I need all the practice time I can get. This past week, our road wasn’t plowed for a couple days following the lastest snowstorm. This video shows my hack to get rid of snow FAST so I can Practice my Guitar and Banjo more. Yeeeee Haaaaaa!!!
Plow Snow Fast - Increase Practice Time! John Deere 730
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More picking time hack, awesome! I saw this earlier on YouTube, & I had to share it w Banjoson who loves that kind of stuff… He liked it as well
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Good job. What year JD is that 70s?
I spend a lot of time on a 50hp Kubota. I have a JD 750 also that is pretty much exclusively for tilling my 5K sq. ft. garden.
I’m not much of a farmer but do maintain about 1/4 mile of our gravel driveway (we also have another driveway that is 1/10 mile paved and another 1/10 of a mile gravel), pond repair, use it to drag logs back to the house for firewood (5-8 cords a year), and to haul around wood chips. I let a tree trimming company dump wood chips on my property to the tune of about 300 yards per year. Lot of tractor time with the Kubota with FEL moving wood chips. I love wood chips. I mulch in my entire garden with them after planting/seedlings sprout just like one would mulch a flower garden. Also if I see signs of erosion that needs some attention I just grab a few scoops of those wood chips, dump them on the eroded area, spread them out (about 2-3 inches deep). Typically over seed it with a couple handfuls of annual rye grass and white clover and that takes care of the erosion problem.
Tractors with FELs also come in handy for shingle repair and gutter clean out. I just let my 15 yr old son move me around the house in the bucket with the leaf blower…don’t tell OSHA.
That’s my son on the Green tractor - He was dragging some cedar back to the house that we harvested on our property so that I could mill it up w/an Alaskan Chainsaw Mill (attaches to chainsaw).
And the last pic - My wife is a Senior Director over 100+ hospitals. She’s top 25 in a 20K employee company…and she’s fairly competent on a tractor too!
If you live in the country on a farm/acreage then a tractor is a must have…with a FEL!
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Couldn’t agree more! We have an L-4200 Kubota with a loader (42hp). We did without for about 25 years… Don’t want to ever go back to that!
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A-men to that! My Owatonna 770 articulated FEL unfortunately burned-up in our barn fire last year. I’m toying with picking up a 4WD Wheel-loader Backhoe. They’re handy to have around. Thanks for the pics and info. I can relate to all that!
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Oh Deere! Keeps you busy and you won’t get bored! Nice video and pictures, guys!
@Oldhat2, your son, your space, your brain, can OHSA interfere, maybe unless they don’t have work?? haha.
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Nice tractor!
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Ha ha. Ah youth! Handiest thing on a tractor. I’d carry in the groceries with it if I wouldn’t tear up the yard while nosing the FEL up to an open kitchen window.
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If I ever get another Loader Tractor, it will definitely have the quick attach or better yet, skidloader attachment. That way you can have forks and other implements. You can even rent attachments for a weekend or so if it’s not something you’d want to buy. But I’d buy the forks for sure!
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You know I looked at the Kubota L series “tractor loader backhoes” and for my use I probably should have went there instead. If my closest neighbor didn’t have a nice JD backhoe that I can borrow when I need I probably would have picked one up. Basically it’s Kubota tractor (still has a 3 pt hitch) but is a lot more robust (and weighs a lot more than the comparable tractor). The backhoe really isn’t designed to be removed efficiently so you can use the 3pt hitch but it is there if you ever need a 3pt. I also shied away from it because of the weight (compaction and sinking in muck).
If you decide to go regular tractor and add backhoe I’d not get a 3pt mounted one, they end up twisting way too much and that 3 pt hitch it’s mounted on is not the best when you start torqueing it a bit. Sure for small jobs like water lines and killing time digging random holes is not so bad on them…but if you want to “work it” fairly hard I’d stay away from a 3pt mounted backhoe. You can have one frame mounted on a tractor with quick attach and if you have an extra hand and are even a half way mediocre grease monkey you can have it off or on in 45 mins or so. That backhoe kills maneuverability on the tractor so you’ll most certainly want it off from time to time.
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Yeah my fel is quick attach (skid steer). Takes all of a minute to get it off an on. I have a nice front remote too for running a root rake/brush grapple.
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Well I might’ve happened to sign a contract this week on a farm in Texas so I’m gonna be FEL shopping before too long. Y’all get ready for Cabin Camp Texas Edition coming soon.
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I call “Dibs” on your place in Tennessee!!! It’s beautiful if it’s the pictures you just posted in “Snow in Alabama”.
But seriously good luck to you and glad you’re getting to go back home!
Make sure a tractor comes with that FEL! I think Jesse and I would recommend Kubota but I like Massey about as much. Their 25 -60 HP range is excellent! I went Kubota because I got a real good deal (used). I honestly would have bought the Massey if I was looking for new but you can’t go wrong with a Kubota. It also depends on what’s in your area… you want to be able to get parts and service and a hat!
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Ha! Yeah, that is our place and we love it. We’re gonna put it on the market just to do it, but we don’t plan on selling for quite a while.
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Kubota = The Toyota of the tractor world. Better everything.
Cattle farmer/friend down the road is 3rd gen on the farm and they were “green” for three generations. Said his employer (county) switched their entire fleet of equipment over to red. Said he was disappointed when they did. Said once he got to use Kubota at work that he immediately started moving away from JD on his farm. Said he’ll probably never go back to green unless they start making the green as good as the red.
Another row cropper (1400 acres) buddy of mine is phasing in red to replace the green also. Said if he can get it in either color he doesn’t even consider the green and buys the red. Said he’s never going back and will not even consider green again unless he can get it at dealer cost -10%. ha ha.
All throughout my area when the green stuff (all of it, mowers, tractors, orv) dies it’s being replaced with red.
@Deere_Crossing I noticed your background. Were you at Honda in Marysville? If so, all those headlights (Halogen bulbs) for a time period were coming from me over at Stanley Electric in London OH. That was many years ago. I was fresh out of college and was hired to help run the expansion. I started with a 15K sq ft or so concrete slab and in a year or so had those halogen bulbs rolling out and up to Marysville. That experience was great right out of college…but they couldn’t pay me enough to keep me so I moved on to greener pastures.
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Ha! I worked for Honda of America at the Anna Engine Plant in Ohio from 1990 to 1995. Engineering job there was nice, but we moved back to Michigan after that. Small world!
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Yep small world indeed. I moved from there to Kodak’s research center in Dayton OH. Lab work for a few years then by age 29 I started my own biz out of the garage…grew that to couple $million in rev and sold it and “checked out” to the woods of TN at age 40.
Small world indeed.
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