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In addition to keeping water from flowing down that particular spot, you might drop a couple trees to get some light for some undergrowth for that section. Some grass/weeds and weed trees will hold soil on steep slopes from erosion pretty good. I have a couple spots that are quite steep off...

I found this service bulletin in my searching and I thought it would be better to have here for those of us with these tractors. Tractors made after May 2011 should already have the upgraded axles and bearings. I think it covers all the Bobcat, Cub cadet, McCormick, model numbers as well. The...

Yes, after reading a bit on here many years ago, I do now make a point to have something on the 3pth, but the rear blade is only 3-400 lbs, so not a huge amount with a 900lb bale on the front, in the winter, but that only a dozen or so, 200 yard trips. I have done a lot of dirt work over the...

I could get away with just replacing the outer bearing with the same and the one seal which would be a $100 fix. But given how easy this could've been expensive gears and cases, I'll do the next two bearings up the line as well, put in the improved bearing, and then I'll do the other side now too.

I just had my left front wheel outer bearing fail. Heard an odd screechy tearing sound, looked under the hood, and then the axle and saw the leaking seal. Dropped the loader and skidded on the back wheels and bucket to the shop. Took some thinking and and some extra weight on the rotary mower...

I guess you could try to improve the drainage around your path so the base isn't saturated with water when it freezes. How deep does your ground freeze? If its not too deep, and you have a place to drain water away, you could try a french drain down below the frost line on one side of your...

Sounds like your loader mount isn't installed level? I imagine there must be a bit of adjustment available. Maybe loosen the high side mount bolts and see if that side slips down a fraction, levelling the loader?

Using the tractor hydraulics I think they are bit slow compared to a good mini ex, but get off the tractor and use a shovel for a while if you get frustrated, then the backhoe will seem fast enough! From what I've seen they are certainly powerful enough to dig with the bucket sized for the...

A used sub compact 2wd kubota/ford/diesel tractor without a loader should be available well under $10k. Even 4wd ones too I guess if you've got the hills to need it. Some had mid mount mowers and all would run a nice size 3pt finish mower? I see a new kioti C52210 is $12k too. That could be...

Do you find that you get any freeplay in the front axle after a year? I grease the pivots with the wheels off the ground and give everything a hard shake and it seems tight as new with the same amount of slight friction when pivoting the axle by hand that its always had? The manual says check...

Check the governor? Probably mechanical I assume, It may not be reacted enough to decreasing rpms?

I was wondering how they shipped with the cab, but it looks like they are all assembled and weather proof, so no big deal. Probably a bigger deal with an open station where it just has some plastic over it, basically trapping moisture, which is never a good thing... Ideally I wouldn't...

Assuming the OP has done his research and is happy with either tractor at whatever price they are at, I wouldn't worry about a tractor sitting in a dry crate for months. I would look at it carefully for water damage, and getting into somewhere its not supposed to be. If that's fine and he...

Sorry I forgot about you Eric! Doh! I do subscribe to your channel as well, but you do have a point, that the algorithm hasn't spit out one of your videos for me in a while. I have made a few comments on Sandy's videos as he has the same tractor, so maybe that's why I see him more. I do like...

Have you found Sawing with Sandy? www.youtube.com/@sawingwithsandy That's the only one I follow, as he was not getting sponsored for quite a few years, and so his videos were more relatable to me at least :ROFLMAO: No free attachments or tractors falling out of the sky at my place! Now he's...

Good work! I like the NS series, seems mostly back to the heavy simpler DKSE tractors, which I think is a good thing.

I'm in the opposite camp, unless he really has a need for the PTO hp? KISS for long term ownership, and my theory is that I'd rather stress an under stressed diesel a bit more, and then have less hp working the HST and drivetrain more under their maximum capacity when I'm using the tractor like...

That's been my understanding and observation for the most part. Unpainted white cedar posts here can last a long long time, and there a cedar rail fences over 100 years old in a lower humidity spot.

Build quality, a good design, well thought out updates, and keeping up on maintenance, can make old places better than new ones, but it has to be done right... We are upgrading my FIL well built 1918 place. He did a significant update in 1980 but cut a few corners with upgrading the HVAC...

Mine has another lever right beside the 1st one for the second remote. On an open station I don't think it was a big job to add, as my dealer did it as part of the deal. One is self centering (I use it for the 3pt toplink) and the other has the detents which I've never used, but its for a 3pt...

Probably very little mechanical differences unless the weight changes in the specs, I don't see parts diagrams for these on michigan iron . com but they must be online somewhere.

I lost a bolt on one of mine and then I couldn't find a proper length replacement, but I did have one that is a bit too long so it bottoms out in the hole before the head does and it stays fine. I think all the bolt does is keep the pin from turning, which a longer bolt does just fine. Looks...

I can't say I've heard or seen anything that says these are a great option? If you are handy they are maybe a neat project, but from what I've seen you might need a better valve set so you can control it smoothly, they are made for someone 5'6", very slow moving. I do see a few these for sale...

It the looks like canopy metal frame will be maybe 10-15cm lower than it is now if you mount it below the ROPS. And they you'll use some 2x4's to go on top of the rails to support the canopy? Maybe put the rails sideways under the rops for more headroom? I don't think anything is too fragile...

Our local fall fair has had a couple there the last couple years, they do look well made but a lot of electronics. You can run the 3pt up and down from the back, but with rubber covered buttons... I guess they all are like this now, but seems like you better park them indoors out of the...

