MJPetersen
Veteran Member
A couple of years ago I made for myself a RB and gauge wheels for it (link is in the signature line). I made the blade easy to drop and change to a rake, for example (I have not made the rake yet, because I cannot find the tines). I have used it a lot and it has worked fairly well.
Two days ago we had a heavey wet snow fall--it was so early that many of the trees have their leaves still. The result is that many branches were broken and a number of trees were uprooted in our area. Therefore it is firewood gathering time.
However, I do not have a trailer that I can use in the woods.
Enter the RB with gauge wheels. I figured that I could use this to load the logs on. If I cut them to about 2 meters in length they should fit fine. Now I know that for those of you with big tractors and nice log trailers this will look primitive, but for me it allowed me to bring home everything from a big birch that I found down across the road.
I was glad that this summer I had upgraded the Chinese bearings in the wheels to good Slovakian ones. I picked the 3 point as much as I could to transfer some of the weight onto the tractor and still maintain steerability.
It actually pulled better than I feared it might, even in the super soft sand that i had to come through. Success is being home with the load.
Mike
Two days ago we had a heavey wet snow fall--it was so early that many of the trees have their leaves still. The result is that many branches were broken and a number of trees were uprooted in our area. Therefore it is firewood gathering time.
However, I do not have a trailer that I can use in the woods.Enter the RB with gauge wheels. I figured that I could use this to load the logs on. If I cut them to about 2 meters in length they should fit fine. Now I know that for those of you with big tractors and nice log trailers this will look primitive, but for me it allowed me to bring home everything from a big birch that I found down across the road.
I was glad that this summer I had upgraded the Chinese bearings in the wheels to good Slovakian ones. I picked the 3 point as much as I could to transfer some of the weight onto the tractor and still maintain steerability.
It actually pulled better than I feared it might, even in the super soft sand that i had to come through. Success is being home with the load.
Mike
