"Dad, that's the most manual labor I've seen you do since you got a tractor." I totally relate Tim, and also that comment by your little one made me belly laugh like no other. Thank you for your video, and the laughs.
Had a similar issue last summer with my 2320 and Woods backhoe. Buried about 400 feet of 24 inch corrugated pipe in a pond drain on a friend's property. Several days of digging and a couple of hours trying to get the tractor unstuck after crossing the wettest area of the drain. That's one of the reasons why I ordered a new 2038r back in June, still waiting on it to arrive, but shouldn't be lacking on power for any of my or friends' projects anymore. Like yourself i also enjoy helping friends and neighbors out. Great channel, enjoy watching all the videos. Keep up the good work!
I've just been removing a bunch of my own concrete and will now use two of your tips! 1. Use the weight of the load on side of the dumpster and then curl and lift. 2. Try pointing the forks down, reverse curl, to pry up the slab. Great tips that will come in handy. Thanks!
I did a similar job last year by hand. It was weak concrete and my 12lb sledge easily broke it up. Lifted the pieces by hand onto my cart. A lot of work, but also quite fun. Concrete is strong but its weakness is impact resistance coupled with poor expansive strength. By dropping a slab on a rock, you take advantage of it's weight and weakness. One way to lift a heavy slab is dig a hole under one edge and use a car jack. You found out that maximizing your fork's leverage got the job done. Leverage can do amazing things.
Forged forks are really strong, the forks on midsize loaders are about twice as thick as his and lift 20,000 pounds regularly, the cat 908 I use has pretty close to the same size thickness as Tim’s and lift doubled up pallets of wall block around 4500 lbs each and have never seemed stressed
If you've got a Menards nearby, they rent electric jackhammers and hammer drills (you have to buy the blade bit for the drill). $50-75 for 4 hours. Worth it and FUN!!! Jack and Johnny would be a deadly combo!
Yes, this right here. Rent Jackhammer. It's fun to try and be creative and see what you can get done. However there is a slight bit of "I have a hammer, so everything is a nail" going on here.
+thelastmike yep. Agreed. There are underlying reasons for that, however. ...more than just stubbornness or stupidity. We wanted to get the project done that evening, and we were not near a rental store.
Wow! That was awesome! The first milestone was at 5:01 when the seem cracked! Tim caught it! After that with the help of Jake it was just a matter of figuring out the stress points. It's crazy but concrete is both very strong and very weak depending on where the pressure is. Great video!!!!
Good job Tim and Company! Gotta use what's available. I have to admit when you started I was thinking about Blake's tractor. :) But I also knew it was to late for that. At least you had some young help. That always helps. Our tractors seem to always get the job done, one way or the other.
I did this exact job last weekend with a much bigger tractor (55 HP, 3000 LB lift on the loader). While the lifting power was nice, it was still no easy job. The biggest obstacle was maneuvering that beast around the slab without destroying everything in sight. A smaller tractor is definitely easier to maneuver around the house. My tractor is also gear drive (not synchronized) so I was grinding gears all day going back and forth :)
Correct. I went from a tiny tractor to a bigger one to an even bigger one. While the power is nice, I can pull things and lift thing not possible with the smaller tractor, it is much harder to get into tight places and overall maneuver the thing around. It's also more difficult to see what you're doing. I can actually mow the yard with the big tractor but only if it's bone dry. If the ground is wet, there will be 2 foot deep ruts everywhere.
Sure you could have rented a jackhammer but then we couldn't see what the 1025r and your skills could tackle. Also nice to see the young man enlisted and putting his muscles to work. Great teamwork and video!
You did great! Actually, nothing wrong with the tractor size. You just needed to rent or borrow a small electric jack hammer that would have made quick work of getting that slab into manageable sized chunks that could be easily loaded into the dumpster. I have a 23 lb. Dewalt D25901K SDS-MAX Demo-Hammer that I've used on several concrete slabs.
There is no time like the present! I think you'll want the new 2025R. video coming very soon. We are at Farm Progress Show where it was released today.
Tractor Time with Tim , our farm show is in January. I live in pa. The only thing I use my tractor for is mowing and snow removal. (Plow) quick attach hitch on the front. Actually my tractor is too big for my property. My driveway is 190' to the garage. Once in a while I could use a backhoe and implement storage.is a problem. What I really need is a snow blower for when there is a heavy snowfall finding a place to put the snow get to be a problem. And of course there is the issue of making paths for our border collie Brody.
Do I need to say it? Ok. :) I don't think a bigger tractor would fit back there, the other suggestions for breaking the concrete are the way to go. Well done!
I did a job like this at my last house. It was a old garage floor not really big 20x20. I thought it would be easy, put the bucket on the tractor And grabbed a 20 lb sledge . Was I ever wrong. I slammed that sledge all day in the August heat And put the chunks in the back of my 1 ton. Needless to say it took way more time And more than 1 trip. Probably would rent a hammer next time, But looking back it was sorta fun. Guess that's how you learn by doing it the hard way. These little machines make hard work really easy.
I'm in the market for a compact or sub compact tractor and just started watching your videos. A couple hours of binge watching later and I'm thinking John Deere needs to buy rights to your videos for their own promotional purposes. :) Thanks and keep up the great work!
