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I went to Northern California last fall and run a OXBO 6420 last year. We harvested about 1,500 acres of Super High Density Olives.



I was supposed to leave for Australia in January to run a Braud in grapes. We screwed around until the last minute on getting my Visa, so I backed out.

I've thought about putting a ball on my bucket for the smaller trailers. My FEL won't lift my gooseneck.

I have a hole torched in the skid steer bucket. It's handy for moving farm equipment around. Works good when your trying to pack everything tight in the shed. Just drop a pin in and go.

I have a hole torched in one of my pallet forks for that. Works good too.

Fixing to get out and fire up the welding setup and put this all together.

Wind kept me away from any welding or cutting yesterday...

Took these pics this morning at the local hay auction of this setup.

False start..

Went to use my cutting torch and the acetylene ran out in about a minute. Guess I'll go into town after lunch... Dammit.

James, I see you are fastened to the frame with the gooseneck setup.

Looks stout. I'm going on the 3 point hitch with my attachment. My tractor is rated at lifting 3,960 lbs on the 3 pt. I bet your's will handle lots more.

I'm guessing I should be OK unless I get too crazy? Not really planning on using it to pull heavy loads. More geared towards moving a trailer around.

Barry, they pull some pretty heavy loads with that setup. For just moving a trailer, I'd think that using the lift arms would work fine. If I was using a trailer to pull a lot, I'd like the frame hookup. I'd feel like I could trust it a little better.

You need spare tanks Barry. Our son bought us out. I had three of each.

That Amish rig would be stout on the vertical,
But looks weak on the horizontal.
A three point would be the opposite.

Bolted to the frame, and attached to the arms would be best.
But, would tie up the lift, and be vulnerable to Richards "friend".

Years back, a fellow said about another, "I understand if a machine has a weak spot, Miller can find it"

I have found my share of "weak spots".

I like to think I am good with machines, and not hard on them.

But, when my head goes up my ass,
It goes in untill it hits the shoulder stops!🤤💩


I have gotten in trouble that way!

Just got back from town with filled spare tanks of larger capacity.

I can rent the much bigger tanks, but that's about $35 a month now...

Last time I had big tanks, I think my lease on them was about $100 a year.

Guy at the welding supply place informed me we can't legally buy the big tanks anymore. They have to be leased... (Probably just another thing they don't trust us with..)

Barry, I leased my first two tanks in 1968 for 25 years. When the lease was up, they did not come looking for me, and did not look for them.

I traded a Model A fender for an oxygen tank. I had to {gulp), buy the second acetylene tank. The third set were a gift from A next door Canadian friend that di not want them.

I posted pictures in the welder thread.

My dad picked up my whole torch kit for $145 about 10 years ago at an auction.

Torch, regulators, hoses and large tanks.

Actually, it was like several different tanks, one for shielding gas, medium torch set and something else.
The little private supply guy checked out all the torch stuff, and did a straight up swap to the tanks
I wanted. We all won.

Yes, I still have the bill of sale.
At one time they wouldn't sell us tanks around here.
They would swap, if you could prove they were yours, but, they didn't like it.

Can't recall....

How often are C2H2 and O2 tanks required to be hydrotested?

I own a set of tanks, they were my brothers, and he'd gotten them in a trade. I traded him a Betamax VCR for them many years ago. There was a business that would swap them out for me, but it's been 25 years since I used them, and that place has gone out of business. We made a cart for them, and even had a couple of sets of houses and torches to go along with them. It's a shame that I've got such a good set of cutting torches, and they're just sitting in a corner of the barn.

I hadta sell my welder and torch (and a whole shop of tools) when I got divorced. Everything I kept, had to fit in the truck and 6x12 trailer. Never replaced any of it, as I took a ranch job after.

Well, you got screwed on that deal James.
All you have is a set of torches worth $500+.
If you had held out, you could be sitting on a Betamax VCR.

I remember telling my brother that it was supposedly about to be obsolete. But, he was so anxious to get one that he wouldn't listen.