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Sounds odd. Could you post a pic of the 3PH arms?

I'd imagine bale spears would hold up well. That's what I used to build my brush forks and they're quite robust

Not able to picture it working as a tool to crown the road other than the first few feet to get it started. As soon as the SS reaches the slope that the blade creates you'd need to adjust the blade to be on the same plane as the SS. With the SS leaning, and the blade still tilted the blade...

Most BLI's get set to show the bucket position when lowered in the "let's scrape up the manure" position. I made one from some rod and mini Heim joints for the L3200 because it had nothing from the factory. You could come up with some crude system of marking it for other positions and develop...

I've had one rotary cutter that chewed into the ground if I didn't babysit the 3PH lever. Never had a flail. I have lots of hours with rear finish mowers. All have been equipped with 4 wheels. With the 3PH set to allow the deck to float, scalping is rare. I do have a place where a small...

I haven't read the whole story, but I would expect to have water enter the building under the walls unless the floor was higher than the exterior. The walls should sit on a "step" so the floor is higher than the apron on the outside. Caulking will fail. At the door, there should also be a...

If you want simplicity and good results, use Ken's Bolt-on Hooks. My BIL has some and they're very nice. If you want to DIY I'd suggest considering angle like I did. It's "bi-chainual". You can drop chains off the front or rear. Had this setup on the last 3 tractors and never a problem...

Big ones get picked up and tossed in the brush pile. Anything around 1" or smaller eventually goes away via the RFM.

Took plow off last week and did a little mowing where the grass was getting tall. Pretty Much a non-winter here. Checked LP tank and it still has over 40% on the gauge. May have gone through Winter on about 400 gallons.

WOW!! Did a quick search and suffered sticker shock. I'd be asking questions at the shop, or looking for tire prints on the pieces.

10-4. I don't even move my tractor with the doors hanging open. The rear quarters and the rear window itself can be opened with less chance of damage. The rear quarters don't provide any meaningful ventilation and I don't trust the rear window flapping around. The doors aren't easily...

Specs for reinforced concrete provide minimum embedment depth from the surface to address spalling caused by rust-jacking.

A little late to the game, but we poured literally hundreds of bases for site lighting poles where I worked. Poles were anywhere from 12 to 40 feet tall (except for football fields) and IIRC, all the anchor bolts supplied by the pole manufacturers were genuine hot dip galvanized. They weren't...

Laughed when I read this. Brought back some memories. It's been a while since the mulberries attacked me along the fencerow.

Way back in '73 I picked up an M&W Little Red Wagon and towed it back to the farm that my FIL bought from a seller about 50 miles away. Part of the trip was on a 4-lane highway. I had a 3/4 ton 1972 Dodge Power Wagon and it was white knuckles all the way. It was the first time I'd ever towed...

I see that the Power Adjust rim is available for them if the other parts aren't too corroded to reuse. Just Google MF Rear Wheels and you'll see a number of them. I'd wonder if the other side may be in a similar condition.

I HAVE NO REAL INFO, but guessing they may not have springs for one of two reasons: 1 At one time I bought a small trailer here in PA and without springs it didn't require license plates. Not sure how it is now - or in other areas. 2 Perhaps a concern about leaning a top-heavy trailer in...

Think it was 1/4". That tractor was sold about 4 years ago and the attachments went along with it. To hold it on, there were tabs you can see in the bucket, and there were chains around the back. The chains were tensioned with bolts (allthread) through the upper lip of the bucket.

I made something that sounds like yours on my last tractor. It was fashioned after the commercially available Ratchet Rake. There is an assortment of tooth bars with forward-facing teeth on the market.

Fully understand.

The only thing that I'm thinking of is the non-factory cab - unless it has heat and A/C. If you can get the doors off easily, heat would be enough for creature comfort. I ran a DIY cab with heat only and it would have been OK. I had an opportunity to go with a factory cab, and am really glad...

Well, if used oil is better than new I have a great deal for you. Next time I change my oil, I'll sell it to you for what I paid for it if you cover shipping. You get better "enhanced" oil at the original "not as good oil" price. Deal?

On another board, someone posted they were conceived in the back of a Jeep, so they identify as part Cherokee.

The company I worked for faced so many government-imposed hurdles it's a wonder we stayed in business. As years passed it became worse and worse. The restrictive edicts that were to help certain groups of people usually did not. The true result was a few "minority persons" getting rich and...

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One good indicator of soil that's a bit wet to rototill is when it resembles a spinning brown log😬

Around here I call them a nuisance. An occasional pass through isn't bad, but it seems like too many people with nowhere else to ride either feel the need to do 60MPH on the roads or them take to the nearest field and just go back and forth or around and around in circles...

