What have you done to your Branson today?

[ning]

All my orchards have 16 mm poly pipe buried, then a Tee fitting on each tree with a short piece of hose and the emitter right by the base of the tree. Best thing I ever did. Burying this pipe was the original intent of my backhoe, of course, it evolved into a lot more useful machine.

I can now till the orchards without having to worry about any pipes. The only thing I would change, was to move the short hose and emitter further away from the roots of the trees because I believe as the tree and roots grow, it might wrap around the hose and pinch it.

1" solid rod will be perfectly fine. Specially with the quick attach, since it a static application as the pin doesn't have to be a pivot point as well. By the way, a quick attach for the backhoe is awesome!! I built mine recently and it's a much pleasant experience to swap buckets. Heck, it even makes me want to make more attachments. A ripper is definitely in order.

This was the beginning of the olive tree orchard we did about about 2 years ago. A trench more or less straight about 60 cm deep, deep enough to not have an issues with the subsoiler, then we put those bamboo canes where the tree is going. We then placed the pipe with the T fittings and emitters. Put a layer of dirt on top of that so the trees wouldn't sit so deep and finally we put the trees in and covered everything.

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I do have plans to extend this orchard out by 2 more rows, make it about 40 olive trees in total. Then I another section of the land, I'm planning on a new olive tree orchard with about 70 trees.

Hopefully I can make my own olive oil sometime in the future. Right now, olive oil is like liquid gold, crazy expensive.

My main regret is not burying the lines more deeply. I could probably safely use the tiller in the top few inches but definitely not a subsoiler.

We don't have ground freezes and I didn't have any notion of digging with the (rented) trencher deeper than about 30cm particularly with really hard ground at the time.

 

[Zork]

I had the hydraulic hoses changed on my backhoe yesterday. Long story short, the system was opened and closed twice. The silver lining is..... The excessive creep that previously developed in my loader-curl circuit is totally gone! The air in the system must have cleaned the debris in the valve because the bucket now holds solid- if it didn't happen to me, I would not believe it. How long will it last; Who knows.

 

[Zork]

I had the hydraulic hoses changed on my backhoe yesterday. Long story short, the system was opened and closed twice. The silver lining is..... The excessive creep that previously developed in my loader-curl circuit is totally gone! The air in the system must have cleaned the debris in the valve because the bucket now holds solid- if it didn't happen to me, I would not believe it. How long will it last; Who knows.

So, it's not fixed, but it is better than it was previously. Apparently the creeping condition has only slowed down after putting some stress on the circuit with the install of my snow plow.

 

[404nouser]

I added a hydraulic top link and pulled/made hydraulic lines for third function (just using a rear remote for a couple of years).
Not for a grapple for a hydraulic cutter, I'll buy in spring.

 

[LouNY]

Same stuff different day, maybe 3 inches of wind blown snow, but it has to come off the driveway before it packs into ice. So back blade down and pulling it forward, scraping up just a tiny bit of dirt/gravel but not enough to worry about;

heading down first pass,

looking back on first pass,

heading back up all done,

just a small amount of dirt/gravel moved over the driveway is froze fairly solid, makes plowing much easier.

 

[Slowpoke Slim]

With Friday's snow, we finally had enough on the ground for me to bother with. Used my 3pt blower and FEL mounted bucket + Edge Tamers to clear the driveways and parking area yesterday. I think it's only the 2nd or 3rd time I've had to do it this winter. Don't even have the tractor plugged in to the timer this season, as there's been no need to run it.

 

[ptsg]

I modified the Euro quick attach latch on the loader slightly so it now auto latches as I curl all the way back. A couple simple parts made, a new spring and it now saves me at least one trip in/out of the tractor to latch the attachment.

I'll take some good pictures eventually and maybe a short video of latching.

Need to order some engine oil, oil and fuel filters for the 500 hour service coming soon.

 

[LouNY]

About 3 hours on the 8050 blowing snow and scrapping with the bucket, after an hour with the shovel and broom;

Getting started --------------------------------------------- and finishing up

can't see much looking back, ---------------------------- almost done.

 

[Zork]

I had the hydraulic hoses changed on my backhoe yesterday. Long story short, the system was opened and closed twice. The silver lining is..... The excessive creep that previously developed in my loader-curl circuit is totally gone! The air in the system must have cleaned the debris in the valve because the bucket now holds solid- if it didn't happen to me, I would not believe it. How long will it last; Who knows.

That didn’t last long. I changed out the grapple for the snow plow and now it seems the circuit is bypassing even more.
I had the cylinders blanked off and the bucket held leading us to believe the bypass/ creep is in the valve itself. I’ll create a separate thread to ask questions and document progress.

 

[ptsg]

Tested my "new" implement the other day. It's a potato planter, but essentially does 3 things at the same time: Closes the last furrow, opens the next one and marks the ground for the next pass.

It does require some labor to put the potatoes in the furrow, but that's ok, we're not doing huge fields.

The test went somewhat ok, some minor tweaks need to be done but the soil, being clay and very wet, made these big clumps of clay which kinda defeats the purpose.

It really needs to be tested once the ground is a lot drier, almost like sand.

As you can see, not quite the result I was looking for.

This is a better example of what it should be doing: