Recent content by NCL4701

I’m only 58 and remember 13 of the 17. I barely remember the milkman’s cream and maroon round nosed Coble Dairy step van. I think everyone in my family remembers the day our cat climbed up on the roof, dive bombed the milkman’s head and latched on. Like most real fights, it was pretty short but...

You can’t trust voice recordings, photos, or videos. It doesn’t take some prohibitively expensive software run by a genius to do it.

We have a sewer line that runs through the middle of our property, a bit over 700’ of road frontage, and a private road that services three houses so we have bunch of entities with easements. With all the developments popping up around us we’ve dealt with them quite a bit over the past 5 years...

Not much to add to all the excellent advice above. Only one thing, which was counterintuitive to me when I started with HST: If you’re running out of power, LESS pedal, not more, will provide more torque.

I have a 16’ because I very rarely need it and I have about $500 in it. My L, which is a bit bigger than yours but not much, fits with loader and boxblade, but just barely. Loader and bush hog, the bush hog is hanging off far enough it needs a red flag (not ideal at all, but I’ve never hauled it...

All my Stihl stuff starts as described by @GrumpyFarmer. All mine have primer bulbs. I’ve worked with some guys that have newer Stihl saws that don’t have primer bulbs. They all struggle to get them going first time of the day. I have an older Husqvarna arborist saw like that. It’s fine if you...

Assuming your grapple is something like this: https://ramsplitter.com/shop/ols/products/3pt-grapple Seen a few for larger tractors. Don’t recall ever seeing one sized for a CUT. Nice!

It has rained so routinely this spring/summer it’s been near impossible to do much past mowing the yards in the tight windows where that’s possible. Mostly been quick little jobs in between storms. Some of the stuff on the sewer line was getting a bit high for my liking being we use it for a...

Hydraulic top/tilt isn’t cheap even with non-OEM valves, but it is absolutely worth every penny of you do much grading/ditch cleaning/road maintenance. I have three dealer installed OEM’s on my L with dealer installed top/tilt. It’s the most expensive route. Only regret is not getting the...

Welcome!

With a boxblade, you control the cut with the angle set by the toplink and float the blade. The sides of the box limit depth of cut much like gauge wheels. Floating the blade takes any porpoising of the tractor out of the performance of the blade. Same principle as gauge wheels. Angling the...

Hey, I’ve met that guy in the yellow shirt! Of course not here on OTT. But there was that one time here with the guy that says he’s from the U.S. but obviously doesn’t comprehend American English..,🤔

Only “trick” is take it off on a flat place big enough to be flat for both tractor and loader, and solid enough the loader stands won’t sink into the supporting surface. Flat concrete/pavement is ideal but not necessary. First off/on took me 45 minutes. I knew I had to take it off for some of...

Same.

The modern versions of the Work Master series are pretty nice tractors IMO. That bucket though… looks like it’s wearing the tractor version of clown shoes. Suspect it would perform notably better with an appropriately matched bucket.