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The other option is an electric linear actutator. DIY MyWay did that on his tractor.

Be careful with installing a Bosch cube style automotive relay. They are typically rated at 30-Amps. The starter will pull 100 to 300-amps. And, could easily burn out the contacts on a standard automotive relay. Look for a starter relay, with a high enough Amp capacity to handle your...

Entering the part number and New Holland in the Amazon search gets one for $45. But with a bit of wiring you can make most any starter relay work. But a relay base and new relay may be close to the $45. Basically a four pin relay has a ground, a control feed, power in, and power out...

Have you tried going to the local parts houses with the relay in hand, and see it they can match it up. A lot of the factory parts are a bit very over priced. I get most of my miscellaneous engine related parts, not as TYM branded parts, but asking the guys at the parts house for what will...

I'm envious of soil you can run a tiller, or plow in. We got 400-yards of rocks, and less than 100-yards of suitable 3-inch minus backfill, out of a trench. Most of the flat ground around here is prehistoric gravel bars, which is rock to rock contact with the voids filled with smaller rocks...

FEMA is a good starting place. The Forest Service, Forest Products Lab, has several designs for wooden storm shelters. The design intent was that they be built as add-ons or built-ins for existing structures. Search USDA Storm Shelter. Natural Resource Conservation Service, used to have...

Only thing I've ever seen one used for was to clean irrigation ditches. But I live in steep granitic mountains, and mechanical equipment is seldom used to cut fire breaks. So, the ones I have seen may have been repurposed.

Problems with cranking: First try to crank with the headlights on and a helper. If the headlights dim when you try to crank, there is a battery or ground issue. Make sure the battery is in good condition, and the ground and power cable to the starter are good. Second, check the solenoid it...

The first photo of his cylinder head has threaded holes adjacent to the exhaust port. Which might be for the adapter in post #2.

So, is the loader full down? Sometimes, getting them back out of float takes a really serious hard jerk.

I keep offcuts of 3/4 and 1-inch UHMW around to make things like theses clamps. Drill and chamfer the holes and then cut them in half. On many tractors, you can switch to longer bolts and install the new clamp over the top of existing ones on teh tractor. That is the TYM, factory method of...

Losen the bearings, and check the two #25 nuts to make sure the shaft is actually pulled into place. And double check that the bushing #26 is in place. Not shown on the drawing, but necessary are the two bearing races which should be driven into the wheel hub #39. The cone should go in.

SWAG: Saves on height. To get the exhaust high enough to go over the top of a rops/canopy/shade, it gets high, and that means you can't get into a garage.

Look into a spring mount for the seat. If they fit, it will raise the seat heigh a couple of inches. A quick search for, "zero turn seat suspension", returns a bunch sites. This an American made one on Amazon...

Simple cheat: Download the Rainbird Sprinkler Design Software. Let it optimize for heads with 100-ft reach. Then install quick coupling valves everywhere the software says to put a head. As one of my engineering professors said, "Plagiarize, there are a lot of really good ideas out there...

Boats can be carried on ships. A ship cannot be carried on a boat..

Currently on eBay there are diverter valves at around $160, the Summit is $165. Since the rear remote valves for my tractor are TYM dealer only, and cost $600 or more, (that was three years ago). The diverter on one of the loader circuits is far less expensive. The hoses will be shorter and...

What I'm doing: I scored a NOS Nimco loader valve, identical to the one factory installed on my TYM T233. I intend to install it, in the pressure line from the pressure beyond port on the loader valve, and the input on the transmission for the 3-point lift circuit, to control top and tilt on...

Just out of curiosity, how much does a set of bearings cost? This sounding like spending a lot of time to get an engine torn down, and then not replacing "easy to get to now" parts. In my mind, new bearings while you have it apart and have access to them is always the best answer if you can...

The flow is from the power beyond on the loader valve, to the rear remotes and then to the transmission and internal three-point valving. The return flow from the rear remotes to the tank, flows through the 3-point valving to return to the reservoir, so I'd guess the settings on the three-point...

You can also find it on eBay, and probably the jungle, (Amazon). AS, I posted earlier, ask teh gravel and concrete plants. They have old belts lying aorund some of the time, they would be happy to sell or give you 8-foot of. It cuts ok with a jig saw, and some silicone lube.

You can shoot a bit of oil into the cylinders, directly through the spark plugs or glow plug holes and see if that helps.

A friend explained why Secret Service were concerned with people getting lots of new bills.

There is a company, Sailrite, which manufactures and sells quality marine upholstery products. They have a series of instructional videos on YouTube. The most recent is on repairing your fishing boat seat, which would probably work for redoing a tractor seat.

I'd be hesitant with ball valves. But they are possibly the least-worst solution available.

I think this is a ditch cleaner.

Last vehicle I bought, I met the guy at the local credit union, where I keep my money, he signed the title, and I transferred the money from my account to his. When I sell guns, I have them meet me at my gunsmith's shop. His full-time gig is as the lead jailer for the sheriff's office. If...

