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What did you do with your JD LCUT today!
I know that there is a thread titled close to this on the SCUT section. So I thought that I would start one on the CUT section since that is what I have. I think there are more posters to the SCUT section of the forum then there are to the other sections so we will see what happens here. This may go nowhere. Maybe we can get some of the CUT members to start posting.
I got to try out my 990 with the 8B BH yesterday for the first time and also got to try out the Bro-Tek thumb that I ordered. I was running at about 1500 RPM and just doing a little digging and rock picking. This is the area I am going to put up a small Pole Barn to temporarily house the 990 and then it will become a wood shed and a storage shed after that. Once that is done then off we go to build a barn. All this stuff takes time. So below are some pictures and also a link to the same pictures and a couple of videos of me running the 8B with one of my sons in the background the other son was running the camera. You can see how rocky the place is (my father would affectionately call it a bone yard). One can also see that some of these rocks, or potatoes as I call them, are pretty big. I got a hold of one of them that had to be over 685 lbs because that is what the boom is rated on the 8B to be able to pick up and it could not do it. Thankfully the dipper is there and can do a little work as well.
https://picasaweb.google.com/116078...dBroTekBoltOnThumb?authuser=0&feat=directlink
I got to try out my 990 with the 8B BH yesterday for the first time and also got to try out the Bro-Tek thumb that I ordered. I was running at about 1500 RPM and just doing a little digging and rock picking. This is the area I am going to put up a small Pole Barn to temporarily house the 990 and then it will become a wood shed and a storage shed after that. Once that is done then off we go to build a barn. All this stuff takes time. So below are some pictures and also a link to the same pictures and a couple of videos of me running the 8B with one of my sons in the background the other son was running the camera. You can see how rocky the place is (my father would affectionately call it a bone yard). One can also see that some of these rocks, or potatoes as I call them, are pretty big. I got a hold of one of them that had to be over 685 lbs because that is what the boom is rated on the 8B to be able to pick up and it could not do it. Thankfully the dipper is there and can do a little work as well.
https://picasaweb.google.com/116078...dBroTekBoltOnThumb?authuser=0&feat=directlink
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You're welcome.
I can appreciate what you are doing and what it takes.
This is what our lower pond dam looked like shortly after we bought the place. Picture was taken Feb 26, 2017.
This picture was taken today (from the other direction) after I finished trimming and raking the pond bank.
That looks great! You have a very nice pond.
It is a lot of work, there was no access path to the pond when we bought the place 3 years ago, it was completely overgrown with invasive honeysuckle. I didn't have a tractor yet so I was pulling them out by hand when the ground was soft and saturated with water.
The area is one acre and previous owners have filled the wooded area north of the pond, where I'm working now, with concrete and asphalt pieces for fill and never finished topping with dirt. I'm not sure what their end result was going to look like but I'm going to haul a lot of the concrete out and use it for fill somewhere else and do some contouring. I have a lot of piles of honeysuckle that I need to chip or haul across the road and burn.
Today was the first time that I've been able to get my tractor all the way to the pond.
This was what I worked on last year. I transferred many bucket loads of gravel from my driveway project across the road at the house in order to get a base layer over the chunks of fill and tree roots so I could make a path that was safe and easy to walk. We also hauled a lot of trash and junk out the first couple of years and it's almost completely cleaned up now. I want it to be a beautiful little nature retreat for us someday.
$900 / day or $3200 / week. Not that I've looked into it. 
I'm kind of leaning that way - just rent one for a couple of days and be done with it. I was actually doing some research today on my lunch break on any adverse effects on the forest from using one of those. From what I've gleaned, as long as you don't get too deep into the dirt, the roots of the surrounding trees should be OK. But, a lot of the articles that I found were written by forestry mulching companies, so they have a vested interest in saying how good it is for the forest. I did find something put out by a forestry management agency in Colorado, but it was full of scientific terms and I had a hard time drawing concrete conclusions from it.
Biggest conclusion that I've come to is that trying to do it during my lunch hour during the week and every now and then on the weekends just ain't doing it for me.
I also looked into having a company come in and do it for me - $2100/day x 2 days. I figure for $900/day x 3 days I should be able to do it - and have a blast doing it. Only thing is that I'll have to stop to take pictures for everyone here!
I'm kind of leaning that way - just rent one for a couple of days and be done with it. I was actually doing some research today on my lunch break on any adverse effects on the forest from using one of those. From what I've gleaned, as long as you don't get too deep into the dirt, the roots of the surrounding trees should be OK. But, a lot of the articles that I found were written by forestry mulching companies, so they have a vested interest in saying how good it is for the forest. I did find something put out by a forestry management agency in Colorado, but it was full of scientific terms and I had a hard time drawing concrete conclusions from it.
Biggest conclusion that I've come to is that trying to do it during my lunch hour during the week and every now and then on the weekends just ain't doing it for me.
I also looked into having a company come in and do it for me - $2100/day x 2 days. I figure for $900/day x 3 days I should be able to do it - and have a blast doing it. Only thing is that I'll have to stop to take pictures for everyone here!
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