OK, it could possibly be an '83 which was their first year of manufacture. That or an '84 model.
It, and the other five like it from that tree, would be good candidates for that. Used to mill some of our trees into lumber back when I made furniture for us and enough custom work to at least pay for whatever tools I had. We didn’t need more furniture and the custom work got to being a job I didn’t much enjoy. I haven’t made anything in probably 10 years. Still have enough white oak, red oak, hickory, and eastern red cedar in the top of the shed to make quite a bit of furniture if someone was inclined to do so. Can’t recall if there’s any persimmon left up there or not. Still have some framing sized pine up there as well, although that’s getting sparse.
No clue. We don’t get the snow y’all do but if they’re on the road and there’s snow on the road, the plow is down. Only time the plow is up is if they’re traveling from one area to another on an already cleared road. Don’t think they could go any faster without breaking the speed limit everywhere except the 65 and 70 mph zones and sometimes those too if it’s light snow.
How do you like your rear 3 point blower? Is that model you have listed Landpride?
Looks great, wish I could add something like that but with all the 'stuff' I have added back there not much chance.
Had the same problem here last winter. The road contractors are doing a horrible job. But unlike all the facebook warriors that just cry online I sent many calls and emails to my member of parliament and offered to take him for a ride in my dump truck so he could see how bad it is playing chicken with cars going down the middle of an unplowed road.
Can't say for certain exactly what damage you did by sucking up a rock, but I can tell you what happened when I did. The auger was bent, and being it was in the middle of the winter, and I needed to get it back in service, I heated the auger with a torch, and using a 6# hammer, beat it back to where it looked correct and reinstalled it. I used it like that for the next 10+ years, even though it did have a vibration, but it wasn't so bad that I couldn't live with it vs. taking it apart again to replace it. Today, the auger is about a $400 (US) item which makes one think long and hard about replacement. I also snapped the chain and the chain was also bent, so it was totally trash at that point. I purchased a 10-foot length of #40 chain at Tractor Supply inexpensively and used that for years. When the replacement chain got too much slack in it, I would just put another on. Hopefully, you will have a better experience than I did.
Once I removed the rock and tensioned the chain the blower ran fine so I don't think any damage was done. I was just surprised that the shear bolt didn't break. I might not have had the nut tight enough on the bolt that the idler sprocket rides on which allowed the sprocket to move which then took some strain off the driveline. With the idler sprocket out of the equation the very loose chain might have allowed it to jump the sprocket teeth. Not an ideal situation but so far everything looks and runs fine.
I have considered that but wonder how much it obstructs vision of rear implements, particularly back blade and box blade, which I’m not skilled enough to run without looking at them at least part of the time.
The box is shorter than my seat back, so no visual obstruction.
