Welder Dave
Senior Member
It looks like you're in there pretty good.
Was a easy pull, lifted my front end up out of the hole, backhoe pulled the frontend around, literally drove out. wasn't my first day at the rodeo, lol, have been in a lot worst situations, doesn't happen to often but it does happen to the best of us when you do a lot of ditching.It looks like you're in there pretty good.
It probably looks worse in the pic. than it actually was. Sometimes you get stuck just trying to do the simplest things. Not that you really did anything wrong, 6 inches over too far and you get sucked into the mud. Have had this happen a few times with the skid steer and once with a loaded dump truck. The dump was only bad because the next door neighbor wanted 150litres of diesel for pulling me out with his excavator. $175 seemed just a little high for helping your neighbor out. I won't be asking him for help in the future. I would have tried to pull it out with my track loader but it was about 3/4 of a mile away in my other neighbors back field.Was a easy pull, lifted my front end up out of the hole, backhoe pulled the frontend around, literally drove out. wasn't my first day at the rodeo, lol, have been in a lot worst situations, doesn't happen to often but it does happen to the best of us when you do a lot of ditching.
Oooppss..Running back over my roads now, prepping them for dust control, have the dozer blade on now been doing some ditching where its not to wet, had to get a little tugView attachment 260979
Don't take long to get dirt on them messing in the ditches, was just prepping that road for new gravel, didn't have the dozer blade on so got down in the ditch a bit to far, front wheel went down over a little bank, and there I was, lol, came back the next day with the dozer blade on finished the ditching, ditches are still a bit soft here yet, do alot of ditching in August much drier then for that, just finished my second round and all my roads now are sprayed for dust control, that's 120 roads sense the last week of April.Yesterday I started over all of my roads with a maintenance grade. Most of my gravel has been on over a month. We've not had any damaging rains. But we've gotten small rains a couple times a week for two months now. Farmers still aren't done planting.
I'm getting quite a few chug holes. Also vegetation growth on the shoulders in in high gear....
I ran 7 miles of roads yesterday. Brought the grader home with me last night. Intended to run roads near my farm today. Rained 1.5" last night. So while I'm here I'll give the grader a bath. It's the dirtiest it's been since we bought it. Been cleaning out ditches as I go when possible....
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Yes they are carbide bits they do a really nice job very happy with them and I run a 16ft moldboard on all my machines use a 2ft left hand extension and as far as the machine yes I have joystick controls and there’s some feed back takes some getting used to that’s for suer.Nice job, those are top of the line stinger bits compared to what they get me, are they carbide tips? mine are suppose to rotate when grading but they never do, those bits would be great for iceblading to, just noticed you have a extender insert in your blade, did your 140 come with a 12ft blade?
Nice, a extra 2ft would make a difference for sure, there is some feedback but very little compared to the racks on the H series, you can feel the hydraulics coming on in the levers in the H series, not so much in the M with joysticks, its electric over HydraulicYes they are carbide bits they do a really nice job very happy with them and I run a 16ft moldboard on all my machines use a 2ft left hand extension and as far as the machine yes I have joystick controls and there’s some feed back takes some getting used to that’s for suer.
I agree definitely can feel way better with rack controls the joystick controls I still operate a rack control machine have a 2019 cat 140 nice machine and in my opinion for doing road maintenance 16ft moldboard is only way to maintain roads easily I have 22Nice, a extra 2ft would make a difference for sure, there is some feedback but very little compared to the racks on the H series, you can feel the hydraulics coming on in the levers in the H series, not so much in the M with joysticks, its electric over Hydraulic