Recent content by Tim Horton

For hauling firewood with the FEL I used my 42" pallet forks, a pallet with another pallet as a back stop and a triangle scrap of plywood on eigher side to form a crude box or tote.. Quick, easy, cheap to have plenty around to fill with rounds, and let sit until I could get it to the splitter...

I bought a 5' box blade from the local auto, farm store that was no name, a bit crude, likely China made, but more than adequate for the work I needed to use it for.. A sloppy brush repaint job when needed that was never seen from the highway and it worked well for a long time.. It did...

I contemplated several options for rear ballast and had several drawings of homemade options in my ...good ideas... notebook... Would not spend the money for a store bought and didn't get around to a DIY project.. I usually had the snowblower on the 3 point or used my 5' box blade for...

It was ...pre covid... when I got a auto, farm store 5' box blade.. It was no name, somewhat crude, likely China made, but only 1/4 the price of the one listed in the first post.. Quite cheap especially for an implement in Canada.. It was more than capable of doing the work I needed it...

Bolt on D rings is what I used on 2 tractor buckets.. One on the inside and one on top of the top lip of the bucket bolted back to back.. Right in front of the loader arms.. The D rings and a pair of 4' long trailer safety chains with hooks on each end were both rated for more than the...

Trivia..... In that at one time I built a homemade, quite sturdy, quite aggressive, 3 row de-thatcher, pine straw 3pt rake.. It worked well for a variety of things... However, if I could have found a good buy on a landscape rake I would have bought it in a second.. It seems a good...

My first post hole digger was a hard used old Speeco.. With some TLC it tightened up very good, looked and worked well.. It came with a 9" and 12" augers.. I couldn't find new hardened cutting teeth, but I made and resharpened several sets of homemade mild steel cutting teeth.. In my...

I had the standard, first generation version Piranha Tooth bar.. It was what was available at the time and I got it mostly to be sacrificial to not ware out the factory edge of the bucket.. It worked well for what little digging I did.. It worked well grubbing out brush and the like.. I used...

On my old but lightly used Cat1, 3pt blower I kept the mating surfaces of the blower and discharge chute well lubed with boat trailer wheel bearing grease.. I kept the outside area well cleaned with a brush and never had a freeze up.. I have read that people use WD40, or Pam cooking spray on...

When I lived in far north west Canada I filled 2 sets of tractor tires DIY with -25C washer fluid and concentrated auto anti freeze... I didn't want calcium chloride and Rim Guard wasn't available.. I watched sales at farm supply, hardware, and grocery stores to get fluids as cheap as...

This type of tire scraper is used for livestock barns, dairy operations and the like.. Also a tire section on a FEL to work with the 3pt attachment.. Depending on your weather and location I think it would work for snow, but would be quickly overwhelmed by the weather in my part of the north..

My experience with a Piranha bar was also good.. I didn't do much digging with it.. I mostly got it to ware moving snow on the gravel drive rather than ware off the bucket edge.. It took some ...learning curve... to learn to use, but worked very well.. It also worked well to back drag the...

Chad.... When I lived in northern BC, I had a used, very nice, 50" 3pt snowblower and a Piranha tooth bar on my bucket.. I used the tooth bar to keep ware off the bucket edge on our long gravel drive.. There will be a significant learning curve to using the tooth bar regardless of the...

What helped for me was that when I got the top link adjusted to where I wanted it I would measure center to center of the pins on the top link.. Then paint or better yet stencil that measurement on the attachment somewhere.. For instance my 5' box blade, 6' back blade and 3pt snow blower all...

At one time I built a number of row bedding, cultivation and other tillage type attachments that all bolted to a chisel plow type 3pt frame.. It all worked well and was much more adjustable and adaptable besides cheaper than multiple 3pt attachments.. Good luck..