Got my 450!

[thetreed1]

Long time lurker first time poster...but just to join the club of Bobcat owners!

Here's our new CT450...it was clean for about an hour!

 

[woolyAcres]

Very nice. Looks like she's being put right to work. I'm referring to the tractor of course....

Hope you enjoy it and get many, many years of service.

 

[lilranch2001]

you did better than me.
I had mine in the mud before the delivery truck had cleared my driveway
:thumbsup:

 

[thetreed1]

Yeah if it wasn't for having to eat dinner before a customer came over she (the tractor) would have been up to its belly mud. Can't wait for everything to get worked in then I can really start to abuse, i mean use it.

 

[tinman955]

Congrats on the 450, I love mine. Is yrs a hydro or SST?

 

[thetreed1]

Its a hydro.
How long before it "broke in"? I would like to be moving some dirt and hauling trees but want to be sure its good and broken in first before I start really working it.

 

[tinman955]

Best way to break it in is work it, dont beat it or redline it the whole day, just try to vary RPM's and heat cycle it when you get a chance, it will be fine.

Oh yeah keep an eye on fluid levels, and keep it greased.

 

[woolyAcres]

How are you and your new tractor getting on?

 

[qed-cat225]

very nice congrats! you know that could be a bobcat marketing photo if I did not know better, submit it to the worksaver magazine!

 

[woolyAcres]

I just looked more carefully at the picture. Are you moving manure? How does that bucket do if that is indeed what you're doing?

Regards,
Peter

 

[thetreed1]

So far so good with it. Its been wet up here so haven't been able to get it out. Yes you are right we (she) are moving manure with it in that pic. She pitches it in there from the horse shed. It did a really good job cleaning up the "stuff" from just outside the door.

I have done some logging road repair with it, mostly moving dirt and rocks to fill in holes. Has really good digging force for not even really being broken in yet.

Even with only 5 more hours on it I have already noticed an improvement in the tractor. Cant wait to see what its like when I start hauling logs and firewood.

I'll take more pics of it as we use it.

 

[woolyAcres]

Glad to hear it. Please do keep us posted.