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Wire is always going to be better than wireless unless you have mobility or access issues. The only reason WiFi is popular is because it's expensive to run Ethernet everywhere & you can't wander around with a wire plugged in easily. Wireless is less reliable, less private & shared rather than...

From what I understand its only an option when its built & first registered. OEMs won't mess with re-rating them once they leave the factory or get sold.

Peruzzo brush bull 2200. 86" & 1,500 lbs. A bit big for my L4060, but I've put 600+ hours on it. It will side shift to hang 3' beyond my right tire. I wish I had the extra 20hp of a L6060, but not enough to upgrade the tractor or downgrade the flail.

A mill has been on my to do list for a while. I picked up the Precision Matthews 1340gt back in 2018. Pretty happy with the Tiawanese quality over China quality on it. A mill has been next on my list since then. A decent looking (at least on Cragslist) Bridgeport seemed to be arooun $4-5k...

Why don't you just rain on the parade. Looks like I won't bet getting a new drill press, lol. Didn't even think about the fact the shank went into another taper that is in good shape. I can deal with the belt alignment issues & swapping belts for now. Will probably keep an eye out for a good...

I have a 17" Steel City drill press. I replaced the chuck because the old one was having issues. The new one is having issues staying on as well. At this point the taper on the arbor is rather chewed up & was likely the cause of the original chuck issues. Pulley alignment has always been a bit...

Ratchet straps will chafe or cut if they rub on stuff. I cut one half way through early on cranking it down on a bar stock grill guard. It wasn't even sharp, but did damage to the strap. I generally use chain & binders for all my machines & implements now. I still use straps for other stuff or...

Fired up the generator in the 5th wheel last night. Had to spin it 4 times I think. It finally caught & ran fine. Hadn't started it since the fall & we have a foot of snow falling today. Wanted to exercise it & make sure it was working if we loose power.

If you are buying the trailer new, you should be able to get it derated. Factory should happily put a smaller number on the tag to keep you legal. May be free or a cheap option.

A dull blade mean a ragged cut. A ragged shattered stump is something you can drive over fine. A sharp stump can spear your tire. Sharp blades or knives are better for a lawn. But if you are doing any rough, brushy, or small tree mowing you want dull blades or hammers.

My Peruzzo brush bull flail is 7.2' & weighs over 1,500lbs. It has heavy hammers on it. Will chew through wrist to almost forearm sized scrub oak. I'm generally running out of HP on the 40hp Kubota L4060 rather than flail capacity. Although cutting like that I'm creeping along. Normal grass...

Flails mulch more than a rotary. The extra mulching eats up a bit more HP. If you are HP limited a flail will cut slightly slower than a rotary. I hate a 7.2' (2200mm) flail on a 40hp L4060hstc. Usually cutting 2+' grass or brush. I'm limited by HP. A rotary would be faster, although I'm not...

I have a 40hp cabbed machine & pile of attachments with a truck & trailer to haul it all. Along with all the proper commercial insurance. I generally quote jobs at $100-125/hr. 2 hour minimum. Some regulars fer billed by the hour. Most people get a fixed price quote. Make sure to include...

Same. I've tried ABS & PVC. Neither lasts minutes. Not sure how people make that work unless they use some steel pipe.

The limit on the loaders on economy Ls is the amount of rear ballast to keep the back end on the round, followed by the front axle, primarily the bearings. Bumping up loader capacity on the loader is just fount to break things & roll the machine.

Leaving the PTO button on is another one.

My home made plow for my former L3200. $100 plow from a garage sale that was probably for a small Jeep or something. $100 3pt Quick hitch welded to a $100 SSQA plate. A couple of pipes welded up to stick in the plow mount holes & catch the QH hooks along with a piece of chain. I love the float...

Does your plow have a trip edge? Realized I couldn't see one. Plow blades have the cutting edge or whole mouldboard on a sprint. So when you hit something the sprint let's the edge or whole plow pop offer the obstacle safely & keep going. There should also be a crossover relief valve on the...

Not sure if I agree that his plow is to bit, but it's distinctly possible. Ive thought mine is 6" maybe a foot to wide, but it works pretty decent for me 75% or the time. That 25% of the time for me includes 6+’ drifts. My bucket isn't really even suitable for those, hence the blower on the...

Float on the loader doesn't really work as you've seen. My first plow had a pivot on the SSQA frame & a chain. Float on the plow worked food. New plow has hydraulic angle, but is a solid mount. You have to adjust loader height & curl a lot. I want to rebuild the mount with an underslung pivot &...

Titan pallet forks were notorious for this kind of loose fit. They face me a partial refund to weld shims over the SSQA on the fork frame so the pins would be tight. Less likely for the OEM bucket & a 2nd impliment to both have that issue for you though. I often have the opposite problem when...

Hooking up supply lines backwards can blow out seals. Input of valves are ratesd for 2,500psi. But the tank port is only rated for a few hundred psi at most for back pressure. Also putting a 3pt hoe on a tractor is a treat way to snap it in half. No modern OEM makes one, or will warranty a...

I think that may be a felt tip marker line, not sure though.

The higher the combustion temps, the more efficient the engine. So as materials & engineering support it upping temps is a no brainier. The main downside is NOX. You get more oxides of nitrogen created at higher temps. And NOX is one of the main smog & greenhouse gasses. Then you get regulations...

Bearing buddies are for boat trailers that get dunked. The pressure keeps the water out, but often blows out seals or greases brakes. I'm not sure if rotating while greasing helps. It pressurizes the outside of the bearing away from the seal. Dexter EZ lube also has a grease zerk in a similar...

