Good morning!!!!

[murphy1244]

Dave brings up a good point, was this machine left outside in the sun?

 

[B7510HSD]

Roy I say stick with the current tires also I loaded my front tires because I leave my back hoe on all the time a little light up front with all the weight on the back..

 

[DABSGT]

Roy, congrats on the new tractor, You will love the cab cleaning snow. I have turfs on my tractor loaded and have no problem moving snow. Years ago I had a JD 410 backhoe with R4 it was always a challenge plowing my hill I vote for the turfs, if you keep the present tires you might think of chains.

Woke to 7 inches of snow this morning first time this winter I used my snowblower.

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[Larro Darro]

Larro, I looked up your county, and is it right that it has 14K residents? If that is right, wow. My HS had 4k in 3 grades.

Yep, it's getting way too crowded. There were 28 in my Sr class. These days it's not uncommon for me to see people drive by the house that I don't even know.

Larro

 

[sixdogs]

Yep, it's getting way too crowded. There were 28 in my Sr class. These days it's not uncommon for me to see people drive by the house that I don't even know.

Larro

I used to live where there were 400 people in the whole town, and that covered lot of square miles. Locals--older people-- would sometimes call the police if they saw someone drive by that they didn't know, especially if they didn't wave and/or looked "suspicious". We had a lot of good laughs over that.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

anyone else ever dispose of a mattress by cutting it apart? lol

 

[Larro Darro]

I'm not opposed to paying tax. My family has got a lot from the government over the years. Daddy got his 100% disability from the VA before he died, so Mamma gets half of it, plus her meds are paid for through a VA program. Not to mention she will turn 87 in 8 days, so she has been drawing SS for 25 years, yet she only worked a few years in the 1950's. At least one hayfield, and a lot of the pine trees we have planted over the years were on a cost sharing program, and the longleaf pines were on a 15 year conservation program where we were paid $1048 a year to take 28 acres out of row crops. And last but not least, Margie is a county official and draws her pay from the taxpayers. {So I guess I am one of those takers too}

All in all, I shouldn't complain. Florida doesn't have a state income tax, and our property tax is just over $2K, and most of that is for the house. The farm and timber land is crazy cheap. The largest piece of land we have is 55 acres {on the Chipola
River} and it's about $200 a year in taxes.

Larro

 

[Larro Darro]

I used to live where there were 400 people in the whole town, and that covered lot of square miles. Locals--older people-- would sometimes call the police if they saw someone drive by that they didn't know, especially if they didn't wave and/or looked "suspicious". We had a lot of good laughs over that.

When I was growing up, there were three houses on the two roads the farm are on. Each road is about two miles. Now, if you count the houses down on the river, there are close to thirty houses on the two roads. But I still wave at everybody on "my roads". I do know most of them by sight, if not by name.

Larro

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Kyle,

I hope you're making the pilgrimage to Moo-Moo's when you visit Mom ... dead cow burgers that good deserve being consumed at every possible opportunity.

rs, I hate to be the bearer of bad news but, Moo-moos in Victoria has been closed for a number of years. All of them I believe. They also had great fried chicken. They were the last place that I knew that sold milk in returnable glass bottles. Gallon size.

The best burger in Victoria is an old establishment called Dairy Treet. Awesome burgers.

 

[dave1949]

anyone else ever dispose of a mattress by cutting it apart? lol

Don't recall a mattress but a few things have gone to the dump in weekly pieces over the years.

I envy Thomas going on a dump run. Can't do that here.

 

[deerseeker001]

I miss those dump runs,came home with more than I took.

Don't recall a mattress but a few things have gone to the dump in weekly pieces over the years.

I envy Thomas going on a dump run. Can't do that here.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

I had a twisted idea to tax certain items to get "some" money out of certain individuals.
beans, rice, tortillas, etc....

Believe me, I'd be paying extra tax because of how much I love Mexican food.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

We are in another winter storm watch for tomorrow. 2-4" predicted. I think we will get this one, because it will mess with the monday morning commute.

A queen mattress will fit in about 5 trash bags once disassembled to reasonable pieces.

 

[dave1949]

I miss those dump runs,came home with more than I took.

