tomrscott
Gold Member
My new (well, "previously loved", used to haul nursery carts) JD 790 adopts me tomorrow!
Weather permitting, that is, if it doesn't sleet or get so icey that they can't get up the driveway (1/8 mile long mountain goat trail ;-) ) Even if the truck can't get up the hill, they should be able to drive the tractor up, but it doesn't have any traction ballast on it yet, so if the weather were to suddenly get real icey, they might take one look at our hill and go home. They wouldn't be the first truck driver to turn tail rather than take on my driveway. I actually had a mover in a 16 foot bobtail truck jump out of the cab into the bushes on teh side of the road, sure it was going to tip over and tumble down the hill.
Not very likely the weather will get that bad though, it's 36 degrees F outside right now, midnight. Weatherman called for snow down to 1000 feet and we're 1270, but I don't think it is going to get that cold.
So my new green and yellow yard ornament is a 2000 year model John Deere 790, with 1319 hours, brand new R4 tires and wheels, brand new 419 loader, brand new Frontier 65" boxblade, aftermarket FEL pallet forks. Then once I've got that here with pallet forks my neighbor is delivering a Jinma Chipper (have to have my tractor here to unload the chipper from his truck).
First project is to add wheel weights that I'm cutting out of a giant plate of steel.
Second project is to add Top and Tilt for grading purposes.
Third project might be to build a 3pt trenching plow. Amateur radio ham, need to dig a cable trench to a new antenna tower soon.
After that, something from CAD Plans will probably catch my fancy.
Is it okay to be excited? /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
First worked on a John Deere about forty years ago when I was 12 on my uncle's farm in Audubon Iowa. He had a JD "B" and if memory serves me a 4010. I got to drive that "B" and loved it. My second tractor (shhh don't let my wife hear) is going to be an old "B" I can restore. It would be my first if I didn't need 4WD to work on my driveway.
Weather permitting, that is, if it doesn't sleet or get so icey that they can't get up the driveway (1/8 mile long mountain goat trail ;-) ) Even if the truck can't get up the hill, they should be able to drive the tractor up, but it doesn't have any traction ballast on it yet, so if the weather were to suddenly get real icey, they might take one look at our hill and go home. They wouldn't be the first truck driver to turn tail rather than take on my driveway. I actually had a mover in a 16 foot bobtail truck jump out of the cab into the bushes on teh side of the road, sure it was going to tip over and tumble down the hill.
Not very likely the weather will get that bad though, it's 36 degrees F outside right now, midnight. Weatherman called for snow down to 1000 feet and we're 1270, but I don't think it is going to get that cold.
So my new green and yellow yard ornament is a 2000 year model John Deere 790, with 1319 hours, brand new R4 tires and wheels, brand new 419 loader, brand new Frontier 65" boxblade, aftermarket FEL pallet forks. Then once I've got that here with pallet forks my neighbor is delivering a Jinma Chipper (have to have my tractor here to unload the chipper from his truck).
First project is to add wheel weights that I'm cutting out of a giant plate of steel.
Second project is to add Top and Tilt for grading purposes.
Third project might be to build a 3pt trenching plow. Amateur radio ham, need to dig a cable trench to a new antenna tower soon.
After that, something from CAD Plans will probably catch my fancy.
Is it okay to be excited? /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
First worked on a John Deere about forty years ago when I was 12 on my uncle's farm in Audubon Iowa. He had a JD "B" and if memory serves me a 4010. I got to drive that "B" and loved it. My second tractor (shhh don't let my wife hear) is going to be an old "B" I can restore. It would be my first if I didn't need 4WD to work on my driveway.
