Any Heavy Equipment guys here?

I'd like to get something like this, but the price is a bit prohibitive for me...

 

Nice machine. Clean and not that many hours.

So I guess you didn't need your tractor for normal tractor tasks? Like bushhogging,disking, or grass mowing?

 

OH! 4-1 and Ext.-a-Hoe! Saaaaweet!

 

Thanks. Well, I did. But I wanted to free up some money. So I sold what I had, paid the tractor off, and used the extra money to pay on a different bill.

I also wanted something bigger for less money. To do some heavier duty work. And I figured as long as I get things finished off well enough by back dragging with bucket and cleaning up good, I can then mow with the zero turn and just put the deck all the way up for now. I really have enough grass to mow now. Plenty of area in the finished off phase. The rest we can leave the grass a little longer. I will miss being able to use the York rake I still have. Maybe I can figure out how to attach it to quick attach front end on this machine after taking bucket off.? Maybe go real slow and be able to do it that way.?

 

I've only bought the 14 volt guns since I've been there. They were using air grease guns before and blowing out reel and roller seals with them. Grease everywhere in the grass and my director couldn't stand it. Dude doesn't miss anything either. I couldn't tell you how many times I've gotten a pic of a small smear of grease on some grass that was 100 yards from a green out in the rough that no one ever hits to. These pics usually come in after 8:00 at night when he's out hot lapping the courses and he needs to know immediately what went wrong.

Any whoooo... I run around 100 tubes of grease a year through my guns in the home shop and can't say enough good things about the Milwaukee. I actually don't even mind greasing anymore.

 

We had 18v lincolns. They didn't hold up for us and didn't pump some of the greases we use, SHC 1000 SPECIAL in particularly. Stuff only comes in bulk to the tune of about $14k per 1600lb tote...

Switched to milwaukee and they last us about 2-3 years, usually being warrenty once and they die the second time out of warrenty.

 

Yeah all our mobile CAT 992 or larger runs on board central systems, mainly lincoln. Most of our manual greasing is in the plant, working on changing over to central systems. Changed our outdoor conveyors over to SHC 221 and that solved our pump ability issues, even down to 50 below.

 

Yeah, no kidding. I have a friend , that worked for Milwaukee tool, in engineering. They sent his butt to China for well over a year.

He had enough of that, and left so he could be on this continent with his family.

 

Ahh, the Lincoln lube system. I buy a good number of components for those.