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And the answer is: Yes it is.

We have a hard enough time finding intelligent life on this planet, why worry about any intelligence elsewhere.

With the mystery of Spooky action at a distance and other just plain weird aspects of quantum mechanics, I would be more inclined to believe interdimensional visitors rather than interstellar visitors. But I have yet to see hard and fast evidence of either.

And it doesn't even have to be all that political. I recently got the impression that some moderators bias decides whether something is political.

I dumped Netflix months ago. I wasn't finding much this 70 y.o. could enjoy. It all seemed to be aimed at the 18 to 40 crowd. As for most of the Netflix produced series, I've pretty much reached my limit of how many F-bombs I will listen to before I turn it off. It's never appropriate...

Except there is no proof of interstellar visitors so there is no reality in that respect. There is evidence but evidence has to be looked at from all angles not from one's pet perspective.

If you are using one in cold temperatures a gloved or mitten covered hand will grip the spinner more securely than the palm of a glove or mitten on an open station tractor. I operated a forklift (Hyster 225) at a lumber mill for about 5 years and palmed the steering wheel a lot. I had a ground...

All one has to do is check out the prices of used tractors of all brands to know the trade-in value claim is hokum. JD and Kubota might get a premium price at trade-in but with similar tractors with similar hours and condition the premium will be about equal to the premium paid when new. That...

I have that one and my main dislike is the lack of a kickstand under the front of it. It's not all that heavy but it is awkward to hook up. I ordered the gauge wheels with mine, but the wheels were bent out of true the tire bead broke free. I used it that way for a couple of years, but the...

You may want to check on insurance on your tractor when used off your home acreage, your liability, tractor damage etc. Working only with friends and family, you wont need a business license or business insurance. Make sure your tractor doesn't lift too much weight off of your truck when...

Not having a horse in this race or an axe to grind, I think I would go for the Deere, especially if you plan to be taking the mower deck on and off repeatedly, which you might want to do when doing loader work. Check out the YouTube channel Tractor Time With Tim, he does a lot of work with his...

The nation is going to hell in a hand basket because nobody wants to be a rat. For the good of the community it was your duty to report and to testify and it appears you are going through with it. . Would I want to go to court, probably not, but I would. The only valid reason not to report is...

Just checked my pickup on Kelly Blue Book and it's worth $5000 more as a trade in than when I bought it used 2.5 years and 25,000 miles ago. This is just plain nuts, who would ever think that you could consider a used vehicle to be an investment like stocks or metals.

My 97 Jeep Cherokee still does that, hard smack on top of the dash fixes it. My 99 GMC Sierra also, same problem, same cure.

My uncle and cousins did that. They had and old Model A flat bed truck they would load up out of a neighboring field and haul to their barn and use the same system as pictured and load the loft to the rafters for their small dairy herd. I was 6 or 7 and rode with them out to the field and...

Just a quick online and LS uses Yanmar, Mitsubishi and LS engines depending on model.

Whatcom and Skagit Counties are on the far left side of the state in every way you can think of. My brother was facing so many restrictions, plus pending county regulations that he decided to move and let someone else deal with it. We moved to Okanogan County and the influence from the left...

Near Bellingham a friend added on to his house with s4s virtually clear fir that came from the mill we worked at. The building inspector failed the job because the lumber didn't have a grade stamp.

I was looking at your lumber and wondering if it was custom milled or from a lumber yard. I was curious because it didn't look like it's all cut to a set a length and doesn't appear to be S4S or have a bullnosed edge.

I'll be 71 in a few months. Between arthritis in the shoulders and some in the hips plus a fear of heights I will have to limit my work to ground level. I still have to re-fence and cross fence the property this summer, that will be work enough. When I did it on the previous property the...

Looks like you are using the OSHA approved method of placing poles. 😃 I am impressed. That is a rather large building under the build-it-yourself category. I follow the price of OSB just as a general indicator of lumber prices and the price is about triple what it should be and was back in...

A lot depends on what size tractor you want to haul. I have a 2015 f-250 gasser and it hauled my tractor just fine on flat ground put it did have to work pulling an estimated 16,000 pounds GCVW over some high mountain passes.

According to the laws of physics interstellar travel is somewhere between highly impractical and impossible. UFOs might be coming from the hollow center of the Earth though. 😂

Just be glad your haying operation doesn't look like this. 😃

With hydrostatic steering and hydrostatic transmissions there is really nothing that demands having a steering wheel at all. It is only tradition and probably a few dollars in added cost that keeps it there. I would be perfectly fine with a new tractor with full joystick controls.

Howmuchwillitsnow.com. It does a running 6 years of data showing year cumulative as well as dates and amounts for snow events.

