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Richard, you have snow too, lucky bastard! Do you ever wish that loader had a grapple? BTW, nice calendar......
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Sure Sam, it has a selector valve that could run a cylinder for a grapple.
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Richard, how wide is the bucket?
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Eight feet Sam, I think it is a three yard bucket Snow, and packing silage, it would take larger bucket. When you have the room, a loader is never big enough. Often, you need to be nimble.
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Oh okay, it's the same width as a 'standard' bucket on a loader tractor. You guys use a spear to handle bales but I was thinking you could grab two round bales with it if the bucket was wide enough. That JD 7610 I bought only has a 7' bucket but I think a guy might still be able to handle two at once.
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Plowing with a grader—you guys fugkin rock!
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Getting pretty fancy! I mean a grader with hydraulics not to mention it started up....
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It is much better than the old Cat 12 with the wrist breaker setup we had before!
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That's what we have, an old 12E knuckle buster!
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It is much better than the old Cat 12 with the wrist breaker setup we had before!
Looks like enough snow to keep you busy.
How far you gotta plow??
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It is much better than the old Cat 12 with the wrist breaker setup we had before!
Looks like enough snow to keep you busy.
How far you gotta plow??
Technically about three quarters of a mile.
The rest of the 4 miles is a county road....but the county takes their time getting out here!
We have plowed all 8 miles to town before when the county was on vacation.
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Hope you sent them a bill....grin
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"Get us back on the road Richard..." laughin' here Jim! Those are memories in the making...... Richard boy was wheelin' that ol' John Deere like he was in the Daytona 500!
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Moving snow is so much fun. Cracked the power steering line on the tractor and dumped 2 gallon of oil. Jury rigged a soft line to get finished. Fun and games
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Snow can be a pain in the ass. Especially when it's blowing around!
And of course chit breaks right at the worst time....
But I can't whine too much, no breakdowns lately and my trails are still passable.
It was a breezy, cold sonuvabitch today!
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Wow, Sam that looks COLD! Makes me want to head to Az. For the winter..
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Sam, Richard boy is the only person I have ever seen who looks right and steers left! Once he gets that figured out he will be good to go! Blanket, a neighbor blew a hose on his back hoe and parked it in one of my fields. I suspect it will be there till spring. I was tooling down the road with my 1086 IH 2wd pulling my hay processor one year and developed a leak in a hydraulic cooler line. The leak was low pressure, and I did not see it. Right before I was going to head down a real steep long grade in road gear, I noticed that I had lost steering, and brakes. The grade had a 100 foot drop on either side, and was curved. I armstronged it into the ditch with about 10 feet to spare. Neighbor asked why I had bombed through the borrow pit and through her fence instead of using the gate....... Not sure why I was able to steer it ever so slightly to get off the road. Steering wheel is connected to an orbit motor. Must have had just enough low pressure oil in it to move the front tires an inch.
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