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Now that I have mowed twice with this thing, I completely understand the chute blockers that open and close. This mower throws stuff a country mile, and a lot of the time, that's fantastic. Makes a leaf blower totally unnecessary. It even works on pavement. I assume a chute that is always...

I'm sure I would see things differently if I were running a business.

You bought large Vulcan cabinets, and I made it clear I was talking about a small Vulcan similar to the Miller. I will attach a photo. The big Vulcan looks very nice for a person who wants three machines on one cart, assuming the air space is adequate for ventilation, but I chose shopmade carts...

Until this thread was created, I had no idea other landowners lived in a different universe. I don't like my thin bahia grass, but it looks like it saves me a lot of trouble.

I appreciate the information on chute blockers. I was mystified. The old John Deere didn't need one, so the Kubota won't, either.

Here is a great example of a stupid, overpriced welding cart you should not buy. This is a Miller, and I found it online for $360+. I had something very similar from Vulcan, and it was very sturdy, but it was also stupid. I paid $100 and sold it for $50 just to make it go away. Note how...

I am using the ZD326, and it looks like some of my concerns were totally baseless. Nothing new there. 1. The deck has partitions that isolate the blades to some extent, so it confines leaves and grass somewhat. 2. Running it with stock blades chewed my leaves up pretty good. Good enough to...

Okay, this does not happen to me. I don't think it's even possible. Maybe the grass here is not capable of it. I have never seen anything stuck under my deck. I thought cleaning was for light residue.

I'm in Northern Florida, not Pennsylvania. The humidity is high, and there are often huge temperature swings between night and day. I am told this is why small engines have such problems here. I'm not the weak link, I can assure you of that. Additives, running saws dry...I've done it all. The...

The appeal of gambling mystifies me. It would mean nothing to me to win a thousand dollars, but I know from experience that I hate losing twenty. Alex Trebek said pretty much the same thing. Gamblers are amazing people. The law permits every casino to rig every game, and gamblers should know...

Yeah, I can't tell if it's a great mower or it just seems like one after a John Deere 430.

I am only as good as my search results. When I checked around, I saw big gas mower engines selling for over $4K. I mean the good ones, not the $3,000 Lowe's jobs. Far as I know, you have to go up a lot in horsepower in order to get a gas engine that will compete with a 25-HP diesel. Having used...

Sounds great, but I bought a Kubota. Thanks for the info.

What I have seen on the web are people saying that gas engines haven't lasted that long in practice. Perhaps they are wrong, or maybe they are not treating their engines as well as they should, though. Anyway, I spent $5,500 for a mower that probably has more than 2500 hours left before the...

I just got a used Kubota ZD326. I looked at new Scags, a used Gravely, and a ton of other stuff. I am highly skeptical of the claim that a homeowner can't justify getting a diesel. If you have more than an acre or two, and you plan to be around for decades, a diesel seems like a good idea to...

My first welder was a Lincoln PowerMIG 180C, which I still have. Later on, I added an AlphaTIG and a Titanium Unlimited 200. The latter machine is from Harbor Freight. It does MIG, stick, and DC TIG. I thought it would be nice to have a backup and also have more than one type of wire loaded at...

Maybe I'm wrong about the hotels paying my dad's plane fare, but the other stuff, I'm sure of.

My dad told me they used to fly him to Vegas, pick him up at the airport, comp his food and room...and he wasn't a big fish.

I am finally putting the JD 430 behind me. I got an actual mower today, as contrasted with a geriatric yard tractor that happens to have a deck attached to it. Finally, I am done with endless unexpected repairs on a machine designed to make mechanics beg for death. I found a deal I liked on a...

This looks bad.

Hmm...$340, or waste a perfectly good old license plate. I'll have to think it over.

This is a suggestion I will follow up on. I don't have the new mower yet, so I can't see how hard it is to make a chute blocker. I don't want to pay $300 for a metal flap. So I guess I could combine this with mulching blades and see what happens. My leaves are amazing. I piled up tons of them...

