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Last Monday in Alabama for me.

If they were operating in a 'something close to sane' way, I would not be whining about it. If they are sideways in a turn, on the wrong side of the gravel road and force my family to swerve off the road, I'd call that "impeding" other traffic. I'm not talking about Arly maintaining the trails...

I don't want to tick anybody off, but is anybody else a little tired of the side-by-sides and UTVs crowding into the formerly quiet woods and small county roads? I'm not talking about a guy working with his UTV to carry fence posts or animal feeds... I'm talking about all the wanna be rally...

Haha... should amend the title of the post with "... OTHER than beer." Yep, hard to beat blue Loctite... and the tools in that 'oldest toolbox you've got' - that you use the most.

Glad it's gone well. Yes, once that second eye settles down, you should be in good shape!

I've always wondered at some of the bobtail box trucks with a lot of box behind the rear axle being able to wheelie if they were loaded right. But since we're showing off wheelies, I had to:

Interesting. I was under the impression that once you chose a lens, you were stuck with it and it couldn't be changed. I've heard from many people that they were not happy with 'monovision' on the lens replacement. With my desire for depth perception in motorbiking and sports, there was no...

When I went to air up my tires, my fronts were low, since it's been a little too long... And then I noticed I'm missing a valve cap on the inside of one rear. As soon as I put a gauge on it, it started leaking. Great. I go over to the bench and get a good cap and screw it on. It wasn't...

I was told there is an older technology of less-expensive multi-focals that used a radial focus method and one of the drawbacks were some flares and halos. i was told this was minimized with the Symphony lenses. I've found the night vision is perfectly clear, and the only artifacts I can...

I haven't had the time to read the other replies, but I'm also 56 and I just had this done a couple of months ago, with those same lenses. My experience has been excellent. Previous to having mild cataracts, I had to use readers for anything closer than arm's length and prescription...

In the Ozarks, we're getting those from Armadillos. They can really make a mess of the lawn. You can spot them doing it at night, and they're not really smart. My sons use them for target practice.

I don't do much cutting except for trail maintenance, but I have a stack of .325 chains that I keep sharp and an old Stihl 025 that refuses to die. I always thought that when i needed to replace it, I'd go up to a 3/8" - but can you tell me why you hate the .325 size? I'm curious. I do feel...

He will be missed by so many. Thinking of his loved ones.

I always wonder how those sickle bars hold up against tougher terrain and rocks hiding in the grass. Probably why in my neck of the woods, they use a 15' batwing with one side disengaged.

That guy in the excavator is SURE lucky that cop was more interested in de-escalating than defending himself. Cop could have been killed pretty fast. Yikes.

I had so much scrub oak in 50 acres of my fields, I couldn't hack them all. So, I had to rent a 300 gallon broadcast sprayer, with a gas engine to power the spray. The Remedy mixed with water and surfactant cost me 1500 dollars (and that was several years ago, so it's probably double now) but...

Sad. At least it didn't hurt for long. Poor guy.

Those look pretty darn good, unless they're paper thin at the edge. ( ?? ) When I change them, they look like they've been chopping up rocks... uh... because that's what they do at my place. :confused:

Even using a surfactant, I'm not getting the same results with 41% glyphosate that I get with branded Roundup. I'm still scratching my head as to why...

I've just been thinking (hoping) that if I went over some while bushogging, I should try to keep moving on the tractor. I know I could run faster, but on the open tractor, if I keep moving, maybe they won't know to swarm my body before I get 20 or 30 more feet away. (God, I hope I'm...

I'm right over by Cherryville and we haven't seen any. Thankful for that. My tractor tire fixer in Bixby said he gave up waiting for the MDC and just shoots 'em.

Haha... I've had that happen a couple of times. Dumb battery would test fine, but have no power to start the machine.

Yesterday, my son recruited me (and my 2500 with a trailer) to retrieve a $500 - 2000 Chevy Silverado that had been sitting in the grass for 8 years with a busted windshield. The frame is rusted so bad it looks like it's made of brown dust. After we put air in the tires and nothing else...

