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Hi TBN friends. My Kubota L39 will go into neutral but the neutral light will not come on and I have to find the "sweet spot" for the starter to engage. I would guess this has to do with the transmission safety switch either gong bad or some adjustment. Can anyone offer suggestions as to its...

Hi Friends, I haven't been posting much lately though I've been on the forum for years. I have a problem with my Kubota L39 and this is the first place I would look for suggestions. My tractor will go into neutral but the neutral light does not show and I have to catch a "sweet spot" for the...

The quick attach system on my Kubota loader is the BobCat Quik-Tach type of system where levers engage pins that attach an implement to the loader frame. Well I have not dropped the bucket in a good while and I can't get the pins to disengage. I have been soaking them with PB Blaster for the...

I have county water at my place that runs about 800' feet of 1" PVC from the main to my house. Somewhere along the way I have developed a leak. My water bill makes that obvious. We have had rain off and on for the last few weeks so it has been impossible to find any wet areas that stand out...

Hi all, hoping you hydraulic guys can help me with a guess on what to expect to pay for a cylinder rebuild. The cylinder is 3 1/2 x 24" on a log splitter. It is what I think is called a "tie rod" cylinder, the type with long bolts on the exterior holding the front cap on. The cylinder is...

I have notice that when doing a "quick reply" that it is taking much longer for it to post and I have ended up with double posts several time. I don't believe I am doing anything different so I thought I would mention it in case there is a problem. MarkV

We are rural enough that our Verizon wireless modem has been our form of internet connection for the last few years. My wife is interested in adding another computer so we are looking at the Mobile Hotspot from Verizon. Was wondering if anyone here has had an experience with them that is good...

Anyone have interesting or funny rural road names in your area? We have been traveling the county lately looking at examples of the work some local loggers do as we select someone to log a timber stand my MIL owns. A couple that have made me smile are "BOOGER HOLLOW RD." and "BOOZE MOUNTAIN...

We live on 32 acres of mostly wooded land in NW Georgia. Seeing deer, not the tractor type, is common around our place and something we enjoy. Normally they will take off when the wife is walking the trails with the dogs but not today. There was a small doe, from what the wife says, that our...

Muhammad I have noticed that many new members introduce themselves as well as pose a question in their introduction that is more appropriate in another forum. With the thousands of threads to read on TBN not all of us have the chance to address every new member question. I am wondering if a...

Does it have an auger system or is it just gravity feed? MarkV

The heat and air system in our house is 37 years old so it is time to go shopping. What kind of questions should I be asking as I look at proposals and estimates? I hope some of our HVAC professionals will jump in as well as you that have done research in the past. The house is all electric...

Happy New Year everyone. I have a fireplace insert with a built in blower that is controlled by a rheostat. What I would like is for the blower to run at about half the speed of its current lowest setting. Can I add another plug in rheostat at the wall socket to reduce the fan speed? Are...

Hi all, I need some help. A logging crew working next to my MIL's property removed 660' of fence during their logging operation. Unfortunately we have not been able to resolve the issue over the last four months and it now looks as if we will are going to court. I am hoping someone has a...

I am finding that 1 out of 3 or 4 posts I get a message that says I have to wait 30 seconds between posts. The problem is I am just hitting the "submit post" on "quick reply" and doing one post when the message kicks up. If I use the back arrow the post is there. MarkV

Anyone have any experience with this mower? I haven't been able to come up with the specs, Bush Hog no longer makes Flail mowers, and have my eye on one that may be a good deal. About all I know is that it is a 6' off set mower that runs two tail wheels. Thanks, MarkV

Hi all, I am wondering if anyone has any experience with how to handle damage done by a logger. Here is the story. My MIL, late 80's, has a nice tract of 120 acres that we pretty much manage these days. An adjoining property was just logged and the loggers remove about 400' of her fence and...

Hi all. I have a brick chimney that services a wood burning insert and has a single tile flue with a cap running in it. The cap only covers the flue leaving around 1 1/2' of chimney top on either side of it exposed. Those areas are covered with mortar and have a good drain slope to them...

Hey guys I need some help removing a stump jumper on a KK rotary mower. The last time I mowed I happen to notice that the gear box seemed loose and to access the bolts that hold it on you have to remove the stump jumper. I have gotten the large retaining nut off but there must be a trick to...

We are not very knowledgeable computer users and just can't seem to keep a PC running well. Seems that every 3 or 4 years we buy a new PC when we give up trying to make the old one work. By then Microsoft has changed everything and we start a whole new learning curve. This time some friends are...

Many of you are very computer knowledgeable and I am just the opposite so I am hoping you can give me some advice. We are on old phone lines with dial up internet service and little hope of the phone company up grading in the near future. My wife’s company has changed their system and it is...