I've posted pics and info before. Been using LED's since around 2012 and never any failures. Had four on the last tractor and eight on this one. All except for the two side-facing lights on this tractor, all were Maxxima MWL42 floods. ADDED: Couple notes from previous posts - Unless your...

Don't need one. I'm best served with a simple add-on wear edge. On the few occasions when I needed to loosen up some hard-packed dirt, I put the subsoiler on and gave 'er a few rips. When I had the first loader-equipped tractor, it seemed like a great idea to have a tooth bar, so I made one...

Ground down, screws all clocked to horizontal :)

All in an effort to reciprocate:)

More drift: Back when, our corporate offices marked the gender of the bathrooms with male and female cord ends glued to the doors.

Yup. In a few more pages it'll be about gay marriage and which way a 120v receptacle should be mounted:)

Never had a debit card. Currently have Discover and CITI. Had Mastercard. Never got stung with any of them. We did have a few disputes and came out just fine.

One of the Caroni decks I worked on had a leak. Replacing bearings and seals wasn't difficult. There's a REAL hardware/farm store about half an hour away that carries all sorts of parts. Many of the pieces used in implements aren't proprietary. https://paulbhardware.com/

We have a few acres, but no projects like you have planned. I can't add much to what has already been said. When we built, I had a subcontractor do all the excavation. Never had anything that needed excavated since so never considered having a backhoe (either as an attachment or as a separate...

At work we had good luck with a local upholstery shop rebuilding our forklift seats when they deteriorated like that. Not sure what's around you, but we're only a few miles from Manheim Auto Auction and there are a bunch of recon facilities around.

The owner of the first construction company I worked for had a brother with a position at Sears. He said that regardless of what any prices were marked down to for big sales or discontinued stuff, they were twice what Sears paid for the item.

Keep the plow blade as close to the tractor as possible and suspend the blade with chain so it can float independently of the loader frame.

I never noticed the DeWalts I've used to exhibit any "bucking bronco" behavior. Maybe that was something came from guys with the lady hands at the torque test channel?

At work we had scales on two of our forklifts. It was necessitated because we had many utility trailers that were used to ship small loads to jobsites. We did that when we became aware some of the shop people had no idea of the weight they were loading on them. I don't recall the brand, but...

The seats on all three Kubota tractors I've had felt like they wanted to dump me into the steering wheel. On the current tractor, I did a very simple modification to eliminate that. The front two factory bolts were discarded and replaced with longer ones. These have extra nuts to make it...

Based on my experience I'd say tractor with implements listed above. CAVEAT: My driveway has been paved for 30 years, is only 0.0568182 miles long and I've never operated a SS :)

One thought. It looks like the picture is of the hole circled in the attached pic. If so, it also looks like some stresses may be applied at the arrow as things move around a bit. That short joist running perpendicular to the other joists to carry the last section of floor may act like a...

Being in the electrical / mechanical field, there have been quite a few oddball things along the way. From installing heat lamps in a doghouse earlier in my career to orchestrating a pipe test (MFL) on several miles of old steam pipe before reusing it years after being taken out of service...

Our company bought a flatbed scissors truck (ex- airport ) and it was a useful piece to have. The bed could raise up flat, or could raise the front so it dumped. One application was as a mobile platform for working in turnpike tunnels. Since it was diesel it was OK there.

Another was a tubular knitting machine back in the early 70's. I was the kid who got sent on oddball service calls. Manual was in Chinese IIRC. Fortunately the schematic wasn't quite so "foreign" looking. A local company had several and they made material for tee-shirts. The machine would stop...

Built a three-circuit liquid cooler for use while testing AWACS "tube" years back. They needed to regulate three different flow rates of RO/DI(?) water. Been a while 🥴

Our long time accountant once told us that a third generation business in his experience is rare.

Pretty much the same with us. We built a decent place back in '90 on about 2-1/4 acres when the kids were young. With our savings and the sale of the old house, we had no debt when we were done. The lot is at one end of a 4-lot piece of the FIL's farm and one BIL is on the other end. We like...

Wish you were nearby. This would be an interesting project. I'm not familiar with that implement and would love to see it in person. It appears the coped plates on the square tube only contact the round tube like a guide and were never welded to it? Both the round and square tubes look bent...

There's no permanent winch on anything here. Both are made to slip in a receiver and plug into the tractor or Trailblazer when it's time to use them. I've had permanent mounts on several 4X4's since back in the 70's. The only permanently mounted winch on a tractor was the 3500# HF that I've...

Buy your fifth tractor first so you don't have to buy more than one :)

Yup. The company I retired from had all the trades, but we were heavy on electrical and mechanical. All trades have both Einsteins and Gomer Pyles:)

A tinknocker bud told me this story years ago and insists this is true: Two guys he was working with on a project were on a scaffold installing a run of duct. For some reason they couldn't reach what they needed to so they slid one plank outside of the scaffold frame for #1 tinknocker to stand...