I feel your pain but I can't best it. I'm still doing my summer brush hogging and I turn dozens of big rocks hiding in the brush into smaller rocks in the process. The blades on my 10-footer hold up better than I expect, but I do have to replace them when they get bent. I'm almost...

It is a tough one. Saying a prayer right now...

...and there are how many row tractors (tricycle) on the market today? Correct. The pivot on the front axle limits the yaw far before the point-of-no-return on a row tractor... but those were made for a purpose. I think the answer to the original poster's question is yes, all tractors...

It doesn't seem to be putting them between posts now. Thanks.

Yep. Lots more ads. And I'm logged in.

My brother's (municipal) water bill in Colorado is actually more than 10 times higher than mine (also municipal), and I have a swimming pool. I can't imagine what people in the desert are paying. Am I the only one surprised that desalination of seawater hasn't become a bigger thing today? I...

That looks like hard work to use!

Nope. My old Kubota M5400. I didn't mean to insinuate that it was in a John Deere. Sorry about that.

I put the scarifier teeth down on my box blade and drag across them repeatedly. That's how I also work on sink holes in my fields with criss-cross patterns. The torn up grass seems to come back pretty quickly.

I hope you're onto it... but don't shrug off the parking brake... mine was getting hot mowing (unusual) and I couldn't figure out why. I looked down and I was mowing with the parking brake on, and as the brakes got hotter, they dragged harder. There's no warning light for my parking brake, but...

The one I use on my ATV is the 15-gallon that I bought from tractor supply. I've had to replace several pieces, but it works well for trigger spraying.

Same thing happened to me with a $56 bottle of Rotella T6. I had the truck all drained out and was going to put in the new oil, opened the screw lid with no click... hmm... then the foil looked a little janky (because it was regular tin foil glued to the bottle) and I found 2.5 gallons of used...

If I had nice smooth fields, I'd remove it... but I'm always needing to knock down low branches with it, or put the rocks I don't want to mow into smaller rocks in it, or finding big downed limbs I need to push out of the way with it.

I had to just mentally train myself not to make tight turns when I first got my pull-type cutter. Now it's automatic. Didn't hit my tires, but I looked back at the angle on the driveline and I said, 'yikes!'

The bolts that were supposed to hold mine straight got their threads damaged and they don't hold the Pat's pieces very straight... so they have some excess play in them... but it hasn't caused any trouble and still work perfectly for me.

I have both gas and battery equipment. I do find the gas equipment to be better, stronger, more reliable/serviceable and easier to use for me. But if you love it, why do you work so hard to convince others? Just say you like it. Back in the 70s, my grandma mowed her lawn with an electric...

That's a great picture! You can see them trying to figure out how to get feed out of it.

I worked with a guy that had a process to convert used cooking oil to diesel with a big machine. He would procure the used cooking oil with a route from local restaurants. There was so much waste to deal with that he couldn't ever make it revenue positive. I hope he was able to sell that...

Ah the big sucking sound created by those rushing in to defend the narratives of the left. :rolleyes:

I thought those were to connect my PTO shaft safety chains...

Does anybody else have trouble with the types of those that have no flat side on the head? I starting losing them all the time and realized the heads without a flat side would wiggle themselves loose without using a big flat washer behind them. I was pulling my hair out (what's left of...

If I did more loader work, I'd like an HST... but for what I do, mostly mowing and land-planing, I prefer my gears.

With a 15-footer, you can get a lot of mowing done for $150 an hour... especially if it's flat ground and you've mowed it before. I don't know what ELSE you'd do with 35 acres if you wanted it to stay nice. ??

Ru-Glyde is great stuff. I do lots of motorcycle tires with a No-Mar changer, which is a rig that helps you change them by hand. I buy Ru-Glyde by the gallon and use it in a spray bottle. It doesn't stay slimey though, so I'd use something else to keep suspension points lubricated.

I've been using mine in the truck and the tractor for about an hour before I turn the key. Seems to be enough, but I'm not parked outside at 0 degrees either.

