TODAYS SEAT TIME

[Jstpssng]

My NAPA gives a h*ll of a discount to vets.

I am glad to hear that. You deserve it.

 

[Molalla1]

I am glad to hear that. You deserve it.

Thank you . . .

 

[Sawyer Rob]

$192 for a NAPA battery. They said they expect them to go up another $30 next year.

My friend sells Interstate, he charged me $140.00 for the group 31 I just bought. Sounds like it was a better deal than I thought.

SR

 

[Sawyer Rob]

$192 for a NAPA battery. They said they expect them to go up another $30 next year.

I get a big discount from NAPA, but I didn't even ask them how much a group 31 would have cost me, I guess I just had my mind made up to get an Interstate.

Maybe next time...

SR

 

[Jstpssng]

I get a big discount from NAPA, but I didn't even ask them how much a group 31 would have cost me, I guess I just had my mind made up to get an Interstate.

Maybe next time...

SR

I was looking for Interstate based on a previous post you had made. I thought their website indicated that NAPA sold them but I must have misread it. At any rate I needed a battery so I bought what I could.

 

[Slowpoke Slim]

If it gets cold where you are (I mean *really cold*), you will not be happy with an Interstate.

Even their "AGM" battery dies at 5 years old when it gets down to -30F (or colder). And I mean the first time it hits that temp, kills it like throwing a switch.

Their standard wet cell died the very first time it saw -30F. That was the OEM battery in my tractor.

Can't have that around here. Not for a piece of equipment or truck that doesn't sit in a cushy warm heated garage all winter.

I've been putting Optima AGM's in my stuff when it's time to replace the OEM Interstates. Never had an issue, can sit for a month at -40F, not plugged in (battery) to diddly, and fires right up.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

If it gets cold where you are (I mean *really cold*), you will not be happy with an Interstate.

Even their "AGM" battery dies at 5 years old when it gets down to -30F (or colder). And I mean the first time it hits that temp, kills it like throwing a switch.

Their standard wet cell died the very first time it saw -30F. That was the OEM battery in my tractor.

Can't have that around here. Not for a piece of equipment or truck that doesn't sit in a cushy warm heated garage all winter.

I've been putting Optima AGM's in my stuff when it's time to replace the OEM Interstates. Never had an issue, can sit for a month at -40F, not plugged in (battery) to diddly, and fires right up.

I've used quite a few Interstates in Alaska, in -40F and they worked as good or better than any others in the same temps, we will see how this new one does.

Like I already said, my last AGM only lasted two years, so now I'm back to Interstate. lol

SR

 

[Sawyer Rob]

Todays seat time for me, was to drive out to the woods, and use my skidding winch to skid my buck out.

SR

 

[two_bit_score]

Todays seat time for me, was to drive out to the woods, and use my skidding winch to skid my buck out.

SR

AhhhHaaaa! Nice Buck!

 

[aeblank]

Todays seat time for me, was to drive out to the woods, and use my skidding winch to skid my buck out.

I'd have used my forks (with or without grapple).

 

[Sawyer Rob]

I'd have used my forks (with or without grapple).

I couldn't drag him to where I could use my tractor/forks, he was too big and heavy.

I had to skid him with the tractor winch for that...

SR

 

[Molalla1]

I couldn't drag him to where I could use my tractor/forks, he was too big and heavy.

I had to skid him with the tractor winch for that...

SR

Nice buck . . . you kept him cool skidding him home . . . .

 

[gstrom99]

This was a month ago. Got rid of my old dilapidated chicken coop, to the burn pile

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[Sawyer Rob]

Nice buck . . . you kept him cool skidding him home . . . .

Here's a pict. of him before rifle season,

I guess he thought he was "king" around here... lol

SR

 

[Molalla1]

Here's a pict. of him before rifle season,

I guess he thought he was "king" around here... lol

SR

Was is key . . . again nice!

 

[bearthebruce]

@Sawyer Rob Nice Buck. I got mine last Friday but he was not that big. We have several big guys roaming the property but we did not find them during our hunt. In all we took 2 does and 5 bucks..

 

[Sawyer Rob]

More seat time today, retrieving another buck, this one was easy to get out,

I have plenty of venison now, so I guess I'm done for this season...

SR

 

[bearthebruce]

https://imgur.com/a/OiTRJjw

@Sawyer Rob - your guy and my guy look about the same size... I also had tractor time moving 6 deer on our hunt.

It was muzzle-loader season in Virginny...

 

[SmallChange]

Took down a second small oak, but a bit bigger than the one about 7 posts earlier, around the upper limit of what I will try to take down myself. It went faster. Aim was good, at most 10 degrees from where I wanted it to fall (it didn't look difficult and I didn't put a rope on it as I always do when it might be difficult). I didn't dig much at all around the roots, and let the machine do more of the work, pushing it back and forth. I was pulling it toward me with the bottom rear of the bucket raised up high, then pushing it with the edge, rather than driving around the tree and turning around. I also did better at cutting it into sections that weren't foolishly short but also weren't painful to lift, to minimize the effort of getting it into the brush pile (my brush pile is sort of a log pile lately).

Practice equals gradual improvement.

 

[BackRoad]

^^^ Just watch out for the root balls

They can sometimes be larger than expected and once the tree goes over, come up under the front of your tractor.