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I always find a few STUPID good deals on 7.3 trucks down south and I think I'm going to start bringing them back to Canada and flipping them for 3x what I purchase them for or close to that. A rust free 7.3 4x4 with 300k-400k kms can easily sell for 25k-35k CAD especially if it's a higher trim and man oh man wouldn't it be just heaven cruising the southern states searching for 7.3 trucks lol
Nothing to do with the power stroke 6.0, but last week I really hurt my back putting the Christmas trees up. So after shutting down for a few days, I went over to Harbor freight and got a pickup bed crane and electric winch. This is kind of a mini version of what I have set up on one of my compact tractor backhoe, but that’s too big of a tractor to be maneuvering between these trees. It’s used more for moving the 15 to 25 foot trees.
One of the four gravely tractors I have for maintaining the farm and home, I dropped the mower deck, grabbed a 2 x 12 for a base and mounted it up. It really works well for moving these around.
It may even work at home if I have anything to move around in the yard or even here at the farm, although then I have the two compact tractors, one with the backhoe.
Nothing to do with the power stroke 6.0, but last week I really hurt my back putting the Christmas trees up. So after shutting down for a few days, I went over to Harbor freight and got a pickup bed crane and electric winch. This is kind of a mini version of what I have set up on one of my compact tractor backhoe, but that’s too big of a tractor to be maneuvering between these trees. It’s used more for moving the 15 to 25 foot trees.
One of the four gravely tractors I have for maintaining the farm and home, I dropped the mower deck, grabbed a 2 x 12 for a base and mounted it up. It really works well for moving these around.
It may even work at home if I have anything to move around in the yard or even here at the farm, although then I have the two compact tractors, one with the backhoe.
I'm thinking we should have a thread of Awesome - and this would fit there quite nicely!
I wish I had thought of this years ago. When I display the trees, they sit in the pail of water and are held in place with a pin welded to a plate. The plates are mounted to either a 4x6 24" buried in the solid or a rectangular frame made from 5/4x6, so there are 8 to 10 trees per frame. I also have a driller that you put the tree on to drill the center hole in the trunk.
The hard part is putting the tree on the pin, as you are holding the tree up and hunting for the trunk's hole. When it's not found, I bend my right knee to the ground, hold the tree, and hunt for the hole, but with a closer view. That's when I hurt my back, after 100 trees.
With the crane holding the tree, your back and legs are not carrying the weight, and with the winch remote-controlled, you can ease the tree down, feel where the hole is, and not strain.
I used to get a little money for my waste oil, but nowadays I have to pay to have it recycled.
Our stupid government no longer buys gas directly from Russia, but through dealers (who buy the gas from Russia).
Or we buy the expensive liquid gas from you in the USA, which has increased the cost of gas here enormously.
I have now converted a wood-burning stove into a waste oil burner. This means I have no more heating costs and no more waste oil to dispose of.
Rezvani's Latest Post-Apocalyptic Monster Is a Ford F-150 Raptor Underneath
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