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    Now That R14 Tires Have Been Out For A While

    After 6 months, I have landed on 12 psi for a good tire pressure on the R14s for all around use. I have a cab LX3310 with loader and filled tires, most of it life with be a pasture lawnmower, field brush cutter and occasional barn stall scooper...
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    Beware of the shop-vac trick when changing hydraulic filters...

    Well, I do not stick the hose end into the tank space or near the oil but I just set it in the opening and either use a shop towel to wedge it, tape it in place or use my assistant if she is available. On my tractors, the oil is a good 8" below the fill ports and I've had the vac hooked up for...
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    Sickle Boom Cutter?

    I bought one of the boom sickle cutters from Bestco earlier this year, other than the hydraulics being hard to control with fine movements, it functions as I thought it would. It cuts stuff up to 1" easily and up to 2" if you go slow. I bought to keep the fence line trimmed, overgrowth on my...
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    Beware of the shop-vac trick when changing hydraulic filters...

    I have used the "shop vac trick" many times on several different tractors with no problems. I actually saw this being used in a JD tractor repair shop back 25 years ago and asked the mechanic what he was doing and he explained the process, been using it ever since when I just need to swap...
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    Stupid Things I Have Done

    Had a similar thing happen recently with a new startup small business that did heavy advertising in the local area for small engine service. Thought I would throw them some work, took a couple of mowers in for service. They looked legit and had about 50 sitting around their shed and seemed to...
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    Kubota L3130 : First oil change : Shell Rotella T5 doesn't meet spec?

    CD, CE or CF are all obsolete and replaced by CK-4, CJ-4, CI-4 or CH-4 which I am pretty sure Rotella T5 meets. I have no problem running any Rotella diesel oils in any of my tractors, trucks or equipment and I do (T6). Take a look at this site... Oil Service Classifications
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    Negotiating for a new tractor?

    jeff9366 stated it pretty well.... last October I negotiated a good price on a LX3310 cab that was ordered and I was able to get some free lights, bucket edge and 3rd function remote but no hat... After waiting 6 months for my tractor to come in, they called and the tractor was in but still in...
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    Should I cab or not. Getting ready to buy

    ☝️☝️☝️ Hit my head a few times on the cab roof getting in but wear my seat belt at all times, good habit learned from experience turning over an excavator that gave me a concussion when I was thrown into the side window and cab. I also hit my head trying to lean over to see where the rear...
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    Should I cab or not. Getting ready to buy

    I have both, but had open station tractors for 40 years, bought my first cab tractor two months ago. Now, I wonder what took so long.
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    3pt or Stand Alone Splitter

    I have a stand alone 20 ton splitter that pull behind my RTV when needed. I like the convenience of not having to get the tractor out and hook up a 3 point implement... Back the RTV up, drop the hitch, load my gear in the back and head to the wood pile... I use mine several times a year and...
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    Hay Equipment for 50hp Tractor, small acreage.

    This!!!! 👆👆👆 I tried what you want to do a few yeas back. It took two years to get it out of my system... I had about 25 acres of level pasture around the house and no livestock on it for a few years so I had a good stand of grass hay. Had been buying about 200-300 bales of hay to feed my...
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    Just another UDT oil question.

    Was not denied warranty but had CAT take oil samples and confiscate my filters off a new excavator after a pump failure that took out a lot of parts with it. Of course their first root cause was I used the incorrect oil and filters as they seen that before in this type of failure, but they...
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    Knowing What U Know Now!

    If I would have known back then what I know now, I would not have wasted my time with 6 different tractors (25hp to 100hp) over the past 15 years. I have it balanced now and I would have all with cabs if possible, so much nicer in the heat and cold with a cab. Right now, I have LX3310 cab...
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    Now That R14 Tires Have Been Out For A While

    Just got a new tractor for the wife and let the dealer talk me into R14s, must admit they looked good on the tractor. Always had R4s which works 99% of the time for the work that she does with the tractors. Only time R4s did not work was in snow and deep mud which I do not experience very...
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