They don't burn up clean. The nasty springs and polyester will still be there and look even worse.

This is certainly true. I'd be mad too, but you have to get it cleaned up fast or other meatheads will dump there.

Wow. That's a nightmare. Happy ending at least. Whew.

Is there a reason you want a medium duty if you're just cutting grass? I have to buy heavier stuff because I have some awful bumps and planted rocks, but if I were just cutting smoother fields, I'd be using a lighter-duty cutter.

Hurts my heart to see so much devastation. Praying for these folks and the safety of your loved ones working to restore it.

My 17-year old is on a steel challenge team, where they 'draw and ding' 5 - 7 steel targets in a timed competition. He uses 22LR and 9mm. We buy 22LR by the pallet, but thankfully we've been able to avoid buying the BIG dollar guns for him to do pretty well. Anyhoo, there's a 13-year old girl...

I've heard several people say that flooding the zone with 'supplies' creates a challenge for people trying to help because there gets to be too much stuff. I trust Samaritans Purse with cash donations instead because they've proven themselves in other disasters. I witnessed them serving in...

I will use electric devices when they are practical, but 1) there is no electric blower capable of this kind of work. And 2) thinking the ACTUAL pollution difference between using a properly tuned gas blower vs. the toxic rare earth and lithium mining and manufacturing processes used to create...

Just to FINAL UPDATE this post... I got my Echo 8010 back from the shop after 3.5 months - after I purchased a backup unit, the Redmax 8550. The Echo dealer was suspicious that i wasn't using the right oil in it, which would void my warranty... but then suddenly they changed their tune and the...

I could never use turf tires in my 'rock city' - - but a guy I'm working for this winter swears that turf tires work best for tractor snow plowing. I have no idea if he's right.

I'll walk through a wall for someone that's truly needy... and I've done so, even when I've gotten egg on my face. But this is why I get so frustrated with a society that encourages people to become needy when they shouldn't be. We steal their chance at the fulfillment of self achievement...

My friends only and they care for the property like it's their own. I also tell two good neighbors that they can hunt on my property when it's close to theirs... but they have their own places and they do lots of food plots and such, so my place is a downgrade for them.

When I was a kid. Fired into a safe earth berm backstop.

I love how the Bobcat I'm working with can turn it on or off. :)

I'm going to go ahead and say the 16" Atlas 40v chainsaw DOES suck. I only bought it for a quick utility job and I wanted it quieter than my trusty Stihl because I was along somebody else's property line. It ain't any quieter than a small gas Home Depot saw (I'll bet) and in order to prune...

As it's been said 100 times, they're better than sitting at a 3 minute light with nobody coming.

I think I had a little bit of an appetite... BEFORE I read this thread. :D

I think it COULD be done, but I'd have to do a lot of rigging and fiddling. You'd need a sprayer at the same width as the cutter and have it spray slow enough to cover the whole mowed area. I think on these rough fields it would be very difficult. The 300 gallon sprayer I rented would pull...

I had something like this happen on my M5400. The fan belt had snapped and I didn't notice until I heard the furious boiling in the radiator. I'd just check the fan belt along with the radiator fins. I also had my M5400 get super hot while bush hogging. I couldn't guess why she seemed to...

I think that field looks really good, considering how new it is. I think you'll be chasing it for a few winter/summer cycles and the grass will have to get nice and established before it will feel smoother. I had a field like that and with years of finish mowing, the clump grass...

I'm guessing that it does. I think the biggest problem is that ground is very rough and rocky and I can't get grasses to grow thick enough to take over. These fields are on my wish list for dozer/grader work and planting with good grass. I just have to save up my lunch money for that. I...

Riding our dirt bikes this time of year, we end up covered in them. After a couple of hours the goggles are a mess with all the sticky web material. We call those 'conch-shell spiders' since we don't know what their real name is. Tiny black spider that looks like he's got a sea shell on his...

