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I have an SVL 75-2 and absolutely love it so far, I bet you will like that machine.

No two 3 point hitch implements are alike, for example a harrow or disc may require that you let the third link out considerably to get the front of the disc down with more weight on the front for cutting or busting up the soil, whereas a rotary mower you may want to cut more level requiring the...

When I was in Louisiana in 2005 working Hurricane Katrina and Rita we were roughly 10 miles from the gulf coast in farm country and many cows and horses survived by taking refuge on porches of homes as they were the highest spot that they could find.

I live abot 10 miles NW of Gainesville and the outer edge of the storm was to the East of us, we only got about 1/2" of rain out of Ian and very little wind over 30MPH, we were very fortunate on this one.

Get the tractor, this will open up many possibility's as you said you don't have an adequate shop, so there you go, you can build a new barn/shop, a man always needs something to do to stay busy, getting this tractor will help in that area.;)

First time I have ever heard that.

A rotary cutter with a higher blade tip speed will also cut better, as well as getting RPM's up on the tractor so the PTO can get that blade tip speed up where it should be for optimal cutting. I have seen some rotary cutters with higher blade tip speed outfitted with lift type blades that were...

I don't think $100 per acre is enough, at least not for having to mow retention ponds, with the price of fuel and insurance etc, I would think most people would have to look at the job to give you an educated guess on pricing.

I load mine on my gooseneck trailer and back the tractor up until the cutter is hanging off the back of the trailer, raise the 3 pt hitch as high as it will go with the third link shortened and at that point I can walk up under the mower and use a hand grinder to sharpen the blades, I do it...

Different terminology for different areas, we call them Industrial Parks.

Many times power company's have the voltage at the substation buss a little high to compensate for load and loss towards the tail end of the circuit, this is especially true for un-regulated circuits, most all of that can be corrected with capacitor banks and voltage regulator banks, which is...

Been keeping an eye on my third cutting and sure enough had an outbreak of army worms, but I was ready for them and yesterday morning I mixed up a tank full of silencer and put them to sleep, I am going to let this cutting go until sometime in October and try to get as much yield as possible, so...

This year there have been very few 3 day windows without rain and even fewer 4 day windows, my experience with NJ is limited to Superstorm or Hurricane Sandy back in 2012, I stayed up there for over a month.

We never could put up any hay down here in Florida if it weren't for a tedder.

I must have read a different story, the one I read didn't say the bull died nor did it say anything about the UTV doing 60 MPH. Is there another story posted on this thread that I missed?

If I had a tractor that I had to let cool down for 5 minutes after I worked it a little I would be looking for something else, surely there has to be something wrong, a farm tractor should be good to work all day even in the hottest environments.

I would replace the two tires that were flat spotted and if the other two looked good with no weather cracking or dry rot I would continue to run them unless you use the trailer daily and stay on the road with it daily, if that was the case I would replace all 4.

10-4 well you know what they say, If it ain't broke don't fix it.

Gotcha, I mis-understood what you meant.

Nice truck I don't believe that you will be disappointed one bit, as I posted last year in this thread I still have my 2015 2500 HD with the 6.0 and still well satisfied, no AFM, still thirsty when towing so you won't pass lot's of gas stations but you will pass all the mechanic shops as they...

That console will fold right up so he can haul a sixth person with no problem if he ever needs to.

A little chewing tobacco or chew a little on a cigar and apply to sting location, old time southern remedy.

Somebody is getting the lights back on when they go out, they can't all be sleeping.

Try lifting it with your loader and if it will handle it lift it slightly and pull the trailer out from under it, I had to unload an offset harrow that weighed over 3k and I just got a tractor on each side of the trailer and eased it up with both tractor loaders and pulled the gooseneck trailer...

I have a 75 hp Kubota tracked skid steer with a 6' heavy duty mower with carbide mulching teeth and I get $150 per hour for rough cutting , but that is with me operating it.

If you have a truck that will get 18 mpg pulling 20,000 lbs you better hold on to it, because I doubt that you can replace it with anything made today.

I did a truck bed and an aluminum dog box top and followed the preparation instructions and have not had any of peel or flake off, proper preparation I believe will get you a good outcome.

