So what do you think, will the antique backhoe mailbox stay, or go to the scrapyard?? And winter is coming, so get 10% off your Yankum gear now! bit.ly/CHRyankum
If yall don't see more content by Casey, the mailbox lost. Personally, I wouldn't want any issues with Mrs. LaDelle. She looks like she could whoop ya easily 😂
I don't understand how that is a mailbox. Are you having the loader bucket altered to hold the mail or is the mail just going to set somewhere on the Backhoe? If it is just a yard ornament to help find the driveway easier cool. With that said it is ugly and its momma dresses it funny.
@@myworldzvue8248 personally, I'd use the bucket & mount the mailbox to it. I've seen old motorcycles, cars, equipment & everything else used as a mailbox base. There's always a mailbox attached to it. You can't just leave mail on a tractor
Am I the only one who initially thought that it was Casey that had the plan to use the tractor for a letterbox at his place? Then I realised that at least Casey is smart enough to do what his wife tells him on the, most likely rare, occasions that she puts her foot down.
Casey is a master of click-baity titles, however in contrast to a lot of other channels the thing that is announced in the title actually does happen in the video one way or another.
So on those hydraulic control valves, on the opposite end of the valve bank from where the control handle attaches, there will be a plastic or aluminum cap over the return spring… Which, per its name “returns“ the valve spool to center when you let go of the valve handle. Occasionally, water will get inside that cap, and then freeze. This ice prevents the spool from being able to move, one way or the other, or sometimes both. When you run some hydraulic oil through the valve, the warm oil will melt the ice and then the valve spool works normally. Might take a look at that.
Gotta repaint it, cosmetically fix all the obviously broken bits, fill the tires up with foam or put the thing on some sort of stand so that the tires at least look like they are holding air and not flat and then *MAYBE* it could look good as a lawn ornament/mailbox pedestal, but if he keeps it looking as it is, it will definitely be gone sooner than later...
I think that the backhoe is so huge people won’t even notice a mailbox attached to it. They will just think it is an abandoned piece of equipment left beside the road.
Mailbox tractor. Neat idea, however having that old unit running again would be top notch. I'm sure there is some history to that tractor and getting hear its story would be great.
@CaseyLaDelle, HF is a Harry Ferguson Tractor. My cousin had one on his dairy farm when I was a lad. Great tractor. Harry invented The Harry Ferguson Hydraulic System, and led to the partnership with Massey Harris forming Massey-Harris-Ferguson Ltd., which is now known as Massey-Ferguson.
Nice touch to gift wrap the current mailbox to keep the customer's privacy. Oh, and remember this adage, "A happy wife is a happy life." That backhoe will back on the truck before Christmas.
EDIT: I take it back, pretty sure that's actually a Ferguson TO30 or TO35, probably mid-50s. Still aftermarket backhoe and front loader, though, and still probably worth more than scrap value to the antique tractor guys. That appears to be maybe a Ford 8N (see edit above) with both a backhoe (maybe built by Sherman?) and a front loader added to it. It didn't come from the factory that way; those would both be add-ons, either aftermarket or home made. If you do go back and pick it up because the husband has come to his senses, they can probably get more than scrap price from it by selling it. Plenty of Ford N-series tractor people out there who love oddities like this.
I don't have the view of the exact positioning of the tractor, but, to me it seems to have encroached into their right turn lane. When thinking about how high the snow piles up, someone may give more room to the tractor and wind up in the ditch. The client should have removed the mail box pole that has a bag on top of it so you could plant the tractor directly on top of that spot. Giving 4+ feet more of clearance to the right land turn lane. I think that is what the client's wife will object to. I am a patreon member and I'm just pointing out what looks obvious to me. You are the first favorite channel I view every morning. Long time viewer.
A modified Bucket-into-Mailbox will be large enough for appliances ! The MRS. can be in charge of keeping an appropriate driver : SANTA , Reveler , Cupid , Leprecaun , de-hibernating bear , Easter Bunny , Graduate , Uncle Sam , Spooks , VET🇺🇸 , Turkey ( who did I miss ? ) . • Some fresh paint would likely help sway her .
I too thought it was your new mailbox! Couldn't get my head around how you thought you'd get away with it! Almost got to the end before realising it was some other, really brave, fella getting his wife the coolest mailbox in the state.
