frank_f15
Super Member, Rest in Peace
grandad: that is one sweet looking unit. i am enveious /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Finally got the backhoe
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Just a home-brew setup. The canopy sits on a frame that extends about half-way forward from the ROPS. I made a U-shaped extension to the front out of 1" square stock and put a couple of halogen lights on it. Have a rear light also, but never seem to find time to put it on.
herdfan
Gold Member
Grandad - Are you going to use your tlb for any excavation for the new house you mention in your profile?
I'm waiting on delivery of my new Century to do some site prep for a new home in WV, but have pretty limited backhoe experience. What sort of site jobs (besides taking down those trees /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif) might you do?
I'm waiting on delivery of my new Century to do some site prep for a new home in WV, but have pretty limited backhoe experience. What sort of site jobs (besides taking down those trees /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif) might you do?
Deerlope
Veteran Member
You sure can move some serious gravel with that set-up. And you can never get stuck if the hoe is on the tractor,well you can but you got to work real hard to do it.
We have plans to put up a small horse barn and a somewhat bigger workshop this year, then wait a couple years and build our house out on our "farm". The shop building will go in a flat, wooded area that has dozens of junk pine trees that need to go. I could have contracted a dozer guy to go through it - he'd be done in a day - but there are also some beautiful oak and maple hardwoods I don't want harmed, so doing it myself seemed the right thing. Besides, I get to spend time with chainsaws, log chains and a mini TLB doing the job myself. /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif
Depending on how that goes, the house will have a walkout basement to be dug on the side of the hill. All the experts here tell folks to bring in an excavator and be done with it in a day. That makes perfect sense, but I'm just pig-headed enough to think about doing it myself.
Then, 5 acres of deadfall and leaners to devour.
800 ft. drive with drainage and utility trench.
1/4 mile privately maintained road to ditch and grade.
Septic field... real fussy job to get the grades right... contractor may not want trenches dug by some amateur dude, but who knows?
Neighbor needs pond edges re-dug.
Etc., etc.
These are all jobs most people would hire done, but it will keep me busy doing them myself. I tend to work slow and careful, so there is enough here to keep me going for the next 10 years!
Depending on how that goes, the house will have a walkout basement to be dug on the side of the hill. All the experts here tell folks to bring in an excavator and be done with it in a day. That makes perfect sense, but I'm just pig-headed enough to think about doing it myself.
Then, 5 acres of deadfall and leaners to devour.
800 ft. drive with drainage and utility trench.
1/4 mile privately maintained road to ditch and grade.
Septic field... real fussy job to get the grades right... contractor may not want trenches dug by some amateur dude, but who knows?
Neighbor needs pond edges re-dug.
Etc., etc.
These are all jobs most people would hire done, but it will keep me busy doing them myself. I tend to work slow and careful, so there is enough here to keep me going for the next 10 years!
frank_f15
Super Member, Rest in Peace
GRANDAD; got a friend that lives in winston salem and another that is moving to south carolina. so i may be down that way this summer and will be happy to put some hours on that baby for u /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
herdfan
Gold Member
That hoe will pay for itself with those jobs!
You could always rent an excavator for the basement job later and still have some fun while getting done a little faster.
Keep us posted on your progress and any tips or pitfalls you "dig up."
btw - happy TBN registration anniversary. Might be a good excuse to get an implement to celebrate?
You could always rent an excavator for the basement job later and still have some fun while getting done a little faster.
Keep us posted on your progress and any tips or pitfalls you "dig up."
btw - happy TBN registration anniversary. Might be a good excuse to get an implement to celebrate?
wroughtn_harv
Super Member
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Man I can relate to that. I drive the young guys crazy. But I've found that doing it right, in sequence, and with attention to detail pays off. Once instead of over is one benefit.
Of course the young guys that are going ninety miles an hour in twleve different directions at the same time drive me crazy too. Almost as much as the young guys who stand there with their hands in their pockets wondering what I'm going to do next. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
I have a little saying that I use on myself all the time. "Just because you can doesn't mean you should." I use it to attempt to keep my feet on the ground. Doesn't always work, but I try.
I think it might be a good idea for others to sometimes use that saying in their own lives. Just because one can write a check to make it happen doesn't always mean it's the right thing to do. Sometimes the doing is better than the "done".
Man I can relate to that. I drive the young guys crazy. But I've found that doing it right, in sequence, and with attention to detail pays off. Once instead of over is one benefit.
Of course the young guys that are going ninety miles an hour in twleve different directions at the same time drive me crazy too. Almost as much as the young guys who stand there with their hands in their pockets wondering what I'm going to do next. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
I have a little saying that I use on myself all the time. "Just because you can doesn't mean you should." I use it to attempt to keep my feet on the ground. Doesn't always work, but I try.
I think it might be a good idea for others to sometimes use that saying in their own lives. Just because one can write a check to make it happen doesn't always mean it's the right thing to do. Sometimes the doing is better than the "done".