Gordy wrote: ↑Wed Aug 25, 2021 12:14 am
Can't afford Case weights when they rarely show up, but those 3 green ones (with running deer) were $15us each at a auction And I get to tell people that JD is great at making dead weight, when they give me crap for having them on the Case or Ingy
The scoop shovels are tailgate extensions to get more dirt in the cart The tires on the cart are tubed, and cracked like ice in a snow cone so of course I need to load test them from time to time
Gordy
I hear you @Gordy , and I'd use those in a pinch. It's just weights so who cares what color. Plus you can paint them. I'll start looking for one of those scoop shovels, I like them.
The real load test is this: if they burst you get new tires! you better have replacements on hand!
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Gordy wrote: ↑Wed Aug 25, 2021 12:14 am
Can't afford Case weights when they rarely show up, but those 3 green ones (with running deer) were $15us each at a auction And I get to tell people that JD is great at making dead weight, when they give me crap for having them on the Case or Ingy
The scoop shovels are tailgate extensions to get more dirt in the cart The tires on the cart are tubed, and cracked like ice in a snow cone so of course I need to load test them from time to time
Gordy
I hear you Gordy, and I'd use those in a pinch. It's just weights so who cares what color. Plus you can paint them. I'll start looking for one of those scoop shovels, I like them.
The real load test is this: if they burst you get new tires! you better have replacements on hand!
Eugen, I use them scoop shovels like that for snow shovels. You get a good shovel full of snow with them. Other than slush/slop, too heavy, I am not man enough.
Spike188 wrote: ↑Wed Aug 25, 2021 12:10 am
Eugen, those are grain scoops. My hands have a permanent shape from using those as a child laborer. I didn't know any thing was suppose to be anything wrong with that. In the first grade I took down a 6th grader during recess. The teacher gave me the privilege of staying inside the couple of days.
Spike
so I'm not the only one that handled a big shovel in his youth. It does mark you that's for sure. I did a stint in a coal mine for one year, as part of my military service, and we had these huge shovels named "heart of Stalin" on account of coal being lighter than dirt, so you could shovel more at at time. I do want something like this, because for instance wood chips are light, so normal shovels are just too little.
Unless the wood chips are in the cart where I can get the scoop shovel down to the steel bottom of the cart, I prefer a good 14 tine silage fork. Especially with the bigger chips from the power line clearing crews. The fork penetrates the chip pile much easier than the blunt edge of the shovel.
I did the math and I believe the log is in the neighborhood of 1200lbs. I made the roof out of an old cb34 cab I had. I took the roof and then used emt to build it. It's just my sun shade/ overhead light holder. One day I'll bend up a nice tube cage for it.
Jancoe wrote: ↑Fri Aug 27, 2021 7:12 am
I did the math and I believe the log is in the neighborhood of 1200lbs. I made the roof out of an old cb34 cab I had. I took the roof and then used emt to build it. It's just my sun shade/ overhead light holder. One day I'll bend up a nice tube cage for it.
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It looks good, like it's meant to be there, not a hackjob.
@Jancoe that is impressive! I don't know if I have the guts to lift that much on my 644! Did you build some sort of quick attach mechanism or did the 6018 come with it?
P.S. I bet your boy drives it by now. Look at that happy face!
And I get to tell people that JD is great at making dead weight, when they give me crap for having them on the Case or Ingy
The tires on the cart are tubed, and cracked like ice in a snow cone so of course I need to load test them from time to time
you better have replacements on hand!
no more mow it's time to blow 
so I'm not the only one that handled a big shovel in his youth. It does mark you that's for sure. I did a stint in a coal mine for one year, as part of my military service, and we had these huge shovels named "heart of Stalin" on account of coal being lighter than dirt, so you could shovel more at at time. I do want something like this, because for instance wood chips are light, so normal shovels are just too little. 
got the weekly load brought in. Only a little seat time. 