That is an interesting idea. The only reason I got the mulch kit for the JD was to get rid of--literally--tons of hard little oak leaves that were a nightmare to move and burn. I haven't paid any attention at all to what it does to the grass. Given the poor quality of grass here, I am not...

I don't know why a Kubota with 25 horses would bog when a JD with 20 does all right. The Gravely may have a 30-horse Kubota, but it's possible it has a 25-horse job, which means the Kubota is no worse. I will have to confirm the Gravely's specs with the dealer. I wonder if a zero-turn delivers...

It's not hard to make. The hard part is finding someone who will tell you the truth instead of handing you a lame recipe.

I'm seeing complaints that the Kubota bogs down with a mulching kit. The Gravely has a stronger engine, though.

Now I'm reading that the Kubota doesn't have enough manliness to power a mulching kit. If so, Gravely it is, I guess. I cannot survive without mulching to get rid of these oak leaves.

Web thinks both of these mowers have 7-gauge decks. The Gravely seller is asking $2400 more than the Kubota guy, so if I can manage to get to the Kubota before someone else, I will take it. Says I can see it Friday after lunch.

I would expect real grass to stick to my deck a lot more, but this stuff is like whatever the devil has in his yard in hell. Long, stringy, tough grass that looks great from 100 yards but is actually extremely thin up close.

Geez. Knives? You must have some serious crud up there in Tennessee. I have never noticed much of anything stuck to my deck here in sizzling Northern Florida.

Thanks. How are you cleaning the deck? Seems like a hose would just encourage rust. I have blowers and a big compressor.

I am still struggling to find a used diesel zero-turn to replace my aging JD 430. I wanted a Kubota ZD because they have built-in jacks, but good ones don't pop up often at realistic prices. Right now, I can get an okay deal ($8900 asking) on a Gravely Pro Turn 460 with a Kubota engine. A...

I wouldn't go near that thing if I could not burn it. I have a few like that.

When I spin the excavator too much, it tears up the ground, and the excavator sinks to where it gets stuck.

That is so true. And good deals take forever to pop up, unless you're willing to settle for anything. Back when I was just getting into machining, people on forums told me stupid things like, "Don't buy an Asian machine! Wait around! I got a lightly-used Bridgeport for $750." Those guy were so...

Seems pretty clear by now that the issue has never been resolved, and maybe it depends on the application.

You can always get a bargain if you're willing to spend your life waiting and driving.

I used the excavator again yesterday. This is the second time it has failed to get a small magnolia stump loose. Evidently, magnolia tap roots are pretty impressive. At least the excavator got enough dirt moved to get me access so I could cut roots with a Sawzall. As experience reduces my own...

This machine really sinks in my sandy yard. If I move it to a location with the blade in front of me, and then I spin it to put the blade behind me, it makes it more likely I will get stuck when I try to leave.

Planting new trees and shrubs, ripping out old ones up to a certain size, removing rocks and stumps, getting rid of the garbage the squirrels plant before it's too big...to me, that's worth $5K. Pretty standard stuff for a rural property.

My feeling is that if you have any kind of acreage at all, you can't go wrong with one of these. You just have to cope with the shortcomings and think what a Kubota would cost.

For $5,000, absolutely. I keep saying it's like having two men with shovels. It's not the answer to all my problems, but it will do a lot of things I don't want to do by hand. It's nice to see that dirt move while I sit on a cushioned seat.

I'm trying to get up to speed with my cheapo Chinese gas job. So much bad information out there. For example, people complain that the seat gets hot, so some are saying to insulate the underside of the sheet metal under the seat. But that cooks the engine, which people say is already too hot...

One of those sources says to park with the cab at 45 degrees to the tracks to provide a step to dismount on. The other says this is a critical safety error.

Behind: 5 Critical Mistakes To Avoid in a Mini Excavator In front:

1. Experts on the Internet say to keep a mini-excavator's blade behind you when digging. 2. Experts on the Internet say to keep a mini-excavator's blade in front of you when digging. Help.

