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Once in a while, usually after doing a bunch of chipping or something where the hydraulic top and side link are no more useful than the original manual links, I kind of have a little thought that as nice as they are, I probably shouldn’t have spent that much money on something I’m not making...

If you squint a little you can see a house through the trees on the far side of the pond. That’s my parent’s old house, where our son lives now. The ground falls off pretty sharply about 6’ past the pond side of the house. Way too steep for any sort of equipment; much of it so steep it’s a bit...

Thinking a bit about your experience and several similar I’ve had, I kind of think there are a two take aways. The most obvious is: be careful, it can happen to anyone. The possibly less obvious is, particularly if doing something a little dicey, have a backup plan well rehearsed in your head...

If you spray your bucket with diesel fuel before moving sticky stuff it can be pretty helpful in getting the load to let go. I’m not sure if that’s still politically / environmentally correct. Sometimes I have a hard time keeping up with all the changes in “acceptable”. But it does work. Edit...

I remember having a COE dump truck kind of like that when I was a kid about 4 years old. Of course mine had a wooden body and the bolts and studs and screws were regular steel. It came with a pair of steel wrenches and a screwdriver that was just a normal flat screwdriver. Wheels on one side had...

Good thing you had the loader on it. Gauge wheels make it kind of hard to drop anchor with a mower.

It’s like insuring anything else: if it burned up, was stolen, was vandalized, etc. and you had to pay out of pocket for replacement or major repair, would that be acceptable to you? If yes, retain that risk yourself and don’t insure it. If no, pay an insurance company to take on some of that...

That would also be covered on many equipment policies sold by other carriers. Not all, but many. And yes, insurance pays for stupidity quite often. Intentional damage, no. I have non-KTAC coverage on my Mule and my L. Different policies on both, but either would pay for the OP’s scenario so...

Since some are talking % grade and some degree angle (which sometimes is challenging to my limited quantity of still functioning brain cells to translate to reality) I found this slope/degree thing. I’m a little jealous. Some of y’all got ground about as undulating as a pool table. Must be...

Buying another tractor sounds quite reasonable to me. That or get a dedicated mower and hang the BX deck in the back of the barn.

Wow! You could probably do better than $0.80 each at Fastenal. Of course you might not have one around the corner. I have one six miles from my house and they’re not cheap but they’re not bad in bulk quantities.

Just for your consideration, my Farmi W50R doesn’t hang far off the back of tractor but it’s better counterweight than my 525lb boxblade. YMMV…

This question comes up once in a while. I’ve seen these type couplers for several years and they look easier to use than the standard couplers, particularly the ones with the ring you have to pull backwards as you push the shaft forward while fighting the shield on the shaft and shield on the...

Nice blade. Looks like that will be quite a challenge for a BX. Hope it does what you need it to.

Other than Photoshop, or sewing him into it, I’m failing to figure out how that shirt was put on that statue. 🧐

https://logcabinrustics.com/rustic-cabin-decor/chainsaw-carvings/ These folks seem to be up for it; standard warrior bust statue or something custom. A little pricey but unless you run across one of those artists at a fair or something not sure what other options you’d have.

When I bought my L, I spent months researching making sure I got exactly the tractor I wanted and needed. I also knew I needed a grapple immediately. For reasons still unexplainable, I spent zero time researching grapples. Dealer had three Tar River CRG72’s on the lot so I told him to throw one...

I have an old Milwaukee spline shank rotary hammer that can be operated with or without rotation. As others have stated, that’s the type thing you really need. Thing I’m not getting about how an impact wrench would work is the “hammer/impact” part of a rotary hammer and impact wrench are...

I use jackstands under the back of the trailer and block the trailer wheels when loading. Nothing odd there. I also carry a jack tall enough to reach the back of the trailer so I don’t have to unload if I mess up and trap the jackstands with the loaded trailer squat (like that would ever...

Yeah, even with some effort at water management I still get mud slung all over the Mule and on the hood of the tractor now and then. Nothing wrong with a little “I think we can make it through that” once in a while. 🙂