What tacticalturnip said. You indicate the tractor isn't doing as well as you hoped at something. It would be helpful to know what it's coming up short on now plus what else you may have planned for it. Many here are tickled with their 25HP (or less) machines on much more acreage. Some want...

No first hand info form me, but I've seen positive reports from LS owners. Back around 2008 the company I worked for bought a Montana (green LS) and it had some issues that were resolved. One thing we ran into was a long wait for a replacement instrument panel. One of our guys didn't...

Pretty much what others have said. Add some structure and don't figure on extended use of a 12V winch. My smaller HF 3500# and larger Warn XD9000i Multi-Mount both slide into a 2" receiver. There's a receiver tube on the loader bucket and another on a structure below the grille guard. I...

I use an anti-oxidant paste (Penetrox, No-Alox, etc) on battery connections and it works fine.

No biggie, but handy: Magswitch welding magnets can be turned on and off like magic. They are pretty strong, and can be turned on after getting them into place. That's a nice feature. Also, when turned off, any metal filings / weld boogies drop off. I keep a piece of paracord on one so it...

Good idea! That should work. And since I've only used the top holes, I could experiment with the lower ones and not mess the original mounting up.

There's one place I could use more slop. Our driveway comes in flat from the road, then has a fairly steep hill that transitions into a larger parking / turnaround area. It's difficult to get a spot scraped clean unless it is approached for a certain direction because the tractor and blade...

Rigged a length of 3" conduit over one of the forks to "crane" a non-OSHA work platform over the creek to work on a stump. Slipped a small winch in the bucket's receiver to remove a few dead chiller compressors from a stairwell at church. May have done some other things for which photographic...

A bud at work said he was working on a job where they came across a nest of rattlers. The guy on the dozer did a real quick job on the nest, then went to lunch. When he came back and hopped on the machine, a survivor came out and bit him (fatally) on the neck.

We used Lexan at work for various things. One use was for forklift lids. We cut it to size and bent it with our large press brake (can do 10' pieces of 1/4" mild steel). The springback was substantial. 90° bends came back to nearly 45°. Cutting it is easy with a saw. While I haven't tried...

To address a few comments: First of all, the main problem with the setup is not being able to have the plow float as it would on a pickup truck - on a chain, so the weight of the equipment being floated is only that of the blade. The closer to the tractor the blade is located, the less of a...

I had an L3200 and used a rear blade and loader for a while. Then for a couple years ran a Pronovost 64" rear blower. Best thing so far is the QA mounted blade on the L4240. It's a lot faster than anything else and being mounted on the FEL means snow can be piled up easily. Whatever you do...

Yup. One of the pics from my DIY cabfab.

Table was made from "scraps" at work. What's already mentioned for tools plus assorted Magswitch holders. Added HD casters and a couple brakes. Have a pair of DeWalt 20V grinders and an old corded B&D that comes out occasionally, all 4-1/2". They wear cutoff, flap and grinding wheels...

You need two tractors - Best advice.

First of all, that's not a snow plow, it's a dozer:) As mentioned, you should float the plow blade. Floating the loader puts way too much down pressure on the plow. Also mentioned were shoes / skids / or some such part to prevent the blade from digging. My Fisher plow wears its factory...

I have a DeWalt 899 and it does everything I need it to. We did a head to head with the Milwaukee hi torque at work not too long after I got it on Gradall lugs and they were a dead heat. The newer 900 has even more torque. I have a fair amount of experience with DeWalt on my own and at work...

Posted this on another board, but the short story is that I wanted to add a light stand to my collection of battery lights. Had most of the stuff laying around - a couple Maxxima MWL42's a sturdy tripod that hasn't been used for 20 years, and an adaptor a bud gave me (clips onto a DeWalt...

Before you toss the "bad" battery check this video:

JJust curious. Was it a 4AH DeWalt battery?

I'll admit not going back to research it. Good thinking 👍

That looks like an interesting idea, but it would be good to test it before becoming too confident in it. It appears that in the event of a hydraulic failure the basket would rotate toward the tractor and bend/collapse the legs as the loader arms went down. When I was a kid a bud of mine...

I'm not a real "weldor" who welds aluminum foil or dabbles in monel, hastelloy, etc. I'm just a homeowner who likes to tinker. I had a chance to get a good deal on a Millermatic 175 shortly after buying the B7500 back in '02. It gets fed 030 solid with gas and 035 fluxcore without gas. The...

If you don't already have the plasma cutter, I'd suggest a Hypertherm Powermax 30AIR. It's plug and play 120/240V and has its own compressor and separator. I don't have shop air, just a small DeWalt compressor.

