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Since I couldn't accompany Mr. Hood on his rat feeding journey to Texarkana, I ended up buying a 3-point blade instead. The good news: the offset is hydraulic, and it only cost $50. The bad news is that someone had apparently tried to move bridge abutments with it, so it's more of a V-plow at...

Which is connected to the only two wires a rat will not eat.

Several of my levers and valves were quite sticky, too, but lots of JB-80 applications and moving things around did eventually free them up quite well. Also, ditching the 10W in the system probably didn't hurt. For now, the sure-fire way for you to avoid damage and/or surprises is to only run...

Wings are easy enough to make, should you decide to go wider. I'm fairly sure I'll end up adding at least two six-inchers to mine...if it'll run okay in the first place. This spring, would you mind if I borrowed your snow blower for a while? I'd love to see what that dual fan setup would do to...

You try it, and I'll copy it if it works. I can live with that.

Maybe you could plumb in diverter valves, so once the backhoe is positioned, the same setup could run the auger instead?

That's an interesting snow blower setup. Makes sense now that I've seen the picture of it. It'll also be interesting to find out how the SEE deals with its hunger for volume and pressure. The one I ordered will supposedly run on down to 18 gpm. Oh, and by the way, you technically don't have two...

I haven't driven my Pete in so long that I can't quite remember how the air distribution works, but I think you need to get "trailer supply" active, as in filling its tanks, working. The SEE must have a similar button, which should be the one between the seats, since the trailer brake is the...

Yep, that's how it looks in the real Midwest. Well, at this particular part of it, which is at 7,500 feet.

Okay, found a pic. The "sky hook" is the gray part, and made so the spreader bar can be used as pictured, or at the end. It's set up to use either grab hooks or whatever can plug into a receiver, including a simple 2x2 tubing extension. Also made a "scraper" for it, which came in handy for...

Sorry, Skidpad, I missed this post somehow. The so-called glad hand is standard fare on tractor trailers, and the part facing the camera is what you need to fit the connections on the SEE. I'll try to remember to dig up a photo of my "sky hook", a gizmo I made to use on the tractor (before...

Well, thank you! I had to look that one up, never having seen one. Looks like a stick of 2x6 tubing and a few other pieces would be all it takes to build one to work with my existing quick attach pallet forks. Except for some mechanism to balance the thing with, which would likely be most...

I think it is, but now you made me question that.

Today's some-progress-report: Finally did a sanitary sweep of the cab of the parts SEE. Primarily to remove a housing development (installed by rats) on the exhaust manifold to prevent future fires, but also to cleanse it in general. So I can change the oil, without digging for the dipstick...

Well, the SBC idea was simply because I have one. Could use a 6.2 diesel instead, I suppose, but those would be the most logical choices from what's in the pile. The blower I bought, a 7-footer, is supposed to be able to run on the rear circuit. In theory. I studied that quite a bit before...

Hey, we can have a race! I'm starting on a quick attach conversion on Tuesday, when the adapter arrives. Not sure when the fully hydraulic snow blower will arrive, but to me the biggie will be to find out if the rear hydraulics will run it properly. Needing another project like I need another...

At this point, all we can do is hope that those charts are indeed part of the lot, and in usable condition.

Neither do I, so that makes two of us. And yes, the plan was to sell all of them, and send them out all at once, so that General Hood can't get gypped.

SHHH!!! General Hood was going to sell them for much ​less than that. Please delete your post before he can see it.

"Good news, everyone!", as they would say on Futurama. It was indeed out own General Hood who won that auction. He still has to figure out the total cost and such, but now it looks like 30 of us will be able to buy a wall chart from him. Well, make that 29...I already reserved one.