luke strawwalker
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It's a little old. I bumped it to add a picture of where I am.
It's going VERY well. Thank! We're drinking lots and lots and lots of water all day. The last day I did start feeling not so well near the end, but I think it was more the bending over to screw in the deck screws over and over.
I tried kneeling, but that's killer on the knees. Then I tried sitting, but that took a long time to move around and was also hard on the knees. The best way was to just spread my feet and bend all the way over for each screw (that sounds dirty, but it's not). It's not easy to do that for hours on end. especially with the sun that hot.
Yep, I hear ya...
Few years back, our farm pond at Shiner went dry... like POWDER DRY during the summer drought that year. We took the 5610S with the loader on it to Shiner and started digging out the pond to rework it-- over the years, sand had washed in one end pretty badly, and the banks were collapsing... I dug out about three feet of sand out of that pond, and enlarged it to roughly the size of a football field on the bottom, tapered the banks up at the recommended 30 degree angle, added about another foot of sand to the dam bank and the rest went on/behind the side banks... my brother ran the 2310 with a box blade leveling the dirt out-- I ran the big tractor down in the pond, scoop up a bucketful of sand, raise the loader, crawl up the bank out of the pond, dump it, and circle back down the bank into the bottom for the next bucketload...
Well, none of our tractors have cabs... I added some kiddie pools on top of homemade welded frames, mounted to the ROPS up over the operator's deck, but lemme tell ya, even with a sunshade, it gets MIGHTY hot when the temp is 106+ and the hot air from the engine radiator fan is getting ducted straight back alongside the engine along the loader frame, and blowing on you... and you're sitting on top of the transmission which is also scalding hot because the hydraulics and gears are working so hard... My brother and I were keeping a couple quarts of Gatorade in bottles in small coolers on the deck behind our feet, and we'd put a few bottles of water frozen solid in there, packed tight, to keep the Gatorade ice cold... it's all be melted in about 30 minutes or so! I know one day it had to be 120+ degrees on that tractor due to the engine/transmission heat... I drank about 2-3 quarts of Gatorade, plus about 8-10 bottles of water, plus a couple glasses of iced tea at lunch... and he did the same... I think we stopped ONCE to pee, and maybe dropped a cupful... LOL The rest we sweated out...
Don't look forward to the stuff I gotta do, because we're hovering around 100 or so here in SE TX...
Later! OL JR