I don't think it was stolen in 1941, it had a "Ferguson System" tag on the grill just below the Ford emblem suggesting royalties were being paid. Somewhere between the 9N and the 8N Henry shafted Harry and Mr. Ferguson started making tractors visually very similar to the 8N. Still American made...

If I had a Tractor Supply anywhere nearby that would have been the way to go. My nearest one is either 200 miles west or 200 miles east. Or there is this at $13...

I would definitely lean toward the L2501 simply because it is heavier and therefore will be more stable. It's less likely to feel "too small" for the job. On the plus side, it appears the loader on the 2501 has more lift. Tractordata.com lists the LX2610 lifting 769 pound to full height at...

All this is sort of why I plan on taking my tractor to the dealer for the 50hr service. Nothing to be questioned that way. The dealer is over an hour away, but still worth it for peace of mind... and to let them deal with all the waste oil.

At least not one made in the past 50 years or so. I am pretty sure my old 1941 9N was 100% American made, but anything newer than that is anyone's guess. The Massey looks to be a good buy. Surprised they have any in stock.

Divide that last number by 6 around here. Legislating electrical usage (Seattle has banned the use of fossil fuels for heating/hot water in new construction) without planning and permitting electrical generation expansion is just plain incompetence.

The OPs problem would be without the ground limiting travel the cylinder will just extend on it's own and it would never hold adjustment. It needs to be a hard connection limited in both directions. Otherwise when he lifts the three point the side with the single acting cylinder will just drop...

1, The genset would sort of defeat the purpose of buying an battery powered machine. 2. If used sparingly a maybe dedicated charging station could be used on site. Fast charging a Tesla requires 440v so well beyond a jobsite tap. I don't know, but I think a backhoe would consume considerably...

I'd set two on either side of the top of the wheel, sort of like the rear pistol sight. 😃

For cities and small counties road and parks maintenance departments it should fit is quite well. Any place where the machine is taken back to the shop daily should be a good fit. This would exclude general construction and site development as well as mining.

Since it's a tandem axle, you would have to have four of them if they exist. I am wondering if perhaps you may be overloading your trailer a bit.

I have had that problem, on mine it was a connection going to a safety switch that got corroded. Cleaned it up and it starts fine. Mine is an older Ford New Holland 27 hp. simple but generally reliable. Check all of your connectors, unplug, clean and try to start, if no joy go to the next one.

That donut just limits the amount of warm air coming from the engine compartment and probably still does a fair job at that. All the cumbustion air appears to still go through the filter. It never actually sealed the air flow. I might look for a new one, but I would also keep operating with no...

The list of tractors would depend on property size and plans for the property. Dumping trash has not been a problem where I used to live an a state highway, and it certainly won't where I live now. Home invasion in rural areas is rare since it is the general belief that every rural home has at...

I am not a farmer either, I don't even own any land per se. I am the care taker and general handy man for my blind older brother who owns the 20 acres and the 3 horses. I own 1 tractor plus several implements and my brother owns the newer one. I built fences, cleaned up and maintained his...

What exactly do you farm with no tractor?

I have been here a few years and of Hay Dude I would say he is opinionated (aren't we all) generally speaks from experience and stands his ground, but not a bully. On that subject I have found calling names, personal insults, deriding arguments, citing out of context, etc. it to be the device...

Yeah, it's about $25 but I like the no exposed metal. With my old dry thin skin all I have to do is look at a sharp edge or exposed metal and I start bleeding.

We are talking tractors and loaders, not cars and pickups. Nobody is suggesting a wheel spinner for highway use.

So who's inspecting?

And that was my point in posing the questing to begin with. The key word is significant. A 5' box blade is not enough significant weight to take any meaningful stress off the front axle with a fully loaded bucket of gravel. It would require significantly more than that, but a box blade is all...

So how much stress do you figure you could take off the back axle by hanging a few hundred pounds of suitcase weights off the front?

The higher quality spinners don't have any exposed metal

Heat and dust, rain, cold and snow. Need I say more?

The only way I can see fuel getting into the crankcase is through the injector pump. I am assuming it is directly driven by a gear off the front of the engine, Do you have an owners or service manual? If not, try Messicks.com or New Holland.com and enter your model number and it will give you...

You said the oil was blowing out of the dipstick tube, I assume the tractor was running? I am assuming it must have been. Is there a clogged crankcase vent? That would be my first guess. The pressure of blowby from a cold engine has to go somewhere, if the crankcase ventilation is clogged...

I guess I was thinking of things like forklift main cylinder, dump truck lift cylinder, bottle jacks etc as being true single acting cylinders, I don't remember a breather on any of those. But then they are designed to lift and hold weight.

