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I use it all the time for the forklift, most recently when taking delivery of a new Ariens Pro 28" EFI/hydro snowblower and an 8' Fisher HD2 plow for my Dodge. Had to fetch them from down on the highway and bring 'em up my twisty steep side-sloping driveway. Needed to rotate the forks about 15*...

Good point, but the woodlot is relatively flat and non-muddy. Maybe 200 yards from the stockpile to the firewood processor. Plus, once the crane's back online, it can stack the stockpile -- having both functions on one FLU instead of two, has a certain appeal. Then I have some time to fix the...

Quite possibly, but the SEE is getting old and tired; the HMMH has like, 160 miles and 700 operating hours on it, post-rebuild at Red River.

I have a pressing need for a log grapple. My SEE, aside from needing serious TLC now (I've used it a lot for digging and snow removal, 4WD down), lacks both the extra hydraulic circuit for a grapple, and a front-suspension lockout. My HMMH is pristine (except the leaky crane-boom seal is now...

The tradeoff for me is the SEE's mostly for snow removal on my property, but needs to roll down the highway well without chains (because we all know the SEE's unstable enough on the highway). Thanks peakbagger, those Pirellis look about perfect for me...

I'm months behind here, as I've been couch surfing, but I am ordering up tires and chains this week. Any thoughts on Conti MPT-81's for the SEE? I went Bridgestone M799 on my "new" '77 International Loadstar 7500, it came with 3-rail chains, badass winch, jim poles, wheel chocks etc. from an...

1/4" drive socket handles with a stubby extender have been working for me, like on the latch for the battery tray etc, ordered a 4-pt thin-walled socket from grainger for battery box etc. These stay in the glove compartment of each FLU along with tire-pressure gauge, SEE's tires about shot.

I had to bring the SEE down from my property to the trailer I'm moving out of, to use the backhoe to smush down all the crap I'm throwing out in the dumpster that was overflowing. I swear I drive the SEE straighter on the highway when drunk... j/k

Yeah, I do, and it's *soooo* much fun to drive! lol gimme a drink...

Steep, rough terrain here. The RR crossing near me is a bit of a joke! You'll bounce *anything* going over that, no matter how slow!

Truck showed up with a 1/2-ton pallet of shelving, used the HMMH to unload it onto my Dodge, drove up to the quonset hut... the HMMH quit. It was doing that last Fall, so I did some maintenance on the fuel system and thought this problem was fixed. Bouncing over the railroad tracks caused the...

I have to jiggle the master cutoff and/or the dashboard key to start my SEE, no such problems on my newer/less-used HMMH.

TUV gepfrueft... both my FLUs passed muster with the highway patrol, with the OEM lights. ;)

OK, ya dragged a story out of me! Recently, I was driving the SEE on the 2.5 miles of state highway between my rental and my quonset hut, on the return journey after using the SEE bucket to transport my pellet stove. What broke, was the alternator-to-ground connection. Not sure when that...

Hmmm... voltage loss... possibly correct! I'll be disconnecting batteries and using an ohmmeter this weekend, because it's just bugging me... is it possible to run a FLU with no batteries, without connecting the battery cables together, if the NATO receptacle is externally powered? If so, why in...

I don't have time for further investigation today, maybe over the weekend? Unless someone knows the answer. Sometimes, milspec is awesome, other times it makes no sense! I haven't decided, yet, on this one -- why on Earth does using the NATO receptacle bypass the master cutoff switch? I had an...

Ideally, each of my FLUs would have a 12' NATO slave cable and a M-M adapter on board. Given my battery issues, I often find myself jump-starting one or the other FLU -- using the NATO cable is such a timesaver! I wouldn't say "well" worth the cost so much as "somewhat" worth the cost, kinda...

I'm hundreds of posts behind, here, and in the middle of moving... but I did notice something interesting about my FLUs the other day. I have a 24V NATO jumper cable. When it's plugged into a FLU, power bypasses the master cutoff switch (!). Confirmed via wiring diagram. Master switch off, dash...

lol, aren't they all

Until I figured out how to bend the hand-throttle lever properly, taking my foot off that skinny pedal wasn't dropping the RPMs so I learned to deal with it and now I prefer it. In low range, there's not much slippage going on with the clutch. Maybe you can eke out a coupla more winters without...