When a fully charged battery gets to a certain age, it will show full voltage, but then drop to nothing when you put a load on it. Could that be it? The thing that got me recently was a poor connection to ground. For the life of me I could figure why the big girl wouldn't crank. Replaced...

I had one 'smoke' on an 1810 too. They sent a new gearbox but didn't say anything about replacing the grease. Getting someone to install it was the not fun part. Thankfully I haven't had any problems since then.

I have a lake with a beach area and my kids wont go near the water if they see a snapper, so we shoot them on sight. I'm friendly to most critters, but snappers, cottonmouths and poisonous spiders are a no go.

Very sad.

Looks like they've been nicked up and sharpened a lot to me. Mine get horrible in 3 years.

I hope it works well for you. I'm afraid the Volkswagon-sized rocks just under the surface at my place would tear it up though. :(

They told me to use Remedy while the leaves were intact and do not mow for three weeks. It made them turn fall colors in one week and then I mowed. Field looked great last year, just grass. This year they look like they're back to 100%. Do you spray the Crossbow to the leaves, or after the...

A couple of years ago I sprayed this pasture (and others) to the tune of about $1700 in Dow Remedy... and they looked great, until this year. Should I have to spray this field every two years? I just bush hogged over it and it looks better now, but what do I have to do to get rid of...

In my neck of the woods... 80 acres would have me calling a competent dozer operator to clean it and grade it smooth. (Ribbons around the big trees I'd want to keep.) Then I would call the seed man to seed it with a good pasture blend. I think I could do this for about the same money as a big...

You wrote that you "wonder how much these trips cost ME & YOU through tax breaks and wright-offs." My point is that tax breaks and write-offs should not COST anything to 'ME & YOU.' If you're thinking that 'ME & YOU' somehow get to keep the money they would pay in taxes without tax breaks and...

Costing 'me and you,' because they're spending money 'me and you' can't take from them. Gotcha. :rolleyes:

I think people are just spotting my son. I've told him to shave and get a haircut a million times...

I didn't have any spray on hand when I found out the hard way there were yellow jackets nested by a hose spigot I needed to hook up to. (Right on the end of the knuckle, hurt worse than any I can remember.) A local farm boy was there working on something and he told me to mix up some Dawn...

I've always been a Michelin guy, because in my experience they are always consistently high quality and good performance... but at a premium price. Now lately, with so many of my kids driving, I've found Hankook tires to be good quality and a good value. Korean company and a lot of the...

Hey Tony, can you help me out with "Reenact." I'm not finding that anywhere on the interwebs. Can you tell me who makes it or where to find it? I really do read and appreciate all the suggestions. $500 plus is a pretty significant expenditure for me.

I don't take any string into the trails because I'm dealing with taller grasses, blackberries (thorns) and 3/8" face-slappers. I found a blade like this for my Echo trimmer and it's extremely helpful. Rocks don't seem to bother it and it will take out stuff just under 1-inch. It's been...

Yes indeed it was. I didn't know whether to blame that on the covid or not. We'll see how they do this time. I was thinking that the engine had seized, so I didn't know what to think.

I AM willing to buck up for a 'commercial model,' I just don't know where to get one, or which to look for. The equipment dealer I buy from sells to landscape guys all the time and I assumed this Echo 8010 WAS used by commercial operators. I see a lot of the lawn services using RedMax, which...

I've had excellent service from most other Echo equipment and I don't believe any manufacturer is perfect... but I'm just wondering why little ol' me is having trouble with these blowers. The blower I want must be able to run at full throttle constantly, like any other piece of equipment I...

UPDATE: The service shop just informed me that it wasn't the bearing that went bad on the 80cc Echo before, but the fan "got loose from the shaft." (??) Echo covered it 100% and said the problem had nothing to do with the engine or oil. It had seized, so I thought it was the motor. The only...

On the previous Stihl, I was mixing 3.2 oz/gallon with Valvoline 2 cycle oil - 40:1 On this Echo, I'm using the Echo branded oil at the recommended ratio of 2.6 oz/gallon - 50:1 because that's what the dealer recommended after the same inquiry. (They accuse me of not putting oil in them.)...

