My NX6010

Malibu 496 · Nov 9, 2014

I am in Glencoe which is 50 miles west of Minneapolis.

Threepoint · Nov 9, 2014

Looks like the worst of the storm up that way will be tomorrow. You guys drive carefully, especially hauling precious cargo like that.

Eric, with a bit of maneuvering, that new box blade should push snow just fine until you decide which way to go on something more specialized. :thumbsup:

Malibu 496, if you're 50 miles west of Minneapolis, there's got to be a story behind your user name.

Malibu 496 · Nov 9, 2014

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It referred to this car I used to have, it was a 80 Malibu with a 600hp 496 engine.

k0ua · Nov 9, 2014

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It referred to this car I used to have, it was a 80 Malibu with a 600hp 496 engine.

I bet it was hard to keep rubber on those rear tires.

TractorLegend · Nov 9, 2014

EricTheOracle said:
1/8"

Oh, and I'm still smelling anti-freeze.

I really need to get the right radiator adaptor because my universal one isn't sealing good enough to do a longer term pressure check. After looking around, it seems like I should pick up a new "master" coolant pressure tester kit since time stands still for no man, and there are many new radiator necks out there.

In preparation of chasing off, I attached the box blade for transport.

BTW, Everything Attachments, what color paint are you guys using? The transporter rubbed a pile of of paint off and I want to rattle can on more.

Great deal on OTC Tools 7991 at ToolTopia.com These are an alternative to buying a whole set of or kit of adapters- great for the occasional user. :~}

TractorLegend · Nov 9, 2014

EricTheOracle said:
1/8"

Oh, and I'm still smelling anti-freeze.

I really need to get the right radiator adaptor because my universal one isn't sealing good enough to do a longer term pressure check. After looking around, it seems like I should pick up a new "master" coolant pressure tester kit since time stands still for no man, and there are many new radiator necks out there.

In preparation of chasing off, I attached the box blade for transport.

BTW, Everything Attachments, what color paint are you guys using? The transporter rubbed a pile of of paint off and I want to rattle can on more.

Great deal on OTC Tools 7991 at ToolTopia.com These are an alternative to buying a whole set of or kit of adapters- great for the occasional user. :~}

Threepoint · Nov 9, 2014

Malibu 496 said:
It referred to this car I used to have, it was a 80 Malibu with a 600hp 496 engine.

I bet it was hard to part with! Good memories, though.

EverythingAttachments · Nov 10, 2014

EricTheOracle said:
1/8"

I'm a little brief because our snow has been upgraded to 12" inches and I don't want to pull my tractor through it so I'm scrambling to get out of town.

Oh, and I'm still smelling anti-freeze.

I really need to get the right radiator adaptor because my universal one isn't sealing good enough to do a longer term pressure check. After looking around, it seems like I should pick up a new "master" coolant pressure tester kit since time stands still for no man, and there are many new radiator necks out there.

In preparation of chasing off, I attached the box blade for transport.

BTW, Everything Attachments, what color paint are you guys using? The transporter rubbed a pile of of paint off and I want to rattle can on more.

Yea, those clowns pay no mind to shiny new paint! We use New Caterpillar Yellow, like this: NAPA AUTO PARTS

The new musical ETA commercial is pretty catchy! Ted needs to get you an outdoor cameraman up there, but we prefer to work outside when the temp is above 60!!! :laughing:
Travis

MinnesotaEric · Nov 10, 2014

EverythingAttachments said:
Yea, those clowns pay no mind to shiny new paint! We use New Caterpillar Yellow, like this: NAPA AUTO PARTS

The new musical ETA commercial is pretty catchy! Ted needs to get you an outdoor cameraman up there, but we prefer to work outside when the temp is above 60!!! :laughing:
Travis

Cameraman? That'd be much too advanced for me!

I did make a video. I would have made an in-cab video of actual use, but everything is fogging up.

Anyway, I got out of town before the snow hit. I hear that 20" is sitting on my driveway as I type with more coming.

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Once up north, the next morning I took in my dock in 12 degree weather just as it began snowing in northern Minnesota too.

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Chased over to the new parcel and fired up my tractor.

