We tried to lift 225 gallons of water in an IBC tote with the Mahindra 1526 tractor … but NO JOY. Too heavy! I’ll have to develop a strategy for filling and transporting half-filled totes, or some such.
Picked up a new CZ Scorpion Evo 3 S1 9mm carbine and zero’d it with a Holosun 503 red dot. VERY happy with the Scorpion. Great little shooter.
Also picked up a new County Line 4′ 3-point hitch, PTO-powered tiller. We’re going to start renovating the “big pasture” tomorrow, if the weather holds, and the tiller will enable me to get the work done quicker than if I relied solely on the 30″ BCS walk-behind tiller.
So here’s the trailer story I alluded to in the video. At the local (Burlington NC) Tractor Supply Company store, I came out of the store and found two guys standing next to my trailer, obviously looking at and talking about it. I walked up and said “I’ve only had it for a day, but what questions can I answer for you?” One guy replied: “what color red is that?” I said: “dunno, but it matches my tractor perfectly, so I’ll call it Mahindra red.” He laughed, and said “well, it’s a PJ trailer, so I know it’s a great trailer.” THAT made my day, because anybody that knows me knows I don’t buy anything without doing a LOT of research first. But, in this rare case, I bought the PJ trailer spur of the moment, without any research, on intuition only. Whew.
When I pulled the trailer around the back of the story to the loading dock, three employees came out to load the tiller. An older guy said: “new trailer huh? like a day old?” Now how the hell did he know that? Then, he said “I’m not going to be able to drive the forklift up onto the tractor ramps (to load the tiller). Against policy, and I’m not going to be the guy that puts the first scratch on that baby.”
We used the forklift to get the tiller up on the ‘tail’ of the trailer, then used a pallet jack to drag it the rest of the way. Before I left, the old timer said: “next time, don’t bring such a nice trailer.” To me, it’s just a trailer, but it was funny to have the damn thing draw so much attention. ONLY IN THE COUNTRY. 😉
We’ve got some nasty thunderstorm cells building up overhead, with NWS alerts going up for severe local weather. Love it. Just PLEEEEEESE to blow up my cable modem again! We when about 4+ days without internet access that last time (few weeks ago), and that just SUCKS.