And Fallon has half a hydraulic one now. Plumbing & valves installed. But putting in the cylinder building brackets is probably a spring thing. Less work to do an electric one. Remains to be seen if hydraulics are worth the extra effort over a linear actuator...

Same, knew exactly what was going to happen. Not sure if it's the Dunning–Kruger effect - Wikipedia or something similar. But it's always the unknown unknows that get you. Stuff you never even thought about. Easy to mitigate a dozen different ways, but you just never knew you even should think...

You can custom order trailers with lower ratings to get around some of the ratings. You can end up overloaded easier, but avoid some of the CDL stuff.

I have a Diamond C power tilt deckover. Good quality not great, but plenty good. Power tilt deckover makes for a bit of a steep deck & some impliments drag a hair at the end. A gravity tilt is a lot lower, but you have fenders in the way for loading stuff over the sides. I've had a couple...

All the Grand Ls open or closed station have that wite there. It's under the fender on open station machines. I think even the economy Ls have it under the fender. If I recall https://powerwerx.com/oemt-power-connector-source-side is ether the plug itself or the mating plug. You'd think...

I've got the wide 24"? wheeled magnet from Harbor Freight. I wish I'd gotten the skinnier one, 18" I think. The wide one is annoying to manuver through the shop. Using it on uneven ground means there is more to drag on a high spot of plant.

Powering an 80% efficient hydraulic thing with an electric motor that runs at 80-95% efficenct. Or run the 80-95% efficient motor electrically directly... Adding conversions always decreases efficiency. The only way that could be "better" would be if the pump pulled less juice. In which case...

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You keep touting no ballast to new people or people with smaller machines which is quite hazardous. Your big M series machines are much more stable than 40hp & lower machines. My L3200 (2,500lbs no loader or ballast) was very dangerous without ballast. A 150lbs gate on the forks with no ballast...

I've got all 22' Diamond C deckover power tilt these days. Deckover means no fenders & an easier time loading stiff without wheels. It's also got great ground clearance. Power tilt on a deckover means a rather steep deck angle & impliments dragging near the tail. Power means working about...

Ya, I've seen your setup before, or at least a similar one here on TBN. Planning on something similar if I get around to chopping up my newish plow. Dismount the plow frame from the SSQA plate then put some kind of hinge on top of it. Its on my to do list, but has been there for a few years...

My old plow on my old machine worked great with that setup. My new plow for the newer cabbed machine is a solid mount. I keep thinking I'll rebuild it with a hinge & chain to get float. It stuck out to far, but otherwise worked great. The farther put, the more leverage it has & the more it can...

Because they have more components to manufacture & are more expensive. They are standard on the Grand Ls. They have to cut some corners to make a cheaper machine & that's a smart one to save a few bucks but still function as needed.

My light bars are overkill. To much effort to weld up heavier brackets & put in a new fuse panel with all the wiring. The time i do something similar some pods are going in with stock brackets & wiring.

I've been reading through their archives for a few months now. Definitely the TBN equivalent for old JD tracked machines. I'll definitely get it back up & running soon. All the internals are fine. Just relatively easy to access electrical stuff. Not hard to figure out with maybe a dozen wires...

Carb rebuild got it running again. Could have used a bit more tuning, but it ran pretty decent. Busted out the new hot pressure washer & cleaned all the machines & cars off. As I half expected, that killed it again. Pulled the cap & rotor. Cleaned them up with some emmery paper as they were...

I had similar thoughts when I got my first machine a decade ago. Modular & infinitely swappable sounds cool & useful. But optimized tooling is the standard because it just works better. These days I just use the mower, box blade or LPGS as ballast & dont wory about it. My old L3200 was a light...

Found photos of the plow & moving a flail around. Also found pictures of a 3pt forklift I forgot about. Got it cheap off Craigslist. It was heavy & ate up most if my 3pt capacity without anything on the forks. I sold it as I didn't want to break my 3pt. It would lift far more than my 3pt would...

I built a SSQA to 3pt adapter. But the reverse of what you are talking about. It let's me mount 3pt impliments to the loader. It was originally a mounting bracket for a snow plow. I just welded a Quick Hitch to a SSQA plate. It worked well for moving impliments at times. So after I sold the plow...

Fuel usage & speed too. Roading my tractor with vs without an impliment cuts my max speed on a particular hill from a little over 7mph to under 6. 1,000lbs or so on a 40mph machine that is in the 6k range with loader & loaded tires is noticeable at times. I wouldn't run without loaded tires...

Ballpark you should be shooting for about the same weight on the 3pt as you are lifting with the loader. For an economy L that would be a little over 1,000lbs. 1,500lbs on my Grand L.

Tractor Attachments And Skid Steer Attachments For Any Tractor Or Skid Steer is a TBN sponsor. They make good impliments & ship. They also have great demo videos that you can learn a lot from. They talk about impliment design, build quality & how to use them. LandPride is good & now owned by...

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True. But a 72" wide box blade that weighs 1,000lbs will be stronger than a 72" wide back blade that weighs 1,000lbs. You also really aren't going to find a back blade small enough for a L2501 that is really heavy duty, unlike bigger ones for bigger tractors. They probably exist, but aren't...

A ballast box is just a heavy thing on your 3pt hitch. A box blade is heavy. Generally they will ge around the same weight. A ballast box is thin steel you fill with dirt, a box blade is heavy steel with no way to fill it with anything. Some people do strap logs or heavy steel bars ontop of a...