In a car or pickup it would look strange these days, but is perfectly acceptable on a piece of equipment, especially if one hand is operating the loader joystick.

I really question the validity of this statement. I agree they extend only, hence the "single acting" but the rest of it is questionable at best. Maybe you have a certain kind of small cylinder in mind, but your statement doesn't hold true for larger single acting cylinders.

I saw a video of a guy starting an older Case diesel that had no glow plugs and no block heater. He temporarily removed an air filter to intake air tube at the manifold and used a propane torch when cranking. The warm air helped the engine get the engine warm enough to start to ignite the...

The problem is the forces on the implement would allow one side to float without the hard link of a double acting cylinder. The purpose is for the operator to easily control and adjust the side tilt of the implement, not the ground. Just my thoughts, but I think I will either stick to the...

Welcome to TBN from central Washington State. I hope you will find this group to be entertaining and enlightening. I know I have learned a lot from the group here.

Actually, I do know such a thing. Corporations don't have hearts, individuals do. Corporations have consensus, they have a bottom line, they have boardrooms, they have stockholders. You can't feel the wrist of a single corporation and find a pulse. The only thing that ultimately worries the...

Welcome to TBN from the west side in the Okanogan of Washington state. I don't live in the middle of nowhere, but you can see it from here. Looks like you are a fan of old IH tractors, some of then with some pretty respectable hp. none of them under 50. Do you farm?

None of the tractors had a FEL. Only one showed the possible use of hydraulics. How well do they operate on hills? How well to they operate in subfreezing temperatures. How long do the batteries last doing something like rototilling 10 acres? They are definitely they way of the future but...

Those attributes apply only to old manual steering vehicles, and maybe some power assist steering but not to hydraulic steering. Even my old Ford 1715, which is approaching 30 years, has hydraulic steering, there is no danger of steering wheel kick back.

And I am equally convinced that after seven years of ignoring the issue and throwing B3350 owners under the bus, Kubota didn't suddenly, out of the blue, issue the PSB out of the goodness of their corporate hearts. Whether it was bad publicity a TV station's consumer affairs reporter, law suits...

I remember my dad had one that would sort of fold out of the way so that it didn't sick up much above the plane of the steering wheel it was either on his 50 dodge or his 37 Oldsmobile. Most of the wheel loaders at work had spinners, even though we didn't have them in the dump trucks using one...

Whether any class action suit was ever actually attempted is irrelevant, it was talked about. The relevant issue is how Kubota has treated B3350 owners, and continues to treat them. A case was cited earlier, B3350 owners shells out $4k because it was after the 5 year warranty period but before...

Spoken by the person who has talked to every Kubota dealer in the country You must be pretty high up in Kubota corporate to have knowledge of the thoughts of Kubota's in house legal team. And to know that no B3350 has ever been repaired with another engine.

Meanwhile there are B3350 owners out there with a tractor they can't use, can't sell whose 5 year warranty expired who are unaware of the warranty extension. There were people seeking to file a class action law suit but that may have been mitigated by this PSB. I can't say that the publicity of...

I do that too. When I am finished with the trailer I run the jack all the way up with the foot sitting on a 4x6 block so water will run off. It doesn't do much for the snow though, it's been snow covered for 8 weeks now. I might try rolling on some black porch and deck paint this summer.

I just used Thompson's Water Seal and rolled it on. The decking is treated so it should last long enough for me. After the decking had been on the trailer for a year and dried thoroughly I did notice some cross grain checking in some boards, these will be the first to break if any break at all.

They mentioned it on the news a month or so ago, I can't remember what the reason for it was.

Those will charge up well during the above mentioned rolling brownouts. We are increasing demand on an already heavily loaded electrical grid. With all the demand for recharging electric cars, electric tools, electric lawn equipment, cell phones, laptops, tablets plus the ban on oil, gas and...

Looks good to me. If thread categories and titles are obvious then I am fine with that. If a title says its a religious or political discussion then those who don't like those topics can simply not click on them.

Works until the load on the loader exceeds the ballast and the the tractor is balanced on the front axle at which point 100% of the weight, tractor, load and ballast is on the front axle. A tractor without ballast won't pick up much at all, front axle never carries more than the weight of the...

I think the legal maximum vehicle height was 13'6" back when the original Interstates were built. I-90 through eastern Washington had a bunch of overpasses that were an even 14' that have since been replaced or altered to get them to 14'6".

I totally understand the concept of counterweight for lifting a load, it's the claim that counterweight on a tractor 3 point takes stress off the front axle I can't understand.