Do you mean the tractor doesn't start out smoothly from a stop, or it that it jerks as it moves all the time?

Strikes me as an odd comment from someone who owns two tractors manufactured by a corporation based in Osaka Japan 🥴 I appreciate both TBN and OTT, and have found great info and a lot of interesting topics both places.

Nope, not the trucking company. It's a real manufacturer with real engineers. If you want to be unconfused, click below. https://www.alliedsystems.com/

Industries have always developed, maintained, and shared best practices. The chart above though, with no source or specific application, posted on a tractor forum... is frightening. If you're referring to the chart I linked to, it WAS developed by an industry. I gave the source (Allied...

Yup. The chart was probably developed by a guy living in his mom's basement. Perhaps some dude with delusions of adequacy. Or mebbe not: https://www.alliedsystems.com/

https://www.gomog.com/allmorgan/bolttorque.pdf

My FEL mounted plow is set up to float on chains, just like it was designed to do when mounted on a truck. I can put the weight of the FEL frame or even the front half of the tractor if needed to loosen stuff up. Search for " underslung snow plow" and you'll see various members' approaches.

Here's an old post (#8) from 9 years ago and a short video. Last few years I went with modified blades on a side discharge RFM. https://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/threads/looking-for-suggestions-on-building-a-tractor-leaf-vacuum-without-a-mower-deck.310810/

As mentioned, a locksmith should be able to help. I remember having doors without the deadbolts - just the old fashioned locks when I was a kid. Every now and then we'd lose a key so we made a trip to the 5 & 10 store in town for some skeleton keys.

Search for "AH454 Heater" for one that uses the engine coolant. I used one in a DIY cab and it was great.

Common in my area as well.

I borrowed one of the smaller duct jacks from work when I built the shed for the L4240. The peak is probably 13 or 14 feet. The picture was taken during a test run for concept - just wanted to verify the jack was tall enough before starting the lifts.

"Float" can be a whole lot different for different equipment. If it's a rear blade, the weight of the blade plus the minimal weight of the 3-point arms will be pushing down. A front-mounted blade on its own frame - as opposed to a loader-mounted blade - would again have blade and a little...

My guess is at 14' it's not going to work. That's a bunch of leverage. My loader is rated at a ton and I wouldn't try that. I'd go with having a pulley at the top of the pole and a winch on the fork frame. Get the pole vertical THEN lift the truss. I removed a bunch of limbs from a tree in...

OSHA's Silica regs came out a few years before I retired. Our company made big investments in training and equipment. We always had PPE, but the amount of equipment and attachments required to be compliant with the silica regs was quite large. There's a means to mitigate dust regardless of...

I have your tractor's little brother - 1210HST. Pound for pound it is the most scrappy little fella.

It was for a car seat. It worked OK while I owned it, but it would sometimes need a little help when slush froze the metal-to-metal joint. Once broken free it was fine, but I'd use something with a little more torque if I started over.

Small electric motor with an adaptor for rotation and a linear actuator for chute up/down.

Lots of people think they know how things work - but really don't. A number of years ago I read a lengthy piece in a farming publication my FIL subscribed to. There was a big story on building collapses during a larger snowstorm. Most were caused by owners doing mods to their buildings after...

There's a drawer full of knives and small LED flashlights. all except my Sunday AM light are non-rechargeable. Out of all of the little flashlights the Streamlight Microstream below is my absolute favorite, and is always with me. We always have a good stock of Duracell batteries thanks to...

You're missing the boat if you don't seal off that sump. You want to have negative pressure under the slab. My one BIL had a pro do a system and they used a piece pf plexiglass or Lexan and silicone caulk. I've installed three radon systems. One here and one for each of two different sons...

Bending the stem of the yokes was the one weak link on RFM's for me. Been using RFM's since 1991 - a couple LandPrides and a few Caronis. All had what appeared to be the same yokes and wheels. I did buy a couple wheels from Agrisupply over the years, but no yokes. I bought one new 5' Caroni...

My point :)

Two here. Still have the little Ford 1210 we got around 1991 that took over for the Cub 154LoBoy. Wifey believed me when I said we could sell it when we got the B7500:) It's a scrappy little thing that's handy and fun. The main tractor is the L4240 and it replaced the L3200 that replaced the...

Any guess how many of those electric tractors will be running on their original factory power train 40 years from now?

A few years ago our COO at work asked if I could have our weld shop guys make a smallish fire thing for his wife - a cat lover. We took a large leftover weld reducer and plasma cut cat silhouettes in each quarter. She loved it.

The view from the seat does seem to be a bit busy :) Around here we rarely get storms that drop feet of snow, so there's no rush to "keep ahead" of the snowfall. Most of the time I don't go plow till the storm is subsiding.

