Recent content by Zdenek

Someone mentioned bad fuel. How old is your fuel? I have a 2012 Kubota L5740 and the first few years I parked it under a roof, but open to ambient conditions with melting snow flooding the flow in the spring. Since I didn't use it as frequently in the summer (mostly snow removal machine), the...

Yes, they are granite and mostly rounded. The cost of loading and transportation to the market that is willing to pay is high. Where they are located, everyone has abundance of them courtesy to the last big glacier. I had him push them to the low end to create a retaining wall of sorts. Some got...

I pulled about that many trees couple years ago with chains and my L5740 FEL. The trees were bigger, up to about 10” diameter. It was a lot of work. After, I hired a guy with a larger excavator (37,000 lbs machine) to move rocks in that area and flatten it somewhat. The rocks were up to about...

Plain undercoating is not as effective as undercoating and also treating cavities. I had Ziebart do the whole package on a new Camry in 1994 in MI and it was oozing the stuff from the sills for about 10 years. The car never showed rust all the way to 2013 when it was totaled parked on the...

You are partially right. The lifting force transfers to a high elevation and if you are on a slope, it will be inherently more prone to rolling, however the CG is really much lower because the CG of the boulder is very close to the ground. The combined CG of the FEL is high and so the total is...

If I can't lift a boulder with the bucket, I sometimes rig it after removing the bucket (less weight to lift) to the bar behind the quick attach. I can lift more in that angle, but have to be on fairly level ground, or there is tipping hazard. This works well for placing the boulders on the...

I have the same tractor and a rear mounted 74” blower. Windy up and down road to clear - about a mile long plus some around the barn and house. I was thinking about the same solution, but price is just a bit too high fo the number of days I would use it. I was thinking about another possibility...

I use these old scrapped actuator end caps - my son welded couple of brackets for me and milled slots in the smaller end caps in the bottom to make it a nice package. I use it most of the summer months. Great for moving trailers and boats around, great visibility to the ball. Loader work made...