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My new T-stat works better than stock. Set the idle speed at 1500 rpm. Any faster without a load and the engine cools off. Any slower, and again the engine cools off.

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I used my new Everything Attachments box blade to cut through about 2" of frost and start leveling a turn-around I making for delivery trucks.

And, of course, I'm updating this thread from the local Social Club.

Threepoint · Nov 10, 2014

Congrats on your successful escape from town, and on your thermostat solution. Looks like the Trailer Queen is right at home in the snow.

I just noticed the damage to your right rear fender, ouch! I must have missed the post describing that close encounter. Was it the same one that damaged your cab top?

MinnesotaEric · Nov 10, 2014

Threepoint said:
Congrats on your successful escape from town, and on your thermostat solution. Looks like the Trailer Queen is right at home in the snow.

I just noticed the damage to your right rear fender, ouch! I must have missed the post describing that close encounter. Was it the same one that damaged your cab top?

I trashed both fenders from low hanging oak branches. I have the replacements in a box but won't put those on until I'm done clearing and can be reasonably certain things will stay perdy once fixed.

BTW, the new chainsaw mount I made really is working out well. I drilled a hole in the bottom of the plastic scabbard to drain water and I need to safety wire the scabbard in the steal frame so that the scabbard stays put when the saw is pulled.

TractorLegend, thank you for the suggestion, but I need to update my coolant adaptor set. Mac Tools wants a fortune for the update kit and an entirely new not-Mac Tools ADT-style master coolant kit is in my future.

japody · Nov 10, 2014

What is that contraption looking out from your dock?

MinnesotaEric · Nov 10, 2014

The bar above the platform holds a pulley that acts as a raised fulcrum changing the angle the cable pulls my dock out greatly reducing the load the cable must carry and reducing the initial force required to pull the dock up out of the lake sand.

MinnesotaEric · Nov 11, 2014

Today I made a new driveway cut using the Everything Attachments box blade to cut through the frozen ground and remove the stumps.

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s219 · Nov 11, 2014

Shoot, for trees that small, get the raised FEL bucket up against them and then move the bucket down to lever the tree over and pop the rootball out. You're making life hard on yourself flush cutting the stump first. The tree trunk is good leverage.

MinnesotaEric · Nov 11, 2014

s219 said:
Shoot, for trees that small, get the raised FEL bucket up against them and then move the bucket down to lever the tree over and pop the rootball out. You're making life hard on yourself flush cutting the stump first. The tree trunk is good leverage.

In the cold soft woods like pine becomes brittle, too brittle to do as you suggest.

RDrancher · Nov 12, 2014

I hope you weren't ripping out stumps backing up with the box blade. Even if you weren't, watch cutting in reverse. At the rate you're tearing things up, a sway link bending/breaking would be the least of your problems. I don't know how the links attach to the axle on your Kioti, but if its a cast piece...you don't even want to go there. I cut a lot of drainage swales in hard ground in reverse, but I use 2WD. It'll slip before things break.

Threepoint · Nov 12, 2014

Eric, as with any good tool, it looks like that BB paid for itself with the first use.

Interesting about the fender damage on the oak branches. Another TBN'r with a new NX4510 just mounted a tool box with through bolts at the back of his left rear fender. I'm curious to see how that holds up.

MinnesotaEric · Nov 13, 2014

Threepoint said:
Eric, as with any good tool, it looks like that BB paid for itself with the first use.

Interesting about the fender damage on the oak branches. Another TBN'r with a new NX4510 just mounted a tool box with through bolts at the back of his left rear fender. I'm curious to see how that holds up.

Yup, yup. I'm very pleased with the box blade.

Nothing tractor related today. I did fail to report that Monday I got the tractor very warmed up. The new 185 degree T-stat works way better than stock insofar as warming up times, but I smelled antifreeze for two hours. Tuesday, I checked the cold engine for anti-freeze. It took maybe six ounces. I really did not smell anti-freeze. I'll check it again the next time I use it, but I'm hoping that somewhere on my NX is a place that catches anti-freeze that takes forever to cook off and the two anti-freeze leaks I've already fixed, where in fact the source of the original leak I noticed.

The big issue around here is when does the winterized blend of diesel 1 mixed into our off-road diesel 2 show up?