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[cubdriver2]

We will let Tool time start

 

[sj]

I will never be as cool as Tim, but mine is at least approved by the management around here…

 

[courierguy]

Just yesterday, loading the Rotax in it's homemade heavy duty shipping crate, into the Toyota RAV4, during a blizzard, using the trusty Kubota. I had planned to use my flatbed truck for the delivery to the FEDEX yard, but when I realized it would fit in the Toy....., used it as the drive was in the same blizzard and it has great winter tires, unlike the truck.
I've been fighting an engine issue that can't be resolved, at least by me, so I gave up and shipped it to a real Rotax expert who will put it on a test stand and no doubt quickly figure it out, I couldn't. 3100 hrs of 912S time, all trouble free and usually at less than 3.5 GPH of mogas, I'm still a big fan of the engine for the LSA types, so I don't mind throwing some money at the problem.

 

[AK737]

Had to try loading a pic to the new layout.

 

[TR Dunn]

Our Case 730 with Farmi 501 winch on 3 point skidding logs on our farm last week

 

[sj]

View attachment 105084Our Case 730 with Farmi 501 winch on 3 point skidding logs on our farm last week

Is that bar oil or anti-freeze in the jug?

sj

 

[TR Dunn]

Is that bar oil or anti-freeze in the jug?

sj

I'm laughing you caught that, it is indeed my jug for "bar" oil, however, it is really Phillips 25/60 that I routinely heat and push through our radials when sitting idle during the winter months. My "bar" oil has made a circuit through the engine then off to the saw. TR

 

[sjohnson]

This is the Idaho F&G tractor at Marble Creek.

 

[cubdriver2]

View attachment 105084Our Case 730 with Farmi 501 winch on 3 point skidding logs on our farm last week

Your 730 brings back a bunch of memories. When I was 15 the farm I worked on had a new 930 Case and it was a beast for me to operate. I remember I could push the brakes or the clutch but not both at the same time in the begining. Spent half the summer running it
To me even today that throaty exhaust sound is music to my ears

Glenn

 

[62E]

Tower MN before the snow melted.

 

[Mot]

My neighbor has been collecting tractors sense he was 12 years old. He looks to be about 70 now. He says some he went as far as Saskatchewan to pick up.

 

[55-PA18A]

My soon to be 103 year old Dad on his 2nd most favorite toy. Ford 860.

 

[55-PA18A]

Dad with his present to himself for his 102nd birthday. He’s put over 160 hours on it since last March. To borrow a phrase from CraneMan, “When you own an excavator, the solution to any problem involves an excavator “.

 

[TR Dunn]

My Shepherd was having problems with the clutch on the tractor, so I had to get him an automatic! He's very conscientious. Here's proof that Cats and Dogs can get along . Thanks to Glenn for starting this fun thread and to SJ for allowing the levity.
TR

 

[texmex]

Ha. Great thread.
Love the Cat. I’ve been upside down in a Cat. Unfortunately that was after landing.

I don’t have a pic of my favourite tractor. But it’s Orange from Japan.

When I bought a new tractor 7 years ago, I looked at the JD, Massy and Kubota. The Japs were the only ones who didn’t farm out the manufacturing to India.

What are John Deere doing building tractors in India?

I have an original Furgie of my fathers to restore when my life cycle reaches that stage.

 

[courierguy]

I had both a mini excavator and a tractor for a couple years, and often had to struggle with which to use on a job when their capabilities overlapped, it's a tough life. This pic reminded me of Howard Hughs insisting on the right cloud background for the movie Hells Angels. Why did I lift the mini? Because I could. I got a lot of projects done, all of them I thought, and didn't use it for a year, so sold the mini, since regretted, only 350 hours on it.

 

[C130jake]

New to tractor ownership. I ruined ski flying this year and I apologize. Still waiting to use the snow blower.

 

[narrow deck]

Couldn’t function without it…. Great for every chore.

 

[sj]

Of all the implements I have, including a grapple, I have to say I use the forks a lot more than I expected. They are handy for a lot of things like the photo above.

sj

 

[180Marty]

While I have a John Deere 4430 and a Ford 276 Bi directional with a loader, this is my quiet new piece of farm equipment. Electric Polaris good for 80 miles on a charge. Should make spraying weeds more fun than the back pack sprayer I used for years.

 

[Scott A]

The most useful tool I have. JD 4052M. It has more than paid for itself multiple times over - the trench for the electricity and the water from the road to the house alone nearly paid for it. Then all fence posts, barn building, and irrigation lines.

 

[cubdriver2]

My poor ole girl. Bought this 21 years ago with 700 hrs on it. It's a 1997 30hp Cub Cadet made by Mitsubishi. Has had a hard life. Has blown more snow then most folks see in a life time. Some storms 35 to 40" deep. It gets a lot of road use traveling around to blow my neighbors out when it gets deep. NYS uses more road salt then almost any other state and my poor ole girl shows it. No frills, 3 range 3 speed gets the job done on about a half gallon an hour at 2500 rpm.
Been a great tractor

Glenn

 

[cubdriver2]

Here one of the best mods you can do to any 3 pt hitch tractor. Add a hydraulic top link, this winter has been a pita to plow or blow snow. Never did get any real frost in the ground. When trying to remove snow on unfroze ground the cutting edge wants to cut into the surface and make a mess. So you jump off and shorten the top link so the blower rides higher up on the skids. But then you go to a paved or frozen spot and your leaving 2" of snow so you jump back off and make the top link longer so the cutting edge scrapes it clean. Same thing for a York rake, back blade or even a sickle bar or flail mower. Normally the AOA is only changed by jumping off and on with screw type top link.
Hydro top link is slicker then snail poop

Glenn

 

[narrow deck]

1976 L-285. My Dad bought this new. Used to plow and disc with it. Now just a hay rake puller when needed.

 

[TR Dunn]

Our '85 Lull 844 with Detroit 3-53 picking our '54 A model

 

[Farmboy]

I didn’t see ‘ol Henry Sanger posting up in here. Probably since his are to new.

I’ll post a couple of his, in his honor.
You’re welcome Henry. Hahaha.

 

[a.crane]

Got some aviation-themed tractor shots, these were from a few years ago I don’t have this bird anymore. Got lots of combine pics too Peter, when she’s broke that’s when you separate the men from the button pushers!! Always loved the challenge of being 80 miles from the shop and being able to fix it when it breaks got to carry your spares and tools with you

 

[acroeric]

Here is our old International 140 in front of the barn we restored. We have newer tractors but nothing is more satisfying than running this one. Something about a cold beer and good dirt.

 

[cubdriver2]

I wish I still had my H and M with wide front end that I owned back in the 70s

Glenn

 

[courierguy]

View attachment 105237
Our '85 Lull 844 with Detroit 3-53 picking our '54 A model

I put a 3-53 with a 5 Speed Allison tranny into a 4x4 IH pickup back in the early 70's, man that thing sounded good! 22 MPG, with a 70 gallon fuel tank, burning heating oil at about 30 cents a gallon as a girlfriend's father owned a fuel oil plant, and I didn't know it wasn't legal.
My runway got a bit wider after I sold the 4' wide brush hog and got a 6' one after I bought a bigger Kubota. I make 2 trips down and 2 up, and call it good.