I have found through the hard lessons of life. Consult and work with the wife/ significant other. "Happy Wife Happy Life" Rings true today as it will tomorrow. The Wife/significant other. Does keep score and never forgets, the day, date, year and time of any perceived offense. Always honor, respect and never disregard the wife/significant other's counsel. "I pity the fool" that does not regard sound counsel. . Drive on Casey!
A nice new yellow paint job, plant some flowers around it and you have the nicest mailbox in the county! 😎❤️✌️🇺🇸 Yes, you do need a dedicated trailer for the track Jeep, so that it could stay loaded up to go at anytime. Your rollback is necessary for your daily business and like you explained, too costly to use just to haul the track Jeep and loading or unloading it every time is a big hassle! Best of luck finding a trailer on Marketplace! Thanks for everything you do for our viewing pleasure! ❤️😎🇺🇸
Casey I think I can speak for most of your subscribers when I say you are an entertaining kind respectful man . If there was an award for towing you win hands down
What a beautifull old tractor!! I hope its owner does some preventative maintenance so at some point in the future it would be possible to fix it up,maybee cover the exhaust and carb,grease up the rams and put it on blocks to save on the tyres. But it aint mine so up to the owner!🤞,and he’s right its a beautifull mailbox!!🙏❤️
Love your channel, especially the winter recovery's. And as you have sort of stated, a specialty trailer has its purpose and multi-use trailers/vehicles are definitely handy.
Excellent mailbox post, Christmas around the corner, could really decorate that puppy up. 😊 New years, 4th of July, Halloween, and of course it becoming a very unique conversation piece. 😊
When it comes to putting TrackJeep onto your gooseneck trailer and the wheelcovers, would you be able to construct a fill-in ramp that matches the profile of the covers or is slightly higher and allowed you to drive over the wheel guardswithout damaging the them? You mentioned that you would be able to drive over some of the various trailers you have shown. If you make the in-fill removable you have the option of removing it in the summer.
So before there was Massey Ferguson, Harry invented the tractor. Shook hands with some other inventors like Henry Ford. Later merged with Massey Harris Which became Massey Ferguson.. So That tractor was legit made a long freakin time ago. Great video. I hope to see the mailbox later.
HF is Harry Ferguson. He later joined forces with Massey of Canada to form Massey-Ferguson. He was originally a UK tractor maker, who licensed Ford Motor Company to make tractors using his hydraulics and 3 point linkage design. In the late 40s, Ferguson had some issues with FMC regarding agreements and violations of same, so he worked with Standard Manufacturing in Detroit to make his tractors in the US prior to merging with Massey-Harris of Canada.
Casey, perhaps a new T-Shirt for the Merch store. "An intelligent man honors the woman in his life" A free concept from "Armchair Engineering"... Cheers, Mate.
Possible short cut, to load unload at the house, if you had a berm that you could back the flatbed up to that would let you load and unload without having to move the bed it would cut your prep time significantly. Yes I'm just armchair quarterbacking. Thanks for all the great videos.
19 degrees here in Michigan this morning. I was offered a Ford 3550 backhoe in trade for removing a tree next to a house. The only real issue was the backhoe was in West Virginia, I hooked an equipment trailer to my 88 Ford f350 non turbo 7.3, loaded my tree gear and my wife and I hit the road. I returned home 2 days later with my tree gear, the trailer, and my wife the truck and backhoe stayed in Salem WV where the diesel melted down 😢. There was a lot involved but I’ll just put it in my book 😂
The present mailbox looks as if it has been run over, this new one should stop any problems of that sort, if you aren't back to get rid of it within two months I think it will be permanent.
The Federal Highway Administration recommends: A 4″ x 4″ wooden support or a 2″-diameter standard steel or aluminum pipe. Avoid unyielding and potentially dangerous supports, like heavy metal pipes, concrete posts, and farm equipment (e.g., milk cans filled with concrete). Bury your post no more than 24″ deep.
It should be a mailbox on one end and put a Jobox on the other for weatherproof UPS/FEDEX packages. I thought it looked like a Ferguson. Mine is a 1965 Massey Ferguson 3165. 4 cylinder Perkins. Runs all day a tiny bit of diesel. That one is a bit older and smaller.
