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Way back when I was running an F2100 for my dad ('93), I ran it full speed into a raised/extended manhole cover. It brought the mower to an instant stop and almost threw me off the machine even though I was buckled in. Cracked the manhole cover but didn't even dent the deck. Just scratched a...

The first time we girdled trees, we had the same experience. My dad did it with my brother in law. I went back with him the following winter and I made 2 cuts 4" to " apart and went the full depth of the bar. All but 26 out of 28 of those trees died as anticipated. The 2 that survived had...

I've never done it, but the best advice I've heard is to girdle the tree so that it dies, and then wait about 2 years to fell it. During that time, most of the thorns are supposed to fall off. This is advise I read concerning honey locust. I presume the same should work for a water locust...

Congrats on the new acquisition! I used to mow roughly 15 acres per day with an old F2100 (it was relatively new at the time). Great machines. I bought a used F2880 for the house a few years ago. I will admit that a ZTR would work a little better for me, but I couldn't pass up the price...

IMHO, the bigger question is why NOT buy a bigger machine? Will you have a place to store it? A way to haul it? Will it be too heavy or too big to do something you want to do with it? If there's no reason to NOT get a bigger machine, then get the biggest machine you can get. As far as...

I pull a 5' brush hog with an old 27-29hp Ford 1710. The ground that I normally bushhog no longer has any saplings left in it (thank goodness). Some of it gets mowed every year, some of it gets mowed every 2 or 3 years. The 1710 has 12 forward and 3 reverse speeds. When I'm running the bush...

The likely reason he's using a 12k or 13k winch is because they aren't that much more expensive than a 4500 lb winch, they are strong enough to pull the tractor with the top layer, and with the loads that the tractor is able to support, they have longer cables, and a 12k or 13k winch will...

I probably should have included this in my first post, but for the intended use of skidding logs, you're MUCH better off using the tractor's drive train to do most of the work in comparison to an electric winch. If you NEED to winch a quantity of logs up out of a ravine, you'll burn up an...

They fit in my little 1710 :) Probably won't fit in anything new though. I'd just build a tray that allows it to sit somewhere else, even if that somewhere is above or below the winch.

I've had that happen more than once. Usually with a bed stack to the top of the cab with firewood (ie +5,000 lbs). Thankfully, it's never been quite that bad. Only once has a tractor struggled to pull me out. Ended up unloading the truck, and laying chunks of firewood in the ruts so the...

Get yourself a Group 31 marine starting battery, preferably the heaviest one you can get. I use one to run a 13k Xbull winch. I use the winch to drag 16' logs up onto my trailer. I can normally drag about 2 cords worth without totally draining the battery, but I'm also doing lots of 8' to 10'...

For that small of an area, use the cutting bar on the bucket to push all the junk (saplings and brush) out of the way. Pile it in the middle and burn it if it can be burned safely. After that, it really depends on how much effort you want to put into it. You go as simple as fabing up your own...

I have an OLD Ford 1710 and I pull a very heavy 5' bushhog with it. Technically, its somewhere in the 27hp to 29hp range. I don't deal with a lot of slopes, and my tires are loaded. I've never had to go to the slowest gear with it. The 1710 is nice because it has 4 ranges. I normally bushog...

Since you already have a bushog, I'd make do with a box blade and a harrow for food plots, especially with ground in that condition. If you have a really big garden, a rototiller is almost a must. My garden is 25'x75' and I find a walk behind troybuilt is better suited for it. If it were...

I've heard of people using old railroad ties or telephone poles. I've also seen where guys have made their own cultipacker by filling a piece of plastic culvert pipe with concrete and fashioning an axle of some sort for it. They seem to work extremely well. I don't have a disk myself, and...

My 2 bits. In my younger days, I roofed a lot of houses. I worked residential construction as a teenager and kept at it most of my way through college until I started working as a machinist. We generally did 4 or 5 roofs every summer, amongst other things. I was only involved in doing 1...

Admittedly, I read the first page and jumped straight to page 6. I'm sure you're already fixed this by now, but IMHO you have 3 choices. First, if its an expensive part that you can't afford to start over on (I know you are not in this category), take it some where that has a plunge EDM so...

A friend of mine is a few years older than you, and has heated with firewood his entire life. He's on 120 acre farm that's roughly 3/4 woods. He has a splitter that mounts on the 3ph of his tractor and he uses that a lot. A couple of years ago, his son bought him one of those little electric...

Looks like a Diddier. I have one out in the fence row that I need to put a new engine on. Decent little machines. People use to get them and modify them. Bascially lift them up to a comfortable work height and build a table around it. Should work for a long time.

