. It took about 12 hours to repair. A contractor my company hired cut it. They called 811 and lumen said...

That is what happens here. You will get what the market price is when the tree was cut. I don't have a tree worth $1000 in my lifetime.

Just ask a logger who cut over the line. They are only worth a few dollars, maybe.

It's mostly done. It was able to put it in two piles, which is all my mini could push. The third pile has no wire in it. I cut the wire every place I could easily get to it. All those damn vines were harder to deal with than the wire. Now, I will wait for the state to lift the burn ban and pour...

This is extremely rural. They are using a few 750 deere doziers to do the plowing. When they move to town, they will be doing g 90% directional boring. That will be when they use the miniexs and will blow the cable in with an air compressor.

It is a usda funded fiber to the home project. Each thing the contractor does has a price. Boring is the most expensive, and plowing is one of the cheapest. The plow passes a house and they dig a 36 inches or deeper hole to the edge of the ROW place a pedistal and loop of fiber. Rinse and repeat...

My friend several excavators up to a cat 330. He says anything with a blade is a mini. So I went with it.

Where are you going to unload? Today, there was no parking in the ditch, and you have no idea who is going to call the cops using their private land. The state engineers and cops aren't going to let you unload in the road. Some contractors use a mini ex others use a backhoe. The larger...

In Alabama, the magic number is 26000 lbs. An f250 is 10k gross, and the trailer is 16k. My setup is 12500 lbs empty.

But you can't drive it down the highway. That is why I bought it. I will have 5 jobs done and your still moving to the second one. Also you can jack the back tire up to a cable spool and wind up the cable.

The tree sized shrubs have grown around the wire. I can use the ripper that fits nicely between the thumb to grip the wire and pull out what little will come.

Different jobs and people. The m62 can be pulled by a f250 and no CDL. It can do small jobs. The 420 will go out with a vermeer plow pulled by a class 8 truck. The kx080 is my personal toy. I use it on the farm.

The old man that owned it, left me about 60 bails of old half rotten hay. The string is like brand new stuff. I pile it up on the dump trailer and have 100ft dragging behind me. That poly sting is everywhere, I am surprised it has not rapped my bushog up.

He can't cut that part. It is my new dove field. The other field where I cut about the wire is his. I plan on herbicide for what comes back. Crossbow, I think, is the name.

See what he is willing to do, then go the lawyer route if it's not what you like.

I start moving mine in the first 30 seconds. I wear short sleeves in February because it warm here.

While I am thinking about it, how much debris can a round bailer handle? My rut tree cutter can chip small or dig depending on how fast I feed it. It will sling that stuff about 50 yards. I am trying to keep it clean for a local farmer to cut for hay.

I have bought 60 acres of mostly fields. I started with a kx080 with a tree/brush cutter just above the fence cutting the hedge brush. That was messy. Winter rain stopped me from doing the other fence till next year. Now there are two cow lots that I want gone. It's grown up in trees and...

I have a cat 420 and a kubota m62. For most things I do, they do. The only plowing I do is fiber optics. What is snow? An excavator with mats will go where a backhoe won't.

I thought I didn't need one for years. I have 3 daughters, and none will even drive the cab tractor while I shovel dirt in the bucket. Because of no help I decided to buy a kx080 and I love it. It's just their inheritance. Now, a backhoe sucks and one of those add on things for a tractor...

I want an m6 kubota to replace my m5. I can afford it but I just can't make myself write the check. Would rather have fendt, but the dealer is 300 miles away.

Also, when they have two cables holding 50k lbs of logs, those cables are usually loose after a mile or so. There is that one loose log that wiggles it's way out and into your lane.

Filled in means full flow. Blank is no flow. That screen is in setting. An error is more like a pop up.

Looks like the aux flow setting for the thumb.

All of my underground splice experience is communications. There is a reason we bring up all the cable in pedestals. Transport fiber optics gets buried to hide from the bush hog. Water doesn't hurt fiber, but a lot of those splices are full of mud and water when we have to go back.

I would never put a splice underground. Unless it fiber optics. I have been in telco for nearly 40 years and have never seen a splice be waterproof. If it's below ground, it will get water in it.

Drive over a root, and you feel every roller that rolls over it. A ctl is fine in the smooth yard, but any debris and you will pay. And they destroy any grass you have. When moving my rubber tracked excavator, I have to try not to trun in the fields or I leave dead grass.

On the equipment that has to have the key on to move the hydraulics, I will leave it however it is. I left the boom truck holding stuff overnight several times.

The only time I was ever worried about a piece of equipment was an excavator I was demoing. The salesman wanted me to try it out. I have been a backhoe guy for over 40 years and told him to move it to where I couldn't hit anything, and I would give it a go. There had to be half a million worth...

Pipelines have deep pockets. One around here, cut our fiber last year. As we were repairing it, a friend the worked for them, said they were expecting a $50,000 bill. They gave me a team of Mexicans, a translator and a cat 360. I only had to bring in a splicer. They did all the digging, and we...

