Recent content by 69Rebel

Good idea!

Wow. That looks really sweet. Can't do that with a crummy ol' B6000, no water pump.

I'm not sure who made this 'hoe, but it is Asian for sure. It is very solid, there is no slop whatsoever in the pins/bushings, but the control valve for the swing control is gonna need o-rings pretty soon as it doesn't hold as well as it should. There is a grease fitting on every single pivot...

That looks like a pretty good setup there. Mine is held on with four 1" pins, but I just couldn't find anything stout enough to bolt to that didn't interfere with the lower 3-point arms. I could have it off in a couple of minutes, plus another 15 or 20 of dinkin' around swapping brackets. Hell...

Yeah, there was a time or two today that I was wishing that I had the box scraper on instead. Removing the rock teeth did make it a whole lost easier to dig a flat bottom. I can unpin the hoe and drive away, but I still have to unbolt the lower brackets in order to re-install the three point...

Thanks! I wish my backhoe skills were similar. It's been a long time since I've been at the controls, and that was with log shovels, not backhoes. Backhoes are harder.

Seeing that sure makes me feel better about the backhoe I just installed on my B6000.

Pics, as promised.

I couldn't stand looking at this backhoe attachment just laying around, especially when I have a major digging project to do. So, over the weekend, I went ahead built some brackets and plumbed it up, and voila`...backhoe. Surprisingly, the belt-driven pump that runs the FEL is actually enough...

I load it up with the the FEL on my B6000. It does have an hydraulic dump, and it pretty easily holds about 2/3 to 3/4 of a yard.

My B6000 was hard starting when I first got it. Turned out to be that one of the glow plugs was non-functional.

Actually, a '74 401/TH400. Even with 2.87 gears I can hit around 84 mph in the 1/8th. About 352hp. Pretty much stock motor.

While loading up the little Skyroad yesterday, I got to thinking. When we were kids, we went out and played with our toy tractors in the dirt, and we were always looking for new ways to utilize them. Now that we're adults we still go out and play with our tractors in the dirt, and always seek...

The snowfall out here is pretty hit or miss. Sometimes we get a foot or so, sometimes we get none at all.

Yeah, I had never even seen one until this one popped up on CL. The machine was in Goldendale, WA, about a 160 mile drive from me. I used to live there, and it turns out that the guy who owned it was someone I had gone to middle school with and was in my Boy Scout troop. It was kinda cool to...