Good idea dropping the slab over the large piece of rock. Just be careful around windows. Wouldn't want to see a chunk of concrete going through a window 👍👍
I love your channel!!!! All your videos are awesome. I love that 1025R and would've been great for me on a daily basis. But I went with the 3025E because my current project is just too big for a 1025R. But man I love your tractor and videos keep them coming! Nice shirt too 😂
The "War wound" is playing up today ...... Bring on tomorrow ..... I think I'll get immersed in your oil change vids to distract me .... Or put me to sleep! ROFL!
Getting a saw and cutting it will help in later jobs.... believe me.... did this kind of stuff for 40 yrs.... just a circle saw with mason blade...or a jack hammer, or a headache ball works well too.
+Brad Armstrong yes. I agree. Maybe because of the thickness, but wow! It was not easy to break. We removed a sidewalk across the street which broke up easily.
Next time find a rock and put it under the slab and drop it and it will do the breaking for you. Also invest into a gas powered cut off saw about a 14inch blade would do wonders awesome vid
I don't see safety glasses on the sledge hammer guy, and the tractor man sure doesn't have any. Older woman has sun glasses, and other two men have Rx glasses on. Concrete chips or steel shards could fly anywhere and someone could have an eye injured. And on a recording too. Personal liability lawyers dream about these things. A great video for safety police training.
Not bad for a tiny lawn mower. I do think that really over worked that little guy tho. But Going to Home Depot and renting a jack hammer would of got that job done in no time. But if your getting paid by the hour then I guess it would worked out well lol However watching your videos it surprises me how much this thing can do but that’s a Deere for ya 💪🏻
Greetings from northern Kentucky! Thanks for your videos, Tim and family. I have a very similar tractor, just a different color, and get inspired with different task you do with yours. I think I know the answer but what is your favorite attachment? Sorry if you already mentioned it before.
I don't know if someone already suggested this, if you come across another job like that again lol. Ahhh cut the first a coring saw before you start with the tractor.
Nicely done Tim, I pour concrete for living, do it on the side as well but I'm torn on what kind of machine would suit me best, and your videos make me want the 1025 more and more!
Break off small pieces at a time, baby bites will go faster !!! Also make sure to distribute the concrete evenly in the dumpster ! Was at a job, truck loaded the can, and turning to leave, the uneven load tipped the truck and can over !!! Just like the little guy on the tricycle, on that show Roane and Martin's laugh in . If you are old enough to remember that ?
How about using something heavy like a stripped motor block and let it fall from the tractor's bucket onto the concrete after you get it raised off the ground?
I would have taken a hammer drill and put a few strategically spaced holes along where you wanted it to crack. Then beat it with the sledgehammer and call it a day. And remember, determination!
I mean I understand it cost more, but the tractor you have won't last as long doing that much. I've seen it happen. There is a John Deere 4500 in my barn with a blown piston. My grandad used it too hard.
I think Tim does really well with that 1025R. Keep in mind one of it's big advantages is being able to squeeze into areas that other larger tractors cannot. Looking through his videos there are a lot of those jobs that would have either been impossible with a larger tractor or a larger machine would have done more collateral damage.
I hope your trash company knows you are filling the box with concrete. We don't haul concrete in our dumpsters. Before anyone does this, make sure you talk to your trash guy and make sure it's ok. Many trucks aren't heavy enough to lift the boxes full of concrete, especially if the box is on soft ground. There are weight limits and those boxes and the load must be balanced evenly as they ride on narrow rails. It's not just dump anything you want in there. There are many rules at the dumps on what can be dumped and where it has to be put at the dump, especially chemicals and yard waste and yes concrete which is a different type of fill. If you do load concrete, best to load it at the bottom of the box, evenly, not at the top as it will make the load top-heavy and more likely to topple. Realize dumps are basically 4x4 trails very rough terrain.
Since you can get the slab up with the curl all you need to do is put a post under it and drive on it with a little practice you can probably split it in to nice manageable sizes. Or with the board under it drop a largish chunk on the gap to put a tension load rather than comprehensive load. Also a heavy tractor with tooth bar makes a good hammer just slam the cutting edge in to the lifted slab.
Tim! I think Johnny did a great job on the concrete. I also think that your doubter was impressed with the guy with the hammer. I do have a question? Did the guy ask your doubter out for a date? 😎
+Tom Reed that is one of the goals of our channel. When we started, folks were commenting that this little Tractor wouldn't do anything. ....we don't hear that much anymore :-)
Great job Tim we did that a year ago with our skid steer before we got the Kioti and you got to love forks doing this type of work ! i think jake on the sledge hammer saved the day hope he got some thing for the great job ! and is it me did you twist johnnys bucket or teeth at .55 when you are trying to pick it up ? or is it just the video ? but yes you will get alot of get a bigger tractor but you guys did a great job with what you had ! so take care be safe have a great weekend & God bless ! Curt :-)
Thats good it just looked funny when you did that ! but i have found the same on the forks to curl down to help lift stuff up i have done that to roots of 10 to 20 trees from 4" to 12" with the forks and it dose work to pull or brake them ! take it ezy !
Sure took everyone a while to figure out safety glasses were missing. I cringed when people started hammering the concrete without glasses. I thought for sure we would be seeing an eye explode. 👁
+Vetter 1999 I don't think there is any concern about an accident. We have at least 10,000 self appointed safety police on the job here on this channel alone.
Can you give me information on that bucket with teeth? Where did you get the teeth? Is it a weld on application or bolt on? Thanks. Looking for one for my 1025R.
