Double Dirt Pan Pullers

Old_Hickory · Feb 18, 2004

They are building a highway close to me and a big housing development and are using big tractors to pull the scrapers.

jinman · Feb 20, 2004

( Lets see some pictures of the lady.
)

Okay, here's a link to a photo I posted at Chrismas in the ATV and Utility Vehicle forum. The lady /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif ...or to be more accurate, Kathy in the Kawasaki Mule that Santa brought her. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Old_Hickory · Feb 21, 2004

jinman,
You are a sport for sharing the picture !!!!
She looks like a very attractive lady and from the way you talk about her and her smile she must be a nice lady. But from reading your posts and your candor I would say she is equally lucky.
Congratulations !!!

frank_f15 · Feb 21, 2004

nice picture of a nice lady! nothing the like the sight of a pretty lady to brighten this old mans day /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

5030 · Feb 21, 2004

Jinman:

Your "lady" is certainly better looking than my "hairy" mug shot in my signature picture.

Someday, I'll sneak a picture of my wife on here. She's not very photogenic. I'd do better with a picture of one of her horses. /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

I might add that the tractors pulling the pans are referred to around here as "bareback". There is one sitting at my Kubota/Case dealer for sale. An acquittance of mine digs ponds and uses a single pan pulled with a Steiger quad. It has a 1693TA Caterpillar under the cowl.

jinman · Feb 22, 2004

Thanks, Old Hickory and Frank for your nice compliments. I heartily agree that I'm a lucky fellow. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Not to make you too envious of our weather, but yesterday it was in the mid-60s here and we took the Mule out for a 1-hour+ ride along trails through our woods. Between the two of us, we have hillsides strewn with 6-foot diameter boulders, small creekside trails, deep gulleys and dense woods where deer are likely to be hiding. I also have an open hillside of high calcium soil that is covered in bluebonnets in the spring. They pop up out of the ground in the fall, but only have a small green florette above the ground. They build a root system all winter long and in the spring they erupt upwards with their spectacular displays. If the weather holds up and we have a normal amount of rain, I'm gonna have a huge field of bluebonnets. I can't wait! /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Bird · Feb 22, 2004

( yesterday it was in the mid-60s )

And it's 66 right now. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif No wonder it seemed a little warm out there working on the lawnmower a few minutes ago; got the oil changed, the blade sharpened, cleaned the air filter, put in a new spark plug and ready for another summer of mowing. Of course, we had already mowed twice this month. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

DUMBDOG · Feb 22, 2004

It is only 79 here right now. But no tractor or lawm mower to play with here. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

jinman · Feb 22, 2004

( ...got the oil changed, the blade sharpened, cleaned the air filter, put in a new spark plug... )

Yep! It's getting to be that time. Yesterday we hauled Kathy's riding mower to a lawnmower shop in Bowie, TX to get repaired/serviced. If the weather holds next weekend I'll be servicing my mower. I ordered all the parts last fall and I have everything ready to go. I have to put new blades on my riding mower every year. The sand here is so abrasive it eats away the lip on the blade that gives airflow and lift. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

Bird · Feb 22, 2004

Jim, this is just a self-propelled walk behind Lawnboy with the Tecumseh engine that I got ready for the summer. I would never have bought one with a Tecumseh engine, but when my daughter bought her current home a couple of years ago, the seller had this one year old mower and my daughter talked the seller into including it in the deal. Last year, I took it to the local repair shop and had all that done to it and they did a good job, but of course it cost about $100 /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif, so this year I decided to do it myself. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif