My NX6010

[MinnesotaEric]

Thanks for the video, Eric. Looks like that suspension seat is working for you, although my lower back did still start to ache halfway through watching it. :laughing:

Even before I got to the end and saw the on-screen text, your camera work reminded me of the Discovery Channel show Survivorman. Survivorman Official Website - Les Stroud No cameraman, so in most everything he did, the guy had to hike, climb and wade stretches two or three times to get the approaching and following shots.

Island makes some points on the bumpy trail that occurred to me as well. I suspect you still have a lot of small stumps at this stage that make it tough to smooth it out even with that heavy new BB.

I'm in high gear rolling at 10 mph. The trail is on 2 feet of sphagnum. If I scrape it, I'll sink down to my axles as soon as there is enough moisture in the dirt. Just off camera is a stand of balsam firs. In order to protect their roots, I cannot disturb the ground twice as far as their lower and longest branches. Nearly all of the brush is red oak and it snags on everything. Grab too much material and I'm leaving an eighth mile of bread crumbs that I must then get out and go back and pick up by hand again. As I back up to where I have the space to turn around, you can see the grappled material snagging everything along the sides of the trail.

 

[MinnesotaEric]

Any reason you bought a new one? Used are plentiful even in Michigan and cost less than half as much. Most folks get used ones for remote storage or even to convert into living space.

I can buy single door, clapped out containers for as little as $1,000. Painted adds a little more money.

The problem is finding double door high cube containers.

Try getting a quote on a 40-foot, high-cube, double-door container in any condition delivered on site to the 56467 zip code, and if you can beat $5300 delivered in any condition, then you can rub it in all day endlessly.

 

[MinnesotaEric]

I forgot to mention as a follow-up to the hotter thermostat swap, that at 138.3 hours, 50 some hours since my last regeneration cycle back in late winter when I was burning brush, I had a regen cycle.

Also, I have not experienced last summer's reduction in power since the thermostat swap. Combined with faster warm-up times, no noticeable increase in operating temperature (even under full load in summer temperatures), and greatly reduced DPF regeneration cycles, I'm super pleased with the swap. For those who are interested, to make the switch, pick up a Stant 48808. It will look slightly longer than stock. I've taken the time to measure everything on my stove to confirm suitability. That said, the new 185°F T-stat's bypass spring is stronger than the stock spring, so take a map gas torch and hit one of the bypass spring's windings to "detemper" the spring with heat. Keep the heat away from the wax cylinder. Don't reuse the existing stock T-stat gasket, it'll leak even with RTV, so make a new one or get a new one.

 

[MinnesotaEric]

I should be getting another 200 yards of class 1 this week. Until then, I've continued to clear lakeshore.

I also took the time to replace a too long hose with the correct size and tighten up leaking hydraulic fittings in the rear between implements.

 

[k0ua]

Somebody did not scuff up their Quick Hitch with some 600 grit and primed, before they rattle canned it with orange paint

I should be getting another 200 yards of class 1 this week

What does this mean? What is class one?:confused3:

 

[aczlan]

What does this mean? What is class one?:confused3:

Probably a grade of stone.

Aaron Z

 

[k0ua]

Probably a grade of stone.

Aaron Z

I wondered if that was what it was.. Just so many different regional names for stone products.

 

[s219]

Probably rip-rap. Pricey stuff, but there is no substitute. I am going to pickup a few tons today for drainage/landscape around the house.

 

[MinnesotaEric]

Class 1 is a mix of gravel, sand and clay used as road base and fill. I'm in the process of building a road to my new staging area.

 

[MinnesotaEric]

I've noticed a silly problem with the Frontier BB4284H: a self-disconnecting hose. With the scarifiers in the up position, the scarifier bar tends to bounce on bumps while transporting around. In my last tractor video, the noise is all coming from the scarifier bar bouncing around. Anyway, after repeated bouncing, the spring-loaded bar begins to drop from the double-acting ram bleeding down. My conjecture is that it must create a weird pressure problem because once the scarifier bar has dropped just a little bit, a good bounce can then cause the line that collapses the ram to pop its own disconnect.

I replaced both the hose, and the male and female sides of the quick disconnect with a different brand and the problem persists. I'm thinking I need to add an in-line pilot-controlled check valve to keep the ram from bleeding off. Anybody with a better idea?

In other news, 17 mph is the measured maximum speed of my tractor on a flat paved road (22.5 mph down a long hill).