Heres my new back brace.

She old and smokes and drinks but can out work 3 young men...

 

Sweet
Hydraulic assisted muscle power

 

Cool. Any help for the back is good! S'lotta bucket fer a tractor that size. I see you've got wheel weights…

 

Double stacked wheel weights + 7 gallons of windshield fluid in each tire. That's a 147 lbs on each tire and its got a weight box in the rear with another 150 lbs. The bucket is 1/4 of a yard moving lighter material its perfect. It will dead lift 300 lbs like its nothing.

 

Any idea how heavy the tractor itself is without weights? Is that a retro fit of the bucket to that tractor that you made or does it come like that? Ain't nuthin like hydraulics.

 

Nice workshop you've got there!

 

Tractor by itself should be right at 700 lbs. The hyrdos are by Kwick-way they where made for the narrow frame cub cadets. 1963 through maybe 1970.

Tractor by its self is around 700(does not count loader). Its a kwick way hydro made for narrow frame cub cadet 1963 though 1970 I think. Tractor will smoke the ag tires on dry pavement.

 

No that's where I bought it. That shop worth muti millions! They make ss pressurized tanks. There was 4 fork lifts that had to be 150,000 per. It was a very impressive Factory.

 

I don't think I would want to load the bucket full of wood and try to pick it all the way up. Little tippy. But I've been known to be hard on stuff and would probably try it at least once.

 

Still got it. Have plow and disc for it.

 

Really solid not even a bit tippy. The mulch was very wet running rounded scoops. Firewood will be no where near as heavy as that. Factory rating is 400lbs with the weights I am using. I even have fluid in the front tires.

 

Hard to talk about wood every day when you drop from 12 cords a year to 4...... Between my 3 garden tractors I going to do those 4 cords in style the easy way.

 

I wonder what a 1/4 yard of green firewood weighs??

 

Loose maybe 150 stack tight and rounded maybe 250. Scoop full of wet dirt going to be much heavier. Tractor set-up weight with everything going to be over 1500lbs. Its no heavy weight but can do 300-400lb reps all day long.

 

Not sure what your saying

 

And 300-400 is perfect for firewood work for sure. Will save a lotta lifting work. My little JD has a bucket about half the size of yours. I can lift maybe 250 with it… a full bucket of wet splits tight spaced is about all it wants. I have to be very careful on uneven ground and side hills as the tractor will tip really easy. Mine weighs around a ton and I have weight in the back, no wheel weights tho. I just keep the bucket close to the ground when moving and only lift high when I'm on solid level ground… no sweat. You're gonna love that lil rig.