Yes, because the OP just wanted a $15K tractor and loader so it could sit in his garage/barn and look cool. Heaven forbid that he put it to work and let it earn its keep.

The 2 local places for me use either windshield washer fluid (water and ethanol) or beat juice. When I got my (used) ag wheels, I had them shipped to the place that used washer fluid. One of those tires finally wore out and when I had a new one mounted, I took it to the other place that...

I split by hand from the time I was old enough to swing a maul until about the time I was 45. My shoulders started giving me fits around that time. In the off season I found a 26 ton MTD splitter in great shape for $475 so I bought it. Wish I had bought one a decade earlier. It's not a great...

A friend of mine did exactly this. He had a friend of his fabricate mounts so that he could put feet on his rear blade, and then had me weld them on. He also bought a 3pt adapter for his quick attach plate so that he could mount the blade to his FEL. He's very happy with his setup.

If you haven't plowed snow before, know that you need some ground speed (at least 8mph has been my experience) to make a snow plow work. If you don't have enough speed, you still push the snow, but the plow can't lift it off the ground. That's fine in a drive way or small parking lot, but not...

No offence taken (and guilty as charged...). Full disclosure, the full reason that I'm going through this exercise is that I lost a wheel a couple of weeks ago (ie destroyed the spindle and wore the nut completely OFF). Thankfully, I live at the end of a 1/4 mile dead end road, and the wheel...

FWIW, I skid all of my firewood out of the woods as logs (normally 30' to 45') where I use a log arch and winch to load them on my trailer. I cut mostly dead standing hickories, and they are normally in the 14" to 20" range. I do this because I need the tractor (27 hp 1983 Ford 1710) back at...

I understand what EZ-Lube axles and Bearing Buddies are, but thanks anyway for the information. I'm just saying that the axles, or more specifically the spindles are not EZ-Lube axles (they likely pre-date the EZ-Lube design), and I am not currently using Bearing Buddies, but I am considering...

Manually. My axles don't have the the pathway for the grease in the middle.

The engineer itch is about understanding the differences so that I don't end up picking a grease that doesn't work when most of them would have worked just fine.

I'm getting ready to pack the bearings on my equipment trailer. It has 5200 lb axles. I'm an engineer so I suffer from paralysis by analysis.... I've searched the forms and it seems like everyone has an opinion on what to use. Based on what I've read on-line (since on-line is the most...

Actually, my '93 7.3L F250 ext cab long bed got 18 mpg driving up and down the road. My 2000 F350 crew cab (7.3PSD) does better at passing on the interstate, but even though it was NA, the '93 would haul a load better. My 7.3 PSD also gets slightly worse fuel economy (16 mpg), but both got/get...

I've been on jobs like that as a volunteer. The crew that I volunteer with uses multiple minis with thumbs and track skid steers with grapples. You can do it with a tractor and grapple, but there's a limit to how much of a hill a tractor can handle. As far as tearing up the land goes, the...

I used to mix it with diesel and run it in my '93 7.3L IDI in the colder months.

I'm assuming that you're talking about a 261. If so, it can certainly pull a 20" bar. I've run a 20" on my 026 from time to time, but these saws run a lot stronger with a 16" or 18" bar and it keeps the weight down.

WOOHOOO!!!! That must mean they are going to remove all the EPA regs that choke the engines down and kill the fuel mileage :)

Are you buying a tow vehicle, or a daily driver? You have to choose. That's why I own a 2000 F350 PSD AND a 2007 Camry. The Camry takes me back and forth to work, gets groceries, picks the kids up from practice, ect. The truck hauls the camper, hauls the tractor, hauls firewood, and goes...

What size and kind of wood are you generally cutting? What saw(s) do you currently have? How often are you cutting? When you cut, how long are you cutting at a give time (ie 15 min to get a limb out of the way, all day to get firewood prepped for winter, or somewhere in the middle? I run...

If it was truly about maximizing profits, the best thing to do would be for all of the farmers to cut back on their production (and costs) in order to drive the prices up. In saying that, I'm intentionally taking the concept to an extreme that's not really feasible. My point is that, in the...

I heat with firewood and I drive a ways to cut it. Therefore I pull an 11K trailer and haul roughly 2 cords of hickory back every time. Too much work for a battery powered saw. That said, a friend of mine cuts his firewood on his own property and normally only cuts about half a truckload at a...

