Limitations

[robbyr]

Went to Home Depot Saturday and bought two pallets of red 12" x 12" landscape pavers to please the wife. Gonna make a "patio" in our back yard. Never thought about the specs involved. Each paver weighs approximately 17 pounds and there's 168 on a pallet. I believe that's 2,856 pounds. Took the bucket off Mahindra 4500 and put tool bar with forks on ( requires an act of congress since I don't have quick attach system). Not sure what the tractor's capacity is but it wouldn't pick the pallet up. Find spare pallet, move half the pavers onto it and move them to back yard. Today everything is kinda sore and stiff.

 

[rekees4300]

Isn't it strange how the wife always has the great ideas but hubby always does the work? :tractor:

 

[robbyr]

That's true. I built her a flower bed yesterday using old 2 x 6 trailer boards for a border and compost from the pile in the pasture I mounded up couple years where I put round bales out. She got a lot of aloe Vera from our daughter. Turned out pretty good. Gonna take me a while to lay the pavers out.

 

[Thomas]

"Find spare pallet, move half the pavers onto it and move them to back yard"
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You still came out ahead,and loosen muscle for up coming project.

 

[robbyr]

 

[mddorange]

The wife had me do that also only I had enough that I had to break it into 4 more pallets, a total of 6.

 

[dadster4]

I'm still working on mine...15 pallets of flagstone 3800 - 4000 lbs. each, broken down to 45 pallets!

 

[oosik]

Good Lord guys - don't your wives have limits? You boys must have been real bad at some point in the recent past OR been given the "right" to purchase additional toys, ha,ha.

Dadster4 - 15 pallets @ 3800-4000 ea - are you working with POTUS on the Great Wall of Mexico?

I always told the better half - we can do anything as long as you are right there along side me helping.

This "usually" kept projects to a reasonable level.

 

[dadster4]

Good Lord guys - don't your wives have limits? You boys must have been real bad at some point in the recent past OR been given the "right" to purchase additional toys, ha,ha.

Dadster4 - 15 pallets @ 3800-4000 ea - are you working with POTUS on the Great Wall of Mexico?

I always told the better half - we can do anything as long as you are right there along side me helping.

I wish...plenty of cheap labor on one side of that wall My wife helps more than I want her to sometimes, if I ever finish I'll post pics of the whole project.
She wanted the "backyard" cleaned up of all the briars and weeds...got the go ahead to order a grapple! I love my wife:dance1:

 

[oosik]

Well, now there is the third option. You and your wife are still in love. Man, I just love a happy ending.

BTW - that's still a sh*t load of bricks/flagstones.

 

[oldballs]

Had a similar experience recently when the church wanted to do some renovations. They asked me to bring my B2620 with pallet forks to move some pallets of memorial bricks. What a joke that turned out to be. The Kubota couldn't come close to lifting the load. .... It was way over the "limitation".

 

[robbyr]

Can anyone interpret this?

Btw y'all post your pics here so we can keep up with progress.

 

[oldballs]

My CUT has a similar set of specifications. i.e. "at the pin'...."19 inches out" etc. I just see if it can do the job and am most conscious of the ballast required to do the job.

 

[robbyr]

Well here we are two months later. As it turns, my wife and I ended up hiring a local construction guy and his helper to put the pavers down. My back yard rises slightly so I had to haul several bucket loads of fill dirt in. They used a laser level and stakes and string then raked out and set the dirt. Told me to run sprinkler on it and keep damp til the following weekend. The following weekend is when Hurricane Harvey hit so they came Thursday and finished it. Looked good. Got 15" of rain and some places caved. Rainwater has always ran right along the deck so I pulled up a row of pavers, dug a ditch, and put a 3" pipe in to hopefully carry a lot of runoff water away. Time will tell.