What did you do on or to your LS Tractor today?

[rbstern]

Welded hooks onto my bucket today. Tested them by picking up 1/2 ton of sand in a bag, using a strap. Jerked it around, trying to break the welds. No go. On there nice and tight.

Pushed a burn pile around. Spread some mulch around one of my sheds. Washed the tractor.

 

[papachaz]

Welded hooks onto my bucket today. Tested them by picking up 1/2 ton of sand in a bag, using a strap. Jerked it around, trying to break the welds. No go. On there nice and tight.

Pushed a burn pile around. Spread some mulch around one of my sheds. Washed the tractor.

:thumbsup:

 

[rbstern]

Unusual chore with the tractor today: Have a hot tub, under a deck, and it has a leak. I needed to get under it to check the plumbing. Backed the tractor up, backhoe extended, so the bucket was under the deck, above the tub. Strapped the tub to the bucket, picked it up with straps (after emptying the water), put it on jacks and blocks.

Maybe a compact/sub-compact tractor is a bunch of compromises, like a multi-tool. But you sure can do a lot with one.

 

[papachaz]

I have the disk harrow hooked up to mine, loaded on the trailer ready to head out early in the morning and disk up a friends field. probably 3 acres total, he's gonna plant sunflowers in about 1/3 of it, around the little pond, and millet in some of it for the doves, and clover and rye in part of it for a food plot for deer. I bush hogged this for him last week, and jumped a fawn and it's mama. Saw them 6 times over the few hours I was there mowing. Pretty cool day out in the country.

oh yeah, while the trailer was hooked up to the truck, I ran a tow strap under the truck, and from the front hooked the tractor to the tongue jack and straighted it where I bent it dropping off a driveway a few weeks back. I agree with rbstern, there are some compromises to be made, but man this thing comes in handy.

Saturday, we built a new chicken coop for my son in law and daughters chickens, we built it here at my house, because I have all the tools, then I picked it up with the pallet forks on the FEL and hauled it the quarter mile up the road to their house, where we then put the metal sides on it and attached the 18 ft long run to it....

 

[rbstern]

I have the disk harrow hooked up to mine, loaded on the trailer ready to head out early in the morning and disk up a friends field. probably 3 acres total, he's gonna plant sunflowers in about 1/3 of it, around the little pond, and millet in some of it for the doves, and clover and rye in part of it for a food plot for deer. I bush hogged this for him last week, and jumped a fawn and it's mama. Saw them 6 times over the few hours I was there mowing. Pretty cool day out in the country.

oh yeah, while the trailer was hooked up to the truck, I ran a tow strap under the truck, and from the front hooked the tractor to the tongue jack and straighted it where I bent it dropping off a driveway a few weeks back. I agree with rbstern, there are some compromises to be made, but man this thing comes in handy.

Saturday, we built a new chicken coop for my son in law and daughters chickens, we built it here at my house, because I have all the tools, then I picked it up with the pallet forks on the FEL and hauled it the quarter mile up the road to their house, where we then put the metal sides on it and attached the 18 ft long run to it....

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Very cool! Have any pics of the finished project? Getting ready to build a coop myself, so the inspiration is helpful.

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

Did some road work yesterday, using the boxblade to cut in drainage ditches. The wind had filled them in over the past couple of years, they were actually piled from 1-2' deep. Started digging them out with the MT125 back in April, but it was slow going (posted pics earlier).
The neighbor was helping out with his rear blade, when we stopped for a break, he said "that things a beast!". Now I need to get a T&T setup. The tractor has the remotes, just need to get the cylinders/hoses. Man, they are expensive!

Might get a rear blade first. Can't decide on a 6' or 7'. Tires are 68" outside to outside, a 7' angled at 30 degrees is about 73", the 6' would be about 63". So do I go over the track width, or under?

 

[Scottw32]

You will love T&T for box blade work! I got It on my XR3135 from the start because I didn’t want to have constantly get off the tractor to adjust it. I was well worth the additional cost for as much as I use it. One thing to keep in mind is when you angle the rear blades it narrows the cut. So if you go with the width of your tires when it’s straight it won’t be when you angle it. My tractor is 66 inches wide and I’m looking at an 84 inch blade for just this reason.

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

Yeah, I was leaning towards the 7', my tractor is somewhere between 66-68" (depending on how the tape is held), so calculating out the 7' blade on a 30 degree angle makes it around 72-73 wide (a couple inches past the wheels on both sides). I 'm thinking it's a better choice.

 

[air8]

Broke my tractor today. Well...not really. Broke a hydraulic fitting. Clearing out some small brush and dead trees for a horse shelter/ feed storage shed and somewhere in there I lost grapple controls. Looked things over and apparently had a trunk pull against the fittings in the center of the grapple and broke one fitting off, the other fitting was bent pretty bad.



All this brush and trees are wrapped around each other pretty tight. So I was just sending her in and grabbing what ever came out.

 

[rbstern]

Broke my tractor today. Well...not really. Broke a hydraulic fitting. Clearing out some small brush and dead trees for a horse shelter/ feed storage shed and somewhere in there I lost grapple controls. Looked things over and apparently had a trunk pull against the fittings in the center of the grapple and broke one fitting off, the other fitting was bent pretty bad.

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All this brush and trees are wrapped around each other pretty tight. So I was just sending her in and grabbing what ever came out.

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Ouch.

Which make/model grapple?