The Little Tractor that Could

[CurtisB]

Boy oh boy, we bought a place up here about a year ago in Northern Minnesota. It is 24 acres with a bunch of outbuildings. Well, recently I decided that the old chicken coupe had to go. I am assuming it was around 100 years old. It was built with walls made of logs standing vertically. Then sided and roofed with Douglas Fir tongue and groove siding. I salvaged the roof boards that I could.

Then I took the little B7610 and decided to try pushing on the building to see how difficult it would be. Well, 1 1/2 hrs later I have a clean slab and a crumpled up chicken coupe piled up 15' from the foundation. The chicken coupe was about 16' x 24'. Tomorrow I will continue pushing it a little further out into the opening so that I can light it on fire when winter comes or it gets nice and wet around here. I had planned on getting a trachoe in here to do the whole thing but figured if I could get it down and burned I would save myself considerable cashola.

Anyway, I am still amazed as to what these little tractors can do. I have roughly 225 hours on mine now and the hours are accumulating quick now that I have 7 acres of grass to mow. But, I am sure the little thing will continue to purr long into the future.

Just figured I would write a little story about my adventures tonight.

Later,
Curtis

 

[Kubota In Canada]

Do you have any pictures of the little beast!

We love pictures in here........

Cheers!

Eric

 

[CurtisB]

Sure do, here are some pictures of the destruction as well as my newest project which I started on today. My driveway had grass along side it that was higher than the driveway. Thus, when it rained the water would puddle on the driveway and cause softness and pot holes. My two choices were either to bring in several truck loads of grade 5 to raise the driveway surface or to cut away the grass and re-taper the edges of the driveway. I decided to try and re-taper as it is quite a bit cheaper and will also help to reduce the angle of my ditch banks. Hopefully I don't completely hose up the driveway.

Here are the pictures

 

[studway]

Very cool.

 

[Shantycoke]

Looks like you have a nice place, and the orange tractor makes it look all the better. Kinda makes me want to tear something down with mine.

 

[Kubota In Canada]

Great looking tractor!!

 

[hill]

Looks like you have a nice place, and the orange tractor makes it look all the better. Kinda makes me want to tear something down with mine.

Do it!

We had a dead tree, a douglas Fir outside the back of our house that was an easy 100+ feet tall. I'd been watching it and it had a tilt away from the house so I've always figured it'd be OK if it just decided to fall, and my wife kept mentioning that I ought to cut it down because it was ugly, according to her (I kinda' liked it).

She brought it up again the other day so I got a little tired of it and took my tractor out there and gave it a shove with the loader.

It went! It gave out a big loud crack, jumped up a little seemed like, to the point that I thought for a second it might kick back and get me. But it fell with all the attendant wooosh! and thump! nice and neat into a big bunch of brush.

Probably woke the bear I suspect might be living in there but he or she didn't come out.

Great Fun!

She didn't say a word and I went back to what I was doing. Took all of five minutes.