What jobs do you do with the RTV?

XTROOPER

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I do not own a tractor, so I probably use my RTV 1100 to do stuff that I would normally use a tractor for. Most of it is not out of the ordinary. This is what I have done with the RTV, so far!

1. Hauling firewood-I am amazed at how much firewood I can haul with my trailer and in my bed. A few times things were a little hairy getting out of the woods getting up a steep grade, but she always comes through.

2. York raking stone.

3. Hauling stone.

4. Snow plowing a long rough shale driveway with Blizzard plow.

5. Straightening out a metal pole we had a bird feeder on. A black bear bent it down even with the ground. I could not budge it by hand, the RTV pulled it back ,almost straight.

6. Moving brush from topped trees to make brush piles for the cottontail bunnies.

7. Prisoner transport -During the spring two years ago, I was driving through my in-laws hay fields with the intention of making some bunny piles. As I came over a hill, I saw a young man (21 yoa) in the middle of the field using a pick ax and shovel. I drove up to the lad in my RTV 1100 and asked him what he was doing. He replied "nothing." I talked to the lad a while more when he finally admitted he was planting marijuana (in my 83 year old mother-in-law's fields). I suggested (strongly) he have a seat in the RTV. After some hesitation, I prompted him to have a seat. We drove to the main road, I contacted my in-laws and told them since it was their land, I wanted them to let me know what they wanted done with the lad. I was angry with the kid and upset that he would put my elderly in-laws 80 acre old farmstead at risk for being seized. My mo-in-law said she wanted the State Police called. I am a retired trooper from New England, now living in Pennsylvania. I really thought I was all done with this nonsense. The P.S.P. sent two Troopers out and cited the kid into court. The kid was on probation for another offense and went to jail for approximately one year for the probation violation and the marijuana cultivation.

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For work I generally use it for just snow plowing, I've been known to utilize it as a wheel barrow and on a couple occasions it has been used with a brush grubber to pull out trees and roots. It's the prettiest little wheelbarrow I've ever used though.:yum:
 
RTV Pays it's Way

I use mine for everything here on the farm. I don't hunt but I do everything else with it.
1. using it to pull the rotowiper (to kill smut grass and other weeds)
2. Put up new fence and repair old fence ( I have a wire spinner on it)
3. Check cows
4. spray pasture and fence lines.
5. Check for newborn calves.
6. haul firewood
7. haul me
8. pull fallen trees out of the way
9. pull back rubbers and mineral troughs- carry replacement minerals
10.I use the front hitch to easily park the hard to back up 4 wheeled farm trailers
11.A collie resting-napping place while I do some work close by.
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My Job

Hello All. Hope I do this right its my first post. I'm Mike and I use my custom 1100 for Ground Penetrating Radar. I find stuff burried under ground. I've been following some of you guys posts for a long time and I thought this might be a good spot to jump in.
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Now that's cool! Welcome to the board Mike!

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Hello All. Hope I do this right its my first post. I'm Mike and I use my custom 1100 for Ground Penetrating Radar. I find stuff burried under ground. I've been following some of you guys posts for a long time and I thought this might be a good spot to jump in.
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laser11,

Dude!!! I think you get the award for the most unusual RTV accessory!!!! I can't even come close!!

Mine would be "frosty beverage transport vehicle".........non-alcoholic only in the circles I run (usually following my Sunday School kids).


Doc
 
Wood hauler,fence fixer, run to the neghibors to fix their stuff tool hauler, run back to that brush pile fire you made while you were cutting wood and now you can have a beer mobile. :doggy:
 
Thanks guys I'll post some other pics this weekend. Its also an extended cab with buckets. It is a Ford emblem on front. I was doing a lot of work for Ford when I put this guy to work and they gave me a lot of crap about its Japanese heritage. So the next day I came to work with the blue oval and a little sticker I made " Made in Japan, Modified in USA". That made em all happy and the Blue oval just kind fits. Cant tell you how many people say they didnt know Ford built such a thing...

Thanks for the welcome
 
Hey Mike, Glad Your Here !!!

Great rigging you have there. What I could do around these civil war fields we have here.
Bet we could find all kinds of goodies....

All we have is military metallic / non-metallic mine sweepers. We do alright. But nothing like
this thing we see hanging in front of the RTV >>>>

Very Nice Machine You Have There, and Really Like Your Toolbox !!!!

>>>>>> two guns
 
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