Recent content by seanbales

I bought an LS G3033 in January. The manual says the transmission takes either ISO-46 or ISO-68. Two questions: 1. What are the pros and cons of ISO-46 vs ISO-68 hydraulic fluid? Is it just temperature? 2. More importantly, I don't know what's in the transmission do what if I guess wrong...

I think I have one. You can kind of see it. I know it's not a great picture of the male end. I'll try to take a better picture tomorrow. We got ridiculously snowed in today so I'm not going to go back out there until tomorrow. [emoji33]

So I need a hydraulic coupler that will fit my tractor. It looks like this... Here are some close ups of the markings. As best as I can tell, it's a 3/8-14 PT fitting... Which is weird, because every 3/8 fitting I find is 3/8-18 NPT. Does anyone know much about these that can help me...

So I borrowed an old 3-pt back blade and retried my test. So the water adds up to about 1,050 lb (125 gal) and the tractor is completely stable now that it has the rear weight from the blade. But the FEL won't lift the load any higher than you see in the picture. It just stops lifting. I...

Thanks guys! So I did a test today. See the attached pictures. Basically there are 8 x 5gal buckets filled to the top with water and 6 x10gal tubs of water. I'm thinking this all adds up to about 850lb total, not counting the pallet forks. Water is about 8.3lb/gal, right? The tractor...

First of all, I am new to this forum and quite new to tractors in general. I recently purchased a 2015 LS G3033 (shuttle) w/FEL. The price was right and I really like the machine. We have about 12 acres in Wyoming and in the past three years it has really been a chore without a machine to...