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Anyone know where you can get replacement parts for Pacer sickle bar mowers ? The rotor driven by the main shaft on the mower has a heavy sleeve that has twin half-balls on it that are clamped by the metal on the pitman arm and drive the pitman arm. The sleeve and or pin inside it are worn out...

A full-blown success story if I ever heard one! Glad to hear it. Give us a "rest of the story" after you paint it and gussy it up a little. Esp on an older hog like that watch the gear box lube (and I think I mentioned before, use the "double zero grease" instead of 90 wt gear oil if the...

Ok, I am blown away. This HAS TO BE the longest thread in TBN history ! I guess I will add my post to the pile. How can i identify and find out exactly what mower i have ? Pictures below. Bought at auction. Most people say it is an Alamo. Sticker on one end does say "Alamo Group" but...

An update: I have the 6" spacers on each side of one of my B2150's. It is so comfortable to know that I can turn around and go sideways anytime i want to on a 40% slope and never be the least concerned about it getting tippy. I mentioned in post #5 that I had new gage wheel frames made for...

The impetus for this post/thread is that I think FEL buyers/users would be much better informed if data were available regarding the torsion and rotational load capacity of the FELs on the market. Loaders get used for SO many things, whether appropriate or not, and a lot of people shopping...

Speaking of trailers ... I had my 2660 wheels mounted such that the inner edges of the front and rear tires matched while the outer edges of the rear tires were 8ft. apart. That works really well for my applications, often on steep terrain and more bush hog work than anything else. It also meant...

Yes sir. If I interpret your "2600hd series" words correctly, my MF 2660HD low profile is one of those. I have mountains of info regarding mine. The short version is that it was the worst horror story of a lemon I ever heard of for the first 3 years of ownership ... until I got the bugs out...

Hmmm. In response to my saying the backhoe appeared "thoroughly used" you are saying "Curious where you are seeing a thoroughly used backhoe, I did use it for a few hours one day." This picture came from your original post on this thread...Does this look "thoroughly used" OR...

I have a Kohler engined Gravely walk-behind or riding sulky machine. It has been erratic lately, backfiring at times and refuses to run full rpm. Also does not idle well & usually quits. Runs well at mid-range rpms. Already drained gas bowl, used Seafoam additive, use non-ethanol gas, replaced...

My application is light duty, probably 5 or 6 times a season. I use a converted 35 gal. pesticide tank for moving diesel fuel to my tractor, to a vacation place furnace tank, etc. Bought this via Amazon in 2017: 12V 175W Biodiesel Kerosene Pump Cast Fuel Oil Diesel Transfer Pump 45L/Min by...

If you search using Google or in Amazon for 'Lube Shuttle grease guns' or for 'Air-Tec' there is quite a bit of info on these wonderful sounding German made tools. But only one company and that in Europe. There are 2 or 3 You Tube videos on the advantages and convenience of these guns. Most of...

Free opinion: buy the mid-mount mower. Shop around too as $2700 sounds high (I'm not in the market though.) You probably won't have to take it on and off very often and even when you do it is fairly easy. About your wet terrain: zero turns are fine on the golf course and very maneuverable but...

An email replay from Trail Blazer says "We are not affiliated with Lane Shark." I guess maybe that is some kind of understatement ! One wonders where the patents and/or copyrights and of course the lawyers regarding "intellectual property rights" are on all this. Of course "outside looking...

Last year I bought a "Lane Shark" FEL mounted 44" brush cutter, hydraulically driven, runs at many angles, nice for clearing fence rows, overhanging limbs, etc. Great tool. Readily driven by a utility farm tractor and NOT requiring the high flow hydraulics of a skid steer. OK, fine. NOW, I...

Yes, I do have regen dump on my tractor. I don't understand your test. If the loader lift (e.g. frame control) is in float it just lowers to the ground until the bucket stops it and sits there. One does not move the loader to put the bucket into regen dump position but rather you move the...

