Wasting your tractor Dollars...

[Henro]

In that other thread "Do you like your backhoe?" it seemed like it kind of boiled down to something like "if backhoes were free, I would want one" or something like that.

So I was wondering...what do you think you wasted your money on?

It could be tractor related, or otherwise.

Personally, I don't regret my purchase decisions...but I have to admit, spending about $800+ on a Rhino HPHD post hole digger with 9 and 14 inch augers was probably more cost ineffictive than the $6,000 =/- I put out for my backhoe... /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

What are your regrets? I don't really have any...no regrets anyway.

OK...here is one, maybe. I wish I had a 48" or 42" Brush hog in place of the 60" I have. Why? Because the smaller one would work on my BX2200, which is more stable "feeling" on the back slope, and I only have two acres to brush hog anyway... /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

Bob Skurka regrets his backhoe... /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

How about you?

 

[BWa]

Ok I will bite on this one ,, My biggest waste of money so far was my purchase of a cone type spreader ,,,, granted it has it's place but it is not the do all tool i thought I was trying for . It will spread fertilizer just fine , but if you think it is the way to go for spreading lime ..forget it , the fine dust just covers the tractor and the operator /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif, plus the stuff tastes bad ,,, /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif
I feel I would have been much better off buying a drop spreader be it 3pt or ground driven pull type , just my 2 cents worth and MHO.

Bill G.

 

[KennyV]

It has to be my grapple fork… very well built nice tool… but since I got a 4n1 bucket, that is the one I have always used.

This could be an interesting thread to follow. KennyV.

 

[thcri]

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I buy the pellitized lime and you don't get the dust and your cone spreader will work just fine.

murph

 

[riptides]

Brush Hog....

Now that the backyard and trails have been cut, a RFM would do the job just as well.

I had thought I'd really be using it two or three times a year.
But grass seems to have taken over.

-Mike Z. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[bczoom]

For me it would be the RFM.
Unless the yard is extremely dry, the tractor's R1 tires left too many depressions.

 

[MikePA]

Getting a MMM for my TC25D.

The tractor and MMM combination was just too heavy to mow our lawn except when it's extremely dry. The tractor left too many ruts. So I sold the MMM (via TBN Classifieds) and went back to mowing the lawn with my 20 year old Wheel Horse garden tractor.

 

[RonR]

Henro,

Mine is probably the used rear blade I bought for a cat II tractor. With Pat's system, I couldn't mount it using the standard Cat II pins as it was so wide. (When you spread the lift arms, Pat's system doesn't rotate like the standard 3PH balls, so I'd have to readust Pat's to fit the pins and then readjust it again for my other equipment).

I started to weld new mounts on the rear blade so it would mate with Pat's, but I'm not sure the geometry of the blade will be compatible with by Bota, so it might not work well anyway.

Think I'll try to sell it when the snow flies here and buy an estate size rear blade that will work.

My two cents (actually $150).

Ron

 

[DFW]

Henro, I am in the same situation as you, purchased an $800+ PHD and 12" auger with the intention of drilling all these holes. Well, I've taken it out of the box and looked at it... Yet to dig a single hole /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

 

[texbaylea]

My wasted (perhaps) dollars is the bolt on cutting edge for my Kubota HD bucket. I bought the Markham toothbar later knowing that I would have to take off the bolt on edge to use it. The bolt on edge is only about 1/16" thicker than the normal edge of the bucket and since I don't expect to a lot of heavy digging/loading seems to be a waste right now. The bolt on edge was a over $150 that could have been used for something else right now.

Vernon