Recent content by Lazy Sod

No it's a Kidd, made in Devizes, Wiltshire, UK. Archie Kidd started the company in the late fities, having designed a flail forage harvester. The company has had several owners over the years and the present one carries on the tradition of making very high quality machinery. Mine has a cutting...

Those collars are horrible, I refer them as the devil's foreskin. I have one on my Kidd grassland topper. So I bought a 6" pto extension with the push button and shortened the pto shaft. This is a picture of a machine like mine that I found on the internet. You will notice the forward...

I'm sorry, I wasn't clear in my post, I was talking about the flip over forks you see on 4 in one buckets on the front of a backhoe loader, not the buckets of the actual backhoe, ie on the rear of the tractor. Like this:

I seem to have unintentionally offended you Cougsfan, I'm sorry if I have. To be quite honest, until I started looking at TBN and also OTT, I was unaware of bucket clamp on pallet forks. The use of the flip over type of forks fitted to a back hoe buckets are pretty much standard equipment...

I speak purely from a farming perpective, where many attachments may be needed on the tractor 3 point linkage or loader on a daily basis. Back in the seventies, I had a 120 head dairy herd and also some arable land. The Accord 3 point quick hitch system became popular then, particularly...

I don't understand why you folks in the USA and Ca. are so wedded to bucket forks, surely it must be difficult to see the fork ends. Is it because most people are living in the dark ages and have to knock out pins to take their buckets off? I think that some type of quick attach system is...

Here's a picture of the beacon installation on my Kubota, see my post #26. The pic camera angle makes it look as if the beacon top is above the top of the ROPS frame, but it isn't.

My Kubota came without a beacon, but with switch on the dash and wiring terminating behind the seat. I fitted an led beacon high up on the outer side of the ROPS but below the top of it, so that it shouldn't get knocked off. Here in the UK, it's an offence to have one near enough to a turn...

If you didn't want to wait for Fite Rite, given his long delivery time, you could consider importing some from the UK. There are lots of companies selling them for about £80 each (perhaps about $100) upwards depending on not only pin category but the dimensions of your linkage arms. Shipping...

Here you are. You can use ordinary balls, but the ones that I have "ears"on them to make hooking on even easier.

Euro hooks (we call them hook ends) have been pretty much standard equipment on tractors over about 50hp for 30 years here in Europe. You'll really only find pull out ends on smaller tractors. Last year, I bought a new 50 hp Kubota L1501 DW tractor, yes I know, in N. America you'll all probably...

When I had a new milking parlour put in 50 years ago, the concrete where the cows stood to be milked was floated up to a smooth surface, carborundum dust was sprinkled on and the surface was floated again. It always looked very smooth but it had tremendous grip.

Quick thread hi jack if you don't mind. My father bought a Massey Harris Dickie side rake in the early fifties. I imagine that they were made in N. America. I used to use it as a schoolboy behind a Fordson Standard model N, or a Fordson Major. If you look at Google Images you will see that...

This is the prop that I made when first I bought my Kubota M7040 with a LA1153 loader. The prop also fits the MX loader that I now have on my 50 hp Kubota. I cut a couple of washers into horse shoe shapes and welded them to some T section scrap that I had. Some half inch plywood was glued...

I did in the seventies with 2 MF tractors. The dead tractor had ground speed pto. The dead tractor had 1 rear wheel jacked up and ground speed pto was selected. With it in reverse, the clutch pedal was raised. It started straight away.