Recent content by sendero

Thanks to everyone that commented. I have done the research and yes, if you remove the transaxle from the mower you can change the fluid. There is no way around removing them. Removing them is quite a laborious task, and though I am retired and have infinite free time :) I'm not sure I would...

I bought my first zero-turn mower last fall. I'm kicking myself because if I'd have any idea how superior it would be compared to my garden tractor mower, I would have done it years ago. The mower is a Gravely ZT X 52. I love it performance. It was a year old when I bought it and the...

Thanks - I did that and the box blade remained in the raised position. Looks like my Kioti is going to the shop for the first time :)

I have a DK35 that is about 18 years old with 300 hours. It has performed flawlessly throughout this time. Yesterday, I was out to grab a load of sand. I had the box blade raised up, and was using the FEL. While idling I noticed the tractor "shake" every 3-4 seconds. I looked around and the...

I love my Deere but last week I was mowing along and the belt popped off. I found a diagram online and got the belt back on. And the blades engage but something is not right because the cut is weak. It cuts, but nothing like it should and did before. I'm certain that the ROUTING of the belt...

I bought one a bit over a year ago. It is a beast, and will make crumble out of any soil it goes after. However, lately the shifter is stuck - I cannot change gears without a fight, it is stuck and stuck hard. This is only has a few hours of use and it is too young to be having this sort of...

I have a pond with a 250' long dam. The front side of the dam is pretty steep,the back side a little less so. There is no way I can use my Kioti DK35 on this. But I'm wondering what the right equipment would be. Right now I'm using a modified push mower (added 12" wheels :)" and it does the...

This is a long shot, but I'm running out of ideas. I've recently set up a water tank to provide irrigation for our garden plants (blackberries, blueberries a few grapes). The water tank is about 400 feet from our pond. I put in a 1.5" pvc line from the pond edge to the (1500 gal) tank. We...

Ok, I've cut down a boatload of trees. But I have one that's going to need some special care. This tree has to fall a certain direction, because there is a power line that it *might* touch if it doesn't. And I've learned the hard way that if a tree WANTS to fall a certain direction, you can...

... when I found a butterfly bush and a blueberry bush dug up by a critter, it was a reasonable assumption that an armadillo did it. After all, there were several little holes next to the new blackberry bushes that looked exactly like armadillo bug-hunt scratching. The big clue should have...

... but I've grown to HATE them. I'm trying to do some absentee gardening at my Grayson county hideout. We've planted 10 pecan trees, which are mostly doing well, and a dozen blackberry bushes and a few blueberry bushes. The #$%^#$ armadillos love to dig where we water the trees/shrubs...

This afternoon we were sitting down to eat and I noticed a flock of several birds diving into the pond. We put our food back in the oven and went out to take a look. There were about a dozen. They were about the size of a youngish dove, and all gray black and white. They would dive into the...

... on the planet! Ok, this anecdote is going to reveal what a total city-boy I am. Sure, I've fished and I can catch fish and besides, anyone could catch a fish from my pond. But last week I decided it was time to eat one of the catfish I stocked my pond with almost 2 years ago. These fish...

I've recently been informed by the retailer who sold me my Kioti DK35 that they will no longer sell or service the Kiotis. They were located about 3 miles from my place. They have kindly referred me to another dealer that is about 20 miles away. I had been planning to buy a flatbed trailer to...

I've had my tractor for a couple years. I've used it mostly for bush hogging, disking, moving piles of dirt with the FEL, and pushing trees into a nice burnable pile. I have a drainage problem across a dirt road. A local soil conservation engineer has looked it over - he says I need to...