Recent content by ProfJeff

Been doing clearing of a debris pile, this is almost at the beginning of the project. It's pile of dirt and logs at the top of the property that the prior owner pushed together with a small dozer according to my neighbor. I had no idea how much wood was in the pile, I thought it was mostly dirt...

Edited: engine oil

So I went to local stealer/dealer today to buy filter and engine oil because I was in a hurry and I am way overdue for first 50 hour change. Let me mention that the yard was full of tractors on average probably 30 years old, and none less than 10 years, it seems to be more of a tractor repair...

So if my 3pt is losing height (lowering) while driving around, is that indicative of the service bulletin issue ? It will drop 2-3 inches some times several times in 3-4 hours. I do have about 500# of counterweight on it. When the tractor is stored, I block the weights up so that the weight is...

Ah, washers or spacers, great idea, thanks for sharing. Because I spend so much time turned around to back down the darn hill and I use the right side of the ROPS as a hand hold, which is where the light wires run down, I am going to wrap the whole bar in some kind of foam so that I am not...

This is sparking my interest too. My land is very hilly, and working a lot of dirt on the hill, I am using 4WD all the time, probably 80% of the time the tractor is moving. My average slope is 10%, and it goes up to over 25--I stay off that part unless going absolutely straight up or back. Last...

I got a call back today from the local Bobcat dealer following up my lead. I said "the one from a month ago"? He said, "No, I just got it today." Considering I am about to make payment #1 on the red machine, I would say their lead gen and lead management is bad. To make it worse, I spoke to 2...

And for those of us who ride motorcycles, grass clippings can be anything from scary to painful to deadly. https://www.yourgreenpal.com/blog/dangers-of-lawn-clippings-to-motorcyclists#:

Like some others, I need the 3pt hitch to regularly move a trailer into a very small area, and since I will be using the mid mount mower in the yard the backhoe would limit close in work. The wife wants a garden which might mean a tiller off the 3pt too. I am of the "rent the backhoe the 3 times...

Yes the factory turn signals on the outside of the ROPS are a risk. I am still pondering how to get them inboard without drilling a third hole in the ROPS which is frowned upon. The wires seem to be long enough to actually wrap around the ROPS bar to the inside, almost like it was planned. I...

No dumb questions, but some of us make dumb mistakes, often from not asking the right question.

It's been a busy first month with the tractor! I mounted ROPS lights. Moved several tons of rocks. Moved 10 tons of dirt and graded 22 ground tree stumps. Moved about a ton of firewood. Pics show the lights, they are awesome. You can see the headlights only and then with the ROPS lights, and...

Whoever wrote the manual for my GC1735 either knew it too well that they skipped a lot of steps that they did from memory, or they didn't know it at all and wrote it from looking at it without trying anything. The directions on installing / removing the mid mount mower were useless and skipped...

I just did this on my GC1735E. I did the tires first, they ended up at 110# each. I noticed that it helped settle the tractor some so that it was not quite so bouncy. It was "better" but still felt tippy with the front end loader on my hilly property. I have since added 480# on a heavy hitch so...

I lived in Indy for 45 years, it's a nice town, I think it's just the outside part of statistics that it happens to have had so many. However, people are, as someone said, looking to be infamous on the way out. If the :mad: media would stop hyping everything and just objectively report the news...