Look What Followed Me Home (w/Pictures!)....

[TBDonnelly]

After a long & exhaustive analysis and seat of the pants shopping process.......Christmas has come early. A few months ago the digital camera broke /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif. A jammed zoom lens rendered the camera useless. The camera is 6 years old....and not worth getting repaired. As the shopping process continues for a new digital camera, an opportunity presented itself to borrow a digital camera. So now that I have PICTURES /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif it's time to share with y'all.

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[TBDonnelly]

This picture shows my 12 foot high sunflowers (behind the tractor) just starting to come into bloom. Some of the flowers are the size of dinner plates. This is the first year we've grown sunflowers.

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[TBDonnelly]

This picture shows my 3 point hitch sprayer I use to help keep the yard looking.....well....yardly. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

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[TBDonnelly]

Another picture of the 3 point sprayer. I acquired this sprayer about 5 years ago for $30. It was being retired from a golf course. It is powered by a dual piston PTO pump and develops 300 PSI. It has a spray gun with about 100 foot of hose. The tank holds 150 gallons. The picture is demonstrating the distance the spray gun sprays (slightly into the wind).

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[TBDonnelly]

This picture of the 3 point sprayer shows the 8 foot PVC spray boom I built. It did not come with a spray boom (You can't expect everything for 30 bucks.) I have the spray heads turned on for demonstration purposes. The 4 spray head patterns are little difficult to see in the picture. The spray gun is hanging on the left. There is a valve to convert from a low pressure setting to a high pressure setting. I normally use the low pressure with the spray boom, high pressure (300 PSI) with the spray gun. Works good to power wash the equipment too. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

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[TBDonnelly]

This picture shows the toothbar installed on the cutting edge of the bucket. Digs great. The dual purpose home fabricated brackets mounted on the ends of the bucket serve as chain hooks and.......

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[TBDonnelly]

...........the dual purpose brackets serve not only as chain hooks but as mounting surface for............loader forks.

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[TBDonnelly]

I picked these forks up at a scrap metal dealer for $50. I had a choice of the square or the flat forks. I chose the square forks over the more popular flat forks because they weighed 20 pounds less per fork.....knowing the farther out in front of the bucket you get the less lifting capacity you have.

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[TBDonnelly]

This picture shows the forks in the transport and/or storage position. ....and the sunflowers /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

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[JerryG]

Good lands, how long are those forks?