richardbrackin
02-16-2006, 04:35 PM
I'm glad I found this site.
I'm Richard. I grew up around heavy equipment on our cotton farm.
We had a bunch of tractors and a bunch of cotton pickers and a combine or two.
My father has turned some of it into a sod farm.
I work for a large format printing company during the day, then after hours I split time between my sign company and helping out on the sod farm.
Right now I'm removing/flattening several thousand feet of terraces with a John Deere 650G LGP.
About 10 years ago I helped build a 15-acre sump pond for irrigation using our 1950's model Cat D6 -- no hydraulics for the blade --- only cables.
The funny thing was the large Komatsu's helping out had to stop because their torque converters got too hot (it was Summer). I kept on trucking along since I didn't have a torque converter. :)
I'll supply pics if anyone's interested.
Anyway, hope it's not too much info.
Nice to meet you all.
I'm Richard. I grew up around heavy equipment on our cotton farm.
We had a bunch of tractors and a bunch of cotton pickers and a combine or two.
My father has turned some of it into a sod farm.
I work for a large format printing company during the day, then after hours I split time between my sign company and helping out on the sod farm.
Right now I'm removing/flattening several thousand feet of terraces with a John Deere 650G LGP.
About 10 years ago I helped build a 15-acre sump pond for irrigation using our 1950's model Cat D6 -- no hydraulics for the blade --- only cables.
The funny thing was the large Komatsu's helping out had to stop because their torque converters got too hot (it was Summer). I kept on trucking along since I didn't have a torque converter. :)
I'll supply pics if anyone's interested.
Anyway, hope it's not too much info.
Nice to meet you all.