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[clemsonfor]

Might be able to get a lot of things done with one of these. I've talked to Clemsonfor about getting some land cleared and this would sure come in handy afterwards. I'm thinking Back Hoe and Man I'd be set.

26 HP 4X4 DIESEL TRACTOR&LOADER

Steve has some sharp machines...of course there fredericks so they would be!!!

Havent seen him on here in years?


Carey the best thing i have seen in years for guys like us to clear land, and it would work perfect on your place given the size of most of your undesirable trees is a bobcat (skid steer) and one of those flail type mulching head mowers. You just drive foward and can chew the stumps down into the ground just at or below the surface of the soil. Then you can bush hog them or spray with herbicide that first year after resprout (my choice) then bush hog what comes back a few times a year. Sure it may cost you $600 or so but just you alone could get a good bit done if not all your place in one day that you wanted to.

 

[clemsonfor]

I call it my mini-motor grader.

You can see exactly how much material you are moving. Unfortunately, that usually isn't very much. I keep up the road by going over and over and over it. If only there were a good way to easily tilt the blade it would be a lot better rig. The light has been out since at least 1965, so I guess I must not need it too bad.

I've got a picture somewhere of me on the Super C pulling a disc through a field of watermelons when I was 14. I learned to drive it first; then learned to drive a 51 Chevy pickup. Everything since then has gotten a lot easier.

Got word this afternoon that they will deliver my tractor tomorrow. I have an implement dealer a mile from my house and I stopped by today to see what he had. He had a used Lowery disc with 3 blades in each gang that look perfect for this tractor. I'm planning to drive over and hook to it and try it out. I suspect I'll just buy it from him. He also has several new Lowery rotary cutters that are made in AL not too far from my house. Here's a link:

http://www.lowerymanufacturing.com/Clippers.htm

I can get an Andy 400 or a 500. You guys think the little Yanmar will handle the 500, which is a 5' cutter? It has a 12 gauge deck, compared to the 7 gauge deck of the old Bush Hog, so I'm thinking it should handle the 500 with ease. I will post some pics; thanks for all the replies and help!

If you go by the rule of thumb.. You need 25 HP for a 5 ft cutter.. I believe you'll be able to run it just fine.. It will just depend on how tall / thick/ wet the grass gets & how big of a bite you try to take...I have the Andy 500.. If I let the grass get too tall,thick,wet, my engine will bog down ,and I have to take smaller bites or slow down some

I have a YM2000 and its 24 engine HP and 20 at the PTO. I have both a light duty jBar 4ft and a standard duty type 5 foot Razorback (bush hog brand) bush hog. The 4 footer in most stuff i can cut in high speed if i can take the wild fast ride. I usually cut in H3 though and its fine in all but the thickest nastiest stuff. The 5ft i can still cut in the same gear but in thicker or taller stuff i need to take a smaller bite or drop a gear, and sometimes throttle up just before the thick spot to compensate for the load. I am faster with the 5 footer for obvious reasons. My just old fields only say 15% or so is really thick where i need to take smaller bites etc the rest i can run like normal and get 20% more done on each pass. For a person who might bush hog more often than i you could run normal the whole time. Now if you have thick fescue or bahaia grass or something a few months of growth an you might only be able to take 4ft bites the whole time. but my fields are old and over grown and have every thing in them. Most of the trees i have killed back but its everything from some fescue,bahaia, bermuda, johnson grass, lespedeiza (spelling), blue stems, some black berries, and all kinds of other stuff that i cant identify. I usually cut them at least once a year, but usually twice. And before my son when i got there more i would cut them 3x a year.

 

[coosa]

>>>Carey the best thing i have seen in years for guys like us to clear land, and it would work perfect on your place given the size of most of your undesirable trees is a bobcat (skid steer) and one of those flail type mulching head mowers.<<<

How I would love to have one of those things! I really looked into buying one once, but it was just too much money and I couldn't justify it. If I ever get rich I'm gonna buy one of those and a small motor grader to keep up my driveway.

Meanwhile, I'm wondering if I should buy a Andy 400 or 500. The thing is, my old Sidewinder will probably accomplish everything I need a cutter to do.

Thanks to all for the replies.

 

[kenmac]

If I were U ,I would get the 500.. I wish a thousand times I had bought the 6 footer...
You can always take smaller bites with the larger cutter.
You can never take larger bites with a smaller cutter..
Weight should be no problem at all

 

[clemsonfor]

>>>Carey the best thing i have seen in years for guys like us to clear land, and it would work perfect on your place given the size of most of your undesirable trees is a bobcat (skid steer) and one of those flail type mulching head mowers.<<<

How I would love to have one of those things! I really looked into buying one once, but it was just too much money and I couldn't justify it. If I ever get rich I'm gonna buy one of those and a small motor grader to keep up my driveway.