I have that backward. It gives you positive feedback, so you automatically brake the machine over and over when you want to go backward or forward.

I think reversing the track controls might help. As it is, you get positive feedback when it lurches. If they were reversed, you would get negative feedback instead of pouring on more fluid.

My hydraulics can't deal with roots. Seems like this machine is fine for digging loose dirt, but forget working where there are rocks and roots. It also struggles to curl the bucket when it's pressed into dirt.

It is confusing. I am told lower flow will give less jerking without loss of power, and that the jerking is caused by putting a fast gas engine in a machine made for a 2050-RPM diesel, but I assume it would also make the crawl speed unbearable, and it's hard to believe the diesel models could...

Of course.

The official price direct from AGT through their website or Ebay is about $8500 right now. This is for the 15-horsepower models. For the extra $3500, I would have gotten a warranty. I don't have any idea how I would find a slower pump that would fit this machine.

I was using this thing today, and the treads got stuck. I would have expected a tracked machine to turn the tracks even if it couldn't go anywhere, but I was sitting in dirty sand, and I couldn't get it to go forward or back. I had to turn it until I found a way it was willing to go.

I have not changed my hydraulic fluid yet. I was putting it off until I got a new drain plug with a valve and filter on it, but now I think that's a dumb idea. If I change the fluid, I have to keep the old plug until the next fluid change, unless I want to change the fluid and then try to...

That is truly strange, because I have no problems with my boom. Thanks for the info about the filter and controls.

I don't know what it sounds like when a hydraulic pump cavitates. I would say the system was something like a quart and a half low. I will see if it makes noise tomorrow. I don't know how to put a second filter on the system. I'll have to find out and see if it's practical. I haven't even found...

I believe they are piling up at places like Ritchie Brothers.

Yesterday I picked up a new QR16K AGT 15-horse gas excavator. For $5K, there was no way to resist. I should be able to get rid of it with a minimal loss if I don't like it. I have questions, of course. 1. People are saying I should change the hydraulic fluid because the Chinese put everything...

I wonder if increasing the length of the levers would help. The shorter the levers, the more a linear displacement of the end of the lever will open the valve. Double the length of the lever, and you halve the response for a given displacement.

I broke down and bought a little AGT excavator today. It's hilarious. It has a 15-horse gas motor. Weighs a ton. It was brand new, and the guy who had it sold it very cheap, so I could not say no. I think it will be incredibly handy around the farm. Now I have to go through it and get rid of...

I know the difference between TYM and the seller.

That's not what TYM says.

That sounds like a bad idea until I consider the horrible advice human beings have given me with great confidence.

Winchester, Kentucky? Until I was a year old, I lived in Bel Air. I believe my house was across the fence from Jerry's. I was born in Winchester. I don't know what happened, but somebody convinced TYM it wasn't the owner's fault. I don't know if that means anything. Maybe it's not that hard to...

The owner has a tree service, and the tractor has a Land Pride grapple. That's how he put in 800 hours. He does pretty much the same things I do with my little Kubota, but I put in about 25 hours a year. The warranty is hard to pin down, which is another reason to talk to the dealer. TYM's site...

Dude says he will give me the number of the guy in charge of the repair at the dealership so I can ask what they know.

Here is what ChatGPT thinks: If a low-hour diesel tractor blows a head gasket and the repair includes installing a new cylinder head, that strongly suggests the original head was warped, cracked, or otherwise defective — and this was likely the root cause of the failure, not just a consequence...

Here is what Grok thinks: The most likely reason a low-hour diesel tractor's head gasket blew, assuming proper maintenance and operation, is overheating or thermal stress. Diesel engines, especially in tractors, operate under high compression and load, generating significant heat. If the...

I'll tell you what. I'd drink a case of Corona before I'd touch one Budweiser. Especially Bud Light in the Loafers.