Well said GRTkub. Handy...and not over do things. I do not see any need to cringe regarding this handy (in many cases indispensable) method for moving trailers and stashing them. There are always ways for clumsy people to do silly things and you really cannot prevent disasters that those...

I use one just like that for a 21ft Pequea deck over that weighs a bit over 3000lbs by itself. Using a B2150 Kubota which moves it jusrt fine. A less-than-obvious problem is using the pickup truck to park the trailer in an old shed (which has an uphill hump approach) the pickup hitch is at such...

Hey Hi 12 -- in your shoes (and if you have a little bit of adventuresomeness about you...) I would consider an hydraulic motor driven front blower as follows: 1) Use your existing snowblower 2) Do some web shopping and find a 'good' (meaning strong) front mounted 3pt hitch with the hydraulic...

overszd is probably correct, the bug has you, and you will go buy something this spring. Probably making several little shopping trips, gritting your teeth insisting I AM NOT buying today will get you some personal exposure to several models that MIGHT satisfy the craving. Not that you...

I respectfully disagree with mikester. I do not think it is cheaper to sell the tractor and buy one with the loader on it (though I agree you absolutely should consider it -- given the time and effort of getting a FEL onto the tractor.) I had been very biased in my case because the B2150 I...

Oosik -- I've not been in the market for a tractor this size in several years. When I was, back in 2011, the larger Kubotas seemed to have a lot more flexibility in rear wheel spacing. Whichever model Kubota I was looking at then would not quite go out to an 8ft "outer edge of tires" spacing...

All Dodge -- There has been a lot said regarding hydraulic top links (HTL). Would be worthwhile if you have time to go do a search within TBN threads on Hydraulic Top Links. MtnViewRanch you are already talking with seems as knowledgeable as any of us on this topic. He is on the sales end of...

This in southern Maryland. Tobacco field in foreground is rare because the State paid people to stop growing tobacco several years ago. A few still do. This light colored barn with slats out at an angle is a tobacco barn designed to maximize air flow for curing tobacco. The yellow crop in...

I suppose an 1100lb bucket is somewhat heavy but for a tractor that weighs 5 tons fully equipped and has plenty of hydraulic lift, that weight has never seemed like a problem. I will say when filled with mud cleaning out springs it is a worst-case loading. I have no experience with a...

I'm sorry, my shorthand or nickname for the officially called "4-in-1 bucket" type that I have used for many years. Had one on a JD4700 from 2000 to 2011 and have a larger one now on a MF2660. These buckets have an hydraulically operated clamshell feature ("third function") that opens up the...

After a 7 year break from my post in 2011 regarding MF 2660 brakes (see quote next) I will follow the quote with a question. QUESTION: Since the above drama, many other bugs were fixed on the tractor and it has become a solid lovable workhorse. [The dealer is long gone, went out of...

The TBN forums badly need a "like" function -- some way to register enthusiastic agreement with a particular Post. It should NOT require a full fresh post taking up all that real estate and wasting so much time and resource on everyone's part. I'm no designer but a BIG red checkmark appended by...

KISS -- keep it simple .... I appreciate all that effort by Grrrr in the early 1/3 or so of this ridiculously long 138 post thread. My comment is that the advice posted by Grrr and most others is just WAY too complex. No need for all that. 1) Go to the icon in your Quick Reply Header in any...

You have hit upon a universal problem that many/most of us came across. RockCrawler, Atticus and SDT all gave you good descriptions/pictures. I will add to the chorus as follows: I used a square U-bolt (as I think most do) selected to fit the larger dimension of the ROPS frame. No reason to...

My hindrance is that I am 330 miles from my B2150 with the belly mower. I can't just go out and look. My memory leans strongly to saying that the collar on the U-joint & driveshaft for the deck is the push/pull type, not the rotate type. There are 2 potential "prying" situations: One is...