Gordon, it would tempt me to mount a pair of floods on either the front of the canopy or the top of that mesh grille guard. The best coverage might actually be pointing them a bit "cross-eyed" to minimize some possible blocking by the loader frame. It looks like that would put them almost 3...

The company I worked for had a project for the Army COE on which there were drawings AND specifications that both had to be met. Although the drawings indicated wire sizes that appeared to be "normal" for the circuit ratings, there was a spec that called for a certain maximum allowed voltage...

The intended after dark usage of the tractor would affect the mounting locations of the lights. If you have a loader or front snow plow, the grille wouldn't be my first choice. ROPS (and front of cab) mounted lights for loader and snowplowing were OK, but were less than desirable for mowing...

Page 10 of the OM says to use #8for 100' on a 1-1/2HP model. https://www.rolair.com/sites/default/files/2022-09/5715%2C%206715%2C%206820K17D%20Owner%27s%20Manuals%20-%20Full-Size.pdf

I used a pair of magnets with whiskers made from zip ties. The one on the left is set to align with the top fin of the grille guard and sets the loader arm height. The one on the right is at the tip of the level indicator rod when the QA is at the correct angle. The QA roll angle is set and...

Addressing one concern mentioned - If a bucket or plow digs holes in an asphalt driveway, the driveway is worthless. Chain suspension (for a loader-mounted blade) - It's the only way I'd have it. It allows the blade itself to float with just the weight of the blade. Designs without chains or...

Mouse poison and glue traps.

Same boat I was in. We had Hougens at work, but oy they're pricey and mine won't get used enough to justify the cost. I opted for one from Amazon - a Vevor MD40, and use Stick-Kut lube for steel. It's been very useful and works well. My BIL needed to drill 6 holes in a precise pattern...

Way long ago I bought a Remington Limb N Trim. May have asked more of it than it could deliver, and parts melted. Had it only "limbed and trimmed" it may have lived. About 9 years ago I bought a HF extendable 120V pole saw. Works great, no problems. Gave it to #3 Son a couple years ago when...

I don't know beans about flail mowers. However: Is that a before picture? Those knives don't look very new, and the bolts look as though they've been undisturbed for a while. Are all knives present and accounted for? Any chance there may be anything missing? Check the pattern of those...

It appears to me the OP wants one less tractor and is trying to sell it back to the dealer. In my experience it would be best to sell it privately. Since we built here I've bought 5 tractors and sold 3 of them. Only one was "sold" to a dealer as a trade. When shopping for the L3200 in 2012...

Generator reliability. Reminds me of a call we got form a hospital almost 30 years ago. There was a power failure, and after running for a while, the generators shut down. Very big deal. Power came back and the generator vendor came and got them up and running. Then they simulated...

Last week I finished off about 100 gallons of home heating fuel I salvaged maybe 1-1/2 years ago. It was a couple years old when I got it. Before using, it got a good dose of anti-gel and antimicrobial juice. The last thing the fuel goes through is a fine Goldenrod waterblock filter.

Agree there's more material needed. We've done a lot of trench work and backfilling is really simple. Backfilling without settling afterward is not. There was one project with thousands of feet of ductbank was installed under paved areas. After a few years I had occasion to go back and see...

My last tractor was a 32HP HST open station. I built a cab for Winter use, but wanted A/C. Replaced it with a 42HP Kubota. I added 5HP for the A/C and another 5HP to go from a 6' RFM to a 7-1/2' RFM. That led to the current L4240 and it worked out fine.

Nice! You'll love it this Winter.

Never needed to replace any: Ford 1210 (1980's vintage, bought used w/ under 1000 hours in 1991) was main tractor for 110 years, still have it. Kubota B7500HST - bought new in 2002, sold in 2012. Don't recall hours. Kubota L3200HST - bought new in 2012, sold in 2019. 524 hours. Kubota...

I bought some soft shackles and snatch rings a couple years ago when I went with synthetic rope on my winch. The soft shackles, rated at something in excess of 40K are happy with a double-rigged setup on the 9K winch, so I'd trust them with the 2K capacity of my loader.

The thermometer shows the discharge temp in the L4240 before lining the roof. It didn't change following the lining, but it seems to have made a difference. Best comfort on really hot days is had by keeping the fresh air closed and running the fan on medium. It's also possible I'm imagining...

For something "important" I like PPG AUE 300. It's what I used one the DIY L33200 cab, snowblower, a rear blade and a few other thingsd. For other things I've had OK luck with both Majic and Rustoleum 2-part paint. EDIT TO ADD - At work we had a few projctes where we used Tenmec (forget the...

Ran a 64" version of the Puma on a Kubota L3200 for a few years. Made some skids of 1/2" flatbar. It was fun on driveways, but not good on open spaces. One handy thing is that the few parts I needed were commonly used equipment parts that are stocked a a good farm/hardware store nearby. I do...

