Search results

I have an old (I mean OLD) 5' rotary mower someone gave me. The transfer case is loose and I keep breaking shear bolts, so I need to take it off and replace the bolts (and sharpen the blades while I'm at it). I've got it up in the air and removed the center shaft bolt with an impact wrench...

I have been a Yanmar owner for about 15 years. Unfortunately (due to my negligence), it died on me this winter. The local JD dealer had taken a Kubota L2900 in trade and had it on the lot, so after looking it over, I bought it yesterday. It has a loader and a canopy. Doesn't seem to have any...

I wanted to share an "Upholstery Pinching" moment that I had this weekend. We had a large Maple tree cut down and the tree guys left all the wood for me to deal with. The pieces were cut about 18" long, and the main trunk was about 30"-36" in diameter, so some of the pieces were quite stout...

I made the mistake of not realizing I had a flat this weekend on one of my rear wheels. I drove the rim into it and it is sliced. :( The tractor is a YMG 1800-D, which has 8.3-22's on the rear. Apparently (according to the good folks at Hoye), there is a national backlog of this particular tire...

I have found that when I am opening a picture that someone has attached to a message, I open it in a new window so that I don't have to go "back" and have the system re-issue all of the queries to get me back to the same spot. Have you considered making all of the attachment links open in a new...

Guys (and gals :) ), I put in a talk of fuel on Saturday and started to mow with the rotary cutter. I got about 200 yards out and the tractor lost all power, sputtered for about 30 seconds and then stopped. I towed it back to the house, changed the fuel filter (which was totally dirty), bled...

Hello all, I know water softners were discussed a couple of weeks ago, and the general consensus was that the waste should not be plumbed into the septic line. We just contracted on getting the system installed and they are coming out next week to put it in. The guy who came out to set up the...

I just had our driveway re-done with "milled material" (at least that's what they call it around here...the ground-up asphalt from road projects). The drive is about 1/2 mile long with a steep hill in the middle. The last time we did it, it lasted about five years, but I had to constantly...

Guys, I have a YMG-1800D and was mowing this afternoon when the indicator light that looks like a lightning bolt came on. (lower right on the four-light cluster). I tried seaching the forum, but found nothing to tell me what this one means. Any ideas?

Dealer Won\'t Sell a Tiller I started thinking about getting a tiller for my YMG-1800d, so I called the local dealer I bought the tractor from. Conversation went something like this: Me: Do you carry any tillers for the Yanmar tractors? Dealer: Yeah. We've got a couple out back, but we don't...

I have a question for the brain trust here. Does anyone know if you can milk a dairy cow only once per day, or is it a hard-and-fast rule that you have to mike twice? We were thinking about getting a family cow for milk, but don't relish the thought of having to milk twice a day. I thought if...

Guys, I have been mulling over a design for a garage/workshop for a while. It looks like it may become possible to build it this year, so I would like your opinions/criticisms/suggestions. This is a once-in-a-lifetime chance to do it right. The basic idea is to have a two-car garage, with...

I have a YMG1800D, which must be pretty rare since I have't seen anyone else with one, that has a small leak in one of the hydrolic lines. It only seems to drip a little, and only when there is a lot or pressure on it. For instance, when the three-point arms are lifted to the top. This is a...

Hello all, We put an ad in the paper this spring giving away our hay, all someone would have to do is come cut and bale it and they could have it for free. well, one guy came and said he would do it, but never showed up. So, this past weekend I bush-hogged about 10 acres of 6-foot deep grass...

With all this talk of fencing, it made me come out of lurkdom to ask you guys about this. We are beginning the slow process of re-fencing our yard area. It was originally done with a combination of t-posts and field fence or pig fence on metal posts. Our idea is to replace it...

We had our first snow this year last night and I was able to use my newly aquired scraper blade. Man, what a difference. Five hours last year to clear the drive with the FEL, about 20 minutes this morning. Just as I was putting on the finishing touches, I heard a clunk. Looked back and saw...

I have a YMG1800D, which has a couple of settings for the PTO speed. From the bottom the order (I think) is: Slow, Neutral, Faster, Fastest. I have always run the brush-hog and PHD at the "Faster" speed, but the other day I made the mistake of putting it in "fastest" setting and it sounded...

Won\'t Start...Sometimes Guys, I'm sure this is an easy one for you all. My YMG1800D will sometimes start and sometimes won't. When it doesn't, I turn the key and hear a click (starter soleniod?) and then nothing. Every turn of the key afterwards does nothing. No sound, no turn, nothing...

I was brush-hogging about a four acre square in one field Friday evening. As I came up the hill on about the third pass, I looked up and saw a swarm of bugs floating about 10 feet off the ground, about 50-60 feet in front of me. I stopped the tractor for a minute to have a look because this...

There is a surplus farm equipment auction tomorrow, so I stopped by to see what wares were going to be offered. I saw this yanmar and could not find any markings on it indicating which model it was. Any ideas? -Frank

With the recent dumping of snow on the mid-atlantic region, I have finally decided to add a back blade to my arsenal. We have a 1/2 mile long gravel (actually milled road material) driveway with two hills and a curve. I have been maintaining the drive with the FEL, but it is not the best...

Our electric dryer caught fire this weekend (othing major..luckily we were nearby at the time) and are now in the market for a new one. I have heard that a gas dryer is better all around (quicker drying, more efficient, cheaper to operate, etc). So, for the vast expanse of TBN knowledge, I...

Guys, I was diggin post holes yesterday and noticed a little puddle on the dirt piles (I was backing up after each hole to the next one). Upon further investigation, I see hydrolic fluid dripping from the bottom of the trasfer case. The problem is, I can't find the source of the leak. So...

A friend gave me some hot peppers (a couple of varieties) and I thought I would dry them out to use in cooking. Having never done this before, I thought I would just lay them on a paper towel in the kitchen and let them dry. Well, for those of you who are laughing right now, you know the...

Guys, I don't think this twist has been talked about, but if it has, my apologies up front. When I bought my ymg1800d last fall, it had what I think are ag tires (criss-cross pattern of the tread). I have read all the posts talking about tires and I notice people mentioning rice tires and...

While knocking down a woodshed this weekend (I love my tractor!), a piece of wood aligned itself with my front grill and proceeded to punch a hole in it. The grill is bent and there is about a 3 inch hole. The headlights were affected a little, but luckily it didn't go far enough into the...

Hello all, I have about 100 yards of my 1/2 mile driveway that is uphill. The driveway itself is made up of "milled material" (ground up roadway) with little base underneath. The hill tends to wash into "woopdies", so about every month or so I have been using my FEL to scrape the stuff back...