Plot twist: forgot to tell this guy I had corona. He is not interested in catching it. Now I have to wait a couple of days. He says the dealer put a new head on the tractor and a bunch of other junk on warranty. Says TYM fought them. His theory is that the dealer expected to take the tractor...

I am looking at the tractor today. It's a TYM with a Kukje engine. The seller says the tractor's head was replaced under warranty "along with a list of other things." Sounds like the head was defective.

Made a new one today with onions and pepperoni. It was probably great, but I had covid this week, so everything tastes a little odd.

I just saw a $1400 Bad Boy seat on the web. I guess this is one of the ways in which tractor manufacturers make money on the sly. They design seats to fail and then refuse to sell parts.

Thanks. A dealer just got back to me, and TYM does not sell seat cushions. Unbelievable. A tractor is supposed to go 4,000 hours in hard conditions, but the seat falls apart at 500, and you're supposed to pay $1300 every time it fails.

I wonder if it will come apart so an upholstery shop can fix it.

I am looking at a TYM T574. The lower seat cushion has to be replaced. I have not found it online. The entire seat costs $1270, and people say TYM's seats are not great. Is there a good aftermarket seat cusion that will fit? I don't think TYM offers the cushion by itself.

Would you buy an 800-hour tractor that had a head gasket blow and was then repaired by a dealer?

Grok thinks 27.5K.

TYM 2020 T574 hydrostatic, 800 hours, ag tires, Land Pride grapple and bucket. Assuming no surprises, what is it worth?

Is that the video where he says he's surprised at how much more capable his tractor is with weighted tires? That was amazing. I mean, he sells tractors. "It's surprising how much better my car's mileage is now that I've put air in the tires."

I don't know the difference between power shuttle and shuttle shift. Looking it up.

I was going to finish it, but my wife got it.

That's an interesting opinion, and you are entitled to hold onto it. I am very content with my response. "Do your research" is not a helpful suggestion. I am doing research, right now. That's the purpose of this thread. When I got this USED CART as part of a PACKAGE, I did my research. I got a...

Why are you upset about me criticizing a company? If you don't get it, you can go look at the things I said about it. I listed them. All valid complaints.

The Kubota site says it has "CVT PLUS with centrifugal clutch." The ST350 also has a centrifugal clutch.

If they manufacturing UTV's, it's a UTV company. They took on the responsibility for making good UTV's and giving them proper support. You're just saying they neglect one product line in favor of bigger ones. Yamaha is a guitar company. Kawasaki is a shipbuilding company. Honda is a an...

I appreciate the advice, but I'm just looking for a better company.

Read closely. You misstate the point. My main complaint is not the price of the parts, although even the ripoff artists at John Deere would have a hard time outdoing a $2300 cart bed that cost $75 to make. And I just happen to need bed repairs. It would be nice to buy a new one, I'm going to...

It is a good cart. The company is the problem. If I want a Kubota part, I can get it fast from Ebay, a local dealer, or Messick's. Textron or Jacobsen or whatever E-Z-GO is this month is nothing like that. And my Kubota is over 20 years old, so age is irrelevant. Kubota provides parts, not...

A company that makes UTV's is a UTV company. And as I have said, it's bush league with regard to all products. You should go look at their site and then check John Deere's site.

Respectfully, you don't know what you're talking about. Go compare E-Z-GO support with any other big company. They stink with newer products, too.

The bed is small, and it only holds 440 pounds, so that's no good. The Kubota Sidekick has a bigger bed and payload. It has 54 HP, which seems ridiculous on a farm cart. If I break 15 mph on this lumpy farm, I'll go flying.

Well, I'm wrong. When I tried the "build your own" feature, I didn't see a dump bed, but it's there in other pictures.

The Honda looks nice, but I don't see a dump bed option. That's a deal-breaker.

It's an 11-HP Subaru-powered utility cart with a dump bed. I found a photo that shows it.

When I bought my Kubota, it came with a JD garden tractor and an E-Z-GO ST350 Workhorse, which is a 350-cc gas cart with a dump bed. It has a Subaru Robin engine. The cart is not bad, but the company that makes it behaves like it works out of somebody's spare bedroom. Is it E-Z-GO? Is it...