Congrats on the new machine! One suggestion I have is to hold off on the boom pole. I made one for the Ford back in the early 90's. That tractor doesn't have a loader. After getting a tractor with a loader, the weeds are growing around the boom pole.

Nah. It has been entertaining. Just don't bother reading it if it doesn't appeal to you. There are lots of threads that don't interest me, so I skip them.

Yup. Unless you count "by pass" :)

Not what you're asking about, but many of us adapted truck plows to use on tractors. If you can do the work yourself it'll be pretty inexpensive.

You're best served by getting something at least the size of a Kubota BX with a loader. Doesn't need to be a Kubota, but the specs of it would be a good guide. I went cheap and well-used on the first tractor and couldn't wait to get something with more capabilities. Get something large...

Not enthused about it. Funny, at the bottom of the referenced page it says "Start blue, stay blue" :)

I want THIS! :) This one's a little too "blingy"

A cooperative dealer can at least tell you what hours showed when/if the tractor was serviced at a K dealership in its history.

But back to the original topic - I'd LOVE a real Winter. Plowing is fun for me. Ours range from nothing / aveage / odd blizzard. We had an oddity back around '94 or so when I kept the truck in 4WD for a week or two.

Saw a bumper sticker years back: "If it's tourist season, why can't we shoot them?"

Back in '02 when I refurbed the Ford, I bought many new nuts and bolts. Looked nice, but 20 years later it needs repainted again.

Tried front blade, rear blade, loader, rear blower and combinations of these. Front blade is my first choice. Our snowfalls are really inconsistent. Some Winters are real, and some tease us with a few light snows. Mounting the plow way out front is akin to having a front-mounted rudder with...

All three of the tractors I've had that were equipped with loaders had HST's. I could see where a "clutchless" shuttle might work well though. The single most annoying thing about a loader didn't have anything to do with the transmission. It was the joystick on the Montana we had where I...

Hey rv7charlie - I was WRONG. I just opened a pic file to show which model Bush Hog it was and saw it is really a WOODS!

Wow, you hired Bibendum to do your mowing! But back to mowers. I've been using finish mowers here since 1990. 5 footers, 6 footers and now a 7-1/2'. First was a belly mower on a Cub 154 LoBoy, then LandPrides and Caronis on a variety of tractors. I like the Caroni RFM's as much as any...

Neat idea, but it doesn't look like it would handle uneven terrain (hills and gullies) without either digging in at the front or bending when going over short rises.

I wouldn't hesitate to build a cab if A/C wasn't desired. I did some checking on adding A/C to the DIY cab. It wouldn't have been impossible - but darn near. Plus, I wanted to mow more than 6' wide and the L3200 didn't have the spare horses for a larger deck and A/C. My rough guess was +5HP...

Thank you, and yes there's a very long (some would say boring) thread covering it from start to finish. We bought the L3200 in early 2012 and started the cab about 6 months later. The cab was nice, and with the doors off it was better than an open station in the Summer heat. However, when...

I generally center the load on the loader. Not sure it's necessary, but have a feeling it could lessen the chance of tweaking the loader frame. I have no concern about using the center slot to grab any load. In the picture below, that 6' LandPride RFM on the L3200 is rigged that way because...

Branch out to Google and search "DIY Tractor Cab" "Golf Cart Tractor Cab" and "Home Built Tractor Cab" There are even YouTube vids with some. After seeing the shortcomings of soft cabs, I built a cab from steel and glass for the last Kubota. It cost me around $1200 and lots of hours.

Haha. I tossed mine in a drawer. Saw these on one of the tractor boards a couple years back and had to have some too. My BIL liked mine so I made up a chain for him as well. Pretty handy with a grab hook on one end and one of these on the other. The slotted angles on my attachments make it...

Welcome aboard! If you do a search you'll be able to see a number of examples of DIY soft cabs that should be generic enough to adapt. I recall seeing a number of them made from either old golf cart roofs or electrical conduit frames with golf cart canopies for cabs.

I have a bucket full of 3/8" chains but the past few years have been almost exclusively using 1/4". They're much easier to work with and can handle a lot more tension than my L4240 can dish out. I have a few chains that I made up with slip hooks like the ones below. Also made a short chain...

I very much prefer rear mowers. I've had 2 LandPride and 3 Caroni mowers over the years ranging from 5' to 7-1/2'. The LandPrides are heavier in a given size. That affects handling somewhat. I mentioned in another thread that my little Ford 1210 is happy with a 5' Caroni (with two small...

