Some days, it just ain't worth chewing through the straps.
Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2024 4:15 pm
I (stupidly) agreed to put a transmission drive belt on a JD175 lawn tractor, not realizing that you have to take half the damn tractor apart to do it.
Spent part of three days fighting that miserable sonofabitch and finally told the guy I'd give him his money back, I was done fucking with it. He was contemplating "retiring" it anyway as he has a newer/bigger JD.
Then I asked Dale-the-builder if I could borrow his John Deere 3046R with the backhoe on it to do a little work around the ranch.
"Sure," he sez, "but the backhoe is at camp, the tractor is at the mill with the bush hog on it and I think it might have gotten water in the fuel as the cap was off."
So the deal was check the fuel for water, drain and replace filters as needed, load the tractor and bush hog on the trailer, run it up to his place, take the bush hog off, trailer the tractor to his camp, put the backhoe on, and then deliver the tractor and hoe to his place for the Winter.
Sure, I can do that. Check the fuel, no evidence of water, opened the drain on the bottom of the filter housing and got straight fuel. Starts and runs fine.
However a 3046 is a big tractor and the tractor and bush hog won't fit on my trailer. Take the bush hog off at the mill, load the tractor, drive to camp and look at mounting the backhoe. Mounts via a subframe. Whoever took it off didn't block it up so it's sitting flat on the ground, a foot or more lower than the mounts.
Long story short, it took 3 of us over an hour to wrassle that thing around and get it pinned to the tractor.
All that so I could get rid of two Blue Spruce trees I planted. "Blue Spruce" sounds pretty, but they, or at least the ones I planted, are the ugliest trees on the place. Dug halfway around the stump and pushed it over like it was a toothpick. I'll buzz it into sections and haul it off with the forks and thumb on the Kubota. I'll knock the other one over tomorrow, my ass is dragging for today.
Spent part of three days fighting that miserable sonofabitch and finally told the guy I'd give him his money back, I was done fucking with it. He was contemplating "retiring" it anyway as he has a newer/bigger JD.
Then I asked Dale-the-builder if I could borrow his John Deere 3046R with the backhoe on it to do a little work around the ranch.
"Sure," he sez, "but the backhoe is at camp, the tractor is at the mill with the bush hog on it and I think it might have gotten water in the fuel as the cap was off."
So the deal was check the fuel for water, drain and replace filters as needed, load the tractor and bush hog on the trailer, run it up to his place, take the bush hog off, trailer the tractor to his camp, put the backhoe on, and then deliver the tractor and hoe to his place for the Winter.
Sure, I can do that. Check the fuel, no evidence of water, opened the drain on the bottom of the filter housing and got straight fuel. Starts and runs fine.
However a 3046 is a big tractor and the tractor and bush hog won't fit on my trailer. Take the bush hog off at the mill, load the tractor, drive to camp and look at mounting the backhoe. Mounts via a subframe. Whoever took it off didn't block it up so it's sitting flat on the ground, a foot or more lower than the mounts.
Long story short, it took 3 of us over an hour to wrassle that thing around and get it pinned to the tractor.
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