Recent content by biketopia

At 7200' you're looking at about a 20+/- percent reduction in power with a non-turbo tractor.

Op, being in Colorado, what elevation will you be operating at? Higher elevations will hurt your HP numbers and reduce performance. There are a few threads on here of people updating their 2601's with a small factory turbo while operating at elevation. Also, are you looking at a cabbed...

A week ago we got over 4" of rain Sunday into Monday, then another inch in the middle of the week, and .75 this past Friday night into Saturday; it's been very soggy. My driveway could really use some time pulling the land plane; hopefully today or tomorrow will be that time. Also...if the MIL...

All of that makes perfect sense to me, love redundancy!

I still have almost two months of cutting left here. I'll be putting the chute blocker and mulching blades on the Scag in the next week or so. Leaves are just starting to change, the Dogwoods are falling. The acorns are dropping like crazy, though.

Looking good. By my rudimentary math, I should have around 5 and a half to almost 6 cords split and stacked on hand. Last year we went through about 4+, and I only needed a small top-off of the propane tank from its initial summer fill. And that was more playing it safe with a big snowstorm...

Nice! The beetles killed a lot of our ash trees too. The neighbor had a bunch of standing dead ones taken down when he moved in 5 years ago, and I split and burned quite a few of those. I was lucky enough to find 2 different guys close by that had dropped trees last year and split all the...

Not much tractor work. Picked up two dump trailers' worth of firewood over the past few days. Hate to pay for wood, but fell way behind for this year's season with the now 1-year-old and 4-year-old taking up most of our time. I have about 8 logs that are 20" around and 10 feet long that have...

Looks good. That's unfortunate; the sale fell through, and you'll have to deal with both properties for another winter. Currious what's the reasoning for dual wells?

Fellow B2650 owner, I installed the 3rd function kit from Summit Hydraulic on my machine 3 years ago. Highly recommend it; very straightforward and easy-to-follow instructions. Would definitely add the 3rd function rather than remove the tilt circuit. I also added two rear remotes to my...

The guy I was chatting with said the same. That while it worked better while dragging, he would imagine it would be fantastic behind a tractor on the 3pt. Mine works great that way.

I was picking up some firewood last week from a fellow with an SVL-75 and noticed he had an SSQA land plane for it. Asked how he liked it with his skid, he mentioned that it did ok going forward (the SSQA version has blades on both sides) but felt he had much better results dragging it, which...

OP, a lot of great conversation on this. I think it would be very beneficial if you explained more about what your intended use of the tractor is. Then, the very knowledgeable folks here can help guide you better on your decision. The Grand L 70 series is a very nice unit; I'm in the middle...

Drastic differences in the pictures between your current and previous posts!! We typically have a dry July & August, but it's rained just enough to keep the grass growing like crazy. I've been needing to cut every 5 days...but I'm lucky if I get to it every 7-8. We're still in a deficit over...

Sounds like you're keeping (extremely) busy but doing way more than just going through the motions. That's great to hear you have a good support network close by as well. That pup is adorable! Was the bear from around the property, or was that from another adventure?