Traction Water in rear tires rust florida

[RoyKing]

I bent a front rim on my Ford 3000 and every used rim I looked at was badly rusted most were running tubes, even my tire guy told me buy a new one you won't find a good used one. Before he put new tire on it he told take home and put three coats of rustoleum on it. He recommend tube from day one say they will rust around the valve stem area then won't hold air.

 

[RoyKing]

That's a nice piece, but you can only put so much on the trailer but when I'm moving dirt and leveling like rutted wash out driveways I just drag the chain and I put claws down and the nose high on the box scraper and use draft mode so won't pick up any dirt and claws grab all the branches then drive off and raise it. My routine before the new tractor with wicked root rake was too take sod buster down about 12 inches and cut all the roots, then take box scrapper set neutral with forks all the way down and collect all the cut roots possible then hand move the rocks onto skid plate. Then take my 26" notched blade disc with two 55 gallons drums on it filled about 2/3 each just enough so that I could lift it. Run it around until all sod is chopped up then you can move with box scrapper or rear soil scoop, Level it out chain drag it on last few runs put the grass seed out and fertilizer hose down or put sprinklers out. Now I'm hoping skip a step or two with front loader.

 

[jeff9366]

Head toward Marion county into clay areas with lots ponds and marsh land, we got five different kinds of mosquitos, mud dobbers, yellow jack, gators, hogs, gopher turtles, rattlers, tree spiders and banana spiders, black widows, lots of hawks, owls, buzzards, deer, alligator turtles, lots pine forests, and on dry season ticks. In my front yard I've kill three rattlers with 12 to 15 rattles around 6 feet with heads the size of your fist that won't run off they all gave me enough time go get a shotgun. I've been treed by hogs, shot at least 6 at less than twenty feet. Sunk a 12ft gator that was eating our dogs lost cats to coyotes. Hogs got so bad about 10 years ago one night I didn't I going to get in the house, front yard was all turned up in the morning.

Davie Crockett and Jim Bowie needed you at the Alamo.

 

[RoyKing]

Just country living a good contrast to being former Yankee and teaching at UF. Luckily I moved out here with true Florida born redneck who kept me from being shot bye our redneck neighbors and taught me how to catch baby gators. He is gone now but one of my best memories was we went out one evening following hog trails looking for a buck and forgot about the time and got miles into woods by dark. Figured the moonlight would enough to see wrong over cast! Hand to stand quietly in the dark and listen for the sounds of semi's on the highway west of us and move north through the brush finally came out on the highway and walked home laughing. Had lots of adventures. Had even more fun when we take the dogs with us. Hard to believe only 12 miles from Gainesville no DSL, or cable either. Found lots of arrow heads and skinning tools.

 

[orezok]

When I filled my tires with water, I put in a couple of cans of radiator/water pump anti rust and lube. Water soluable and good for both rubber and metal.

 

[Fallon]

Why 60hp, one reason to get the higher rated front lift to move pallets, next heavy Bermuda grass 6 brush hog, short tractor for work around stuff with tight turn radius same for HST. For heaviest lifts I'll ballast with my brush hog for most stuff a box scrapper with 60 foot of boat yard chain hung on the inverted sod hooks and weighted tires. I use that chain behind the box scrapper to give ground a hand raked look. Cab with Ac cause I'm now fat and old and running down the pine tree rows without a cab in the summer in Florida left me eating, swating, and tick removal, covered with spiders and webs wasps.

I have a L4060HSTC here in Colorado. Mile high means I'm down 20% on power compared you people with Oxygen down at sea level. I've got my tires filled with bio ballast (no clear on what that is, but its functionally similar to Rimguard but not beet juice). When working it hard with a box blade I can run out of power, but not often. I wish I had more power for roading it, especially up hills & for mowing. I drop from 14mph indicated to under 7 mph on moderately steep hills. PTO requirements can use a lot more power than traction requirements. I'm noticably power limited with my 8' flail.

The L4760 is the smallest of the grands that can take the big loader. Wish I could have swung the extra cost to get the bigger loader & a few more HP, but I'm happy with what I have.

 

[RoyKing]

That's a great idea thanks I knew somebody would come up with better solution than beet juice.

 

[RoyKing]

Glad to here good things about the tractor, I stretched my budget limit but my son is eyeing it already and has asked to borrow me and the tractor.