Linear actuators have limit switches internally. If you leave the switch in either position it will just extend or contract all the way, then turn off. Thats how I had my first power SSQA wired & it worked fine. I think I had a 10@ breaker for a 15@ actuator. That way it tripped if the actuator...

The engineering & weight for a purely mechanic system would be prohibitive. SSQA levers have to transmit upwards of 100lbs of force each & move a foot & a half. Trying to move 2 at the same time, you are looking at moving a lever 3' and either 100 or 200lbs of force. Trying to get all of that...

"Rated to 2250". Most tractors run about 2,500psi & skid steers hit 3k. You probably want to avoid that one. Also the offset mount on mine looks funky & wrong. But it means you can see it from the cab instead of it being hidden behind the hood. You have enough problems bumping the machine...

I have a Danhuser hydraulic PHD. At best a tractor under 60hp has around 15hp on tap via hydraulics. A 3pt has an easy 30hp or more, depending on HP & sheer pins. My old L3200 put a lot more power into the 3pt PHD than my new L4060 into the hydraulic SSQA. But I now have reverse & down pressure...

Mine ran great for an hour. Then it died, gas started pouring out of the carb. Waiting for the carb rebuild kit to show up, but have the carb fully disassembled & cleaned. Foat needle didn't look to be in good shape. Tore a gasket pulling it apart. Kind of what I was expecting with an antique.

If you have crappy valves, you TnT cylinders will drift. Having gone through 7ish OEM Kubota valves, I've only found 1 that doesnt suck. I gave up & had the deaer put a DPOV on my side link & the one good valve on my toplink. I love float on the toplink & wouldnt give that up. A DPOV breaks...

PSI (2,500ish for tractors) times square inches of piston surface = force. For a 2" bore cylinder thats 4 square inches & 10,000lbs of force. I've got a 1" bore cylinder with a 5/8" rod for my build. 0.785 square inches & just under 2,000lbs of force. I got the small cylinder to minimize the...

I picked up a use Mi-T-M HSP-3003-3MGH | Gasoline | Direct Drive | Mi-T-M off Craigslist this weekend. It has Honda gas engine that does 3,000ps at 3gpm. A hair more volume, but about what you get for a standard cheap home gamer gas pressure washer. Bigger commercial ones will hit 4,000psi, but...

Same. Fitrite on my old L3200 worked great. OEM TnT on my new L4060hstc took 6 months & 3 tries. None fit well, most leaked, some in cups per minute. Finally got my money back & waited for Fitrite. Took a while as expected but fit perfectly. One of the cylinders developed a pinhole a few years...

Kubota Grand Ls have a hydraulic self-leveling option. Not completely sure how it works, presumably some sensors & an actuator that manipulates the curl valve based on sensor input. A pretty expensive option if I recall. No mechanical self leveling option on the Ls though. May be on the Ms, I'd...

That was my process. Chopped up an old propane can to make a forge. Ratchet straped the tank to a trailer then used a big wrench to pull the valve. Fill with water to displace anything flammable. Cut it up with a grinder after it mostly dried off.

I use them to get from my office to the basement. Cat5e is sketchy for 10 gigabit, but it works. I could run a DAC cable in the wall & downstairs between the switches. But that defeats the purpose of modular infrastructure wiring & forces you to have a permant cable dangl8ng out of the wall...

Will do. I'm likely to get whatever good deal I can find on Craigslist. So far I'm mostly looking for a self contained one, which means gas engine. I've got 240 50@ outlets readily avalible in the shop. But would like to be able to use it elsewhere. Wash the deck & what not. But I haven't moved...

The loader & most all the other greaseable joints on our tractors don't have any seals. Only some of the U joints or drivetrain components, possibly steering parts have seals. You can overgrease things with seals & blow out the seals. But if you overgrease open joints it just drives dirt & old...

$2,400 brought it home. Fired right up from cold. Everything operates as it should. No wear on the track bushings. Sprockets look to be in great shape & aren't sharp. Judging by the brighter paint, I expect a vaguely recent rebuild of the undercarrige, or at least the sprockets. Hydraulics leak...

They also had some Case tractor for sale as well, a picture of that got mixed in. You can see the tire for it in the edge of the first pic. The other giveaway is the steering wheel in that pic ;-p. I know new HST dozers use a joystick, but I've never seen one with a steering wheel. I guess some...

Ya, thought about that before posting it, but figured I'd risk it. Hopefully heading out to go check it out & bring it home tomorrow evening.

https://eastco.craigslist.org/hvo/d/idalia-john-deere-420-crawler/7674089055.html Had a nice chat with the owner last weekend. The 3pt lift was definitely home made by an uncle or something, I don't think the loader was. Apparently this units has been in the family since at least the 80s...

Owning a dozer is on my bucket list. My Kubota L4060hstc does everything I need it to. But a JD 420c with a loader showed up on Craigslist for $2,500. Apparently in pretty decent mechanical shape. Starts right up & runs fine. Some of the hydraulic cylinders leak a fair but. No clear answe on...

Attached the crossover relief to the PHD. Started measuring for the short connector hoses with a random hose I had laying around. Painted the manual doverter valve, fabled up a bracket & think it's going there for now. Have a 1" cylinder with a 5/8" rod. Just need a longer bolt to hook up one...

Vevor seems to be one of his big sponsors now. So I'm a hair suspicious of the recomendations. Not suspicious enough to avoid getting the furnace he recommended for melting down some aluminum. So far the recomendation/ad for the furnace seems to be right on at good value. Not as beefy as the...

A hydraulic motor becomes a hydraulic pump when you spin it. Not a lot of momentum in an auger, compared to a mower or what not, but apparently enough. No idea how many holes I've put in, probably under a hundred in 5 years, with no relief valve. So lack of relief won't kill things immidiately...