My tip is to get a dog bred for what you want it to do. A champion retriever lab is great if you do competitions, but maybe not so great if you are away 8+hrs a day... It has energy to burn and will find something to do/wreck. I don't know what the ideal breed is for an indoor pet dog? But...

https://www.michiganironandequip.com/oempartfinder?gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAiAh6y9BhBREiwApBLHC4GWDIqG6qarBxbK_YORie5F96upHEpdbxFgzagd2AqpM14uVTlOjRoCnIsQAvD_BwE#/Kioti_Tractor/Parts/Mounting_Brackets/02-02%7c%7eKL401-M-Parts/0202KL4010013/y They are not the simplest thing to make I assume, but...

Heavy box blade to crown your driveway so it doesn't wash out, and you also could use it to find the high rocks by just skimming the ground with it. If I find a big rock I just hook it out with one of the scarifiers leaving most of the grass undamaged.

https://app.clearcalcs.com/freetools/beam-analysis/us Playing around with this should get you an idea of the effect of rear counter weight. I use a rear counter weight as much as possible, as I can use the loader on flats and slight slopes in 2wd safely. When I have time and if I remember, I...

I think if you've got a heavy rear blade, using the back of the blade works well. I have a light 7' ~400lb rear blade and its pretty useless going backwards, but my driveway is frozen gravel so using the front of the blade isn't moving much gravel. For unfrozen gravel and a light rear blade, I...

Maybe loosen up the loader mount bolts a little bit, gently push the loader back to centre on the base of a fence post or something, and then tighten the loader mount back up and see where you are at?

Do some googling/youtubing, I found my HST in my old LT1000 rider, I could do a partial drain and fill through the top through the breather valve. On my mower it was easily accessed by taking out the battery and tray under the seat, and there it is, unscrew the valve and I sucked out the fluid...

I guess if its the same LS tractor that is sold by dealers, finding parts isn't going to be a problem, and you can order the service manual and send that along with the tractor to a local repair shop if it needs something beyond your skill set? Would I recommend buying an LS at Lowes? No, but...

Some vehicles have some very dumb designs to repair, so do your homework if you are planning on owning stuff out of warranty. Also watch for common problems, its all pretty much available online for anything a few years old or older. My latest idea is look up the used part prices on...

Stock 800 or 1000 sled? With perfect grip the sled might win the 100 yrd dash, but after that it should be all bike. Big engine drag sleds are a whole different thing though, those are quick!

I would do some diagnosis with a multimeter first. See what's getting power and what isn't. Also in the past I was able to find service manuals with the diagrams for the daedong ex40/45/50 which is the Kioti DK40/45/50SE and the same as the CT440 I believe. I have the Kioti version at home...

skid shoes on the rear blade? I use a rear blade and I was thinking of just bolting on a couple blocks of hardwood from the firewood pile to see if i would would work? Plowing on unfrozen gravel is a pain. I've also considered just angle grinding the rear blade cutting edge to a less...

Check your battery leads, grounds. My positive lead looked OK, but was quite "rotten" inside and it seemed something in the lead was oxidizing the copper cable? My starter would stutter as it would engage, pull more current than the bad lead could provide, then disengage, and then re-engage...

I re-ditched and re-crowned most of our hilly 1/4 mile driveway this fall. I finally crowned it more than I would think you need, and now the water gets off fast and not run down the gravel at all. Didn't get around to adding any more material as I am debating what to use. My driveway is...

I am amazed how well some of them work though, and I would be in big trouble without allergy medications sometimes! Or even just ibuprofen for taking down a fever. It seems the weight loss pill isn't quite there yet? What works for me, is just not having the bad food in the fridge or...

A Kioti NS is worth looking at, but go to all the dealers and see what they are like, what they have used, what their service department looks like. The two dealers near me that cared about selling a compact tractor in my area were MF and Kioti, the other guys were too big to bother and wouldn't...

One like that will move loose gravel or dirt alright, or snow. It could maybe ditch a bit, but if it hooks a root or big rock on a 3000lbs tractor, it might start bending as its a long lever from the corner of the blade to the pivot? If I never got snow, I would sell my light duty one, my...

Thinking about this more, its really my loader that is the most risky thing to use. Lift something too heavy or high on some uneven ground and over you go! Almost all of my "exciting" moments on the tractor have been with loader work. I forgot to be in 4wd once going do a short slope with a...

One that doesn't angle or reverse seems fairly useless.... Don't get that one unless you need metal for welding project... I have a light duty 7' blade(400lbs?) and its great for snow, because its mostly useless on hard packed gravel, so it doesn't dig into my driveway when pushing snow. It...

No experience with this, but could you pull the sleeve for that cylinder, tap all the holes in the block, put in a set screw with the threads covered with epoxy in each hole in the block, then put in a new sleeve?

If I have to plow a lot backwards with the rear blade because of deep snow, I'll sit sideways and use the pedals with my left foot instead of right. Cruise control is only set up on the forward pedal, it is just an electro magnet that hold the pedal in place until you hit the brake or switch on...

I think they run some NASCAR style races in europe, go watch, its not as easy as it looks! While overall, getting around the track by yourself at 90% of race speed is easier in NASCAR, once you have 10-20 competitive cars and drivers, its becomes a contest to see who can find a few hundredths...

I do like F1 and it is interesting how the technology has trickled down over the years. It does get a bit frustrating when one team dominates for a whole season as the engineers and designers can make a larger difference than the drivers, but then you can look at the teams further down the...

I would just book an hour with a long time community lawyer to talk about what your options are? Bring the neighbors letter, and a summary of your communications with him, have a copy of your registered survey, and any easements with you. Summarize the ownership history, usage history, who...

Yep, if you could find a reasonable route that was 99% backroads, then why not try it if you've got the time. Going on the side of busy highway makes it pretty dangerous though even if you are 100% on the shoulder, or if the shoulder isn't wide enough.

