Turbo Twister

Interesting read. I'm not up to speed on that sort of stuff yet and I haven't really looked into the hydraulic unit as everything is literally on top of one another under the seat. It can be a pain to get at parts deep down, you have to remove a load of panels etc. I don't recall the breaker hitting fast, it was a brand new one and I was first to use it. I got about 1 hour of breaking work done St a time, then I'd have to wait about an hour for the oil to cool, then maybe get another 15 mins. I got so frustrated by it that I went back to my Makita breaker which was quicker.

It's a Hanix H09D, 0.9ton digger with extendable tracks in and out, it has the joysticks to either side of the seat like the bigger machines, I hate the sticks infront of me. I bought it last year for €11300 and have probably put the bones of another €1000 into it. It had 600 hours on the clock when I got it first and now has about 1400. I reckon it was an ex hire digger before that as the tracks were rotten from it being outside all the time. All the pins had to be replaced, although I didn't replace the wobbly quick hitch as it can be to your advantage when working on uneven ground. It doesn't work well with a hydraulic breaker, I reckon the pump isn't strong enough and it overheats, so I just use my Makita hand breaker instead. What is the name of the landscape thread please? We get on average, about €110/€120 for a 9 month old boer buck of approx 45kg in meat (about 90lbs?) Last years 2 that we sent off were a little less as they were late arrivals. It's nice to be back😄

That would be great please, I love a challenge but we all need a little help sometimes. It gets bright here in Ireland at about 7am currently, and dark again about 7.15pm, the joys of winter huh!

@hodge5 does that bracket bolt on to the bottom of the engine?

@Fishfiles correct, we have a mix of boer and anglo nubian goats here and my wife is trying to get the purebred lines back into them. The boers are great for their meat and the nubians are great milkers. The nubians are very tall when fully grown, we have one fella who is about 7ft tall when he's on his back legs! The digger has had a lot of ups and downs this year, one of the tracks gave a lot of problems as I couldn't find the problem (leaking grease nipple) for a long time and I ended up destroying a nearly new track as a result. Then the exhaust snapped and I had a 10 week wait from Japan for a new one at a hefty price of £484 sterling plus vat! When I got the exhaust fit, the cable for the front blade snapped (I temporarily used baler twine to pull the piston up so i could move the digger) and the throttle cable was also stiff, so 'touch wood' since I have replaced those parts, I can have a trouble free digger for another while, as it is super useful to have on and off the farm🤞

This is great info, thank you very much! It probably won't get started until early next year as I've a lot of other jobs to knock on the head first, like tiling the floor of our new craft room (I don't enjoy tiling much) but I can do it reasonably well so we'll go with it lol I will be asking plenty more questions about the splitter to you knowledgeable gentlemen at some stage!

The home made mower went well for about 18 months, then I met my now wife and she had 32 acres of rushes on the farm that needed cutting back. Of course I had to have a go lol! It took me about 2 days to cut ¾ of an acre with the mower and I went through 1 drive belt aswell. Its not built for anything taller than about 12 inches, it struggles to cut it and you're constantly stopped to allow the belts catch up again. In its defence, it cuts grass very well in a paddock that needs topping. Unfortunately due to the really good cut on the new flail mower, the old home made mower is surplus to requirements, as the flail gives a nicely cut all around. I am in the middle of trying to figure out a way of re using the 17.5hp intek Briggs and stratton engine to build a home made log splitter as we process a fair bit of firewood on the farm and it would take a lot of time pressure off splitting by hand. I'm open to suggestion for a hydraulic pack on a vertical shaft engine, I know you guys across the pond have a few models of there with them, but in Ireland/UK all the engines seem to be horizontal shaft. It would be a shame to sell the engine as it has a working electric start and frame thst I can remove from the old mower deck in 1 piece. Once I get the hydraulic pack sorted I can build a frame to hold the ram. Pictures below of old vs new mower. Old is a twin drum mower, new is a 24 hammer flail mower with roller.

