What Did You Accomplish in 2013?

[Briana03]

With just under two weeks left to the year and the holidays here, what would you say were your most memorable tractor accomplishments of 2013? Okay....Go! :thumbsup:

 

[Soundguy]

hmm... using my 1955 ford 850 tractor and loader to unload a piano from the back of my truck without breaking the piano or hurting my back.

was pretty memorable for me.. as that was one heavy piano..

 

[orezok]

My tractor has almost completed it's annual trip around the sun! :cool2:

 

[rekees4300]

Didn't drive it into the pond again. :scubadiver:

 

[RoMad]

I bought my L2900 and sold my kioti ck20. I really liked that little tractor but I like the big one better. We mowed and cleaned up two neighbors pastures with the kubota and bush hog and now I have about 8 more acres to graze my cows on.

 

[DT86]

I paid off the RTV. Does that count? It's working for me now.

 

[Yandaddy1110]

Got my barn finally up and done. Long process, very relieved now that its behind me now and I can move on to other tractor projects!!

 

[Wagtail]

Seeing as this was my 'set up' year for the property there are several... including the initial purchase of my 4105, then learning to use it in so many ways.

I tilled/leveled the base for the shed pad (using the old Mk.1 eyeball), slashed the paddocks prior to the new fencing going up, chain harrowed the property & each paddock after moving the horses to the next one, stacked & moved rounds of hay to various locations (+ moved my home-made wooden hay ring as required).

The D110 has done double duty as a lawn tractor + as a paddock mulch-er IOT break up the harrowed balls of manure.

Lastly there has been the multiple projects inspired by TBN threads; tools in the shed, casters on pallets IOT move/store implements, etc...

I'm knackered! AND it's only the beginning of Summer. :laughing:

Merry Christmas to all,

Wagtail :santahat:

 

[MacLawn]

Moved my old fireplace with me 2210, did some grass cutting, driveway scraping (got to do that again soon!), hauled a few logs around, moved a heap of dirt from one place to a better one, and last - BUSTED me suckeggedmule transmission fan! :banghead:

 

[Daver1963]

Me and the missus bought our first house and tractor. I then used the tractor to tame the 4 acres that came with the house using a combination of finish mower, bush hog, and tiller. I even used the tractor to help put up the lean-to where it is now stored.

 

[Kapnfriday]

Biggest project for me was finishing rebuilding our fence around 1.5 acres of woods/yard that was severely damaged by a tornado a couple years ago. It shouldn't have taken a couple years, but the main reason for having a fence was to keep our dog in the yard. He died the same year the tornado came through. He was 14 so he had a good run. A couple years passed and we were ready for a new dog, which meant fence building. Of course a month after we finished it a big pine came down on it and I had to repair that.

In the process I put in a new gate that connects the trails inside and outside the fence. Also lets me drive the tractor to the back trails without going through the yard.

I got in some good practice box blading the driveway to where I have a system down now and can have it looking almost new in about 20 minutes.

Had some trees & stumps removed from the side yard and regraded and planted that area - hope the grass makes it through next summer.

For next year my big goal is to build a bridge over a small creek that runs through our property. Not sure yet if the bridge will be built to allow the tractor to cross or not. Maybe just a foot bridge - maybe more.

 

[murphy1244]

Built my Tractor House

 

[quicksandfarmer]

I had a big pile in a corner of one of my fields that the previous owner had left. I think there had been a building there that collapsed, then over time other junk was thrown on -- stumps, rocks, fence posts, whatever. The previous owner died in 1996, so it had been there a while, and was pretty grown over. This year I cleaned it up. I started in March and worked intermittently until July.

I would drive into the pile with forks, pick out a lump of junk and then hand sort it. Anything metal or glass went to be recycled. Anything wood that wasn't treated or painted went to a burn pile. Rocks were taken to be used in a stone wall. Concrete was separated out and I'll be sending a load to the concrete recycler. Everything else went into a dumpster -- 7,000 lbs when it was taken away. All sorts of junk -- the remains of a building, carpet, a ping pong table, stuffed animals. A whole lot of broken fence posts, barbed wire and electric fence wire. There were some balls I thought were weathered squash balls that turned out to be turtle eggs! And a whole lot that defied identification.

A lot of the pile was just dirt, and once all the junk was gone I smoothed it with the box blade. By summer's end the grass had grown over and you almost couldn't tell it had ever been there. I'm sure I'll get flat tires every time I mow it for years to come!

 

[ronjhall]

Got the MMM down from it's storage rack and used it to cut lawn. My back is still thanking me. JD lawn mower is not very kind to my back.

 

[riptides]

Hmm.... the regular maintenance of crop and grounds keeping aside we:

torn down three outbuildings
dug and finished (moving rocks) a koi-"less" pond
regraded and finished for fencing around a pool
dug and finished a pad for a new outbuilding
moved tons of dirt and gravel in the process....

and did I mention - burn piles?

 

[Thomas]

Flash flood July cause over 11K in damage,Kubota w/FEL & rear blade sure came in handy clean up and helping w/driveway repair.

 

[Underdog57]

I bought my first real tractor (LS 41 HP with FEL & Land Pride 7' BB) at the end of Oct. so I didn't have much time to get anything done besides firewood before winter, but I am having fun plowing snow. I plan on buying some type of stump bucket before spring to dig out 3 stumps that are in the way of a concrete project I want to do. Although I didn't get much done this year I have a lot of plans for next year!

 

[jrdepew]

Finally bought my tractor this year. Most memorable moment other than taking delivery was using the loader to lift a rebuilt LSx engine into the back of my pickup on a pallet to ship it to Georgia. Hated to see it go, but at least I didn't have to rig something up to lift it :thumbsup:

 

[300UGUY]

Biggest project for me was finishing rebuilding our fence around 1.5 acres of woods/yard that was severely damaged by a tornado a couple years ago. It shouldn't have taken a couple years, but the main reason for having a fence was to keep our dog in the yard. He died the same year the tornado came through. He was 14 so he had a good run. A couple years passed and we were ready for a new dog, which meant fence building. Of course a month after we finished it a big pine came down on it and I had to repair that.

In the process I put in a new gate that connects the trails inside and outside the fence. Also lets me drive the tractor to the back trails without going through the yard.

I got in some good practice box blading the driveway to where I have a system down now and can have it looking almost new in about 20 minutes.

Had some trees & stumps removed from the side yard and regraded and planted that area - hope the grass makes it through next summer.

For next year my big goal is to build a bridge over a small creek that runs through our property. Not sure yet if the bridge will be built to allow the tractor to cross or not. Maybe just a foot bridge - maybe more.

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Interesting, I've never heard of Lansing, NC until just now. Googled it, seems like a pretty place.

 

[cmyoung2]

Here's someone else from Lansing, NC . Lansing is a neat little town, I actually live in Sturgills, part of the Helton community, which is a suburb of Lansing (Lansing might have a couple of hundred people, so small they took out our stoplight this year) Mostly used my tractor--BCS 725 to move mulch, firewood, and work the garden.