On really steep stuff, I've kept my loader on, and just kept the back end pointing down the hill, keeping the fat end of the stability triangle where I need it. With a HST you can crabwalk across the hill at the top and back down the next row. With the loader low and a light duty ~500lb 5'...

So your mulch bucket half full is about 2000lbs? Its a ways out from the pin, but probably a bit under the 3700lb capacity at the pin I would think? Without a gauge we are guessing, so I would recommend getting one. With my regular bucket, I just sharpened up the front edge with the angle...

Something like a 7-8" dbh hardwood, leaning into a clearing but still 40-50' tall is not a great candidate to use wedges on IME, with too small a stump, to cut and wedge with a fullsize bar. I was just clearing beside the phone line beside the road, so the tree had to go into the woods, so I...

Do you back out of your shop? I could see myself driving away and the roof caving in behind me!:ROFLMAO:

This guy makes it look pretty easy to split the case, never had to do it myself but looks kind of fun?

Probably is nothing, it seems most(all?) tractors have some positive camber on the front tires. Pickup the front tires off the ground with the loader, and give them a shake in all directions, see if there's any play at all(should be none), give them a spin, maybe the one wheel did get a bit...

Code here at the time with pex was no hidden connections in the walls, which I did follow with the only elbow at the fixtures to get it straight out of the walls. I think the rolls were 250' and its not a big house and used a good size drill bit to make the hole. In the basement we used 3/4"...

Maybe just rent or borrow a decent crimper? I did my whole house with pex nearly 20 years ago, not a leak yet. I got a 1/2, 3/4 combo crimper from home depot, but IIRC it was $100 back then. Pulling lines from the basement without kinking them was a workout.

Looks great, my driveway is similar and the bigger rocks are a bit of a pain, but its much better than mud! I would use the box blade just in low range, pushing the HST near or above the pressure relief by running to high a range, isn't the greatest idea to make it last for the long run.

Digging stumps of any size will make almost any Ag tractor loader feel weak, they aren't really made for it. Have you lifted anything you know the weight of? Pallet of wood pellets?, if you can lift a 2000lb pallet, the pressure is probably fine. A heaping bucket of gravel is 1200-1400lbs so...

I like the weight on the 2860m more, a 1 ton pallet is a lot! Maybe I don't have your story straight? But I don't think I would deal with the same dealer that cost you $4k for a broken tractor with 17 hrs on it? With a relatively simple problem to diagnose? Seems they are too big to care, or...

Good call with the NS vs NX... The NX is pointlessly complex IMO, I guess even a used kioti DK40/45/50SE is pretty cheap lifting power. The Kioti's need 1000lb+ of ballast on the back to use the loader near its max safely, and I have lifted up the back end with the curl even with the ballast on...

With no emissions stuff, that used machine seems like a better idea. Do you trust the dealer? No bad google reviews where they sold someone a lemon? They shouldn't sell you a problem machine, but some dealerships might. Do some research on that model as its old enough to have any common...

You would need to lock the steering, probably hydrostat steering, so tying the wheel is not an option, but once that is done somehow, I don't think any bearings in the fwd system would be dry when free wheel rolling that way? Maybe something in the fwd engagement system might not like one side...

The problem is that they didn't have a warrant for the location they seized it from... I'm sure they didn't want to waste more time driving back and forth again, but that's what they should have done.

Seems like a measuring tape job? Or dig up a service manual online, or talk to your dealer.

Do you accept canuck bucks at par? :LOL:

I've seen the BX's used in 1/4ac situations, its basically like having 2-3 guys who don't get tired, help dig a trench or wheel barrow gravel to the backyard. You're not excavating foundations with it, but it should make landscaping easier. They fit in all sorts of places and don't tear up a...

I find the no extra hydraulics mechanical grapple and interesting idea. I find for brush I just push stuff around with my bucket or even the back of the box blade, but I'm nearly never operating on grass around the house, so sliding stuff over the ground and scuffing it up isn't a big deal...

In Canada, I find Canadian Tire at regular prices is about the same as Amazon.ca, and its usually a notch up in quality, and everything has a basic warranty, some things are lifetime warranty, and I can easily use the warranty... So I find I don't buy much off of amazon anymore. Oddly enough...

You would be surprised how well a chainsaw cuts dirt(not rocks). I have a little plastic saw with the 3/8 narrow round corner chain, and I try to cut with the top of the bar, to shoot the dirt out if I can. It's done a few stumps and sharpens up not bad still, I just file by hand, half way...

Yep, the pickup truck big 3 are pretty lucky Tesla didn't make something like these, instead of the CT...

"Us" as folks out in the country with some and land with tractors? I totally agree, the only chance I see of a CT showing up locally for me is a toy for a rich country kid. Or a new guy moving from the city and thinks a truck might be useful, but likes EV's. There is a lot people near in or...

My tractor experience has been basically the same, I replaced the positive battery clamp for a no start condition several years ago. I probably have 150-200hrs dragging around a HD 7' box blade and digging with the loader, maybe 150hrs pushing/pulling snow with a 7' rear blade in mid range, and...

Yep, I had a bad positive battery clamp, it kind of looked a bit rough from the outside but when I took it off the battery I could see it was corroding badly around the cable. I just cut back to shiney copper and put another clamp on and its been fine for years now.

Yeah I'd hope they didn't count on all 1.9 million pre-orders to come through! Even if they sell 100k of them for a few years, it probably will make them money, plus they've now got one under their belt, did some beta testing for some new tech on the early adopter customers, and maybe the next...