Looks like a "Sherman" backhoe, lots of crazy experiments back then until Case came out with the 530 with model 32 Backhoe & loader, that narrowed the field quite a bit
You need a trailer like the Big Tex 14OT Heavy Duty Over-the-Axle Tilt Bed. It's bumper pull and pure flatbed. I'm sure there's some floating around the auctions somewhere.
Not sure it's what I would want as a mailbox.. but that's cool 🤣🤣 I take it the action yard didn't work out for getting a trailer? Bummer. Hope you figure something out soon. Thanks for the video
The lever you have frosen was water in the return spring for the lever… do not force the lever to move! The best to do is take it a part and cleen the return springs…
Harry Ferguson was a really cool guy. He built and flew his own plane only a few years after the Wright brothers. I think he invented the 3-pt hitch for tractors. Did a lot of business with Ford which is probably why that was made in Detroit. Ford eventually screwed him so he went into business with Massey. That's your history lesson for today that's probably at least 50% correct.
So what do you think, will the antique backhoe mailbox stay, or go to the scrapyard??
And winter is coming, so get 10% off your Yankum gear now! bit.ly/CHRyankum
Mailbox!
If yall don't see more content by Casey, the mailbox lost. Personally, I wouldn't want any issues with Mrs. LaDelle. She looks like she could whoop ya easily 😂
I don't understand how that is a mailbox. Are you having the loader bucket altered to hold the mail or is the mail just going to set somewhere on the Backhoe? If it is just a yard ornament to help find the driveway easier cool. With that said it is ugly and its momma dresses it funny.
@@myworldzvue8248 personally, I'd use the bucket & mount the mailbox to it. I've seen old motorcycles, cars, equipment & everything else used as a mailbox base. There's always a mailbox attached to it. You can't just leave mail on a tractor
@@Buzz420 AFAIK, it was not in Casey's driveway but a customer....
Am I the only one who initially thought that it was Casey that had the plan to use the tractor for a letterbox at his place? Then I realised that at least Casey is smart enough to do what his wife tells him on the, most likely rare, occasions that she puts her foot down.
No, that's what I thought too! It is the sort of thing he'd do to be fair.
Yeah, I’m in the same boat. I really thought it was him.
Casey is a master of click-baity titles, however in contrast to a lot of other channels the thing that is announced in the title actually does happen in the video one way or another.
I thought it was him too.
I assumed it was Casey
The loader bucket for the mailbox and the backhoe for planting flowers. Now they are both happy.
So on those hydraulic control valves, on the opposite end of the valve bank from where the control handle attaches, there will be a plastic or aluminum cap over the return spring… Which, per its name “returns“ the valve spool to center when you let go of the valve handle. Occasionally, water will get inside that cap, and then freeze. This ice prevents the spool from being able to move, one way or the other, or sometimes both. When you run some hydraulic oil through the valve, the warm oil will melt the ice and then the valve spool works normally. Might take a look at that.
Gotta repaint it, cosmetically fix all the obviously broken bits, fill the tires up with foam or put the thing on some sort of stand so that the tires at least look like they are holding air and not flat and then *MAYBE* it could look good as a lawn ornament/mailbox pedestal, but if he keeps it looking as it is, it will definitely be gone sooner than later...
I think that the backhoe is so huge people won’t even notice a mailbox attached to it. They will just think it is an abandoned piece of equipment left beside the road.
Haha. My thoughts exactly. Thx.
The only person who needs to know is the mailman. I'm sure it will keep inattentive drivers and snowplow operators from running over the mailbox 📬
I give it a 60% chance it will end up in your collection.
Mailbox tractor. Neat idea, however having that old unit running again would be top notch. I'm sure there is some history to that tractor and getting hear its story would be great.
@CaseyLaDelle, HF is a Harry Ferguson Tractor. My cousin had one on his dairy farm when I was a lad. Great tractor. Harry invented The Harry Ferguson Hydraulic System, and led to the partnership with Massey Harris forming Massey-Harris-Ferguson Ltd., which is now known as Massey-Ferguson.
Going to love it. Especially when you put Christmas lights on it.
Thanks for letting us watch all your videos and tell the boss she did a great job in her video
I vote that you will be back to pick up the tractor. Though it would be a great landmark for people trying to find their driveway.
Or a surprise magnet for anyone driving the dirt road less than fully awake 🙂
Sounds like the Husband is tired of having his Mailbox run over and the constant replacement.