All they need to do is get a bundle of fresh $1 bills, and tumble your funny money with it in the drier, with some poker chips. The funny money comes out a little worn looking and the ink transfers, so the marker test shows the ink is correct.

I'd go with belting. Just because of cost. Replacement bolts, nuts and washers will be the same either way. But you would probably have to buy chain. A probable source for belting is a gravel crushing plant/operation, concrete plant, etc. They go through belts fairly fast and will usually...

I can second the silverlake recommendation. They made me a custom cover for my tractor and were easy to work with. I'm pretty sure they would make you a tractor cover, and a separate one to cover the backhoe.

If you do it, post some pictures. I have been thinking of adding the expansion tank to my T233 and T293.

There is a company in Sweden which has tool colored filament. https://addnorth.com/product/X-PLA/X-PLA%20-%201.75mm%20-%20750g%20-%20Power%20Tool%20Yellow And there are quite a few models available online to make the battery holder. Several of them have provisions to add wires to make them...

Can't stress this enough. You need some form of a positive backflow device. Fertilizers are good for plants, and bad for humans. That said, you have a lot of options depending on how much water you are treating. Rainbird makes them for small sprinkler and drip irrigation systems, that work...

Greasing the u-joints on the connector shaft and the transmission on the tractor. Hard to get to, out of sight out of mind.

I bought a couple of kits of zerks fittings at the Murdochs, a regional farm and ranch supply store. One is metric and the other is SAE. Haven't found any fittings thus far that I couldn't replace from one or the other kit.

Because the ammeter is a better gauge to have than a voltmeter and will let you know about issues with the charging system before things quit working. The auto manufacturers transitioned to volt meters, as they went to more accessories and higher output alternators, and the voltmeter became...

NO!! Unless the ammeter is a modern one which reads via induction, the current from the alternator/generator flows though the ammeter. Connect the input and output from the ammeter together. This allows the current to continue flowing. Then run a new wire from battery positive terminal to...

I think they are made by a TYM subsidiary, in Korea. And that subsidiary makes loaders, backhoes plus 3-point parts for other Asian manufacturers besides TYM, and the tractors they make for other brands. I stumbled across a web page in Korean, for the subsidiary, about six months back. But...

The friend I bought my tractor from had installed a crossbar between the risers on the ROPS, then mounted a car seat on it. His dog rode around in it. I think it would work well, for a toddler, and the one he found at the thrift store had a five-point belt system. Don't know how much...

I use that chain setup, with a "timber skidder" sort of like this on the 3-point. I took this idea for an inexpensive but too spindly version I found on Amazon and the local farm/ranch supply stores and made a beefier version out of 5/16 wall 2X3 rectangular tubing I had left over from a...

Maverick, in actually, from an engineering standpoint, they are generally underkill, having been designed before the building codes came into effect. That said many buildings built from them are still standing and doing fine. Just depends on the level of owner maintenance. And in general...

The Cooperative Extension Service has a huge catalog of plans for farm buildings, and equipment. Want to build a hen house, they have plans. Want a tractor shed, they have plans. The Universities used to have Ag Engineering students do the plans as senior design projects. Not all of the...

Should look like this:

My concern with the chain setup is that you could potentially over angle the joints in the pto shaft, resulting in a catastrophic failure under load.

Looking at the parts manuals for my tractors, and a couple of other TYM tractors, the part numbers for the couplers are different for the US models than the EU models. And there are metric to SAE Straight pipe thread on the hard lines from the rear control valve to the coupler. But the parts...

Tree and post puller https://palletforks.com/products/post-and-tree-puller-for-skid-steers-universal-landscape-tool

Ayep!! If you want symmetry, you have make things symmetrical side to side.

I'm betting on metric. I had to pull a broken Zerk's fitting on my FEL. I have kits of both metric, and ASE fittings. The threads on the one I pulled out, matched the thread on the 6mm metric fittings in my kit. I have never seen a BSP Zerk's fitting. Just checked Grainger, and they list...

I'd try a fine ball hone on a long shaft, and use an electric fuel pump to keep oil flowing all the time I was doing it. One of these...

Some engines have freeze plugs in the back of the block inside of the bell housing and hidden behind the flywheel.

The fact that the terminals got hot means that there is considerable resistance in the terminals. So, look at cleaning or replacing the terminals is your next order of business. The voltage drop to the starter would keep it from having enough torque to overcome the compression once you...

Depending on the lengths of your foundations and soils, it might be quicker to do them with the Front-End-Loader (FEL) than a backhoe. Depends on whether you have the room on the ends to do it as drive throughs. Or short enough that the backing would be short enough to not slow you down too...

To the best of my knowledge there is one standardized size for Zerk fittings, available in a bunch of different thread patterns. I have this kit and haven't found any that it doesn't handle. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07H9HMBPX?ref_=ppx_hzsearch_conn_dt_b_fed_asin_title_2 The other thing...

