New B3000

[PhilNH5]

Bandit67,
I looked up your posts. You just got yours as well. Nice looking machine.

Farmerford,
They are some type of fir. Not sure which. But definitely not cedar.

Phil

 

[oldballs]

Nice looking wife............I think the tractor was orange.:laughing:

 

[wcampbell47]

they are both keepers .. the wife and the tractor.

 

[hobie]

Hi all,
Haven't posted in a long time but i am a long time member. Just traded in my BX2200 for a B3000HSDCC.

I live in NH. Most of my seat time comes in the winter - hauling firewood and plowing snow. My wife insisted we get a cab tractor to keep me warm.

Here are a few pics.
This is on the day of delivery.
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Hauling firewood
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My wife emptying the firewood. I attached my ballast box from the BX.
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Leaf collection and removal is also one of the tractors chores.
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I am loving the cab. I had the heat on and the cab was nice and toasty. Told my wife I was going to plow snow in my skivies.

Phil

Nice! How do you like the leaf vac? I got one used in September, and haven't had a chance to use it yet. Don't have a mower that will tow it, so for now will use B6000 to tow like you do.

 

[PhilNH5]

Hobie,
I love the DR Power leaf vacuum. It is a real time and back saver. I live in a small valley with lots of trees. I was spending to much time manually removing the leaves.

But I do not use the leaf vac like as advertised. The videos and ads for the various leaf vacs show a smiling homeowner riding his garden tractor, towing a leaf vac and leaving a beautiful emerald green swarth of clean grass through the leaves. That might work if I were to drive around my yard say every 4 hours.

Fortunately I have a job so leaf removal is a weekend chore. By then the leaves are at least ankle high. I originally had the DR Power hooked up to a BX2200 mower deck. Even on the highest cutting setting the deck snowplowed the leaves. They were pushed aside and few if any made it under the deck and then into the leaf vac. There were simply to many of them.

So now my wife uses the leaf blower and blows the leaves into large piles. I park the DR vac next to the pile and leave the vacuum hose on the ground. Then I rake the leaves into it. It works great for us.

Pic of my wife using her leaf blower.

Phil