My NX6010

[Threepoint]

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Land clearing update.

Livin' the dream! (Well, at least one of them!) :drink:

 

[Threepoint]

I'm always concerned when I start to push over saplings and drive backward back over them. There's many places and things to get hung up on or stuck into under that tractor...likes hoses, belt, wires, etc.

+1 on this. For me, backing up in broken saplings and brush is when the underbelly seems most vulnerable. The bent-forward debris acts like angled punji sticks.

 

[MinnesotaEric]

+1 on this. For me, backing up in broken saplings and brush is when the underbelly seems most vulnerable. The bent-forward debris acts like angled punji sticks.

I was taken back by the noise but since I'm in trials mode, I'm tool heavy (thus having a pyronometer to look for hot spots that point to hydraulic restrictions), I wasn't caught flat-footed.

My solution to the bungee stick problem was to raise the cutting deck height. Instead of bending over and laying flat, mete rial bends over and springs back up, and gets cut. So far this technique seems to be working. I'm also using just two wheel drive and when I get stuck, I lock the rear end and flip into four wheel drive. That seems to be working as well, but I'm not yet near the sphagnum moss area out on the point where I'll likely always be in four wheel drive.

 

[Scooby074]

Glad to see you using that tractor. Im not much on trailer queens. Scratches rule!

One thing though, you gotta protect your rad and underbelly if your going to go blasting through the brush. Sticks will find their way through unbelievably small holes.

Check out these tractors if you want to see what a full on brush mowing conversion looks like. Cobb County is one company that does these conversions. Home

 

[MinnesotaEric]

Glad to see you using that tractor. Im not much on trailer queens. Scratches rule!

One thing though, you gotta protect your rad and underbelly if your going to go blasting through the brush. Sticks will find their way through unbelievably small holes.

Check out these tractors if you want to see what a full on brush mowing conversion looks like. Cobb County is one company that does these conversions. Home

Interesting. Today I winged off half of my fuel cap.

And I punched a hole through the front grill on a brush pile.

I think I'll make some measurements and make a front brush guard insert to better protect the front end.

I also tripped over a genuine design flaw today: it is impossible to remove the front screen as the low side AC tube covers it making it impossible to remove in the field. Furthermore, the radiator screen needs a bit more space to make it easier to access, remove and replace, IMO. As soon as I get the tractor back home, I'll sort this issue out.

Put the rotary cutter to rest today as there are piles of deadfalls I need to grapple.

Taking Thursday off from land clearing to run around setting up some business stuff in Park Rapids, MN, as well as looking at an example of one contractor's new construction.

 

[fieldman12]

I see most guys driving over the saplings and such going forward. I am picky about nice looking equipment. When I do my clearing with the Bush Hog I mow them down in reverse so the cutter takes all the beating. It works really well. It is slower but at the end of your day your tractor looks like it was never in a jungle at lease as far as scratches go and damage.

 

[MinnesotaEric]

I see most guys driving over the saplings and such going forward. I am picky about nice looking equipment. When I do my clearing with the Bush Hog I mow them down in reverse so the cutter takes all the beating. It works really well. It is slower but at the end of your day your tractor looks like it was never in a jungle at lease as far as scratches go and damage.

In my defense, I'm mowing a 25-35 year old forest. Mowing backward is the only way I can mow and then branches are scratching up everything.

Today I went to the auto parts store to get a replacement gas cap where they were nice Enough to allow me to rifle through their entire stock. I thought one of these had a chance to fit and it turned out that both fit. I now have a spare gas cap.

Although James warned me that if I didn't locktite the lock nuts in place, my bucket indicator would fall off. I forgot about the warning, and sure enough, it fell off within the first ten hours. Today I fixed it and locked it down with 242 Locktite.

 

[k0ua]

Told you so!

 

[k0ua]

Also be sure and check those little bolts that hold on the grease zerk end caps for the pins on the loader. I found several of them loose on mine, and some continued to loosen up until I cleaned them up and locktighted them. Seems the worse are the ones nearest the bucket.

 

[Green Power]

Great looking tractor Eric! Hopefully it serves you well for many years to come!