Tractor Tuesday - 888

Nothing happened all day until about 18:00 or 8:00 pm for those who don't do metric. The thermometer in the shade on the terrace showed 40.2°C, the swimming pool water 30.1°C. By tradition, I was obliged to take the first dip of the season. I survived.

Yesterday I mentioned I would check the bees - I didn't. It was too late & hot before I remembered. After the swim, I did manage the other job mentioned, moving some pallets of old concrete roof tiles that had been taken off when we re-roofed in 2017 & were in the way.

Quite an effort to get the pallet with 240 tiles weighing 3.7kg each over a 4cm high curb using the pallet truck as the tractor couldn't get into the area. Then spearing the pallet with the two-pronged spears on the rear hydraulics which couldn't lift the load. Then again with the pallet truck lift the whole lot about 5cm above the ground and the tractor was able to take the slack & hold it. Drive to the new location very slowly. Even starting in first gear, the front wheels lifted off the ground.

Job done. 240 tiles @ 3.7kg = 888kg - 1,957.7lbs - 0.98t (USA) or 0.32 elephants. Not bad for a 1965 built tractor. Yesterday, MDM on his newish Deutz lifting haybales with the frontloader which he reckoned to weigh 350kg, said the rear wheels on his were lifting & he ought to add a counterweight.