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

papachaz · Jan 17, 2019

LS mt125 owner said:
Looks good! Job well done and some seat time... Can't get any better!

thank you!

today I get to do the odd job finish up stuff, LOL but I will get some more seat time. I have a pile of millings and I plan to take a bucket or two out there and take it all the way to the fence and pack it in around the posts. One edge of the drive needs a little 'clean up' as well. Supposed to start raining this afternoon, so I'll be bundling up and getting out there shortly

edit:
well the rain started sooner than they said it would, imagine that....LOL so looks like I get a day off today

although I have been out between showers taking care of a few things

air8 · Jan 22, 2019

Nothing big today. Had the grapple on and cleaned up some logs and branches. Then moved a round bale out to the pasture for our horse. He loved the fresh food but hated the tractor noise.

mred2 · Jan 23, 2019

Wish I could get out to do a lot of clean up. Rain here. I have a few places it will have to dry out for a couple of weeks. I plan to have a few loads of fill brought in to fix things to drain. But when you mix dirt with mud, you get more mud. It looks like a real wet winter.

Still a lot of hay for the horses. My tractor has a canopy. Not that cold except when the wind blows the rain on you. Makes me wonder about a cab.

lostcreekranch · Jan 23, 2019

Pastures still very wet and tractors haven't moved for well over a month. I needed to replace the failed casters on my 44" x 62" work table so, put pallet forks on my XR4156HC and installed the 72" fork extensions.

It took about 10 minutes to replace all four casters.

Done!

papachaz · Jan 23, 2019

ok I'm a few days behind. Yesterday, I went and picked up supplies to put in a dog pen for my son in law and daughter. They just live right around the corner from us, so I picked up a couple pallets of concrete, posts, fence and dug some holes and set the corner posts. Then unloaded the rest of the pallets of concrete here because next week we're pouring a new front sidewalk. Can't believe I didn't get any pictures of setting the posts, but it was wet and messy and the XG 3025 still dug the holes with the PHD easy peasy

by the time I got home and unloaded the rest of the concrete under the carport so the rain today wouldn't get it, it was dark so there's no pics. I had them put the concrete bags 14 per pallet, so that's 1120 just concrete, not counting the pallets. Didn't have any problems unloading, except the only counter weight I had was the PHD, not very good for that purpose. I wasn't having to move them far though.

So today, as I was getting ready to move the tractor back to it's spot in the shed, I still had the pallet forks on, and curiosity got the best of me. I just had to see how easy the old sidewalk out front would come out. it broke into two bigger pieces, that I moved to other places to use as a 'landing' in front of storage building and chicken coop.

[video]https://www.facebook.com/charles.soles/videos/pcb.961986797332116/10213323097615989/?type=3&theater&ifg=1[/video]

3Lfarms · Jan 23, 2019

Pallet forks are awesome. I don’t have trees so I don’t really have need for a grapple, but the forks stay on 90% of the time.

Diggin It · Jan 23, 2019

I haven't even seen mine in a few days. It's tucked in the shed out of this miserable rain and wind.

papachaz · Jan 25, 2019

did some things out in the yard today. Neighbor across from us had to clean out his culvert pipe under his driveway that had become all stopped up with leaves. I went over and helped him, we loaded all the leaves in my loader bucket and I took them to the garden to be tilled under.

I also had to rebuild the stand I made a couple months ago for my PHD. I did a quickie job on it knowing I'd have to add some bracing to it. Today I just cut it apart and rebuilt it. Solid as a rock now. Added leg braces, and a pulley up top for the cable it hangs on. Much easier to deal with now.

Also, a couple of years ago when I had the old 1955 Ford 850, I built a rear dumping carry all. When we fenced the yard, I welded a short piece of pipe in it, put the fence roll over that, then slid another longer pipe into that one. Attach the end of the fence and slowly drive away. When I finished, I just cut the pipe back out. If you scroll up a few posts, you'll see where I put in some fence posts for a dog pen for my daughter and son in law. Tomorrow we fence it in, and I put the pipe back in the dump box. whole lot cheaper than buying a fence puller or unroller or whatever it's called. :laughing: