New member from Lithuania

[ArtMech]

Hi people in the Tractorbynet,

Since I've bought a tractor from US market zone (last year), I have decided to join Your community. I'm going to be interested to share some possible issues if they'll occur, if You don't mind Thanks to this site I've already got much useful info on the number of different technical subjects. In some cases I may share my own experience if it'll be needed. For the moment I'm using 2 Kubotas - L2202 and M9000. These are quite reliable and strong machines for their price. In cases of small tech incidents it's easy to fix them without a dealer service, which in my case is located in more then 120 km. I have about 15 acres of my own land including 2 1/2 of forest and about 80 acres of shared land with the relatives. My country of origin is Lithuania, Central Europe.

Get blessed everyone

 

[jinman]

:welcome: I'm sure you will soon have many winter pictures to show. We have members here from all over the world. TBN is truly international in scope even though most members are from the USA. How near to the Lithuanian coast are you?

 

[yooper1]

Hello and welcome to TBN

 

[ArtMech]

Thanks a lot for welcoming, jinman,

We're fine here waiting for winter
Yes TBN is probably the best among all the others. I see You're from Texas. I've bought M9000 from a trader in Longview, East from Dallas. Is that far from You?

 

[ArtMech]

Hello and welcome to TBN

Coool!!! You're nice guys!

 

[LBrown59]

Welcome to TBN

 

[magicheater]

Welcome! I see you have the loader bucket on the 3PT. Interesting, on both machines too. What would be the primary use for that, for you that is. You must have a heck of a top cylinder to get that to dump! Do you have any other 3PT implements? Do you do any organic farming?

 

[Johndeere3720]

:welcome: to TBN! :thumbsup: glad to have you aboard! :thumbsup:

 

[ragkar]

Welcome to TBN

 

[ArtMech]

Thanks a lot, fellows, for welcoming!! You all are so friendly ...

Answer to magicheater:
Yes, these are the 3ph buckets on both tractors. In fact I'm going to sell L tractor. Just my wife likes it and tries not to allow me to sell. She drives and now uses that bucket for flower gardens bringing the plants, bushes, dung and whatever in it.
But last year I had been working in a forest with that bucket. It helped me to get out about 50 m3 of wood from the forest. The trees were cut in about 1,5 m long according to the width of that bucket to be able to load them inside. I found a good idea to clean a forest from rotten trees using this unit and saving good trees from being damaged because of mobility of L tractor and good productivity of a bucket in the narrow spaces between the trees.
I might say there are plenty of other ways or demands to use 3ph bucket in the farm's everyday life including organic farming (I'm not doing that), carrying ground, stones, snow, vegetables, fruits in small quantities.
In my opinion each farm tractor should be equippet with a simplified 3ph bucket. Simplified means WITHOUT TOP CYLINDER COUPLING. Indeed you may use a cylinder, and probably I will add it on a M tractor (I have a single remote valve on it). But only then, when the future will show the needs. The attachment design (my own) of both buckets is different. To dump a L tractor bucket you need to get out of a tractor and to remove a fixing finger of a top link. On a M machine - you stay in a seat while dumping. I may send some more pcts later if You are still interested. The design idea is very simple - to over tip (if correct in Engl.) a bucket you need to make top link moving downwards while the 2 lower points of rods are moving upwards in a lifting mode. Most inportant is to find a 3rd point location on a bucket for the top link connection so to prevent it from being touched by the PTO shaft.
I also have rear dozer blade, rotary tiller, drum mower, trailer.. I'm also rebuilding my grandfather's plough (about 100 years old) which I'll prepare to be attached to a tractor.

Sorry for my weak English

One more pct attached

 

[jinman]

I've bought M9000 from a trader in Longview, East from Dallas. Is that far from You?

Longview is in the heart of East Texas where tall pine trees grow. I'm over 200 miles away in a semi-dry area where small oak trees are our main forests, but we have many open areas of brushy mesquite trees and prickly pear cactus. Only a few miles west and it's mostly grasslands since there is not enough rain to support the growth of forests. So, while Longview is in the same state, it's a very different climate there.

 

[LBrown59]

Thanks a lot, fellows, for welcoming!! You all are so friendly ...

