Bought a farm, now what?

[Creamer]

I had a lot of fun watching my cousin, a skilled operator, clear some woods and make a pond. It took him about a week. I did not think he was having that much fun in a cloud of dust and 100˚ temperature. When he took off his goggles he looked like a raccoon. Mostly no AC cab in dozers.

I would take that any day! And yes it would be fun. On the farm growing up we had an old AC HD5 with the 2 stroke Detroit diesel in it. There wasn't one bit of comfort about that machine but I was just reminiscing with my older brother about that beast about a month ago. He sold it and now wishes he had it back.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

We had a small JD dozer on the farm, which I started using as a teenager. Only hydraulic was up down on the blade, Manual angle and no tilt, but we cleared a lot with it.

 

[Creamer]

That's like ours was - about 40 hp and only up and down. there wasn't even manual tilt on the blade. It would do a lot of work.

 

[Egon]

No cable blades??

 

[TerryR]

No cable blades??

Well, yes. We had a Cat 60, butane fueled, on our farm when I grew up. Hand cranked with a "Johnson bar." Had a cable blade and used it only for clearing land. Gave you a thrill when you pushed brush into a going fire and lugged it down to near a stall, since at full throttle it ran at a few hundred rpm.