Recent content by red alder ranch

Was back on here after a long while looking for a thread where I asked questions about my Yanmar a long time ago, and saw that I never updated on this topic. The fluid was FOUL, the clear stuff was what was sitting on the very top. Everything else was a sludgy, nasty mess that took forever to...

Thanks, I just made an account over there last night and have been reading up on it. Do you know if I need to drain out of BOTH drain plugs if I'm only working on the rear section? Ie, is there a "wall" of some kind between the two case parts? My fluid looks very clean, I hate to waste it all...

I just bought a firewood business and with it came a MF 253 tractor with a MF 236 loader on it. It starts and runs great, but the hydraulics for the loader and lift arms are intermittent and very slow when they do work. He used to use this tractor to move logs around before he got a small...

There's a Ford 1000 with a 770 loader for sale near me, about 800 hours, new glow plugs, new seat, seems to be in pretty serviceable shape. Local fixit guy picked it up from the original family ownership to clean up and resell. He's asking $4500 which I think is too high, but he said to make him...

I have a 3220D that I use for mowing and pulling firewood. I bought a Wallenstein winch for it last March, and I've been so busy that today was the first time I was able to hook it up. Headed out into the woods, parked it, shut it off, set up the cables, now the tractor won't start. I have a...

I just bought a Yanmar 3220D, and depending on which specs you read, it is either a 32 or a 35 HP engine. I need a brush hog, pretty much right away, and I was wondering what size of mower this tractor can reasonably run. I found an older 6' mower in good shape on Craigslist not far away for...

Well, I did go back and buy the 3220D that I was looking at, and brought it home this evening. It even came with a service manual in English! But all the labels are still in Japanese... It does have one minor issue that I need to fix right away and that is a leaky coolant bypass hose, here...

So, after borrowing tractors from neighbors and friends for ten years, I have finally gotten a loan from the credit union and I am going to buy my own. Uses: brush hog, pasture mowing, tilling, pulling small firewood logs, FEL work I'm looking for a 4wd, 25-35hp, and from what I've been seeing...