Is it worth the effort?

[RobertN]

The truck looks nice... How does it run? Tires ok?

Depending on your state, I would be as concerned, if not more so, about registration. The registration was not transferred after the family member passed away? Has it been registered, or non-op'd?

I have seen "free" vehicles, wind up costing a ton of money in past due registration, as well as hours and hours at DMV getting the registration paperwork straightened out.

Otherwise, great truck if you like 8-9mpg

 

[clemsonfor]

The truck looks nice... How does it run? Tires ok?

Depending on your state, I would be as concerned, if not more so, about registration. The registration was not transferred after the family member passed away? Has it been registered, or non-op'd?

I have seen "free" vehicles, wind up costing a ton of money in past due registration, as well as hours and hours at DMV getting the registration paperwork straightened out.

Otherwise, great truck if you like 8-9mpg

Here in SC as long as the title is signed by the owner or someone with power of atterny it is easy. Im "sure" the owner signed that title before he died for his son, otherwise it is willed to someone and wont be that hard, turst me. I live in SC.

 

[Pa Pa Jack]

Well, 23 hours of work, so far, and the end is in sight. I have about 3 or 4 acres left to do, and I am waiting for Jeff and his brother to finish cutting the sweet gums down so I can finish. It has been a learning experience.

Had my first flat tire. Front tire came off the bead. I thought the steering was feeling a little loose and should have known better. that was a relatively minor hold up.

I also found out that bush hogging in this kind of dry environment will rapidly plug up a radiator. I also found out that someone was thinking. Mahindra installs a screen shield in front of the radiator to keep all the dust and dirt from getting to the radiator. I overheated the tractor this morning but no damage done, I hope. I do not know if this type of screen is typical on all tractors. I hope so as it really saved a lot of headaches. Now I will be more careful and check this screen on a much more regular basis. Cheap insurance.

I have a total of about 23 hours on this job so far. the hardest part though is what is left to be done. I figure that it's going to take about 8 hours to do the last 4 acres as it is steeper and I have to watch for a lot of stumps that are going to be left. I have been surprised at how well the bush hog handles 6 foot high briars. I move with the FEL lowered and have been able to move at a good pace. I travel most of the time in Low 2nd and it just goes through almost everything smoother than I had expected.

I did get a little too close to one fence line, and picked up some old barbed wire but it was only about 10 feet of wire and I got it cleaned off quickly.

So far, I have used about 35 gallons of fuel which is a bit more than I expected.

All in all, I am quite pleased. With the tractor and myself. It's been a good week.

 

[clemsonfor]

Well, 23 hours of work, so far, and the end is in sight. I have about 3 or 4 acres left to do, and I am waiting for Jeff and his brother to finish cutting the sweet gums down so I can finish. It has been a learning experience.

Had my first flat tire. Front tire came off the bead. I thought the steering was feeling a little loose and should have known better. that was a relatively minor hold up.

I also found out that bush hogging in this kind of dry environment will rapidly plug up a radiator. I also found out that someone was thinking. Mahindra installs a screen shield in front of the radiator to keep all the dust and dirt from getting to the radiator. I overheated the tractor this morning but no damage done, I hope. I do not know if this type of screen is typical on all tractors. I hope so as it really saved a lot of headaches. Now I will be more careful and check this screen on a much more regular basis. Cheap insurance.

I have a total of about 23 hours on this job so far. the hardest part though is what is left to be done. I figure that it's going to take about 8 hours to do the last 4 acres as it is steeper and I have to watch for a lot of stumps that are going to be left. I have been surprised at how well the bush hog handles 6 foot high briars. I move with the FEL lowered and have been able to move at a good pace. I travel most of the time in Low 2nd and it just goes through almost everything smoother than I had expected.

I did get a little too close to one fence line, and picked up some old barbed wire but it was only about 10 feet of wire and I got it cleaned off quickly.

So far, I have used about 35 gallons of fuel which is a bit more than I expected.

All in all, I am quite pleased. With the tractor and myself. It's been a good week.

Those tall briars and vines are what wound up my shaft and wadded up in my lower output seal to casue my seal to go out on my second use when i got my tractor, and was "reclaiming" some of my open ground. Most tractors either have a screen or have small holes like some Jds and fords i think to even get air into the radiator area, like grill gaurds but really small mesh holes. I have to stop my yanmar every 15-30 minutes in really bad "seedy" stuff to clear it. Seems a poor design, but again my tractor was meant to till rice paddies, little dust there.