We are in a heck of a drought here in Georgia so I am putting a drip irrigation system in for my vegetable garden. The components of the system are from www.rainbird.com and include two control valves, filters, fittings and 700’ of ½” drip line with built in emitters every 18”. Each of my 14...

Hi guys, I know some of you work equipment for a living and thought you could offer me some insight on backhoe pins and bushings. I have a Kubota B21 TLB with 1300 hrs that has had a rough life working the backhoe in rocky conditions. It has taken a toll on the pins and bushing and I am...

The general “Buying/Pricing/Comparisons” forum loads about 10 times slower than any of the other forums for me. Was wondering if that is on my end or the nature of the beast? I am on a bad dial up connection so you really notice those types of things. MarkV

I have to start by saying I do not know very much about guns so feel free to talk down to a beginner’s level with me. Or I should say, please talk down to me I don’t understand the calibers and terms very well. We have a minor problem with muskrats and beaver in our pond at times. The game...

Need some advice about having a portable saw mill come and mill some pine trees for me. I have about 25-30 lumber grade pines that have to go for a new barn site. In this area that isn’t enough trees for a logger to bother with and I hate to just cut and burn good trees. I do think I can find...

Had one of those “How did I get in the middle of this” type of days yesterday. I have been installing oak floors in four houses for one of my regular builders the last couple of weeks. Yesterday his labor was on the flat roof of a house I was working trying to nail some 2x4’s under a shallow...

I know we had a discussion about running a PVC pipe under an existing drive and I can’t find it with a search. I need to get a ¾ PVC pipe under an eight foot concrete drive to tap into the county water line. Can anyone tell me how that is done using water to jet the pipe through? What I can’t...

I get real dense when it comes to figuring out vehicle towing capacities and need some help. I have a truck I would like to turn into my tow vehicle and before I start putting money into it I want to make sure it is up to the job and will be legal to work with. The towing would be local...

I need new mowing equipment and after a new tractor last year it looks like $3000 is all I can sneak past ‘she who hides the check book’. I am mowing about 11/4 acres of finish lawn that is relatively smooth and flat. I’ve been using a 17 hp Murray with a 42” deck that we bought used when we...

Puter Guys Help Me My darn cursor acts like it is having a seizure the way it is jumping around. Wants to keep going to the scroll bar on the right. If it wasn’t so hard to use it would almost be funny. You have to time your hit on the mouse button as it flies past the subject line you want...

Any one know the going price for one of these new? I found an almost new used one and I am not sure what to offer. Thanks, MarkV

Hi all, hope you are having a great holiday season! Does anyone have experience with prescribed burns for the betterment of forest and wildlife health? We are in the pine tree zone of the Southeast and have about 75 acres of family land that the foresters tell us needs to be burned. About 10...

I have a Gear vs HST question but NOT which is better, I run and hide from those discussions. So please leave those opinions at the door or move on to one of the more heated discussions. My HST tractor now has 1200 hrs and I put another 800 on the HST tractor before it. My new tractor has...

Bushhog 5\' Squealer model Anyone have any current price quotes on the 5’ light duty, Squealer series, Bushhog rotary mower? Just curious to see how competitive a new local dealer is. Thanks, MarkV

I have a trail through the woods on our place that the wife likes to walk and visitors like to drive the ATV on. There is one small area (100’) that stays to wet where the stream and run off feeds the pond. I am thinking of cutting trees in 6 or 8’ lengths to lay perpendicular across the trail...

I need some ideas on what to do with small pine trees. Here is the situation. My in-laws are at that point in life where the wife and I are taking care of most things for them. They live on 120 acres of forested land which was 60% logged about 8 years ago. After the logging we had several...

Any thoughts out there as to how to Raise the Roof on my out building? The place we bought came with an existing out building that is block construction and measures 19’ 6” x 38’ on the exterior. The roof framing is trusses with a 4/12 pitch on 16” centers with ply sheathing and a shingle...

Anyone have experience bringing someone to their property to saw logs with a portable mill? I have about 20-30 mature pines that I need to take down for a new barn site. There aren’t enough trees to interest any logger in this area so I was thinking about having someone mill it. These are...

We are considering buying some rental property and I have never been a landlord before. I know some of you own rentals and some I would bet have gotten out of owning rental for one reason or another. Though you might share some of what you have learned and your experiences. For some...

I am one of those city transplants to a rural area and don’t understand part of rural mortgages. Last year we bought 32 acres and a house in the country. The previous owners had resurveyed the property into a 5 acre tract with the house and 27 acres of undeveloped land to make it easier for...