You could check a nearby United Rentals, Sunbelt or whatever for a "roustabout" or a duct jack. I borrowed a duct jack from work when I built my shed, so the small duct jack was OK. https://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/threads/found-the-piece-for-the-lawn-mower-shed.420084/

Welcome aboard, and hope it's something simple. Probably a misbehaving switch. I had to adjust a neutral switch on an L3200 because of intermittent starting problems. Sometimes I had to gently work it back and forth to get to the sweet spot. Then there are odd things like bumping the PTO...

Messick's is about 5 miles away. JD is about the same, but never owned a green tractor.

I've had a trio of 4WD Kubotae and a Ford. All have that what looks like way too much positive camber. Here's a pic taken recently that kinda shows the LF tire. I grooved them about 3 years ago. The tread is worn on the outside to the point the grooves are nearly gone, while the inboard side...

Years ago I had a B7500 that .made an awful sound when turned hard right. It was the R4 nubs running over the steering column. Not actually "when turning" but figured I'd throw it out there.

For the last month I've been mowing twice a week. It had been pretty dry here before that. Like some others, we have a yard and not a lawn. There's about 200' or so of creek that crosses our front yard with banks I whack several times each Summer. Other than that, glyphosate and mulch have...

Hahaha. We got off in the weeds a little. I don't have anything to add to the discussion directly related to the title. I would like to clarify a couple things that were mentioned: "Interesting. Let me throw something else into the mix. A gallon of gas around here is $3.89 and a gallon of...

I'm glad I don't have the same power supplier as you do (but we did have an increase I forgot about). I just checked our most recent bill and the rate is $0.0839 per KWH. That computes to nearly $0.78. The cost of a gallon of gas would be enough to charge about 5 batteries.

Interesting. Let me throw something else into the mix. A gallon of gas around here is $3.89 and a gallon of electricity is about $0.63. 😁

Sure would👍. Of course it would also be cheaper to buy an old scythe, a clipper like we had growing up (crawl on hands and knees) and a manual reel type lawn mower. Then get a new tire for the wheelbarrow, etc. 😁 Every type of tool has its place.

I didn't know that and it's valuable info. I retired a couple years ago and stopped the "battery tool arms race" after accumulating a good stock of 20V tools and batteries. One odd thing I did notice with regard to batteries is with the 4AH batteries. The tools and batteries I bought through...

My original DeWalt DCF889 went away in favor of the DCF899. The DCF889 only had ~400 ft-lbs max tightening. The DCF899 does everything I need now and unless I buy a quarry and work on Euclids, it'll be the last one I need. Below specs are for the DeWalt DCF899, and I believe Milwaukee has...

Piece of cake for 1/2" 20V impacts.

That's why I used real automotive safety glass when I built the cab for my last tractor. Just cleaning Lexan or Plexi windows causes scratches. Wipers are a real non-player.

In 2018 Wifey was talking with her brother who lives next to us. He had already gotten his L4740HSTC. He mentioned to her that at my ripe age of 69 then it would be nice to get me out of the elements, bugs, pollen and dust. She told me it wasn't something she had thought about (even though...

One thing I failed to bring up with regard to batteries is the significance of DeWalt going from 18V to 20V. We had an opportunity to speak with some engineers from DeWalt and the combination of going from NiCad to LIon batteries and bringing out the brushless line of tools was really a big...

Since I have both the Milwaukee M18 and DeWalt 20V Max, I can comment on the comparison. These live side by side and they don't fight each other. I'm not Project Farm, so I have opinions rather than charts made by using diagnostic equipment. There really isn't much difference between them. I...

Each type of tool has its place for me. I've kept gas trimmer, chain saw and a blower. They normally get used for the larger or longer duration work. The Stihl Kombi is the ticket for bigger stuff. I have their Power Scythe and the 4-tooth blade for heavier brush, and a string head for...

May be worth a call to Lancaster S&A. They did lots of stuff for the company including odd motors that ran hydraulic pumps in scissor lifts:

I looked up the HDTH-8 and it looks very similar to most RFM's. To check the alignment of things, I'd start with a good flat surface like concrete or a nice paved spot. After the normal safety advice (tractor not running, block wheels, ect.) start by making sure that all four gauge wheels have...

Welcome aboard! Pictures are always helpful.

Two at cab top front, two rear, two low in grille and two cubes in the loader support tubes. Good to operate 24/7. With the cab the bugs don't matter. I have had open station tractors and ROPS mounted lights were awful, between the bugs and the glare. I normally mow without the forward...

There are several trees on our 3-1/2 acres, and I take care when operating near them. There's always that minute of distraction that could ruin a $1,200 plastic lid on the cab. Not sure how I'd cope with "heavily wooded". Before this tractor I had an L3200 with a 6' rear mower. The goal was...