There are some farmers here that will drive a combine 120 miles one way at harvest time. It's cheaper than hauling because of the permits needed. There is a tricycle spreader that comes through every few years spreading lime. He covers nearly every farm in the 2 County area getting rid of lime...

I have seen some gates that had 10 foot spikes just for those type people. The state dozer might make it through, but they will just drive around it.

I would be OK with either. Bolt cutters would be faster than a key. Here in Alabama, volunteer firemen aren't the sharpest knife, and the rest would have no problem trespassing.

I have banged a tree or two with the bucket a few times and lose the ability to go. An engine restart was the only was to get it going. The pedal went to mush each time like the linkage broke.

I have a 2014 3.5 eco boost with about 90k on it. Only problem is the blend door motor on the ac. It clicks several seconds every time I crank it or just open the door.

You have to give a key to the FD? Hell would freeze over here before that happened here. I learned in property law that you don't have to give access to a yard. Barnyard, graveyard etc. Or and orchard. Go find a lawyer. May have missed it, but folks should say where they are in cases like these.

The air ride is pure heaven when compared to the 4630s spring seat. I added to swivel to make it even better.

I have the rings and chains. The blades do opposite directions. I run it in 540e at about 560 rpm most of the time. It gets run hard and will chew anything or spit it out. As I remow the clumps it just moves it behind the main blade. It looks like a windrow ready to be bailed. The dealer sold...

I have a 2810. Mine will pile up the grass behind the main cutter and be clean under the wing. I got it to mow ditches. Yesterday was the first field I mowed. My 8 foot one will spread the cuttings much better. Does yours do the same?

I mowed about 7ac of my daughters overgrown place that she just got. The dust looked like rain rolling down that back glass. About midway, I had to blow out the radiators (4 or 5 of them)to keep the tractor from over heating and to keep the ac blowing. If it had been an open station, I would...

I haven't seen a new Massey here in over 30 years. I wanted a fendt but the closest dealer was the other side of the next state. It was one of your posts that made me look at Massey.

Op could be like me. Only choice here is kubota, deere and Massey. Deere construction stuff was horrible so they are out. I have an m5 kubota now. If did it all over again, I would look at Massey real hard.

I am up about $150. Slots only. I got bored and went to a pawn shop and bought a gun. That put me in the hole.

I can shoot my neighbors?

If you just pull the bucket toward you, it will slide a 420 Cat across the ground. You have the put weight on the tractor by trying to pick up the stump some. That presses the outrigger into the ground. Then you can pull the bucket to you. If it still slides, then you need to dig up the roots...

Pretty sure it was ford engine. Haven't looked in years. We used the pto to run a drill to bore under roads. Took about 4 plus hours per bore. It also had a crane, so no stacks. We ended up buying really long hoses to get way from it.

You should stand near my 91 f800. It will make your eyes water.

The m62 I have blows a lot of heat back towards the operator. When backhoeing, that's rough. Also, to do anything backhoe related you have to run wot to get two functions to work right. It has no cruise control so mowing will be a pain. Unlike a deere, it will pick it self up out of a bog. I...

My yard is dusty. I enjoy the filtered cold air of my tractor.

I have had one for about 9 years for my m5 kubota. My only complaint is that I ordered too many tines on it. It will hold dirt when I use it as a root rake.

Put a tube in it and run it till it fails. On an ford 5000, I had side walls peeling off and we ran it for years.

I have seen dad use the tiller to push him through the garden. It was too wet to till that day.

Bought an anbo root grapple around 2015. It's tough, heavy and made of some hard steel. Ar400 I think.

If a 10 is too small and 15 too big, it sounds like you're stuck with what you have. I looked at all the 12 footers out there and decided they were too flimsy. I should have got a 15 and disconnected one drive shaft. Sometimes a 15 would be nice, but that's rare for me.

I have a 2810 bush hog. It has no problem cutting grass and saplings eye level with me in the cab of my m5-111.

Cats. Give one or two just enough food not to leave.

My problem is, it wants to regen about 10 minutes before I shut it down. I want a button to force a regen.

Take the Pic and hose to an auto parts store that make hydraulic hoses and say make these work. They should be able to do it.

Two. A m5 and l4630. I bought the m5 to put a creep gear and a mulcher on it and never did. I did buy a 10 foot bushhog and cut my mowing from 3 days to about 1/2 day. It's nice to have 90 pto hp. I use the 4630 to cut the grass around the house.

Pole saw. It's what we call it.

Aroumd here, saws are so dangerous, that no logger is allowed to have one by the insurance co. They will use a limb saw if necessary.

I cycle tractor def to the pickup about every 2 months

Around here, I know people who will get come get that driveway for fill. They use it for riprap.

But stand outside my house and capture my ethernet.

I bought the wrench. Now I can change the pump in less than 30 min. The first one my old mechanic and me took a few hours. It was the bottom one and was impossible to see what you are doing.

i have a 46 hp and it won't start a 10 foot bat wing. It will barely start an 8 foot bush hog. My 105 hp m5 will turn it with the blades tilling ground. When I start the m5 with the loader off, pulling my 1810 (10ft ) the front tries come off the ground. It weighs almost 2000lb.