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Thanks! Getting it home was another story... almost felt like I just paid to get punched in the face! 30+ mph winds on ice covered roads and an empty cargo trailer...

We got 16" of snow on top of existing 12" and the temperature has been around -10°f to 3°f for the last 3 days. I was out pushing some snow, making a path to my skids of firewood which I store all the way on the other side of the property because of rodent issues. well... about halfway, the snow...

I have been looking at purchasing an enclosed car hauler/cargo trailers and have several options, but was wondering if its worth the extra for an all aluminum instead of steel/alum? Do they hold up better or worse? I have only ever owned steel trailers which the paint falls off and they get...

I have quite a few of these... but 4 years ago I set out to replace the entire heating system in my old house on a new basement. There is now 2000 feet of PEX routed in the sub-floor with a 10 port/zone manifold, each room has its own thermostat and the basement slab is heated but is only 1...

the stock lights on the XJ are just blocked by the loader and are not very bright I bought some 7" cheapo flood beam combo led light bar lights from amazon for $30 and 4 4" cubes for $10 each. I installed the 7" with 1 forward and 1 backward. The others were going to be for the sides (1-2...

Came home from the store and I seen my neighbor, who just got back from spending the summer in Alaska, trying to cut down his acre field with a hand string trimmer. I walked over and chatted with him for a bit and he said he tried to rent a tractor to mow the field but no one in town has one to...

1 trip is always better then 2, right?

Zip tied up 2 of the 6 LED lights to the ROPS and ran some wires along the frame with some switchs... Pretty freakin bright for just 2 small lights but not quite daylight!

Thanks Doofy! Google isn't embarrassed for me so here is what it looked like in 2012 when i actually cared to mow down my weeds. Hardly seems like the same house now!

Thanks! Sad I have no before pictures and no tractor work in progress pictures.... to embarrassed for the before shots ;) and my wife is to busy helping to follow me around with the camera

For 11 years I have lived with the back half of my inside yard being weeds and rocks... but now that we are selling the place, no expense is spared! Lures are great for catching the big fish! ;) over the last 2 weeks I removed 6-12 inches of rock packed soil from around the house and screened...

This was actually last week 15 week old puppy is already to heavy... need to move her around using the tractor!

It looked like what was coming out of mine was clear also until I pulled the bucket out from under the tractor and seen it in the bottom of a perfectly clean white bucket. In this image from machinery lubrication I would say my hydro fluid was either right at the third bottle or slightly less...

the SSQA plates are slightly less straight from the company. Mount Plates - Skid Steer Attachments I've been wondering about the different ways to do the float for the plows and the affects they have on the tractor. I noticed when using a fixed plow on the front of a loader with it in float...

If you are already wanting to build a ballast box/tool carrier, I think the size you are thinking would be good. The backhoe sits out further then a ballast box would so the tractor holds the weight different. This summer I'm going to be using a box blade to level out quite a bit of my "inside"...

went out and hooked them back up to the backblade

I don't have paved driveways and I was tired spreading all my gravel all over my yard with my back blade. I got a free set of skid shoes and thought I would hook them up to my back blade but also make it so I can remove it all when not needed. Here is what I did, for anyone who is interested...

correction.. certainly not welded in the center

I just finished up filling all 4 tires on my little xj2025 tractor and just thought I would share if anyone cares to know... the front tires hold 5.75 gallons each and the rears hold 17-18 gallons each. Total weight ~ 400lbs

With the materials I have on hand, I think ill build it like this. Now the question is. can I find the metal I'm looking for under all the snow?

I'm thinking about building a lightweight snow removal bucket for my little XJ2025 tractor. The tiny bucket it comes with is great for doing dirt work but snow doesn't weigh much and i would want to get as much as possible with each scoop. I looked at larger buckets at the rental shop or...

Was out pushing some snow around yesterday and a bit after I noticed a small puddle of coolant on the garage floor... looked all over couldn't see anything but they pack those engines in so tightly, its hard to see. Wasn't the overflow. I'm thinking it came from the lower radiator hose coolant...

Good idea :thumbsup:, but unfortunately not for me... I cant sit still that long. I like to do stupid things like drive 60 miles into the mountains in zero degree weather to visit with family and check on the mining equipment. The drive was actually quite nice! Seen a bald eagle and 2 wolves...