I have the biggest Echo backpack blower... 80ccs. It's great when it's working. I need it for the power to blow off my woods trails, even when the leaves are a little wet. I have to have a carried/backpack model, because many of the trails are too steep to use any of the wheeled models...

Not sure about your specific model, but I was finding parts : HERE You can also browse through Rotary Cutter Supply for the correct blades. When I was getting blades for my Titan, I had to go through the Titan dealer to get them. WD40 and a long breaker bar (and a helper) will be your...

Long-haired dachshund. Male. Fixed. He's got 'little-man syndrome' (read: aggressiveness) Like the kindergarten bully. I've seen dogs of this breed that were nice, but this guy is awful. He's bitten me a couple of times, once causing a nasty infection. He can be sweet occasionally, when...

Mowing fields with rough spots and a 10-foot rotary cutter behind... doesn't take too much imagination to think what would happen if a bump popped me out of the seat... then a 5-foot tire holds me down and the cutter makes sure I won't have an open casket funeral. I'm getting better at ALWAYS...

My newest ATV is a 2003. The thing has warning labels all over it, mostly saying 'nobody under 16 is allowed to operate it.' It IS annoying to see all the kids operating them irresponsibly... but we have to decide how much liberty means to us, or we won't be allowed to do anything. I...

I see the big highway department tractors pulling their 15-foot bat wing cutters on slopes that make me dizzy. They have very wide front axles, big weights on the front and the rear tires are also set very wide. I would think you could look into similar equipment for other tractor models...

I guess it's not nice to fool with the EPA.

Also surprised it didn't break at that last row of bolts next to it. Looks more like a geological stress event than a duty-cycle fracture to me. (Not an engineer, but I play one on TV.)

I got to enjoy Road Atlanta last week. #56

I had a slough of lynch pins that weren't flat against the 'work side' and those would pop off so bad, I just gave up and used 3/8ths bolts with jam nuts. They are still on there (on the tractor side). Only later did I discover the problem was the crummy pins. For other implements I use...

Good to remember...

Interesting. But I could almost smell the video. Woohee.

Yeah, I don't have many... but I don't wait for them to die. I break them down and burn 'em. No need for those thorns and I have inner tubes!

And long grass that doesn't get cut is no danger of wildfires is it? Duhhh! Just so dumb.

I'll bet the poor fellow in the picture wishes he was wearing a face mask at that moment!

Looks like some kind of insurance fraud/play to me. (??)

A bit over 400 acres. Mostly woods. :)

With 17 miles of single track on my property, I spend a lot of time working them by hand. Loppers and chainsaw mostly. The dirtbikes actually keep a pretty good path to hike on, too.

It costs me right at $2500 to have a neighbor with a tandem dump truck spread my whole driveway and access road that length with good limestone rock. Then I can make it almost pavement smooth with my tractor. I was also quoted about 50 grand by an asphalt contractor 15 years ago. I'm so...

It was a very tough time for me. Dad's car would have new, unexplained body damage that he wouldn't comment on. Making him lose his independence/driving was very difficult and emotional. I haven't met many that will turn in the keys voluntarily. :(

I have an area behind my pond that was left a mess by a friend with a backhoe when he fixed a leak in it. It's been a weedy mess ever since, and the area behind it has a pretty sharp gully that's about 100 feet long and 40 feet deep. I've smoothed it out with my FEL but it's still really...

A street principle I had to 'unlearn' at the racetrack while I was working down to an AMA qualifier pace. Of course that's on warmed race tires with proper body position... you work toward braking all the way to the apex improving lean angle by 15-degrees, where you transition to throttle...

I love riding the Ozarks in my backyard... and other to NW Arkansas. I also do track days about once a month, three seasons a year.

UPDATE: Well, two 40 mile trips back and forth to the dealer with a 10-foot wide load, not entertaining on small roads with oncoming traffic... my cutter's gearbox has been replaced under warranty. After I finally talked to Titan Implement, I don't think the delay was their fault... because...

