What did you do with your tractor today?
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Finally got the hydro running and took it for a little ride around the yard!! All it took to get it running was just tapping on the starter generator with a hammer…. Who knew. It started on the 3rd try without smoking and runs, but it unfortunately is not charging according to the ammeter. According to that it DEcharges, and the gauge needle goes to the left instead of the right when it’s in the middle so I’m thinking it’s the VR. Now I’ll change that unless anyone else has any other ideas and have to get a battery box made otherwise shes done. Also another shout out goes to my stepdad here as the gas tank did not have its original gas tank straps to hold the tank in place, so he had these upstairs and they’re on there……
We have a Sugar Maple in the front yard that did the same thing as the Cottonwood we had out there. For some reason they grow toward the house. The Cottonwood was near where the tractor is setting and it got so close to the house that I cut it down and dug out the stump. I wanted to keep the Maple so today I trimmed off the house side of the tree. Hopefully it will be good for another 20 years. 6 and 12 foot step ladders and a pole saw did the job nicely. Looks a little sparse on the trimmed side but it should fill in.
Yesterday me and my dad cut up a tree that fell along our road a couple years ago for firewood. I used my Cub to drag the logs out of the woods onto the road and he cut them up. We loaded them onto the trailer and used the 882 to haul them up to the house and split them. There’s two more trees down that he wants to cut up next weekend.
Nice looking work crew getting it done.
I took the hydro out for its first real test ride today. All in all I’m satisfied with it and like the way it rides, although it almost left me stranded on the side of the road as I didn’t have enough gas in it….. oops. I will probably take it for another little ride later this week though as it’s supposed to be in the low 60s then put it away for the winter, but first I wanna and gotta clear off my storage shelf to swap spaces……
You mean the hook type lookin thing on the side of the hood? I assume so cause I didn’t put it there, and I haven’t put the snowblower on and tested fitted it yet.
I'm very impressed here. Someone has talent to take this machine right here using the WD-40 can, a bike seat, bunch of paper, rags, a can of beer, and straw bales, made into a full blown tractor to drag race down the country roads.
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That’s a completely different tractor ya know. The WD is for when I need it, the bike seat is off a bike I’m selling that is sadly sitting outside and the seat started to get ruined so I took it off and that’s where I put it, all the paper is sandpaper I got, the rags are again for when I need them, the beer can my coworker gave me last year and I didn’t think I could get that brand of beer so I kept it but I found it so I guess I can throw it out, and the straw bales are for a tow behind trailer project I gotta finish. Trust me that ain’t all of it either, there’s more. I got 2 things of power tools my other grandpa gave me that I’m tryin to sell but nobodies buyin either. I know I got WAY too much s**t….. I guess I’m a hoarder which I get from my grandpa, his brother, my stepdad, and his dad.
Got the Bever out yesterday morning. Dropped the rear fast hitch weights off. Got the walk behind snow blower out and started up so it is ready to go when and if. Moved the bar mower inside the machine shed for the winter. Battery charger on the 4-wheeler so it will start when the granddaughter wants to drive it around. Tried to lift some big rear tractor tires full of dirt but lot more load than the SCT could handle. Tree guy is her taking down 8 more trees, so he lifted them up with the skid steer. Need the dirt for back fill along the house where it settled down.
Cleared off the 6hp project today to move and swap it with the hydro today. I also put the hydro away today too…..
Had the tree gy back yesterday and today. Took down 8 more of those shag nasty sheding hybred popular trees. Have rtwo left and whe/uf they fal they can hrt a thing so not going to worry about it. Several years ago we had our strawberry plants in old tractor tires filled with diert. Doing away with that project but my tractor would not lift one on those big tires full of dirtr. ,,,,Tree man with the clam on his skind streer picked eash one up and shook the dirt out of them and stacked them up in stacks of 3 down by the edge of the pond out of th way. Now I can get the dirt in along the end of the house where it has settled for some sewer work years ago.
Saturday into Sunday was our first plowable snow, about a foot. I did most of the plowing with the truck, but had to get my 882 out to play a little. It’s easier to do the driveway with that.
We went snowmobiling too yesterday. We didn’t get out at all last year and only twice the year before. Hopefully this year is better.
We went snowmobiling too yesterday. We didn’t get out at all last year and only twice the year before. Hopefully this year is better.
Sometimes bigger isn't better. I'll bet the 882 is much easier to use around the buildings.
Yes it is. You can’t get the truck close enough to the garage, have to back drag it, then turn around and push down to the bottom of the driveway. With the tractor I can push across, and get right up against the garage so little to no shoveling is needed. Now on our mile long private road that we plow, bigger is better. It takes 45 minutes to an hour to plow with the truck in a heavy snow. It would take most of the day with a garden tractor, if you can make it up the big hill.
Nice you are set up either way, Cub. I don't even want a truck to plow my driveway as they tear it up. The old Cub Cadet blade on the MF8E does a good job. My driveway is only around 80 feet long, flat and with the wind here usually the south end of it doesn't needs plowing. Does happen occasionally though.
You guys working on racecars in the off season yet?
DAC
You guys working on racecars in the off season yet?
DAC
At least one of the local drivers is getting ready for a race in OK I believe he said where it was at. Big engine race.