From: muratlanne@gmail.com   
      
   "Bob La Londe"  wrote in message news:100ibcs$2apib$1@dont-email.me...   
      
   On 5/20/2025 7:13 AM, Jim Wilkins wrote:   
   > I'd love to find a justifiably affordable tractor/loader/backhoe, even one   
   > too small to be commercially practical, since I can hoist a boulder or log   
   > beyond the capacity of any loader I could maneuver through my woods.   
      
   ... If you really want something like that I think you will have to actively   
   look for it.  I'm not dismissing serendipity, but the odds are longer   
   than they used to be. ...   
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   I've been passively looking and tire-kicking for a long time, it will keep.   
   First I need to drill test holes or trenches in the hillside close behind   
   the house to check for 'ledge' (solid rock) that would prevent excavating   
   and putting a shed there. The simple answer may be to make a dirt bucket for   
   the hydraulic loader I made for my Sears GT18 garden tractor, its snow   
   bucket is too big and too flimsy, 0.050" stainless. It cleared the roadside   
   snowbank and a front yard turn-around very well for several years before I   
   retired and didn't need to get out early every morning.   
      
   The job I need to finish is cutting a metric internal thread in the adapter   
   sleeve of rock drill rod, on a 60-year-old inch lathe with a non-standard   
   metric conversion. I just finished an aluminum test piece and found the   
   minimum compound infeed for a snug fit.   
      
   Then split next winter's firewood and complete and assemble the unfinished   
   kit of heavy shed beams I cut last year on the sawmill. I found that a sharp   
   bow saw guided between clamped-on 2x4 blocks cuts end joinery quickly,   
   smoothly and precisely. Much of the wood will be stored as oversized   
   framing.   
      
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