I didn't give much in the way of details. To like this pizza, you have to like thick pizza which is basically fried on the bottom.

Here's something fun. I make my own pizza, because pizza is THE best food, but since my son was born a while back, I have only made two Sicilians. Yesterday, I had to have one, and you see it below. My thin NYC pizza is okay, but my Sicilian is the best pizza I have ever had anywhere. New York...

So Bugatti doesn't make tractors.

I know the Lambo had about 300 HP. That would be nice for pulling trash oaks over. It supposedly lifts 10 tons.

I didn't know he had a different tractor now. It must be something if it sold for $115,000 with 3,000 hours. I don't know how many hours the Lamborghini had.

I want a $50,000 300-horsepower Lambo tractor.

I have a Kubota L3710 (38 HP gross), and I have never been able to push anything alive over with it, except for tiny things. Rotten trees are different. I would never push anything that was over maybe 10 feet tall. I don't want chunks of tree flying back at me over the loader. When you push...

Maybe you're the wrong guy to ask, but if a shuttle is easy to use, what is the purpose of HST?

The thing that amazes me about the farm is how fancy it is. GPS tractors. Vets coming and going. Fancy pig houses. Indoor sheep areas. A chicken village with chicken condos. Experts all over. My grandfather had farms, and he grew tobacco, hay, corn, and soybeans. He also raised cattle. Raised...

I don't think I've driven a geared tractor since the Eighties, and just barely then. Is it really possible to use one for backing up and going forward hundreds of times a day without losing your mind? I like that hydrostatic transmission. Push pedal down in front, go forward. Push pedal down in...

It seems like we have reached a point where we keep people alive longer than they were designed to survive, but we can't make the brain last longer, so the body continues and the brain fails. We have decided aging and death are abnormal conditions that need to be treated, and we fail to realize...

There is some suspicion that eating mangoes while growing up reduces sensitivity, but it may not be true. Mango trees are related to poison ivy, and they produce the same chemical, urushiol. It is found in mango stems and skins. I spent the largest part of my childhood in Miami, where mangoes...

I'm not Canadian. I pay half my income in health insurance like a free man.

Here's to Conrad. Almost 10 years, and it still hurts.

My dad started to go when he was about 83. He had to retire from practicing law the next year. He kept deteriorating. He died at 87. My sister is a worthless sociopath, and my mother died a long time ago. That left me, and I was single and childless. I had him for around a year and a half. On...

Same thing happened to me, but unfortunately, I also handled some diced Carolina Reapers and got some Atomic Balm on my hands first.

Punishing the innocent. A hallmark of terrorism and bigotry.

The people who want to bankrupt Musk are models of stupidity. If he lost his entire stake in Tesla, he would still be worth $350 billion. A lot of people would be happy with one billion.

I bought mesh goggles for cutting wood. They work just fine, and they can't fog up.

I have nothing against Musk. He has done amazing things. That being said, I never liked Teslas, and I think the Cybertruck is an abomination. The name is silly. "Cyber" is generally used to label things related to the Internet, including things that only exist there, so I don't understand...

And somehow using lye is not well known. How can that be? I have been discussing this topic with knowledgeable people since maybe 2007, and I didn't hear of this until this year.

How about "Rabid Transit"?

There are a bunch of Youtubes of rabid Indians. Very disturbing. Apparently, India is not doing a whole lot to protect its citizens.

I got myself some 3/4" cable clamps for electrical wires, and I think they'll be fine. I tried to find a way to use existing screws to hold the clamps, but the cables would have to be inside the fender where they would be more exposed to danger. I am trying to fix things up down there so that...

My grandmother cooked a coon for my dad and my grandfather. My dad said that by the time he had chewed on a bite for a while, it was as big as a lampshade. He was not a fan.