Anyone have experience with "CDP" thumb kits (WWW.CDP-Backhoe.com) for backhoes and excavators? These are laser cut thumb kits that you weld up yourself and they also sell some backhoe kits. I have wanted a thumb for brush, stump and firewood moving but there just don't seem to be that many...

We have made our final move to the country and just love it except for our Internet connection. The step back to a dial up connection after having DSL seems painfully slow. We signed up for Joi Internet hoping their ads of "DSL like speeds" would be somewhat true. Well it isn't much like my...

I have a B21 TLB and need to get a rotary mower. For those of you that are unfamiliar with the B21 it is Kubota's smallest heavy-duty tractor/loader/backhoe seen more in commercial applications. It is 21 hp with a heavier front axle, stronger hydraulics and a massive sub-frame to accommodate...

Here is something I never thought I would ask about. Someone gave me an A-Z type of book about rural living for Christmas and they had a short section about small-scale worm farms. It was geared towards what great soil amendments worm casings made for flowers and gardens. Well my wife saw the...

I sure could use some help from you gardeners. We are in a new home in Northwest Georgia and finally have some room to start a good size garden. Any of you that know our soil in the Southeast know that clay is the main ingredient. I would like to start improving the soil in the future garden...

We have a new house that was built in 1973 with a full basement and block foundation. In the last couple of months that we have owned the house the basement has been dry but it is obvious from the stains on the block that moisture has penetrated the foundation in the past. The visual signs...

Sure could use some help with a good poison oak remedy. We have a new property now and have been doing a great deal of clearing. The wife got a case of poison oak and I was thinking how glad I was that I never get poison oak or ivy. Well, for the first time in my fifty plus years I...

I should wait to post this until I have all of the information but may be I can get an idea of everyone's general thinking. We are buying a new place and the present owners have a 1 or 2 year old Craftsman lawn tractor they are offering for sale. I have seen the mower but didn't pay a whole...

Well Bird has reach 10,000 personal posts and the amazing thing is they are all valid useful posts that the rest of us have learned from. Congratulations Bird! I look forward to your next 10,000 and learning more about tractors and life from you. I will also continue to watch and learn from...

I JUST HAD TO TELL SOMEONE, so I came to my friends here on TBN. The wife and I have wanted to leave the city for sometime but with 10 years before retirement we were not in a hurry. We have a second home in the mountains to fill the decompression needs and use the tractor. My father-in-law...

Full Size SUV\'s We have been having a frustrating year with our Land Rover Discovery and my wife is starting to tell me, as only she can, that if she doesn’t get a new vehicle, I can forget any tractor related purchases, forever. We will start looking at full size 4x4 SUV’s and don’t have any...

Any ideas on how to discourage raccoons from making my deck their home. We have a weekend home that hangs on the side of a mountain. The front edge of the deck is 20’ above ground level. Our local raccoon neighbors have decided that climbing a tree adjacent to the deck and enjoying the view...

Is buying a dozer worth it? We are working on a deal that we hope will end with us owning 68 acres of rolling land that has not been used for over 50 years but was a farm at one time. The higher points of the property have more mature hardwoods and the lower points, fields at one time, are a...

Thought you Build-it-yourself people might have some thoughts on this idea. Yesterday there was a crew installing an in ground irrigation system at the house across the street. They used a Case trenching unit to cut trenches for the PVC pipe going in the ground. (this is new construction with...

I need some help from those of you who understand trailer towing. I have done very little and can’t figure the towing capacity of my van. The owner’s manual shows some charts that might as well be written in Greek to me. The van is an E250 Ford with a 5.4 V8. I ordered it from the factory...

Does anyone know of a web site that shows the factory options that are available for different Kubota tractors? On Steve Carver’s web site they do a great job showing specs, but I don’t find a list of factory options for a given tractor. Kubota’s web site is----------well-------------not as...

I have an interest in building a smokehouse for cold smoking fish and meat the way Great Grandfather would have. Searching the net brought up several bits of information but not as much as I would have liked. I thought that one of you might have a source for plans and techniques used in...

Atlanta is sitting with 5” of snow on it this morning. The last time we received this much in one snowfall was Jan. 1992. I know my Northern friends on TBN are smiling and saying “big deal”. The problem here is we are not equipped to handle snow. The DOT only has 30 trucks that can spread...

I don’t know if this is where it should go, but here is the question. I have a friend with a 1956 Ford 600 whose 3PT hitch will not lift. Prior to not working at all, it seemed to work slowly on an intermittent base. He was told there were a couple of seal that could be replaced through an...

I had a problem this weekend that I had not experienced before and thought some of you might be able to shed some light on what happened. After about 5 hours of continues use of the backhoe and loader on my B21 the hydraulics gave out. The backhoe would not respond at all and the loader would...

