Originally Posted by GKelly
Originally Posted by marshmud991
Originally Posted by riflenut
Marshmud, how much dang riding you have to do to wear out the frames?

I go around every field everyday from early March till July and ride every field levee every other day. And do all that again while growing the second rice crop. I would have the bottom part of the frame gone in about 3yrs. Frame completely gone in about 6yrs. It’s not as bad now that we are only planting 1/3 of what we were planting a couple years ago. I was tending to 1500ac if rice then. Only 600ac now.

yall ever looked into installing solid aluminum skid plates they sell whole pans that protect the entire underside seems like it would be cheaper/easier to replace the plate every so often instead of swapping frames

The newer Honda’s come with a heavy plastic skid plate under them. That’s the first thing I removed because lots of mud,sticks and grass gets held up in there and there is no way to wash it out. It rusts out all the metal parts against the skid plate. Once you remove the skid plate and the mud and debris can fall thru. I have cut out worn fram and welded on solid cold roll on an old bike. You ain’t waring that out.

It's hard to kiss the lips at night that chews your a$$ all day long.