Senile Texas Aggie - comic relief for the rest of you

There is no GOOD reason to ever work under a raised FEL bucket without a safety on the cylinder..none.
It is so incredibly simple & quick to make something to keep a loader bucket up regardless of what happens with the control lever, broken hyd lines, or blown cylinder seals.
Get set up to work, figure out about how high you need to raise the bucket for the work you will be hanging off it, and cut a 2x4 or even 2x6 board or piece of pipe to fit between the cylinder barrel face and the bracket the cylinder attaches to at the top with it raised at your preferred height. Raise to full height, set board right next to the cylinder ram (the shiny part) and lash it on there with a few god cable ties. Lower the bucket until the upper bracket just touches the board and no matter what, the fel cannot and will not drop any farther than that. It must rest ON the end of the board tho.



My Case loader backhoe combo came with one from the factory and it works.
This is a pic of a newer one, but they are all the same:



I unpin the lock, swing it down, and lower the loader down on the lock.

greybeard said:

There is no GOOD reason to ever work under a raised FEL bucket without a safety on the cylinder..none.

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You are right - and at my house it will never happen again. Thanks so much for the safety tip. It is much appreciated!

Thanks for the safety tip GB.

All,

We finally finished clearing out the small creek (really a natural ditch) between the east pasture on the north and one of the southern pastures on the south. It has been a long time coming.



Here are the before pictures from point A, starting southwest and going around to east:



After pictures in next post.

Getting it cleaned up is a great start and is the easy part. Keeping it that way is the hard part and a lifetime endeavor.

After pictures from point A, starting from southwest around to east:



After pictures from point B (I couldn't find my before pictures from point B):



I plan to cut down the vine covered tree in the second picture once I get a new chainsaw chain or shorten the one I have.

Senile Texas Aggie

greybeard said:

Getting it cleaned up is a great start and is the easy part. Keeping it that way is the hard part and a lifetime endeavor.

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That is definitely true! The ditch next to the driveway that we cleared last fall is already growing up. I need to get down there with my sprayer and take care of the shrubs already sprouting again.

Nice job STA

It looks nice. Sure you don't need some cattle in those pastures and lazing under those trees?

Or sheep or goats or alpacas or llamas or yaks or buffalo?