Recent content by JimR

I just watched a ton of videos on You Tube of guys doing this. What a riot it is watching others. Off roaders were using that technique to re-seat and inflate tires without removing them from the vehicle..

Today I learned a new way to seat tires that will not seat on the rims. I will not take resposibility should you try this and injure or kill yourself. I had two brand new Carlisle R4's mounted on my Cub Cadet wheels today. The company could not get the tires to seat on the rims. The...

Loading tires will not split anything. The weight is on the ground, not on the tractor. I've doe some serious hauling with my 7275 Cub Cadet and have yet to have any problems with it breaking in half. That includes driivng on the two front wheels with the ass end just about floating off the...

Communist at work here in America.

My Warn trailer hitch mounted winch worked great today for pulling broken tree tops out of the wet area that I wanted to clean up. Last December we got hit by a severe ice storm that caused a lot of damage to most of the trees on our property. We are still cleaning up from that mess.

Thanks Doc. I got to use the hitch today with my wood chipper. I can actually make a turn wider than 90 degrees now to get my tractor out of the way of the chipper shoot. I also found that you no longer have to lift or lower your jack if using this setup. I can back right under the trailer...

I can relate to that happening. I've had my rear tires try to cimb over the trailer frame on my wood chipper a few times now when making sharp turns. This will cure that problem.

Thanks, The main reason that I made this is so that I can use my wood chipper without having to take it off the tractor. Using the tractor's trailer hitch under the rear end limited my turning radius. I couldn't get my tractor out of the way of the chute on the chipper. This was a real PITA...

Thanks, I should have turned it around for the picture. The front is on the other side with the chain eye hooks and reinforced tubing for the hitch. It is still wet and hard to handle. I painted the bottom side first and let it dry before doing the rest of it on the floor on top of old...

Very interesting item you found there. I'd like to try them on my turf tires but I'm afraid that I would get stuck up in the woods without my tire chains in the winter. Maybe someday I'll buy another set of spare tires and wheels for the rear end of my tractor for the winter months.

Here's a picture of my new homemade trailer hitch setup.

The other day I started building a 3 PT trailer hitch for hauling my wood chipper and trailers around the property. So far the cost is just over $50.00 for all the materials that I needed to build it. The two main beams are 2" x 3" steel. The top anchor points and lower brackets are 1/4 steel...

I've done a bit of ripping, digging and abusing this tooth bar. Because the teeth are so long they do tend to bend a bit when over working them. I've broken most of the teeth off at least once since building the bar in 2006. I just grind the angles back in at the break and weld them back on...

Make up a bar like this and you can install 1" square stock on them to use it for moving brush and such. This one didn't cost me too much to make. I also welded a 3/8's nut to the side for a locking bolt to hold the square tubing on. This setup also works great with a skid on it for a work...

The cab was on the tractor when I bought it used 5 - 6 years ago. It is a Sim's cab. They are located in Canada now. The sides and back have curtains. The left side has a door frame with curtain. It does have a working heater in it. The wiper motor doesn't work.