18 degrees…. 34 where I am right now and I’m sitting on the beach having a beer watching the surf….
Oh yea, 34 degrees Celsius 😂😂😂😂😂
Freeze on mate
Too damn hot! I hope your beer is cold!
@@ryanthomas2472 No joke, I'll take 18F over 34C any day.
That is quite the backhoe boom with the *cylinder* mounted underneath and the arm *cylinder* running all the way back to the swing frame.
The more you looked at that thing the more interesting ideas it had on it
Nice touch to gift wrap the current mailbox to keep the customer's privacy. Oh, and remember this adage, "A happy wife is a happy life." That backhoe will back on the truck before Christmas.
Your videos always bring so much positivity and good mood. Thank you for your humorous talent and bright energy!🪀⛴😻
EDIT: I take it back, pretty sure that's actually a Ferguson TO30 or TO35, probably mid-50s. Still aftermarket backhoe and front loader, though, and still probably worth more than scrap value to the antique tractor guys.
That appears to be maybe a Ford 8N (see edit above) with both a backhoe (maybe built by Sherman?) and a front loader added to it. It didn't come from the factory that way; those would both be add-ons, either aftermarket or home made. If you do go back and pick it up because the husband has come to his senses, they can probably get more than scrap price from it by selling it. Plenty of Ford N-series tractor people out there who love oddities like this.
As long as the Bucket can be put in a fixed fully upright position with a second mailbox on top of it that says "air mail only" it should be good.
I don't have the view of the exact positioning of the tractor, but, to me it seems to have encroached into their right turn lane. When thinking about how high the snow piles up, someone may give more room to the tractor and wind up in the ditch. The client should have removed the mail box pole that has a bag on top of it so you could plant the tractor directly on top of that spot. Giving 4+ feet more of clearance to the right land turn lane.
I think that is what the client's wife will object to. I am a patreon member and I'm just pointing out what looks obvious to me. You are the first favorite channel I view every morning. Long time viewer.
Wife will be mad at husband but will HATE Casey for being an accomplice.
A modified Bucket-into-Mailbox
will be large enough for appliances !
The MRS. can be in charge of
keeping an appropriate driver :
SANTA , Reveler , Cupid , Leprecaun , de-hibernating bear , Easter Bunny , Graduate , Uncle Sam , Spooks , VET🇺🇸 , Turkey ( who did I miss ? ) .
• Some fresh paint would likely help sway her .
I too thought it was your new mailbox! Couldn't get my head around how you thought you'd get away with it! Almost got to the end before realising it was some other, really brave, fella getting his wife the coolest mailbox in the state.
The bucket will be perfect for Amazon!!!😂
Finally, a new one from you!
Yard art with a purpose is better than scrap any day.
Now we wait to see who spoils his fun, his wife or the local postmaster
I have found through the hard lessons of life. Consult and work with the wife/ significant other.
"Happy Wife Happy Life" Rings true today as it will tomorrow. The Wife/significant other.
Does keep score and never forgets, the day, date, year and time of any perceived offense.
Always honor, respect and never disregard the wife/significant other's counsel.
"I pity the fool" that does not regard sound counsel. . Drive on Casey!
You are lucky.
Wife never really happy.
@@geoffcowie8843 I do feel very blessed with my wife.
@geoffcowie8843 My wife is a blessing for sure. I give her the credit for many good things in our relationship.
A nice new yellow paint job, plant some flowers around it and you have the nicest mailbox in the county! 😎❤️✌️🇺🇸 Yes, you do need a dedicated trailer for the track Jeep, so that it could stay loaded up to go at anytime. Your rollback is necessary for your daily business and like you explained, too costly to use just to haul the track Jeep and loading or unloading it every time is a big hassle! Best of luck finding a trailer on Marketplace! Thanks for everything you do for our viewing pleasure! ❤️😎🇺🇸
Old tractor as a mailbox, sweet idea.
Will it stay, depends on how determined and resourceful the wife is. 🤔😁
Casey I think I can speak for most of your subscribers when I say you are an entertaining kind respectful man . If there was an award for towing you win hands down
As it turns out, there are awards for towing. Ron Pratt recently received one at a towing trade show in Baltimore.
Stuck controls on the roll-back: any chance there is some water in your hydraulic fluid, freezing and causing it to jam up, until it melts?
