Bansil's Shenanigans begin again....

Bansil · Mar 3, 2024

Got a bunch done on day one, this is alot more tractor than my friends, I am glad I went this route. I have bolt on hooks coming in next 2 weeks. I really could have used them yesterday.

Started with this mess, 25 years of farm crap.

rolled up wire, old mower, a seeder, bush hog and misc. Metal crap. I found 10 old disc's, I think I'll make a wok out of one.

Cleaned up some, need to let it dry some, popped front hub of truck again, need to replace instead of bandaiding again.

She fits, barely!

You can see more misc. Crap I found piled up here, backhoe pinned up has 6 inches of clearance with doors.

Today will be interesting......you see that path through there?follow the white string.....Neither do I, today we need to find the corner for fence.

EddieWalker · Mar 3, 2024

Congratulations on your new tractor. It looks really good in your barn. Something I need to build one of these days for mine!!!!!

Bansil · Mar 3, 2024

Thanks

, Damn...Tyler Texas....was a crazy place back in 1994-ish. Friend lived there and rode rodeo when he wasn't laying block/brick and the sweethearts...wild visits for sure!!

EddieWalker · Mar 3, 2024

I moved here in 2003. Before the rush!!! Now it's growing faster then it can keep up. I bought when it was cheap, and you can't say that anymore. Now I'm not sure if I'll stay or retire somewhere else. The traffic is almost as bad as Dallas!!!!

Bansil · Mar 5, 2024

Sunday I played with fel, practicing for next big project, this is main reason I bought the tractor, we have a major drainage problem, that we had quoted to fix at between $25k and $50k from 4 different contractors, they knew it couldn't be fixed w/o a dump truck and a way to move and dig....this is the area I need to fix and I'm sure I will be on here and another forum for answers.
Just scratching surface.

Moved several loads of dirt to low areas.

My big oops of the day, standing water for a week+ is soft when a 9600 lb truck slides to the right...oopsey

EddieWalker · Mar 5, 2024

Nothing like having to dump your load in order to drag your truck out, then having to load it all buck up again!!!!

Bansil · Mar 8, 2024

So the issue is a ****** up grade job that they quite, because they ran out of "money" and we gave them the grade plans, I told him you need to dig down 13 feet to get the flat area we need, every day we would say more, like the drawings....finally we came home his equipment was gone. We used the allotted "time" so he was done. We actually got 2X's the work for per hr rate.

Any who...

So I will fix it over the summer....this was during this week, 6+ inches of rain again.

You can see the ditch a neighbor tried to do for free to help us, but no idea what he was doing.

Far right upper corner is several feet higher than the low end so unless they dug a 5ft deep ditch it just wasn't going to work. I started moving dirt. The red line was original ditch....so I filled it in and decided to move it 15ft of so (water line wouldn't allow enough slope for drainage.

Today's progress until I got rained out.

Red line is the original ditch.

Oh!!! I ordered a transit and stick and they showed up today...it's been 30 years since I used one, should be like a bike except for the technology nowadays.

Also will gain more parking space!

Bansil · Mar 8, 2024

I probably moved 25 or 30 buckets of dirt, mostly piled up some was spread out, to soak up water, this was almost all water when I started....now it's all mud

Next is to move the trailer and load the fire pit onto a pallet and move it out of the way.

Oh,and my pallet forks came in today, need to take them to the barn

Bansil · Mar 8, 2024

I shaved almost a foot off the top in the corner area.

Bansil · Mar 9, 2024

Long day in the rain...R14 pimp shot...what a sloppy mess

Had to use BH to break up the clay

I've made it about 15 feet wider...

dirt piledup...may name her ms.piggy

Hard trenching, clay,then glacier rocks and let's mix in maganite and some other molten lava iron glass crap...holy crap its hard..

it's ugly and needs to be dug out again, but I drained 8+ inches of water....
Spent an hour or so moving dirt to other end....mud pies baby!!!

tacticalturnip · Mar 9, 2024

You're really putting her to work earning her keep! Aren't R14's great? I'd think only R1's do better in the mud; the hybrid tires are awesome in snow too.

Bansil · Mar 9, 2024

tacticalturnip said:
You're really putting her to work earning her keep! Aren't R14's great? I'd think only R1's do better in the mud; the hybrid tires are awesome in snow too.

I was unsure at 1st. Only used R1 and turf and the w bar ones, the last 2 suck, these are 100% better. And they don't tear up the yard..urghh..mud pit as bad as R1

I took some video and will do a tire review, several folks have asked...they are like an R1 took advantage of a drunk super swamper at a camp fire....wife was like those look like our old race tires...im thinking low range, 1700 rpm...im not cleaning them out...but with my hard base these rock!!

Try to get review up tomorrow...now I'm soaking in a lavender hot bath, listing to Japanese Zen garden drinking a chardonnay....damn im sore , I pinched my sciatic nerve last week....drive on trooper...the CAV taught me that...or abused me