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  1. Don Alaska

    Don Alaska Supreme Member
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    If you can weld, you can make a number of your own implements and attachments. I, too, have a heavy chain but I have never used it with my little tractor. I did use it with a rental excavator to put in a new septic tank however. I use smaller chains, cables, and ropes of all kinds. I am now trying to come up with a design for a "tree pusher" that I can use to push over damaged and rotten trees. I have a nifty compost fork that works for anything from rock picking to digging out small stumps and roots. It attaches to the front bucket.
     
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  2. John Brunner

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    One of the thins I bought when I first got my tractor was a big shovel that clamps to the bucket. I've used it a couple of times. And I don't weld.
     
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    Thanks, John, I have lots of chains and hooks and things, from doing body work and painting so many years; so good on those. We do have a tractor supply close to us; so I will check them out while getting chicken feed just to see.
     
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  4. Jake Smith

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    I do weld, and have a small welder. Already was planning on making some things to use with my tractor.
     
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    It's Toys Я Us for men.
     
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    Same with fishing tackle; can't be around it without getting something. It's a man thing, "huh"? :cool:
     
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  7. Jake Smith

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    Gonna be back in the saddle today; on my "Kubota", and clearing some trees, my head seems better now. Strange even after three days, or so; I have to peep out the window every morning and pinch myself; just to make sure I didn't "dream", I have a tractor. :D
     
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    Maybe you need a Tractor Helmet @Jake Smith :D
     
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  9. Marie Mallery

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    Thats what I told him, plus safety glasses. I always wear broad rim sunglasses.
     
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    Would've been nice to have had one on; when that tree spent and a broken limb, hit me in the head. :eek:
     
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  11. John Brunner

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    If you're gonna wear glasses, they should be real safety glasses, not something that might splinter or shatter and be worse than no glasses at all. Apparently eyeglasses suffice.
     
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  12. Marie Mallery

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    This is true but 'some' people don't put things back, so they are in Neverland. Jake did find a pair today and wore them. Somewhere they are lots of safety glasses.
     
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    I have goggles and some safety glasses, I wore shades today, while cutting a new trail for Marie a long fence line and there were lots of vines, I now have bunches of piles of them now, roots, stumps, and tree limbs. Just gonna pull them out to the field for now. Tired myself out today and Kubota did "fantastic". I was looking at my bush hog, when I was washing the tractor off, it is a Howse Brush Mower. It works great and quite too.
     
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  14. John Brunner

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    I live by myself and am surrounded by "those people." It's quite annoying.
     
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  15. Marie Mallery

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    LOL, I'm one too. But now that I'm older it is worse.
     
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