Blstr88
Silver Member
Took delivery about 7 weeks ago now but we only moved into our new property 2 weeks ago...26.5 acres in the New Hampshire Lakes Region. Just hit 10-hours on the 2023 yesterday!
Mostly been using it to spread some crushed gravel on the driveway and spread it out, but also put some hours on it with a 48" Kodiak rotary cutter I picked up on craigslist, as well as using it to pull some logs off a pile for cutting. Enough talk, heres a few pics:
Here she is on the trailer being towed to its new home. Picked that trailer up for $200 and put another $150 into it (wood decking, fenders, and paint). It's not all that heavy duty but it hauls the little 2023 no problem.
Got a truckload of wood delivered, approx. 8 chord...we've got an outdoor wood boiler to take the place of our propane boiler in the winter months.
Was using the 2023 to slide some logs off the pile so I could cut them up:
Picked up a DR Rapid Fire splitter for splitting duties....super happy with it so far, very quick and splits great:
Heres my little helper along with the wood boiler behind her:
I'll get some shots of the driveway soon, it's a 1200' gravel driveway, first 800' or so is flat winding through a wooded section, then a small hill, then another couple hundred to the bigger opening at the top. I got 12-yards of crushed gravel delivered last week and Ive been spreading is slowly with the 2023 and landscape rake. The rake isnt the best thing for grading but it works for spreading it out. I'm planning to pick up either a Landpride Grader Scraper or DR Power Grader soon to do the final grading.
So far the 2023 has been doing great! I need to get the rear tires loaded as others have mentioned, with a full bucket load of gravel I need to use 4x4 to really move around. It slides logs off the pile with ease as well as handles the 4' rotary cutter no problem - so far so good!
Mostly been using it to spread some crushed gravel on the driveway and spread it out, but also put some hours on it with a 48" Kodiak rotary cutter I picked up on craigslist, as well as using it to pull some logs off a pile for cutting. Enough talk, heres a few pics:
Here she is on the trailer being towed to its new home. Picked that trailer up for $200 and put another $150 into it (wood decking, fenders, and paint). It's not all that heavy duty but it hauls the little 2023 no problem.
Got a truckload of wood delivered, approx. 8 chord...we've got an outdoor wood boiler to take the place of our propane boiler in the winter months.
Was using the 2023 to slide some logs off the pile so I could cut them up:
Picked up a DR Rapid Fire splitter for splitting duties....super happy with it so far, very quick and splits great:
Heres my little helper along with the wood boiler behind her:
I'll get some shots of the driveway soon, it's a 1200' gravel driveway, first 800' or so is flat winding through a wooded section, then a small hill, then another couple hundred to the bigger opening at the top. I got 12-yards of crushed gravel delivered last week and Ive been spreading is slowly with the 2023 and landscape rake. The rake isnt the best thing for grading but it works for spreading it out. I'm planning to pick up either a Landpride Grader Scraper or DR Power Grader soon to do the final grading.
So far the 2023 has been doing great! I need to get the rear tires loaded as others have mentioned, with a full bucket load of gravel I need to use 4x4 to really move around. It slides logs off the pile with ease as well as handles the 4' rotary cutter no problem - so far so good!
