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Post by Freeborn on Jun 17, 2017 14:05:57 GMT -6
Thanks Foggy, I get the message on front end weight. I used my pallet forks to pick up the trunk of a tree and got introduced to a light rear-end quickly. That awkward feeling gets your attention quickly. These tractors can pick up allot more weight than you realize.
Grapple is on list.
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Post by Foggy on Jun 17, 2017 16:11:45 GMT -6
Check out the Titan Grapple. Pretty good prices and they are fine for uses like ours.
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Post by biglakebass on Jun 17, 2017 16:19:53 GMT -6
Yea jerry. The locals use the guys in Urbank. Cant say i have heard anything bad.
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Post by Foggy on Jun 17, 2017 16:50:16 GMT -6
Dang it Freeborn! Now you got me looking at 'chinery.......and I ended up buying an attachment from Titan. They make a "plate" that attaches in place of my loader bucket......and allows me to put on my landscape rake IN FRONT OF THE TRACTOR. Thus I can clean up wood chips and debris from my recent logging job....without looking back over my shoulder. I hope it works as well as I think it will. I plan to put all that slash into piles and either burn it or let it decompose in piles. This should allow me to more quickly compost the remains. I can also use this same plate to make a shrub bucket at a later time.....and it likely will work pretty good to "blade" snow with my landscape rake. If it does these things......I'd say it will be a good investment. Another $260 blown away.
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Post by kabic on Jun 17, 2017 17:58:50 GMT -6
Hope your implement from Titan is better than some of the stories I read. One guy had to do some welding on a ballast box he got from them...uneven pins I think it was.
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Post by Foggy on Jun 18, 2017 6:59:32 GMT -6
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Post by Freeborn on Jun 18, 2017 7:13:47 GMT -6
I like it. I could see using that to get rid of gofer mounds. I have declared war on the gophers on my place. I purchased a 5 lbs container of stricnine poison and every time I go to my place I am trying to reduce there numbers. looks like a handy tool. Are you planning on building a bunch of piles and then burning like leaves.
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Post by Foggy on Jun 18, 2017 8:36:29 GMT -6
I like it. I could see using that to get rid of gofer mounds. I have declared war on the gophers on my place. I purchased a 5 lbs container of stricnine poison and every time I go to my place I am trying to reduce there numbers. looks like a handy tool. Are you planning on building a bunch of piles and then burning like leaves. Yep.....I think that is the plan at this point. I also may use some of the mulch for my swamp crossing plan. I believe that if I can get about 2/3 of this woody pine mulch off the land......that perhaps I can grow some rye or buckwheat. That would aid in further decay of the remaining wood chips. As it stands now.....this land will take ten years to decay to dirt. (I"m getting old....and don't have that kinda time - grin). It's worth the price if it allows easier clean-up. I have the rake....but its hard to operate on the back of my tractor and I'm always driving thru the woody trash....which is hard on my wiring and such under the tractor. (I've knocked the wires off a few times now.) Operating in brush and timber is really hard on stuff. My plan is to "doze" it into big piles......and then to pick it up with my grapple and move to the swamp crossing......or lacking that idea.....I will burn it where it stands - or both.
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Post by Foggy on Jun 18, 2017 10:37:31 GMT -6
I like it. I could see using that to get rid of gofer mounds. I have declared war on the gophers on my place. I purchased a 5 lbs container of stricnine poison and every time I go to my place I am trying to reduce there numbers. looks like a handy tool. Are you planning on building a bunch of piles and then burning like leaves. Did you buy one of those probe / applicators? I do see that some of the local SWCD offices (and such) have those three point gopher poison machines that distribute the poison in a tunnel made by the attachment. I guess they work pretty well. I'd bet some of the rental outfits have those too (?). Maybe a feed store also? I think they call 'em "gopher getter". I've also seen those on crags list a time or two.....but how much 'chinery can a guy own? grin.
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Post by wklman on Jun 18, 2017 11:45:01 GMT -6
this is gonna sound funny but one of the things I'm going to do once I retire is go around to local farms and trap gophers. I love setting the traps in the morning then going back in the afternoon and checking them.
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Post by Freeborn on Jun 18, 2017 13:01:30 GMT -6
I like it. I could see using that to get rid of gofer mounds. I have declared war on the gophers on my place. I purchased a 5 lbs container of stricnine poison and every time I go to my place I am trying to reduce there numbers. looks like a handy tool. Are you planning on building a bunch of piles and then burning like leaves. Did you buy one of those probe / applicators? I do see that some of the local SWCD offices (and such) have those three point gopher poison machines that distribute the poison in a tunnel made by the attachment. I guess they work pretty well. I'd bet some of the rental outfits have those too (?). Maybe a feed store also? I think they call 'em "gopher getter". I've also seen those on crags list a time or two.....but how much 'chinery can a guy own? grin. Yep, I purchased one of the applicators that you insert into the ground and turn the crank to release the pellets.
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