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    Newbie with many questions

    Old apple trees are well rooted. Take out the smaller stuff but leave the larger apple trees to renting a mini ex. You can do a lot of damage with one of them in a day or two.
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    Need 7-16 r 1 tire the right size.

    Did you try Pete’s Tire Barn? Listing size has no objective parameters. Seems the manufacturers do not necessarily adhere to a standard actual dimension. Who makes your current ones on the Kubota?
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    Tractors and wood! Show your pics

    Looks like a death trap to me complete with bait. (I'm not quite right am I)
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    Tractors and wood! Show your pics

    Well I know I can't because I had drowned once when I was 16 and only by a stroke of luck that I am still here. I'll tell you one thing. Even though I wasn't in the water any longer at that YMCA, I was floating however for a good long time after Lauren pulled me out. Hmm? Had been at this Y...
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    Tractors and wood! Show your pics

    I fell in one of those once. Had just given blood and was holding my (at the time) 3 yr old grandson by the edge Of a ymca facility. Got up quickly from a stooping position and passed out into the pool. Cant swim either so it was a fun time. Grandson couldn’t stop laughing that papa went into...
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    Tractors and wood! Show your pics

    Yikes! Thats hot. I’m happy with 68. I think up your way was actually colder this year than further south.
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    Tractors and wood! Show your pics

    Ok Now l see. You don’t burn 24/7 mostly relying on your furnace beyond a certain temp and then supplementing w the wood stove. My main house is a log home and very poorly insulated as a result. l go thru about 5 full cord there and rely on the boiler for supplementary heat or opposite what you...
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    Tractors and wood! Show your pics

    If you said you were in Canada, that’s pretty good that you only used what you did. Shows what good insulation can do. Your splits look to be about 16” so you only used one and two thirds full cord for the entire season. Rather spectacular I’d say.
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    Tractors and wood! Show your pics

    Ya know hunt, the professional ground cutter is a dinosaur. Most trees growing in the New England forest grow rather upright because they are all in competition with one another to catch the sun w their crowns. None the less, there was always that "problem child" tree that went against natures...
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    Tractors and wood! Show your pics

    Who ever said living in the sticks is cheap? We have to have so much stuff to stay independent. Freedom ain't cheap either but it is priceless.
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    Tractors and wood! Show your pics

    That one coulda used a plunge cut with a strap release.
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    Tractors and wood! Show your pics

    If there was a gas cap on my body somewhere, I think it may have fallen off as well.
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    Tractors and wood! Show your pics

    As they dry, they shift. My single rows fall to either side but mostly to the east. Consequently, l now stack in 15 ft sections where the row is supported by two 2 x4’s stuck in cinder blocks. That method has reduced topple overs even stacking 4.5 ft high.
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    Another tractor manufacturer out of business?

    Absolutely. They place the homeless in the wrong spots. In the city where they crap on the sidewalks and leave their needles all over the place. They give them tents and they prop them up in city parks or sidewalks and parking lots. If a person needs to have assistance i have no problem with...
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    Tractors and wood! Show your pics

    Not fair Shooter. I'm talking a machine that can make "rows" but I feel if your wood can actually dry being all bundled up like that, it is the way to go. Split it and don't touch it again till you grab it to burn is the benchmark in my mind.
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    Tractors and wood! Show your pics

    Super demo and subsequent build wolc.
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    Tractors and wood! Show your pics

    My first splitter was a Northern Tool advertised as 16 tons with a 5 hp B&S 4” cyl. It will split an 18” round of oak (red or white) with a 4 way attached and it’s been doing it for 26 yrs. Your experiment has shed light on why it can which l initially always doubted. A 14” gnarly or knotted...
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    Tractors and wood! Show your pics

    They are. We used an old hay bailer that he replaced the motor on. We needed a generator to run the thing.
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    Tractors and wood! Show your pics

    My favorite thing is skidding the stems in. Even when l get stuck l still love it. l cut the crown off and skid the stem. l don’t (won’t) limb in the woods. l ease cut the crown limbs that l think will get stuck and then drag the crown to the landing and rescue any wood from the crown that’s 3”...
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    Tractors and wood! Show your pics