My wife would want it working so she could use it. 🚜
A mail box really? I don't see it yet but I will hopefully. I hope you show us the mailbox after its finished being built into one.
A neighbor of mine had a Ford tractor in his drive way that was beautifully restored.
What a beautifull old tractor!!
I hope its owner does some preventative maintenance so at some point in the future it would be possible to fix it up,maybee cover the exhaust and carb,grease up the rams and put it on blocks to save on the tyres. But it aint mine so up to the owner!🤞,and he’s right its a beautifull mailbox!!🙏❤️
This is a case of return business, Casey! Maybe a week, maybe 5 years... but evenutally that is going someplace else...
You make that look easy, Casey…. Certainly a one of a kind mailbox …
Should make it easy to give directions….
Love your channel, especially the winter recovery's. And as you have sort of stated, a specialty trailer has its purpose and multi-use trailers/vehicles are definitely handy.
Oops, you described use of dedicated trailer..
That old Ford backhoe would make an excellent mailbox stand. It would stop teenagers from vandalizing your mailbox.
Yep , MAGA signs would stay up longer,,,,😋
Based on the fenders ,hood and rear axle flange, looks like a mid 50's Ford Tractor.
Wow, this was epic! Keep it up!
That is a purdy ole backhoe, I wish I had one like it for my mailbox.
I think she’ll dig it once it’s set up. It’ll look awesome.
Every video is a real treat! Thank you for your creativity and professionalism.👾🌲🥒
Excellent mailbox post, Christmas around the corner, could really decorate that puppy up. 😊 New years, 4th of July, Halloween, and of course it becoming a very unique conversation piece. 😊
I think that they will end up keeping it as a mailbox, I mean who wouldn't love it??
The "track jeep" needs a dedicated "ro-ro" drop deck trailer. Probably have to be a one-off build, but it would make the transport operation easier.
When she realizes that it makes deliveries so much easier, she'll appreciate it! Eddie
Me too! I thought it was another for the Casey Collection. There is still time...
I think you'll be back!❤😂
When it comes to putting TrackJeep onto your gooseneck trailer and the wheelcovers, would you be able to construct a fill-in ramp that matches the profile of the covers or is slightly higher and allowed you to drive over the wheel guardswithout damaging the them? You mentioned that you would be able to drive over some of the various trailers you have shown. If you make the in-fill removable you have the option of removing it in the summer.
Happy wife happy mmmm...
I think she will let it stay if she gets to plant flowers in the bucket 🎉
Wow! Good job.❤
Snow plow going to have a hard time taking that mailbox post down
Track Jeep: Buy a 20-foot container flat, weld a drawbar and some axles under it and you're set.
I'm sure your wife loves when you go to the auction,lol
So before there was Massey Ferguson, Harry invented the tractor. Shook hands with some other inventors like Henry Ford. Later merged with Massey Harris Which became Massey Ferguson.. So That tractor was legit made a long freakin time ago. Great video. I hope to see the mailbox later.
Someone will come along and want to buy it to put it back to use.
She doesn’t need to be happy. A good wife would be happy he’s happy. It’s a cool idea.
Very nice 👌 on the controls
A mailbox for the Ferguson family?
Betting before long it will be sitting at Caseys house !
I've split all these comments up for the sake of the algorithm.
I can't imagine being that cold and not getting snow. If I'm that cold, I want snow.
In Missouri a mailbox that isn't a breakaway and causes injury if a person crashes into it you could be liable for injury.
Do you really mean that the victim has to pay for someone else's stupidity????
That's really stupid!
I for one love the idea of it!👍🏽😊❤️🇺🇸
It sounds to me that you need a dedicated trailo..........ARG!
Yep, you got it.
Before reading the ID tag - Surely you recognise that is a Ferguson Tractor
I had a 396 Chevy with plastic 671 blower injected four port with a mailbox on top zoomy headers that was my mailbox for 4years
7:14 That's a Harris Ferguson tractor basically a Massey Ferguson
Canadian backhoe; I've never seen one in the US.
I was guessing Ferguson but didn't know it had anything to do with the Harris merger.
You will be back lmao. Happy wife happy life so if she says get it gone he probably will 😂
They'll get used to it (sorta) but you may be back in the spring. It gives the plow driver a reason to avoid hitting the "mailbox" though.