First comment is, since you are not familiar with using them, the tapered latch pins need to go firmly, very securely, into place or all sorts of havoc can happen. Main thing I think is to make sure the levers that lower the pins are all the way down and way past their "over center latching...

I bought a MF2660 in early 2011 equipped with a Perkins 1104D-44T engine. The engine has been very trouble-free. What I cannot find is thorough information about the engine. I find it amazing what is NOT easily found on the web, NOT in the Service manual which I bought for over $200, Not in...

Fallon is spot on. Forget the front widening. I certainly advocate widening the rear wheels as much as you can, restricted potentially by other factors. Usually the widening is needed for those working steep ground but boom cutters and anything with significant side loads would be good reason...

I have around 350 hrs on this 2011 low-profile, 81 horse, open station utility tractor used mainly for pasture clipping, bush hogging, and loader work for removing debris and limbs/logs while cleaning up a hilly old 100 ac farm. I use the 4WD a high % of the time due to steep ground and...

My cousin and I have a 1954 Massey Harris Pacer which our family bought new to replace the two horses as they approached retirement age. It has been a remarkable machine in 100 different ways. The one I write about here at the moment is "Unwanted Engine Stoppage." The Pacer 4 cyl Continental...

Depends on many things -- money for one. Context is another -- are you farming, hobbying in retirement, making a living with the machines or other ? In retirement I am only on the farm 1 week out of each month. In my case, from 1954 on (first tractor in family replacing horses) there never...

Here goes my 2 cents: This was a BX2200 loaded on a car carrier trailer (which I do not prefer at all...) but you cansee where I put the straps. There is no logic for caring one way or the other whether you back it on versus drive it on so long as you pay attention to tongue load. No...

I have experience in 2 out of the three questions: -- FOR SURE get those rear wheels out wider if you have any slopes or steep ground to work on. These things are not real cheap ($495 a set in my case) but work really well. This picture below is a set of steel tubing-style separators mounted...

In the first post last Sept you mentioned getting a Lane Shark. Did you and how do you like it ? Since then LaneShark has gained a lot of dealers and seems to be going great guns with sales. Somewhere in there they got a dealer in WV near my farm and I bought the first one sold in the...

These are impressive, being gas powered but remotely controlled mowers. Three models 22", 32" and 48" models. Can operate on very steep slopes, etc. I have expended a reasonable effort trying to find the ballpark prices for them to no avail. Obviously they are high as poison or they would not be...

Land is full of 8-degree slopes with a few steeper ones at 12-degrees. If I take my time and am not an idiot, would that slope scare any of you? Answer: NO, not at all. ================================================================= I encounter steep ground and variations of it every year...

Wally: Sure. I have a lot of picts of that mod. One with the teeth pointing upward/forward with more of the garage wall showing you may notice is with the pinch bucket wide open and that was with the toothbar just sitting there in place but before I installed the bolts. By the way, that...

You should be fine & that Turbo96 is a great beast to have. I agree with Bubba that "being shorter helps" back there being a twin blade. The 2000lb not set back so far. I use a 7ft Bush Hog weighing 1460lbs on a MF tractor somewhat heavier than yours (81 horse) and it is HEAVY both to deal...

That's a pretty darn good idea DMW. There are several precautions: 1) No matter where you mount it I guarantee it will be in the way for something else you wanted to do later. 2) Vibration is much more of an enemy of tractor mounted tool boxes than most realize ahead of time. What seems solid...

Crawler: I too have enough steep ground down in WV 130 miles south of you that wide spread wheels/tires is survival gear. Very unstable/unsafe as it was in the "before" picture below. Huge improvement in the "after" picture with 6" spacers on each side. For size ref that is a 5ft Bush hog...

Check -- you do not know it now either ! I do not want to be harsh and we are all in here to help each other! However, what you just posted coming from Bro-tek is pure nonsense. I can't believe they said that. Maybe it is someone's interpretation. Ask any engineer to read it and & they will...