All the reviews I've read from people who don't tow anything heavy, say its not too bad as a regular EV vehicle. It offers the suburban family basically the same day to day experience as the average 1/2 ton family hauler. Just plug it in when you get home. Consumer report found it OK I think...

Well I'm impressed, can't say I've ever seen anyone doing small squares in October here, maybe not even in September.... Do you get dew/frost so heavy its light freezing rain on your cars windshield? Maybe its just my places microclimate, but parts of it get maybe 1mm of dew, frozen or...

My loader has a bit more play in the pins than I would've expected, given I've been using moly grease in them, but it has been worked pretty hard, and it doesn't seem to really affect much? I've never bothered to take a pin out and see what is wearing though? The pin or the crosstube mount.

That is an interesting hay trailer! Never seen one like that before, but I guess its for flatter more wide open country than around here. I think I have 1 spot on the driveway near the barn where it could be unloaded like that, most places half the bales would rolling down a hill! Pretty fast...

Yep good idea if you got one, although its not so good on rocks.... If I can, I try to leave the loader in float, and use the curl to do the really tough lifting, so I'm not stressing all the expensive parts, although buckets aren't cheap these days either... What I try to do is take the whole...

Yep, it seems the bigger tractors are a bit more robust for their loader capacity. Although I would've thought a M9000 might just have a solid front axle with the yoke and universal joints on the ends? I assume that is a stronger axle design again? From how I read the tractordata specs, the...

Yeah, apparently not... I don't know what it would cost to make a front axle nearly unbreakable, but no manufacturer seems to do it. I'd guess the TLB versions have a bit stronger front axles? But if you took the backhoe off, it could load up the front axle more anyways. I think only a...

I know what his best saw is! I only loan out my little plastic saw. It seems no one can kill it, or wants to keep it! :LOL: I actually like the little husky 141, for little stuff or cutting trails and doing stuff you shouldn't do. It is narrow and light at least, and I keep it sharp and it...

Yep, that's the only snake bite I've gotten as well, but we have been hiking in Massasauga Rattler areas were more cautious there.

Yeah, its great dealers when try to convince you what they've got in stock is what you need... Go heavy on box blades or rear blades if you plan on moving a lot of dirt. My place is all slopes so I make roads and flat spots all the time and the box blade and I've been redoing my 1/4 mile...

562xp is about 20% faster in 10-12" poplar, according to this video. He estimates 1hp difference. I like my 24 year old 372xp, still gets the job done pretty quickly, but an Echo would've probably done the same. I've never run a bigger Echo, but the XP saws seem to rev up a bit quicker than...

Try to minimize the slippage, and you've done 300 hrs doing what you are doing, so it can't be terribly bad. But you probably won't get 3000hrs more hours out of that clutch either. If you were farming and making round bales, you'd have to slip the clutch a fair amount to start each bale, or...

Around here I think you could start at $20k -the cost of the repairs, if you wanted to sell it relatively fast. Looks pretty good overall.

TBH, probably some guys won't find most of those issues on the test drive. Disclosing those issues depends on how you do your business... Turn signal, cruise, probably not many would care, the pto brake is an actual problem to use the tractor. If it needs spitting the tractor to fix, that's a...

I guess if they put some heavier 15W40 oil in, it might be a mpg gained switching to 5W40, especially if you have lots of shorter trips where the oil spends most of the time warming up. Probably its a combination of other factors adding up in your favor though, buy a lottery ticket!

If you aren't on your lawn, and not making money driving around in a field, I think the 3-4-5000lb 4wd tractor does the rest best? I like mine with HST, and if I got into hay or something I would just add some cheap old 2wd ~60hp+ mostly to run the round baler. My tractor does the rest pretty...

Do some googling for a local JD old tractor enthusiast, or go talk to one of the neighbors who has one. My one neighbor has a 2 lunger and runs an old threshing machine with it using a belt.

Thanks for sharing the video! Some days my tractor is mostly an all-terrain forklift just to load a couple roundbales into the feeders, which the actual work doesn't take much hp or energy at all, but it runs for 30 minutes with 15 of that warming up. I imagine when doing some heavy box...

I guess knowing your exact speed is more of a field tractor requirement than a utility tractor one? But it would be nice to know for a lot of jobs that people do with a small tractor. On my fender is a chart with the speeds available in each range at PTO rpm for the HST. Gives you a general...

Ag tires are pretty good in mud, you can look up the rolling diameter of the front tire you have, and get something close in a Ag tire. In 2wd the Ag's should mess up a lawn too much.

Was that with lots of clearing trees off the sight lines? My severed property required quite a bit of cutting along the line, and they had to offset around some very big trees. I'm sure it wasn't a quick job. In 2017, I did hire a surveyor to establish that my property/driveway did actually...

I guess your machine has a separate HST filter too? Odd noises when moving and lower hydraulic pressure, maybe the HST has been fed foamy oil too? Probably not a big deal for a little bit if you haven't been working it hard? I think the hst is most sensitive part to bad fluid, but I'm not a...

At practically idle speed as well, the one in the video has a healthy hydraulic pump. According to the specs in tractordata, which has 3 loaders for some reason, any of them should be able to lift a 2000lb pallet with the lift arms, with not with much capacity left, or more easily with the...

Well, they've clearly let you know what they want. Maybe send a letter back, with your expectations, maybe describe your livestock in case they get out, so your neighbors will know who to call, and carry on. Sometimes the neighbors can start treating a property like their own, and a bit...

We're doing about the same stuff, goats, snow removal, clearing old fields. We end up buying some 4x5 round hay bales(storable outside and cheapest/lb) and a 3500-4000lb+ tractor with some weight on the back handles those easily. My tractor can unload the top row on a double stacked hay wagon...