Answer to magicheater:
Yes, these are the 3ph buckets on both tractors. In fact I'm going to sell L tractor. Just my wife likes it and tries not to allow me to sell. She drives and now uses that bucket for flower gardens bringing the plants, bushes, dung and whatever in it.
But last year I had been working in a forest with that bucket. It helped me to get out about 50 m3 of wood from the forest. The trees were cut in about 1,5 m long according to the width of that bucket to be able to load them inside. I found a good idea to clean a forest from rotten trees using this unit and saving good trees from being damaged because of mobility of L tractor and good productivity of a bucket in the narrow spaces between the trees.
I might say there are plenty of other ways or demands to use 3ph bucket in the farm's everyday life including organic farming (I'm not doing that), carrying ground, stones, snow, vegetables, fruits in small quantities.
In my opinion each farm tractor should be equippet with a simplified 3ph bucket. Simplified means WITHOUT TOP CYLINDER COUPLING. Indeed you may use a cylinder, and probably I will add it on a M tractor (I have a single remote valve on it). But only then, when the future will show the needs. The attachment design (my own) of both buckets is different. To dump a L tractor bucket you need to get out of a tractor and to remove a fixing finger of a top link. On a M machine - you stay in a seat while dumping. I may send some more pcts later if You are still interested. The design idea is very simple - to over tip (if correct in Engl.) a bucket you need to make top link moving downwards while the 2 lower points of rods are moving upwards in a lifting mode. Most inportant is to find a 3rd point location on a bucket for the top link connection so to prevent it from being touched by the PTO shaft.
I also have rear dozer blade, rotary tiller, drum mower, trailer.. I'm also rebuilding my grandfather's plough (about 100 years old) which I'll prepare to be attached to a tractor.

Sorry for my weak English

One more pct attached

I think you do very well with your english.:thumbsup:

 

[magicheater]

Thanks a lot, fellows, for welcoming!! You all are so friendly ...

Answer to magicheater:
Yes, these are the 3ph buckets on both tractors. In fact I'm going to sell L tractor. Just my wife likes it and tries not to allow me to sell. She drives and now uses that bucket for flower gardens bringing the plants, bushes, dung and whatever in it.
But last year I had been working in a forest with that bucket. It helped me to get out about 50 m3 of wood from the forest. The trees were cut in about 1,5 m long according to the width of that bucket to be able to load them inside. I found a good idea to clean a forest from rotten trees using this unit and saving good trees from being damaged because of mobility of L tractor and good productivity of a bucket in the narrow spaces between the trees.
I might say there are plenty of other ways or demands to use 3ph bucket in the farm's everyday life including organic farming (I'm not doing that), carrying ground, stones, snow, vegetables, fruits in small quantities.
In my opinion each farm tractor should be equippet with a simplified 3ph bucket. Simplified means WITHOUT TOP CYLINDER COUPLING. Indeed you may use a cylinder, and probably I will add it on a M tractor (I have a single remote valve on it). But only then, when the future will show the needs. The attachment design (my own) of both buckets is different. To dump a L tractor bucket you need to get out of a tractor and to remove a fixing finger of a top link. On a M machine - you stay in a seat while dumping. I may send some more pcts later if You are still interested. The design idea is very simple - to over tip (if correct in Engl.) a bucket you need to make top link moving downwards while the 2 lower points of rods are moving upwards in a lifting mode. Most inportant is to find a 3rd point location on a bucket for the top link connection so to prevent it from being touched by the PTO shaft.
I also have rear dozer blade, rotary tiller, drum mower, trailer.. I'm also rebuilding my grandfather's plough (about 100 years old) which I'll prepare to be attached to a tractor.

Sorry for my weak English

One more pct attached

Yes I would like to see that photo and what sort of linkage is used. I have modified my 3rd point bracket for a variety of things and always interested in others. Do you ever load the bucket to the point that your front end is light? I see you do not have a loader, any reason other than cost for that? Your english is better than a lot of people write here in the USA, keep up the good work. :thumbsup: You may have provided me a use for the buckets I have sitting here because of what I prefer to keep on my loader. TBN'ers please notice my constraint here. Really like your outside the box thinking! Looking forward to your reply.

 

[ArtMech]

So, while Longview is in the same state, it's a very different climate there.[/QUOTE]

jinman,
I had never been neither in Texas, nor in the USA (my tractor was bought via internet). All I know about the nature there is from the pics and from Hollywood movies Your terrain seems to have beautiful view, but difficult for farming.

 

[ArtMech]

LBrown59,
Thank You. You have a nice picture here Is that an advertisement? May I invite You to my farm to help me to cut the tops of the trees in the shown way?