The only time you need to use the diverter is when you are already off the machine hooking or unhooking hoses. Most of the time for bucket or forks I'll just leave it set on power SSQA. If the implement requires hydraulics, grab it & latch with power SSQA. Then your getting off to hook up hoses...

I've had a 3rd function on my loader since new. I had a linear actuator power SSQA on my old machine (Linear actuator for power SSQA?) & am hopefully going to get around to putting a hydraulic one on my L4060hstc finally. I blew a hose on my hydraulic SSQA post hole digger a little while back...

I have a 72" track machine & 60" tiller. I really should upgrade to a 72-74", but can't be bothered. The skinny tiller is paid for & works well enough. I leave partial tire tracks on either side. But it works well enough for the occasional garden or arena job I do.

Yes, there is an internal cylinder for a 3pt, if there aren't external ones. My L4060 has a pair of external ones. There will be less oil in a collapsed cylinder than an extended one. A single acting cylinder like on a 3pt (lift only, gravity retract) will have very little oil in it. Double...

I'd remove the whole housing & replace with a LED pod. LEDs emit light differently than a halogen bulb so focus suffers putting a LED into a halogen socket. LEDs need to run cooler, so have much bigger heating on them. You can find a pair of pods everywhere for $40-50 or so.

As usual my machine had some issues in the mid 90s this summer. After mowing for a good few hours in the heat of the day things get toasty. My first sign is always the A/C cutting in & out. If I check the temp gauge it will be over 60-70%. Letting it cool down for a bit or backing off on the go...

I'm sure it is "solvable" differently. But manufacturers seem to have solved it by putting the pivot between the axles. Probably the best support for the highest stress part of the frame. I suspect the 4-8' fixed deck on longer gravity tilts is the other fix. My previous 16' gravity tilt had 8'...

Speedometer on mine tops out at 14mph 9n the flat. 15 downhill with a tailwind. Pretty sure it's configured correctly for my tires. R4s, whatever the standard L4060 size is. I'd imagine the bigger tires on the L6060 & L4760 make for a little more speed.

The last 10-15% of a tilting deck trailer isn't that useful. A normal trailer has the axles around 60-75% of the way back. A tilting deck needs to have the deck balanced & the pivot goes between the axles. So axles on a tilting deck are only 50% of the way back. Way easier to accidentally end up...

I saw a video on that for the new Ford SuperDuties on higher trim levels. Used the brake lights in sections to let you how much weight was in the bed or hitch. Had to fiddle with the dash to set it up for expected weight I think. I'd assume the F150 would be about the same.

Since I wrote that a few years ago things have changed. A neighbor got many truckloads of recycled asphalt. presumably for free on a buddy deal. I spread it out for him in exchange for about a truck load. Maybe 12 tons on a 12' X 35' pad. I graded out an RV pad & put down geotextile then covered...

100% I love mine. Right tongue weight every time. At least if I bother to look at the scale.

It's not so much the tech but the frequency & power levels. Higher frequencies have more bandwidth but are much easier to block with any walls or moisture. You can overcome that with more power in some cases. But more power means more interference wit other similar devices. Satellites...

Forgot to upload the photo... Really dark & the flash didnt help, but you can see the line above the tree.

We hauled the 5th wheel from Colorado to my in-laws here in Indiana. On the 2nd night our campsite neighbor looked up & said "Oh, starlink". Sure enough there was a Congo line of 22 dots trucking across the sky. Think it was 1 or 2 nights after the launch on the 8th. Was really cool to see...

The rims on Grand Ls (an R1 but not R4 economy Ls) are adjustable. I have my R4s set to 72", which if I recall is in the middle. Wider would be better, but it matches my impliments & gives me good manuverability. The rim attaches to the center disk on the inside or outside & the disk attaches...

That's about ballpark from a couple years ago. Cheaper per valve to add a couple valves in a stack but more overall.

Bearing buddies are spring loaded replacement dust covers. They take a lot of grease & keep positive pressure on the grease inside. Pressure is more likely to keep water out, but more likely to blow out seals or cause leaks. EZ-lube is a hole in the center of the axle & a cross hole exiting...

15mph downhill with a tailwind.

Same. Lock N Lube makes it easy to disconnect.

I take a 55 gallon drum to the gas station 2 miles away every so often. Usually in the back of the truck, but sometimes on pallet forks on the tractor. Just make sure the drum is strapped dorn well. Preferably also strapped to a pallet for easy unloading. Under 119 gallons for federal hasmat...

That is the key. You can't prevent freezing outside. You can make sure there is proper drainage so there is no moisture. Ice is weird, everything else contracts when it gets cold. Water expands as it freezes & breaks things.

As other noted... 2wd & when the high side tire starts spinning. Stop, put it in 4wd then slowly back up. Done that a few times. Was inching along REALLY slow before that. Inclinometers are really useful in in retrospect. They can tell you when you went to far, just like your tractor being on...

Ill 2nd that. Have the skid plate to protect my low hanging 3rd function plumbing & the panel to cover the loader QD fittings.

OEM 3rd function enable button on my L4060hstc is hose clamped to the joystick below the handle. Rather hacky for an OEM install, but I've seen several others setup the same way. The open/close buttons to run the 3rd function are seperate from the idle up button & im 90% sure were built into...

It's not uncommon to see a door open at the gas station. We often jump in to use a clean bathroom, grab a snack or just check on stuff. Sometimes I won't even pull out the steps. I'd be much more concerned if the door was open when it was moving.