I don't know where you live but my trailer sat outside in the wet Pacific Northwest and after 5 years shows no real signs of deterioration. I did seal it, and it is due for sealing again. Right now it's sitting under 8 inches of snow so I don't know how this winter has treated in in its new...

I was surprised yesterday when I was looking at the tire pressure chart for the New Holland. For load capacity, turf and ag tires were considerably lower. The chart only gives maximum load at minimum pressure but on the front tires as an example: AG tire: 9.5-16 4PR R1 8- 25 psi 825lbs at...

I just got the New Holland and I seem to be getting the same experience although I've only put about 5 hours on it mostly moving snow. The two loaders are near equal according to TractorData.com (breakout 3191NH and 3102K and lift 1849NH and 1691K) so I am wondering they are being detuned a...

I just looked at a 20' 10K trailer and it was selling for $5900 on the lot. I bought the same trailer in the 18' version in 2017 for $3500 out the door. Yeah, prices have gone up more than just a bit on these. I saw the identical unit to mine for sale for $6300. It was plenty of trailer for my...

Lengthen your top link so that the blade is barely cutting and just pull ahead. I set a stop on the three point lift to bring the box blade up an inch above grade and let the contents just feather out under the back. When you get your grade about where you want it lengthen the top link even...

I've heard of this mentioned before, but for the life of me I can't see how adding weight to the three point transfers weight off of the front when the bucket is fully loaded. It seems that it would keep the back axle on the ground and allow the bucket and front axle to carry more weight...

What in the world prevented the guy who loaded the machine from tucking the bucket in and lowering the boom like he should have

Nope, it's an older model made 30 years ago and the edges are cut, not worn.

$44 a sheet on the opposite side of the country and 3/8s ply is $36 a sheet. I think I would 2nd the notion of finding some utility 1x material cheaper.

According to the owners manual for the Boomer 50 I have it's 8-32 psi front with a max load of 2420 at minimum pressure and 12-20 psi rear with a max load of 4580 at minimum. The tires are 12x16.5 front, 17.5 x24 rear.

All I ca n say is, SLOW DOWN. If dips in the road threaten to tip you over, you are driving that tractor way too fast.

The trailer I have is an 18' car hauler with removeable fenders. Two bolts per fender and they come right off. The other option I've seen is fenders of a heavy diamond plate that allow a vehicle to be driven over them. This is the same as mine, 18' long a full 7' between the fenders, 8'6"...

I would think that the beet juice would be a little better pushing snow with the with bucket or a snow plow and allow having a grader blade on the back to finish it off. (At least on flat ground) A ballast box is useful only as ballast.

Do you pay the cost of their medical insurance, social security ... like Amazon does?

For me it would likely be a 22-24' deckover trailer with a beavertail to make loading rolling equipment easier. If you want a wider fender trailer you could cut, sleeve and weld to lengthen the axles.

I've never really had an issue with PTO connectors either. My old tractor doesn't have any kind of cover on it, but I keep a thin film of grease on it as well as the female ends of the PTO shafts. If the stub on the tractor gets a little dirty a wire brush and some WD-40 cleans it up very...

That one looks like the ones you hear about when some young person gets shot by police or a homeowner, "He was only pointing a pellet gun at them, why did they have to shoot him."

Hey, just trust the science!

This is the model of box blade I have and because the sides taper up from the lower back corner I can get the scarifiers to dig a few inches in without engaging the blade. However, with square cut sides it may me close to impossible. The OP can modify his box blade so that the bottom edge...

I sort of quit the NFL when it quit me with all the woke crap. Used to be a diehard Seahawks fan, complete with a twelfth man jersey. Jersey has been in the bottom of the drawer for years.

I think your salesman did a good job talking you into beet juice. You have a tractor that weighs, with the loader, about 4600 pounds and with a cab is a somewhat narrow 59 inches. You will want to have that weight (and then some) for stability any time you use that loader, especially since it...

I couldn't agree more. To me it means "My price is so inflated that I want a chance to "sell" it otherwise you would surf on by."

You would be confusing All Wheel Drive with 4 wheel drive. All wheel drive or a full time 4 wheel drive has a differential in the transfer case to allow the front and rear axles to turn at different speeds needed for cornering. In four wheel drive that differential is either locked or doesn't...

I had the same thing happen bringing in my last load of hay last October on our private road. Short 10% grade on dry loose gravel that I made just fine with the first 4 loads. Had to back down to a lessor grade and then switch 4wd to get up the hill. This winter the road has been covered with...

In my younger years I had a few cars that did that automatically... sort of. 😃

Then your dealer would have lost my sale. Just bought a tractor that started with a series of emails and ended with a 50 hp. tractor in my barn.