That's good to know. I'd say the boxes are right at 140 then, or just above that. The gearbox on my 6-footer never gets much warmer than ambient. I agree that I should have double checked the lube in the boxes, but the manual was fairly explicit about being factory-lubed. (copied pic...

My six foot cutter has a gearbox that calls for 90wt gear oil. I would call it a noisy gearbox, generating a pretty noisy hum... but even on hot days cutting tall stuff, I'm surprised it never gets very warm. It's never given me a problem either. I also have a fairly new (less than 20...

SOLVED! I got the piece back from the welder and finally had a chance to get the cutter back together. I'm glad my 14-year old son is bigger than me, so he could help me get it finished. It's PERFECT! The only downside I see is the maximum height is compromised a little, but it should...

This is EXACTLY what I was looking to do at beginning of this journey... but the 'Drawbar Adapter' from the title of the post would move the hitch pin MUCH closer to the ground. In my crooked terrain, I'll be I would be dragging the ground with it in some situations where the rear wheels are...

If I could have a machine shop put a nice bend in this heavy 4x4 steel bar, it would solve my problem, too. (This is the 8-foot model of my cutter) So, is my best bet to remove this piece and take it to a trailer mfg shop?

It is a Titan 1800P pull type. I haven't been able to find a picture of one on a tractor. This is all I could find back when I bought it, and still today... Like I said, I'm happy with how the cutter performs, but I have to solve the driveshaft clearance issue.

I'll get a picture of my setup as soon as I can get out there. (Have to work in the city 5 days a week) Now I'm REALLY thinking my tow piece (tongue) is mounted upside down on my cutter, because it would look exactly like the one in this picture of it were inverted. Boy, do I feel dumb...

Thanks Coby, I'll look at that. I don't think I described it very well, but it's the tongue of the cutter, a large 4x4 steel structure that goes from the tractor's draw bar to the deck of the cutter. It's very cumbersome (NOT like the one in this picture) and doesn't give the driveshaft...

I feel like I'm looking for something that should be easy to find, but I'm not finding it. I'm using my M5400DT to pull my 10-foot pull-type rotary cutter and it pulls easily and cuts even the heavy stuff very well. My only problem is, using my fixed drawbar, there's very little clearance...

You inspired me to find a picture and sure enough, odds are if there was a picture of the thing, I was in the drivers seat... They were really tiny vehicles and I had patio furniture cushions to boost me and help me reach the pedals. Occasionally my sisters would 'steal' it from...

I'm using the heavier gear oil in the front axle of my tractor and it's started leaking out so fast I'm finally ready to do something about it. I read here on the forum about a gentleman replacing his own seals, and it looks like others here do it themselves. Even so, I think it looks...

If I buy more tractor, I'd still like to pull it into my barn that has a standard height garage door. My current tractor fits by folding down the ROPS and I had to shorten the exhaust pipe by about 6 inches. The new guys have those fat, combo pipes. Can they be shortened?

My bush hogging operations are late this year, but before operating in the high heat, I decided to change the fluids in my Kubota 50-horse. I don't have any problem dropping off a few gallons of used engine oil at the auto parts store for recycling... but what do I do with 11 gallons of...

I'm being approached by a company saying they're interested in 'leasing' a 100x100 foot area on my property for a telecommunications tower. Understandable, as I have a very nice, scenic view from my country house, and I'll bet they'd want to be there on the same tall hill as my house. In...

I've gained tons of experience in my first year of large (to me) tractor ownership... and thanks in part to people on this forum for the friendly counsel, I've really enjoyed maintaining my own gravel road, clearing off broken trees, re-grading a mess left by a sloppy highlift operator and...

My first 'big' tractor is my 1999 Kubota M5400 4x4. Most of the hours since I've had it have gone into mowing my rough fields with a 6' Modern Ag rotary cutter. I've learned lots of lessons already, including how to replace a ruptured hydraulic line on the FEL. I had a muffler shop...