I like it, I just make do with the original small box for pins, and clips, shear bolts, and a knife for opening bales, and just throw other stuff behind the seat. How do you fill your tractor up?

Most of the guys I know full time farming or in the trades, just use a 1/2 ton as a family vehicle or mobile office, not as a regular work vehicle, as they have a 1 ton and a couple much bigger trucks to do work with, or a big van for the trades. For a family vehicle a crew cab 1/2 ton is pretty...

How did you break it? Got some pictures? I have the same loader and it would be nice to know where it broke as I do more digging than I should, carefully, but there's always the odd hard hit... I would either try getting a used one from a wrecker, or get it welded by someone who knows what...

They have only have like 4-5 different tractor lines, why have 2-3-4 million in inventory sitting there? Someone has to pay for it and it will be the customer, and the guy that owns the little place is probably there making sure things are going well, maybe even turning some wrenches... For...

Well, if your local korean brand dealer is good then it doesn't matter what the other ones are like? I found the big NH and JD dealers didn't inspire me with confidence that they cared about any tractor under $75k, and they have salesmen, parts guy, the useless nephew on the payroll...

Maybe with 1000lbs on the 3pth? on very level ground, very carefully. Seems like you could move them with a 3pt spear ok, but on the loader in a field or barnyard, I think you are too close to the max for regular use. I used to just slide 4x5 bales off my trailer with the ATV uphill from...

I wouldn't bet on Kubota declining or disappearing anytime soon, they have a good thing going for themselves! I just liked the S. Korea design philosophy of lots of weight and capability in a CUT size, and include lots of features in the base tractor. When I looked, the equivalent size/weight...

Neat machine, it has foot controls for the loader and a lever where the loader stick usually is for moving front or back... I would practice with that for a while far away from anything valuable! Also no pto on the rear (front?) 3pth, so I guess you have to take your loader off to do pto...

Really? I've always thought loading tires made them less "springy" as basically 2/3 or more of the air is gone so the spring rate of the tire goes up much faster? You got me thinking though, I guess that means you can run lower air pressure with loaded tires without folding off the rims? I...

I like my lever, but you have to be careful not to drop something on your foot! I would see if you can just buy all the parts from Kioti to install it, as you don't want something sketchy rigged up which moves the 3pt unexpectedly.

It does make fun of the "Tractor Hero" type stuff I see in lots of crazy videos from there. Any one in the US or Canada have an urge as a teenager to ballast up the rear of the family farm tractor and do wheelies and some stunt driving? It seems they do there. I knew a few pretty wild farm...

Lol, if I ever get a bigger tractor, I'm definitely going to do some research on what survives in India/Pakistan! Seems they do lots of durability field testing!

That's pretty much my tractor job list too for my 100 acres. 1/4 mile hilly gravel driveway and we get 4x5 rounds which may get to 900lbs? I don't have any issue with them at all, even the odd time one is frozen to the ground, but on side slopes I do want some decent ballast on the back if I'm...

Yep, bigger softer Ag tires with lower pressure helps. And a longer wheelbase too. Wheel weights are good too for keeping the rear tires compliant without effecting ride quality, if you are using the loader for gravel or on slopes.

I thought the 5835 is a little big for an HST, so I looked it up and the 5835 doesn't have an HST, its a synchromesh power shuttle. Maybe will work for the OP, but I recommend trying it first to see how it works for the typical things you want to do. I know I prefer the HST for the amount of...

This is a HST machine? If you can use the pto hp for a wider snowblower, mower, tiller, running a round baler, disc bine, its a good idea. Or you're at altitude. My take with a HST for ground engagement is that you shouldn't run it at much lower than PTO rpm, so the revs are going to be...

I wonder what the rear attachment points on your tractor actually looks like? Or do they just put the 2 hole balls in the lower arms? Our tractors are basically the same weight, and 3pth lift but mine is only cat 1, so I wonder if a cat 1/2 3pth tractor rear end has wider lower arm attachment...

Hopefully when I'm in my 80's I still want to play around on the tractor and then I will probably spend my kids inheritance on a cabbed tractor.... But I bought my tractor in my 30's and I would be impressed if a cabbed utility tractor makes it to 40-50+years old with working AC and all the...

I agree, if I was making money driving around in circles for hours in the hot sun, eating dust, then I want a cab too! I have done a bit of that, playing with some hay equipment, but its been only a few dozen hours over the years, and when I'm learning the equipment and the fields its good to...

I find sickle bar mowers interesting as they take hardly any hp. I could zip around with a 9' haybine in mid range with my tractor and the only thing slowing it down in heavy grass was how fast the rollers could get stuff through without clogging... I never see one in good shape for reasonable...

No cab, its just another delicate glass box full of more stuff to break... Lights, fans, wipers, AC, heater core, 100 extra yards of wires and hoses, mirrors, radio, etc... If I made money with it or it was a field tractor, and I was in it for hours and days at a time, then sure a cab is nice...

If the prices are pretty close for the same tractor, I would get a Kubota even though my Kioti has been good. In 2011 though, a new Kubota for the same price as my tractor was a couple sizes down at ~2200lbs and probably gear drive. So it wasn't going to do the jobs for me. I've found my Kioti...

lower rpms help for sure, maybe lube up the control stick base and cables? Any stiction isn't helping. I find my loader very easy to control in one axis at a time. Blending lift and curl with smoothly and fast is hard to do, when I'm trying to show off how fast I can unload a hay wagon;). I...

He just doesn't agree with your thinking... And I like that quote, "the fundamental cause of the trouble is that, in the modern world, the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt." as its a good reminder to do some further investigation when I "know" I am right and someone...

