Archive through April 22, 2009

[digger]

I pulled a pallet of shingles once with my old 1450.

 

[rpatton]

yah but its 4 wheel drive

 

[digger]

Rich made a funny! and it's still early in the day.

 

[dtanner]

Well i was shocked that the 149 would pull what it did here, this guy works for $10.00 an hr and is a great guy to help me get the heavy work done.I always do this each year after the snow plow fills in in front of my place.

 

[kide]

Charlie:
I haven't seen that picture in at least 6 months..

Don:
Send that guy my way - part of our front yard is under water - ditch is plugged on the neighbors side of the road - road commission sez it's not their problem.

 

[tcbusch]

Chris B,
I'd say trade in the 149 for a 147. You just misses a good deal on one earlier this week.

 

[asaurer]

I'm a township road superintendent and ditches along the road is our responsibility to keep clean

 

[kide]

Aaron:
They'll actually clean the ditch if it gets bad enough, but they won't touch the driveway tubes (that they put in)..

 

[asaurer]

The drive culverts our our responsibility too, usually have the fire dept flush them out when needed

 

[snicklas]

Tristan S.

My Dad uses his 149 to move his boat around the yard. The first one was about 1800lbs loaded and that was not really and issue, He now has a 5000lb boat tie will move it just not stop to well. It will push the tractor around sideways.... not enough pressure to activate the surge brake on the trailer......

 

[jclazar]

i just dug out both sides of my drive culvert. i dug below the pipe and away about 20" or so. i think this will help to keep the pipe from filling up with mud and such. now the rain water can keep the pipe flushed out!

 

[ddillon]

Would someone be so kind as to post a pic or detail of the correct way to install a spring assist on a cub 100, took mine apart to paint and don't remember how to put it back.

 

[dfrisk]

JOHN - I used to work summers when I was in college for the local Township Road Commissioner. I think Aaron will agree that the biggest problem with tubes or Culverts is water washing out UNDER or along side of them. Only way to fix that is to DIG them out (reason We had the backhoe) and reset the tube in dirt & crushed rock, pack everything down and throw a six inch layer of cold patch on top of it.
When We cleaned out ditches with the grader We loaded a lot of the dirt up in the dump truck and dumped it on the ends of the tubes. A little work leveling with the hoe and they'd hold up a LOT longer. Co-Worker a year older than Me "Backed" the dump truck off the end of a tube once. Truck stayed on it's wheels but it sure was "Messy" getting it pulled out. It was a BIG tube, truck was pointing almost straight up.

 

[kmcconaughey]

 

[ddillon]

Thank you Kraig, for some reason mine was on the right side.

 

[kmcconaughey]

David, AH! Then you must have a Brinly spring assist, not an <FONT COLOR="ff0000">I</FONT><FONT COLOR="000000">H</FONT> spring assist. The Brinly spring assist mounts between the lift bar for the rear 3 point hitch and the rear of the frame.

 

[ddillon]

gotcha, thanks again

 

[lkortkamp]

The township screws my yard up everytime. The ditch starts at the upper corner of my property, then deeps towards the otherside. They leave the deep end full of junk, then promptly rip my yard up "making" a ditch where there isn't one(and doesn't need one). Every few years I have 100+ ft of ripped earth/dirt to contend with til it finely grows back over.

 

[jclazar]

Dennis- i see what you are saying. i notice down the road a way at some of my neighbor's driveway culverts that some are doing just that. glad its not ours. my ditch is one of such that i can mow the side closest to the road with the push mower on count of the steep'er bank. the other half i can hit with the White tractor mower as if the ditch was part of the yard. i do hope that i dont get washed out....but i can say that what i did do is helping the to move on down stream and not puddle up the yard as much,been raining for 3-4 days now. good weather on the way,though! can gat to the garden work soon as it drys up a bit. with turff tires on 71 and 72 cubbies....they can get stuck eazy if i'am not carefull! putting in a new garden, removing sod,adding a good dirt. but its the little dump cart that i got from tsc that i worrie about. filling up the cart with sod, it could eazely snap the trailer toung! i cant believe how much these folk's cubbies can pull! mine does super for anything i had to use it for.

 

[jfejedelem]

I have a 1000 with the 3 pin driver that is broken apart. Will the older version fit? If not has anyone had any luck puting a new mounting plate on it? Thanks Jimmy