I don't know if there are any real dumps left around here. I doubt it. There are "transfer stations" in some larger towns where you pay by the bag or by weight, and turn in recyclables for free. They load the trash into big roll off dumpsters and it gets hauled to a landfill, or a few towns send it to a trash burning facility that generates electricity.

 

[RoyJackson]

Devil's choice on the tires. R4s should be better for supporting heavy loader work, but I bet turfs are better in snow, especially if the R4s have much age on them as tires tend to harden some overtime and with sun exposure.

To Dave and all others who responded about the tire decision...than you very much!

I've had both R-4's and Turfs. I've gotten stuck in the snow with R-4's...never with the turfs. Chains weren't installed on either tire, so it was a good comparison. Snow would be the main reason I'd go with those turfs...but the R-4's would be the better choice for all other work. I'm supposed to be getting a set of chains with the tractor (if the previous owner gets them to the dealer!), but the dealer thinks the chains are Vee-Bar...not good for my asphalt driveway.
Tough decision! I am leaning toward leaving the R-4's on since most of the usage will be field work and turfs do puncture more easily (4 ply turfs, 8 ply R-4's)

And, in answer to both Dave's and Murph's post...I'm pretty sure the 4520 did live outside...as it will here since it's too tall for my garage and outbuilding. I hate to do that!

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Roy, I had R4's on my first kubota (L3130) and on the L5030. Ags on the L3940 and MF. If no lawn work, I prefer Ag tires. I used to mow my yard with the R4's, and it was good for that. R4's don't hold very well on side hills, wish I had Ag on the L5030 since it is used for field work. Ag much better in mud and snow than R4. I never had turf so can't compare them.

+1 on the R1s, at least for side hilling and marginal traction situations. I've never had anything but R4s on my L3240, and when I find mud or steep slopes, it's pucker time. They'll even slide on dry grass hillsides.:shocked: OTOH, they don't tear up the field grass the way I've seen R1s do. So maybe R4s with a set of chains is the way to go if most of the time you'll be on tame surfaces, but putting on chains might be a PITA. All depends on what you'll be driving on, and you know that the best :thumbsup:

Grass is always greener, huh?

 

[Eric Salop]

Good morning, just above freezing in sunny Shropshire.


Roy, hope you enjoy your 4520 whatever your tyre choice.

Whenever I can't decide on something, I always toss a coin.
If I don't like the way it comes down after the first toss, I make it best of 3.
In time, if it turns out to have been the the wrong decision, I just blame the coin.:laughing:

 

[Buppies]

37 at home 36 here high 50 home high 56 here pretty even spread. Rain at home tonight tomorrow then Monday night chance of showers but turning colder then snow showers.

North East in for pretty big storm and even coastal areas of Va to get in on action. Parts of Northeast could get up to two feet of snow

 

[mpham]

32 now with 0-9 for tonight. Possible blizzard with12-28 inches coming Tuesday. Just finished cleaning a 5-6 inch storm.
Fun,fun,fun!

 

[daugen]

34 degrees going up to 55 today, hopefully in drying sunshine.
Good morning all.
28 inch blizzards?
Yikes.....
Philadelphia set a record at 77 inches last year and I must say after a lifetime
of that, I'm happy to grumble about too much rain.

Roy, congrats, get that handle put on first...I know you will hate to drill into it but you are likely to have this tractor a long time so
make it good for you. I have visions of you falling out of that thing "just trying it out"....(this is the nonsense a retired insurance agent thinks of...pretty catastrophe oriented)
And thanks to TBN, where I learned this, my suggestion is to leave your R4 tires on but sipe them heavily. That should make a big difference in the snow performance if the siping threads here are to be believed, which of course they are. Lots of pics on how to do it, and some interesting tread pattern variations. Might even help on hills.
Think of what a Blizzak tread pattern looks like, zillions of tiny sipes. Sort of concentrating the larger number of turf tread sipes down into a tiny spot, but a very concentrated spot. Reminds me of the original Swedish rally drivers in their Saabs with skinny snow tires up front. Skinnier the better to bite through. But on a tractor you have to carry a lot of weight too, so for sure not too skinny.
I don't know how tractor tire rubber reacts to cold though. This is where certain car tires have a huge advantage with special rubber compounding to remain pliable in cold weather.

tires are a quirky interest of mine, so I find guys modifying their own tires in ways you just can't do with a passenger car pretty interesting. And it apparently works.

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