[AT] In praise of hydraulics

[Mike]

Yes Dean, diesel and hydraulics will make your life in the country much 
more enjoyable. Don't know what I'd do without my Massey 255 with FEL.

Mike M

On 11/1/2014 6:54 PM, Dean Vinson wrote:
> I love the Super M, and it remains my go-to tractor for hauling a wagon or
> pulling little osage orange trees out by the roots.  But I'm getting right
> fond of the hydraulic systems on the other tractors.
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> Today's chore was spreading about ten tons of #4 limestone gravel in front
> of one of the barns.  There was already some leading up to the garage doors
> and down toward the farrowing shed but not hardly any at all by the two big
> open bays, so that area was starting to get muddy and rutted.  I had a big
> stockpile of the gravel nearby, delivered for this job and a few others, and
> this morning set out with the Kubota with the front loader to start moving
> some of it.   That's a handy little machine right there and I got halfway
> good at spreading the rock as I was dumping it, but it still needed a lot of
> smoothing out and the area was big enough that backblading with the little
> Kubota bucket just wasn't cutting it.  Fortunately, the 620 was right there
> too.
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> http://www.vinsonfarm.net/photos/gravel_20141101.jpg
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> (Those following the continuing saga of the 620 may note the non-flat front
> tire and the non-missing (but barn-rusty) rear wheel weight.  And that dent
> in the muffler is hardly visible from this angle at all.  :)
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> Dean Vinson
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> Saint Paris, Ohio
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