Diet tips for new T2 Diabetics: Find a copy of the old Lilly diabetic diet and use it as a guide for the first three months. The idea that T2 Diabetics can eat anything they want is horse-pucky. If you can, convince your doctor prescribe a Continuous Glucose Monitor. If the doctor won't...

The local coops, (electric, phone, and propane), where I am were started with Federal Assistance. But are now self-sufficient.

I have ADHD, severe ADHD. I can hardly wait until my inability to remember why I opened turned on my computer and opened the browser, or why I walked in the bathroom, gets worse as I age.

Yep, the environmental laws of the seventies, coupled with the Environmental Defense Act, (aka the Full Employment for Environmental Attorneys Act), meant that every sale the Forest Service or BLM tried to have, got held up for years in court. The mills all got starved out. By the late...

What idled mills. All the idle mills around me got, taken down and shipped to Canada. Except for one, which went onto a ship, which mills it into lumber while at sea. And then delivers it to Japan.

If you have muffs you like, you can wear earbuds under them to get Bluetooth. A pair of noise canceling earbuds, worn under a good pair of attenuating earmuffs is highly effective. Learned that courtesy of a couple of wildland helitack crew members. The hook into the intercom while in the...

There is a guy who comes through town about once a month, who does the gloves in all the stores. If I need new gloves, I just let the girls at the local Ace Hardware know that next time he is in, to get me a couple of pair. I like to have a couple of new pairs in the truck, and a pair on the...

I used to have an 11-inch hand span. With arthritis, it's now about 9-inches. Things don't bend like they used to.

Check the TYM world site: https://tym.world/en-us/parts-support/download-library You will need to fill in the form. In the past they would then send you a link to the parts manual and service manual. Not sure they are still doing that.

Part of my consideration is that I have two tractors with a SSQA setup on both loaders. I can change buckets in a few minutes. So, converting one bucket to a toothed bucket makes perfect sense for me. And in my locality, I deal with very rocky soils continually. Toothed buckets work best in...

Ever notice that the therapists for your hands are cute little blond girls. and the ones for your knees look like retired down linemen who played without helmets? They are pretty sure that no matter how much the little blond girl hurts you, you probably won't hit her. But if a guy hurt you...

I installed an air-to-air heat pump in a Forest Service office in Salmon, Idaho about a decade ago. It works down to -20F. I installed a smart, fuzzy logic thermostat with the system, which learned the buildings heat properties, so I knows how long before start time it needs to start heating...

We it is lots more comfortable to work on an insulated and heated concrete floor, than and uninsulated and unheated floor.

Perhaps a TYM master-header like John Deere, and then sub-headers for the brands manufactured by TYM, RK, Branson, Bad Boy, etc.

Add foam insulation below the slab. Heat goes to cold. Heat does not "rise", warmer fluids rise in cooler fluids. My ex-brother in-law installed heat tubing in the slab of a house he and my sister built. I told him to install 6-inches of blue foam below the slab. He and his buddy the...

You should be able to disassemble and find a manufacturer and part number on the bearings, races and seals.

Stuck thermostat? Is there an exhaust crossover system with a stuck valve?

Metal readily transfers heat. Dry wall slows down the heat transfer, as the water in the plaster is driven out of the hydrate bonds.

Ok, so I'm venting: The Gates site had/has a good cross reference feature which you can use to find teh correct Gates replacement for various belts form other manufacturers. I need a Bando RAF K285, belt for the AC on my minitruck. Thought I would just go the the Gates site and cross...

Isotune, Link or Link Aware. OSHA compliant attenuator muffs, with Bluetooth added. I have two pair, the "Link Aware" which are mounted on my hardhat/saw helmet, and the other the Link2 with a headband I wear on the tractor and in the shop. Thinking of buying a third pair to mount on my Trend...

Rear main on the engine, or input bearing on the transmission being bad can cause this. But it is rare. Do, you have a helper to push on the pedal while you look at things, to verify the throw out bearing is pushing in on the clutch fingers? Have you checked every joint in the mechanism...

Have you checked eBay? I did a quick search, and might have found a few.

That is based on heat generated by the rolling friction. Trailer tires are generally not designed for heat. This site gives a good explanation: https://tirecrunch.com/trailer-tires-speed-rating/

I was addicted to Structo Hyraulic Dumpers when I was little. Tonka, as ok. But, I preferred the Structos. When I was about 8, my aunt asked my mom what to buy me for Christmas. Mom told her any Tonka truck. Her husband was a ranch manager and horse trainer. So, I got a Vista Dome horse...

Trick my daddy taught me: Glue a couple of copper pennies to the battery adjacent to the terminals. They are more reactive than the terminals and clamps and will corrode first. I was putting a new battery in mom's Volvo, and had bought a pair of the felt washers the parts houses sell. I...

UHMW Polyethylene cutting edges. Available on Amazon and Ebay. You could look locally for commercial plastic supplier and see if they have offcuts. Also, they use it for toilet stall partitions, and they folks who do them occasionally have offcuts. Just depends on your use and the soils...