Coons used to poop on the top step of my pool over and over. I covered the steps with pieces of wood that had the tips of nails sticking up through them. The hope was that they would choose to use someone else's pool because they could no longer sit there. When mangoes were in season, they...

The husband of a friend of mine blew her inheritance, failed to pay property taxes on the house she bought, went to prison for theft, and put the friend and her three young sons in a position where they had to move into a trailer on a farm her brother owned. Her eccentric mother lives in another...

No creature other than man is stupid enough to want to bring troublesome predators back, and that goes for dangerous snakes, too. Imagine a bunch of deer voting on whether to bring wolves back.

It's amazing how many of the wild animals here are problems. Bears, coyotes, bobcats, coons, and foxes all kill livestock and pets. Poisonous snakes: harm people, livestock, and pets. Kill small game. Squirrels: destroy everything and plant oak trees a foot from house foundations. Eat fruit...

Rattlesnakes are actually protected by law in some places, including "red" Florida, which makes you wonder how stupid people can get before they stop breathing. Personally, I will kill every rattler or moccasin I see here. Good luck catching me. Environmentalists love to tell us every species...

Turns out ChatGPT is good for something.

There is an engineering genius named Dan Gelbart, and he makes Youtube videos. Recently, he posted a video of obscure shop tips, and he dropped a surprise. He said the way to protect machines from rust was to spray them with a weak lye solution. He said rust can't form in a basic environment...

I have to come clean. I was the one I cried about the groundhog.

Just admit you cried about that groundhog. It's nothing to be ashamed of.

Yeah, crying over a groundhog! That was pretty disgraceful! This is turning into an urban legend.

Hope you'll post pictures if you make a hat.

You sound like me. I killed a lot of squirrels. Then one day while I was working in my shop, a squirrel started gathering material for a nest and carrying it past me to a tree by my house. It wasn't scared of me at all. It took its time, making multiple trips. I decided to let it live and have...

I wouldn't trust that. What a manufacturer will say is not always the same as the truth. WD-40 is a Swiss Army knife type of fluid. It does lots of things, but not many well. WD-40 evaporates quickly, leaving a very light film of a waxy substance behind. A lubricant that evaporates is not...

When you live in the country, one of the first things you should do is forget all those Disney movies you watched as a kid and realize that a lot of things that live on your property need to be killed. I started to feel bad about killing squirrel families, and then I spent over $6000 on damage...

I have had interesting experiences with raccoons. I saved a baby raccoon I found squirming in my yard. Today, I have no idea what I was thinking, rescuing dangerous, destructive vermin. I turned it over to some lady who had a rescue facility. She held the coon in one hand and a drink in the...

They barely move since I had them filled with beet juice.

My tractor is rated at 1500 pounds, and I'll take as much lifting power as I can get. I have moved many tons of wood.

I can see how 27 horsepower would be fine for those jobs. Where I live, trash oaks are all over, and they start rotting almost as soon as they sprout. A lot of the work here is cutting and moving trash trees. That takes a machine that can lift a lot. I guess I didn't think about digging post...

Careful, there. Someone will say you're yelling at clouds. Although to be factual, we have actually seen videos of groups of people screaming at the sky. Their average age was pretty low, and they were generally lovers of all things green. They put announcements up on social media, listing the...

New Bransons are gone, right? So I would be going to TYM dealers if I needed parts.

It's like you didn't even read what I wrote.

I see that the TYM T574 has more lifting power than the the Yanmar-powered model. I don't use my tractor for farming. The vast majority of what I do is lifting wood and moving it. Lower fork. Shove under wood. Lift wood. Back up. Turn. Take to burn pile. The more I look into it, the more I...

I wonder what my tractor is worth with 1200 hours.

I'm kind of startled by the prices above for used Kubotas. I have seen people complain about the plastic parts and knobs and so on, on TYM's, as though that's where TYM saved money. I was wondering whether it was feasible to make little improvements to these parts. My tractor seems pretty...

No, it doesn't.

Do you also make intelligent posts, or are they all like this?