Does anyone know if W.R. Long has a web site or any site that offers specs and information about there products? MarkV

Georgia Kubota\'s In Georgia, the Dept. of Agriculture prints a weekly paper, The Market Bulletin, with a Farm Machinery want ad's section. I thought that some may be interested in what is out there and how much it cost. '98 Kubota B2400 tractor, 24hp. hyd. exxcellent condition, $10,000 '99...

Hi all, Has anyone ever heard of a Brown tree cutter? I have a friend in N. Fla. who manages a plantation for a family and he was telling me about this tree cutter. As I understood him, it is like a bush hog that has a large weighted disk (+/- 300lbs) with 3 cutter arms hinged to the disk...

Hi all. I am not sure what I am good at, but I know it is not computer terms. I am considering a DSL hook up here at home to turbo charge our internet speeds. It is getting to hard to keep up with all the TBN posts at the snail pace of my dial up system. I am hoping that some of you computer...

Thought some of you might enjoy part of my adventure these past few days. We have 14 acers in the N Georgia mountains where we are working on the never ending weekend house. Our place has about a 400' drop in 380', so steep is the main feature of the property. A neighbors house burned to the...

Hi all, sure could use your advice. Living with a water well is new to me and I am unhappy with the pressure we get at the tap. Our well is about 550' deep and 150' from the house. The well company installed a 1.5 hp pump in the well and a small pressure tank is in the cawl space of the...

I know many of the forum members are in differnt stages of clearing areas they want to develope. I ran across an ad for a tree shear and brush clearing attachment, for a FEL, that I thought might be of interest. Check out this web site WWW.TREETERMINATOR.COM (I don't know how to make a link...

BAD \'BOTA!!! Need some help from you cold weather pros. My B21 (1998 model/ 580 hrs.)has never failed to start, until today. It has not been started in two weeks and sat out in the cold during that time. (34F Hi, 10F Low) These are temps below normal for a Georgia tractor and I am not the...

Muhammad, With the holidays on top of us I felt it was a good time to thank you for giving us such a great forum. I admit to being a Tractorbynet addict that needs a daily fix. Without all of your efforts, this wonderful group of cyber friends and teachers would not be there for me each day...

Muhammad, Have you ever considered adding to the equipment links an area for forum suggested links? Other members have offered some great sites for any number of things and I thought a library or listing of these would be useful. Thanks again for the great forum. MarkV

I sure do need some help. My knowledge of the inter workings of computers is very limited. My problem is that when I download a photo from the forum the image ends up with white lines across it. If the image is larger than the screen, when I scoll down everything that leaves the screen turns...

Does anyone own or use a 3pt Bush Hog brand log splitter? I just got a good deal on one from a dealer that is shutting down due to a fire. I hate to see them close they have been good people. The splitter is new but the paper work did not make it through the fire. There was a past discussion...

Muhammad- Yesterday (7/25) I tried to reply to a post and received a message "Could not connect to tractorbynet.com" It was during a peak internet time (5:45pm) and may just be to much traffic around here. I think Bird and MarkC were having some trouble about the same time. I only bring this...

The sides of my road are to steep to drive with a Bush Hog and I was wondering if a sickle mower might do the job? Can anyone tell me how well these work for this type of job? Is the bar ajustable up and down to work the side of a slope or down an edge? Any better attachments for this type of...

Anyone have experience with a hinged box blade? My dealer is pushing me towards a box with the rear blade hinged. He feels like it will leave a smoother finished surface than a fixed rear blade. Many have written about ajusting their top link to use the rear blade for finishing, like back...

Can anyone share insite on 2 stroke gas/oil mix? I have so many gas cans around for differnt 2 strokes I have trouble keeping them straight. Chain saw wants 30:1, trimmer 50:1, blower 40:1, ect. I had a dealer tell me to run them all at 40:1 and I would be ok. Just don't know enough to be...

Muhammad, I have been having problems when I use the previous and next arrows at the end of a subject. When I hit next the subjects are not going up in the order listed in the index. Just thought I would mention it if no one else has. Thanks for the great site!

Had a strange thing happen that others should check. While tarping up my B-21 at the end of the weekend I found my ROPS had broken. On the B-21 there is a four point ROPS with a heavy frame system and metal canopy over the top. The rear ROPS is a loop bolted to the tractor frame and looks...

I know many of you feel you have talked box blades to death but some of us are slow to learn. I am about to buy a 5' box blade for my B21 to use on gravel roads most of the time. After rereading the archives and looking at the condition of the roads I need to work I am concerned about getting...

Hi all. I am about to buy a box blade for my B21 and wanted to see what everyone's experience says about size. My dealer seems to feel a 5.5' or 6' would be fine. I thought a 5' behind a 21 hp tractor would be about max. Sure like to hear what you box blade users think. Thanks Mark