I would think so. On my open station tractor the prvious owner intalled a piece of Polycarbonate from the canopy to the dash to cut down on the wind and blown snow when he was plowing snow. He plowed in Carhartt insulated overalls.

Since both of my tractors have SSQA loaders, I'm thinking of buying 5 or 7 weld on tooth assemblies, and welding them on the smaller bucket for digging in the rocky soil at my place and keeping the wider bucket for screened material without large rocks. And I would recommend something similar...

The PTO shaft is a solid. The sleeve is slid over it and stuck. Out of curiosity, is the face of the u-joint yoke a solid with a hole in the middle? On the one I have access to at the moment, that is how it is made. Can you disassemble the u-joint off the sleeve, and tap the hole to...

Yep. And I don't want to think about how many times.

Glad you're ok. You need to look at building fire reservoir, (aka pond), with a fire pump. A friend retired to a small town in Arizona. The insurance was high because the only fire hydrant was at the volunteer firehouse over a mile away. His solution was to build a fire suppression...

They might show up on eBay. Around $20.

And we are officially way off topic.

When I was living and working in Las Vegas, the same few weeks were also the best of the year. You were actually comfortable in shirt sleeves and blue jeans. After those few weeks in the spring, it got hotter than the gates of hell. But you still had to wear boots and blue jeans. Before that...

I'm headed towards more engineering grade materials. And since I will have a ventilated and conditioned cabinet, I will be able to either heat incoming air or not. PETG or PLA occasionally for prototyping, or possibly lost filament casting. But more on the line of reinforced Nylons, and other...

Whoever was the incident commander should have written it in their report.

I got told that if you leave the brush hog blade dull, it chews up the stubs so much they can't puncture a tractor tire. Not sure if that is true. But, the guy who told me that has been whacking stuff down for years. And doesn't seem to get many flats.

My tractor came with colored zip ties. If I were re-plumbing a tractors hydraulics, I would probably get some of the PET Expanding Wire Sleeve, and some marine grade shrink tubing to secure it. It comes in a huge selection of colors. Including base colors, with different colored tracers. The...

Same idea, but I used a seedling mat, which came with a digital thermostat, as the heat source. Just bought a new 3D printer, and plan to install it in another old fridge. That will allow me to maintain a constant temperature, and vent any noxious gasses outside, when I'm printing. I'm...

pet peeve time: Cheap, was defined as: Shoddy, of poor construction and utility, and thus low cost. Cheap has morphed into a synonym for inexpensive. Back on topic: The inexpensive ballast boxes work just fine, particularly if you pour them full of concrete. I bought one of the Vevor...

My brother and his wife both worked for the phone company. His dog died, the Saturday before Super Bowl Sunday. He got up in the morning to bury the dog in his back yard, and started digging a hole in the frozen ground. He was running into a lot of tree roots, and was digging away with a a...

I have liquid ballast in my T233, along with wheel spacers. Nothing to do with the FEL. They are, tall, narrow and tippy. Adding liquid ballast and/or wheel weights, lowers the center of gravity and makes them quite a bit more stable. Plus, they have enough torque to spin the wheels, even...

If you can get a parts manual which covers other markets, you might be able to figure out what parts are installed in the markets which require a 4WD indicator on the dash and order up the factory parts.

My guess would be that in certain markets it is required. But not in North America. Kind of like tractors in Europe have to have a parking brake lever. My TYM T233 and T293, and the T25 have a slot and mounts for a parking brake lever, which isn't installed. You push down on the brake pedals...

Backhoe goes on and off fairly quickly. And, he might have had using it with 3-pt attachments in mind.

So, I started researching the construction of the floor and fender assembly of the T25 and the ones on my T233 and T293. Identical part numbers. So, definitely ABS. With no paint. Plus, side of investing the time: I now know that I can upgrade the attached components and install the phone...

I think the fender/floor assembly is actually injection molded ABS. I know it is an injection molded plastic. Just not sure which plastic. When I get home, I'll get out the fancy soldering iron and see what the melt point is. But I'm fairly certain it is ABS. Either way, fiberglass or...

It is lots easier to get to the suction filter for the hydraulics with the left rear tire off. The filter is about 12-inches long, and you have about 13-inches between where the intake comes out of the transmission assembly, and the side of the tire. So, taking off the rear tire, while not...

The de-sulfation works by "pulsing" the electrolyte at a frequency to destroy, the sulfate crystals. I'm not sure that the sulfate wouldn't eventually break down the sulfate crystals completely. They would probably break loose from the plates first, but even laying on the bottom of the...

I used to go to the "minitrucktalk" forum pretty regular. The level of ineptitude some of those folks displayed scared me. But I hung around and tried to give them solid advice for a couple of years. Folks who had never turned a wrench, buying little Japanese trucks, for which parts are...

The rocker plate is broken, which would be the cause of your sticking.

You would need to install a control valve on the power beyond line from the loader valve and then feed the discharge port of the new valve, to wherever the power beyond goes to now, to complete the circuit. Does your tractor have a rear remote? Or can you get a kit?