    If they made a machine that could stack wood, l would have bought one.
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    Tractors and wood! Show your pics

    Agree attitude is everything. But l can’t seem to lose the logger thing of “production time is everything” drummed into my head as a pup. l stack single row about 5 full cords long. l let this sit outside for 2 years ( red oak) and then move the whole shebang into the wood shed that only holds 5...
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    Tired of oil change bull

    No one pushes anything on anyone. You have an opinion that you feel is based on observation but l can guarantee not everything you see is necessarily explained correctly. Oil changes color mostly because of heat and not condensation. Contaminates are the other factor for color change. Water (...
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    Tired of oil change bull

    Pudding looks like sludge.
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    Tired of oil change bull

    S l doubt you’ll be answering any retorts with your out there stement. I’d say you’re more of a troll than anything else. Oil sludge is caused by heat. It sludges over because of ingredient break down over time or rather quickly if too much heat such as the problem Toyota had several years ago...
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    Another tractor manufacturer out of business?

    Sacrilege! You mean you’re not gonna buy Cadillacs 2025 300,000 dollar ev? Think of all the gasoline you’d save to say nothing of making Greta Thunberg happy. I think we should all pitch in and buy her one as well. I think either some ppl hate money or we are truly losing our minds...
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    Tractors and wood! Show your pics

    That’s how we loaded our 2.5 cord stake body. Giant help.
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    Tractors and wood! Show your pics

    W Whats your predominant wood? I think what takes the most time developing firewood is stacking it. Eliminate stacking and it’s about half the work. The best place to split firewood to eliminate stacking is in a green house with a cement floor that has grooves in the cement to facilitate air...
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    Another tractor manufacturer out of business?

    To me, their biggest mistake was not to ascertain market dynamics. Or if they did, it was littered with innuendo as opposed to cold hard metrics.
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    Another tractor manufacturer out of business?

    I consider gubmit like the slaughter fencing leading and directing cattle to their demise all while the legislators make a buck with corporate favoring bills that force you in the direction of the slaughter. Just like fencing.
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    Another tractor manufacturer out of business?

    I think Rusty it was more about an attempt to cash in on a current wave and to be one of the first in an unexplored territory. The market simply was not ready and I have my doubts it will ever be before some new technology comes up making it obsolete. To me, EV's are a stop gap measure and...
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    Another tractor manufacturer out of business?

    The Chinese have developed a battery powered bull dozer. Both battery powered snow blowers we sold last year were returned to us. Then there’s the battery powered zero turn we are doubtful of. They say 5 hrs on a single charge. Feel badly for the California landscapers. They’re gonna have to...
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    Another tractor manufacturer out of business?

    Mazda uses the Toyota hybrid engineering in their cx 70 and 90.
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    Tractors and wood! Show your pics

    What a name for a sweet. Wonder how they came up with it and what connotation it possesses from a hippopotamus.
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    Tractors and wood! Show your pics

    If that’s your triple, l don’t blame you. l relied on Ben Pearson at the time So l think l’d still fit in the 1800’s if no one looks at that bow closely.
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    Tractors and wood! Show your pics

    If you didn’t live so far from the corner store here, l’d be over in a heart beat. You’re a bit more than walking distance.
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    Tractors and wood! Show your pics

    When the mills weren't accepting stems for awhile. The mills around here processed stems into pallets mostly. It happened at any time as we weren't the only outfits supplying stems. Sometimes once a month, sometimes 3 times in a month with the most vicious times being in the summer where you...
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    Tractors and wood! Show your pics

    When l was logging and we had “firewood days” (yuck), we’d start by cutting rounds right off the bunched hitch on the skidded. This gave us a “cutting platform” so to speak that the skidder, with subsequent turns, would drive over, drop the hitch And we’d cut from that. This way the bar hardly...
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    Tractors and wood! Show your pics

    Nice score DM
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    Tractors and wood! Show your pics

    Yes
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    Tractors and wood! Show your pics

    Never heard of dem dere. Popular in the west?
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    Tractors and wood! Show your pics

    I used to love those kind of sammiches.
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    Tractors and wood! Show your pics

    Ah grasshopper, do you not put ketchup on your peanut butter and jelly sandwich?
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    Mahindra 1533 ground issues and won't start