No, you don't need to always drive through the snow to use a rear blade. This was a 7 year old thread until the last few posts. The OP, Carl Bert, has not been back on this thread anyway since 2010 (!) Surely by now (in 7 years) he has long since done something. Why don't you come back...

A guy I know in Quebec has a barn (really was a barn) on a large farm he acquired. He is not wealthy at all but incredibly innovative. He has hobbies -- like flying airplanes he builds himself and square dancing. Thus he has a small airstrip adjacent to his "barn." The barn now drastically...

To respond to your inquiry: I do not live where there is frequent deep snow. However, every winter I go to my vacation property several times where the annual snowfall is often 200 inches and where many times the snow has been deep, hardpacked, drifted, wind packed, etc. before I ever get...

The height that matters most is not where you sit but the center of gravity. Those old Fords, Ferguson's, etc. had relatively high wheels and very low c.g. with so much of the transmission, chassis and engine sitting very low. Sounds like you may have found a satisfactory situation with the 3"...

I had broken one of the straps that were the original links between the top of the A-frame and the back of the hog. 1/4" steel maybe 1.5 in wide. Broke where hole was drilled at factory for unknown reasons, maybe to hold the instrcuction book tube ? To get by while having welding done, I made...

I owned a cutter almost identical to the one you show on the link. Pictures below. I wanted to use BOTH a rear bush hog and the front cutter and was led to believe my tractor would handle it (which maybe on paper it does.) However, the front cutter will absolutely require more flow than your...

I have a bit different perspective: 1) I have no idea why you would not use both wheel spacers and filled rear tires. Whatever that is needs explanation to be credible. 2) Kubota has never recognized the portion of their user base that sometimes needs to operate on steep ground. Therefore they...

If you get a loader the front weight situation is thoroughly taken care of. I do not have a loader on my B2150 that uses the 5ft hog. I do have 3 suitcase weights on the front but they are only 55lb each and not stuck very far forward. My 2150 is lighter than the 3350, the hogs are about the...

You are good to go. No problem. I have 2 B2150's -- one I use with a 4' hog in summer and snowblowing in winter and the other with a 5 ft hog. Both are several hundred pounds lighter than the B3350. Both have std transmission rather than hydrostatic. The one I use with a 5' hog (brand name...

genze -- I don't want to influence your buying but there is no magic in a Kubota brand snowblower. The paint will sure look nice all matching, but they are all made by someone else. There are many good brands of snowblowers on the market and a large variety of widths. You can get whatever you...

What I said was that Kubota rear wheels cannot be set out as far, typically in a given size of machine, as other brands. That is true based on measurements I have taken and looking at dozens of them on the lots. Not hard to verify and pretty universally known. If they are wide enough for you...

Yes, I do not have a closed center system. And it may have always been that way but there are many who do not understand everything about what they are operating, like me. Also a wide variety of configurations of course. Somewhat off of the original post, but a couple of years back I was...

I have posed this question or similar ones before. It remains a puzzle to me. If you scan through all the "MF Owning and Operating" threads not 5%, I'd even say 1%, relate to tractors over 60 hp and of those at least half are older than 10 year old machines. That's OK but don't the people...

Mike 69440 -- My application is very different, kind of the inverse of the toothed bar that you show in the picture. Mine was intended for improving the "grapple bucket" nature of my 4-in-1 bucket. Keeps me from slipping losing, or dropping logs, small trees, limbs, etc. I had teeth welded on a...

No typical, handy and readily available key maker in your hometown -- like Lowes or Home Depot or your hardware store -- carry blanks for Kubota keys. TRUE. Among other things, the Ilco blank you show on Amazon does not fit any of my Kubota tractors.

There are a variety of reasons the mfrs tell you not to do backdragging. Almost all those reasons are covering their butts as the easy answer. The truth is "just watch what you are doing and realize there are risks." Many think backdragging is just an angled downward bucket smoothing out rough...

