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Just for folks reference, at about 2000 hours my heater fan gave out. Pulled the cab roof off and popped the fan out. Brushes worn out and the copper leads ran against the commutator down to the ceramic in the middle. I thought it might be 100$ for the motor, nope, 700$ at our dealer. Try...

This year I replaced my old 84" Lucknow with an 86" Normand with side discharge. The sort and more steeply angled regular chute on the Normand does not throw snow as far as the old Lucknow now matter what position you aim the top, but open up the side drum and wow does that snow fly and it...

A local man and his father in law were tilling a hillside pasture to reseed it. The father in law was driving the Kubota L5240HSTC the man was raking and moving rocks. The tiller jammed on a rock, so the operator lifted it up. The man was nearby and instinctively grabbed the rock to pull it...

My L5030HSTC has about 400 hours on its latest set of R-4 tires which has left the front ones completely bald while the rears just lost their whiskers. I drive a lot of road miles in the winter, which seems to be hard on the fronts. The stock 10x16.5 R4's are too small, and the slip ratio is a...

Hello, my new MF5455 has a non functioning blower and I'm trying to track down the issue. I've checked the main 50 amp fuse on the right side of the dash and have gone through the fuse box top to bottom (not happy, found some cigarette foil on some fuses! Didn't know people still did that!)...

Hello, I used to have a nice colour PDF of the programming cycle for the Kubota L30 intellipanel including setting tire size. Does anyone still have that document? I can't find where I've stashed it and have searched TBN the last hour looking for it.

Is there any way to get old threads back? I made a pretty detailed thread a few years ago on R1W tires on Kubotas and now I can't get to it. The link to it still exists in other threads but it goes nowhere when you click it. Ken

One of the tire options on the old M6800 and the new M7040 that is on almost all of them now is the R1W option. The fronts come as 360-70-R20's on wide rims and the rears are just regular old 16.9x30's I'm told the tire option won't fit on other models due to the ratios but I'd bet since the...

I'm trying as the cold sets in to find info on the Kerr Jetstream or Tempest woodboilers. They were built from 1979 to 1997 or so. The manufacturer in Parsborro NS no longer makes them and has very little info to share on them. Anyone with any info? I can send out a picture of one and even have...

Looking at a Mitsibishi ME 40 escavator right now that a neighbour has for sale. It has 4000 hrs and it is on steel tracks. Weighs about 5-6 ton (4000 kg machine). One of the front idlers has spit its bushings out (I assume, there is a pile of slop!) and the other side the idler yoke tracks...

I put the factory fix kit on the Q/A and thought I would relate some info. It went on easily, it basically is a bushing fits inside the spring attached to the top of the q/a pin. With the bushing the pin cannot lift out of the tab spot. It doesn't fix bad fitting q/a plates but does fix the...

Hello, would like to add some spring detent remotes like all the ag tractors I've ever used have. It is basicly a spring return like the normal kubota valve until you pull farther and it locks in position. Running things like wood splitters it means you don't have to tie the valve on. Is this...

Well, starting cutting this years first cut. We are late as I was gone out west for 2 weeks right when haying started. Well, I hooked the NH489 up to the Kubota L5030 and... It worked great! The hydrostatic is great and the tractor drags around the 9 ft mower like it isn't even there...

There is a gentleman operating a rental kubota mini hoe outside my office window digging up a foundation. It took him a hour or two before he put down the front blade and he was getting shaken to pieces! Well now he has the blade down but is horribly jerking on the controls. He has gotten 2...

I tried to buy super udt at the dealer last weekend and he looked at me funny and said you mean premium udt? In Canada there is no such thing as super. It says on it premium multi grade hydraulic fluid for cold weather use. At 160$ for 60 litres (20 gallons) I hope it is good stuff! Just...

Well, we took the plunge! We will be driving to Bangor Maine to pick up an L5030 HSTC with 400 hrs on it this Friday. Dealt with Mike of Dorr's Equipment. We initially looked at this tractor in mid February and drove it a bit. It was at an employees house cleaning up after a big snow storm...

www.tractorbynet.com been down for almost a week.. I thought tbn has been down a week until searching the internet about what happened I was linked directly in, it keeps displaying an error message on the root domain. I'm relieved but curious what is going on?

Picking up Glenn\'s Work - R1W Tires Grand L\'s Hello, I have been looking hard at L series tractors for a while now. We are going to look at a L5030 HSTC with turfs on it this weekend. Now there are a few threads here on TBN of people putting R1W's on their Grand L's. Glenn was a big...

A preview of what may come here eventually... The DK45S in Korea. http://www.daedong.co.kr/eng/eindex.asp

I'm looking at these two models locally, both with cabs, loaders and 4wd. I believe both are their respective base models. 1999 TN75D 2600 hrs 2001 TS 90 2500 hrs I'm leaving off the prices but what are the differences between these models? I've looked over the current features of the...

