Posted by James Riley1 on March 16, 2012 at 07:30:51 from (70.41.6.65):
In Reply to: Help! posted by James Riley1 on March 15, 2012 at 07:49:59:
Hi folks. Again, thanks for the help getting it out. I own an RV Park, Campground and small motel in the south-central Colorado Rockies.
As such, I have become a jack of all trades but master of none.
While I do have the intellectual horsepower and physical ability to become a capable man on and with a tractor, I'm just running out of gas and losing the desire to try. I had an old Massy and sold it due to compression/ring problems. I got this M to replace it. I use it solely for the box blade on the back, maybe two or three times a year, to smooth roads, level stuff out, etc.
While I am remote, and thus it's nice to have my own equipment on site, that can also be a drag when it comes to equipment that does not work when and how I want it to. When totaling up the money and time and frustration, I think it may be cheaper for me to pay men to come in who are masters of their trade.
I paid $3,750.00 for it last year and put a brand new $600.00 tire on the back. I had an expert look at it first and he said it was a stand up tractor and a good deal. However, the front end loader is weak and the pump inside the belly which runs the box blade is leaking oil all over the place. I have to add oil and then run it for a day or two and then add more. Then this problem with the front wheel.
But I can live with all that. Here is the problem I'm having, which is really no fault of the tractor: When I am using the box blade I have to raise it up and down to cut just the right amount off the top of a high spot. If I'm dragging too much material, it won't move. If I raise the box blade, and go a foot or two, all of a sudden I'm not pulling any material at all. It's a good blade, in that it doesn't just have to be up or down but can actually be anywhere in between, and unlike my Massy, it has down pressure. BUT every time I raise or lower it, I have stop, push in the clutch, put the tractor in neutral, let out the clutch, raise or lower the box blade, push the clutch back in, put the tractor in forward or reverse, let the clutch out and proceed. If, perchance, I didn't get the box blade at the perfect height, I have to do it all over again. And, since the ground is undulating and the box blade goes up as the front end goes down (dumping all the material) or the box blade digs in as the front end goes up (bogging me down so I can't move), it's easier and faster for me to get off the damn tractor and use a good old fashioned shovel.
So, long story short, I don't have the right tool for the job or the right man for the job.
I do have a Ford 555 back hoe/front end loader which is MUCH better but it can be too large for the finer work I'm trying to do.
It is the way I found it, plus a brand new back tire, so I'm hoping to get $3,750.00 for it. But it's in Colorado. I'll probably do what everyone does around here and put it out by the highway with a for sale sign on it. That's how I got it.
I think what I'd like to have is a Bob Cat but those things are expensive!
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