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Have had the new B7500 for about a month now. Haven't done much with it but cut grass, which the RFM does a great job at. Hasn’t been any rain here since Easter, the grass hasn’t grown much (therefore not much grass to cut) /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif and the ground was rock hard. It rained good yesterday which softened up the soil.
Have a V-shaped drainage ditch running about 300’ in the rear of the house. It starts off where you can’t tell its there and gets to about 4’-5’ deep at the end before it feeds into a small pond. It was cut by a bulldozer when we first moved in almost 3 years ago.
The problem is where the deeper section has eroded from a nice 20 degree V slope to a very uneven 60-90 degree slope where parts of it washed away.
I thought I would have to call the bulldozer in again to re-cut the ditch but I said, well let’s see what this 7500 can do. The only loader work I have done so far is to repair some crush over a culvert where it was all pushed down by heavy trucks going over it.
I started just playing…I mean working cutting a couple of inches of ground at a time and taking some bigger slices near the brim of the ditch. I couldn’t believe how easy and fast the job was going! I sliced the ground down, reshaped the V back to about 20 degrees or so and smoothed it out. I couldn’t believe how the FEL sliced and moved the dirt so easily and so well. I was having so much fun I almost finished the job and didn’t even think to get the camera because it didn’t even take that long to do.
I saved a little to do tomorrow and will smooth it all out with the box blade. I will have a nice smooth drainage ditch I can drive across and cut the grass on again rather than using the weed eater. I can’t believe how much power that little 7500 has and how easy and how well the job was done, it was great! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
One further note, I have R4 tires which gave me plenty of traction moving the dirt but did not tear into the ground leaving only slight tracks which the box blade will take out in 1 pass.
Have a V-shaped drainage ditch running about 300’ in the rear of the house. It starts off where you can’t tell its there and gets to about 4’-5’ deep at the end before it feeds into a small pond. It was cut by a bulldozer when we first moved in almost 3 years ago.
The problem is where the deeper section has eroded from a nice 20 degree V slope to a very uneven 60-90 degree slope where parts of it washed away.
I thought I would have to call the bulldozer in again to re-cut the ditch but I said, well let’s see what this 7500 can do. The only loader work I have done so far is to repair some crush over a culvert where it was all pushed down by heavy trucks going over it.
I started just playing…I mean working cutting a couple of inches of ground at a time and taking some bigger slices near the brim of the ditch. I couldn’t believe how easy and fast the job was going! I sliced the ground down, reshaped the V back to about 20 degrees or so and smoothed it out. I couldn’t believe how the FEL sliced and moved the dirt so easily and so well. I was having so much fun I almost finished the job and didn’t even think to get the camera because it didn’t even take that long to do.
I saved a little to do tomorrow and will smooth it all out with the box blade. I will have a nice smooth drainage ditch I can drive across and cut the grass on again rather than using the weed eater. I can’t believe how much power that little 7500 has and how easy and how well the job was done, it was great! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
One further note, I have R4 tires which gave me plenty of traction moving the dirt but did not tear into the ground leaving only slight tracks which the box blade will take out in 1 pass.