I think this picture proves nothing is safe with a young grandson, not even a Kubota...

A few comments: this thread started out with a 1705, and like my BX2200 you could run it for several days on a single 5 gal can of fuel. Paying over $600 to solve that problem baffles me. Now if you have several diesel machines around, that's a different story. In a lawn mowing BX2200 context...

No question, you are correct that the lines were on the small side for this task. I'm sure running bigger lines all the way from the remote at the back of the tractor to the loader attach point would have improved the flow but that is on the order of 12 or15 feet of lines. I know of one case...

Interesting thread. I bought a FEL mounted, very heavy duty, skid-steer compatible, rotary cutter in 2011 along with a new-at-the-time MF2660 tractor. The cutter was a low-flow version CID 5ft with 5/8" thick bidirectional blades and capable of cutting about anything you can get it over top of...

I'm interested in a wide bucket (existing std bucket is 47") for the LA211 loader on my BX2200. Probably a 60" or so would be good. Could very well be light duty as the intent is snow removal and light material, not heavy stuff. I've seen Long brand 60" blades to replace the bucket on the LA211...

A bit off center from this thread but relating to picking up logs, limbs and tree parts -- I had teeth welded on to a spare replaceable knife edge on a 4-in-1 bucket. Had been using the pinch bucket to pick up posts, limbs, trees, etc. cleaning up an old farm and found problems with the wood...

Here is an L3400 already set to max width and then aided by using 2 six inch spacers. Here is my B2150 (which had NO adjustment in/out for rear wheels) with a set of Bora 6" spacers installed last week. I used the B2150 on steep ground with the new spacers and am very pleased. Makes it...

Those vents are a great find. I instead drilled a hole and threaded the first drywall screw I found into it. It really takes a rather small hole to serve as a good vent. By the way, the autoparts stores and Tractor Supply offer very plain flexible spouts to fit the stupid ventless jugs sold...

This barn, in north central WV at Lost Creek, was torn down in 2016 having been there for roughly 100 years. It had a slate roof, ceramic tile silo and beam construction inside. Landmark for many, many decades. Nostalgic for many locals to whom it was a landmark and permanent fixture for their...

This barn was built in the 1920's in central WV. Withstood over 80 years of weather when a micro twister came along and surgically removed the entire center roof section, intact, rotated it 270 degrees and dropped it where you see it in this picture.

B&S engine on model 1232 rear engine rider Gravely. I'm not where the machine is but once a month and try to get parts lined up for each visit. The engine data from a photo says Family: YBSXS.5012VP 274826. I do not have the Model, type, and code from the engine at the moment. The...

This is a 1232 Gravely rear-engine rider. I was guilty of cutting too tall wet grass too long and burned off the belt. Not the first time. Happened 4 years ago too. Working fine right to the point of the belt demise. Shut it off, replaced belt. NOW the engine starts fine with the brake...

We have a 1954 Massey Harris Pacer which has been largely restored, runs well and is full of nostalgia for us original-owner family members who are left. Right now trying to get the "cutter bar" or mid side sickle bar mower back up and going. Bar has been straightened, new bolts, etc. The...

I embedded a chart of slope degrees overlaying slope in %. Your 20 degrees is getting fairly steep (around a 37% slope.) I routinely mow 40% slopes on a WV farm but a 50% slope (around 26 degrees) is about my limit under the best of conditions. And I'm not having a backhoe on for the ride...

This should open up for you by clicking on it. If not, no idea what that problem is.

I finally decided to try a set of teeth mounted on the "dozer" (back) part of the 4-in-1 bucket. The dozer part has a bolt-on replaceable knife edge. I bought a replacement edge and had 7 eight inch teeth welded to it, pointing outward toward the underside of the clamshell. The tricky part was...

