TODAYS SEAT TIME

[LBrown59]

Knocked the tall weeds down in 2 dirt piles with the FEL and BH of the BX23.

UPDATE:
Done some tiding up around these dirt piles today.
Also took the BH and dug up a patch of briers that was about 6x6 feet square.

 

[stimpee]

This morning, I got some work done using my tractor, while Hanna was just getting warmed up with some light rain.

I took one of the outside stall doors off the barn that one of the horses had "modified" one day when I had just gotten the tractor, and started it up while he was in the stall. he tried to "exit the barn" without bothering to open the door. He is cool with the tractor now, FWIW.

Anyway, I took the door off, and placed it on some jackstands with the bow created by said Equine creature facing up. I then lowered my FEL bucket onto a strategically positioned piece of 2x6 on the top of the door. I think I had it straightened just about perfectly and then proceeded to be a bit ham-fisted with the loader controls and quickly reversed the bow in the door so it was now facing downward. I flipped the door over and tweaked it carefully back to near flatness.

I then used the FEL bucket to trap the steel strap hinge for the door between it and the 2x6 placed on the floor, and used carefully placed hammer blows to re-shape the hinge properly. I also used the edge of the FEL bucket for a bit as an anvil while doing the fine tuning on the hinge.

The door works perfectly now.

The tractor saved me several trips back to the garage in the pouring rain where I could have used my vice/anvil and the correct tools to actually do the job "the right way". That way would not have been nearly as much fun though.

 

[LBrown59]

* I can assure you there is no purpose logic rhyme nor reason for this hole to exist.

*Sounds like the state highway department put that hole there for a reason. You fill it in, even partially, and the department will ask you very nicely to pay for the repairs when the next big rain damages the road.

The thing is also a traffic hazard.
There have been 2 or 3 cars down in it that ran off the road.
A 17 year old girl was killed in my front yard about 25 years ago on the road bank right next to this hole.
I would say after 4 accidents one death and 42 years it's time the problem was corrected.

 

[TYMinColton]

The tractor saved me several trips back to the garage in the pouring rain where I could have used my vice/anvil and the correct tools to actually do the job "the right way". That way would not have been nearly as much fun though.

I'm with you. I've actually successfully used my FEL to open the mailbox to get the mail. Some would call this lazy, but I'd just call it - a different skill set.

 

[patrick_g]

I wish I was getting seat time but in my fervor to get more seat time I started brush hogging by headlights an hour before dawn. I didn't see the dead eastern red cedar laying in the weeds and grass and one if its short sharp limbs poked a hole in the right rear tubeless tire.

Now I am waiting for the local tire shop guy to get back from vacation (should be here Monday.)to get the right rear patched as it is too big of a hole for Slime to fix. I almost got it to hold with slime but not quite. I made about a half mile but then it started to go down and by the time I got parked it was down to the rim.

I have considered putting in tubes and those guards that keep objects that penetrate the tire from poking the tubes. It should be cheaper than foaming the tires, especially the rears and when I finally wear out or tear up the tires the tubes and guards can be reused with the next set of tires. The foam is expensive and when you finally totally wear out the foamed tire all that expensive foam is lost.

Pat

 

[LBrown59]

Mowed with the BX23 with the FEL and BH on it; but this time I also had the clamp on forks on it.

 

[patrick_g]

STILL WAITING to get seat time... Tire guy is back from vacation, I loaded the flat rear tractor tire into the pickup using a cheap Chinese (HF for $140 on special) hydraulic crane-hoist-thingy. He had no means of unloading. So, next I will load my hoist into the pickup (somehow... dang how I miss the tractor), hoist the tire/wheel up, roll the hoist forward, lower the tire/wheel, drive to the tire shop and unload the thing. Reverse the process at home and hopefully get a break in the rain (a little side splash from the hurricanes) so I can get some seat time mowing.

I'm hoping my untested brain storm works... run a line from the overhead to the hoist's hook via a turning block temporarily attached to the bottom of the hoist frame and use the hoist to hoist itself.

Pat

 

[3RRL]

I've had lots of seat time and Loretta has on her tractor too.
Together we've been landscaping the front yard, moving dirt making "terraces" and collecting boulders to build rock walls.
There's tons more to do so there's lots of seat time ahead.

 

[patrick_g]

FINALLY... The tire guy is back from vacation BUT had no means of unloading the tire from my pickup after I got it loaded. That was Friday so Monday I loaded my hydraulic hoist into the pickup then hoisted the tire/wheel and delivered it to him. Went back with trailer and it was easier to load than with hoist and all the hassle. It weighs about 500 lbs but with three guys we got it loaded. Got it mounted on tractor and ready to do combat with all the chores once again when the rain from the fringes of Ike are over. It is supposed to hit us in earnest early Sunday morning (tomorrow.) I'm hoping it goes a tad farther east and misses us (sorry Thomas aka Gemini) but I have an exposed bare building pad awaiting a fully intact bld to be moved to it and there is 5 ft of fill on the down hill side.

Pat

 

[sandman2234]

You guys out west have my sympathy with the flat tires and dodging the hurricanes. Been there, done that...
David from jax