Meanwhile, I'm wondering if I should buy a Andy 400 or 500. The thing is, my old Sidewinder will probably accomplish everything I need a cutter to do.

Thanks to all for the replies.

OH no i was talking about renting it!!! "Guys like us" cant afford to buy one of those!! i know just a bobcat usually rents for like $300/day. even if the head added double the cost were still talking about $600 and i dont think it would cost that much personally. There even people who do it in his area but i think it would be way cheaper to do it yourself!!!

 

[clemsonfor]

After running a 5 footer and a 4 footer on my YM2000 if i were to buy just one i think i would buy a 5fter. Just my experience. You can always take a 4 foot bite. That fist pass may need to be in a lower gear as your going the full width of the cutter but the subsequent ones you can always take a bit smaller of a bite in the thick stuff or the full width in the normal to lighter stuff.

If you post a good pic on here of what you field or grass you would want to cut looks like i can tell you if i think i can go normal speed with the 5ft cutter through it at a full width pass.

 

[coosa]

I got the tractor in today and here is a pic as promised:



I guess it looks like all the rest of them. Only thing I noticed wrong was they put 2210B stickers on it when it is actually a 2210BD. In case someone is wondering, the B was a mid-year change that had a different side panel with more ventilation and instrument gauges instead of lights. The D of course indicates 4wd. I figure they didn't have any BD stickers and just used the B. Its probably meaningless, unless after I'm dead and gone it gets sold and somebody tells my estate that a B is worth less than a D, which would be correct.

It would arrive on one of my busiest days of the year and I did not have any time to work with it until about sunset. I decided to hook up my 6' scrape blade and was hoping to make a test run with it. I backed up to the blade, expecting this to be a 2 minute job, and 30 minutes later was still fighting with it. The blade is a standard type 1 implement and has 26" of space between where the lift arms should be. The lift arms will extend out to 26" without a problem, but the length of the pins require it to spread at least 32" to hook it up. Its like the little lift arms don't have enough of a bend made into them and they just won't go out that far. I've looked everywhere to see what is the standard length for a Type 1 lift arm, but can't find it anywhere. Apparently, there isn't one and everyone does their own thing. The Yanmar arms are only 31" long and that seems to be shorter than most.

I finally took one side completely loose from the upper stabilizer and got the lift arms on, then managed to wrestle the upper stablizer back into place. If it had been a heavy implement I never would have gotten it on. I dunno if there is a flaw in the way the lift arms are made or something else is wrong. Maybe they need to be used some and they will loosen up. Maybe I will take a torch to them and bend them enough so they will open up. I do have a set of JD arms that I will put on before I fight with it like this every time I change equipment. Anyone else have a problem like this on one of these "new" tractors?

The tractor sure runs good and I hope to find a little time to work with it tomorrow and see how it handles that blade. I know I won't get to buy any implements or do any real work with it; maybe I can Thursday.

A good evening to all!

 

[kenmac]

I knew it would be a nice tractor because of where it came from... I haven't had any problems connecting up any of my implements .. Of course I only have a middle buster, box blade and the andy 500 cutter. I believe you'll get good service from that tractor.. If you are going to do any diggin with the loader.. I highly recommend the tooth bar on the bucket.. I have also added a grapple to my bucket

 

[sd455dan]

Don't know about the blade but the ad for the 2210d the lift arms are mounted inside of the frame on that rotary cutter??

maybe that's a full 26 inch?


My FIL has a 2310d and has a few attachments for the 3 point, (snow blower, finish mower, 7 foot blade and brush cutter) have never heard him complain about not being able to get the lift arms wide enough for the pins?.? he has been very happy with his Yanmar.

He did give me a 6 foot disc harrow that the 2310d had trouble lifting and was a bit much for it to pull though..

I would ask Fredricks if they have the fix- no reason a tractor should not accept standard cat one implements.

Nice looking tractor, and nothing but good things to say about Koyker loaders to .

I'm sure you will have it dialed in in no time:thumbsup:

 

[coosa]

Thanks for the comments; I suspect its something very simple and I will figure it out soon. Would somebody measure your lift arms and see if they are 31" like mine? Seems unlikely they could have put type 0 arms on it, but if everyone else has 31" arms I'll know for sure that isn't the issue. Its possible these aren't bent properly, but that doesn't seem all that likely either. Maybe they just have to loosen up a little.

Thanks again for the help!