Hello! This is my little lobster. L1501

[Frawlz]

Gidday, thought I should actually post something instead of just lurking about and pillaging information from your boards...

I bought this little L1501 in 2009 when my wife and I moved on to 7 acres. It's been wildly abused and used and abused some more. In hindsight, I probably would have gone with a bigger tractor so I could bale hay and use a large slasher but this little thing gets into all manner of places and is really really handy.

I will quit yapping so much and show you some pics of it and what we do with it and how we've borked it now and then.



Originally I bought it as a sota reconditioned thing with "0" hours. It's now only done around 200 but they've been pretty hard ones. It cost me $11000 beer coupons and I bought a heavy duty 4 foot slasher at the same time.



We bought a few implements off some idiot on facebook who didn't know what they were worth... $50.00 each for a rotary hoe, mould board and s-tyne plough.




With those we work an acre of dirt for our pantry and a roadside stall out the front.





It keeps us fed and puts some beer money in a jar but won't make me rich.

 

[Frawlz]

I've added a canopy to it because its so damned hot through the day.





And the last big sort of work I did to it was not intentional. I was trying to use the little bucket to dig some packed ground near our septic. Apparently I put a little too much weight through the mounts and broke it.



The lower front mount for these aftermarket 4in1's attaches to the weights bar at the front which in turn attaches to the block with a few of these little 3/8ths studs. I'm guessing you should try and put the tractors entire weight through them.... I spose the buckets are meant to be used to shift a little dirt and and mostly like a wheelbarrow...



Anyway, it made a right bloody mess. Dropped the front axle and let the fan fall forward through the radiator...



I took the tractor into town in my little 8x5 trailer (don't you just love that about them.) and had my local grown up tractor dealer drill out the studs and replace them. Them even upsized the studs to 1/2 in and put an extra one in to give it more strength.



Todays job, was to pull a couple of leaking welsch plugs so I can get some more in town through the week. Was a bit of a pain cause they were in behind the starter motor.



So, that's my little tractor.

I like it. It's brilliantly hand for all manner of stuff on our little block. In hindsight a bigger one would let me do a few more things but in turn would limit some of the things I can do. Only solution is to get a bigger one as well because... Whoever dies with the most toys wins!

This last pic is one of my favourite things to do with the little tractor.



A mate and I get onto some deer now and then so I welded up a little jig for the front to lift things; takes all the back work out of dressing them. Also handy for sheep but I think a beast might get the back wheels off the ground.

So, Gidday! from Frawlz and his little lobster looking tractor.

 

[Tomcat]

Great pictorial! Welcome to OTT.

 

[skeets]

Gidday Mate and welcome to the orange. Using the bucket as a meat pole is something a lot of us have/do use it for. You have a nice little spread there a little slice of heaven, good on ya!
Seeing you gathering stuff from the garden makes me think with the freezing weather and snow I aint never gona get nuttin planted,,lol

As for that little beast well you should know, tractors are like motorcycles, no matter what you have you always think about a bigger and faster one

 

[Tooljunkie]

Nice little machine. I never thought such a small machine would be so handy. I wouldnt be without it now.

Thanks for sharing.

There is such a thing as a lobster.made by cushman. I have 2.

 

[85Hokie]

Fantastic looking group - awesome family and the tractor aint bad either!!!

The picture of the pumpkin and the son is priceless! That pumpkin weighs more than he does!!!!

p.s. - please send us some of that thing we call "sunshine"!!!!

 

[sheepfarmer]

Enjoyed the photos of your farm! I have a bunch of relatives scattered around Queensland. One set had a nice little farm near Allora and I went to visit. Thought I'd like it there. Water was in short supply sometimes, but loved the gum trees and the rolling grasslands. We have a lot of water in Michigan, but sunshine is rationed... keep posting the news from your neck of the woods!

 

[Lil Foot]

Welcome aboard, and thanks for the pictorial tour! $50 each for implements? If I was that lucky, I'd be out looking for gold!

 

[CaveCreekRay]

Awesome photos!!!

WELCOME from "Up Above!"

Glad to see your little tractor being used for what it was meant for -as well as being taken care of -like they all should be. Enjoy it while you can because in just a very short time, that little ball of energy in the bucket full of "punkins" will learn how it works and it will become "his." Don't ask me how I know that. Of course, that will free you up to let him do more of the work on his own and he will develop a deep and abiding love for the land and nature's bounty. Who knows, in 20 years, he may be restoring that little machine.

Keep the great pictures coming!!!