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If I am not mistaken, the red t-handle on the right hand handlebar is the differential lock? It is always in the forward position. No matter how hard I pull on it, it will not move. I have not taken it apart. Am I doing something wrong? I have tried it with both engine running and not...

I have very tall grass - some of it taller than I am (6'6"). I also have small trees and a lot of brush. My Berta handles it all, but I don't mow if it is obviously wet. I do mow in first gear - I am old and I have a bad back, so I can't keep up with the mower in the rough terrain in second...

Yeah - the small truck would pull it fine in dry dirt even with street tires - although in some areas I had to use 4WD due to the slopes, it just won't get into some of the nooks and crannies that the tractor would have. Yes, I have grass in those woods now. Gophers have made a mess of it after...

Do they do well over uneven terrain? Better traction? I am thinking of getting the rubber tracks. Even though I went over much of the ground around my house with a dozer and evened it out, there are still areas where the tires struggle to get traction and I occasionally get a little stuck and...

My clearing of brush last year with a dozer worked pretty well - I now have about 4 acres of 'lawn' (mostly green undergrowth, much of it not grass but something else that grew and is green), much of it under thinned tall fir trees, that I want to mow, but not with the flail mower, rather with...

I have a little under 20 acres of forest. If I need to haul wood or logs, I use one of my 4x4 trucks (small Toyota and large Dodge with 8x12 flatbed). I use my Grillo for mowing and brush cutting. It will not pull anything of any significant weight, including logs - I use the trucks for that...

Yes - gotten the flail stuck between two trees a number of times. Last time I cut down the tree. I also get it stuck in ruts and holes the loggers left behind. Beside the holes and ruts, the brush would hide those holes and ruts and I would get hung up in them as the tractor did not have...

I used to be an ag mech (that was 30+ years ago) and I have a shop with tools - so yeah, if I can get the parts (and preferably a tech manual) I can usually fix something. Not that I particularly enjoy that. Time is a different issue - I do work around my place on weekends in the...

Ok, some years ago when I moved to my current property (17 acres) I felt I didn't absolutely need a 4 wheel tractor, that I could get by with a 2 wheel walk behind and the right attachments. Well, I was wrong. Also, I am now 63, 5 years older than when I moved here and I am feeling my age; my...

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I always have trouble getting my Grillo 107 restarted after letting go of the safety switch on the clutch handle. I sometimes get into a spot under trees or bushes while mowing, where I just let the tractor go because I don't want to follow it, and the switch kicks in. Then I often have problems...

Maybe a few pics will help: Just ordered a drag harrow.

When I was a kid we would pull an unpowered chisel tooth harrow behind the tractor after we plowed and then disced, to smooth out the ground, remove/breakup clods and stones and other debris (grass/etc. would get caught in it) and sometimes pull a section of chain length fence behind the harrow...

I raised the height up as much as possible and removed the baffle - I did not notice that much difference, but it did help. BTW - I very much agree about avoiding things that can get wrapped around the flail: The previous owner of my property put down some ground cover in various places that...