Agreed to a certain extent; except when a engine starts a regen when operating in dry grass. The exhaust pointing down is just asking to start a fire. I just got a new tractor and have already decided that if one starts in those conditions I will have to cancel it and find a nice gravel road...

Welcome to TBN. You will find most here will do their best to offer useful information, reasonable discussion, or silly tired jokes. Checking TractorData.com indicates your tractor is a minimum of 6 years old and may be as much as 8 or 9. If you haven't replaced the battery since the tractor...

I remember reading a 4x4 off road magazine back in the 70s and one sentence stuck with me. "Four wheel drive doesn't keep you from getting stuck, it just gets you stuck in worse places." Ever sense reading that, I've been a little more cautious on road and off in choosing where and how I would...

Nor would I compare it. I've done both and driving, especially in traffic was far more taxing. Want a reputative task, try shifting gears up and down continually all the while watching out for some half-wit who decides the 50 feet in front of your loaded truck is the perfect place for his...

LOL You ought to be a truck driver. A 10 hour day meant I was home a couple of hours early. When I was over the road, there was no overtime, just a schedule to keep. This was before electronic logbooks and during the paper "comicbooks" that drivers kept themselves. Fifteen hours a day wasn't...

LOL. Driving a dump truck with a 4 axle trailer, dumped off spoils from a job moving out toward the access road at about 5 mph and just stopped on level or slight downhill, wheels spinning like I was on wet ice. Lifted the truck box all the way up, unlocked the reach so the trailer didn't drag...

Probably the worst vehicle for traction in slick conditions is a unloaded or lightly loaded long box two wheel drive pickup.

Yes it'd very simple, just pretend we are all living in an Eastern Bloc country in the 70s, or George Orwell's 1984, or maybe present day North Korea. Hey, we already have "Newspeak" but we call it political correctness.

On my old Ford I did just about everything. On the new Boomer 50 the shop will do the first 50 hour maintenance even though they are over two hours away. I was told I can schedule an appointment and in and out the same day. After than, it's sort of up in the air, but oil and filter changes and...

Government and industry are not uncommon bedfellows. Eisenhower said it 60 years ago: "In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex." It would be naïve indeed to think that...

To that I politely say BULL. I didn't do any research on asphalt or paving or blacktop. I simply had a conversation with my brother in the "privacy" of our home. I seldom use Google search because it gave me the creepy feeling I was being followed. I switched to DuckDuckGo and the creepy...

I know phone microphones are always on. I was having a joking conversation with my brother about paving the 1 mile of driveway and private road we need to access this house. None of my computers (except my laptop which is always off) have a camera or microphone. A few days later I start...

I couldn't agree more. I owned a 79 International with a Detroit 8v92. One year I got talked into having 33% oversize injectors put in it. I did go up hill better and made a lot more smoke doing it. Over all I lost about 4/10s of a mile per gallon which adds up when you are putting 85,000 miles...

I have the same box on my outside stored Ford. It holds pins of various sizes, 3/4 combo wrench, 10" crescent, pliars, an extra pocket knife, and a small wire brush plus extra ear plugs. The only negative is the lid will leak as built. I had to remove the little plastic covers and apply some...

I wonder if they will have checkpoints at all the roads coming into Cali looking for noncompliant diesel and gasoline engines like they do now looking for a "smuggled" bag of apples.

25 hp. in a larger, heavier tractor can accomplish a lot of work, but it is limited. Our Boomer 50 just arrived today to help with our 20 acres and approximately mile and a half of driveway and private road. I was using a 27 hp. tractor so I know it is a little too small for the job, 50 ought...

It's an automatic system on diesel engines and it seldom requires a "high temperature burn off" except under unusual circumstances. It will burn off the soot just by operating the tractor and at times automatically do a regen. So I don't know what you are talking about.

The FEL uses the tractor hydraulic system. Change the hydraulic oil in the tractor and what is left in the hoses is minimal (assuming all cylinders are fully retracted) and isn't enough to contaminate the gallons of oil in the system just as 'old and tired' said. Between the oil screen and...

California won't be happy until they can californicate the entire nation. In a few decades we will all either be using electric exclusively, public electric transportation, horse and buggy, or walking. Hopefully no other states will follow crazy Cal down their garden path.

Yes, I am. Diesels under 25 hp. aren't required to have the extensive exhaust scrubbing diesels over 25 are now required to have. Step up to a larger tractor and it's there in one form or another.

Tractors under 25 hp. aren't required to have a DPF yet.

