What did you do on or to your LS Tractor today?

papachaz · Dec 24, 2018

air8 said:
papachaz - I know you will love it.

The W.R. Long kit is plug and play...as long as there is no backhoe. My LS was sold with a backhoe attached. Soooooo....mine already had adapters attached to the power beyond port and the hydraulic reservoir, and the long length of hose provided was too short. Next the quick couplers from W.R. Long were the same size as other connectors on the tractor so that was good. However...not knowing my tractor had 1/2" couplers on the 3/8" hoses caused me to order 3/8" couplers with the grapple. So it took lots of back and forth to figure out the couplers, snd get 1/2" quick couplers on the grapple hoses.

The W.R. Long kit includes a heavy mounting bracket for the valve. I had to flip that around, drill two new holes, and move a little anti-rotation tab that is bent 90 degrees. Lastly I flipped around the front bracket that attaches to the FEL cross tube up front. Otherwise the bracket mount routes the hoses in a way that interferes with the front grille guard. Both of these brackets are good and heavy, probably 1/4" plate.

:thumbsup:

air8 · Dec 25, 2018

papachaz said:
a few pics of the pallet forks I picked up yesterday...already putting them to good use, as we bought a couple of big presents for the grown up kids. Wrapped them with black plastic, and left them on a pallet. I'll move them from the garage to beside the porch tomorrow afternoon when the kids get here for dinner and Christmas celebration

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Who makes these forks? I like that tall back stop frame. Do you have a good view of the forks?

papachaz · Dec 25, 2018

air8 said:
Who makes these forks? I like that tall back stop frame. Do you have a good view of the forks?

I'll get you one later, we're about to head out. These are made by B Xtreme Attachments. These even have adjustable forks, not stuck in one place.I'll get a pic of his logo too. He has grapples, snow plows, blank QA plates, buckets, post hole diggers ect........really nice guy and once you become a customer, you get
discounts.

papachaz · Dec 25, 2018

When Santa needs hydraulics to deliver some presents, you may have had a really good year! These were for my oldest daughter and her husband. The pallet forks were part of my Christmas, so a good representation here

air8 · Dec 26, 2018

LoL. I like it.

air8 · Jan 1, 2019

Burning off some ice storm damage from a few years ago.

Diggin It · Jan 1, 2019

Haven't even looked at it in a couple weeks. Hope it's still out there in the shed. Ha!!!

mred2 · Jan 2, 2019

I got my new ditch bank flail mower together and running. I do believe it will take a little run time to get used to it, but I already can see it working great. The weather here is great if you are a fish. I would say duck, but I think there is more water than most ducks would want to fly in. Without 4WD I couldn't even get the hay out for the horses. I would like to clean up the holes in the roads, put up fence, almost anything. But the rain comes in, then the cold, then back to rain. The only good news is my tractor is running great, the hay in the barn is dry and we all know that by the middle of the summer we will be wishing we had the rain back.

papachaz · Jan 3, 2019

I had two tandem dump truck loads of asphalt millings delivered today. God to spend a few hours of ME time on the tractor spreading it...

really have to say I love the free float setting on the loader bucket, sure makes smoothing gravel easier for sure.

Ok, there's one pic I took because someone had asked me if this tractor would pick up a bucket full of gravel, so the answer there is yes....