Recent content by moored4

This has nothing to do with my tractor but in my tractor shed I have acquired some 70+year old porcelain or granite ware barn lights. I plane on mounting them down the center alleyway of my shed, so I have 2 questions. First is does anyone know how to refinish the chipped glass finish? Second...

I was out hauling my tractor from one job site to another and was near the dealer so I stopped by to visit and pick up some lynch pins. So in conversation I mentioned that I had gotten stuck a few days before and was unable to get out by using my loader! The bucket would not curl and pick the...

We all need music in our lives! :) I know most of us enjoy tinkering with our machines and adding homemade items to them to improve on their functionality or their aesthetics! I was sent this and knew some of you would enjoy this! Every time that we go to the beach my wife knows that she can...

I don't where to post this, It might be the front porch! I have been doing a search for the building of 'Brush forks' for awhile now and I get threads galore but most of them have nothing to do with brush or forks and none have the threads to the building of them! :confused2: I know that I...

The last few days i have been driving a M7040! Nice tractor but my question is on the left hand side of the sterring collom right below the forward/reverse lever there is a lever that is black and 'padle' shaped, What is it for and how do you operate it? It looks like that it should move in...

I've been brush hoging blackberries on a section of land, getting it ready to reforest and my L3540 rear flasher lights or broke :mad: again. dang plastic! :mur:!!! Has any one found a replacement for this lights that is a better desine and/or made of Non destructive material! Every little limb...

I am trying to come up with a faster and better way of trying to tie down my tractor. Some days I load/unload it 4 or 5 times. Any way while I was researching chains and connectors I came across this link and with the many threads here on the subject I thought I would pass it on to my fellow...

I have some blue plastic barrels/jugs, 15 gal. capacity, that I want to identify. I want to use some for diesel, gas and water. What kind of paint will stick to these and not come off and will also not weaken the plastic? Or other sugestion on how to identify them? I did a search and did not...

I have come on a cheap source of Ag lime and need to move on it before it is gone! :) I need to know if any of you from west of the cascades have applied any lime to your pastures? I know that I need to test my soil and will before making an application, but I would like to know a 'ballpark...

What happened? It was foggy yesterday and sunshine today so I thought I would mow the yard one more time before it gets to wet to do here in the pacific northwest. Went up the drive about 20 feet and out comes nothing but WHITE smoke and the motor dies! So What Happened? No odd sound or...

I tried to attach pic to my 1st post but it took me some time to relearn :confused2: how to resize them! Here the better half's Potting shed!

If you were doing FEL work what implement would you want to be on the 3PT other than a ballast box? I have a L3540 with a Kubota B-box I am playing with an ideal. :confused: I am wondering after you get thru using your FEL what implement do you wish you had on or do you put on to finish the...

I have been looking and reading in the old threads on and off now for3 days! I know it is here but can not find it! :smiley_aafz: In one of the threads on ballast there was posted a formula for figuring the proper amount of weight needed for any given FEL lift weight. I know it is like a...

I need some wire for my welder so off to the welding store I go.:cool: When I get there I am greeted by the salesman saying You are the 'old retired coot' I have been looking for?:mad: Kind a caught me off guard! Long story short there was a man that came in with a milk case of old C...

I have a friend that is trying to sell his dad's tractor and he is woundering what its worth, He needs to get rid of it for his Dads safety(sometimes you do what you have to do weather you enjoy it or not) He can send pictures by e-mail. Here is his e-mail to me. Contact Mario at 3604301220...