Rain gear for the tractor

[Lowlysubaruguy]

I bought the canopy off Craigslist. Some assembly required. If you look close at the lower support brackets for those aluminum tubes. Im struggling with using a couple hose clamps or drilling and taping the loaders tube and putting a bolt in them. It will only need one bolt. I curled that piece of aluminum to fit that tube snug. Reality it may never need either but sometimes I get a little aggressive and have been known to be bouncing around more than I should. I had all the materials and fasteners laying around. I think the hardest part was I had to re locate the joystick valving about 3/4” and had to re drill the holes for its support brackets.

Heres my three point PTO driven cement mixer relocated to the loader and powered via my third function via a hydraulic motor. I already y feel tired just thinking about concrete.

 

[GeoHorn]

Do you actually mix that much cement..? and for what purposes..? Thx.

 

[Lowlysubaruguy]

Do you actually mix that much cement..? and for what purposes..? Thx.

Unfortunately that was a yes and is about to be a yes again. I have 1600 feet of fencing going in with no less than three wide gates each with a personnel gate with a post every 75 to 100 feet and then gate supports and its piece meal meaning I will do a few posts at a time. Bringing a concrete truck in isnt cost effective.

I bought that mixer a long time ago for a series of small concrete jobs. Ive rented the large gas mixers on towable trailers and the small mixers, the large towables mix large loads but the effort is still horrible. The small mixers I always felt like driving over them with the tractor.

This mixer was hopefully going to make some of it better. But the origonal design worked from the three point hitch which was great in theory but horrible in function. The three point lifts only so high, then you have to uncouple the top link even with hydraulic cylinder it will only tilt enough to dump 50% of the drum then the PTO shaft pops out. We had to scrape the concrete out with a shovel to get it all out. We mixed a couple loads and rinsed it off and piled it in the farthest corner from anything and I abandoned it. To state it was worse than mixing by hand is about right.

But the upcoming project spurred me to try and make it functional. It was not a cheap mixer so i was buried in it financially. I think it’s going to be worthwhile now. I can control RPMS, make a complete dump from a tractor seat and really where it will be the most labor saving will be driving the tractor over to the pile of concrete bags put that drum in position to where all we have to do is slide a bag into it cut it open then drive it to the spot I plan to dump the mixed concrete and the loaders reach is a good 5 to 6 feet or more in front of the front tires cutting down on wheel barrow work.