Found this: https://jyl.healthysmoote.info/kioti-lb2204-manual.aspx And this: https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2499334.m570.l1311&_nkw=kioti+lb2204&_sacat=257888

Welcome aboard! Before you replace anything, try taking the terminals apart and cleaning them well. Cleaning in this case is using something mechanical and not some miracle spray. Use a wire brush or fine sandpaper. Then coat the mating surfaces with an antioxidant paste such as Nalox...

When we bought our first house I made a T-shaped mailbox post from 4" SCH40 PVC. It lasted for years till a snowplow raced through after a very wet, slushy snowfall.

Age is the larger factor. At 74 I mind the heat more than I did years ago. The last couple Summers I was in high school were spent working in an old iron casting foundry. After that it was a career in construction. No A/C for us. Projects started by either ruining good piece of farmland...

You reminded me of how things were when I was a kid. A/C was something found in movie theaters, restaurants and the like. I remember only one residence with A/C - and that was a window unit rather than central A/C. We sweated while trying to fall asleep in the hot weather. I ordered an El...

Mowed on Thursday and figured it would be early next week till it was tall enough to need cut again. Late Saturday afternoon, Wifey said "Maybe you should mow before the rain gets here". It didn't look like it really needed it until I started cutting it. It surprised me that most of the yard...

As others mentioned, the blade should protrude below the sides. Easiest solution would be to add cutter to the front blade. In its current configuration it appears to be limited to knocking off high spots. Lots of vegetation shown. I'd York rake that stuff away to be able to work with the...

I mowed after lunch today. Temps were a bit over 90° and 50%+ humidity. It was a real blessing to open the mailbox late this AM and see that the pulley for the Caroni mower had arrived! Ordered online (AgriSupply) Sunday, it showed up in the mail today. Last time mowing there was an odd...

Do you really have these forks? I looked at an advertisement of theirs and it looks like someone photoshopped them into different pictures. The "rugged heavier bolt" appears to have about 1 thread engagement into a 12 ga piece of metal. See below:

Here's mine (Post 208) on a 21 page thread: https://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/threads/lets-see-some-homemade-3-point-ballast.394908/page-21

Three tractors I've had with loaders. As mentioned, whether you have multiple things you want to attach makes all the difference: Kubota B7500 - Pin on bucket. Didn't have anything other than the factory bucket that I wanted to use, so it was fine. I did have a homemade "extendobucket" for...

Sheesh. Everyone knows that for pulling stumps you need something like this as a starting point:

When I was shopping for a tractor about 4 years ago I looked at a NH. I think it had their CVT trans, and it had a strange feeling to it. The salesman told me they all felt like that, but I didn't care for it.

Here's a place to start: https://www.sealeze.com/products/formed-strip-brush/lever-seals Or you could buy a door sweep and quickly fabricobble your own and have leftovers for your friends...

Built the one on the Ford for use here at my place. We made the larger one for maintaining some gravel areas at work a few years ago.

My guess is it has to do with this: https://www.growingproduce.com/vegetables/tier-4-emissions-standard-changes-for-tractor-engines/ Disclaimer - I bought a nice 40-series for that reason. There were numerous reports of problems as the new regs took effect. Many here have since stated it was...

I never did any digging to see what the grubs looked like. I was very familiar with the adults that were chewing up my linden tree. When my buddy explained his solution, all he said was his yard had "grubs". Without doing any research, I followed his path with the milky spore treatment...

I bought milky spore at the local hardware store on the recommendation of a friend who used it years ago. My yard had a couple large brown spots where the browned grass could be swept right off the dirt. It worked well, so the grubs must have been Japanese Beetles. I have one tree that's...

Grubs - Have you tried Milky Spore? Worked for me.

Mine has filled rears as well. Most of the time the re-furbed 90" Caroni is on the tractor. For Winter, the deck gets stowed and I've been running this concreted barrel. It has tubes for shovels, etc. and a milk case for a few chains, lunch, whatever. The vertical tubes all run into a larger...

Bona fide Kubota knob on the L4240 and an aluminum one that has some name like Irrigation Products(?) on the Ford. Third Kubota - all with power or hydraulic steering - never a problem. The Ford with manual steering whached me a few times. The aluminum one on the Ford usually makes my hand black.

Get the tractor you want and make certain it's large enough. I bought "larger" several times till I was satisfied.

Never had the need to charge a phone , but both tractors and the tow-behind generator now have "flat two" trailer type connectors on them for powering other things. The 12V pump on the diesel storage drum, sprayer, additional magnetic work light, aux strobe, etc all can be plugged in as needed...

Some factory welds aren't all that great. Here's a picture of factory welds on a TS rear blade that let loose.

I've been using Ebay for some things lately.

It would be interesting to see if the current frames are made differently. The sticker on that one says REV2. Are they perhaps up to REV3 or REV4? Also, wonder if the welds would be the same on the broken and new frames. As in, were some missed on the broken frame?