I think you will be pleased with the Herculiner and it will provide a huge amount of slip resistance.

I had a company truck that was a 2010 or 2011 F-250 4x4 with a 6.2 gas engine and it was 11-12 no matter how you cut the cards on in town driving, but to my surprise on interstate trips running 75 + mph it would get between 17 & 18 everytime and that was hand calculated, but the DIC computer...

Can't speak to the 7100's but JD 71 planters are widely known for being great all around planters.

I would hold out for a 10' or maybe a 12' batwing, prices at local auctions down here ln the SE have started coming down ,and with the almost certain recession coming prices should get lower.

I had pretty good luck with Herculiner and it has a very good no slip finish.

You can rest assure that if Ford could see an advantage to putting an Eco boost motor in 250's and 350's they would be putting them in them, all of the big 3 would like to have the best gas powered 3/4 and 1 ton trucks to win over the market.

I think you have a good idea, just remember as with all paint type projects, proper preparation is key to a satisfactory outcome, it's been my experience that the cheaper bedliner kits will fade and get chalky residue all over any hands and clothing that it touch'es I would probably spend a few...

I'm going with 30k.

We would call that a yellow jacket or hornet's nest, I have never seen wasp build a nest like that.

Did you get your tractor fixed yet? If so what did it turn out to be? Might be helpful information for someone else in the future.

There are probably plenty of farm equipment auctions in Pennsylvania and plenty of people hunting tractors go to them , not to mention all the online bidders, set the minimum that you would accept and if it doesn't go for that you simply pass, at least it's another option if you don't have any...

Most gooseneck trailers have them on the uprights on the neck.

Yeah, my trailer is a 25+5 with 2-10k axles and it is heavy built with 14" I beam frame instead of 12" etc and it weighs a little more than 7k , the sticker on it says the GVWR is 24,900 but the way I always figured it was since I had 20,000k worth of axles minus 7,000 lbs for the weight of the...

I have an Industrias America 9' offset disc and the build quality is as good as most that I looked at prior to purchasing it at less than half the cost of the others, it hasn't given me a minutes trouble, so while I can't speak directly to their rotary cutters, I sure wouldn't be afraid to try one.

Sweet, What is the weight of that trailer?

I made the assumption that he was talking about building a guard for the front of the cutter, but you know what assumptions are good for doing.

Old conveyor belt cut to fit and chains have worked for most people for years, I would think that expanded metal would be hard to clean up once clogged up with grass clippings .

Nice setup, looks heavy built. What size tank is on it? Down here you rarely see a tandem axle rig unless it has a 1000 gallon + tank.

Where are you located? Not being nosey but if you are in the Southeast , there is a tractor graveyard in Pavo Georgia, there isn't much that can't be found there.

That's pretty good fuel mileage for a pickup truck, glad it is suiting you.

I want to say that it stated accuracy to within +or - 2 inches but I will try to get the paperwork back out and make sure that is what it said.

The ones that Tx Jim show are the same ones on my 5093E, suprisingly there aren't that many.

10-4 let us know if it works.

I didn't and don't have a computer to hook up and read the code, I fixed mine which had the same symptoms as yours on the advice of a friend of mine who is a JD mechanic, so your problem may be something different than mine, but there is a history of these power reverser assemblies which are...

Yes sir, I probably should have said it wouldn't do me much good , but in your application I would think it would work well.

The power reverser selector, it's electronic and has the selector handle on one end and a wiring harness coming out the other end. Does that make sense?

Yesterday I paid $ 765.00 dollars per ton of 21-0-21 granular, that is down about $ 100.00 per ton from what it was.

The power reverser selector is electronic or was on my 5093E and it would do the same thing, once I took the steering wheel off and replaced it , it has never done it since, these are common to go bad in the E series tractors, but are an easy fix.

He asked me if I had tried marking foam, that is what I was saying that marking foam works good for spraying but it didn't do me much good spreading granular fertilizer, I did the same thing for years while putting out granular fertilizer for years, tied ribbon on the end of the field to sight...

Yes sir, it works pretty good when spraying but won't do you any good when spreading granular fertilizer

They want you to be more accurate with liquid fertilizer and granular fertilizer and their thoughts are that if you are spot on with your application which you should be with a GPS unit you are using less which in their minds equals less runoff into creeks , rivers, streams, etc. You are also...

