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Wowza. Were you and the machine okay? Did it stay rubber side down? While sliding I did think about sliding in to the ditch and flopping on my side 😬

Oh yeah, after I regrouped (and took a photo 😂) the rest of the way down the hill I had my hand on the 3pt drop lever.

I shared my screw up so I, and others, can learn. So thanks, that’s fair and constructive criticism. I thought of dropping in the moment, but hesitated in the low key panic 😵‍💫 I’ve been in other situations where I dropped the loader or blade, but for whatever reason I was caught so off guard...

Ohhh I see. It’s a dead end road, and my house is at the end, the only one uphill from that spot. So someone would have to be coming from down the hill and would see me. But there’s seriously often zero vehicles that come up over the course of an entire day. Most days is like the plow one time...

Yeah… the rest of the way down the hill I was in 4wd and low range and took it very easy. I’ve lived here ten years and believed I knew the road conditions and machine fairly well. But, it seems so was over confident. It can sneak up on you if you let your guard down!

I slid to a stop, and felt I was in a safe(enough) spot to step off. But maybe I should have stayed on the machine 🤷‍♂️

While heading to the neighbor’s place to plow them out (a vacation place, they live in the city) I spun out on the town road. I didn’t see it coming and boy did it frighten me. I was in midrange, 2500 rpms, two-wheel drive. Just driving down the fairly steep hill, I think it’s 10% grade or so...

I’ll add it was the first time for ME pulling them out this winter, but not the first for them! The tow hook in the front bumper was broken off. The hole where it threads in was plugged with the broken off threaded bit of the hook.

Today (just now) I pulled an Amazon van out of the ditch. First, for this season 😂

Yes I understand that now. I wish I had read that post before trailering. What I did was, albeit inadvertent, extremely dangerous. Only luck saved me from hurting someone. I shared the post in hopes of helping other novices like myself.

Nope. I had no idea it happened until I was unstrapping it. But boy did I feel foolish. As to why I didn’t put the grapple “horns” (good word) under the rail, well, I didn’t think of that is the honest answer. I hadn’t used this trailer before and wasn’t sure about the balance, so I went a...

The other day I trailered my tractor to my friend’s house five miles away. I used three straps, one over through the clevis on the drawbar, one in the middle over the backhoe frame, and one over the frame at the front where the brush guard mounts. I will NEVER do that again. Around a turn...

I gotcha. Thank you!

Ah hah, hopefully this makes my question more clear. How to you prevent kickback on this cut, as it seems you’re using the top tip of the bar.

I’m four levels GOL certified :-)

Oh no not the bore, that I have down pat. After you bore through the center of the hinge and put your wedge in, the half back cut on the right side of the tree (looking “downrange”) it seems you make with the top of the tip, which i’m wary to do for kickback fear. (I hope that description...

I’m just over the boarder in NY. I waited hours for it to warm up, but never broke 12.9F at my house. And windy as hell too. That was a cold plow. Plus I ran out of firewood inside so I had to bring some on the porch. At least that had a wind block. I didn’t want to open the door haha.

I want to try this, but the way you make cut four makes me a little nervous in terms of kickback. But you make it look easy!

This is really helpful. Thank you! As a novice, it’s also just interesting to watch someone else work. One thing I noticed is it seems the hinge breaks sorta early (meaning while the tree is still on its way down rather than right before it hits the ground). Do you think that is because the...

A friend of mine added some acres to his place which contained a small red pine plantation. I guess in the 60s or something there was a blight on spruce (I think it was spruce) in my area, so boy scouts and 4H and the like were planting red pines. Anyway my friend wants them gone. They are...