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A blower on the rear of the L3301 all winter, a 6' hydraulic angle blade for the front. But just the other day, I pulled the front blade and put the FEL bucket on, as I had gotten to the point where I needed to pick UP some snow rather than blow or plow it. It's nice having options! With an...

I got another old implement up the hill the other day, but could not get any traction to directly haul it up the slope. So, I got my quick reeve snatch block out and rigged to the base of one of my solar arrays (8" pipe 7' deep, concrete), and my windsock post (also not going anywhere) and...

Hauled up another implement late today, in a snowstorm.

Same with the tip height of my jib that inserts into the hitch receiver on the forks frame, suprisingly high, handy as heck at times. As a former tractor owner in earlier years, without a QA on the FEL, I continue to be amazed everytime I use it to swap various implements, I'd never have a...

Looks like the same system that dumped on uss here in SE Idaho. It inspired me to get my blower and front blade out, and stash some other implements for the winter. I finally found a place for the post hole digger, up and outa the way. The mower goes on top of the rarely used trailer, that I...

I'm not the type to putup random stuff on my shop walls, as this pic shows. Actually I am, thanks for the suggestion, it's now on the wall, to the left of the door. I did a little research, these implements date from AT LEAST 1918, after that McCormick had merged with other companies: Not long...

I thought cussing while hooking up implements was a time honored rural tradition? Now someone will post a pic of their implement on a castered cart on a flat and level concrete floor, out in the real world cussing is usually involved.

Once I got a couple of the old implements in the shop and was getting them loaded up in the truck with the shops chainfall, I noticed they were indeed (no surprise I guess) heavier then I thought. One example shown here: the cast iron lid for the tool box. I couldn't help but compare it to the...

Another couple picks with the lift bar. Moving old implements out of the "new" 30 acres I bought recently, I guess they are mine now..., I plan on scrapping everything but the iron wheels and the two seats, I will have 4 pairs of them and will try peddling them as yard art on my local craigs...

On a somewhat related subject, my Mack 425 hp engine in my 35 ton boom truck uses, with the PTO engaged and operating the crane,1 to 1.5 GPH! I have checked several times, and those numbers keep coming up. I have noticed, though no numbers just intuition, that my 3 year old L3301 uses...

Pulled the corner post/railroad tie plus a bunch of steel fence posts on the old property line, now it's all my property so no need for it. Attachments Unlimted grabber (I think...) works great, and with the FEL curled for it's jaws are vertical you can pick up a dime off the sidewalk. Will...

After moving a solar array 1/4 mile without breaking anything, the last 1/4 mile to my shop was in the first blinding blizzard of the year. Literally blinding, a couple minutes after I was in the tractor shed, it was over.

I made the big move today, right before a short lived blizzard hit. It went exactly as planned, though the plan changed at the last minute! I just didn't have the height needed to rig and carry it while vertical, I had failed to take into account the down sloping ground in front of the array...

Once late fall, again in late spring, and I'll combine it with some other seasonal chore like window screens! I can live with that, better then "wasting" the power available from late October to mid April, the freeze dates pretty much here. I really don't have to do anything, as I have a...

I just bought 160' of 2 conductor stranded 10 gauge, in a direct burial outer cable (well protected/good stuff) and it cost, with shipping just a bit over a buck a foot. So for a half pint of diesel or so, I'll take the small risk. Damage to the array is the only real risk in my estimation at...

About 9 amps, DC. It'd be about 12-1400' to where my power panel is. No way would it be cheaper, moving it will cost only a bit of diesel, call it 15 minutes run time. Safer? Easier? That's not how I roll! It will be safe, my built in anal tilt meter will give me plenty of warning if things...

After completing this solar pumped spring project this summer (https://www.orangetractortalks.com/forums/threads/laying-1-poly-pipe-with-a-subsoiler.58689/page-2#post-575746) it occurred to me that the 1040 watt solar array would be doing nothing, once cold weather hit and the system was drained...

I have long used "Rustoleum Rusty Metal Primer" for anything I have made out of steel. I use it as a finish coat, not just a primer, I happen to like the color (brownish). I will check out the Rust Reformer. In the kitplane world, some still powdercoat their steel tube fuselages, not me! I too...

It's hotter then blazes outside and I am throwing water out like a spendthrift! No leaks in the line, all 2100' of it, now I'm just waiting for my 2100 gallon (odd, same as the pipe run, just noticed that) storage tank, plus a 500 gallon "header" tank for the bottom pump to live in, now it's in...

I just sold a harrow, 40 bucks! I kept one section, it has the spikes you can drag forward or backwards, depending on how much you want to do. It was ganged together as a big tractor section, my L3301 doesn't even know it's there. I used it for the first time the other day, after I mowed down...