I disagree on the global warming issue, and it shows especially in Canada's northern boreal forest, with soaring record temperatures and regular large forest fires in places that haven't had fire like that before. Even the rise in house insurance pricing in Florida means the insurers can see...

Does it? Find some research done by some earth scientists on the topic, and post the links to their papers. IIRC only the few very largest eruptions over the last few hundred years emitted more than we do in a year now.

Respectfully, do some reading on it, as you don't know what you don't know, and that goes for everyone with most topics. Did you read the abstract of the first article? They are estimating past pH of the lake based on which diatoms were surviving or perishing due to the recent increased...

Well yes, but also its pretty reasonable to assume putting less sulfur dioxide into the air, causes less acids with sulfur in them to form in rain? See figures 4 and 7 in this paper...

Dead lakes were dead lakes, and now many are not after some reasonable pollution controls were put in place? Doing things better in terms of pollution costs somebody something, but looking back, don't you think its worth it in this case? For me, in southern ontario, we used to have a big coal...

Sometimes you've got to know, that there's lots of stuff you don't know about... I'm no expert but some googling turned up lots of peer reviewed papers that show it was a real problem, maybe not in your backyard specifically, but in regions with landscapes that can't buffer large volumes of...

Yep, what is needed or works on one type of landscape isn't the answer for another.

I don't think anything sized for 4 acres is going to be happy with big stumps unless you get a pto stump grinder? In my woods trails I just cut the stumps flush to the ground and drive over them... sometimes they "come up" so I cut them again. I have a saw I don't like for this, and bars and...

Even with just the tires, it should nearly float over soft ground, or on snow, then he has tracks. A lot of utv's seem to have too much ground pressure to follow even an 4 wheel atv on slippery or soft ground, or can't pack enough snow under the tires to drive in a few inches of wet snow...

I have an old 7' gannon box blade off skip loader, I think the end plates are 1/2". Someone had wore maybe a 1/2-3/4" off the bottom of the end plates over the decades? Anyways it looks a bit ugly, but its the best $900 I ever spent, and unbreakable with my tractor and probably yours too. I...

To me, that seems pretty crazy considering the actual hardware you are buying. My tractor was about that, of course in 2011, but even now a slight smaller dk4520 gear is $26.8k msrp. But you seem to love the 6x6, and it does things that nothing else can, so its clearly worth it to you. For...

What kind of cutting do you do? I just do my trails, the pasture, and some actual brush clearing, all of which are done in low range to get a good cut quality. I have a 5' and would love a 6.5' or 7' and just go slower, or take a 3/4 cut if I ever cut a big area of tall grass. I think an HST...

I keep it up all the time, and would just clamp lights or whatever else you want on it. No worries then from anyone.

https://www.facebook.com/share/9cDzrxxUuNeELxsv/?mibextid=79PoIi I would/did get something like this, as I feed round hay bales on the hobby farm. IMO it’s a good size, you can lift a lot, pull a heavy box blade, or 2000lb log. You can pick up old ugly implements for cheap and use them. If...

A little tractor mower is easier to get unstuck, and you can mow rolling terrain a bit easier, like the berms on our bike trails, as it has a surprising amount of articulation and frame flex! But I agree for any normal type lawn mowing, a zero turn is going to be better. Unfortunately our lawn...

My tractor has a 3pt height lever at the rear, so I just carefully raise or lower the bottom 2 arms until the toplink pin lines up. I suppose if your tractor shuts off when you get out of the seat, then its going to be a PITA... I guess you could raise the 3pt too high, and then get off the...

Ideally 66" would be good, but go as heavy as you can find in any case. I believe ditching or changing the angle of the cut easily kind of requires covering your tracks? I've got a 7' on a 6' wide tractor which is all I've ever used, and it never seems to wide when moving dirt. Ditching is...

If your tractor is a hydrostat I find I can do silly things slowly without breaking things. I believe my box blade is an old 7' gannon, so its not not going to break with my tractor on it.

Yeah I don't often turn super sharp but I don't really worry about it either, but I did pop one of the sway control mounting brackets off a lifting arm... My buddy said it wasn't a great weld to start with so and the other side does look better so we left it alone. I've got quite a few hours...

I guess it is a light duty box, but you would hope they would make the hitch points better than that... It looks like the designer was counting on sway adjusters that are inboard of the lower arms, but now almost all small tractors now have outboard sway control adjusters. A bolt and nut seems...

That's what mine was, although the positive connector looked OK, there was a bit of fuzz growing out from under the wire insulation. I think the connector, wasn't all lead, and there was some kind of galvanic/oxidization going on between it and the copper. I cut the positive wire back to nice...

I'm going with my Kioti, I just need ~30 more years out of it! It's mostly made with KISS repairable stuff except the HST I suppose? Maybe they are rebuildable? Or in 30 years you just take the old one apart, 3d scan it, and the 3d print a new one with new wear surfaces?

My main tasks are the same as yours, and the only time I wanted a gear tractor was for pulling a big two furrow plow in tough sod. Low range would pull it fine but not quite fast enough to flip it completely, and medium range was geared a bit too high and was working the HST too hard for my...

I can tell you 42 gross hp doesn't run an old MF 1440 4x5 round baler very well as the humidity goes up! Did surprisingly well before then, but it was to hard on my tractor for regular use. If you want to round bale then you need to size your tractor for your baler or one you are likely to use...

Maybe do a home made torque beam on your loader arm? Like a beam torque wrench? Maybe your loader wouldn't flex enough with only 1800lbs on it? Or shouldn't the simplest way is to T in a 10,000psi hydraulic pressure gauge on the lift side of a loader arm cylinder? Then just add your own...

