CT 36

[rebel46th]

I can tell they had a ball there Koopster. I'm envious I'll have more time next year. I've been restoring our old 1820's farm house for the last three years (Army of 2) and we're close to moving in, hopefully April. My tractor is at this farm and I live an hour away.....Two of everything right now - house notes, electric, water, insurance and on and one. I'm looking forward to some play time and some extra money.

Reb

 

[Tractor Shopper]

Hey Koopster, that does look like a fun day with the kids, I'd love to do that around my house here but I'm in a prime snowmobile area right here and if your caught on a snowmobile trail with a tractor or ATV tou'd probably end up in jail, snowmobiling is a practically a religion up up here and you don't mess with it......lol. Next year when i get my acreage cleaned up though it will be an option.

On the box blade note my tractor is a 47hp with a 16 x16 shuttle so i think I can handle a 6 foot now problem, my buddy only has about a 35hp Case with hydro and he seems to do fair around here with the 6 foot on so mine should work a little better. Really like the new toy so far but haven't got to do much with it yet, just waiting for spring to get here!

 

[koopster]

I hear you, T-S. Snow machines are a lot more fun anyway. We sold ours as there is not as much time to use them down here. I put the MC in 4th & 1st and tow the kids nicely at about 1600 rpm. It is enough of a woods/field ride to keep them covered w/ snow. What is your soil like up there?

Just filled the oil tanks today. 320 gallons for the entire 12 months, including oil fired hot water. Wood is a pain but glad I have it! 8" of snow due today. Split a half cord or so and now it is tax prep time.....Gotta make sure Uncle Sam gets a piece of the play money!

By the way...I just zoomed into your photo and saw the plastic is still on your seat....Didn't take you long to get the camera out, huh!!! LOL

 

[koopster]

Rebel, post a few photos. I still have our old family homestead, the main portion is 1789 era. I went through two years living while renovating. We heated and cooked on my grandmother's old farm house cast iron cook stove, Every time we wanted to use dishes we had to wash the old horsehair plaster dust off them first... I do not miss it one bit!!!!

 

[Tractor Shopper]

Hey koop,

Our soil up here is a little bit of everything, we are notorious for glacial till which means we have sand, gravel, clay, silt, rock you name it we have it. Sometimes its mixed up and sometimes you only have one to deal with. On my 125 acre lot the front 100 acres mostly nice sandy materiel with at least a foot of good loam on top, here I have a red pine plantation that is growing well but could be doing a bit better, the old man may have missed the call on this plantation. The back 25 is a clay, silt, loam mix that we let go naturally and have grown like wild fire, our forests respond well to natural regenration.

My other 50 acres is also a till of clay, silt, loam, gravel and sand but it has about 6 acres of wetlands that is just swamp, the front 10 acres by the river is great farm land and the back is decent forest growth but you never know what you'll get, a friend of mine has 70 acres in the same area and it seems to have a tonne of ledge rock in it, so i guess it's luck of the draw.

Yeah those pics of the tractor were when it was being delivered and the plastic is still there.....lol.

I also burn some wood as well but only a few cord a year, built a brand new house this year and went with all the extras to make it a cheap heat house, so just electric base board and a wood stove keepss my heating pretty reasonable.

 

[koopster]

Sounds really nice up there T-S. Are you maintaining only woodlots or do you plan to seed down a piece? I wanted to get a cab on the CT55 but was afraid of wrecking it in the woods....been there on other occassions!

 

[Tractor Shopper]

Probably just keep it mostly woodlands, I came from a family of loggers and we never really had the knack or desire to farm much. Saying that once i get a camp built on my river lot i would like to have a healthy garden. I was approached one time by someone looking to buy the Red pine plantation for a blueberry farm, and he said he was just going to tear down a 30 year old plantation so it must have some potential but i wasn't interested in selling, matbe something to look at in the future, but I'm not a farmer.

My father would probably have a heart attack as well and my grandfather would roll over in his grave if I destroyed that plantation.....lol

Thats my biggest worry with the cab, it will be a pain in the rear in the woods, but i will have to do alot of snow removal in the future so this tractor will do that work, may have to look in the future for a better woods tractor, for now I'll just have to be more careful and cut my trails wider.

 

[rebel46th]

koopster, check your pm.
reb

 

[MtnViewRanch]

Hey Koopster, that does look like a fun day with the kids, I'd love to do that around my house here but I'm in a prime snowmobile area right here and if your caught on a snowmobile trail with a tractor or ATV tou'd probably end up in jail, snowmobiling is a practically a religion up up here and you don't mess with it......lol. Next year when i get my acreage cleaned up though it will be an option.

On the box blade note my tractor is a 47hp with a 16 x16 shuttle so i think I can handle a 6 foot now problem, my buddy only has about a 35hp Case with hydro and he seems to do fair around here with the 6 foot on so mine should work a little better. Really like the new toy so far but haven't got to do much with it yet, just waiting for spring to get here!

Tractor shopper, your tractor looks very nice. A 6' box blade will be no problem for you. If you can swing it, get a heavy duty BB. Should be around 1000lbs or more. Maybe check on one with rippers that are raised and lowered with hydraulics. Something else to consider is Top & Tilt hydraulics, especially the top link hydraulic. They make the use of the BB soooo much better.

I'll throw this out there not knowing what all you are wanting to do with the BB. Depending on what your uses will be, you might consider a rear blade, if your main uses will be plowing snow and maintaining your road.

 

[MtnViewRanch]

On the box blade note my tractor is a 47hp with a 16 x16 shuttle so i think I can handle a 6 foot now problem, my buddy only has about a 35hp Case with hydro and he seems to do fair around here with the 6 foot on so mine should work a little better. Really like the new toy so far but haven't got to do much with it yet, just waiting for spring to get here!

Tractor shopper, your tractor sure looks nice.:thumbsup: You will have no problem with a 6' box blade. You should consider a heavy duty BB, and that would weigh about 1000lbs or more. You may consider one with hydraulic operated rippers, makes life a lot easier. You should also consider Top & Tilt for your tractor, helps out a lot when using implements for grading, especially the hydraulic Top Link with a box blade. Depending on what all you are planning on doing with the BB, you might consider a Rear Blade if your main use would be plowing snow and maintainance of your road.

I hope that some of this may help.