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Sad day today, my best fried died and today was his funeral. We welded ships together and farmed together, and my wife was good friends with his wife. Even the kids were friends as they were the same age. He hated sheep granted (which I have) and I hated cows (which he had), but we both loved dozers...

I always wanted to make a poster of silhouetted equipment and send it to my local TV news station so at least they could zero in on the equipment. As a side note though, it is interesting to hear what other regions call equipment. Here a Bobcat is a skid steer, that name has changed slightly as Bobc...

I might get there. I have 4 daughters and a farm so I am lucky if I can plan anything past Wednesday.

You posted too late!

I told her that this dozer was just one of my two dozer plan. I needed something small to log with, (to get in between the trees) but in the areas I want to clear I need a MUCH bigger dozer (to get the stumps out).

She mumbled something about being content...

My wife approves of the new JD 350D We move a lot of hay bales around with our Kubota Tractor, but two weeks ago both of us were frustrated. We put new inner tubes in the front tires, hooked onto a round bale and promptly blew a front tire out. So we proceeded to change said tire out, then as she le...

I don't doubt it was a tin can. Back in 1944 BIW was building Destroyers every 10 days. Hardly a record; the shipyard in Washington State was building them in 7 days. They had some quality issues I am sure. Now we build 1.5 per year and the Navy claims we are the most productive shipyard in the coun...

Up near Belfast, but I built US Navy Destroyers down in Bath (Bath Iron Works). We have got a lot of recognition lately from that latest Destroyer that went out, the USS Zumwalt, though it is more Battleship then Destroyer. I would not want to be on the wrath end of that ship that is for sure. I hav...

At Tractor Supply sometimes I buy those Farm Show Magazines and they had one where it was nothing but upgrades and there was a lot of bulldozer conversions in them. Still I am in awe of you for doing what I would like to try an do. I have a lot of ambitions, but honestly between my farm, my full-tim...

I didn't realize that if you scroll to the right you will see my my 440 diesel build and my 140 garden tractor conversion. I saw that the other day and was looking at your conversion pictures. You did a nice job and yes it is an interesting feature of the website. I don't normally dig about too muc...

My wife and I go to church, and our church supports a Christian Camp for kids about 5 miles away, and today the director of that camp was at church gathering up support for the summer ahead. One of the things they are upgrading is the electrical service and so he starts saying how he has got two exc...

Seems you got a rare backyard find. Most of the time the ones lying about are junk because some guy pushed it there way back when upon realizing it was not worth fixing, but once in awhile you get one that was worked on recently and the owner died, or one more blasted part busted and it was THE ONE ...

You are watching the news and there is a mudslide or something and the news anchor says something like, "And so they brought the bulldozers out in force" when you look behind them and there is nothing but bucket loaders scooping up the mess without a track in sight? I have issues I know, but that ju...

I would have had a heart attack and died right there. Back when I worked on the railroad I climbed under a locomotive just outside of Lincoln Nebraska and a snake went to the left and another to the right, and so CuttingEdge climbed up into the cab and did not get down all night. My foreman at the t...

The way I see it; I have several options: 1) Park my tractor and winch close to the crawler and use its winch to bring wood close enough to attach several trees to its drawbar before heading to the deck. Pros: No cost Cons: Working two pieces of equipment doing the same job/hard sometimes to get tra...

LeonardL: Glad you like my signature line; I am both a Christian and a sheep farmer so that is the reason it is stated as such. Thanks for the recognition on it too. Now I take a deep breath and explain what I am going to attempt to do, only because I am cheap (farmer) and I have almost all the part...