Owning a small tractor is a blessing.

[Jstpssng]

No matter what I never rely on just a Hyd. jack. I always use Jack stands

When working on my truck I will set the jackstands, shake the truck and give it a good shove. If it moves I start over.

 

[5030]

I bought 3 sets of HF jackstands, the ones they recalled a couple years back. Actually they are fine except for the terrible welds which I fixed... I'd never put anything on cinder blocks.. A fatal accident waiting to happen, so are the HF jackstands if you don't fix the welds.

 

[masseyrider]

A high school friend and I were working on an old wreck supported on cement blocks.
We went in for lunch and when we came out I leaned on the fender finishing my soda before getting back at it.
That's all it took.
It came down so quick it would have killed us before we could have twitched. It was up, it was down.
When the concrete lets go there is no warning.
Thank you Coke.

 

[CloverKnollFarms]

It is a blessing. My shop and my tractor have been real blessings.

 

[EddieWalker]

How could we survive without having a tractor around the place? I just used one of mine to haul my mower back to the house after running over a part of a tire and getting it wedged in my blades. I can't imagine what a pain that would have been to fix along the road as everyone drove by.



About a dozen years ago, give or take, one of the members on here that went by the name Mikim, was changing the blades on his mower by lifting it with his tractor. The chain slipped while he was under it and he died from the mower landing on him. He had just retired a year or two earlier.

 

[RjCorazza]

Funny how I start taking things like my tractor for granted.... This topic reminds me how useful they are. Last week I forked my golf cart on a trailer, to trade it in on a new(er) one.
That blade getting bent like the OP's is a new one on me. Last year I got on top of a pine root and spun the center blade bolt off. Oddly enough, the whole blade dropped straight down with all of the hardware and didn't demolish the other 2 blades.

 

[Runner]

I sometimes think "What if....I ever had to (God forbid) move back to a subdivision/suburban lawn situation?" Then, I start thinking that I might try keeping my tractor because it would be so handy, even though it would look strange in that setting.

There is a guy living not far from me in a subdivision that mows his lawn with a 9N and rotary cutter. Home association probably LOVES him!

Of course, if I kept the tractor, then I'd need to have the trailer to haul it with, and a place to store the attachments and..... then I'm right back to looking for another place to live with acreage and a shop.

 

[tacticalturnip]

A high school friend and I were working on an old wreck supported on cement blocks.
We went in for lunch and when we came out I leaned on the fender finishing my soda before getting back at it.
That's all it took.
It came down so quick it would have killed us before we could have twitched. It was up, it was down.
When the concrete lets go there is no warning.
Thank you Coke.

That was one close, butt puckering, call.

 

[tacticalturnip]

About a dozen years ago, give or take, one of the members on here that went by the name Mikim, was changing the blades on his mower by lifting it with his tractor. The chain slipped while he was under it and he died from the mower landing on him. He had just retired a year or two earlier.

That's terrible. Absolutely terrible.

 

[2manyrocks]

Very difficult to maintain property without some kind of tractor.

This powerbuilt jack has a built in jackstand. Trouble is it is so tall that it doesn't fit under my smaller vehicles. www.amazon.com/Powerbuilt-620471-6000Lb-Unijack/dp/B00GJJZ5NI/ref=asc_df_B00GJJZ5NI?mcid=6654fdddfe7a34a3b20a1e3ad99a54c4&hvocijid=4312590470618476525-B00GJJZ5NI-&hvexpln=73&tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=721245378154&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=4312590470618476525&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9013691&hvtargid=pla-2281435179778&psc=1