having a loader is awesome...

[Soundguy]

wow... now that I've used a fel for a few weeks now.. I guess i'll never be able to do without one.

I've been using my old 660 w/ 1 arm loader to do lots of heavy lifting and 'powered' wheel barrow tasks. Today it helped me put up one of those tube/tarp canopies, and then take about 400# of feed out to the back pasture to feed the animals. ( I used to do that with a huge wheelbarrow! )

Soundguy

 

[Bully]

Works great as a workbench in a remote area too.....

 

[Bob_Young]

You can say that again! And all these years I thought life was worth living without one /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif. <font color="blue"> </font> "I guess i'll never be able to do without one." <font color="black"> </font> My thought exactly after spending the afternoon moving snow with my L4300.

You got me grinnin' from ear to ear, Chris. After over 40 years of association with tractors and owning my share, I've finally found the thing that makes them indispensible....the FEL...and it was there all along. I was really feeling dumb until I saw your post and realized another "old tractor guy" had just made the same "discovery".
Bob

 

[RonR]

You can park it in the shade, raise the bucket to 25 inches, then sit in the bucket and have a cool pop.

 

[KiotiJohn]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( You can park it in the shade, raise the bucket to 25 inches, then sit in the bucket and have a cool pop. )</font>
Then a line can burst and the loader fall and you can squish your pop can! Sorry, couldn't resist. Been reading too many repair threads. John

 

[Casco1]

Soundguy, I have to echo your thoughts. Unlike you I am new ro tractors I bought mine to clear and landscape a piece of land I want to retire on rather than keep it on the lot all winter I brought it home. I live in the city on a corner lot with probably 200 ft os sidewalk plus onstreet parking and a double driveway. I parked my kubota in november for the winter, figured it wouldn't move 'til spring. Well this weekend we got 30+ inches of snow and as looked at the snowblower then at the tractor. Like you said "having a loader is awesome" /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[MadDog]

Ditto that, Casco1. About 30" down my way. I'm at the end of a cul-de-sac and the town plow left piles 7-8' high. I have a pretty good snowblower, but it wasn't going through those. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Had to clear two driveways (one for the kids' cars). I also clear the EODs for my neighbors on either side. Yesterday, extended up the street a bit and ended up clearing 6 EODs. One lady and her husband were shoveling out further up the street and she came down and asked "how much would you charge to clear the plow pile?" I wasn't charging the others so I said "thanks, but lets just keep it on a neighborly basis."

So I ended up with a couple of hours of seat time, and if my street's votes were the only ones counted, I suppose I could run for mayor (or selectman, up here). After all that fun, used the snowblower to finish the rest of my driveways, clear paths and clear some runs for the dogs. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

All in all, a healthy Sunday outdoors, before watchin' the Patriots rock n' roll. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Casco1]

I pretty much did the same. My friends say I'm nuts but I like being by myself outdoors. When I'm clearing snow nothing bothers me and I can relax. I'll tell you though as much fun as the snowblower was that tractor is something else. I must be a lot older than you I go back to when a cul-de-sac was a deadend street. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[sherpa]

Soundguy
Just think, if you would have had that loader 10 years ago you would not be having back problems today. How is that back? Hope you are all better.
Sherpa

 

[MadDog]

I very much doubt that you are. In a couple of weeks, I'll be 65. But you know, "young at heart' /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[BGL990]

I've always thought that the tractor was the accessory you buy that allows you to use your loader ....

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[SacandagaBrad]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( I guess i'll never be able to do without one. )</font>

Same here! I told my neighbor on the day it was delivered (and he rolled his eyes at another toy) that we would never lift anything again. And we rarely do. I'm amazed at how many uses I have found for it, never would have guessed it when I was buying it. Now if I can just figure out how to get it through the front door into the living room to move some furniture around /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

We had about a foot of snow this weekend. Took care of the serious stuff with the rear blower. The neighbors really liked it when the snow slid off the roof and overcompacted in piles 4' high. Then on to play time. The place we're in now is flat with no place for the kids to snowboard. I do have a parking area that is raised and stonewalled about 3' higher than the rest of the yard. Built a snowboarding hill with the loader from both sides, I think I had more fun building it than they do going down. At least winter is finally here. First day above zero in the morning in about 5 days. Better than rain and mud.

Brad

 

[rdln]

A cul-de-sac is a dead end street until the developer sells all the lots on it to people that think they are living on a quiet dead end street and then develops the parcel next to the sub paving that funny little .2 acre lot to gain access to the main road for that new sub.

hijack, schmijak

 

[Soundguy]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Just think, if you would have had that loader 10 years ago you would not be having back problems today )</font>

Yep.. can't argue there.

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( How is that back? Hope you are all better.
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I'm afraid it is going to be a slow recovery.

I've still got neck and right shoulder (scapula?) pain. And 1 out of 3 times bending over gives me a jab in the neck.. though not nearly as bad as 3 weeks ago. No problems with setting down or standing / laying down for extended periods though. ( thankfully ).

I'm just trying to take it as easy as I can.. and not have to hire a troop of workers to get my chores done!

Thanks for asking!

Soundguy