My Tractor arrives next week!

[Deberosa]

After 3 years of making do, and losing ground just trying to keep up with the land I've cleared so far plus working full time, I took the leap in getting a tractor!

I have 4.5 acres - over 2 is in pasture that is full of dips and ruts. One acre in brush and one in heavy forest. I want to clear the brushy acre - leave the forest acre and make growing beds out of most of the pasture.

I got a 28 HP Mahindra with HST. I got the skid steer loader, 50 inch rototiller, 4 ft brush hog, and a 6 tooth ripper for loosening the soil down deep and pulling up alder stumps where I cut the tree off in past years, as well as rooting up the occasional rock before rototilling. The hooks on the ripper are adjustible on the bar.

It arrives next Friday - so blackberries and scotchbroom look out, I am taking the whole day off work!

Oh, I got two hooks welded on the bucket for attaching chains so I can lift and pull with a chain and a bar that goes on the three point hitch that I can attach a towing ball hitch to for towing trailers and such.

My neighbor has a Kubota with different attachments so we are going to put a gate between our properties and trade attachments as we need to.

One step closer to a market farm!

[bookwormom]

I have never heard of a 6 tooth ripper. Is that it's real name? it sounds handy. could it be dragged over an existing pasture to facilitate over seeding?

[DM]

Mahindra seems to be selling pretty good tractors. There smaller models are really build by TYM in Korea. TYM is now adding more and more dealers here in the USA to sell tractors under there own name.

I'm happy for you to be on your way to liveing your dream!! Good luck with your new tractor!

DM

[bee_pipes]

Keep an eye out for a used post-hole digger. Buddy of mine has one on hist tractor. Let us borrow it for a day. We did more work with that thing in an hour than we could have done in a month by hand. Those holes made the fence around the garden and post holes for two buildings.

Regards,
Pat

[Smoky]

And it's red! ;D Congrats. I know you're not reading this, you're out riding around....

[DM]

One of my friends is a TYM dealer, i believe i've used that same model you have, at his place... It's a nice little tractor...

DM

[nancy1340]

Don't you love new toys? Especially when you can justify them.

Sounds like your having fun. :)

[bookwormom]

very nice, I am happy for you :) :) :)

[DavidOH]

Didn't htink she'd be posting here again. ;)
Got a new toy to play with.
Congratulations on getting the work done. That makes life easier with the right tools.

"My neighbor has a Kubota with different attachments so we are going to put a gate between our properties and trade attachments as we need to. "

Ain't that a Great neighbor! :D

[Eastex]

Nice tractor, Deberosa! Getting 4WD was a smart move!

[bee_pipes]

No help on a tractor tool kit. Grease gun and torque wrench are easy to come by. Don't know what else you'd need - good thing you have a neighbor with a tractor. How in the devil to you fill fluid tires? Special gear? I've heard of that - bobcats and other small pieces of heavy equipment have fluid tires.

We have too many hills and slopes here for a tractor - I'd tip it over in a heart beat. We compromised and got a bull atv instead. It does a dandy job skidding logs out of gullies. Not as much pulling power as a tractor, but it gets in and out of places a tractor couldn't go. What part of the country do you live in?

Congrats on the new toy/tool!

Regards,
Pat

[Eastex]

I'm actually moving in the opposite direction. Talked to a guy today about buying a Farmall 140. They're real popular here with truck farmers doing melons and peas. Finding the tools will be hard and expensive.

The only tools I keep on my tractor is a hammer, pair of lineman pliers, couple of crescent wrenches and extra top link pins, lift pins and keeper pins. Anything else falls off and gets lost!

[bee_pipes]

...only 27 hours on the tractor so far with all this RAIN!

...Olympic Peninsula...


Ah, explains the rain.

I took a business trip to Whidby Island/Oak Harbor, many moons ago. Had heard the name Puget Sound, but had no idea where it was before that trip - that's how grossly ignorant of geography I am. Also had no idea of the country on the other side, either. Washington seems to be full of surprises.

