Mike CHS
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Looking Great!
Senile Texas Aggie - comic relief for the rest of you
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Senile_Texas_Aggie
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"AFTER" pictures of the south side of the south pasture:
"BEFORE" and "AFTER" pictures of the west end of the south pasture (unfortunately from different vantage points):
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"BEFORE" and "AFTER" pictures of the west end of the south pasture (unfortunately from different vantage points):
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Bruce
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Apparently not as senile as you make out to be
Mike CHS
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Apparently not as senile as you make out to be
I don't think many of us bought that line anyway.
Baymule
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We only do burn piles after a rain when the wind is flat. A grass fire got away from a neighbor across the road and we beat it with towels to keep the fire from jumping the road into thousands of acres, until the fire department showed up and put it out. I guess I should have run to get the tractor! LOL
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It is looking really nice.
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Senile_Texas_Aggie
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All,
With rain on the way starting Thursday, I decided to get out the stump bucket to cut channels at points along the driveway to keep the water from flowing down the tire tracks as much. It started out not too well: I had yet to uncrate the bucket, so I cut and removed the wires holding the bucket to the frame and pallet. I then tried to pick up the bucket, but the metal frame kept getting in the way (the bucket was sitting on the frame, so I could not remove it by hand). So after failing to pick up the bucket, I decided to remove the frame from around the bucket using the tractor. In the process, the frame slid up the loader arms and cut a hydraulic line to the right curl piston! So I had to go get a new hydraulic line and install it. Once I finally got that done, it was already 10:30. So I dug out the cutouts along the drive, then decided to clean the small ditches south of the shop. While I was there, I decided to dig up a small stump -- after all, that is what the implement is designed to do. It worked well. By that time it was lunch time, so I went to the house to eat. Then I noticed something on the bucket that was not good:
I am not sure exactly when I bent the tooth, but I think it happened while I was digging up the stump. And the bucket I bought was supposed to be a heavy duty kind of bucket! I guess we'll see how it holds up with a bent tooth.
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With rain on the way starting Thursday, I decided to get out the stump bucket to cut channels at points along the driveway to keep the water from flowing down the tire tracks as much. It started out not too well: I had yet to uncrate the bucket, so I cut and removed the wires holding the bucket to the frame and pallet. I then tried to pick up the bucket, but the metal frame kept getting in the way (the bucket was sitting on the frame, so I could not remove it by hand). So after failing to pick up the bucket, I decided to remove the frame from around the bucket using the tractor. In the process, the frame slid up the loader arms and cut a hydraulic line to the right curl piston! So I had to go get a new hydraulic line and install it. Once I finally got that done, it was already 10:30. So I dug out the cutouts along the drive, then decided to clean the small ditches south of the shop. While I was there, I decided to dig up a small stump -- after all, that is what the implement is designed to do. It worked well. By that time it was lunch time, so I went to the house to eat. Then I noticed something on the bucket that was not good:
I am not sure exactly when I bent the tooth, but I think it happened while I was digging up the stump. And the bucket I bought was supposed to be a heavy duty kind of bucket! I guess we'll see how it holds up with a bent tooth.
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As much as I would have a million uses for a tractor I will just be content with hiring our neighbor to use his over here. I could never keep up with all the maintenance.
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SAT, I've been meaning to tell you how much I admire you and your wife's habit of reading together.
My husband and I do the same, but I could never read aloud for 2 to 3 hours. That's impressive!
45 minutes is about my limit before my voice starts going out.
My husband and I do the same, but I could never read aloud for 2 to 3 hours. That's impressive!
45 minutes is about my limit before my voice starts going out.
Bruce
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That is a serious bummer STA! Not sure how "heavy duty" that bucket is if you managed to bend a tooth. I wonder if it can be bent back where it belongs without just weakening the metal and having it break off.