That's interesting @_Wilson_™! you don't see a lot of old Kubota tractors here in the higher hp range, they tend to be relatively new. One thing I will say, anyone who has a machine with the kubota engine absolutely raves about them and how reliable they are. My 1 ton Hanix H09D digger has a 600cc Kubota engine, it's almost identical to the Kubota B6000's engine, it only gives about 12hp which is plenty for the size of both machines. As far as I'm aware, Kubota had intended to expand their range of reverse PTO tractors in the 70's to differ from the standard PTO market of implements, but it was too tricky to reverse the mechanics of a lot of attachments aswell as costly, so it only ended up on the B6000 model as far as I'm aware (I could stand corrected on this).

They're rare enough here too, I have seen the odd one advertised, a clean restored B6000 without the loader or any attachments can sell for about €4000 here. Getting parts for them isn't too bad either, plenty of parts available for them across Europe and the UK, it's just knowing where to look. What I love about ours is it runs of fumes, unlike the quads!

I forgot to mention, I also added a thumb to my 1 ton digger, it's super handy for loading dung into the quad trailer, as well as for picking up big stones and branches of trees for cutting.i bought the thumb itself but made the brackets for it myself.

It sure has @Fishfiles! I spent the past 12 months building a goat barn for my wife with whatever material we could afford. Its mainly new concrete floors with a land drain and manholes running under the shed to carry water from ditches along the fields above it. The roof is timber structure with corrugated steel sheeting and the existing side walls were clad with hit and miss timber for ventilation. We had our wedding reception in it to save on finances and it was worth it. I also bought a 4ft flail mower at the start of spring to replace my home built mower, it just wasn't up to the job. It's a massive upgrade for me and it can cut an acre of rushes in about 2 hours, vs about 6 hours per acre with my home built job. We are currently building a craft room for my wife and mother in law so they can continue with their goats milk soap manufacturing amongst other projects, then I have to build another internal office for my father in law. Once all that is done, we have a few sheds to re roof, but I would also like to make a home made log splitter using the engine off my old mower. Does anybody know cab you get a hydraulic pump to fit onto a vertical shaft engine?

We have that done alright, we even have 75kg wheel weights on each wheel for counter balancing the front loader, but it's only effective on level flat ground, as I found out the hard way lol! We had to buy 2x new front tyres for it earlier in the year as the previous 2 were rotten, and I would imagine possibly the originals. It was hard to source a matching new pair and dad spent many calls and trips sourcing 2 similar sized threaded tyres for it. Our B6000 is a 1974 model with the reverse PTO, but you can get a gearbox to put it right and for using any implement there after.

I thought I'd update you all with a few more pics and what I have found since bringing the bike back to the farm. It appears to have the following brand new parts: Full Wiring loom replacement. Front and rear steel racks. Front steel bumper. Steering rack ball joints at both ends x2. Steering rack bearing. New brake lines all over. New brake shoes rear. New seat cover(much better padded than my 300). A separate on/off switch for manual fan control on the handle bars (I'm told by the dealer I bought the bike from that the heat sensors on these bikes give trouble?). Nearly new tyres on rear (someone used a heat iron to cut silly notches in the previously fine looking tyres). I'm sure there are other new parts I haven't come across yet, but that's what I've found so far. The plastics appear to be original to the bike, the areas under both racks are red and the rest of the bike has faded pink, so I would assume the racks both had a box of some sort on them and the bike was left in a sunny/outdoor spot for its previous life? I also noticed the day I went to look at it that the front of the bike sits an inch lower on the RHS than the LHS. Further inspection reveals an extra coil at the top of one front spring vs the other, I'm wondering if the spring on the right side has weakened over time or the shock absorber has failed on that side? I also found a repair job which I do not like and I do plan to repair with a welding job. The upper bracket for the front differential is missing on one side and someone was done a quick fix by bolting another piece of metal to it, but I wouldn't trust it to last and I wouldn't like to see the tiny bolt holding it snap. More info to come, I will be stripping down the front of the bike at a later date for the diff bracket repair and will have a good look at everything else while its opened up. I also intend to build a bash and skid plate for it like I did for my 300. On a side note, can someone point me in rhe right direction on how to adjust the beam on the handlebars?