    I am not sure I understand your "fix". Did you replace anything to connect back to the battery (changed out terminal? wire brushing? wire replacement?) So these wires have a tendency to corrode internally. Replace the entire ground wire and see if that fixes it.
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    Tractors and wood! Show your pics

    This is like "there are 8 million stories in the big city". Same holds true for pancake recipes.
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    Tractors and wood! Show your pics

    Nice homemade forwarder Gordon. This is the result of you retiring from Goulds Sugar House eh?
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    Tractors and wood! Show your pics

    Then you are not making them correctly. You should be savoring the things with nothing on them. Try this: half Bisquik - half vanilla cake mix. Use vanilla yogurt instead of oil.Use egg whites instead of the entire egg. Use vanilla 80 calorie almond milk for liquid. Mix thinner instead of...
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    Tractors and wood! Show your pics

    Inner frustrations are caused by not eating pancakes. You guys are suffering from flap jackasness as a result.
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    Tractors and wood! Show your pics

    Stop looking at kitty cats and go make the pancakes.
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    Tractors and wood! Show your pics

    Speaking of pancakes with blueberries: my most favorite place to get them has been shut down. In fall and spring there were lines to get in the place. It was the only time they were open for maybe a month to 6 weeks at a time. Goulds Sugar House in Shelburne Falls Ma. Is no more. They had the...
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    General opinions on R1 vs. R14 tires?

    By "hauling" if you mean skidding or forwarding, then any tire no matter what it is, should be chained for woods work. Two reasons: 1. tire protection 2. increased traction when working in the woods especially when snow covered. I log with ags. Even with them, traction is dramatically increased...
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    Tractors and wood! Show your pics

    Glad to see you back in the saddle hunt.
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    Tractors and wood! Show your pics

    They didn’t, not left to dry in the sun. I stack single row (mostly red oak) out to 150’ and 4.5’ high. It shrinks to 4’ as it dries within the two year period it’s left out there. I cover it at the end of summer of the usage year. The wood l put in shed at the same time, had a lower percentage...
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    Trans hydraulic Fluid

    Usually the largest contaminate is water. Even under a roof, humidity is also a major factor. Some think that water is burned off but what it does is affect the metal parts associated with hydraulic connections. These orifices are small and they corrode. This is especially true for construction...
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    Problems with the 5145

    As well as your hands. Please don’t look for these things while the tractor is running. Some of these leaks under pressure are hair thin and will cut your skin like a razor. Some so thin they’re invisible. That’s when the trouble really starts as to get that stuff out of your blood stream is no...
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    Problems with the 5145

    Loader weight is listed at 1300 lbs.
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    Turn key and nothing. No start, no gauges, no lights.

    You have a bad ground wire. Replace the terminal first and see if it starts. These wires suffer from internal corrosion so they look ok from visual inspection. Replacing the wire usually solves this issue.
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    Broken welds

    You talkin about Johnny Boyye post? If so, l saw no link and if not, the implication is extremely bigoted. l notice he lacks the guts to return and enlighten us on his findings while visiting a Mahindra factory in India.
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    Broken welds

    Meaning what Johnny boyyo? Or are you simply an uninformed individual relying on your bigotry quotient?
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    Banning a member

    I don’t hold the species in such high regard. I’ve seen first hand the utter horror and cruelty of what it has perpetrated upon itself. Hey but that’s me.
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    Broken welds

    What did you see when you visited a Mahindra factory there and which one did you go to? Was it this one?
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    Bought another ECHO...

    They can be finicky beasts. Too much air coming into a compromised carb seal, perforated fuel lines that you can't see w your eyes, minute, microscopic dirt particles in carb plumbing, weak or faulty spark availability. Truth be told, I seldom messed with my saws when logging. They either worked...
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    Grappling fun - A Picture Thread....

    Yeah same thing happened to me only mine was too short so l cut it again.
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    Bought another ECHO...

    If that the case, only using non ethanol pre mix might behoove ya. Would a battery powered saw fit in your world? Echo in my mind makes the most viable ones. They beat other battery saws costing much more.
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    Bought another ECHO...