I LIKE THE IDEA OF THE TRACTOR MAIL BOX. CERTAINLY CAN'T MISS IT!
HF is Harry Ferguson. He later joined forces with Massey of Canada to form Massey-Ferguson. He was originally a UK tractor maker, who licensed Ford Motor Company to make tractors using his hydraulics and 3 point linkage design.
In the late 40s, Ferguson had some issues with FMC regarding agreements and violations of same, so he worked with Standard Manufacturing in Detroit to make his tractors in the US prior to merging with Massey-Harris of Canada.
Casey, perhaps a new T-Shirt for the Merch store. "An intelligent man honors the woman in his life"
A free concept from "Armchair Engineering"... Cheers, Mate.
Possible short cut, to load unload at the house, if you had a berm that you could back the flatbed up to that would let you load and unload without having to move the bed it would cut your prep time significantly. Yes I'm just armchair quarterbacking. Thanks for all the great videos.
If casey does go back I bet he gets a new mailbox 😊
19 degrees here in Michigan this morning. I was offered a Ford 3550 backhoe in trade for removing a tree next to a house. The only real issue was the backhoe was in West Virginia, I hooked an equipment trailer to my 88 Ford f350 non turbo 7.3, loaded my tree gear and my wife and I hit the road. I returned home 2 days later with my tree gear, the trailer, and my wife the truck and backhoe stayed in Salem WV where the diesel melted down 😢. There was a lot involved but I’ll just put it in my book 😂
The present mailbox looks as if it has been run over, this new one should stop any problems of that sort, if you aren't back to get rid of it within two months I think it will be permanent.
You’ll be back to pick it up. If she is not 100%on board with it. It will be moved along with his stuff.
It sounds like you need a dedicated trailer for the track jeep more than a backhoe mailbox! LOL! 😅
Guessing you'll see that tractor again.
Looks like a short term investment
The Federal Highway Administration recommends: A 4″ x 4″ wooden support or a 2″-diameter standard steel or aluminum pipe. Avoid unyielding and potentially dangerous supports, like heavy metal pipes, concrete posts, and farm equipment (e.g., milk cans filled with concrete). Bury your post no more than 24″ deep.
It should be a mailbox on one end and put a Jobox on the other for weatherproof UPS/FEDEX packages.
I thought it looked like a Ferguson. Mine is a 1965 Massey Ferguson 3165. 4 cylinder Perkins. Runs all day a tiny bit of diesel. That one is a bit older and smaller.
Raise the tractor bucket in the air and place a second box up there for AIR MAIL! 😅
😂😂😂
Looks like a "Sherman" backhoe, lots of crazy experiments back then until Case came out with the 530 with model 32 Backhoe & loader, that narrowed the field quite a bit
A pj 20’ superwide trailer would fit the bill for the track jeep and most 3/4ton and smaller vehicles. I have one and love it.
You need a trailer like the Big Tex 14OT Heavy Duty Over-the-Axle Tilt Bed. It's bumper pull and pure flatbed. I'm sure there's some floating around the auctions somewhere.
Not sure it's what I would want as a mailbox.. but that's cool 🤣🤣
I take it the action yard didn't work out for getting a trailer? Bummer. Hope you figure something out soon.
Thanks for the video
The lever you have frosen was water in the return spring for the lever… do not force the lever to move! The best to do is take it a part and cleen the return springs…
"this is something I would, totally, do"
Ford or Massey….? My guess but I’d rock the mailbox🤷♂️ 💯😂
Called it before u said it lol
I believe the wife will call a tow company to come out and get the back hoe towed to the junk yard.
Too bad I live on the other side of the country cause I have the perfect trailer for hauling the track Jeep.
Harry Ferguson was a really cool guy. He built and flew his own plane only a few years after the Wright brothers. I think he invented the 3-pt hitch for tractors. Did a lot of business with Ford which is probably why that was made in Detroit. Ford eventually screwed him so he went into business with Massey. That's your history lesson for today that's probably at least 50% correct.
You will be back . I heard that in a movie once . So you will be like the movies .
He just needs to tell her to calm down and everything will be fine.
She is never going to love it but she will tolerate it rather than pay you to move it again. Lol
Yea, we're definitely gonna get another video of Casey hauling this to scrap.