Do you have rear remote(s)? If so, is it in the neutral position? On some tractors the pressure feed to the 3-point goes through the rear remote valve, and if the rear remote valve is not in the center (neutral) position, no flow gets to the 3-point control valve. This is more common if your...

AGM vs Lead Acid Batteries: 12 Differences Plus Some FAQs Your starter battery is probably one of two rechargeable battery types — it’s either a flooded lead acid or an AGM battery. But how do these two batteries differ? In this article, we’ll compare the AGM vs lead acid battery and see how...

Now, Back on Topic. AGM batteries were developed for high vibration applications, military and racing where there is a real possibility of things getting upside down or sideways, and leakage of the acid is a real problem. Unless you anticipate laying your tractor on its side, you are probably...

If you count in base five and convert to decimal you can count to 99 on your fingers. Right hand index finger is 1, second finger 2, little finger is four. thumb is five, thumb plus index is six, thumb plus little is 9. Ten is the left index finger, 11 is both index fingers, and so on, until...

Dupont Dry Chain lube with Teflon: Amazon.com The stuff contains corrosion inhibitors and dries to a medium hard wax. Any surplus can be wiped or brushed off once it dries. I use it for all kinds of things, including my guns, because once dry it doesn't attract or hold dust. Important...

https://www.ebay.com/itm/262845051916?_skw=tym+joystick&epid=554717432&itmmeta=01JP0TK96NHJ4DCP5E3P396KQ6&hash=item3d32c9340c:g:~5UAAOSwx6pYnJgI&itmprp=enc%3AAQAKAAAA8FkggFvd1GGDu0w3yXCmi1eBkaVzmKx9MP%2BH3AmvBa0wIkI9VVw7TMPhOLEa1yN4k9%2FYCXGoN3HhBhZrcjlGxd48%2FBjr4%2BRigzlJde9UT3cwK873Xwqpb%2BUuY...

In the mid-eighties, I was the right of way inspector for the highway department. Any utility work, or private improvements done in the State's right of way, I inspected. I was watching a contractor install a new sewer line. Bottom of trench was at 8-ft. Phone lines were at 3 to 4-ft. He...

Add to the limited access, and maintenance type limitations the California State Board which controls utility rates had denied multiple rates increase requests for funding to do the needed line maintenance.

Mine does that when micro-grit builds up inside the extension tube. I take the tube off and cleanout the mess, and everything is fine for another few years. In the picture what I call the extension tubes are opposite the side with the handles. If you have float, the extension is longer to...

But, if you get the contact information and call in a few weeks, and he still has it, the price may be much more reasonable. In November, a guy listed a rear bumper which fits my Dodge 3500, on Craigslist. Price was a bit high, at $2500. I was on Craigs List looking for wheels to fit my...

I had a colonoscopy at a teaching hospital. The Indian Gastro-something Doctor with two interns. They begin running the probe up, and the Doctor, is saying, "Oh My. Will you look at that." A bit further in, he repeats it in an excited voice, and tells the two interns to "Hurry, And Get...

I definitely am more inclined to shop for used stuff than new. Older equipment has lless emissions, and way less electronics than the new stuff. Old stuff is far simpler to work on, but getting parts can be harder. Just bought an Engineering grade 3D printer and am looking for a small metal...

I know a guy who has several hit and miss engines, and old equipment they powered. Not sure he can give them away.

Can't own too many of them either. Even when you have run out of space for anew gun safe. Might have to build an armory this summer, instead of a tractor shed.

Been watching Jackie and Shadow on teh YouTube channel Baiba Eaglets are hatching.

google "stone boat" There are a couple of different plans online. Been around for centuries. You don't think they carried all the rocks in the stone field walls over there by hand do you?

I am admittedly a tool junky. And, yes it runs in families. I have some chisels and a Starret square, with FCT stamped in them. Frank Carr Thomas died in the Spanish American war.

http://www.backupballs.net/

I found a couple of yellow balls on extending rods with magnets on the other end. One on the hitch, and one on the ball, and I can get really close without being able to see either the hitch or the ball.

I knew I was old when: I was walking through a mall, up ahead was a fine-looking young woman with a toddler, and her mom pushing a younger one in a stroller. She looked really familiar. After a few minutes I realized that Grandma was a cheer leader I went to high school with. I knew I was old.

I have a Stanley tenon marking gauge, I bought at a hardware store which was closing when I was about six, would have been 1961 or 1962. I had carved my initials in it, before Dad took it from me. When we were cleaning up after Mom died, one of my brothers wanted to claim it thinking it had...

I'm well past 2000 CDs, and occasionally buy more, if Amazon will "auto-rip" them to my digital library. And I hang onto the CDs so I can argue "fair use doctrine" for all of the mp3 files I ripped from them. I'm currently going through the deceased Brother in Laws CD collection, of over...

And, if you're an engineer, you will design and build your own Bluetooth receivers to power the old speakers rather than just buy Bluetooth speaker sets.