Raven CR7 , it was not quite $3,400.00 but there is a program in my area where the Water Management District pays you back a big percentage of the purchase price, so after I got re-imbursed I didn't have that much in it.

Foam marking systems do work, but the prices on these GPS units are getting more affordable all the while.

It didn't yesterday, but that was my first time using it, we will have to see as time will tell. It's probably to high tech for me as it has many features and functions, but I am only using it in the simplified mode, basically just painting lines where I have been and setting a line for my next...

Does it go down far enough to let the 4x4 engage?

Did a little spraying this morning and got to try out my new Raven GPS system and man is it a game changer for being accurate down to a few inches, I have always guesstimated and or tied ribbon on tree limbs on the ends and felt like I was pretty good but I believe this will make me a little...

I doubt he is in constant fear for his life, I would imagine he just likes to be prepared just in case something bad happens, to not be could be extremely detrimental to ones health.

All those bales that are 12-16% in the barn are golden, the others aren't ruined they just might be cow hay instead of horse quality. 20% moisture the day after baling isn't going to build up enough heat to burn a barn down , probably going to be less than 115 degrees in the core, I baled some...

I am not all that far from you as the crow flys and we have Tropical Soda Apple which looks a lot like that with the exception that the fruit is streaked not solid colored, 1 ounce of GrazonNext HL to the gallon of water in a handsprayer will kill it and kill the germination in the seeds that...

Depends on what the moisture is IMO anything above 15% is pushing it down here, once you roll it or bale it the moisture is going to go up and then usually level off after a couple of days unless it was real high when baled and then it may go through a heat for weeks, that's usually the type...

At 82 and still being active is what keeps you able to do what you do, and nobody can expect you to be able to do what you did 40 years ago, but give yourself credit because you can bet you are doing more than a lot of 20 year olds today.

I haven't bought a dump trailer yet, I am hauling my tracked skid steer or ( CTL ) with my brushcutter or grapple on my equipment trailer mostly and my gooseneck occasionally but I still haven't given up on a dump trailer, I just have other priorities that have had to come ahead of the dump trailer.

I can't speak for the tractor seat, but I ordered the air ride seat in my Kubota skid steer and it was money well spent, very comfortable.

I guess what I should have said was closed up around here.

It always hurts your feelings when that happens , but it's just a part of hay growing , weathermen are the only people that I know who can consistently get it wrong on a regular basis and keep a job.

Sounds like the old Godfather's pizza chain with the pineapple pizza, they also had dessert pizza that was good as well, buffet everyday at lunch time until they closed.

I got it used last year, I had a bearing catch fire earlier this year and it ruined one of the tubes so that set me back $800 or so, but other than that it is a very simple no frills baler that rolls good tight rolls so far, what I really don't understand about a lot of manufacturers is why...

In spite of looming rain which passed less than 1/4 mile from my hayfield I was able to get mine rolled today, god is definately good and answered my prayers to shield me from the rain, more is scheduled for tonight and tomorrow , I rolled this a little higher moisture wise than I like , around...

I don't know about the County Line stuff but I have the 7' estate model from Agri Supply and it has been flawless and it is more in line with the county line mower price wise.

Back a couple of months ago when I bought my Kubota skid steer and was still in the talking/debating stage of going with the 0% financing the dealer gave me a quote on what it would be monthly for the Kubota insurance and it was extremley high, but he also told me that it was perfectly fine to...

We have been using plain water down here in Florida for years, I never really gave it a lot of thought other than our lack of prolonged freezing temperatures, and I have never seen a rusted out tractor rim around here, not saying it hasn't happened , just saying I have never heard of it around here.

Delivering hay to a new place or customer can be a pain , you can ask ahead of time . Can I get a long gooseneck trailer into your place? and it's almost always yes of course, I come in and out with my horse trailer all the time, then you get there and you have to try to figure something else...

10-4 I don't blame you on wanting to haul as much as possible with fuel prices what they are and as long as you have the room to get it into places no problem, what I have found is a lot of driveways have a nice 16' gate no problem except there is little to no setback off of the road and it's...

