TRDdrew's shop updates and improvements- The Cruiser Cottage

[knuckle47]

We’ve got both nests here. Like Drew and Michael B. That’s the one event in my life where I’ll go overboard to be sure they are dead. Something clicks in my head and I get intense.

One year, in a ground nest, I poured gasoline down the hole and then lit it. It probably burned for 15 minutes like the volcano onion stack in a Hibachi Restaurant.

 

[Land Shark]

I have a similar battle with yellow jackets from time to time. Except mine are ground nests and I always find them when I’m mowing

Me too. I got lit up not to long ago

 

[TRDdrew]

they ended up being bald faced hornets, angry little suckers

Spray them
Run like hell
Rinse and repeat

Got the nest down next day sting free

 

[TRDdrew]

This B7200 HST popped up on FB marketplace and the name looked familiar. It's 4 houses up from me and I had no idea my neighbor had it lol

Clean unit with only 362 hours on it, fired up good but does appear to have the slightest bit of blow by. He bought it about a year ago, serviced everything and was gonna use it to do food plots on a hunting property but unfortunately lost the use of the property so it has to go. His ad was for 4500 with the snow plow and trailer hook up for the 3 point which I don't think is a bad price but again no loader

Pros :
Clean
4wd
HST
As local as one could get
He knocked 300 off the price ( 4200 for me )
Low hours

Cons :
Slight blow by
No loader and they are hard to come-by by themselves
Bit more than I wanted to spend for one without a loader

Idk what's everyone think, am I silly to let this one slip away? The plow would get used but obviously not often, and even if it didn't have it I could just get a drag blade and plow in reverse. But if I can find a loader by itself I think im
Gonna end up paying 2-2500 alone, at least from what I've see

 

[Waorani]

Couple thoughts -

- very small tractor, is it big enough to do what you want to do?

- 35-42yrs old, 362hrs seems a little light for that kind of age but it does look like it was taken care of

 

[ceylonfj40nut]

I pass on tractors without a loader. So useful.

 

[knuckle47]

My 1947 has a loader….the loader had been modified so that it is 6 foot wide, the added size can be reduced back to the 3’ version with a few bolts. I plowed snow this winter with it and the 6’ back blade easily. Prior to that I scooped R-Blend crushed concrete for the “pavement” around the pole barn.

Never planned that when I bought it. Just got lucky it was on there. Now, I’d never buy anything without one
Even moved heavy appliances and tools in the bucket. Including this 30’ section of ham radio tower

 

[1911]

+1 on the high-capacity assault wheelbarrow; one of the most useful tools that I own.

 

[TRDdrew]

kinda my thought on it as well

 

[QsLC75]

When buying a tractor, always go bigger than you think you will need in terms of horsepower and frame size. I learned this lesson the hard way moving from one horse stable farm to the next in 4 states. On the second move into the snowbelt of Ohio, I was forced to upgrade from a 30 hp subcompact to JD 4005 with 43HP due to snow removal on the terrain. I then added the front-end loader a year later to make it easier for mucking stalls.

A front-end loader will become a useful tool. I need to lift something heavy...1 1/2' chain combined with the front-end loader and lifting objects is a piece of cake. Let alone spreading mulch for the wife and grading your yard next to the driveway because the delivery guy went off into the soft yard.

 

[Waorani]

As long as we're talking FELs, you really want one w/ quick attach capability so you can easily swap bucket/forks/etc. Only so much you can do easily with a bucket.

 

[TRDdrew]

As long as we're talking FELs, you really want one w/ quick attach capability so you can easily swap bucket/forks/etc. Only so much you can do easily with a bucket.

O my wallet hurts just thinking about all the possibilities

 

[QsLC75]

@TRDdrew YES, especially with the price of steel these days increasing the price of forks, hay bale spear, etc

 

[D21FJ60]

I like how you left a grassy space next to the cottage to park a yard car

 

[TRDdrew]

I like how you left a grassy space next to the cottage to park a yard car

well across the driveway all those trees are getting cleared and that's where the new shop is being built. For the most part the only thing in the driveway is the tundra. I'm always having to move stuff around and in the yard out of the way is usually the most convenient but I don't really ever park anything long term in the yard.

Hopefully soon everything will be piled in a new shop

 

[matzell]

4 in one bucket if you can get it, great to grab and pick up items. But at least a bucket on the front. much more useful than a plow.

 

[EWheeler]

I think I've already posted about the tractor topic somewhere here or another thread, but 100% buy one with a loader. The smaller tractors like what you have posted (B-series) are better than a wheelbarrow, but aren't super useful as far as bucket height goes IMO. Hers is an L305dt in your area, this is identical to one of the tractors I own and I love it.

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The blue ford diesel tractors from that early 80's era are also good units, and usually a bit cheaper than the Kubota's.

 

[TRDdrew]

Small updates, our neighborhood got completely repaved and the company that did it was nice enough to damage my solar light at the end of my front parking pad. O well, crap happens and they replaced it with a new one so I'm not complaining. I was able to take the one they broke off and repair it by epoxying a large washer into the base. The new light came with a few different mounting options so I took the unused wall mount and put it on the shop.

My son got his learners permit over the weekend and he also spent a bit of time Sunday replacing the valve cover gasket on his escape

 

[knuckle47]

That’s terrific that he’s doing this…although he looks 14… what age is a permit there? (And don’t tell him I said he looks 14…. Until he’s 40).

My son did this as well. He’s now into motorcycle restoration and when he did his brakes on his Silverado, he had some computer thing that releases the electronic parking brake motor to change a few parts… I would never have even thought of a device to release the brake. My thinking says “cable”.

 

[TRDdrew]

That’s terrific that he’s doing this…although he looks 14… what age is a permit there? (And don’t tell him I said he looks 14…. Until he’s 40).

My son did this as well. He’s now into motorcycle restoration and when he did his brakes on his Silverado, he had some computer thing that releases the electronic parking brake motor to change a few parts… I would never have even thought of a device to release the brake. My thinking says “cable”.

haha I wont, Maryland allows you to get your learners permit at 15 and 9 months. He has to hold the permit for 9 or 10 additional months, drivers ed safety course with 6 hours of drive time with an instructor and 60 hours of drive time with parents (or other qualified licensed driver ) then he can get the full license. We have been out a few times but he already has some experience. He wheeled the 100 and my old 4runner a bunch of times. He got the escape from his grandparents as a gift but the deal was it was his responsibility to fix all the small issues with it ( with my guidance of course )

I've been proud of him, he pulled the valve cover and said "shouldn't we clean it before putting it back on?" so that's what he's doing in that photo lol. I wasn't going to...... its an escape not a land cruiser, But it show me that he respects it and wants to take care of it.


Isnt it crazy that you need to hook up a scan tool just to change brakes on some of these newer vehicles, smh.