My granddad kept various widths and thicknesses of steel strap in the shop and used it to make square nuts for his farm equipment as needed. Lots easier to tap and square something up with a file, than to try to make a hex in a farm shop. He had a forge, (great grandpa was a blacksmith), and...

I got taught by my dad that the sockets which were 1/32 smaller than standard sized nuts and bolt heads, were used when the nut or bolt head got buggered up. You take a file, and dress it up a bit, and then drive the undersized socket on. It fits tight, and things quit rounding. Add force...

Shell used to have a nice webpage for agriculture and off road equipment, where you could look up things by manufacturer and model and it would give you a list of recommended lubricants. Just tried to follow the link, and get a "Contact our Experts" page.

AccuWeather if I'm traveling. It seems to be more reliably accurate than the others. At home, Weather Underground. It lets you upload from your personal weather station and will start including your data and history in the forecast. That is where the undergound part came from.

Pretty sure it is the same frame as the third generation T233, T273, T293. The fourth generation and T25 have a whole lot of parts interchangeability. I ordered the rear remote kit for my T233. The packaging listed the T234, T264 and T25. It bolted right onto the top of my transmission...

So, the T233, T273, T293, and T234 are all essentially the same tractors, and share many of the same parts and procedures. The major differences being which Mitsubishi engine in what state of tune is in them, and the tire/wheel sizes. T233 Mitsubishi S3L at 23-hp T273 Mitsubishi S3L2 at 27-hp...

Smith's Enterprises has an archive of older TYM manuals online whihc hee archived just before TYM redid TYM World site and took the manuals of the older machines down. That is where I found the manuals for my T233 and T293.

My grandfather was a very good card player and consistently won. He knew the odds of every hand and could read peoples tells well. It always bothered him that my grandmother considered card playing, as gambling but didn't consider farming/ranching to be gambling. As he saw it, the odds and...

Look on eBay, Facebook and Craig's List for a good used trailer, near the start point, go buy it. Pull it and the equipment home and then sell the trailer.

you can buy metric v-belts a lot of places. any of the industrial supply houses like Grainger and McMaster or Zoro have them, and I'm pretty sure my local auto parts houses can get them if I don't mind waiting a day or two.

I've pulled PEX with a Chinese finger puzzle and fish tools just like NM electrical.

If I were looking for a backhoe to fit T233/T273/T293, (all share the same chassis, transmission etc. with different Mitsubishi engines and wheel/tire sizes), I'd talk to the closest dealer and see if they will let you crawl around under a T25 with the TX2000 loader installed, and measure...

I saw a SSQA fork mount, which had the tabs on it to attach to the 3-point hitch. Can remember who was selling it.

I never will understand why Sears, and JC Penny, both of whom had extensive catalogs, formatted in HTML, didn't manage to survive and thrive in the roll out of the internet, which heavily leveraged HTML.

I had a package ship from Darby Montana, which is an hour away via US93, to Hamilton, Montana, then on to Missoula, to Spokane, to Seattle, to Portland, to Boise, to Twin Falls, to Salt Lake City, to Rigby Idaho, and finally to Salmon Idaho. There is a daily truck from Missoula to Rigby.

When you have the forks mounted on the front and want to lift heavy items on the 3-pt.

Look at the glue on oil pan heaters. I have them on my JDM tiny truck and adding them made a huge difference in how easy it is to start, and how fast it gets warmed up. Adding the one to the transmission made real difference in how long it takes to warm up the transmission enough to shift...

I subscribe to the Lee Iacocca inheritance plan: I gave the kids everything I could to get them off to a good start. I don't owe them anything. They can each pick a few things of sentimental or family history value. Furniture built by me, and the various levels of grandfathers, I've got a...

Modern Heavy Equipment with digital dashes and controls have access codes and may or may not have a key if they don't have an enclosed cab. The last loader and blade we bought before I retired had the ability to assign codes. So, if a guy wasn't certified on a piece of equipment his six-digit...

Did some browsing, and the mid mount mower on the Yanmar186 was belt driven off the rear PTO. So it might be a matter of finding a drive pulley which goes on the PTO shaft, and finding a way to mount and support a shaft going forward. More do-able than finding a midmount kit which mounts into...

The odds of finding a kit to install a mid or forward-facing rear pto are very low. The tractor has been out of production for several decades. So the odds are really against it. The other option would be to look at one of the Bercomac self-powered blowers for small tractors...

Actual active investment takes a lot of time and is very hard work. If you don't have the time, find a good low load index fund based on the S&P 500, the NASDAQ, or the Dow Jones if you are less aggressive. I used to watch key segments of the market which I understood. Made a killing when...

The National Wildfire Coordinating Group has standards for Wildland Fire Engines, which govern which sizes of nozzles, how many feet of what hose, plus tank and pump capacities, etc., various engines need. Equipment, PMS 200 | NWCG The very largest wildland engines carry 750-gallons of water...