Sometimes I wish I had my old open station (smaller) L3200 jumping on & off a lot. However most of the time I love the cab on my newer L4060HSTC when I see all the dust, bees, snow or heat outside. I agree on paying for the full Grand L experience, glad I did.

Oh, and various regions call Class 6, 3/4ab or 3/4 minus or other things. It's generally the same stuff. 3/4" gravel along with fines (sand) to pack the bigger rock in place.

Ya, got some for free for from a neighbor for a RV pad. It was really dirty, lots of fabric & tar ropes in it. Never packed in well at all. Not as bad as pea gravel, but not good. I hear you can spray diesel on it to get the tar to reactivate & pack in. I just put a truck load of class 6 granite...

I have a L4060hstc & live at 7,000', so it's probably more like a L3560 HP wise due to lack of oxygen. I really only need low range for heavy loader work, getting a full bucket of gravel or pulling a very full land plane or box blade. Light arena work or light driveway work I'm in medium range &...

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Not towing in progress, but we passed them an hour or 2 previously on the highway. I complained to the wife about the sewer tank hanging a foot into the other lane. Low & behold they pull into the camp site next to us for the night. Chatted with the guy & I wasn't the first one to inform him of...

It is a real router in terms of what it means in a standard consumer context (basically, it does DHCP & NAT). It just doesn't have a lot of features power users are use to. Personally I have a OpenWRT router/AP for my Dishy. Just waiting on a Dishy Dualie DC power supply to kick over to a DC...

My leatherman Charge TTI had a habit of destroying my pants pockets. Picked up a Wingman with a pocket clip. Less returns than the surge but lighter & less pocket destroying. I wear the Charge whenever I have cargo pants & the Wingman with normal pockets. I feel naked without either. Flying...

Put a construction or deck screw in a vice & hit it on the side with a hammer. Then do the ame to a nail. The nail will bend, the screw snaps. Code usually specifies nails for framing due to earthquakes & the like. Your fastener may get mangled but will hold. At least that's what I've been told...

Ya, go with batteries or the grid, not both. Unless you have some uncommon situation. Personally I have a grid tied system. I got a generator disconnect as part of the install when I got the solar. My inverter goes offline the instant I loose grid power. Batteries make very little sense & a lot...

If you seal up a gearbox so it's not vented it will blow out your shaft seals to vent itself. Vents are there for a reason.

I've seen people ratchet strap the tank to a tractor rear tire. Drive around or jack it up off the ground if you cant get clearance between the nank & ground. Fill with chain or whatever before you tumble it. Industrial sized rock tumbler.

Best case scenario running out of fuel means some extra cranking time. More likely you need a wrench & 5 minutes to an hour to bleed air out of the lines. Generally you need to open a bleed screw near the low pressure lift pump. Then crank it over or let the electric pump run. On mechanical...

I prefer to strap the wheels or axles down as opposed to stepping the car down. That let's the suspension do its thing & give the car a smoother ride. Also, if you strap the car down, unless the suspension is totally compressed out, a good bump will cause it to flex. Big jolt when the...

I bent a guard that was rubbing on my steering shaft. Thought something was going out for a bit. Bent it back & rubbing stopped.

No more recent elegant solution. Options: Something heavy in the seat. Chop up the wiring to permanently bypass the seat sensor. Chop up the wiring and add a switch to bypass the seat sensor. Chop up the wiring to add a switch & non-latching relat bypass the seat sensor but would reset when...

I have a Peruzzo Brush Bull 2200. Much bigger & beefier than those ditch bank ones listed. Apples to orange comparison though as ditch bank stuff has to be smaller & lighter. It shifts over about 2 feet to the right from whats in the photo. 7.2' working width flail, 6' track width on the...

My Peruzzo 7.2" is 1,500lbs. My L4060hstc is probably under 5,000lbs with loader & loaded rears. If I side shift it over. It torque my machine pretty good. That's just side shift with only 1/3 or so of the flail hanging out to the side. Not even an offset one like the other guys are talking...

And found a small bit fencing wire today. Only took me 10 min or so to cut out with bolt cutters.

Only the well head was mine. All the others were customers. My side gig is tractor stuff to pay for toys (including tractors & implments).

The worst one was finding a long stretch of high tension guy wire with the flail mower. Not connected to anything, but it wrapped up fast. Couldn't get an angle on it with a grinder. It was right over the bearing on the end of the rotor so couldn't torch it. It was really hard & strong, but also...

Slow going in that thick stuff, but it went.

I ran a 7' one behind my L3200, 32hp, 2,500lbs orvso. Had to go slow, but it did decent. I paid $100 for the beat to hell flail 8-9 years ago. Have maybe $500 into it now with a PTO shaft, belts, new knives & some bearings. It's survived 5+ years as my main mower for my side hustle. My new...

My dealer tried & failed 2, maybe 3 times to get one that fit & didn't leak. FitRite fit perfectly. A few years in FitRite developed a pinhole. He promptly replaced it under warranty with no questions. Will get FitRite again if I ever get another machine. Not cheap & long lead times, but...

The same hitch should work for both. However you may need different spring bars for the different weight trailers.

A tilting deck will always be heavier than an equivalent equipment hauler or deckover. You have the frame for the trailer plus the frame for the tilting deck. I had a short gravity tilt & now a power tilt deckover. I like loading on both. The power tilt deckover is relatively steep & some...

Based on the taper on the skirt going up 8m going to guess mororhome. I think I saw mudflaps too, which are uncommon on a trailer.

