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KVR said
how big of a garden you planning for this year?

Well, at the old place we had a 60' x 25' garden and could have easily used half again that much space. We grow a lot of squash and they take up serious garden real estate. Assuming I can get my hands on a moldboard plow for the 750 in the next few weeks, we will do a garden of at least that size again. 

KVR said
Hear anything back from him?

Sold...  Back to Craigslist

Washed the tractor.

K -- I have some numbers for you. I couldn't lift, with the forks on, 14 sheets of OSB. I knocked it down to 7 and was able to lift them up. I looked online and supposedly a 1/2" sheet of OSB is 55 lbs, so 7 of them is 385 lbs. That, plus the weight of the forks, plus that the load is so far out away from the bucket sounds about right. Forks on the 3 point or your hay bale spear on the 3 point should be able to lift a lot more since they would be so much closer to the pins of the hydraulics and not so far out.