Mahindra 4540 4WD

It looks like tomorrow will be a rainy day so it might be a good day to burn.

I hope the socket set will last my lifetime. I see that you received your tractor back, I hope that's the last of your problems.

 

Just as in poker, a straight flush beats a full house!

 

Correct on the rain. And it is a good day to burn. That's for sure!

As far as the tractor problems go. Thank you. It is a nice piece of equipment when all is working well. Just been way to many days when it hasn't been for a new tractor. Time to keep moving forward.

 

I use the tractor to move some Maple rounds and then to dig up a few smaller stumps from our winter plow zone.

 

I went with a 24". I plan on doing a good bit of ditching and then using that soil to fill in low spots in nearby trails. So I figured a little bigger capacity would be gooder.

 

I think ours is 16, I'm not sure if we'll go to a 24 or not.

 

I removed two smaller stumps and then grabbed some sand to fill in the holes. I switched to the pallet forks and then removed two loads (one pictured) over near the fireplace for burning.

We had decided this morning that since I would be burning, we would have steaks cooked over the outside fireplace.

 

The steaks, we also had a baked potato,hot tomato salad and spinach..

 

Nice work there our friend. A tractor is sooooo nice to have. They multiply your production by ...............

 

We find ourselves most often using the 18" on the Case 580 at work...we have 12", 18", 24" and 36" for it but that is a much larger machine too. I'm surprised that small of a tractor handles anything more than 14-16" very well...

 

My 50 horse tractor with the 75B backhoe digs and pulls stumps very well for this size machine. I'm not sure what size backhoe Backwoods Savage will put on his tractor. But his tractor size will pretty much determine how big a backhoe he can go with. Something else to consider with bucket size is what you will do most of. If looking to dig a lot of stumps some say it is better to have narrower bucket, that you can rip the roots apart easier. I know a guy who had a very narrow one made up for his mini excavator just for that purpose. Almost like a very heavy, curved blade. He can use it for digging a narrow trench, but it is used mostly for ripping stumps out. I can rip stumps out with my two footer just fine as well. A smaller backhoe may not have enough strength.

 

I have just used our last five gallons of summer blend diesel so I always email Sunoco just so I can make sure the winter blend diesel has made it to this area, it has.

This was his response, Winter diesel blends have been rolled out in that area, yes.

 

After getting some diesel after dog sitting, I grabbed a small load of branches that I burned down but have some smaller stuff left.

I would've finished burning the rest but supper was on the table.

 

I saw my model tractor with a three foot bucket on the hoe ( I don't think they recommend it) he busted the frame the hoe sits on. I'm not sure if it was covered under the warranty because of the oversized bucket on the hoe.

 

I bet not.

 

This is the area we started clearing out in the spring because the trees are rotting from the stump up because of all the water it gets every spring once the snow melts. We dropped four smaller trees and then took the rounds to the pine splitting pile.

The stump was a bastard but I finally got it out along with a smaller one.

This morning I heard a chipper going across the street so I made my way over. They were glad to deliver them across the road, I'll use them on the trails.

 

I moved a bunch of the chips with the 4540 that we received for nothing to part of the trail on the property I cut most of our wood on.