Only seat I'm sitting on today is inside.... -3f

Came home and my tractor was getting its weekly dose of snow, so I thought I would see if it could cold start with out using the glow plugs... LS XJ2025 Tractor - cold start - no plugs... - YouTube why? because I could... :laughing:

I've been searching for a couple years now for a "cheap" rototiller because I'm a poor bastard and I finally found one on CL that I was willing to buy. Got it for really good deal because I bought it with a couple other implements. Is this thing worth fixing up or should i just run it as it is...

ummm wow...

maybe this will help.

why? what is the reasoning behind this suggestion? LS recommends the change of the filter at 50 hours and fluid at 500 hours. Are you saying they got it wrong? or just recommending this to play it safe? If we changed the hydro fluid in my families mining machines every 250 hours, we would be...

the relief valve is on the right side under the seat, should have a hydro hose coming out. You will need to loosen the nut and then tighten the screw with a hex key wrench, then when happy with the change tighten the nut back. With out putting a gauge on it, I don't recommend turning it up more...

now that you got me thinking about it again... Went out in the garage and took the backhoe off. I think if you take the 4 bolts on the sub-frame out you could fold it up and cart it way but it is still 7 feet long and 4 foot 5 inches wide... to make a dolly to fit this I think it would be a...

I looked into this recently. I think I'm going to hold out and fab up a hydro thumb... I think you are going to have to go with a bolt on model if you don't want to do any kind of modifications. They seem rather chintzy to me because all the pressure is on the 4 bolts and seem like they would...

Worked on the pallet forks again last week for a bit... Added 8lbs more steel to each of the forks. basically created a double I-beam or box beam rust protection via the rustoleum safety blue and some D rings for picking up stuff.

sorry OP for all this off topic stuff :) here is a quick go at the drawing. there is also the 5 in slab loops (ran as one) that run at 100 degrees f and a 10 port manifold that feeds 7 individual in floor loops on the first level that run at different temps depending on the outside temp. I...

I have a couple pictures from some text. These were from first install/testing, there was no primary loop yet and I had it hooked up to a turbonics mid velocity blower to test heat output and cycling rate compared to the old boiler. Each heat exchanger is capable of 140k btu, I put in 2 because...

I wanted to keep it light as possible to get all I could of the 1270lbs lift cap. Ill get some weight measurements tonight. My guesses are the forks (very light) weigh 30lbs each and the frame weighs 90lbs but I think I added more steel then I actually needed to. My helper seems to approve of...

I built these pallet forks from a pile of (s)crap steel I have in my back yard and today Ive been moving things around in my yard with them, now that it stopped raining for a bit. I have some videos ill put on youtube later. I built it out of .25 thick steel 2x2 square tube and 2 chunks of 6...

Thanks for doing those test, I think you confirmed what I was hoping for, rather than a lemon HST. Did you have any rear ballast or attachments on? I have the BH mounted so maybe the extra weight is why I cannot crawl over at all from dead stop? I havnt had a chance to test the pallet forks...

that looks like a forney 95fi stick welder @ 95amps conkli48 Try stopping by your local steel yard every so often. Usually you can pick up some drops (end pieces cut off less than 30 or so inches) for a price per pound because they are not worth much for commercial use. the steel yard wants...

On Monday, I was working on my SSQA pellet fork build and went to pull the front of my tractor into the garage because I didn't want to wheel my welder out of the garage. There is a 1.5 - 2 inch lip on the concrete leading up to my garage door and with the tractor in High range it just wouldnt...

My FREE set of SSQA pallet forks! I needed a set of forks for my little tractor and could not justify the cost of buying them so I built this ugly thing from a pile of CRAP steel in my back yard on Monday... while home on a sick day from work :) With my lift cap at ~ 1270lbs or so, it didn't...

I got these forklift parts for free the other day... are they worth building something with or should I just eBay them?

My brother dropped this off at my property this week and I don't have a use for it. He tried selling it on CL, but had no takers. He got it for free and was just about to take it to the scrap yard but I told him not to... so apparently its mine to deal with now.

I am going to be doing some trenching between some trees to bury a bunch of sprinkler lines I currently have on the surface and my hoe came with the 12" bucket. Im only planning on digging down about 12" and would like to use something like a 6" bucket so im not having to move to much dirt...

this is what i got... 1 hose from the pressure relief valve and 1 from the front loader valve. might have to make a bracket and figure out a cleaner solution or i might get the rear remote option.

I'm curious to know how others or their dealers connected the backhoe to the tractors hydraulics for those who have the same configuration. FEL and BH I assumed the backhoe would have been connected to the tractor via an optional quick connect remote valve kit but instead I see hoses running...