FWIW, I built a set of chains for my old 1710 (2wd, R1 AG tires loaded). I modified a 7' truck blade to attach in place of the bucket. It would plow our road just fine so long as there was no ice under the snow. If you EVER get any ice, you'll regret not having chains. I lucked into some...

A friend/co-worker of mine is starting to go organic on his farm. This is his first year. He brought in 100 acres of winter wheat this summer. Yield was down 30% BUT so were the costs so his profit was the same. Those fields already have a reasonable amount of microbes and earth worms are...

FWIW, Triclopyr normally doesn't kill clover unless you hit it pretty hard or use it every year. I've used it in the spring to kill Creeping Charly. It did a number on the clover, but didn't kill it. The clover didn't bloom that year, but has had no issues blooming since. If anything it...

Thanks for the reminder. I used my last spare trailer tire last year and forgot to get a new one installed on my spare rim (15" 6 lug). I've always kept basic tools in all of my vehicles. At least enough to change a tire. My truck is an old F350 crew cab. I keep an electric impact in it...

I'd probably bush hog it first. If you're tractor has a loader on it, use the loader to knock off the top of any really rough stuff (back drag over it). After that, mow it (short) for a month or two. That should give time for all of the seeds to germinate and get mowed off. The goal here is...

I'd contact the nearest welding/fab shop so long as you have a way of getting it home from there. For rough estimates, I use places like MetalDepot.com to figure out what I should budget, but my local welding shop normally sells it to me for at least 10% less. I'm normally buying angle iron...

I use a pair of 5/16 G70 chains for my Ford . With the bush hog on, it weighs around 4500 lbs (tractor plus loader plus loaded tires plus wheel weights plus bush hog). I run one chain through the draw bar and anchor to D rings on each side of my trailer and use a binder there to tighten...

When was the last time Warren Buffet helped you out? Where do you think this supposed "profit" goes when you buy GM/Ford/Chrysler products? How about this. Which mfg employs more people in the US? Which one buys more of their components domestically? Which of the mfgs are KNOWN for putting...

I haven't read all of the responses, and I'm sure this has already been said, but for hauling 10K, you're MUCH better off keeping the truck that you have. I'm assuming that you have the 7.3 psd. If so, they don't build a truck that reliable any more and haven't for well over a decade. If the...

Actually, on tow ratings its quite the opposite. When the manufacturer advertises that their 5,000 lb vehicle has a tow rating of 15,000 lbs, that should clue you in to the fact that the advertising department isn't telling the whole story. There are a LOT of idealistic assumptions that go...

It all depends on how you're truck and trailer are set up, how far you're hauling, and over what kind of terrain. Tow ratings on 1/2 ton trucks are mostly an advertising gimmick. They are based on ideal circumstances with a lot of assumptions on how your tow rig is configured don't take into...

I still don't entirely understand what you are looking for. More specifically, I don't understand what all you want the machine to do. It sounds like you have roughly 40 acres of pasture that you mow once a year to keep the brush and trees from taking it over. If that's the case, I don't...

With enough time and money, almost anything IS possible. If this were on a machine from the mid 80's where the parts were no longer available, then I would recommend repairing, or more accurately rebuilding it while also beefing up the design significantly. It would be quite a bit of work...

I've had progressive for most of my life. My wife had State farm when we got married so we switched to them for a few years. Then she had a wreck and we had to actually use the insurance. What a pain in the rear. Every body shop we talked to had the same opinion of State Farm. We...

I'll throw in my 2 bits. I have a 2000 F350 crew cab long bed with the 7.3 PSD. My last truck was a '93 F350 with a 7.3 NA IDI. Both trucks have/had a 6,000 lb rear axle. Both trucks were/are equipped with 15,000 lb receivers and the tow package (ie brake controller). With the '93 I pulled...

Nothing like planning on buying something twice. Once from the seller, and once from the insurance company.

My limited experience has taught me that with tractors, HP is really only applicable on the size of implement you're able to run with your PTO. Every tractor I've ever seen has been able to produce enough torque to break traction in any reasonable gear regardless of how its weighted. My 1983...

I like Project Farm, but his gas powered chainsaw was NOT a good comparison of gas powered chainsaws. It was a comparison of home owner grade, gas powered chainsaws and the MS250 that he had in the video had more displacement that the Husqvarna. There was no way that Husquvarna was going to...

Thanks! Did you bolt it on to the factory weight, or to the tractor frame?

Does anyone have any ideas for a rear hitch on a Kubota F series tractor? I'd like to add on to my (new to me) F2880. Mine currently has the factory rear weight installed. Idealy i would like to mount a 2" receiver tube just to make things convenient. Primary goal is to be able to pull my...