Yea, but TLBs suck IMO.

If you're doing more than a couple hundred feet of trench it's faster to haul in a mini ex.

With most little TLBs like that you have to get off the rear seat and go to the front seat to move the machine. I know the Deere 110 TLBs have a creep feature on them, but I still don't really like TLBs. They do 2 things, but they don't do either terribly well.

Plus it irritates the heck out of me to have just a swing boom rather than having the whole house swing on the turntable like a mini ex.

Plus with a mini ex you can have the swing boom and turn table so you can really get in tight to a building or anything like that with minimal disturbance.

A tractor or skid will still never grade quite as nicely as a dozer will. They just aren't quite the same. With a dozer you have a 6 way blade. With a skid you really only have 2 way unless you get a blade on it and then it's only 4 way unless you've got a real custom setup.

Edit for Brent's last couple posts:

If I had to sit behind a desk all day I'd go nuts. I know I can't have a desk job. Engineering appealed to me because with civil engineering you don't spend a ton of time at your desk.

Here's how I see things playing out though:
The baby boomers are most of the operators out there. Whether they like it or not there will come a day when they will no longer be able to work. There are not enough qualified replacement operators out there right now. Not many people in my age group are willing to do this kind of work. Operators will be at a premium and they'll get paid as such.

That's just my theory though.

Either way it's getting late here on the east coast and I am going to be spending some time with the rotary mower tomorrow and drowsy operator + rotary mower = bad bad things.

 

Im good....

 

Yeah, plus you look like a tard doing this-
I'm the one with the tape on my hip NOT RIDING THE TRACTOR!!

 

I guess a lot of that depends on the ability of the operator,I didn't start last week

 

Exhaust tip dude.....

So far mine is good, but I do keep walking by and wiping it off real quick.

 

LOL i got it i was just trying to make it into an innuendo.... Yes my tip is great! Shes big and shiny and makes lots of noise!

 

Excellant....

 

what happened to everyone?? this place got sloooowwwwwww......

 

they all went to bed.... frinckin PANZIES!

 

Hey Pete, this is what happens when you let your friends drink BEFORE you back-fill. Somehow he was convinced that bare feet compact the dirt better than shoed feet. I have some brilliant friends

 

Ofcourse bare feet works better.... everyone knows that

 

Usually once any article of a dude's clothes come off I'm running the other way...

 

LOL what size tractor is that?

 

Ya know Nolan Im not sure, the only pic I have with a number says b-150....
Still, looks pretty funny with 2 dudes riding it... ugh, that sounded terrible...

 

I thought it looked like a B series and looks like a 3 point hoe.That would explain two people to run it
My L-35 only has one seat