The Cellar / Learning new ways to use a tractor

**Posted by xoxoxoBruce** 5/12/2024 7:58 am

griff wrote:
Yeah man, if it's something you don't need.

I'll be in touch.

**Posted by griff** 5/21/2024 6:17 am

Thanks Mister! I received a package at the house while I was away. Hopefully I find some time to mess with it soon and consider the extraneous doodads.

As this is the Official xoxo Metal Detector of Teh Cellar, in due course it will be passed along upon request or mailed to an unwilling participant if a volunteer does not surface.

**Posted by glatt** 5/21/2024 6:47 am

I initially mis-read that as in due course you would find an empty surface to store the thing when my eyes first fell on the post without reading it.

Sounds like fun though. The scoutmaster in my son's old troop would bring a metal detector on camping trips and increase our tent stake inventory.

**Posted by griff** 5/21/2024 4:33 pm

SMRT, pegs have a way of disappearing.

**Posted by griff** 5/28/2024 6:42 am

Completed btw.

**Posted by griff** 5/29/2024 6:26 am

I have more room for implement sway in the three point hitch now. The rear tire treads had been chewed up a little because the previous owners left the turn-buckles loose while doing some kind of field work.

Right now we're fighting a losing battle with mice which I hope never get a taste for wiring.

**Posted by glatt** 5/29/2024 6:42 am

We're fighting a losing battle with ants. Far, far better than mice.

Have you gone nuclear and tried the various traps made of buckets half full of water?

**Posted by griff** 5/29/2024 8:58 am

I’m considering the nuclear option.

**Posted by Diaphone Jim** 5/29/2024 10:55 am

I am not sure what the trapezoidal link thing is, but it looks like it is severely heavy.
Mice in barn? House? Field?

**Posted by griff** 5/29/2024 3:47 pm

I think you’re referring to the back blade.

We have mouse issues around the barn and elsewhere because we have chickens.

**Posted by griff** 5/29/2024 3:48 pm

We ordered the nuclear option today.

**Posted by Flint** 5/29/2024 4:40 pm

a cat who was bitten by a radioactive spider?

**Posted by griff** 5/29/2024 5:14 pm

Perfection

**Posted by Diaphone Jim** 5/30/2024 11:50 am

"I think you’re referring to the back blade."
Looks like the back blade is in the back. Is the thing on top just a weight?

**Posted by griff** 5/30/2024 5:29 pm

Hmmm… any chance you could circle the part you’re referring to? Could it be the Roll over protection (ROPs)?

**Posted by Diaphone Jim** 5/31/2024 11:30 am

OK, I circled it and am having a hard time getting the ink off my monitor.
I am talking about what looks like a solid steel wedge about 18"x18"x10" attached to the tree point hitch and held on to the blade frame by a hefty nut. It has some kind of rotating metal strap on top and rectangular plug in its end.
One last descriptor is that it appears to be between the tires and an optical illusion aligns it with the wheel hubs.
I would also like to know how to circle things on Cellar pics.

**Posted by griff** 5/31/2024 1:24 pm

Ah gotcha. The nut is the top of the pivot for the blade. The rectangular box is where the top bar is welded to the body of the blade.

I think if you download the pic you can edit it in most programs but I’m the last guy to give advice on ever changing tech.

**Posted by griff** 5/31/2024 1:26 pm

Nuclear option harvested 3 mice last night

**Posted by glatt** 6/03/2024 10:54 am

Right on.

**Posted by griff** 6/10/2024 6:23 am

We thought we had gotten ahead of them but we caught 6 mice and a chipmunk after freshening the bait yesterday.

**Posted by griff** 6/10/2024 6:26 am

I'm picking up a set of pallet forks sized for my Kubota. I'll be doing a lot of lifting with the cabin project so I'm going to try to protect my back.

**Posted by glatt** 6/10/2024 7:34 am

We seem to have taken care of the ants. There are still a few around, but they are mostly gone. I think the rain was helping to drive them inside, and that has tapered off a bit.

The pallet forks should be useful. Once you have them, you'll be seeing things all over the place that need lifting. When I got my leaf blower, it's amazing the number of non-leaf applications I have found for that.

**Posted by griff** 6/10/2024 4:02 pm

I'm glad your ants calmed down. Pests really mess with our false sense of control.
Besides construction, I have some ideas around handling logs for firewood and saw-milling. Some folks palletize their firewood to reduce stacking but I'm not sure that's really all that efficient.

**Posted by xoxoxoBruce** 12/01/2024 12:33 am

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**Posted by griff** 12/01/2024 10:55 am

I guess I should update that the pallet forks kick ass. I was able to move 6-8 4x8 sheets of 23/32 Advantek at a time and lift them on to the deck for gluing and nailing.