What have you done to your Branson today?

[Slowpoke Slim]

Put the 3 pt mower on for the first time this season. I had decided last year during my "time out" (medical) that I would do away with the quick hitch entirely when I got back to it. Just more trouble that it's worth, especially when only 2 attachments will fit the quick hitch at all (and both of those took different upper hook heights than the other one). Anyway, so brought out the mower with my forks and a chain to support the back, set it down next to the garage where my tools and air are and proceeded to take the lower pins off so I could drive out the roll pins holding the bushings on. The 3/4" impact air wrench did all the hard work. It actually went easier than I thought, got the roll pins to press out with my 20 ton press and a sacrificial socket. Also cut 6" off the pto shaft to get some more clearance (it's only ever been on with the quick hitch since new), greasing the inner shaft while I had them apart.

Got it hitched up on the first shot and the shaft has plenty of clearance. Still need to adjust my lower lift arms (both sides on mine have height adjustments) to get some more lift height when it's fully raised.

Got it all stuffed back in the shed again (getting late and I was getting pretty tired), but need to rearrange it better for the summer season. But my ad is up and I'm ready for customers when the phone rings.

Tomorrow I'll go over the trailer, tires, lights, etc.

 

[ptsg]

Got the fleet lined up.

Haven't used the Branson much. I believe last time was right the end of March, early April. I actually pulled the battery out of it and been using it on the generator, since I'm currently one battery short.

The loader hasn't been on it since September, I believe.

Anyway, there is a lot of work coming soon. Lots of dirt moving and probably rock moving with the trailer.

 

[CloverKnollFarms]

Worked it tilling under an acre of buckwheat. A lot of grass came up with it, so I had to till it under before that went to seed. I'll reseed more buckwheat in a week or so after one more till.

 

[Omega Woods]

Worked it tilling under an acre of buckwheat. A lot of grass came up with it, so I had to till it under before that went to seed. I'll reseed more buckwheat in a week or so after one more till.

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Looks great. What brand and size is your tiller? Where do you buy your buckwheat seed?

 

[LouNY]

Did some driveway trimming with the ditch bank mower;

 

[CloverKnollFarms]

Looks great. What brand and size is your tiller? Where do you buy your buckwheat seed?

It’s a 72” IronCraft. The seed I purchase from Byron Seed

 

[Slowpoke Slim]

Ran a couple small mowing jobs today. 2 separate vacant lots in a rather upscale neighborhood across town. Each lot was maybe an acre. The one was pretty straight forward, not really any obstacles or hazards. But the other one, was difficult. Lots of hidden (large) rocks, some tricky slopes and a bunch of trees.

The "easy" one.

The pain in the butt one...

Didn't take any decent "before" pictures of that one, most of the grass and weeds were waist high or higher.

 

[houska]

I had no patience for taking pictures, I'm afraid, but I used my 4225H with Norse 450 logging winch attached to help my KX-040 mini-ex get out of the mud pit it had gotten stuck in.

In the middle of an early morning rainstorm that finished the moment I was done. With no cab on the Branson. But it worked very nicely. Logging winches can pull other things than logs!

Observe that I am accepting no blame for the situation. It's the mini-ex that got stuck in the mud, the fact I was in it at the time is immaterial

 

[Cougsfan]

This weekend I fixed the AC on my 4720CH. The high-pressure hose out of the compressor was leaking because the hood was pushing down on it when closed and I didn't notice it until I tried my AC, it didn't work and I started checking things out. I could tell it was leaking there because of oil residue around the leak. I re-adjusted the hood latch to catch higher to keep it from contacting the AC line. That line leaked where the rubber hose crimps onto the aluminum tube. Being a tight wad I decided to try to fix the leak. I cleaned up the tube, applied some good ole JB weld the joint between the hose and aluminum tube. I then pulled a slight vacuum on the system to suck the JB weld into the leaky gap between the hose and tube, then let it set for a day. Last night I pulled it down to an absolute vacuum and let it set overnight. The vacuum held over night so I charged it up to day to 25 psi on the suction and 225 psi on the discharge. It only took half the freon as listed in the manual to get to the listed pressures (??) Seems to work just fine. 47 degree air out of the vents in the cab. Time will tell if the JB weld holds at the high pressures and temperatures. If not I will have to break down and see if Branson (TYM) has a hose for it.

 

[ning]

Did a bit of mowing with the rotary cutter the past two days. Had some very high (for here) grasses, up to about a meter high; this week is going to have some extreme fire danger with 40+C (102+F) & 12% humidity and I wanted to get most of it knocked down a ways.

I went for full coverage shemagh style as I don't have a cab and in the past it's almost like doing fiberglass insulation as you get little itchy scratches everywhere. I got some well-sealing eye protection last year after getting lots of crap in my eyes; these cost like $9 on amz and they were very comfortable and my eyes didn't itch at all after a couple hours of mowing.

I stopped twice to blow off the radiator, and here I did a final blow-off of the whole tractor when I was done. Carried an 18v leaf blower for the purpose and an Amerex 2.5 gallon pressurized water extinguisher just in case. Hit a couple rocks but didn't see any sparks and no smoke.