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Drew is the farm where you are going to store your tractor have trees, open grass fields and tillable land?
17 acres tillable fields currently mowed and lots of surrounding woods for downed tree work
I'm sure we will do sunflowers, might do potatoes for local food bank.
I also want to use the tractor at church for leveling gravel driveways through cemetery.
 
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Nice, Drew. Is the land currently under an ag exemption?
 
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Plus he quoted a 66hp machine when I wanted something smaller.
Grapple, FEL, tiller and flail mower. I don't want their cheapest Frontier stuff but what he quoted was simply too
heavy duty for me. I sent him a long list of corrections.

I rarely give a salesperson that doesn’t listen a second chance. They obviously are not interested in my needs or doing what’s best for me.

If you can stand the wait, the EA Wicked root rake grapple is awesome, and considerably lighter than most of its competitors. They use alloy steel for strength and weight savings. They’re like Fit Rite Hydraulics, everyone complains about paying up front and waiting, nobody complains about the product.
 
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RNG. Lost count on how many drill bits I’ve gone thru. Found it best for my self tapping screws to drill a pilot hole first. That wouldn’t work in those thicker, structural areas where I ended up with through bolt & nut. Glad that challenge is passed (hopefully)
Yes, the Drill Doctor got a workout here yesterday. I was using sheet metal screws for the holes in the sheet metal, and picked a drill size about 0.030" less than the diameter of the screw threads. For the machine screws, I followed the diameter instructions on the tap. I only went about 3/16" deep for the threaded holes, but the drill was walking all the way down and they ended up pretty egg shaped. Good enough for a camera base, I hope.
 
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Storm front has blown through, was mostly strong winds but we did get some more precipitation and still getting light rain here. Maybe got 15% of the upper front done before it hit.

It dropped the temp down to a nice 69F ... (y)

Had Woman's ham and bean soup and cornbread for dinner again tonight. The ham hock was from the neighbor's pigs, very tasty ... :p

Heading down to feed fish here in a few.

After that probably start oiling that shelf for The Woman's planter.
 
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Oh, forgot to mention....DO NOT waste your money on one of these !!!

I think it would work great on a sidewalk, patio, or driveway to get the weeds coming from cracks. It doesn't work at all on grasses or weeds just growing out there in the field. Forget about using it on gravel.... It tosses gravel / stone like shrapnel !!

I am glad that I only paid $15 for it. I'll end up using it as a regular wire brush on an angle grinder.
I learned my lesson using steel cable on a trimmer. I brazed the ends so it wouldn't unravel. Worked pretty good on grass and weeds. Not so good if you got close to a metal shed. Ripped holes in the metal as if someone hit it with a hatchet. :(
 
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Pretty much the same issues I had with JD when I was shopping last year, Drew. Everything but the bare tractor was a pretty expensive option, and a tractor smaller and less powerful and robust than the M62 would have put me $75k closer to the poor house. The salesman was nice, but not that nice.

+1 on the EA root rake. Be aware, though, that you really can't stack much on the short bottom tines. They're made short so they can take a lot of abuse being buried in the ground and digging up roots and rocks. I wish EA made a grapple with about 18" of length on the bottom, as that would really increase the carrying capacity. I can still load the heck out of the thing, but doing so involves a cumbersome reach over the pile with the grapple wide open to get the lid on the ground in back of the pile, then back dragging to bring it in contact with the pile, then rocking the grapple back to get the bottom tines on the ground while keeping the front ones on the ground, then slowly closing the grapple while rocking back to keep both sets of tines on the ground. Takes longer to explain it than do it, and it's easy to mess up, especially when you're tired. But gosh, you can sure haul a lot of brush in one grab!
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