What have you done with/to your GC Series 2300, 2400, 1700 Tractor TODAY

[GeneV]

Nice job fellas!

Ken, so you doing all that as a side gig or what? Pretty cool.

CG, I been working at it myself, removing stumps and leveling and all that.

Guys, look at this janky thing I strapped on my backhoe yesterday, it worked great!

 

[MoMower]

Here's what the final product looking like. There were 4 stumps removed from the newly groomed areaView attachment 662296

Looks good!

 

[MoMower]

Nice job fellas!

Ken, so you doing all that as a side gig or what? Pretty cool.

CG, I been working at it myself, removing stumps and leveling and all that.

Guys, look at this janky thing I strapped on my backhoe yesterday, it worked great!

Looks good, perfect practice for flat bottom trenches.

 

[Pixguy]

Great job guys!

I moved 18 yard of ledgepak over the weekend. Toy? I don't think so.

 

[GeneV]

Looks good, perfect practice for flat bottom trenches.

I've been taking out buckthorns over there, I took out a bigger one together with it's stump. That was the previous video from the other week. But yesterday I dug the hole from that tree deeper, made a pretty big hole. Like Pixguy says about people calling scuts "toys" lol! I'd still be at it until today if I had to dig that hole out by hand!

Anyways, I had all this gravel there, I guess the previous owner dumped it there before the buckthorns grew. I had the ratchet rake on, didn't want to take it off, but I was getting nowhere with it dealing with the gravel. That's where that backhoe squeegee came in, it worked great! I scraped all the gravel with it into the hole, also tossed the root from the stump in there, and backfilled and leveled all of it with the dirt I scooped out earlier, worked out beautiful! Well yeh, scuts ARE toys...I had blast doing the whole thing.

 

[kenmbz]

I've been taking out buckthorns over there, I took out a bigger one together with it's stump. That was the previous video from the other week. But yesterday I dug the hole from that tree deeper, made a pretty big hole. Like Pixguy says about people calling scuts "toys" lol! I'd still be at it until today if I had to dig that hole out by hand!

Anyways, I had all this gravel there, I guess the previous owner dumped it there before the buckthorns grew. I had the ratchet rake on, didn't want to take it off, but I was getting nowhere with it dealing with the gravel. That's where that backhoe squeegee came in, it worked great! I scraped all the gravel with it into the hole, also tossed the root from the stump in there, and backfilled and leveled all of it with the dirt I scooped out earlier, worked out beautiful! Well yeh, scuts ARE toys...I had blast doing the whole thing.

Clever fix, and looks like it did the job quite well.
I moved lots of big wood rounds this weekend and used the winch to pull some rounds off the stack for splitting.

 

[GeneV]

How long did you run the winch for and roughly how heavy the logs being pulled?

 

[kenmbz]

Ran it for less than 1 minute to get the approx 200 pound round moved a few feet. Was stuck in place, so initial load was pretty high.
Last run was about a 100 pound cut off at ground level from an Ash and pulled it about 10-15 feet into my bucket.
Both times with tractor at idle-didn't seem to change engine rpms at all.
Specs say I would have been running 55 or so amps for the pull. If I need to lift anything heavier I can always tie a strap to the drawbar, but the winch is so easy and let's me get in between scrub and brush.

 

[MF RED in MT]

Ran it for less than 1 minute to get the approx 200 pound round moved a few feet. Was stuck in place, so initial load was pretty high.
Last run was about a 100 pound cut off at ground level from an Ash and pulled it about 10-15 feet into my bucket.
Both times with tractor at idle-didn't seem to change engine rpms at all.
Specs say I would have been running 55 or so amps for the pull. If I need to lift anything heavier I can always tie a strap to the drawbar, but the winch is so easy and let's me get in between scrub and brush.

My mid 70's Power Wagon ran a 8,000# Warn Winch with the stock Mopar 40 amp alternator and you'd have to let the battery recover for a few minutes during a long winching event.

Back then that was just normal...

KC

 

[GeneV]

Ran it for less than 1 minute to get the approx 200 pound round moved a few feet. Was stuck in place, so initial load was pretty high.
Last run was about a 100 pound cut off at ground level from an Ash and pulled it about 10-15 feet into my bucket.
Both times with tractor at idle-didn't seem to change engine rpms at all.
Specs say I would have been running 55 or so amps for the pull. If I need to lift anything heavier I can always tie a strap to the drawbar, but the winch is so easy and let's me get in between scrub and brush.

Man, that sounds handy! So I see where you mounted it, on the front bumper right? So you raise the bucket slightly, and run the cable under it or are you running the cable over the bucket? Probably over it, right? Do you have forks mounted too?