35+5 is a lot of trailer to get in and out of places, I have a 25+5 and at times I would love to have one a little smaller to get in tight places, not being a smart alleck but do you need one that big? Or just want one that big? 😄

I certainly would try a big roller if someone locally has one you can borrow, it can't hurt and may help your situation some. What we do down here in my area is in the winter when the grass is dormant, we will tear it up with a disc harrow and then roll it several times with a big roller filled...

Eddie, I don't think it is any different than some of the JD tractors that share the same engine and frame, I was told by the JD mechanic that my pre-def 2011 JD 5093E could be turned up to get the same HP as the 101E as well as any model in that line that shared the same engine and frame, I...

Brown's Country Buffet in Alachua Florida, fried chicken everyday, but my favorites are Monday's with fried chicken gizzards and Thursday's fried porkchops with plenty of country sides on the buffet everyday, about $12 drink included.

Lock the brakes down, put it in the highest gear it has , let out on the clutch and stall it out.

You might run over 4 or 5 acres per hour but you ain't cutting that much with a 5' mower.

Mine was dealer installed but it is a RAM mount, I have added some pictures of how and where mine is mounted, maybe these will help or at least a place to start. Charlie.

I have had good luck so far with my grapple and brush cutter from them as well, couldn't beat the price.

Mine did the same thing and it was a bad power reverser, it's electronic and it is a common problem.

That is a really nice tractor, I have a 2011 Pre-def 5093E cab tractor and from your photos they have came a long way with the ergonomics of the controls , that has been my only complaint with mine, but it's been a good tractor, enjoy yours.Charlie. I see you weighed in at Ellisville there on...

Mine is mounted to the window track on the left side of the operators seat , I will try to take a picture tomorrow.

You must be rolling in the dough to have five of them, I probably am just gonna be owning this one, also I might not be as good an operator as you are so I figured I better fix me some protection for this one just in case.

I will try to take more photos as we go along, the brush cutter weighs about 1700lbs according to the manufacturer and I will probably do mostly brush cutting but I also have a bucket and a grapple so I will play it by ear and see what type of work becomes available. I know very little about the...

That was the storm, I never saw any of that other than what the media reported, but we were in NJ and that was reported to have happened in New York, I have rarely ever had a problem in all my travels occasionally you will have that one that is a butthole 365 days a year, I don't argue I just...

Keep in mind this is a rough draft first fit type of thing that the pictures show, nothing is welded except the top and bottom rails, the end piece you see with the round rod thru it will be cut down to fit on both sides, as far as accessing the engine , one side will just be pinned with a rod...

Yeah if you look real close in the first picture you can see it mounted up top directly between the two rear lights.

I do, I looked at forestry rated lexan glass replacements and got sticker shock, but it is on my list at some point.

I will look and see what I can come up with, I am not adding a winch I thought I would add a piece of Reese hitch type receiver tube so it would leave me options to have a hitch to pull out with or I could use a winch bracket that goes in the receiver hitch.

Yes sir, power company's have reduced positions down to the point that they can't handle much more than a good thunderstorm so they get on the horn well ahead of time to try to get as much help as they can just in case, then if they don't need you they can release you and usually you get picked...

Do you think expanded metal on the outside of the bumper would do it? Or have you got something else in mind? I would like to protect it as best as I can while I am doing this. Thanks.

So we have started a rear protective bumper for my Kubota 75-2 skid steer, here are a couple of photos of the beginning stages , I will try to post more as we progress.

That reminds me back to 2012 we had been in the Northeast restoring power for about a month after Hurricane Sandy and we were heading home for Thanksgiving, as we pulled out of Paramus New Jersey the boy that was riding with me says after about an hour of being on the road How do you know with...

Is it flashing an N, like it does when you have the power reverser in Neutral except flashing.

Thanks for the link, after reading it I saw nothing to make me think that base type or lesser model packages will not still be available for me to purchase in the future without a required monthly subscription for things that I don't want or need, so I won't cross GM off my list for future...

In Post#7 you were asked specifically where you read this? Did I miss your response ? I to would like to know as I would like to see where this is posted or written before I get to ticked off with GM and eliminate them from all future truck purchase's, not being a smart alleck , I would just...