Line 1: What are you assets and income _______ Line 2: Make check payable to US Treasury in the amount of line 1 Line 3: Send it in and have a nice day. :)

Sarcasm, that's who.

Well, it's a given that truck and rail are far safer and better for the environment than a pipeline that pretty much follows the same route. 🙃

That's a terribly wasteful thing to do. Be a real conservationist and spread it on your driveway for summer dust control.

A 6' box blade if you have it. It's heavy enough and you can use it to push snow when needed.

Just looking at the tread pattern alone, it looks like it would be relatively easy to make an R-1 into an R-14 with a tire grooving tool. However, you won't be able to change a bias ply into a radial that way though. [emoji846]

It is very unlikely that you will ever regret building considerably bigger than your current needs. A building twice as big will cost more now, and considerably more later. If it were me I would be thinking more along the line of 20w by 28d. As the open end is facing west, 14' will not shelter...

Then allow a student loan to be ditched in bankruptcy but also withdraw the diploma, then things would be still unequal. Even if one lost the diploma, they would still have the education and history that would still benefit them. A farmer or a contractor who loses everything through bankruptcy...

Actually Kubota doesn't seem to have widely publicized this to anybody except as a corporate Public Service Bulletin. Otherwise you would think it would have been more widely known in the tractor community. The place I learned about this issue posted his video in mid summer of 21 and updated...

The 4' code is for basically decorative walls without a surcharge from a building, driveway or parking area or upper retaining wall and I think it is more like 10' away.

But somebody has to do it.

Any wall higher than 4 feet requires permitting and engineering here. Even at 4 feet walls can and do fail without some planning, thought and preparation. I am not an engineer, but if I were to build a tall wall without an engineered plan I would determine what angle the natural soils are...

It's all about drainage and tieback for an earth retaining wall. The base of the wall has to be kept from moving, that is accomplished by putting the base of the wall below the grade on a good foundation. If the ground slopes away from the wall, it requires the base to be buried deeper. The...

I was watching Prime video often. Usually a series, two shows a night from start to finish, but their selection of good free videos has gotten pretty darn thin. I used to live about 60 miles north of Seattle and shipping was amazingly fast, two days and often just one day, occasionally, order...

Only true if there is inadequate drainage of water, inadequate tie back into the load and/or a bad foundation. In actuality Hoover, Grand Coulee, et al are retaining walls, I don't foresee them failing any time soon. The walls I've seen fail aren't because the wall floated on the soil. Either...

Her contractor must have said something like, "Permits? Permits? We don't need no stinking permits."

I don't know if there is a fix for that wall other than taking it all out and starting over. How that ever passed an inspection is beyond me. How they ever got a permit to build the garage without documentation, including permits and inspections, of the supporting wall is beyond me.

I am wondering what the loud bang was a few seconds before the derailment started at about 11 seconds in the first video. It was about as loud as two cars slamming together. Failure of something? Speculation since we are unlikely to see the RR incident report

Looking at the trees in the background, the snow falling off the center-beam the snow blowing past the camera, and steam in the background on the camera on the engines, the wind couldn't have been blowing much more than 15 mph. Since the empty car weighs something north of 50'000#, I doubt the...

For those who don't have the tools to do a long straight in a pipe lengthwise, edge tamers. They do leave a half inch layer of snow, but except for heavy wet sticky Puget Sound snow, it will leave the gravel where it is. https://r2manufacturing.com/products/edge-tamer

LOL Facebook, Now there's a great source of info. Most (not all) of the problems I have seen with Tier IV compliance was in the 3-4 years of production and that seems to be true of automotive engines as well as tractor engines and probably including industrial engines. With a new technology...

And tractors from TYM, Mahindra, LS, New Holland, Belarus, Yanmar, Branson, Kuboda, Bobcat, RK, et al weren't available 50 or so years ago either. None of the old ancient brands had as many models in production as they do now. Checking TractorData.com shows John Deere currently currently has...

I've not operated a two stage clutch, but I would think it would be in the top half of pedal travel before the tractor would move, just make sure there is about an inch of free travel at the top of pedal travel and the clutch doesn't slip under load.

It's amazing to think of some of the old trucks and nerve it took to drive them. The 1943 Kenworth I mentioned before was crude compared to trucks of even 40 years ago. The cab wasn't much wider than a VW old Beetle and had a bench seat. The sleeper was literally the width of a coffin and...

And then there is the story of the $100 Mercedes. This supposedly happened back in the 1980s. A guy sees an ad for a nearly new Mercedes sports car for $100 and thinking it was either a joke, a scam, or a typo decided to follow up on it anyway. It turned out to be the real deal. Some guy...