I'm sure you can. These photos are from my having had a welding shop in eastern PA mate a Case loader to my B2150 Kubota. Really nice result with never a problem. Had the new-to-me loader 6 or 8 years. Note the Bucher loader valve was chosen by the welding shop and is Italian made.

Hey there KGW, when you are between Waynesburg and Elkins using I-79 at exit 110 you are a stone's throw from my farm. My pasture renters have an L3400 for which they bought rear wheel spacers at a dealer. You could get a good machine shop to make you a set too. Neither is cheap. See photo...

Concur. I have a Kubota GK60BX 3-bag bagger (since 2004) that mounts on the 3pt lift arms. Have not had the tube disconnect problem (maybe his tube is too short?) Mine is pretty well jammed tight between the blower and the deck flange and stays put. Yes, they will clog at times with too much...

Agree with Leejohn -- I'd think you can just get hoses made up with the right connectors and do as you planned -- run the roll function to move the chute. As Leejohn suggested if you use a small line it will self-restrict the flow some and probably not rotate the chute too fast. One caution is...

I have a 76" "pinch bucket" which is great for clearing an old farm, etc. However it often takes 5 or 6 tries to get a firm clamp on a tree, log or large limb. Before I go fabricating my own teeth, do you folks know of an off the shelf set, like a tooth bar, that would fit the clamping edge of...

This is on a MF 2660 using a DL250 loader. The hose routing was by the dealer. I've never had a problem with that in 5 years. Pictures inserted below. The close-up shows a bracket mounted on the FEL cross member where the quick-disconnect hose fittings are fastened. That stops the quick...

Interesting to hear your experiment with tipping on a hillside. Good info. About slope measurement: A 15 degree slope is about 28%. A 23 degree slope is aout 41 to 42 %. I agree with your conclusions about the BX on a 15 degree slope. I can also see it being tipsy on a 23 degree slope. A...

Say there AxleHub: Ookla did not mention a backhoe in the initial post and it does not show in the pictures he posted on the first page. I see now that the GC1720 model means one with a backhoe. The tire loading and MMM do add to the 2670 lbs of shipping weight listed for it. So lets call it...

This thread sure has covered a wide range -- trailers, lawn tractors, fairly good sized farm tractors, firewood, ... I will throw these in for good measure: 1) With the 4wd lawn machine and a 60" deck I say get a 6 1/2 x 12 ft trailer. The 6 1/2 is important because my Kubota BX2200 (and your...

Pburchett -- you are going to get endless free advice on this one. Here's my view: (having read all 4 pages of replies to date) 1) Forget the 60 some inch width. If you are on steep ground anything similar to what I mow in WV you need all the tread width you can get. Until you get into the...

Where is the new 4700 series being built ? Japan or ?? The literature shows no cab models (which is fine with me since I can't use a cab model...) . Things I like in advance are the bevel gear front drive (much better maneuverability than my 2660), choice of 12 speed manual or hyd shuttle...

THAT is a real question! "It depends" of course. I have zero experience with Agco on subcompact, lawn machines, etc. I do have experience on larger (70-90hp) equipment where it is a mixed bag. Probably not a lot different than Deere, New Holland and Kubota. Examples: 1) Brake discs for...

TSO -- my F-250 as I mentioned was 15 years old. It was a 2000 model. It weighed 6500lbs. and was 4WD. The new F-150 is certainly not built for the heavier work you probably have to do. The V-10 got 424ft-lb torque and the little V-6 gets 420 ft-lbs and 65 more hp. I do pull a 3000lb 21 ft...

The MF2650/60 tractors all have a very odd (and I say poor) design feature which is that the 3pt position control lever only moves about 3/4 inch from all the way down to all the way up for a typical implement like a 7ft bush hog. Mine for example operates between the 4 and the 5 on the marked...

My family owns three (two BX2200 and a BX2230) 4wd Kubotas. Two of the three have leaking power steering cylinders. Mine started leaking when it was about 20 degrees outside and I began doing snow removal. It stopped leaking after some warm up and TLC. Only minor seepage since. The other one...

