Kind of Screwed Up today

[Dweano]

she is a work in progress

Haha, as is my truck. I believe 95% of TRS members could say that. I like the rollbar...roll bars are sweet haha

 

[WNY964x4]

Haha, as is my truck. I believe 95% of TRS members could say that. I like the rollbar...roll bars are sweet haha

thanks , it only cost me the gas it took to go get it haha , so like all of $10 , the guy needed a tailgate for a stepside and i had one off a parts truck i bought for $250 and parted out for $600 , plus kets $700 worth of parts for myself and still have more spare parts haha , and i have more than one work in progress , i lost count of how many i have

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

you are talkin the R4 style tires ? , that has to be some nast stuff to make them into slicks , we were lookin into those to replace the Turf Tires on our JD 850

Same style as an R-4 just a lil tighter lugs. Interco Tire just lists 'em as a skidsteer tire. We have sort of an orangish color clay around here, stuff sticks like you wouldn't believe. When we were building the house here we had to shovel it out from next to the foundation a couple times until we were ready to backfill.... you couldn't take a scoop of it and toss it up cuz the shovel would go with it, lol.

Plus there is a good couple inches of topsoil on top of it and rocks everywhere. The topsoil is that gooey black stuff and there is sandstone everywhere. When we got the skid steer stuck we had stripped the topsoil off the driveway area and got most of the rocks out of the way when things were fairly dry, then we got a couple days of rain. Tried to run the skid steer with a bucket full of rocks straight down the driveway to dump in a pile, never turned the machine or nothin, just right down to dump where the driveway turned to go out to the road. Couldn't back up then, just turned into four slicks. Tried using the bucket to propel the machine backwards but ended up with a bucket full of clay that wouldn't shake loose. Shoveled some out of the way of the tires, shoveled it out of the bucket and spread some mortar where the tires would run (just the dry powder), was just barely enough to get it out. Last time we made a mistake like that, lol.

 

[WNY964x4]

Same style as an R-4 just a lil tighter lugs. Interco Tire just lists 'em as a skidsteer tire. We have sort of an orangish color clay around here, stuff sticks like you wouldn't believe. When we were building the house here we had to shovel it out from next to the foundation a couple times until we were ready to backfill.... you couldn't take a scoop of it and toss it up cuz the shovel would go with it, lol.

Plus there is a good couple inches of topsoil on top of it and rocks everywhere. The topsoil is that gooey black stuff and there is sandstone everywhere. When we got the skid steer stuck we had stripped the topsoil off the driveway area and got most of the rocks out of the way when things were fairly dry, then we got a couple days of rain. Tried to run the skid steer with a bucket full of rocks straight down the driveway to dump in a pile, never turned the machine or nothin, just right down to dump where the driveway turned to go out to the road. Couldn't back up then, just turned into four slicks. Tried using the bucket to propel the machine backwards but ended up with a bucket full of clay that wouldn't shake loose. Shoveled some out of the way of the tires, shoveled it out of the bucket and spread some mortar where the tires would run (just the dry powder), was just barely enough to get it out. Last time we made a mistake like that, lol.

that sounds like the stuff around where my dad lives , once it sucks ya in , ya might as well give up and get help

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

that sounds like the stuff around where my dad lives , once it sucks ya in , ya might as well give up and get help

lol, yea... I made the mistake once not long after I got my F-150. I had several bundles of shingles to unload for the shed so I yanked the shift lever into 4x4 and backed up until my front tires were just on the edge of the gravel drive, figuring I could just let the front tires pull me back up on the driveway when I was done. Shorten my walk a bit an all. Yea, I found out the hard way that the auto front hubs were junk. Mom got to give me a pull with her Explorer... if she wouldn't have come by then I was all set to see if I could just leave the F-150 in neutral and try to pull it up slow with my choptop.

Of course, I have manual front hubs and better tires now, lol.