You might try going to "FORUMS" scroll down until you see "Kubota Owning and Operating" open that and post your question and then delete the thread in "Food Plots"

The owners manual of my old Ford recommends blocking the clutch for long term storage. That was the 1993 edition, but I'll bet the advice goes back further than than in tractor manuals.

If it's not orange or green, it's a piece of junk. LOL Somebody was going to say it so I figured I'd get it out of the way. :) From what I have read I think you will be just fine with that tractor. We are about two weeks out of having a new Boomer 50 here. I liked the the tractor and it...

Glad to be of help. Good luck and I hope you enjoy your tractor as much as I do mine.

Correct, the front axle pivot makes them tippy without a proper amount of weight to keep the back axle firmly planted on terra firma. I never carry anything high, just a foot or so off the ground, Even so I've had a few tippy moments when I've lowered my ballast to the ground to get off and...

So what exactly is your point in replying?

Move the line to the inner wheel as though it were a standard 4 wheel tractor and the picture would look a little more precarious. As noted, the wheels are there as much for stability as for traction.

Welcome to the forum. I was a newbie owner 5 years ago and between reading and doing, I have learned a lot. I have a 1715 Ford and all I do is make sure there is at least an inch of free travel at the top of the pedal. I don't know how different the two machines are, mine is basically the...

Certainly European engines are common, but not the only ones. I didn't realize all the engine design engineers were fired from Detroit Diesel when they were bought by Daimler, but they must have been if all engines are European. By far the best engine I ever operatized was a Cat 3506B. It was...

My first thought is something is bent that isn't as noticeable when the bucket is on or on the pusher or mount. My second thought is to check tire pressures all the way around the tractor.

Good to hear it's all working fine for you, good luck in the snow.

You may have to do a title transfer in Canada also. In any case you will need to talk to US Customs about it.

I didn't like his arrogance. Bye Bye Tom.

I have just the opposite effect. We just moved to the Okanogan from the wet side of the state, but we studied the weather data for past years and figured that we could handle whatever the winter sent us since it was something like 36 inches annually spread over three months with four to five...

They do look pretty on the bean counters bottom line though. The T680's lines though are like a work of art. Kenworth did good on that design.

If the car is licensed in Canada then it has to be "imported" through US Customs and may have to be inspected by a state agency before it is licensed in the US. That the car is already here isn't really relevant, where it's titled is the only relevant factor. She will have to sell it to you and...

Looks great, I wish I had the welding skills to fabricate like that. The shop foreman where I worked was an amazing fabricator, he rebuilt fabricated a new frame and reach for the 4 axle dump pup trailer I pulled and for himself, at home he fabricated a 12' tandem dump trailer that definitely...

Paccar still makes the 389 as well as Kenworth W900, but those are most often purchased by owner-operators, flat bed fleets and small fleets. The larger fleets mostly buy the aerodynamic models. The W900 hasn't really changed all that much in 55 years. The single screw is a 1965 model, the...

I plowed some sticky wet snow once and the edge tamers did little good since the sticky snow lifted a layer of gravel despite the edge tamers.

There are a lot of undertrained drivers in the U.S. and Canada. It really doesn't take a lot of extra room to make a 90 degree turn with a truck, but it does take some. I am guessing that most of these trucks are not the dump trucks that built the roads and prepared the site, but are drivers...

Not much drag on this unit, and this is typical of modern designed tractors in North America. The trailers connect very close behind and often have skirts to help keep the underside of the trailer and axles from adding too much drag.

These old Farmall tractors are the only ones I've ever seen with a mid mount blade other than the industrial Athey grader. A box blade works to an extent, it generally leaves the road in better shape when used, but not having and experience with a land plane, all I can say is I am planning...

Yes, it keeps the cutting edge off the gravel so that all I am moving or plowing is snow. We get very powdery snow here at times and the bucket cuts right through it and into the gravel. With the edge tamers what is left is about a half inch of snow that will burn through fairly quickly when...

I voted no but with the caveat that the discipline be even and open although if there was an open list some would try to see home many times they could get their name on it.

Then you are using the wrong tool to tighten and loosen your binders.

What are you putting on the trailer? Could you swap and load with the smaller tractor and pull with the larger? How much does the box blade weigh? Are the tires loaded? I have the grandfather of the TC 30 and with loaded tires and ballast on the 3 point it does an amazing amount of work. The...

I know I wouldn't feel very comfortable in the seat of that tractor, but that kind of terrain is not atypical of the Washington Palouse wheat country. Noted he is an 8 wheeler and those extra wheels are there for stability as well as flotation and traction.

In North America, the cabover has pretty much gone the way of the Dodo bird. There are still a few around but they aren't at all common. Europe and North America are different in their approaches to trucking because of their different needs. Very little in the US or Canada is much over 150...

