Mahindra 3550

Thank you sir. Appreciated.

 

Getting the 3550 warmed up this morning. Stinny , you are so right about having things under cover!

Time to switch over to the grapple and see how it does lifting logs up for me to block up.

 

Ain't that perty in there...

 

yeah blocking a waist height is a novelty and much better for your back!

 

Not too shabby so far. Trying to figure out a system where I do the least amount of up and down on/off tractor. I also hate to keep starting and turning off the tractor. And hate to leave it running and wasting diesel fuel. Hmmm...



So I started dumping two logs on top of some rounds already on the ground. Then pick up two more. This way I can cut up four logs and then repeat. I'll see how this goes. Almost half the pile blocked up before I took a breakfast snack/caffeine break.

Just working Red Pine in these pictures.

 

This pile of logs was history just before I broke for lunch to see my sister and parents. The 3550 and the grapple did well of breaking these frozen logs up out of the ice and snow and holding them up at just below waist height for easy cutting. I think this afternoon I will drive the tractor around the new trail and see what I can pick up and move out of the way while the ground is still frozen. If I remember right there are some downed trees that can be moved. I'll bring the CS680 with me just in case. A really nice day to work outside!

 

I like the new tractor and claw Gas. Isn't it great to be able to get those logs up a little bit to buck them up. Hope you have a ball with that new tool... ... now, don't break sumpthin... .........

 

Just leave it idling they don't use that much fuel. And not as hard on your starter and such.

BUT I don't know what it does to the new tier 4 engines with DEF and particulate filters and such. I guess it still doesn't matter

 

The ones with filters HATE long term idling.

 

The hour meter still turns with it running. The average guy cutting his own wood won't put that many extra hours a year on it probably.

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Yea I didn't think about that. My old tractor has one of those variable hour meters. It takes something like 2 hours of idle time to make an hour

 

And even though a starter is realitivly cheap for it. Even the price of starter will but A LOT of diesel fuel especially considering I can't really tell the level in my tank goes down after an hour of idle.

 

not sure Gasifier counts as an average guy! I bet he puts 350 hours on that beast by christmas! not that I have much idea of wbhat averge is.. first 2 years of mine only had 50 hours a year on it.. add another implement or 2 and I am at 125 a year.. but if I had a grapple and a backhoe and a etc etc I could hit 250 easy! I am at least a hundred hours a year more lazy then Gas..... he did that barn in less than year!

 

Sooooo much depends on the weather! Dam weather! And they make me keep going work in order to get paid! Ugh!

 

Most average homeowners put 25 to 50 hours a year on their smaller tractors

 

If the weather cooperates I'll put at least 250 on it by end of this year. Lots to do.

 

woo hoo I am above average

 

Those first few years when you get it are often higher as you have the new factor, jobs that haven't gotten done cause you don't have the equipment till the tractor and that you do all these jobs that you couldn't do before.

 

True. Last machine, John Deere 210C, was my fifth machine in the last 12 years I guess. I put about 200 ish on it in just under a year.

 

Ive had my tractor since fall of 2014 and I have just under 200 hours.

Ive had thoughts of trading this one in to get the 50hp version, but this time get a backhoe with it... Problem is that the price scares me lol. Im almost half way through paying this one off anyways.

I can honestly say that this is the one payment that I don't ever mind paying lol.