First, a 20 degree slope is getting very close to a 40% slope. See the chart inserted here. That is not too much challenge for a good farm tractor but a bit of a challenge for most lawn machines. Most if not all the time you will need 4wd to get up it. I have no idea in this world why...

This barn was built about 1921 by my grandfather with the shed addition much later of course. A mini-twister lifted the top section off the barn and placed it where you see it, rotated about 270 degrees and in a pile. That roof was not moved after the storm before this picture. You can see...

Oh please ! That is NOT a barn ! That is the very famous Ephrata Cloister, a preserved 18th century monastary in PA not far from Lancaster. Here is another view from around the side showing more of the main structure.

In this photo the hairline crack is at the corner of the gearbox halfway between the two bolts. Note the lube that has seeped out. The crack cannot be seen even when this is blown up, but is horizontal and about an inch above the flange. The crack is maybe an inch or 1.5" long and wraps around...

Model 297 Bush Hog brand. Normal pasture clipping and some brush but nothing huge. Might have 50 to 70 hours on it. Using 81hp tractor to run it, well within specs on everything. Never hit anything catastrophic (like a big stump or boulder...) Found a horizontal hairline crack in the...

Sysop and any others interested: What I finally did was to buy the Orsi 17' boom cutter from Matt in fall 2013 and began to use it spring 2014. This has been a huge learning experience. I'll just list a few things trying to keep it short here and then gladly respond to anyone interested in more...

Has about 800 hrs on it. Bought used from dealer who said it had a lot of water in the fuel system. They replaced all the filters, drained the fuel, cleaned it out and seemed to run fine when bought. After maybe 5 or 6 hours usage it began to bog down and balk at mowing (60" deck.) Struggled to...

If you hold the joystick to the right and keep it there the bucket tip should lower under power with force enough to lift the tractor. As delivered mine would not lower the bucket tip at all except by gravity. The loader valve was defective from the NIMCO factory via MF and so were supposed new...

Well, there are only 24 pages to this exciting topic so why not more !? This is what I did. TractorSupply (and others) sell a 35 gallon sized white polystyrene tank normally intended for insecticides. Works just fine for diesel fuel. The outlet fits standard 3/4" pipe threaded gasoline...

I have been using an Orsi RB415B 3pt mounted cutter on a MF 2660 tractor. Would like to trade info with other users of this and similar equipment. There are quite a few brands out there and sizes ranging from small cutter bar "sickle mowers" to ones over 3500 lbs. Mine is around 2500 lbs...

Piston: This is follow up on last year's verbs. For some reason I did not see your questions last fall. The original FEL-mounted cutter was an EDI brand 5' cutter sold out of a dealer in Joppa near Baltimore. EDI calls themselves Spartan now and have a website at Spartan Equipment | Skid...

There have been several threads (last year) with titles that sounded like paydirt but inside were only fluff and generalities. More comfortable seats, luxury vs plain, etc. Also ALL were into cab models rather than platform models. I am interested only in the non-cab models. 1) Can someone give...

This is a near-new tractor hours-wise. An April 2011 purchase with around 165 hrs. now. Sat over the winter only started and ran some once a month. In Nov. 2013 the lift was used with no problem with a roughly 2500lb object (boom cutter) mounted. Had been used all summer. In early April 2014...

On the 244th post it is very possible you guys are off on some other topic than I know about. This relates most closely, I hope, to SPYDERLK post #213. "Is there an engineer in the house ?" This got way too complicated to get simple answers and insight. Forget for the moment whatever...

Commin' right up. First to clarify my situation and answer your questions: My current configuartion is a MF 2660 with a DL250 loader and skid-steer adapter on the loader. I got a CID brand (also sold by several dealers and re-branded by Spartan if you web-search) 5' bushog-looking cutter that...