10-4 can't say that I have ever saw a set down in these parts, but I have never laid eyes on a Kioti tractor down here either, I know there have to be some as there is a dealer about 40 miles from here , they are a good looking tire though.

I don't pay much attention now days , but are those tires a standard type on Kioti's or a special order, they look a lot like an ATV tire tread design.

If for some reason they don't cover it, I would get a plastic welding kit from Harbor Freight and weld that mother up, my wife knocked a hole in my then brand new Gravely zero turn mower gas tank, you guessed it bottom corner, I took it off plastic welded it and it's been more than 5 years and...

Maybe because it's a lease and not an outright purchase.

Is 2 cuttings the norm or weather pemitting do you get 3?

I have no idea how many acres of bahia grass that I cut with an old 2 blade 38" cut MTD riding mower with a BS cast iron sleeved engine before I could afford or was willing to afford a zero turn mower and other than a couple of selinoids and blades never had a problem other than after about year...

I've had em and know exactly where you are coming from, I guess it works out that way to offset the weeks when it seemed like I could do no wrong.

It's fixable, dealer should make it good, and while it is aggravating having to haul it to the dealer it could be a lot worse, hopefully this is just one little bug to work out with hopefully many years of trouble free usage ahead. Glass half full. :)

I don't know if the prices have dropped but every lot is full and even some with trailers stacked with no tires one on top of the other , whereas up until about 6 months ago they were virtually empty, this is in North Florida.

Bobcat really should put you on the payroll, you are good advertisement for them. :LOL:

I had this happen on one of my loaders a number of years ago and like an earlier poster said if it's the type with the rubber boot slide it back and it will be obvious what has popped loose and more than likely an easy fix. On mine it was the two metric allen head bolts had backed out allowing...

I went through the same thing with banking until I figured out that there are still banks out there that offer no fee checking and savings accounts, you just have to keep a minimum 10k monthly balance or some form of that, the numbers vary from bank to bank, also if you have a local credit union...

10-4 yeah I don't doubt that about certain tire stores, but I don't believe that there would be much that anyone could cite you for or cause you any grief for using LT tires on a trailer, but like anything else you never know. The one trailer that I have them on has a 3500 pound single axle and...

There used to be several small trailer manufacturers around here and about 90% of their trailers had LT tires on them, one of my trailers has LT tires on it and I can't tell you how many RV's I have seen with LT tires on them.

Where did you find that information? I have lived in Fl all my life and have never heard any such, not saying it isn't so but I would like to know where that information is located.

Forgive me since I know very little about Idaho, but I'm assuming rainfall is minimal.

It's just about time to start fighting army worms, if the rain don't foul up a cutting they will if you aren't on top of them.

Here in Florida seems like they spend the bulk of their time wearing out the poor old boys hauling logs, you see them everywhere beside the road weighing each axle with their portable scales, they know them boys get paid by the ton and are usually pushing the limit or are over loaded so the...

How many cuttings a year do you usually get out there in Idaho?

That happens more often than a lot of people realize and I applaud the guy for doing what he needed to do to get his tractor running properly, no need for a working man to keep throwing good money after bad on a problem that has no end in sight, until he solved it for himself.

I don't blame you, that's what I said in post#10 , If I was having problems with it that I wouldn't hesitate if the factory warranty had expired, but I am like you if it ain't broke don't fix it.

Third sentence, you said everyone you knew, just saying. I knew that argument wouldn't hold water because the truth of the matter is a lot of people delete tractors and have great results after the warranty is over and I thought that is what the OP was asking about deleting his tractor.

So everyone you know who has done it has had burnt pistons and other engine failures. Come on now. Everyone? If it caused that many problems word would be out and no one would do it.

If the factory warranty was expired I wouldn't hesitate if I was having problems and I would keep my mouth shut and no one would be the wiser, if you tell it some do-gooder will likely rat you out.

X2 first sentence says it all.

I had a Ram Mount for a Garmin dog tracking system and it was really good, they do make good stuff, but some of it is a little pricey.

I tried the glass mount suction cup that came with my Vermeer Accu-Bale monitor but it sucked in my opinion, constantly falling off and a monitor is to expensive to keep hitting the floor of the tractor, so I fabricated a bracket in about 20 minutes out of some scrap aluminum that I had laying...

