Finally my own CUT - a short story

MechE1 · Jun 15, 2015

Thanks guys. I'm pretty sure Mother Nature has an issue with me. It's been way to wet and muddy to play. I got a bit of seat time on Friday afternoon and night before the latest downpours to check function of all units (except front hitch and blower). I took the loader off and put it on. Checked mower function, set height, mowed a bit and took the mower deck off. Imatch works as advertised. T&T seems like it should have a little more side to side range so I need to play with that a bit and see if there are any adjustments or "locks". I have a lot of dirt work to do as soon as it dries out so I'm not going to mount the front hitch and blower just yet. I took it over and filled it with fuel and I'm ready to go!!!

wmonroe · Jun 15, 2015

Looks good with a little mud on it.

Creamer · Jun 15, 2015

Is that an air conditioned garage for it?

MechE1 · Jun 16, 2015

No A/C and no heat in garage....yet. I just finished the garage in anticipation of the new arrival. The original plan was to build a detached space. But, a few budget issues and I decided to just keep it simple, add the back door and worry about the detached garage later. I've had drywall up forever, but never finished so I took off the lower course of drywall and put up poly'ed OSB and finished out the rest and hung new lights. The back burner winter plan would be to run a couple ducts. Easy enough, I just need to do it.

JD 970 · Jun 18, 2015

That is awesome! Is there any option you did not get?

MechE1 · Jun 19, 2015

LOL, Yeah JD970, a few. Amazing what you can order on it. For one, I did not get the stereo. Way overpriced IMHO. I can drop my own in for 1/4 the quoted cost. And honestly, all I want is a receiver with Bluetooth. My approach was to be able to run just about any aux equipment I could. Other than hydraulic capacity (flow) I'm pretty much there I'd say. Also not ordered, front fenders, horn, oil heater. I could go on and on....

MechE1 · Jul 7, 2015

Ready for 10 hour maintenance. I'll put this thread to rest. Everything seems to be working well. I have some questions and issues I need to address, but all minor. In hindsight, a heavier boxblade would have been nice, I figured this would be the case going in, but this will work for what I need for now. If it turns out to be too light I'll either upgrade or I do work with large plate steel and can easily add weight myself either through cutting my own weight or adding a box and filling it with cutouts, etc. Thanks for the posts and comments. I'll be starting a thread or two in projects before too long.