Regards,
Pat

[DM]

Turns out my tires are not filled with fluid, but I could get them done. Some of the fluid is a bit toxic though so I am going to wait and see.

There are two basic ways to weight the axles of your tractor... Steel weights or water in the tires.

For bigger tractors with radial tires doing tillage, steel is better as it allows the tires to flex and grip better.

On small tractors especially with a loader, water is a cheap solution. One problem water has is it freezes, so salt is added to keep that from happening.

Salt is added in different quanties and makes the water much "heavier" even though the volume doesn't go up. Adding enough salt to raise the water weight from 8-3/4 pounds per gallon to 10-1/2 pounds per gallon is most common around here.

Yes, if the tube leaks your going to have a rusted rim, but that's all that will happen. Keep the tubes leak free and the salt is no problem at all.

You can now get other products that's called many different names to put in tires, and a popular one is "beet juice". It doesn't freeze because of the sugar content and if the tube leaks, nothing will rust. It's also not as heavy as salt water and cost quite a bit more...

I have salt water in mine, and should i get a leak, i'll take care of it RIGHT THEN, so it's not a problem for me... Also if you have a leak, make sure the rim gets washed with spoap and water BEFORE the tire and tube is put back on it.

Adding weight to the rear of a loader tractor is "important" because it transfers the bucket weight to the rear end of the tractor to distribute traction ect.. The rear end of a tractor is much stronger than the front end (gears ect..) and the front end will last a lot longer with rear weight!

Driveing around with all the traction going to the front wheels is a good way to trash the front end of a MFWD tractor.

I have over 700 pounds of salt water in each back tire of my loader tractor, and with only 2,400 pounds on the pallet forks it STILL looks "lite" in the rear end!

http://www.fototime.com/9667632285BEA95/standard.jpg

I pick up a lot more than that with it quite often!

I hope this info helps you a bit...,

DM

[bee_pipes]

... Adding weight to the rear of a loader tractor is "important" because it transfers the bucket weight to the rear end of the tractor to distribute traction ect.. The rear end of a tractor is much stronger than the front end (gears ect..) and the front end will last a lot longer with rear weight!


Sounds like yer gonna have to get a backhoe Deborosa - darn the luck!

Regards,
Pat

[DM]

Hi Deberosa,

It's called a "grabble", and it's VERY handy.... In this pict. i drove the forks right into the ground, "grabbled" this boulder and pulled it right out!!

http://www.fototime.com/4F8A3D69E04EB4C/standard.jpg

This boulder here was in the 3,000 + pound area, as it was aproaching a "full load" for my loader...

http://www.fototime.com/BCA84A7624380B1/standard.jpg

I find it VERY handy here on my place... The problems with a grabble are, you have to get "hydraulics" to it. That means running hoses to your remotes, or adding a fairly expensive remote out on your loader arms... Then the grabble inself is quite expensive too. Also keep in mind, everything you add out on your loader arms takes away from what the loader will lift on the forks!

Adding weight to the 3 point WILL help balance the tractor, BUT Adding too much weight there can be hard on the 3 point hydraulics inside the tractor.... "Everything" is a trade off!!!

Think very VERY HARD about putting fluid in those rear tires! Like i said before, it's NEEDED to make your front end last longer, NOT just to keep you from getting stuck! It will make those industrial tires you have work much better too!

BTW, That grabble is pretty handy around the sawmill too... :D

http://www.fototime.com/EA9C1C52F3B03F1/standard.jpg

DM

[hunter63]

Congrats, I think you will really like it.
I bought a 3015 hsd 4 X4 at the end of 2005, with loader, brush hog and back blade. Also picked up a post hole digger w/ two augers at a yard sale last fall.
Looking at the tiller next.

Never realized how much I need it till I got it.
Have fun!

[MinotBob]

Where is the Mahrinda made?

[DM]

Where is the Mahrinda made?

Some of the smaller Mahindra's are rebadged TYM's... TYM is Korean..

DM