compact TLB vs. full size TLB
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RedOak
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That's great, Gale. I'm very happy to read that someone that age has been taught to operate a machine like that: good for you! 
Pulling out another machine is one thing, but how about when you get your own 4x4 backhoe stuck? I've been there, and that's when you have to get creative, and "...find more uses than you can imagine." -- DirtyWorks ( in Post #7 )
Have a good one down there ...
Pulling out another machine is one thing, but how about when you get your own 4x4 backhoe stuck? I've been there, and that's when you have to get creative, and "...find more uses than you can imagine." -- DirtyWorks ( in Post #7 )
Have a good one down there ...
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Gale Hawkins
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That's great, Gale. I'm very happy to read that someone that age has been taught to operate a machine like that: good for you!
Pulling out another machine is one thing, but how about when you get your own 4x4 backhoe stuck? I've been there, and that's when you have to get creative, and "...find more uses than you can imagine." -- DirtyWorks ( in Post #7 )
Have a good one up there ...
Our son and daughter turn 13 in Sep and both wanted to did a hole the first day we got out on the BH. They both were better than me at the controls for sure that first day.
They are developing seperate interests natually but Austin is really interested in tractor driving. So is Heather but her size and build makes a full size tractor a little much for her brake and clutch wise.
I hung the 265 MF when I rolled backwards too far mowing off the tops of grass in a ditch cut a few years ago by a 36" trackhoe bucket. I slipped the tires about 6" forward and backwards but with both tires in the trench and the bush hog tight on the ground I was hung tight. Yes I have learned when in a hole I do not want to be in to STOP digging.
I was only 1/2 mile from the house and another guy was there watching roofers on the church so I got him to run me up to the house and Austin and I went back down on the BH with chains.
He was eager so I decided to do nothing but to stand aside and coach him through the operation. I had spotted the BH and let out the boom but that was all.
He got the MF out of gear, connected the chain to both the MF and BH bucket and then set up the BH on the pads correctly. The BH has a hitch welded onto the back of the bucket and he worked it out nicely. I have him to run it at about 1000 RPM when doing a recovery like that. He had seen me do this operation about a month ago.
What was really cool for him he got to drive his late grand dad's MF back home following me driving the BH. By cutting across some fields we never had to cross the state highway and was only on the wide shoulder a short distance. He did well and stayed in good control.
Our kids are important to us and being about 45 years older than them I think makes us aware our years together may be limited and we need to pass on every skill possible when we can safely do so. In some ways I would be better off in a physical sense not to be messing with the tractors, truck, trailers and implements but it is good training for the kids.
They are in on most all of the servicing and repair of equipment, motorhome and other things around the place. They both can find their way around TSC quite well.
On the BH it is a 4x2 but so far I have got it out of what I get it into but it has maxed out my brain a few times. I am going to try to clean out the 36" ditches but that is going to be a task to get and keep center of the ditch. I have done a little practice of moving the rear wheels side to side with the hoe. The FEL will help me float the front axle I know. I guess I need to rewatch some of the Youtube dancing BH videos.