I do remember in grade school that a few times, we'd see the same tractor stuck in the ditch in the morning... It was something old and 2wd and the old guy would get drunk and crash it sometime during the night... He's lucky he didn't roll it onto himself. There is the odd riding mower zipping...

I think once you are into the EPA engine management stuff you might as well go bigger than 35hp for the intended uses. You can now get 48-50 pto hp in a 6' wide tractor which can run bigger implements and still not require building wide trails in the woods to get around. I like my tractor's...

I started with one of these for the tractor and its had a good size cedar tree top that snapped off in the wind fall on it, and while the cover got a few tears, the structure survived fine. This profile sheds snow very well and as long as you don't want to use the doors these silly things seem...

Time for a new view(and hole...)

For travelling some distance on snow, a modern snowmobile is like a magic carpet that does mach 1 compared to an atv or utv with tires or tracks in snow. But for flatter places with not much snow an atv/utv can still function in winter pretty well as a work machine. We do a bit of firewood in...

I do a little bit down the side roads, but never on the highway. Too many city people, or big trucks in a hurry. Even with a seat belt and a roll bar, a tractor my size will be broken in pieces if hit by a texter in an average size vehicle hits it going highway speed. We lost a good community...

Its interesting that you haven't seen this before. I guess the east side of the continent was settled for quite a while before the west coast, so there's lots of houses still standing here built with full dimension lumber, and in my area every timberframe barn built in the 1800's and early...

I have a 5' and ~32pto hp I would go 6', 6.5', even 7' if my trails were wide enough if I bought again. I don't think I've ever really bogged the tractor with grass, it just quits cutting nice if I go too fast, and only some sections of trail allow me to go much faster anyways. With the hst...

That is one way to learn for sure! But I try pretty hard not to learn some lessons from experience!

Maybe a ~4000 lb tractor with turf tires? Lifts pretty heavy things, (I picked up the front end of a car this weekend to put some blocking under it), and can run some good size implements. I like mine anyways, but I don't mind marking up the lawn if needed with my Ag tires. I can't say I've...

What is the road surface? On my hilly gravel driveway I plow with a rear blade and no shoes, so its always got some gravel exposed and then the sun melts the rest. The hills for the most part aren't shaded by evergreens and I am going to keep it that way by selecting for deciduous trees near...

No bends in the frame? do you think the tractor landed on it when it fell? I would have a good look at the front mounting bolts of the loader frame, see if there's any evidence of movement? Probably pull each one out and see how the threads are doing. I would think to crack the frame there...

The NS series is back to a design without so many electronics. I haven't gone to look at one in person, but I think its basically a DK40/45/50SE with a tier 4 engine?

2x4's and angle iron will work for light snow or until you have frozen banks, and then you'll catch a corner of the plow and break it off... You are running your rear blade pulling forwards? I do that unless I've got 8-10"+ of snow then I reverse it and plow backwards. If you want to try the...

Everytime I grease the loader, I wipe some on the top and shaft of the pins, which kind of gets all over, but I don't think mine has ever rusted either. For yours I would take the pins out and cleanup the holes they run in a bit with some sandpaper wrapped around a drill bit.

Its an odd picture but the bucket part has only the chamfer started into it. I would get the bucket up in the air, and rolled all the way back so I could use a drift pin type tool,to hammer on the bottom of the ssqa pins, straight up, but also try some a abit sideways, see if you can rotate...

I like it, my DD is pretty basic with wind up windows, manual trans, simple radio, and AC which I do consider a must for a vehicle driven on the highway. I would need 4wd as well, but I think a lot of these would sell instead of the 15+ year old pickup for farm or lawncare trucks.

Was cruise control ever an option? On my tractor is just an electro magnet on the forward pedal linkage, flip a switch and its charged, then hitting the brakes or the switch shuts it off. I don't use it too much for mowing though, just on my driveway or roads. Maybe get some heavy steel toe...

I put some bottom bevel on my riding mower blades too, just so they don't dive into the dirt at first touch, as I mow trails and some mountain bike trails where they cross a field. I didn't find much difference really and as I touch dirt fairly often I don't bother sharpening to often either...

I would disagree that a 3pt can't handle pushing in reverse due to geometry. Every time you lift a heavy implement on a 3pt and go bouncing across a field, the lower arms take lots of compression forces, so the 3pt hitch system has to be built to take its max lift weight and then 3-4-5 times...

Although to be fair, Ag's spinning backwards do pack up with mud as well... Going forwards though, I have been wheel barrowing(put it in N and pick up the back end) an old car in the spring, and the front axle was dragging in the mud and the tractor just kept going! I was very surprised I...

We had a couple complaints with our Outback, squeeky driver seat, and the silly screen acting up once in a while. They replaced the seat bottom, and updated the software on the screen, free of charge. Some people have an issue with the battery draining/dying so we got a letter from Subaru that...

Here's mine when I got it, the sides have been worn down and they flipped the cutting edge on the inside to the new side, so you can just see the angle. The cutting edge on the rear isn't flipped and is worn almost an inch This one is around 150+lbs per foot, an old 7' gannon high back. The...

Build it strong and heavy with some good size scarifiers. Some times I'll use a scarifier as a rock pick to hook a big rock out of the ground, using the hyd top link and 3pth. So often the whole tractor gets pulled back by one tooth.

Yep, IMO they are now just a good all round vehicle, with great IIHS numbers, good visibility, good standard equipment, decent mileage, well designed AWD, and they stand behind what they make. They KISS by really only making one drivetrain and 2 engines for all their vehicles, and it seems the...