I forgot to bring up my shower heads.

The new hose arrived, and I have everything except the electronics installed. I wonder if someone could advise me. I managed to route both of my long hoses between the fender and the tractor, and I can figure out how to clamp them in place. Problem: One of the hoses sticks out to the side of...

I thought all this stuff was the same when I brought the subject up. I had no idea DEF and DPF were different things. I have three diesels and none of this EPA gadgetry, so I never had any reason to become familiar with it. TYM tractors look really good apart from all the parts complaints. I...

It's an HST machine. No idea what it was used for, but apparently mowing was part of the mix. It has a loader. Looks like it spend a lot of time outdoors. I haven't looked at it. Just something that popped up on the web. There are TYM 55-horse tractors out there for around $30K.

I checked around for used TYM's, and it's like they don't exist. The MX5200 I came across has 1500 hours, and they're asking $17,500, including a small bush hog.

If DPF is so trouble-free, how come pre-emissions tractors cost so much?

Glad I asked.

Given that the emissions stuff can cost thousands to repair, how do you check a used tractor to see if it's going to fail soon? Running it for 200 hours to check is not practical, so what do you do?

Hey, don't take forum posts personally. This is a friendly place.

To me, 1500 is about normal. The tractor moves fast enough, the noise is moderate, and the hydraulics seem happy. I would not like keeping a tractor's speed at 1800 or more all the time.

How high do you keep your RPM's in normal use?

I haven't noticed myself getting a faceful of soot with my current diesels, but then I sit in the seat while I use them instead of climbing underneath and putting my face next to the exhaust pipes. So far, I have not had to deal with any of this unneeded equipment. Do people really have to sit...

Yes, to each his own.

I saw an ad for a Kubota MX5200 with 1500 hours. The price looked nice to me, but this thing has the wonderful emissions stuff that requires high revs and can result in $$$$$$ repairs. I would never, ever violate any type of environmental regulation, ever, even though I run my tractor about 30...

I may be able to jam these things in between the tractor and the fender.

I suppose there is a limit to what a small company can do. The kits are supposed to be exact fits, but they said they are not able to measure every model in person when designing kits. For some models, they rely on information from other people. I guess someone sent them wrong information when...

Maybe I should just use these. https://www.grainger.com/product/38YR74?gucid=N:N:pS:paid:GGL:CSM-2295:K2UWC0:20500801:APZ_1&gclsrc=aw.ds&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=21369463827&gclid=Cj0KCQjw2tHABhCiARIsANZzDWrtUFN7462SRhOUOZADYQ13pyDMe9vpWAAznlvicUBqeO4J4NaX9owaAhLSEALw_wcB The forum insists...

Thanks for warning me. It thought it had a rubber base with a screw that went all the way through. I don't think I want to try to weld thin sheet metal with my head between the fender and the manure-caked tire. Apart from the fun of trying to get in there, I would have to sand off a bunch of...

Yeah, but how do you buy just the thing you need there? It's like Costco. Hard to leave without buying junk you didn't know you wanted. It's the hydraulic candy store. Amazon charges over twice as much for that clamp, I believe. Haven't checked shipping, though.

That looks great. Thanks. And thanks for recommending Surplus Center. Might save a couple of dollars.

Thanks. Any particular company?

Now that I'm installing rear remotes on my Kubota L3710, I have new hoses flopping around. Before I spend all day Googling and hoping I come up with a good way to anchor them, is there some product out there that is generally considered best? It looks like two hoses will have to run inside my...

I called W.R. Long, and a new hose is on the way. No problems at all. I would have just bought one, but I am too cheap to spring for ~$130.

Well, these places will charge me about $130 for the hose I need. I am going to call W.R. Long and see if they will send me one instead.

Thanks for the tip. Someone else told me earlier. There is an O'Reilly near me that makes hoses.

Based on information from a site selling Kubota parts, these hoses are 1/2" with 1/2" JIC female fittings on the ends. The threads on these fittings are 3/4" in diameter, and they're straight.