The only thing missing was strapping the 4x4 cross braces to the trailer. If the pipe got slightly loose, they could slide off to the side. But not that likely if the trip wasn't far & the pipe was cranked down hard.

Correct. A crossover relief valve works on a snow plow as it has 2 single acting cylinders with equal volume. If you put a crossover relief valve on a double acting cylinder it doesn't do anything. The bottom of the cylinder has more volume than the rod end because of the volume the rod takes...

Most of my work is by firm fixed price quote. I basically make an educated guess for hours from the time I leave the house to when I get back. I just road the tractor to over half my jobs. Those I haul to, I count hauling time. With a fixed price quote there is no question if I'm working hard...

KTAC on a new machine will repair or replace the new machine. KTAC on a used or paid off machine will insure the machine for X value if totaled. In either case it will cover off-property & commercial use, unlike a homeowners policy. Generally you need an inland marine policy for similar...

I have the lighter one with the horizontal blade for sub footing. It's worked good for me up until my last job. I was cleaning up a pile of plant matter begore tilling. It kept loading up under the scarfiers. I was backing up & raking with the grooming fingers. After a while they bent on one...

That's insurance in a nutshell. You are gambling that you will need it. Insurance companies are gambling that you don't. On average you free better off not paying for insurance or an extended warranty if you can afford the worst case scenario. I can afford to buy a new laptop or phone so I...

I get the raised tire tracks behind both the beat to hell Ford with side slicers & the Peruzzo with hammers. The Ford sounds like a train wreck or a metal trash can rolling down a hill. That's mostly due to a slightly bent rotor & a hood that is nearly cracked in half. It's still a good backup...

I upgraded from a 5' Land Pride Rotary cutter behind a 32hp Kubota L3200 HST. I got a $100 beat to hell 7' Ford 917. It was in rough shape, but when patched together did some work. I had to go way slower, but my hours per acre was roughly the same. My back was happy to be bouncing over fields at...

VPNs are a great business. Easy to deploy, low risk, high profit & easy to promote on YouTube. For most users though they do little for security at best & create the very security hole they claim to fix at worst. Many of the cheap VPN providers actively snoop on their users data, log things...

Huge fan of Andersons & Power Poles myself. I have a 350s hard mounted to the front of the truck & jumper cables with 350s on them. Makes it much easier to temporarily mount a winch. I almost never plug in my trailer. 20 watt solar panel on the toolbox lid & a Battery Minder charge controller...

Thought about doing this with my hydraulic tilting deck trailer. The 12k square leg jack is slow. Reliability always concerns me too. Had a few close calls with not being able to unload, but those turned out to be battery related.

Could very easily be these days. It's probably pushing decade at this point since I looked into it. We ended up buying rather than building, so I stopped looking into it.

A 5' LPGSwill stall out my tractor (L4060) traction wise if it loads up. A 40 series Grand L would be about the same. A tailgate could be handy at times I expect. But it would likely be to much on a 6' or wider LPGS. 72" track but only 60" impliment sucks at times. But not enough to warrant...

Last o saw a few years ago ICF was 15-20% more than stick built. Better insulation, air tight construction, massively reduced noise, "bullet proof" & a host of other benefits though. Would likely be what I eyed up if we ever end up building a house (or new shop).

Lots of probably in my statements. Verify with a multimeter before you try to rewire anything.

If you just zip tie the seat sensor, the HST sensor still works. You can electrically bypass the seat sensor, but it's a bit more complex. Generally you need to make sure 1 wire is jumped to the hot wire & make sure the other is disconnected.

The sensor is 3 wire so it can register somebody seated as well as seat flipped up. Seated includes HST pedal in the safety loop. Seat up doesn't.

I did that on my old L3200 fine. Easy to reverse. Trivial on the flip up spring seat. I've never been bothered to mess with it on the L4060 with air ride. If i do end up needing the PTO generator, it will be a few rocks in the seat I expect. Havent needed it in 5 years though. Sensors are...

Ya, they have bicycles & no accidents. My brother & sister-in-law do a good job of not being helicopter parents but keeping them reasonably wrangled. They wouldn't be used on public roads. They have 5ish acres & any riding would be on their property or grandparents 5-10 acres. The old...

I have an Artic Cat side by side already. I'm in Colorado & they live in Oregon. Everybody is aware of the general danger & on board.

I got 3 different TnT sets from my dealer ordered with my new L4060. None fit even close to OK. 2 leaked massively from second one, the 3rd leaked a bit. Gave up on the dealer & got a refund. Gladly waited for my Fit Rite set.

I got my nephews (6 & 9) one of those Peg Pergo plastic tractors about 7 years ago. Somehow against all odds its survived 7 years without even a battery replacement, except for the trailer. One nephew is to big for it & the younger is a dare devil that will likely finish it off soon. Ironically...

I got my got my nephews one of those Peg Pergo plastic tractors about 7 years ago. Somehow against all odds, it survived 7 years without even a battery replacement. One nephew is to big for it & the younger is a dare devil that will likely finish it off soon. My sister-in-law was talking about...

He made the one for my L3200 & current L4060. Had a pinhole in one that showed up out of the blue. Promptly replaced it under warranty. Longer lead times on orders & not the cheapest. But good quality & good support if there are issues. He posts as Mountain View Ranch here.

Wired connections are always better than wireless. Especially with respect to WiFi. Think of wireless like a room. If there are 2 people in the room you can speak & hear really well. There may be occasional airplane noise or something outside that room that causes interference. Add 20 people to...

I only have front chains these days. Fronts were good enough so I've never bothered with with the expense or effort to get rear chains on this tractor. Plenty of ways to get rear chains on, but at the end of the day they are a lot heavier to even move around the shop much less put on.

