BX Arrived
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Charliebrn
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I've rented a spike style aerator for my BX last summer. It also weighed about 500 lbs, but was not a 3pt, it had it's own wheels mounted that levered down when finished. I would image that the 3pt would be ok as long as you had enough counter weight up front. Handled hills just fine, even some fairly steep ones.
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RET
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Just gave the newly arrived BX a mudbath today. I recently advertised by word of mouth that our above ground pool was free for the taking to make room for the new inground pool to be installed as soon as the ground dries a little. Well, some folks showed up this morning with tools-in-hand.
With the large and frequent rains we've had this winter, the back yard is literally a marsh. One dares not venture back there without rubber boots. My son found an old pool toy and was floating across on of the numerous "ponds" in the back yard today!
In order to disassemble the pool, the wooden deck on one side had to be disassembled. FINALLY - an excuse to play with the new toy! So what if I make terribly deep ruts? -I'll use that to further justify to the CFO the need for the tiller and box blade I'm shopping for! Using chains and the hooks welded to the top of the FEL, I pulled out all the 4x4 poles (with a sack of concrete on each) that once held up the deck. After hauling them back to the burn pile, I hooked up my 5x10 trailer to the BX and hauled the remaining deck lumber back to the burn pile. All the while, the mud is getting mushier, the ruts are getting deeper, and it's just getting FUN!
Then to get some training on the FEL, I back drag the sand that was under the old pool and dig up various sizes of concrete stepping stones scattered around the old pool area. I really didn't accomplish much of anything productive, but a guy can just play, huh? By the time I back out of the sand pile for the last time, the tires are sinking nearly axle deep in this south Louisiana muck and I'm having a blast!
Finally, the sun starts getting low on the horizon and I'm forced to spend the next 30 minutes hosing off the thick mud that is plastered all over the tracter and call it a day.
Now, I have the next 12 hours or so to find another excuse to play in the mud tomorrow (and nurse my sunbuned baldspot!).
I justify my boyish behaviour by reminding myself that every one on TBN has done something equally silly at one time or another. Right?
Ya'll have a good evening,
-R
With the large and frequent rains we've had this winter, the back yard is literally a marsh. One dares not venture back there without rubber boots. My son found an old pool toy and was floating across on of the numerous "ponds" in the back yard today!
In order to disassemble the pool, the wooden deck on one side had to be disassembled. FINALLY - an excuse to play with the new toy! So what if I make terribly deep ruts? -I'll use that to further justify to the CFO the need for the tiller and box blade I'm shopping for! Using chains and the hooks welded to the top of the FEL, I pulled out all the 4x4 poles (with a sack of concrete on each) that once held up the deck. After hauling them back to the burn pile, I hooked up my 5x10 trailer to the BX and hauled the remaining deck lumber back to the burn pile. All the while, the mud is getting mushier, the ruts are getting deeper, and it's just getting FUN!
Then to get some training on the FEL, I back drag the sand that was under the old pool and dig up various sizes of concrete stepping stones scattered around the old pool area. I really didn't accomplish much of anything productive, but a guy can just play, huh? By the time I back out of the sand pile for the last time, the tires are sinking nearly axle deep in this south Louisiana muck and I'm having a blast!
Finally, the sun starts getting low on the horizon and I'm forced to spend the next 30 minutes hosing off the thick mud that is plastered all over the tracter and call it a day.
Now, I have the next 12 hours or so to find another excuse to play in the mud tomorrow (and nurse my sunbuned baldspot!).
I justify my boyish behaviour by reminding myself that every one on TBN has done something equally silly at one time or another. Right?
Ya'll have a good evening,
-R
TresCrows
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Yeah, the core type is more diffucult to pull and the only such ones of that type I have seen have cost as much as ( I was going to say JD /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif ) and are nearly as heavy.
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Let the fun begin RET.
Glad your new BX working out great for you,and you shall come to see no protects are to big around the homestead now,also you project list shall grow.
Enjoy and stay safe.
Glad your new BX working out great for you,and you shall come to see no protects are to big around the homestead now,also you project list shall grow.
Enjoy and stay safe.
markcg2000
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Congrats! Aren't they a blast?
<font color=blue>...every one on TBN has done something equally silly ...</font color=blue> and then some! /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif
<font color=blue>...every one on TBN has done something equally silly ...</font color=blue> and then some! /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif
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RET: congrats on your new tractor. AND I HOPE U PAID PROPER HOMAGE TO THE HIGH PRIEST OF THE BX/w3tcompact/icons/grin.gif and no i never did anythigh silly just to have an excuse to play/w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif well except for the time i, and then there was the one time, then a few times i,/w3tcompact/icons/hmm.gif guess i diddo such stuff/w3tcompact/icons/blush.gif enjoy your tractor and scann some photos and post .
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Oh, mighty priest of the BX,
I humbly exalt thy vast wisdom.
Thou hast led me to vast areas of unmowed grass;
Thou hast shown me the unkept ground;
Thou leadest me to the answer for all my outdoor worries.
Yea, though I walk through the shadows of overgrown brush, I will fear no thorn, for thine adopted son, the BX, will always be with me.
May thy words of wisdom lead millions more to the sub-CT light;
and may the crow trilogy be with us all forever, and ever.
Your humble student,
-R
I humbly exalt thy vast wisdom.
Thou hast led me to vast areas of unmowed grass;
Thou hast shown me the unkept ground;
Thou leadest me to the answer for all my outdoor worries.
Yea, though I walk through the shadows of overgrown brush, I will fear no thorn, for thine adopted son, the BX, will always be with me.
May thy words of wisdom lead millions more to the sub-CT light;
and may the crow trilogy be with us all forever, and ever.
Your humble student,
-R
