Biggest job you have done with your tractor

Big tooth

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B 9200 DT
Jul 17, 2023
14
14
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Grand Marsh, Wi
We had a pile of sand that needed to be moved after our pond was put in. Wanted to do this for years, but didn't have the equipment. The old B9200 really stepped up.
I can't tell you how much I love and am impressed with this tractor.
I don't know how many tons of material it moved.
 

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Lil Foot

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1979 B7100DT Gear, Nissan Hanix N150-2 Excavator
May 19, 2011
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Peoria, AZ
My driveway project:
 
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The Evil Twin

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L2501, LA526,
Jul 19, 2022
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Virginia
Cutting in the loop for the driveway. Still haven't top coated it. That will be soon now that it is hot as Satan's ass. My understanding is that reclaimed asphalt likes hot.
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NCL4701

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L4701, T2290, WC68, grapple, BB1572, Farmi W50R, Howes 500, 16kW IMD gen, WG24
Apr 27, 2020
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4,301
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Central Piedmont, NC
Lots of competition for that one. Probably fixing the washed out, W shaped private road which included reshaping the road, ditches, and turnouts plus about 180 ton of rock. Then there was the removal and replacement of the retaining wall. And pulling a good sized pine tree out of the pond. Many hours of chipping the several out of control brush piles is up there as well. Couldn’t have done any of those with the antique gassers the L replaced. Might could have done the chipping with the Farmall H but not sure how many times it would have broken down putting that kind of hours on end load on it.
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fried1765

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Kubota L48 TLB, Ford 1920 FEL, Ford 8N, SCAG Liberty Z, Gravely Pro.
Nov 14, 2019
7,847
5,072
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Eastham, Ma
Lots of competition for that one. Probably fixing the washed out, W shaped private road which included reshaping the road, ditches, and turnouts plus about 180 ton of rock. Then there was the removal and replacement of the retaining wall. And pulling a good sized pine tree out of the pond. Many hours of chipping the several out of control brush piles is up there as well. Couldn’t have done any of those with the antique gassers the L replaced. Might could have done the chipping with the Farmall H but not sure how many times it would have broken down putting that kind of hours on end load on it. View attachment 107569 View attachment 107570 View attachment 107571 View attachment 107572 View attachment 107573
Love the crown on that driveway!
Excellent ditches too.
The three most important considerations for building driveways/roadways are,...... Ditches, Ditches, and Ditches!
 
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dirtydeed

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B2650 BH77, U27-4R2, BX23TLBM, box blade, rear blade, flail mower, Stump Grinder
Dec 8, 2017
3,042
3,722
113
Wind Gap, PA
here's one with the old BX23... not the biggest job it ever did, but one of the most "fun" for me...

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ok, ok... here's my little "helper". 😆

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jimh406

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Kubota L2501 with R4 tires
Jan 29, 2021
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Western MT
Biggest is probably maintaining my driveway and also the neighborhood unmaintained road. It's feet wide by over a mile. ;). It takes four passes ... two each direction, minimum.

Other projects, digging out the base for our chicken and duck coops out of the hillside. 14 ft x 40 ft and 10 ft x 24 ft then filling them in with yds of gravel and then yds of arena sand.

Cutting a firewood processing/drop off area and then moving that dirt to the area behind my upper shed to make the level parking area larger for my trailers.

Not all but a few of the projects.
 
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S-G-R

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LX3310
Jun 17, 2020
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PEI Canada
Cleaning up my property line. Lots of stumps, roots and rocks. Lots of bucket, grapple and drawbar work.

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L35

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L35/TL720/BT900/York rake/Valby chipper
Jun 13, 2010
520
423
63
CT
Most recent was my garage build. While/after building my house years of overall property improvement pulling stumps and rocks, moving material tops it but has been very sporadic.
 

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NorthwoodsLife

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Kubota B7100(sold), Kubota LX2610 Cab
Oct 15, 2021
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1,010
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Wisconsin
Dug a swimming pool, 35' Long x 15' Wide x 9' Deep at the deep end and 3' deep ar the shallow end. In 1977, with a Kubota B7100 with loader and Gannon scraper. No Backhoe.

I do love my LX2610 but it's a bit more fancy pants compared to a 1970's B7100. That B7100 was a construction grade animal.
 

ferguson

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L3130
Jan 19, 2022
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Dug up probaly close to 150 sq ft of 10 plus year old BAMBO. Used a bolt on tooth bar on my L3130. 5 plus HR Roots were like CONCRETE
 

chim

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L4240HSTC with FEL, Ford 1210
Jan 19, 2013
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Near Lancaster, PA, USA
The most material moved would be when we buried a 1,000 gallon LPG tank before the current L4240 was here. Back in the early 90's I built a sand volleyball court. It didn't get much use, so about a dozen years ago we got a twofer. The house has a bank running around the North and West sides. The West side was very steep and not that far from the house. Made sense to place the tank at the base of the bank and fill in/over/around it. Most of the fill came from our underutilized volleyball court. This project was done as we were going from the B7500 to the L3200, so the work was split between them. Now the whole West side can be mowed.

The volleyball court consisted of 70-some tons each of stone base and sand with landscape fabric to keep them separate. First, some of the sand was placed to make a nice base. Then the tank was set and the rest of the sand and stone were placed. Next, a friend brought 4 loads of fill material and then the whole thing was covered with topsoil shaved off the front yard. Near the creek we can mine topsoil, so the area where the volleyball court was removed got skimmed from around a foot or so at the lower end to nothing at the end towards the house. The last work was getting the old volleyball court smoothed out and seeding all the disturbed areas.

The largest work area was turning the adjacent lot into yard. That work was mostly smoothing things out and didn't require much material relocation. There were two empty lots between our place and the BIL's. We each bought one to keep the spaces open. Farm fields on the sides (flood plain) and rear (land locked) of our properties would be nearly impossible to develop.

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JeremyBX2200

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BX2200
Aug 3, 2020
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436
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Indiana
No huge projects yet, but moved a bit of material. I have a pretty long drive to put in here soon, so that will be a good size job.

Setting up my garden to start. Moved 20 tons of top soil 3 years ago.
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Expanded the driveway to make it easier to park and pull the camper in. Took off the sod and spread 20 tons of gravel.
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Added another 20 tons of topsoil and 3-4 tons of compost to the garden this year. Spread and tilled in.
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My property was really neglected when I moved in, so lots of brush clearing, digging stumps, tree trimming, etc etc. My BX was one of the best purchases I have made. I am pretty amazed at the jobs it allows me to complete in a good amount of time and without killing my back.
 
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ItBmine

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B2620, RTV-X1100C
Jan 21, 2014
1,385
387
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Canada
Besides all the mowing, snow removal, firewood and chipping, I have moved 330 tonnes of gravel and built one mile of bush road with my B2620. And backfilled the new septic.