As others have said a boom pole for lifting, back when I was a boy we row crop farmed, there wasn't a tractor on the place with a front end loader , I don't know how many fence corner posts and cow lot post's I have picked up and moved and set with a short piece of chain and a boom pole hooked...

Don't know if this applies but if you go on You Tube and look up a guy named Lakeland Septic, he has a Kubota tracked skid steer SVL-65 that had a catastrophic motor failure at around 100 hrs or so I believe.

S.O.P. standard operating procedure , hopefully it won't be a mother. Good luck.

I have a 7' estate finish mower from Agri Supply and it has a single anti scalp roller on the front dead center, I don't recall the other sizes having one though, as far as rear chains go , if it was a rear discharge I would want them, I have them on mine and it doesn't clog due to the rear chains.

All I can tell you is I like it, it won't stop me from using everything else I have that doesn't have it but if it's an option on something that I order new I will get it.

Okay any way you want to cut the cards the E series does not have the frills that the other models do.

Hay Dude, that hydraulic lock and un-lock on your quick attach will spoil you, until I recently got my skid steer which has it, I had only had manual which never bothered me because I didn't know any different, but now I do.

Hopefully it will give you good service.

I have a 2011 5093E so it's pre-def has the power reverser 4x4 with loader and loaded rear tires, I fork two 900-1000lb rolls of hay one on each fork and have never had a problem with it feeling tippy, but it is flat country down here so it works for me. My biggest issue is the ergonomics of the...

LOL, I know what you mean and figured that's what it was, but you never know. What type of grass is that? Down here we will have coastal bermuda several variety's ( Alicia, Jiggs, etc ) Bahia ( Pensacola, Argentine, Tift 85, etc and then native grass like crabgrass, some fields will be clean and...

I bought a set of blades at the flea market a couple of years ago and they had an edge on both sides, so you just flipped them over no sharpening required and the next time that you needed to swap blades the other side would be sharp, I really liked them problem is I have never found another set...

720 off of 26 acres would be over 20 tons to the acre, we don't even come close to that down here, maybe 6 tons to the acre of alicia coastal bermuda and that would be really good grass. What type of grass is it? Was 720 supposed to be 72 bales? If not I would have never dreamed that there was...

I have a couple of those Harbor Freight air wands and like someone said earlier I screwed a small bolt or screw into the end along with a dab of glue and then drilled a small hole in the side of it so it would blow out the side and it works pretty good in conjunction with the un-modified one, I...

It's different for everyone, I recently bought a new skidsteer and decided against the 0% interest for 48 months in lieu of an additional $2700.00 dollars off of the machine if I paid cash, I am already invested to the hilt and with the current state of affairs felt more comfortable to go ahead...

+1 for 29 gauge, I have always found it to be more than adequate for roof's.

I want my lawn mower blades as sharp as I can get them, bush hog or rotary mower I don't worry so much about, I will only hit them with a hand grinder every other year or so.

I believe I would like that front mounted cutter, no looking constantly in mirrors and no sore neck from looking backwards.

Who here if they had their life savings stolen from them and that's exactly what the law enforcement officer did wouldn't forever dis-like law enforcement and the law, like I said in an earlier post this situation would probably make an outlaw out of an otherwise good man.

Or that some are WILLING to negotiate more, that is actually what I believe.

That second part is mostly what I was getting at, I don't wan't to go through the hassle of having something (money) that was earned legitimately being possibly confiscated from me because I am travelling with it to buy a piece of equipment, vehicle, etc, and while I realize to be stopped or...

I knew going in from Kubota's website that they were offering 0% financing to qualified buyers OR $2700.00 cash back on the model that I wanted which was a SVL 75-2 compact track loader. I had already shopped locally and none of the dealers ever mentioned the rebate and the prices that they gave...

Florida has agricultural exemption for farmers all others pay state sales tax, now individual counties consider tractors and equipment as tangible property and will tax you on them, I keep the gates closed and locked to my barns, don"t want them snooping around .

You and I know that every nickel counts, I'm always trying to educate myself to help my bottom line.

10-4 there website is showing $700 rebate now and if I read it right that is with the 0% financing on that model.

