Got a new toy. Well kind of. LOL

Well my sons did so I guess I can get them to let me play with it. LOL IT is in real good shape. Only 3500 hours.

Added two pit silos this summer. They are going to a larger TMR wagon. The up right silos are going to be high moisture corn only now.

I will say the large forks are handy. I loaded three loads of scrap this week. Made it easy.

Very nice!!

Pit silos really came into their own with the large dairies. A wall on each side- doesn't cost that much more to make them 100 feet apart rather than 50, but it doubles the capacity. You need to take at least 6', preferably a foot, off the face each day to avoid spoilage. So the larger the number of cattle, the wider you could make it. A large dairy that PCA financed had it all figured out- one huge pit for corn, because it had to last all year. Two smaller ones for grass- Use one all winter, then refill it in the spring while you're using out of the other one over summer. When you get the one filled, start filling the other and using out of the other end for the rest of the summer. High quality TMR feed, good cows, even better manager, he couldn't have printed as much money as he made on that place. And this after his ne'er do well dad almost lost the place.

He had a couple of very attractive daughters- they worked right along with everyone else. Remember watching one use a huge Case loader to load out manure- no wasted motion, never looked behind her, knew where everything was, leaned back in that seat like it was an armchair. I was almost tempted to watch the loading operation rather than the girl. Almost.

But as luck would have it, he wasn't far from Tacoma- and suburbia caught up with him. So he sold his 1,000 acres for many millions, used a few of the millions to recreate the dairy in eastern Washington farm country, and put the rest in his pocket. Life is not always hard.

You will find all kinds of uses for that loader.

Very nice....you will love it!

Some nice toy.

Nice !! There is just no comparison in the quality of industrial equipment , and the junk that is built for farm equipment .I know some will say that farm equipment is built lighter so farmers can afford to buy it . That is a BS story . The loaders offered on comparable machines , like a backhoe loader and a farm tractor loader, the backhoe's loader will be built twice as heavy , with a heavier front axle , and a lager pump, making it a much stronger and more power full loader. Farm tractors loaders don't even come close, and are not offered either. So many farmers are doing just like you folks , and buying pay loaders . Even a old pay loader will do more than a new farm tractor loader.

Indeed. Price a good heavy loader, which is going to tie up a farm tractor, and a decent used tractor/loader/backhoe can be a good deal.

Yeah, but a farm loader tractor doesn't see anywhere near the use and heavier loading it's industrial equivalent would. Also, some industrial units do not have 3 pt or pto, really reducing their usefulness on the farm. I will agree an industrial unit is easily twice the unit a farm tractor is, especially. when it's a payload er like the one above. Ben

".......let me play with it." Boys and their toys. Grin. Tools make the job.......fact! Congrats.

You will soon be shaking your head and wondering why you even have loaders on your other tractors.
It will soon become your go to machine.

Things that used to be a major hassle to deal with will now be so effortless they will almost be fun to do.

Cleaning corrals
Loading/unloading or lifting almost anything
Popping rocks/boulders out of the ground
Snow clearing
Broken or stuck equipment retrieval
Taking down trees/fences
Clearing trails
Fixing up the driveway
The list is endless

A good set of tire chains are not cheap but they make a huge difference in what a machine like that can do.

I wish the dairy I work on would get one Of these except a little smaller

Should make pushing snow kinda fun!