    Some if not most saws utilize retainer springs surrounding the adjustment screw. They get weak or sometimes even break or go missing and the saw cannot hold a set point.
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    Attaching Winch to Front of Tractor?

    He describes his intended use. I think this is a fit for what was stated. Much faster and he doesn't necessarily have to attach it to the tractor to do viable work. One of the advantages is a capstan winch doesn't care how long a line you need as the residual line length is not stored within...
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    Attaching Winch to Front of Tractor?

    These winches are very slow and power draining for what you describe as others have stated. I feel you’d be better off with A capstan type winch for the work you describe. There are larger ones as well...
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    Tractors and wood! Show your pics

    No she didn’t But her dog did. What was this thread about again?
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    Tractors and wood! Show your pics

    A nice woman told me to become a vampire. She offered but I didn't like the look of her teeth.
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    Tractors and wood! Show your pics

    How many old people told me not to get old... Think I listened to my elders? Freakin Ponce De Leon for not finding that fountain while vacationing in Florida.
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    Mahindra 6075 only goes in reverse

    So when I got back, I found that the 65 we had was picked up. It was sitting on our lot for 3 months and the week I'm gone, it gets sold. I am very sorry not to be able to make this comparison for you as to location of re-set fuse. On the 65, it was at the floor mounted box and the third fuse...
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    Tractors and wood! Show your pics

    Hope you come together hunt right quickly. Take some solace in the fact that time goes by much quicker when you get older. To put a scientific spin to this phenomenon, Sort of like a roll of toilet paper as it gets to its end.
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    Tractors and wood! Show your pics

    What slowed me down enough to really contemplate was seeing two guys killed before my eyes. One was a client who thought he could hitch 3 stems to his Aliss Power Stroke and over he went. This was after myself and another guy told him not to attempt that hitch. The other was a young crew member...
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    Tractors and wood! Show your pics

    We started around 7am and stopped cutting around 3pm. I was not the same guy at quitting time. When l started logging at 16 years of age, l was in top physical shape and still begged for 3 pm. At 46 yrs of age and doing it for almost 30 yrs, l was sufficiently broken down that l had to quit the...
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    Tractors and wood! Show your pics

    16x20. Got to 70* in about 4 hrs from 58*. Then I just let it run for 3 days. So when nothing else changed as far as my electric usage, the mini was the only variable.
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    Tractors and wood! Show your pics

    No That was my total bill. The mini split added another 40 or 50 bucks.
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    Tractors and wood! Show your pics

    Normally, I have an electric bill between 70-80 bucks. For the first time since I got it, I used the mini split 24/7 to heat a room for 3 days and my bill was $128. It was set for 70* and temps were in the mid to high 30's I thought these things were supposed to be efficient and save money? It...
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    Mahindra 6075 only goes in reverse

    Looking at your pic, you may be on the top fuse box because that’s where the fuse puller is as labeled . Unless the 75 is different from the 65 we have The bottom fuse box on a cabbed model is at your feet. Thats where the reset fuse should be.
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    Mahindra 6075 only goes in reverse

    You’re most certainly welcome. On vaca this week so should be able to check upcoming.
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    Buying Advice - Kioti, LS, TYM Compact Tractors

    Corporate financing was an attempt for them to cash in on the extra money customers were using to buy time. Banking regulations have nothing to do with manufacture retail pricing and this is an area where all kinds of finance structuring can be designed to capture time buyers. 0% is simply...
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    Buying Advice - Kioti, LS, TYM Compact Tractors

    It’s gotten political with accusations of “red lining” where actual bank buildings are located to say nothing of who gets loans. Banking is not so simple these days but make no mistake, 0% is definitely and mostly used as usury manipulation.
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    Buying Advice - Kioti, LS, TYM Compact Tractors

    This was an answer to the tactics of Kubota corp. finance. Most tractor sellers have their own corporate finance. You may be referring to banking institutions associated with individual businesses such as mom and pop car dealerships, construction or home improvement or furniture sellers using a...
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    Mahindra 6075 only goes in reverse

    Bottom fuse box right? We have a 6065 on the lot. I’ll look when l get back there.
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    Bought another ECHO...

    Thanks They seem comparable speed wise. My go to bar length is 20”. Even when l was logging that’s mostly what l used. A saw better balanced with the right size bar seems the lightest to me even if the head is heavier than the next.
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    Bought another ECHO...