What type of tractor or model are you hunting ? I would like to see what the Kubota web site says the rebates are, seems like all Kubota dealerships would have to honor that.

No sir this came straight off the Kubota web site, I had already done my homework before I went in and knew what the current programs were, but mind you this was on construction equipment/ skid steers, I just wanted to see if the salesman was going to be straight with me and he was, so he has a...

I just purchased a Kubota skid steer and after we negotiated the price the salesman told me if I qualified I could get 0% financing for up to 48 months so after running my credit he said I was good if I wanted to finance thru them, at that point I asked him what if I wanted to pay cash what...

That's one that probably came from Lynn's Industrial Welding if it came from Perry Fl, he does make a well built grapple.

I guess what I was saying was I wouldn't want to deal with the hassle of having to try to explain my whole story about going to purchase equipment, vehicle, etc and take a chance on the police confiscating my legit money, plus I don't really cotton to the idea of having to divulge all my...

I'm glad I read this thread as I didn't realize that it was a crime to have a large sum of money to purchase an item, I just purchased a new skidsteer out of state a couple of weeks ago and the dealer said it was no problem to write a personal check.

I believe you will be impressed with how well built it is, the 72" is the one I ordered also, mine doesn't have one pivot point without a grease zerk, keep us updated.

Seems like by now someone would have come up with something that could be put on the roadways that would be less corrosive or either some sort of undercoating that would prevent the undercarriage and sheet metal from getting eat up by rust, years ago I heard of something called Ziebart that they...

I felt like it was the best bang for the buck and grease fittings at every pivot point, I also read about the owner on google reviews and I did call a couple of times that no one answered but when I did get him I quizzed him up with lot's of question's and called him several times before I...

Thank's and no sir there isn't a spot of rust on it anywhere , were fortunate that we don't have to deal with salted roads like you guys.

I had that one pegged.;)

Well it would have been helpful if the article from the Tallahassee Democrat would have at least posted a picture of Vaseygrass instead of goosegrass or whatever type of grass it is that they posted when teaching people how to combat it, this started out with me trying to be helpful to another...

This is my old 1992 that I gave to my oldest son, probably the best truck I ever owned, he still drives it everyday.

Even though you put in a gallon of Glyophosphate and a gallon of water you will only use up less than a quart, as you are just brushing over the tall shoots of the vassie grass, so most of it is still in the wick, therefore when I am done I just pour it back in a jug that I have marked wick mix...

Okay I take full strength glyophospate Roundup or generic I believe that is 41% and I put 1 gallon of it in the wick and then I add 1 gallon of water, at that point I have what I call a 50/50 mix, if you wait until the vasie grass is about 1 foot taller than your haygrass and with the weed wick...

I also bought a MTL X-Series Extreme grapple 72" I think it weighs about 900 pounds and in my opinion is very heavy built, I have only used it a few times on my skid steer but I picked up some big stuff and didn't baby it, I think I gave about $2300.00 for it.

The best thing I have found is Pastora, or I use a 10' weed wick with a 50% roundup 50% water mix and when the vasie grass gets up above the hay grass enough that the wick won't drape on the grass I drag the wick across it and that's all it needs within 2 weeks it's smoked, the problem with just...

Yeah, that's my old hunting truck, it's a 1997 that my dad bought brand new and I kept it when he passed, it's actually in really good shape as he always kept up with anything that it needed and I do the same, just rolled over 100k miles. so about 4k miles per year, definately not hurt, my...

Here are a few pictures of the mower I bought 72" and the carbide teeth were important to me for shredding the bigger brush down to smaller mulch, you can spend as little as $1500.00 for the chinese auction brushcutters or as much as $ 18k for the top of the line cutters, this one with the big...

I actually bought mine from a dealer in South Georgia as they beat any price that I could get around here by $3-6k and I liked doing business with them, I walked in the door and told them what I wanted, he had me a price in about 10 minutes and I told him let's do it and it was ordered and I was...

Not to derail the thread but this skid steer with this MTL brush mower is an impressive unit, this is a picture of a chinese tallow tree that I cut down with ease yesterday.

Most people around here have gone to the 54" rolls due to the fact that they can ultimately get 26 rolls on a 30' or 32' gooseneck and a lot of these people are nothing more than middle men in the hay business, I had a guy that would come to the barn I would load him and he would haul the hay to...