Front wheels spin about 2-5% faster on most front wheel assist tractors. Helps pull the front ens around when steering in 4wd. Also counters out the fact small front tires wear out a lot faster than rears. Probably contributes to that wear as well. I figure tire slippage with chains is a non...

I've never had my loader off in the 700ish hours & 6+ years I've owned the machine. I hear it's easy, just haven't had the need. I have to swap from SSQA plow to forks a lot. Colorado doesn't stay frozen. So 3pt blower & a SSQA plow for me. Front blower would be nice, but not fit my needs.

My L4060hstc has been good for me. Front axle isn't the strongest, but I believe they make the jump to the bigger axle with the L4760. Up here in Colorado we are down 20% on HP due to lack of oxygen. I wish for more HP roading the machine & mowing with a big flail. Fine HP for the traction...

My custom valving & Fit Rite TnT build on my old L3200. Should be more or less identical to a L3301. 3 OEM valves may be cheaper & easier. Probably won't look as good though. https://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/threads/kubota-l3200-tnt-3rd-function-install-work-in-progress.295816/

You can stack them 20 high, but bury them in a few feet of dirt & you will crush them. All their strength is at the corners where they are stacked. Much pressure on the thin sides or top will cause them to bow in quickly.

Same. It's amazing how easy some of the recovery stuff seems until you actually learn about the forces & techniques. A lot of stiff you assume is just wrong & dangerous. Fan of MORR these days. Learned a lot from them.

Pull a hydraulic line. Put it in the bucket. Work the lever to fill the bucket. Probably don't want to do that for more than a bucket & a half. Then drain the remaining 4ish gallons out the bottom manually.

I have a home Starlink (not best effort). For an extra $20 a month, i enabled portability on it. I've taken it on a few camping trips, where it worked fine (other than power limitation issues).

My 35' bumper pull toy hauler weighs 12k fully loaded. 1.5k worth of tongue weight. I easily have 1k spare of payload & axle capacity on my single rear wheel F350. I'd guess that trailer is well under 8k & probably 500-600lbs of tongue weight. Probably 3k lbs maybe 4k of payload for the boat...

Ya, pretty much all tractors top out a 2,500pst give or take 100 or so. Skids are around 3,000. Excavators can hit 5,000 or more. My cylinder is on a shelf in tbe barn next to all the other valves & supplies, where it's been for 2-3 years or more. Never seems to work back up to the top of my...

I single handedly prevented a Thanksgiving blizzard a 4-5 years ago. Bought the plow & was up late assembling it in 15 degree tempatures. 1' of snow due in 24 hours vanished. Hardly any snow last year when I got the blower too. It's making up for things this year though.

You see that setup along the interstate heading south a fair bit. Buying salvaged cars from the auction & towing them down to Mexico to fix & flip.

A generator isn't going to provide un interrupted coverage. You need battery powered UPSes for that. A generator is gonna take a minute to come on. Even commercial generators for data centers with constant coolant heaters are lucky to get started, up to RPM & stabilized in several tens of...

I've had the parts to start the install on my L4060 since before this thread opened. Still have yet to start the project. You are doing better & faster than I am.

Depends on the version of believe. Diesel, maybe a Duramax, Allison transmission. Bunch of brakes on the rear axle. Never did figure out the details, but it looks like some of the calipers rotated, which I never understood. I watched a year or so ago when it came out. Think that one has them...

I think the ripsaws have some pretty beefy fans on their brakes for the same reason.

Lubing things is almost never a bad call. It can attract grit, but it usually solves way more problems than it causes.

I haven't ever verified it, but always heard the dangerous UV gets blocked by the clear plastic lense. You can still flash yourself & end up seeing stars for a bit. But it's not the retina damaging light. They have problems with the current gear for making high end chips. You can't use a lense...

Similar valve to the one I have. No relief valve, but I'm hoping my 1" or less cylinder is weak enough to stall on issues.

A restrictor just slows things down. One of the main advantages of hydraulic over electric linear actuator is speed. Also, just because it's slow doesn't mean something can jam. When it slowly get to the jam it would eventually apply full pressure. You'd have more time to detect an issue, but...

I have a similar small 1" cylinder I found for cheap somewhere, if/when I get to the project. You want as small of a cylinder as possible, or to run a pressure relief valve. A 1" diameter cylinder has an area of a little under 1 square inch. 1 square inch times 2,500psi is 2,500lbs. Thats enough...

Dude cuts the bottom of his dishy off, hard flat mounts it to the top of his overlander camper rig. Then cuts the cable & powers it with a DC POE injector running off automotive 12v instead of A/C. It sounds like it worked out well. Not sure if i'll go that far, but could see going that down...

Only 15? I can come up with 2-4 separate opinions by myself. [emoji12] The heavier the better if you can move it. Old iron is great value, but you may not have the skills or knowledge to determine its condition or wear levels if you are starting out.

I'll definitely be doing it in a safe manner. I just have no immediate need. If I were to have sn immediate need I'm sure I could find a man lift. With my back these days I'd likely hire a climber with the right gear than get the right gear & do it myself. I believe in having the right toys &...

I've always wondered if it was just a negotiating tactic. If you negotiated a price then brought up the equine discount, would they lower the price? Or do they just include that in standard negotiation discounts.

Also, you can just unplug the cable to the dishy at the AP end. So unless something comes loose up top there would be no need to get up there. I do agree with not crawling on the roof if you don't have to though. Not sure how ill mess with antenna on my 60' HAM radio tower now that my neighbor...