    Back to pertinent stuff. Your 590 after mods seems stronger than my Husq 357. Heck, it seems to be able to run with a 620. I cannot run a buried 20 inch bar on the 357 w/o a bog. I wonder what the 590 would be like without the modding. My 357 is unmodded.
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    Buying Advice - Kioti, LS, TYM Compact Tractors

    Nice unit. I like the fact that your bh has its own seat for that size tractor.
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    Buying Advice - Kioti, LS, TYM Compact Tractors

    The jd 950 was made in Japan by Yanmar. I had one as well. Back then, no tractor under a hundred hp was made in America. Even the jd 5000 series now are made in lndia. The made in America 3038 would have never stayed together with how l use a tractor. I would have broken fenders, floor board...
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    Bought another ECHO...

    Neither does VP but it’s from a gasoline derivative. Too many other chemicals in it to tell by the nose. Gas l pumped in the 60’s smells different from the gasoline of today. It had a much more tasty smell back in the day.
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    Buying Advice - Kioti, LS, TYM Compact Tractors

    I played with that stuff in th 50’s. It was called “Magic Metal”. Who knew l should have saved all those packs of it. I’m ok…..perhaps.
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    Bought another ECHO...

    You're not wrong a lot of times about sales ppl but our VP guy is pretty knowledgeable and pretty straight forward. Knows more stuff than I care to listen to. I like the Sea Foam stuff once in awhile. Man, I wish the puritanical east coast had non e gas at the pump. For the he pols up this way...
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    Buying Advice - Kioti, LS, TYM Compact Tractors

    Exactly. It's costing you nearly the same anyway.
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    Bought another ECHO...

    No. I'm no scientist. I just get to talk to a lot of vendors doing what I'm doing now working at a place that sells tractors and other outdoor equipment. It's interesting for sure. 40 to 1 has more oil in it. It is a "richer" oil mix but makes a 2cycle engine run leaner because of the less gas...
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    Bought another ECHO...

    Well, I'm going by what our VP sales distributor has told us. He states their product starts off with non ethanol 94% octane gas with a whole bunch of chemicals added to it.. VP copy says the same thing. VP-SMALL-ENGINE-FUELS-Small-Engine-Fuel-494L03. Somebody probably does make some kind of...
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    Buying Advice - Kioti, LS, TYM Compact Tractors

    That's a beautiful unit Ferling. There is a scenario however of not necessarily buying the biggest tractor you can afford as opposed buying the smaller tractor that will do the job. My tractoring is done in very dense woods. Just today attempting to maneuver between three tight trees with a "y"...
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    Buying Advice - Kioti, LS, TYM Compact Tractors

    This is done by design. It cordones you off to accept the 0% financing.
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    Buying Advice - Kioti, LS, TYM Compact Tractors

    Not necessarily at all. Your key phrase of "how they decided to structure it" hits the mark and structure it they did and of course to their advantage..I know of no finance company corporate or otherwise, that allows anyone to to borrow their money for the item you purchased for nothing. As I...
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    Buying Advice - Kioti, LS, TYM Compact Tractors

    They can manipulate financing to any degree that helps them sell. What l take umbrage with is making ppl think it’s not costing them anything to use someone else’s money by using a “0” . l will say it was genius of someone in marketing to have come up with such a ploy.
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    Bought another ECHO...

    My state doesn’t allow e-free gas at any pumps.l don’t think Ma. or Ct. does either so l can’t even travel abit to get it. I can see your point for limited use but l go thru about 5 gals per year so $150 instead of $30 is tough for me to swallow. W hen l was logging, we’d go thru 5 gals per day.
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    Mahindra 6075 only goes in reverse

    It could make the difference as to him having to bring the tractor back to the dealer or not. The other important value is if it can help others. Advice is one thing. If it works is another but when it does, it could help those who may face a similar situation. That’s what makes it so important...
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    Mahindra 6075 only goes in reverse

    Hopeflly we’ll hear back from the op and he’s not a one and done..
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    Mahindra 5155 Anyone?

    You’re most welcome and best of luck w everything. l hope things are cheaper in your neck of the woods.
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    Mahindra 5155 Anyone?