If you bought an early model (2013-2016) and your regen system crapped out on you after the five year warranty and before 03/31/2021 you are left out in the cold by Kubota. As it stands, it took lots of bad press and 8 years for Kubota to address the problem and stand behind their product. They...

From another thread on Kubota regen problems: Lifetime warranty= Life of the tractor (PSB-2021-050-E) dated 03/31/2021 I'll stand by my opinion of Kubota and will not buy a new one.

I mostly just use my tractor bucket with edge tamers. First year here in snow country and according to locals, this has been the worst winter in a decade or more. I have a half mile of driveway and have had to clear the snow several times. Other than getting a cab to get out of the wind, I'm...

I have not seen a truck and pup side dump in the Pacific Northwest. When that is needed there are plenty of the side dumps semi-trailers around to do the job.

It's getting that way out on the left coast too, but instead of police being exonerated, they are basically considered to be guilty until proven innocent, especially in the news media .

I never saw a truck equipped to pull an air brake trailer that didn't have one. Those must have been special order.

The nice thing about the cordless drills in the photo is you never have to worry about having a spare battery with you.:)

Area I used to live in had been a recreational get-a-way area for Canadians in the Vancouver area. The economy turned and a large number of the lots were abandoned with 20' and larger trailers abandoned on them. About 20 years ago people started buying the lots for mobile homes and stick frame...

I learned about this tractor and issue on a YouTube video about the 5 tractors to avoid. My immediate thought was if Kubota didn't step up to the plate on this one, how do I know that if an issue comes up in the new tractor I buy, they wont also leave me on the hook?

Thanks for starting this thread. I just spent the last little while reading all 170 posts. I greatly enjoyed all the photos and stories of the way it was, and how it is done now

Kubota's lack of support for this problem in that tractor is why I crossed Kubota off my shopping list. Kubota could have easily replaced every single B3350 with a new tractor, removed the DPF and donated the tractors to third world countries without much damage to their bottom line. Instead...

I found the second picture at the Skagit River Journal site. Skagit River Journal When BravoXray first posted it I thought the town looked familiar. However, there isn't enough detail to definitively say that it is Sedro-Woolley. When I look at Google Maps, Sedro-Woolley, Metcalf St @...

Anyone with common sense whenever possible and practical, why do you ask?

An expensive alternative would be an axillary hydraulic pump that is powered by the PTO. 2nd suggestion is rent a mini excavator when you have all your trenches planned and mapped. Depending a lot on width and depth, you could do a lot of trenches in a few weeks.

I like the bright "don't forgetem" paint on the quick attach levers.

We had several of the type Hay Dude posted. One driver was injured driving one once. He was hauling large quarried rock, eight to twelve rocks per 60,000# load. He was supposed to wait for an excavator to sort of curl over the top and act as a sort of roll over guard. He didn't and the off...

I think I would replace your "or" win an "and." Stupidity and total disregard for others.

Some great stories. As my kids were growing up I told them that they have to learn from other peoples mistakes because they won't live long enough to make them all themselves.

I'll join the nope, no way bandwagon for a tractor or any of my implements except maybe the box blade. I know my neighbors, one really knows equipment and I would trust him. The other has a subcompact tractor, he would break his tractor before he bent the blade. And if either one of them did...

Two possible solutions for him: 1. Leave it parked in the garage. In a few years the way things are going he could double his money. 2. Live with it. Rubber tires on concrete leave a mark in a turn, the sharper the turn, the more pronounced the mark. Same applies for when it's on gravel.

40 hp ought to be plenty for any 6 foot implement. I have been using a variety of 5 foot implements behind a 27 hp tractor and have never lacked power, I'd usually spin a wheel before I ran out of power.

Something like this would work for that if your soil isn't too rocky. Agri Supply used to sell them and still have the photos attached to the subsoiler but the item number link is dead. Hardacrefarm.com sells it but the price is higher than I remember, but then what isn't. 3 Point Hitch...

You have never watched Hank and Wiley on the Hamiltonville Farms YouTube channel start and operate diesels that have been sitting for 10+ years using just the fuel left in the tank have you?

And just about as stupid as unreasoned disdain of other brands. So far in my shopping for a tractor both of the big names charge a 20% premium for their tractors and seem to have as many problems as the other brands. Orange, green, blue or red, most tractors sold in the U.S. are decent...

It varies from state to state, the one thing that doesn't vary (much) is the 3000 pound limit. Anything over 3000 pounds requires at least one axle to have brakes. At some point, all axles have to have brakes, but I am not sure of that number.