I think the male threads on the valve are JIC flare threads.

Things have gotten worse. Tractor Supply has 1/2" hoses, but they are male on both ends, and they don't have adaptors that will connect the hoses to the valve. Can someone here tell me what kind of male threads these valves have? I think the hoses are NPT.

I found a diagram from a Summit system, which makes the whole thing very easy to understand. I am hoping Tractor Supply will have a hose of the right length.

That appears to be a 3rd-function installation, but thanks. Somewhere down the line, I saw instructions saying to bolt the switch to the top of the fender, so I'll do that. Now there are new questions. I had to replace the hose that was attached to the PB port on my loader, using W.R. Long's...

Woods will definitely make those hoses seem shorter.

Got myself a W.R. Long 2-spool remote kit for my L3710 HST ROPS. It came with comprehensive installation instructions. One page. I didn't know these things required electricity, because, hello, hydraulics. The instructions say, "Connect the red wire to a hot wire on your tractor." You know...

Those longer hoses are looking better and better.

For fun, I asked ChatGPT to give me a diagram based on hoses with a practical length of 80', and ChatGPT is too stupid to get it right. Amusing. ChatGPT is way overrated. Gets things wrong all the time. You're really asking a lot, trying to get a 100' hose to reach the center line of a...

This is pretty similar to what I was trying to get across. A 100' hose is not going to reach 100' in actual use. It's going to curve, and it's going to be heavy, so if you want it straight, you will probably have to walk back and forth straightening it out to maximize the useful length. You...

I would have been happy if they had just left the chain alone, like I told them to. I have a much better repair place now, but if I ever go to another one, I'll leave my chain at home where they can't ruin it.

There is a $150 metal detector called a Lumber Wizard. Where I live, everyone uses plank fences, so I don't run into metal, but other people say it works.

The standard advice is one sharpening per tank, so if I used a machine, I would have to drive back to the shop over and over.

Or their sharpening machine may just use a weird geometry, so when you go back to sharpening like a man, you have to remove lots of metal to get back to normal.

There is nothing like a pole saw for safety. You're farther from danger, and you have a head start when you have to run away. It's impossible to cut yourself. You can use it on a ladder safely. You're never supposed to raise a chainsaw above your shoulders, but it's safe with a pole saw. I just...

If I had to go through more than, say, 10 tanks of gas a day, I would probably be more likely to get a machine. As it is, a three-tank day is a big deal for me, so that's 15 minutes of sharpening "work."

Sell some of the land.

It's just trig, but I'm too lazy to get out a pad.

Do you want them to overlap or just reach each other? I think you would want them to overlap by 20 feet or so. Hoses curve, and this makes them shorter for practical purposes.

Sure sounds like it. I'm grateful for all the input.

I contacted Ironcraft, and they say my tractor is underpowered for that mower, but they recommended the FRF-145, which is a ditch mower.

Thanks again. I am not reseeding or doing much of anything with the lawn. Where I live, there is no irrigation, the soil is sand, the weeds are extremely aggressive, and nobody has a nice yard except for homes on small watered lots. I just want to keep the grass low and get rid of smallish brush...

Maybe what I need is a side shift mower. I thought these were also called offset mowers. I definitely don't want something I have to move manually. I have learned my lesson about "quick" and "easy" manual equipment.

Thanks for that great post. It's an HST tractor (L3710GST 4 wheel drive Glide shift ROPS) with weighted rear tires. I don't know how much stuff is in them. I bought the tractor used. It has an ROPS. I don't know enough to be able to answer your question about the remotes, but this is the one I...

So maybe I should stay under 60". I don't really need it to stand up vertically, but I would like to be able to do a small ditch.

I bit the bullet and ordered a 2-spool rear remote kit for my Kubota L3710. This should give me the ability to run a flail mower with hydraulics. I guess this will be an old question no one wants to hear again, but how much mower can I run? I have a 30-HP PTO. It runs a 6-foot King Kutter...