Thread Piracy

jpr62902 · Nov 22, 2004

Hey Bob! Waddya gonna put in them planters? Is that a 16' tandem axle trailer? /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

Bob_Skurka · Nov 22, 2004

I am waiting to see the pictures of the fork project.


Wait until Thursday and then check, I'll have some action shots then! Currently they are sitting on a welding table. But I took a HOWSE Sub-Soiler & Middle Buster combo unit and started from there. The bolts were replaced with top link pins to make it easy to interchange the Sub-Soiler blade with the Middle Buster plow with the trailer hitch. After doing that I came up with the idea to make a sod cutter blade. I like to have stones around the lovely Mrs_Bob's planter beds, so I figured that I could make up a sod cutter with an 8" blade set parallel to the ground, it would cut an 8" wide path of sod. I could simple drive around the planter bed and cut out the sod, lay in the stones and have an almost instant border. Then I got the idea that if I take the blades off the frame assembly (via the top link pins I previously installed), I could reverse the frame assembly and mount it backwards on the 3pt and attach some pallet forks to it. It would be as simple as making a couple rails up and clamping them to the A-frame assembly and pinning it into the frame with one of the previously removed top link pins. It would be easy enough to fashion a boom pole as well, but I haven't found any real use for one of those (yet). I've also designed a small brush puller/small tree puller to fit into the unit, but that is still in the final design phase, I actually thought I'd be done with that by now, but life got in the way of tractoring. I also thought about attaching a cultivator to the frame assembly but couldn't find an old one that needed to be reworked and a new one is pretty cheap anyway so why bother.

I don't suppose I have to remind any of you that I had previously modified the sub-soiler blade by drilling a couple holes in it, and clamping a pipe onto the back so it could be used to bury cable underground, that really is what started all this tinkering.

Bob_Skurka · Nov 22, 2004

Hey Bob! Waddya gonna put in them planters? Is that a 16' tandem axle trailer? 

14' tandem axel trailer, the planters are so large that I can only get 3 of them on the trailer. Had I been thinking I would have borrowed an 18' tandem I have access to, but the 14' unit is alreadly loaded with 3 so I'll have to make 2 trips. The lovely Mrs_Bob is going to visit her mom for several days and I get to stay home with the big dog. F-I-L died less than a month ago and they have cats. . . I'm allergic to cats and I'm sticking with that story . . . so I figure it will be a good time to bring home one of the Christmas gifts I bought for the lovely Mrs_Bob. The planters are cast concrete, about 40" sqaure? About 20" tall. Probably heavier than I can lift /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif certainly heavier than I care to try to lift! For the short term, each planter will have a small rosemary tree planted in it, and each will be strung with Christmas lights and will be lit up when the lovely Mrs_Bob returns from her trip this weekend.

ronjhall · Nov 22, 2004

Probably heavier than I can lift /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif 
 The lovely Mrs_Bob is going to visit her mom for several days 
Hmm. May be the perfect time to add a tractor to your collection that can handle the load.
Or use both of your tractors to lift the load at the same time. /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

johnday · Nov 22, 2004

Yeah,well I still like the Tigers! /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

WOW, and now I'm PLATINUM!!!! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Gatorboy · Nov 22, 2004

Why do pirates wear eye patches?

AndyM · Nov 22, 2004

There are two letters in the pirate alphabet...

arrrrrrrrrr (R)

ayyyyyyy (I)

Golfgar4 · Nov 22, 2004

Well Lonnie,

I guess by now you're wondering why you EVER thought about posting your comments, huh? /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

The only thing that I can say is........

......these guys STILL crack me up.

And........

......where else can you get this level of entertainment for such a good price??? /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

DocHeb · Nov 22, 2004

( I just think of the site a little more formal as if in a seminar or a corporate meeting )

Does that mean we have to start wearing ties? If so, that may be Muhammad's next marketing/logo item. I'd like one in Carrhart canvas please.