Recent content by Blue2Orange

We always have had a significant number of people from FL living up here in their 2nd, 3rd, or whatever homes during the summer. Not necessary old (>60y/o). Now more and more people from the SW with seasonal homes. Blame them for yesterday's unusually hot day. Hit 90F at my place by late...

My old local trucking/gravel company shut down a few years ago. This time I went direct with the rock quarry company. They only have two 20yd dump trucks and are located 45miles away. The driver knowing I just need a ~2" "top coating" started at the top and was able to stretch the loads...

Couple days ago. Driving down and then back up after a hard rainfall the tire impressions are visible. With the #2 grade gravel of the past the driveway would have had washouts and deep tire ruts.

LandPride GS1548 is on the wish list. Was considering the GS0560 or 48, but the scraper blades height is not adjustable and look to be set relatively low. Wondering if the blades on the 0548 would float enough on a harder gravel surface so they don't dig in too deep. The blue rock gravel...

Relatively hot up here along the shoreline of L. Superior. Mid to upper 80sF use to be above normal. Now we have 90F days more than very occasionally . Decade I ago purchased a small window A/C unit. Now I added one of those rolling portable units. The real issue is abnormally high daytime...

Forgot to mention. After using the FEL and Vassar dirt bucket to haul gravel to low areas and ease the transition between steep and flat I still needed to load up the bucket when using the box blade. With it tilted upwards you don't move a lot of gravel from the pile to where you need it.

Just added another 80 tons (bit short of 80 cubic yards) of what we call 3/4" blue rock gravel. ~2 inch depth x 10ft wide coverage over ~800 linear feet. Unlike the mix of #1 & #2 gravel the previous layer of blue rock does not develop gullies after heavy rainfall requiring maintenance after...

Just my impression and why the need for the adjustable top link positions on many QH. The dimensions for QH have some variations from manufacture to manufacture.

My online "forum", general info computer is a vintage Mac with long unsupported OS. This my "junk use" computer to reduce risking exposure with my other computers. When at news sites such as BBC, checking out YTube I get a bunch of popup or banner like ads. But none here. Do run an up to date...

Not an absolute, but makes life more pleasant. Impact wrench. After almost a 1/4 century of knuckle busting and nasty thoughts I purchased a Milwaukee high torque 1/2" impact wrench. Maybe a bit overkill. But beats grunting and evil thoughts. Just beware of all the fake Milwaukee impact...

Rubber mallet in the tool box. I use it too bonk myself in the head when I do something stupid on the tractor. Keeps me from repeating the same stupid thing again. Usually.

Choose the QH that meets your current and future needs. Personally if all my implements were QH compatible and future plan to purchase other non Landpride QH compatible hardware. Would go with the QH16. Only one other 3 pt implement on the need list. Land plane/grader scraper. I choose...

Bit OT. Discovered as expected the sets of metric and imperial size sockets and wrenches were on the too small size. Decades ago there was a Sears store a short walk from work. After work walked over on a regular basis to Sears. They had a section of returned and odds and ends tools. Slowly...

Factor in the level of dusty conditions you use your tractor in. With the NH owned only replaced couple hoses every ~300 hours due to a weak design. Hydraulic "elbow" hoses that connected to the hydraulic cooling radiator would fatigue with hours. +24 y/o, but low hours and unless in use...

No mower. No grass to mow. Just dust from driveway maintenance after new loads are delivered. The 3/4" blue rock without binder used is relatively dust free. But eventually hope to acquire a brush hog to maintain the trails. Thinking of diy a fitting for the shopvac to get into the tight...