Just some pics from a friends farm, his father runs one of the few self sufficient and successful local farms. Business activities include hay, silage, straw berries, logging own land, firewood processing and sale. This pic is of the unsold silage halfway through haying season. I could only...

The dealer was telling me Kubota is pushing hard to eliminate loaded tires in all sizes of tractors, he didn't know why and says they still load tires as they would lose customers. The fall flyer is giving weight boxes away with loader purchases with a slogan saying loaded tires are not the...

Help! Can\'t get injector pump primed Ok our haying partners have a Case/IH 585, yesterday one of them finished tedding and noticed the tractor felt slugish so stopped it. She asked me to take a look at it and it was out of fuel (saddle type tank with a bad transfer line so it looks 1/2 full...

http://hayandforage.com/mag/farming_curb_compaction/ A link to an interesting article re what 5030 has been saying about compaction.

I saw it on a dealers shelf in his office but he wouldn't let me look in it and hussled it away so I couldn't see the cover. I did see 0% and L-series I think. Anyone else have a peek at this yet? Ken

The DK55C is one on the nicest cab tractors I have been in for a while, just needs a suspension seat and a hydro tranny and it would be mine! (Well and some $$) The DK45C was ok I guess, it was hard to be fair after just sitting in the 55. I think the DK55C cab is superior to the cab on the...

I cut about 150 bales or so yesterday to test out the mower, of course we had thundershowers and a down pour later in the afternoon! Still waiting on a tire / rim for the kuhn tedder, dealer seems to be having trouble finding one. The conditioning reel on the NH 489 has lost some rubber so the...

Good morning everyone, There isn't much deere equipment in our area but a friend has a 336 baler for sale. It seems in good shape, any opinions on this baler? Anything to look for? How much hp would this thing need (Older balers seem to need less) It has an auger to feed hay over which I'm...

Anyone know about this baler model? Is it a loose core design or variable chamber size? I have a chance to buy one bought new in 1992 and was used until 1996 then has been stored inside. It only had about 100 bales a year put through it those 4 years. The belts and everything look brand new...

All you L5030 owners, could the components from your 3 point hitch be attached to a 4630/4330/3830 to provide a Cat I/II hitch? I'm guessing at the tranny break the smaller 3130 and 3430 won't accept the components. I have access to many cat II implements that I would like to take advantage of.

Looking at the specs the JD 4410 is a competitor to the L3430 I followed through the specs but the heavy Deere loader seems to have half the lift capacity of the LA723? What is JD thinking or is the lift just rated conservatively? Ken

Pulling a 12" dbh spruce out of a mixed stand. There are white spruce, eastern (northern) white cedar, eastern white pine, tamarack, fir and other mixed hardwoods. There is a snowblower on the back of the tractor so I have to back out with the loader. The skid distance is about 300 m so I...

Wow I'm surprised how small this tractor, it is packing a lot of power into this package. It was setup with a front blower for a woman who clears 80 driveways and does landscaping. There was a loader and a pile of attachments with it with an invoice of 62 000 $ Can! The grand cab sure is nice...

The 4 wheel drive International 584 that I used spun the splines in the front axles input flange. It is a 1979 model with the ZF front axle. The flange is 21 spline. The part is no longer made by the manufacturer! Can someone with access to a tractor scrapyard database take a peek for some...

Well, I read through the technology thread and typed a reply but something went wrong when I went to post. When I refreshed the little reply button is greyed out. So here is my reply. Ok, I read through most of this. I'm another mechanical engineer, and am one of those guys with a pile of...

This is on a road near where I live last year. This is the size banks we get when they aren't winged back.

Please Respect PTO\'s! Fatal Accident today in NB A local farmer was killed today. My mother looked after his father and mother in-law for 5 years, he was running their farm for them. He was out harvesting corn today with a tractor drawn harvester. I don't know how a corn harvester works but...

I found this picture of last year moving the banks back to fit more snow in there with the truck

October 21st and the 2nd snowfall of the year here in New Brunswick! Only 6 months till spring!

I ran across this the other day

Hello, I am installing an outlet for my welder and plasmacutter. It is a 50 amp outlet in a weather tight shielded box and is the normal Nema 50 with L1, L2 and ground connections, no neutral. I have a fuse panel in the house, with 200 amp breaker entrance, house was supposed to be electric...

His last post was in August then he dissappeared? Any clues? I was looking forward to his R1W articles! Ken

Hello, very new owners of 30 acres of land, 15 woods, 15 trees. We are building a shop next year and a house a few years later. I have worked on farms quite a bit and have lots of experience with tractors around the 60 hp mark. We are looking at a new Grand L, at the small end of the line...