Location has a lot to do with old machine avalibility & pricing. East coast & the rust belt were old manufacturing & industrial centers. Lots of old machines from back in the day. Much smaller industrial legacy here in Denver or in the west. So much smaler supply of machines & higher resulting...

1340gt ultra precision from PM here. Minor wear on the cabinet stand from shipping. They made things right. Happy with the lathe, bu5 don't use it enough. Looking for an old Bridgeport, or thinking aboutva PM mill. Old machines are often heavier, but often worn out. I have enough projects &...

New batteries got my Miller back online. May try to fiddle with soldering batteries into the old Northern Tool helmet, or may just toss it & wait for the cheap Ebay replacement to show up for my spare.

Ya, I've suspected the same. My Northern Tool & The HF helmet look about the same. I suspect they are all just copies. Switches vs knows on the sensitivity & some have replaceable batteries. The replaceable batteries seem to be the only really useful extra feature. On the picture for the Ebay...

Definitely worth gambling $13 or so rather than re-welding tabs on non-removable batteries. Pulled the trigger. Hopefully the new batteries show up today or tomorow & fix the much more expensive Miller. How do people store their helmets? I try to keep it in the garage (drawer) in my welding...

Ya, it's amazing how much engineering & material limits we take for granted. You think of heavy duty stuff as unbreakable up until you break it, or better yet get enlightened, often because somebody else broke something similar. I overloaded my old F250 in ways that I wouldn't push my newer...

4wd is somewhat irrelevant to popping a wheely. 4wd would add weight, especially to the front axle, making it less likely. But if the rears have enough traction & you have enough power you can do it. Center of gravity has a fair bit to do with it as well. Drag cars are only 2wd & have wheels...

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Went to do some practice today out in the frosty cold shop & my Miller Digital Elite auto-darkening helmet wouldn't power on. Replaced the battery & still nothing. Promptly realized there are 2 batteries & vaguely only remember replacing 1 the last time a few years ago. 1 3v battery was about 1v...

https://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/threads/linear-actuator-for-power-ssqa.321704/ Yes the cheap weak actuator will work, barely. Think mine was probably the 330lbs one. But it was 5+ years ago I'm I'm to lazy to read my old thread. The 100lbs & 330lbs actuators are the same, just geared...

Any recommendation to keep sockets & wrenches neat & tidy in a toolbox? Pliers, screwdrivers & what not aren't really a problem, but bouncing around in a truck always scrambles sockets & wrenches. Having to fish around & find the right sized socket in a pile always drives me nuts. Any of the...

Mine is mounted flat facing up on the tongue box. I got a 20 watt panel which is overkill. On most RVs & trailers it's way easier & cheaper to go overkill on panels & just flat mount them. Sun tracking systems, or even just making a mount so you can angle them is complex & expensive. At least...

What tool kit would you recommend for keeping in your truck? For wrenching on the tractor or whatever else you need to on the road? I've currently got the crappy https://www.harborfreight.com/hand-tools/tool-sets/105-piece-tool-kit-4030.html in my saddle box. It's done okish for a good number of...

Lithium Ion batteries are what is in most electronics like your cell phone. Very light very energy dense, lasts well over 500 charge cycles probably over 1,000. Prone to blowing up & catching fire occasionally. LiFePO4 or Lithium Iron Phosphate. Not quite as light as but lighter than NiCad or...

I had a L3200, same machine minus 6hp. It was a good machine for what it was. I've since upgraded to a L4060 for a cab. I came to appreciate the extra weight. Double the price, so not really a fair comparison. A L3200 was a good match power to weight up here in Colorado, where we suffer a 20%...

I lived on Kwajalein for years. US military base in the Marshall Islands. 2.5 miles long by 1/2 mile wide. No personal vehicles allowed, so everybody biked. Nobody would have even batted an eye at that setup out there. Common things to see: 55 gallon fish cooler on a bike trailer. For fish...

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Ya. Air bleeds out of hydraulics pretty quick. A cycle or 2, sometimes up to 10. Unless you have a leak & newcair is getting in. My expectation is this log didnt split for whatever reason & became the wound up spring powered by 15-25 ton of force. Like I said earlier the Hydraulic press channel...

Check out the Hudraulic Press Channel in YouTube. Basically some scandanavian guy crushing things in a huge industrial hydraulic press in a machine shop. It's amazing to find out most everything is a spring. A stack of post it notes will explode like a handgrenade when crushed. It's made me...

You could do it with an extra pair of QDs or a manual diverter valve. Cost wise those 2 are probably pretty similar. In all cases you'd need to unhook the 3rd function and either reconnect the SSQA or throw the diverter valve. To some degree that is a nice safety so you can't unpin the SSQA...

You can do it with a 3rd function & 2 manual diverter valves. Leave the valves set to the SSQA. If you hitch up an impliment that needs the 3rd function, hitch up as normal. Then get off, hook up hoses & turn diverters to feed the 3rd function. To unhitch get off, unhook hoses & return...

I've got a L4060. 40 engine HP, but only 12-15 HP avalible via hydraulics. Probably 33-35 PTO. You are pretty much always going to have more power on a PTO PHD, but you gain other stuff. I have the smallest Danhuser hydraulic PHD, sized for 9gpm or so & a 12" auger. I can pretty easily stall the...

SSQA plate with a 3pt Quick Hitch welded on it was my plow mount for an old plow on a former tractor. Worked well. Cheap & was pretty easy to build to mount a light jeep plow from a garage sale. It stuck the plow out quite a ways & caused the plow to push the tractor around a bit more. Built a...