In recent years skid-steer adapters have shown up on front end loaders of most brands of farm tractors. Some have even become "standard." Great variety of attachments besides just buckets. Also potentially wild problems. Multiple manufacturers now offer swing-boom or articulated arm cutters...

Attached are pics of the front cutter. It is plenty heavy duty & uses 3 - double edged blades so it cuts with rotation either way. It is an EDI Sales unit. See https://www.edisales.com/compare/452/448 They won't say where they get it but I think the source is in North Carolina. There are...

Dealers in MD and WV seem to have all gotten one 4600 (usually a low end 4608) since these came out this spring. Anyone out there own a 4600 yet who can say with experience how they perform on steep ground? Points of interest: 1) Do they have brakes that will hold the machine on a steep...

As many of you know, the relatively recent (over the last 3-4 years) Brazilian-made MF2600HD series is out of production & not made anymore. The replacement is said to be the 4600 series. My rumor mill has it that the 4600's will be: - Made in Japan - Use the SISU Finland-made diesel engine...

I bought hardcopy manuals too. Have no idea what a DRM is. Regardless I just printed out a few pages from the AGCO on-line pdf parts book.

That is an attractive approach... However, I just checked my Parts Book pdf for a new tractor. It has a print option built in to the header. I followed that, it brought up a larger view and the Print option then worked fine from the pdf header. It may make a difference if you have a user ID...

DL250 loader mounted on an MF2660HD low Profile tractor. The machine has about 90 hrs on it, though I've had it since April 2011. In all that time I noticed the bucket could not be "forced tip down" to do things like smoothing soil or sand or gravel in reverse. It curls up fine but only...

I have been using this forum off and on for over a year. In that time no one other than myself has ever posted a single thread on these tractors. No one has ever responded to the 6 or 8 that I have posted who owned one. Response was always from non-owners. Are there THAT few of these machines...

The same NEW tractor reported on in spring 2011 with poor brakes (fixed) and fuel starvation on steep ground (fixed) and clutch not fully engaging (fixed maybe ...) had yet another disease: In trying to pry a blown down tree up out of the ground with the corner of the bucket, the loader frame...

Anybody bent one besides me ? My DL250 loader holds the bucket about 2" lower on one side than on the other. Investigation with the bucket off shows the loader itself is skewed low on one side by that amount. No welds broken, no paint cracked, no loose bolts, all pins are in right place, no...

When the 3pt position control is near the top (near but not in the constant pumping area) one can produce an horrendous clanking noise that resembles or exceeds the worst rod bearing noise you ever heard. Initially I did not know it was dependent on the position control and was near panic on a...

My 2660 low profile tractor picking up a Bush Hog model 297 uses only about 3/4 inch of control lever motion to raise the hog. This makes control of the implement way too touchy and difficult. Most of the range of the position control is unused and useless with only the top 3/4" used. This...

I have interest in adding an auxiliary hydraulic pump and control valve to a MF2660LP tractor. I currently use a front-end-loader-mounted rotary cutter for brush, fence rows, and odd-ball places where I can't get the bush hog. There are two reasons for wanting to add an aux pump: 1) The...

I found out the hard way as follows: The fuel tank is 1/3 full (half way between 1/4 and 1/2 tank by guage on the level.) I start up a hillside cutting grass with a 7 ft bush hog. Part way up the engine loses power, sputters and eventually dies. Will not restart. Given the lousy brakes on...

According to my local Kubota dealer the only new loaders available for the B2150 Kubota are the Woods brand AND Woods does not make one for the standard transmission model, only for the HSD. The claim is that the frame is different, etc. Anyone know of a source for FELs for Kubota B2150 ?

I have a new (made in 2010) MF2660LP tractor. The brakes are inadequate. They will not hold the machine on a very steep grade with a 215lb man putting all the weight he reasonably can on the pedals. For example, you cannot drag the wheels on a steep downhill. You dare not start up or down a...