Talk About Anything Thread V3

sweet!

IDK about it though. It kinda makes it look like a person with 5 green tractors is higher ranked than a person with 1 red tractor.

I had a secondary thought...

Leave the green but start filling in with the red.

That's a pretty neat idea.

MightyRaze wrote:

@MatthewD Love your Avatar!

Thanks Mighty! It's a Fowler B4 Steam Traction engine that I saw at a Steam Rally last Monday.

MightyRaze wrote:

biggasmowers wrote:

Ahhhhhh what hahappened to the ranking ssystem?

The titles are still the same... just new images.  Also instead of just using the expert level image for anything above 700 posts, there is a new color level for "higher level postee's"

Low levels..








Higher Levels..

Good idea! I'd also add some more for the Grand Masters because then you could have 3,000 posts and nothing's changed.

Actually I redefined that....

1000 for expert
1500 GM
2000 Seasoned Vet
3000
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So you can get Reds faster.  Also it does make sense to make bigger leaps as you go out.

Yes thanks Mighty. That is way way better. Might look a little Christmasy but oh well, at least now it makes sense.

I may still tweak that last 6 tractor tier. I have some Ideas.

so i had to clean out the garage completely , removed all mowers and scrubbed the floor for my sisters party and now i am just going to work on one project at a time to try to accomplish more and keep the garage cleaner for easier working on stuff, also hopefully get one of my build off entries finished soon so i can work on other things. i have too many fun mowes right now and i need to get the numbers down, so the snapper might get sold once completed , the junktd is not going to be worked on for a very long time if ever again, the lawn boy with be kept if i like it once it is running full speed or it too will be sold, the muckraker will be kept as an off roader and workhorse, the murray might get sold or kept once i get a better tranny in it, the craftsman lt 4000 will definatley be kept as it is the sturdyiest machine i have ever built . I have plans for next years build off but that is a long time away and i am being stretched too thin over too many projects and jobs currently, i would rather have a couple good machines than a bunch of junk machines that barely run.

biggasmowers wrote:

I need to get the numbers down, so the snapper might get sold once completed.

Whatever you do, do NOT sell the snapper!

I need to clean out my garage too. I know what it's like to have too many projects and not enough space for them. I think the Snapper is way too cool to sell, but you have to do what you have to do

Okay so got tired of my tires constantly going flat on my dump cart because they just had no rubber on them and instead of metal reinforced, they had basically some kind of elastic something or other.  Got these tiller tires on, 1" wider and much thicker.  Got tubes because why not.




In other news...

Double W Cross Ranch wrote:

biggasmowers wrote:

got over 2 inches of rain last night, and it filled up all the good mud holes and creeks. nothing sadder than all this mud and nothing to drive through it. might get the murrays rear tires replaced( burnout chooched them and now there both flat) and take it out there and try to drown it. something about deep water mudding is just so much more fun than just plain mudding.

That sux.  You're also lucky, down here we're in a drought.  Even the rock bottom/side creeks are evaporating about 3" a day and haven't flowed since last spring.

Just got through telling him how dry it was here and now it is pouring and hailing here. LOL. Well, as the saying goes, "If you don't like Texas weather, just wait a few hours."

@biggasmowers I like where your head is at.  Cutting back on projects and focusing on a smaller number will be good for productivity.  2 or 3 machines is a good number to have.  I feel the pain of being stretched too thin with 3 mud tractors and 2 atcs. 

@Double W Cross Ranch Those tires look really heavy duty.

Well the good 110 had it's first run in the mud today along with the GT:



It did okay, the rear tires aren't the greatest so it got stuck a few times and had to get some help from the GT, haha. Still apretty cool rig though, I wanna get a video when all three of us are romping maybe, that'd be pretty neat.

as a new member i mentioned i had 2 hobbies, off road mowers and rc crawlers, here's a project i'm currently working on that falls under my 2nd hobby, i think @Doc Sprocket might appreciate this one since he's into rc crawlers too.
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the body is a custom built Tamiya blackfoot f150, it sits on a scx10 chassis with a narrowed rear axle for a more scale look, the wheels are level3 rc 1.9 dually wheels, the tires are cheap 96mm tall tires i picked up off ebay, it has integy 75mm internal spring shocks and no name chinese magnetic body mounts, I've been working on this truck for about 5 months now and have it only about half done, so there's still a lot to do yet.

That is pretty awesome! Feel free to talk about it in our Off-Topic Builds section!

https://www.atltf.com/f23-off-topic-project-builds

What scale do you do?

@AllisKidD21 the JD looks good with some mud on her haha. And if this 110 doesn't perform well in mud, you can always make the MK2 110 better

MatthewD wrote:

@AllisKidD21 the JD looks good with some mud on her haha. And if this 110 doesn't perform well in mud, you can always make the MK2 110 better

Oh for sure Matt! This one's just the test rig until the "super mod" 110 is ready, haha.

AllisKidD21 wrote:

MatthewD wrote:

@AllisKidD21 the JD looks good with some mud on her haha. And if this 110 doesn't perform well in mud, you can always make the MK2 110 better

Oh for sure Matt! This one's just the test rig until the "super mod" 110 is ready, haha.

What are all the plans for the "super mod" 110?

HAHA... One does not speak of the super mod plans!

Well, here's my 1,500th post.
Now I join the cool kids as Grand Master!

Coolio!

Hey welcome to the kewl klub W! Haha

Nice double w. The previous ranking stickers made it seem more epic but who cares, this forum isn't for rank but to talk about tractors