Search engines on vendors like Amazon, eBay, HomeDesperate, and Lower Expectations: Which are designed to waste your time looking for things you didn't search for, by using an "or" logic for every item in your search instead of an "and" logic. Search for 8mm flange nut. You get edible nuts...

I'm in Idaho, and so far as I know it is based on GVW as a personal vehicle.

I bought a Toyota Pickup, new in October of 77. 20R, with the five-speed. Drove it for 245,000-miles. In 1998 I decided to try to make it not pass smog, to justify in my mind buying something newer. Quit changing the oil and doing tune-ups. In 2001, it finally didn't pass smog. It probably...

On my T233, the key is turned to the left from off, (normally where the accessory position would be), to engage the glow plugs. If it is cold enough to need thee glow plugs, the relay engages and the lindicaotr light comes on. When the light goes out, you turn past the run position to engage...

The silicon valley folks left California during Covid, and moved to rural places with good internet access, to work remotely. We had quite a few of them show up in Salmon, Idaho. And really muck up the local housing market. Prices nearly doubled in six months. About half of them have...

Sales of CUTS and SCUTS are both down. Prices on used ones are also way down, currently a market glut. Good time to buy if you have the resources and need. With tariffs on steel, I only see prices of new ones going up, on both tractors and implements. But, as you said some of it is old fart...

Quite a few feral and semi-feral cats around my place. The only time I've had any problems with mice, was teh winter I decided to feed birds, and teh mice moved in to eat the bird seed. Bird food in a metal trash can with a lid, next to the bird feeder, solved that. A four-to-six-foot...

Hopefully I can find time to build a tractor shed this summer. Drew it up, ready to get permits two winters ago. Planning to start it in the spring after the ground thawed. Then my brother-in-law got liver cancer and died in four months. The younger brother and I have been providing home...

I'm from Idaho, and worked for Fish and Game, during the delisting process. The wolves did change a lot of the herd dynamics of the elk. They don't bunch up like they used to. There probably still as many elk as there were before the re-introduction. But they are a lot harder to count and...

Bercomac makes units for SSQA mounting with an integrated engine. https://us.bercomac.com/en_US/products/700968-66%25e2%2580%25b3-vantage-snowblower-for-tractors-equipped-with-skid-steer-style-attach You could do the conversion by getting a SSQA Plate, welding a frame to mount a 30 to 35-hp...

Flaming June by Sir Fredrich Leighton. Wouldn't have to be an original. A good, counterfiet would be ok with me. And, Yes I'm partial to buxom redheads.

There is an inholding on the Middle Fork of the Salmon River, in the River of No Return-Frank Church Wilderness Area, which I would love to own. Has it's own hydropower setup, and hot spring. Buildings are heated hydronically, as is the swimming pool. Several acres of fruit trees, and pasture.

Nearly all hydraulic reservoirs have a vent of some kind. And if you grossly overfill the reservoir, it can leak fluid. So, first thing to check is how full is it. Guy, I bought my tractor from grossly overfilled it trying to get a line in the sight glass, lined up with a dot. It was...

Have you talked to the County Extension Agent? Not sure with all the budget/spending shenanigans there still are Extension Agents. But, if there are it would be worth taking to them.

The roommate I had in my twenties and his brother were known as kamikazes. Ride anything anywhere full throttle devil take the hindmost. Both of them rode trikes, once and declared them too scary to ride. As a consequence, I was never tempted to ride one. Anything that scared both of them...

I didn't say to convert it into a 3-point attachment. You can easily buy long hoses, and quick connects. Tow it where you want it and when you want to leave on the tractor, disconnect it. As to the comment about it being slow, it would be dependent on how many gpm the tractor hydraulics...

Look around for a used splitter with a bad hydraulic unit and convert it to run of the rear hydraulics of your tractor.

I'm considering adding a super charger to the Mitsubishi S3L in my TYM T233. Mounting and plumbing the supercharger, an Aisin AMR500, would be pretty straight forward. Does anyone know how I could increase the injector volume to match the increased air? The T233, (23-hp), shares a frame...

When you look at tractors, look at the access to things. If you open the hood are things easy to get to? If not, how hard is it to get the hod off and set it aside and reinstall it when you're done? If you have wrenched on a variety of machines, you should have a feel for it. If you look...

Oil pan heaters on the engine and transaxle help a lot. Some of the engines with electronic engine management systems get confused by the hot water in the engine water jacket, and fail to enrich the mixture for starting, which makes them harder to start cold. Using the glue on oil pan...

TYM seems to have quite a few Japanese engines: Mitsubishi; and Yanmar for starts. I bought my T233 in part because it has a very common Mitsubishi industrial engine which I can buy parts, or even complete engines off eBay inexpensively. TYM bought Branson mostly to get Kukje, so you will see...

Can't speak to the T394 but, I am the third owner of a 2006 T233, with just over 500-hours. Five years ago, the universal joints on the drive coupling between the engine and transmission failed. TYM covered the repair as a warranty item, because nowhere in the manuals does it cover the fact...

