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Geo-TH,In

Geo-TH,In

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Between rain drops today I cleared out some honeysuckle with a terramite T5D, 20 hp honda.
It only took a little digging to break up roots on one side, then it popped out of the ground.
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Honeysuckle is pretty easy to tear out of the ground. When I remove any bushes I level the bucket and put it flat on the ground, then drive into the bush. I hardly notice that I ran up against anything.
 
And when he grows up to realize he coulda used a terramite and not his back he will be greatfull.
LOL work smarter not harder
 
Honeysuckle 95% died here a couple decades ago. It is getting hard to remember which disease or insect came along and got them, oak, elm, ash, honeysuckle...... If something comes after maple and box elder, there won't be a tree left around here!

Honeysuckle made wonderful hedges, outside ring for a windbreak. Miss ours.

Paul
 
No way would I remove a tree like a walnut,
I would let it grow. Other hand I'm
removing honeysuckle so two cedar can grow.
Remember this is a subcompact. What can
your subcompact do, post pics?
 
LOL. First time I hooked onto a small walnut tree to pull it out with the big tractor a 4020 Deere with a 158 loader I got a big surprise ! Toughest out there I have found so far.
 

Sure a sub compact can do that if they have the hoe attachment, then mow the lawn and after that till the garden.

Rick
 
(quoted from post at 20:27:27 12/14/15)
Try a Walnut. Them things have a tap root a third of their height.
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Mulberry is the same way. It has a tap root that is the same size of the trunk.
 
You keep wanting to pick a fight or compare your termite to a SUB COMPACT, well the sub compact leader is the KUBOTA BX series. To do true comparison you should compare to the B series tractor but even comparing to the bx lets look at sales last year. Termite total units sold 2378 , Kubota BX series 11,840. Somebody must like the BX a little better than the Termite. Good luck with your termite and glad you are satisfied. Only experience I have had wit one is the few that we have had traded in on KUBOTAS are hard to get rid of.
 
That doesn't look like much of a feat to me. I have pushed out bunches of honeysuckel that size and much bigger with the FEL on my Kubota B2150. They are very shallow routed and uprout very easy, with little to no dirt left on them.
Loren, the Acg.
 
Terramites are nice little pieces of equipment. They are. I rented and used one once. They have their place and come in handy. But couldn't you have just used a log chain around that bush and given it a tug? Someone else mentioned Bushog.

Mark
 


a new vr and the termite could have even dug a bigger one out..Hi Hi. Good job though for the little feller.
 
Please show me the popular BX lifting a 5 ft drywell cover in front of the loader. I made a 55 gallon drum filled with concrete for neighbor's tractor, 3 pt rear ballast. Delivered it to neighbor's using front forks. Really like to see how much your popular botas can lift and dig. PLEASE SHOW ME ONE AT WORK.
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It is obvious that the Terramite is designed and built as a dedicated loader/backhoe, just on a small scale. It is also apparent to me that you are using it for what it was made to be used for which is digging and lifting stuff. I use my Massey sub-compact for completely different tasks for which a TLB would not be suited such as mowing my 5-acre yard, using a rotary cutter for the big stuff, running a 3-point log splitter off the remote outlet, blading snow, garden work, and other jobs. Does that make it less of a machine than a Terramite? Definitely not for the tasks that I need it for. I don't even have a loader on mine as that would just get in the way for what I use it for. It seems to me that the two machines are designed to fill different needs and comparing them is sort of like comparing apples and oranges. Neither is necessarily better than the other - they're just different.
 
Mark In.

Cutting off they will come back. Log chain will snap off. Removing roots to make room flower beds in old gravel pit. You can't pull a tree out easily with a chain and a 20 hp subcompact. Wish I had pics from old computer and took a pic of a 40ft sycamore I took down by cutting off roots and pushing over. One other thing to consider, is the roll cage for protection. I would have been injured a few times without it. I have a full time retirement project clearing out small trees and honeysuckle in old 22 acre gravel pit. Geo
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LOL I don't know why you are trying to convince us what a great machine you think that thing is. I have a TLB that tips the scales at 14,100 pounds. If I tried comparing it to yours, yours would come up far short in abilities. All that matters is if you like it.

Rick
 
Your TERMITE IS NOT A SUBCOMPACT,George.A Subcompact or Compact can do 1001 more things better then yours can even think about doing,plus if you want to compare like for like,then use the Commercial model JDs & Kubota models which will more then match your thing.Like JM said,why keep trying to pick a fight over this??
 
You are right mine is a 20 hp compact made in the USA. Are the others you mentioned 20 hp or larger? Not picking a fight, just impressed what my toy can do. As a kid, dad when to county fair. He liked the tractor pulls. Is that a fight between tractors or just a contest? I would like to see what other small ones can do, is that a crime? So far no one has posted back. Love to see what your JD or kubotas can do. Not trying to pick a fight either! Please show me your best ones!!!
 
I take it you passed up on buying the one you posted? I think you are closer to terramite place in
W Va than I am. You should have more used ones to pick form than I have.
 
Aww heck! On these cool mornings my Black Lab puppy does that for fun if he ain't out retrieving ducks for me! LOL!!!

Scott
 

Its still for sale I could live with out it but want it but not enuff to pay there price... I can afford to put a hoe on my bota BUT I don't think it would be as handy as yours no mater what others think... Its a toy I like toys but don't like to be aggravated with them...
 
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