I thought of all you boys yesterday

We sold the farm across the road and turn it over this spring. It has a big shed where the 8430 and lots of implements are, so we are putting up a 60x80 to replace it at the farm. The grade drains well, but in that 60 foot width it goes from on grade to three feet of fill (using clay and asphalt millings). I have spent every waking hour the last few weeks hauling clay up from the pond cleanout piles with the 886 and 74 Ford grain truck. That doesn't even count the 25 loads of millings from the quarry 40 minutes away. My hips are so riled up I can't hardly walk! Maybe those boys are right about hydro loader tractors!!

Clutch in - into the pile, clutch out - out of the pile, clutch in - to the truck, - clutch in - back to the pile, clutch in - into the pile. Repeat eight times. Idle tractor. Get in truck. Clutch in, granny gear. Rinse and repeat. Lordy. I can hardly walk. I saw the back doctor yesterday and he promptly booked me for more injections. Wonder why?!

I need to get the transit back out and shoot it today and see if I am ready for millings. I think I am. I hope. I want to go back to using a loader for nice things like feeding cows!

You just gave the best argument to get a tractor with an HST.

Not you can say the same thing about an tractor with an add on hoe.
Climb on tractor seat to move tractor. Get off tractor seat, jump off tractor, climb on hoe, sit down and dig. Then get off hoe seat, climb off hoe, climb on tractor, sit down, move tractor and repeat again and again if you are digging a trench.

The guys that I drive a truck for now and then have a wheel loader where the forward and reverse is a little 5 inch stick to the left of the wheel. They recently got a new one with the same stick but it also has a rocker switch to the right of the lift arm stick that you operate with your pinky finger.

Years ago that kinda work got me in deep trouble i was loading manure all day with a m and trip bucket and like you said i felt it. That night we had a meeting for the people teaching religion in the convent .When we got up to go i forgot about the bad knees and they didn't catch and i fell on top of the neighbors wife yes you got that right i fell on the neighbors wife in a convent in front of a nun no less.
So watch when you get up pain is one thing but it can get far worse trust me i been there.

George why all the on off if you have an add on backhoe??? I had one for years and never had to do it that way. You moved the tractor with the hoe. Most will easily lift the back end off the ground. So lift the out riggers and lift/move the hoe with the stick/boom and reset the out riggers and keep digging. If yours is a very small one then you maybe correct but one of any size at all will work like I posted.

I feel for you moving dirt/gravel is work no matter how you do it. One question. How are you compacting the dirt for your new building?? If your going to be building soon I would be concerned with the fill settling. The more usual method around here is to level the site one year and build the next. I know that does not always work so that is why I am asking how your doing it. Thinking of building a new shop and time is not on my side.

I would have split the difference between the high an the low side and hired a dozer for a day. He could have included a drainage swale.

Make sure that fill is sheep footed to pack it.

I feel for you, with the Back Pain...I have had plenty of my own..

With a Discectomy, Surgery and Fusion I STILL had the pain, numbness to my foot.. the pain usually felt like my Hip Joint was really going bad..

The Neuro-Surgeon was willing and able to do another Fusion, but I sought another Dr, with another Procedure..and AM I Glad I did...!!!!

This is amazing..the Pain is Blocked by a very small electric or Magnetic field.very hardly noticeable at all..mostly NOT at all..

This Dr Specializes in Pain treatment. Has some Ohio State Univ. Athletes as patients also..He put this Neuro-Stim in my back and after the mandatory 6 weeks of NOT bending or falling requirement, I have had an 85 to 90% decrease in pain..my Hip does not hurt, the numbness in my leg and Foot is gone and I have gone back to Western Square Dancing 3 night a week when I have time..
I would look into this before you submit to a Knife..!!
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(quoted from post at 07:52:33 02/26/17) I feel for you moving dirt/gravel is work no matter how you do it. One question. How are you compacting the dirt for your new building?? If your going to be building soon I would be concerned with the fill settling. The more usual method around here is to level the site one year and build the next. I know that does not always work so that is why I am asking how your doing it. Thinking of building a new shop and time is not on my side.

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I have been on projects with the guys that I drive for now and then where we get the fill to footing grade one day and they are pouring it the next. They use spec material placed in lifts and compacted plenty with one of three different vibrating compactors. A test contractor comes in to check the degree of compaction.

George just loves his Termites you know that.. On the KUBOTAS if you can,t do it as you say (and most good operators can) I just take a short stick like a broom stick 4 ft long. Reach back and punch the hydro pedal and crawl the tractor forward but as you say easy way is just take stick and push the tractor forward and yes you can sit the rear over and turn .

I know exactly what your doing. When we got rid of our old barn and built the new shed we went through the same thing. I got a long reach excavator in and he dug a hole 25 ft. deep and made a huge pile of clay-about 100 ft. from where we put the new shed up. This was before I got the end loader so it was 1 bucket at a time with my 580c case backhoe. You don't need a sheeps foot or a packer-just spread it thin and level it a you go and pack it with the next bucket full---LOTS OF TRIPS! Good luck---Tee

termites dont have enough power to move themselves,I have a 510 deere if you want to borrow it

You guys can beat up on my terramite all you want.

What you have to understand is I would love to buy a new tractor with a cab, heat and air but will never be able too. Not for lack of money, but I can't get within 100 feet of a diesel without getting a headache within 15 seconds.

So bring any tractor you want over as long as it's a gasser.

Terramite is the perfect tractor for me. It's the only gasser I could find.

Now the EPA is getting cut back, Tier 5 may never take place in the US. Tier 5 would require all diesels under 25 hp to be compliant. My hope was the small tractors would go back to gas. That may never happen in my lifetime. So I'll just have to keep my two terramites.