My wife got the B6000 for free from her dad's friend. It comes with a front loader (both main rams are still leaking so it's not very powerful to lift), a bucket, I made a small set of dung forks for it that need better forks than the ones I salvaged from a job, a working rotovator and a tine Harrow that needs some tidying. It's a great tractor to pull but because it's so narrow and top heavy, I dislike using it to pull the mower on steep ground. If it was possible to get much wider tyres for it I might change my mind about using it more. Dad replaced 2x glow plugs on it a few months back is it was a pig to start, it also has a new battery and probably its first oil change in over 8 years. I'll look for or take better pictures of it. I would say all the steering bushes and front axle need an overhaul as there's a lot of play up that end.

Hey guys! It's been a long time since I posted here (my dad has been on here recently about my trx 300). Ive been quite busy the past 2 years, meeting my now wife, changing my day job, moving 2 hours from my family home to a 32 acre small holding in the middle of the countryside where we now farm goats for goats milk soap among other products so I have put many things on hold since then. Well, today I purchased what I considered a rather clean 02 TRX450 S from a dealer 2 hours away from me. I bought it to take the pressure off my trx300 (I'm sure most of you remember that bike rebuild!) as I bought a new flail mower this year to combat heavy growth on our small hold. The 300 is fine on level fields, spraying and light duty chores but facing a hill with a 200kg mower behind, it struggled a little. I lost a wheel and hub at one stage and the swing arm had been acting up again, so I bit the bullet and went bigger. I did initially look at a TRX500 but they are crazy expensive to buy and I couldn't justify the price for the amount of work I use them for. I'm sure I'll be asking plenty more questions about it down the line, but for now, here's a few pics of both bikes.

Make sure you buy a garage too and lots of spare parts!

Finally got signal! Pic.1 The Suzuki Jimny, fully standard with the driver only qualified the day before! Pic.2 Partly modified Nissan Navara, snorkel, front winch and knobbly tyres is about the extent of it. Pic.3 Heavily modified Suzuki Jimny for extreme off roading. Pic.4 Land Rover Defender 110, original owner from new, suspension lift, body lift, front winch, snorkel, led front beams. I had a ride in this as a passenger and it was well able to travel.

The second photo was of a state owned forest where the 4x4 club we got an invite to runs the show. They have all sorts of vehicles from novice to professional. I'll upload some more photos when I get better signal as I'm currently in a bad spot.

Shallow bucket for gravel and muck, tines for dung and the back plate will be used to scrape a farm yard and possibly snow too. I aim to get the bucket finished tomorrow all going well.

New modification in progress! More to come in a few days.

Thanks Jeep! Hopefully get a few more made in the new year as they seem to be quite rare here and should sell!

Thanks Fish! I found an elevation drawing on the internet and drew out my own using it as a guide. Might get a few sales of them next year! I made this one from Sapele wood (African hardwood) offcuts and then coated it with a medium oak stain.

Merry Christmas everyone! A folding chair I made for my partner in crime this year, I've been very busy at work but you always find time somewhere!

Honda TRX300FW, out preparing ducks that we cannot currently shoot due to lockdown restrictions!

I dont know how tall it is as top the snapped in half as it came down, but it was 70+ foot tall at least. It was a beech tree. They are known to fall unknowingly in Ireland, most beech trees that size here are rotten in the middle, it's a shame really as there is so much rot that isn't worth cutting up. The big stump on the right sitting on the gate will probably be shoved into the wood to rot, it's not worth cutting up.