The problem I would see in a DIY ROPS, is if you don't get things right, it can do more harm than good in a roll over or lay down situation, by bending and trapping the operator. Folks, engineering a ROPS is serious business, and probably isn't a good candidate for a DIY project. I'm a...

With an engine generating heat which has to be dissipated with the radiator, why would you not jut buy a heater core/fan assembly and install it...

are you running it enough to get the tires warmed up. If a tire deforms and has a flat spot when it gets cold, the flat spot won't come out until the tire warms up enough for the tire to get soft. Nylon cord bias ply tires used to be infamous for taking a set if they sat for a while.

Does your tractor have a lift pump before the filter? Vapor lock with gasoline and mechanical pumps was caused by the suction boiling the fuel. That is why adding an electric pump to feed the mechanical pump would solve the problem. Most diesel engines have a lift pump, which sets low enough...

I'd be concerned with t-posts rusting out over time.

Depends on our seismic zone. The entire Pacific Coast has a pretty high-risk level. If I had done a design, I would have included them. I'm a belt and suspenders, with tight pants kind of guy. At this stage, it would be difficult to do right with any of the inexpensive systems. Drive...

Ok, reading through this, I have the following comments: For backfill, see if you can get reject intermediate concrete aggregate from a local Redi-Mix supplier. Some have it, some don't, but it is a suitable backfill which is relatively inexpensive if they have it. Back fill as you go. Don't...

Backfill is clean granular material, which falls in at 100% compaction. And is free draining, with enough pore space to allow any retained water to freeze in the pores.

I've seen them in engineered walls of over twenty feet. But, that required tiebacks.

Similar but different. The transmission on the T25 is different, but happens to be the same as my venerable T233 and T293 tractors. And, having done the rear remote on my T233, I know they are not quite the same. Tony's T25 rear remote video did help with my T233 project. I have a second...

DeWalt's chain saws have a known issue with the bar oil leaking. I keep mine drained.

The new pulleys have the clutch drum attached. Which is why the kit is brand and model specific. They probably will not work with the Makita clutch. So, you have to either attach a belt pulley to the Makita clutch drum or convert the cutting head to work with the Makita chain.

I bought a battery saw primarily to carry in my truck to cut deadfalls out of the road. Not having to worry about stale gas and 2-cycle oil leaking in the truck is a big plus. And I carry an impact wrench in case I need to change a tire in the woods, which uses the same battery. I used to...

Could you keep the stock clutch and sprocket, and convert the cutting head to chain sprocket? You could then fit a chain with the cutting teeth ground off, or perhaps just buy a toothless drive chain. The Forest Service had some experimental units which were supposed to get you down to bare...

Do you have the 3d models posted anywhere?

try 12665084000. Tractor Tyme, and Tony's Tractor Adventure have both done YouTube videos on the installation. I think Tony's is a bit better. It is the same for the 474 and 574.

When I was shopping for my electric saw, part of what tipped the decision to DeWalt was the fact that they had contracted with Oregon to make the bars and chains.

Sound like: a collapsing inlet line to the pump; or, an air leak on the suction side; or, something floating in the reservoir which lifts up and blocks the inlet as the flow increases. Most probably something happening before the fluid gets to the pump.

That is because the grammar police have attacked American English. Pleaded in now the past tense of plead. Sawed instead of Sawn, etc.

The rod side of the piston generates less force for the same pressure, due to the rod taking up some of the piston surface area. So, flipping end to end would make a substantial difference in lift capacity. That is why you don't see cylinders attached with the cylinder end at the bucket.

Went to Tractor Forum and downloaded the Mitsy Manual.

DIYMyWay did a good video on YouTube of building his carry-all on a frame from tractor supply. He did have his materials list on his website. His video is worth watching, youtube diymyway - Search Videos

Picked up a used T293. Mostly to get the Cab and snowblower. 99% of the tractor service is covered in my T233/T273 service and parts manuals, because they are the same tractor with the exception of the 4-cylinder verses the 3-cylinder engine, and the wheel and tire sizes. I have the...

Thanks, I have the T233/T273 manual. Recently bought a T293, the 29-hp version. Because it has the factory cab with heater, (They did fit the same cab on the T233, making it the smallest tractor to ever have a factory cab), and came with a TYM branded mid-pto driven Bercomac Snowblower. If...

One of the guys i watch on YouTube, just posted a video of him rebuilding the cylinders for his excavator, by cutting the rod of the end, and welding in new hardened steel rods. His channel is FarmCraft101. I found it pretty interesting. And another guy I used to watch was repairing pitted...

I bought my TYM in large part because of the Mitsubishi 3L engine, which I can readily get rebuilt replacements for, or find the parts for. It was used in a host of equipment from many manufacturers. And is readily available. And after looking at a T25, it looked very similar to my venerable...

It bothers me that the sub-brands made by TYM are in the strings with the real tractors. Perhaps they should be sub-forums under a TYM Forum.