MossRoad
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AHHH! I can't see! 
Very nice.
Very nice.
What did you do with your Power Trac today?
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CreativeGuy
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I am building a Gabion stone retaining wall. I needed a way to lift the fill rocks higher than Artie’s bucket could reach. I had made a forklift attachment from an old pallet jack so I used that as the basis for a high lift dumper made out of an old wheelbarrow some pulleys and a rope. It worked out great.
I’ve got a cool video of it in action but couldn’t figure out how to post it.
Here is my forklift attachment mod. I welded it to a quick attach plate.
I’ve got a cool video of it in action but couldn’t figure out how to post it.
Here is my forklift attachment mod. I welded it to a quick attach plate.
MossRoad
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Nice!
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MossRoad
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I've got a 20 year old video of me lifting a huge piece of log like that with my 425 and my first experience with the PT Pucker. Unfortunately, it's in WMV format over on my old website.
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Did the fun thing today on my 422, changed oil and oil filter and also the hydraulic filter before the cold weather sets in.
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A good feeling to know your starting fresh
Planting some garlic again this year and I had my dad run my 48" Buhler tiller that had been used once before according to the owner, looks like it too. I picked up on FB for $800 (on his new JD 1025r) I bought to modify for my 425. I got to say the tiller ran better on that way better than mine ran a 42" Dingo tiller I rented last year. I don't think it even gave his tractor a workout.
Didn't have enough time to make a dragging bedder so I had some scrap wood laying around and made a pretty rudimentary one and attached to a pallet and used my forks to just push and make about a 8in deep bed. Worked pretty well and it made a good hard walking path on the sides. Dropping in about 1300 cloves of garlic in the ground in the next day or two. If I could figure out how to drop them every 6in in with the PT, I'd be in heaven.
Didn't have enough time to make a dragging bedder so I had some scrap wood laying around and made a pretty rudimentary one and attached to a pallet and used my forks to just push and make about a 8in deep bed. Worked pretty well and it made a good hard walking path on the sides. Dropping in about 1300 cloves of garlic in the ground in the next day or two. If I could figure out how to drop them every 6in in with the PT, I'd be in heaven.
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ponytug
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I was out cleaning my driveway gutter of a years worth of ground squirrel burrow diggings, when what should I hear but a clatter from behind! Promptly followed by a "whoosh!"
Yep, the hillside edge caught my rear tire and kindly de-beaded it.
Of course it was the last thing of the day, so now the last thing minus one. In the course of reseating the tire on the rim, (Note to self, buy some tire spoons and tire irons!), I noticed a thin (1/16-3/32") layer of hard, dry, dirt that went all the way along the sealing surface of the rim. The dirt layer was thicker on the outer side of the rim, but present on the inner rim side as well.
It was actually kind of a pain to clean out. I resorted to some plastic sludges and chisels to get the dirt out without scratching the rim, I hope.
All I can think of is that mud had forced its way into the bead over the years. Any ideas on what to do differently? More frequent power washing?
All the best,
Peter
Yep, the hillside edge caught my rear tire and kindly de-beaded it.
Of course it was the last thing of the day, so now the last thing minus one. In the course of reseating the tire on the rim, (Note to self, buy some tire spoons and tire irons!), I noticed a thin (1/16-3/32") layer of hard, dry, dirt that went all the way along the sealing surface of the rim. The dirt layer was thicker on the outer side of the rim, but present on the inner rim side as well.
It was actually kind of a pain to clean out. I resorted to some plastic sludges and chisels to get the dirt out without scratching the rim, I hope.
All I can think of is that mud had forced its way into the bead over the years. Any ideas on what to do differently? More frequent power washing?
All the best,
Peter