While pulling maybe don't turn sharp as you can. I run quite a large box blade for my tractor and I just go slow, no ramming into stuff.

I like the humbolt notch on a steep slope, it also stretches the small white cedars we have here. I do plunge backcuts on leaners as well. I did a 2 weekend course and its been a good investment. Never used a jack, but should have the once on a 3' red oak... Stacked wedges wouldn't quite...

I would try the rear blade first, make sure you can reverse it for heavier snows, or try to plow with the storm. Also if your tires have the tread depth, you can stud your tires for $20-30 with some hex head sheet metal screws. They give some decent grip on ice, but won't damage your road or...

All manufacturers price their tractors for maximum profit, and the more common brands use their reputations to be able to charge more, because they can. I guess there's lots of guys who think like you, and if you've got the cash, and like your dealer, then sure keep paying a bit more and assume...

My buddy paid cash for a driveway paving job, they spread all the asphalt around with rakes and tamped a bit by hand, then "went to get the roller" and never came back! They actually seemed to know what they were doing as its all sloped correctly and amazingly flat for a rake and tamp, but you...

If you put the $25k saved by buying the TYM 4820 into an investment that made 7% per year, in 10 years you'd have $50k and a TYM... But the way kubota prices are going up, in 10 years, $50k might get you a kubota lawn tractor ;) So I guess you better buy your Kubota tractor now if you want one!

I like that 3pth stump grinder, but flopping the trees with a saw and scooping a bunch up at a time with the grapple would be faster... and break less stuff!

I would think either tractor has the hp to do what you want, which is easier to use for grader work? That's what I would get.

I think it would be good to have a bit less industrial agriculture, and investigate how to make sure farming practices are sustainable for the long term, but doing stuff like Sri Lanka and doing full bans of importing fertilizer and pesticides isn't too smart.... Moderation is the key, you...

Perhaps fortunately, tractors aren't nearly tuned up as much as Porsches. When I looked at rad and hydraulic cooler part numbers between the 3 hp levels of my tractor, there was no difference. Being NA the engines were different displacement, 2.0l, 2.2(stroked), and 2.4(bored and stroked) IIRC...

Wow, those knotters make me shudder! Is that 4 hydraulic motors per knotter? Suddenly the old round baler with the manually guided twine feed seems not to bad! But I think you might be still baling if your used that, as I don't think it comes close the tonnage per hour the big square baler...

Mahindra 5100 series? Heavy iron cheap!

I'm pretty sure the skin "juice" is dark and will stain other while skin birds if they are processed together. I seem to recall talking to a local meat processor and they did one batch of those and then had to shut down and clean their whole operation before they could do other chickens. We...

Try backing up in 2wd across a slope you are worried about, on a slight up angle. If the up rear tire is getting light it will spin much easier. Also you can just park it on the side slope and rock the tractor yourself or use a long 2x4 as a lever and try to lift the the uphill tire off ground...

I think the NS is the return to simpler tractor more like the DK40/45/50SE, which I think is a good thing. With either tractor, get the dealer to add the remotes you need as part of the deal. I suspect some of the install is under the cabs? Also think what hay format you might get into...

If your bucket has enough dump angle(ie the top of the bucket is ahead of the cutting edge), Bolt this thing on a hinge on top of the bucket where you can see it... The real trick is now how to collect the t posts without getting off the tractor!

Also check your battery leads, my tractor would stutter start, or just click with the engine not turning over. It turned out the ignition switch and relay were fine. It was the positive battery cable clamp, looked a bit corroded but OK on the outside but it had corroded around the copper wire...

Yeah, I don't have a convenient set up for my pressure washer, so things get washed when its time to do some maintenance or repairs... I don't like working on dirty stuff, but I don't mind driving it! I do keep the remote outlet plugs in though but the pto cap is on a shelf somewhere? I don't...

Yeah, I can see the usefulness of a hay sled if you don't have a FEL, or the FEL can't lift the bale. And it doesn't have tires to go flat! I would add a rigid tongue to it so it doesn't slide into the back of the tires down a hill, or if you jam on the brakes. I like your design with old TV...

Set your rear wheels out wide and add something heavy and low on the 3 point, like a bush hog, or box blade. And even then you can tip it pretty easily on a side slope when using the loader if you lift up high, or hit some holes and bumps. Also if its not muddy, or you don't have to back up a...

I go basically straight up and down the real steep stuff, with the back end down the hill, and start from the bottom. Then bumps or holes don't matter much, and I keep the front end loader on to reassure myself I'm not going over backwards as in 4wd and r1's can grip pretty good in turf! I...

For a home owner or occasional user, I think Rigid is the best choice due to free replacement batteries. My 18V Rigid 1/2" hammer drill is 15 years old now, doesn't get daily use but has been abused quite a bit. I don't use the hammer function too often(sometimes the whole thing is the hammer...

It does make the tractor shorter, and you can maneuver much closer to stuff, I do this fairly often dodging around cars and stuff when I plow snow at my place on a mostly level driveway. Also in a 2wd tractor it puts a bit more weight on the back end, but only on level ground. Otherwise I run...

Going to the dealer is a good idea on a known problem vehicle, or one with extremely expensive engine or transmission. I have done the CVT fluid changes on my Subaru at the dealer, as its potentially an issue and they've extended the warranty on it, but after a while I got tired of the $110 oil...

I did a short triathlon last weekend with my 2 boys 13 and 10. 300m swim, 10km bike, and 3km run. Each of us is fastest at one event so it was fun to see who won out and it was our first triathlon. Turned out that a 2 minute advantage after the swim is hard to catch! And I may not be fastest...