Just fertilized for the second time this year 21-0-21 was $ 814.00 per ton , bright side is after I spread it yesterday we got about 1/4" of rain to soak it in last night, so I am thankful, the only thing I have left to do is put out some herbicide to kill some vasie grass and native crabgrass...

Around here most everyone puts up 54" rolls , so that is what I was basing 12 squares off of, I could easily see how you could get 5 more as big as your rolls are, 29,000+ rolls is quite impressive , It probably means you do regular maintenance and use more than a nickel's worth of grease per...

Guess we are still a little more fortunate down here, last week I had off road diesel delivered and filled both of my tanks for $4.90 per gallon, so it's just a hair cheaper, but I am pretty sure we will see $5.00 regular gasoline before the end of the month, it was $4.89 yesterday.

Don't know what type of grass it is but 96 squares is about equivalent to 8 round rolls down here where I am and if it's only 1 acre that's a pretty good yield.

No that's quicker than mine , I ordered mine on February 10 and it came in the first week of June. How are the prices in Texas?

Nope just an old electric lineman, shoot I wouldn't know what to do if I made as much money as them jokers. 😁

I have been seeing stacks of Big Tex trailers at a dealer near here as well, they have gone from an almost empty lot to not having enough room to put another one.

It would be a welcome change to see the prices come back down to reality.

M18 like others it's what type of tools batteries and charger's that I already have, it works like it is supposed to.

I am fortunate, I was able to have a career as a lineman which I truly loved and will forever be thankful for the memories and friendship's made all over this country over 35 years, I am still in pretty good shape physically and am now able to start this little endevour just because I wanted to...

I retired and figured I would start a little business , I can do some pretty rough mowing with this rig and still do field mowing with my tractors, I did a job last week getting some land ready and planting some Pensacola bahia for a pasture and I have a job next week doing a driveway with...

I hooked up my brush cutter and worked on some briars, vines and saplings up to about 4" this afternoon and was well pleased, it never strained, I will probably try my grapple tomorrow.

64.3k cash price, cab with A/C & heat, radio, back-up camera, air ride seat, 6' large bucket, hi-flow auxillary hydraulics, wide tracks and I think that is about 5k more than last year, he told me if he ordered me another one right now it would be about 3k more and he didn't know when he would...

I ordered a new Kubota SVL-75/2 compact track loader back in February and it finally came in so I went yesterday to get it, before I left with it my salesman said if you want to make 15k off of that skid steer there is a man in Arkansas who has called twice this week wanting that skid steer you...

I would put a good rope in each tree to put some tension on them, cut a bed in the direction you want tree to go and have your partner put constant tension (light strain) while you cut and leave the bottle jack in the truck.

If the only reason I wasn't going with a cab tractor was that I needed to mow around and under some trees, I would invest in a good pole saw and I would get to work lifting the tree canopy where I could get up under it, not sure where you live but down here in the deep south summertime can be...

A neighbor has an older model Dodge 1 ton diesel truck and he has been going to restaurants around here for the last 20 years and getting their used cooking oil, filtering it and mixing it with diesel, claims he has never had a problem.

Anytime you can get it baled or rolled without getting it wet it's an accomplishment, some call it winning. 😁

Fertilizer must not be as high there as it is here, but there are quite a few around this area not fertilizing their fields and cutting and selling the hay which to me is nothing but a filler with little protein, good for you though for being able to get hay at that price.

Hay dude, I am curious I never see a tedder in your pictures or maybe I missed it. Are you able to get your hay dry without tedding? Down here in most places you need at least 3 good dry sunny days and you probably better run a tedder thru it twice or it ain't gonna be dry, the hay I put up this...

Some have already said it I would clear me out a hole down close to the base or berm that it is held or wedged into, at that point I would make a cut from the bottom side about a 1/4 of the way at the most and then cut down from the top and let gravity run it's course , but like someone said...

Nice splitter I have a 3 point hitch splitter that looks just about like yours , I believe mine is a Speedco , I purchased it from Tractor Supply , three point hitch splitters cycle slower than a stand alone but since I am not in the firewood processing business it's been plenty fast enough for...