 

[ArtMech]

Looking forward to your reply.[/QUOTE]

magicheater,
Tanks for Your appreciation
I'll place more photos as soon as I'll have them.
The top link on a M tractor is modified - it is shortened comparing to the usual one. On a L tractor I'm using the special (serial) rotary tiller's link, not modified. I'm never modifying anything on a tractor itself what is concerned with the force or loads to be applied. But I'd be interested in what You've done with Your bracket?
Yes, I have loaded a bucket a couple of times up to the steering control loss. If the overload would be permanent within the whole work, I may put the additional weights at the front. But usually I avoid overloading of a bucket. I think it's not good for a tractor.
My refusal to use the FEL is not linked to the cost at all. The reasons are:
1. I have limited space in a garage (because of the same reason I use tractors without the cabs).
2. I do not load high lorries or trailers like most of the professional farmers do, who are releasing ag production.
So the 3ph bucket is doing everything the same like FEL for me (even more taking into account load capacity), except lifting a load upwards, what I don't need for the time being.
Me I'm a small grower. But ag is not my main business. I'm a businessman working mainly in the capital of Lithuania, Vilnius and travelling in the EU. That's why I like to improvise in different ways with the farm equipment :laughing:

Hope to see You soon again and good luck.

 

[irvingj]

I'll also add my welcome, and yes, your English is very good! (I think English has to be one of the hardest languages to learn.)

Please post more pics of the contryside in Lithuania-- I've never been there, but have been to Sweden and Finland several times. Very nice area there, lots of history! I have a neighbor who is from Estonia, her license plate reads "EESTI." Always wanted to visit that side of the Baltic.

 

[ArtMech]

Dear irvingj,

Thanks for Your walcome!
If You are interested in some historical shades of Lithuania (maybe other TBN'ers too), please click on a link below. It's in Lithuanian, but there are a lot of nice pictures and some videos.
There is a trip so called "2000 km of history". That means a group of enthusiastic lithuanian riders decided to prove, that the Grand Duke of Lithuania Vytautas in the XIVth century could reach Black sea riding on the horses and could feed them by the Black sea water. That was written in a historic source. And they now (after 28 days of travel) are nearly to reach it, only less than 500 km remains. It's the special lithuanian kind of horses they use, so called "Zhemaitukas" from the word "zhemas", in english means "low". They really look low and small comparing to others, but are very tough. That's why another task of the trip is to check the endurance of that kind of horses.
You will also see a dog in the pictures, who being nobody's joined the riders in Belarus town Alshenai and got a nick Alshis. The dog became a darling of a public (and of the riders), and the followers keep asking for the report from the participants of trip about Alshis every day. Especially kids. One moment Alshis got seriously sick after infected jigger attack, but was healed by the horse vet.
In the pictures You will see the castles, which the riders are visiting. These castles were built by the Grand Dukes of Lithuania in XIV-XV centuries and are located in today's Lithuania, Belarus and Ukraine. Note, the territory of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in Middle Ages covered all these three countries. You will also see today's people life and nature of these countries.

2000km istorijos | Facebook

OK, I'll add some photos or maybe videos in the future from my lands.

 

[irvingj]

Very nice, thanks! It looks quite a lot like it does here in NH and VT... but I suspect your history goes back a few more years....:laughing:

 

[ArtMech]

irvingj,

You probably mean soviet regime years ... ))

Concerning the language all depends on its use (speaking, listenning, reading and writing). Theoretically you may be a professor, but if you don't use a language, you'll never know it well. I'd like to add an example from the TBN.

Member gary8665 writes:
Re: Hyd top link CK-35
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Sorry Mike, no diregard intended. Actually when the install went so fast I really thought I had done something wrong, but nothing leaked and it worked, so I was pleased.

Without your pictures I would still be looking at a box full of parts wondering if I really wanted to tackle the install.

My detent works well, but I am not sure why I need it?

Gary
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That statement might be read like an info or so (especially from technical point of view). But me ... I was laughing long, 'cause it was written by a man, who has a great sense of humour. In reality each member - knowing that or not - posts a messages which show the personal character. And you need a lot of knowledge to recognize what you're reading.

Actually I'm learning english each time I use it. And I don't think I know it well, just I endeavour. And thanks again for Your warm words if the result may be seen not bad.

Why not to visit Baltics? You would see how the societies grow from the ash of destruction ... )