    If you do it yourself, drain everything out. Put in all new oils and filters. If important, you will save a lot of money doing it yourself and if you're still agile enough to get on your back and turn drain bolts, go for it. It isn't difficult in the least with the biggest advantage (to me...
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    Buying Advice - Kioti, LS, TYM Compact Tractors

    I dunno. The front axle at least on the 750, seemed pretty well braced when I got to look at it.
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    Buying Advice - Kioti, LS, TYM Compact Tractors

    Personally, I think some of the best tractors JD ever put their name to. Reliable as a stone cliff face. Even pulled in a fossilized shark once
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    Buying Advice - Kioti, LS, TYM Compact Tractors

    Ran into the same problem when looking at JD's equivalent. Plastic fenders, plastic floor board, plastic hood, aluminum gear housing, lessened lift capacity....nope. A tractor with increased capacities needs weight. A tractor you use beyond mowing the grass or moving mulch or grappling branches...
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    Mahindra 6075 only goes in reverse

    Does sound suspect. You can check and discontinue the alarm to see if it would obey forward with a reset trying this: 1. Turn on ignition key but do not start. Leave ignition in ON position. 2. Verify the dashboard Oil Pressure and Battery indicator lights are on. 3. Remove the fuse labeled...
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    Diagnosing hard start/stall issue (2615 HST)

    If it were me, I'd go to Mahindra and get their fuel filter. For some inexplicable reason, Mahindra does not include the small top o-ring so remember to buy that separately. The filter you have may be causing a minute air leak. I doubt its your pump. If you suspect debris in your tank, that's...
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    Tractor decision

    To give you an example, My machine has two priorities: logging and snow plowing. It is large enough where I can wait out a storm with even a 30" dump and plow when the winter sun is out. When logging, I jump on and off my tractor about 50 times hooking stems up, readjusting chain and choker...
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    Buying Advice - Kioti, LS, TYM Compact Tractors

    That's what I named himo_O
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    Buying Advice - Kioti, LS, TYM Compact Tractors

    We had a customer who purchased two Mahindras. First one was a 5155 with a hoe. He found it rather exasperating working in the woods with it. So he came down and said "I'd like another tractor". I told him we'd give him what he paid for his 5155 on a trade as it was only 3 months old. Then he...
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    Buying Advice - Kioti, LS, TYM Compact Tractors

    It is only when comparisons are created that ppl depict a difference. Otherwise, ppl get used to just about anything and are content in their ignorance. More power to them.
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    Buying Advice - Kioti, LS, TYM Compact Tractors

    Since you've narrowed down the frame size you want, I'd simply go to the nearest dealer. All or any of these tractors will serve you. I don't know how you measure "slime factor" but that could be caused by a myriad of things. Some hot shot car salesmen who decided they would switch gears and...
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    Equipment chain sizing

    No about the chain measuring. Chain fitment is described by the tire size. The chain described will fit a 16x24" tire with the tire rim being 24" in diameter. The chain will be much wider than 16 inches to fit a 16" wide tire as the chain must overlap both sides of the tire.
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    Mahindra Emax 20S won't start or run

    Decent enough question with the answer being his starter is not on that electrical circuit. If a fuel pump or injection system is, then this tractor will never start. The clue here is that his dash has also been affected and 30 amp is a large fuse to blow so it is either protecting a multiple...
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    Mahindra Emax 20S won't start or run

    I disagree. I think the op has sufficiently described the situation and the hypothesis given thus far will definitely lead to a solution. A fuse mostly blows because of a short. He blew a 30 amp. That should relate to false electrical path that could be caused by a fray someplace within that...
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    Mahindra Emax 20S won't start or run

    Check your battery terminal ends. You may have corrosion there causing insufficient voltage for start up and lighting
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    Christmas came early!

    This is just usery manipulation on their part.
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    Christmas came early!

    Not necessarily so at all Eddie. As a dealership, we love cash. Keeps a middleman lender out of the picture and there is more money to be made with moneys drawing interest in our own bank account than the paultry 1% gained from a corporate loan. Do not forget, selling cars and selling tractors...
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    Mahindra Emax 20S won't start or run

    I think he means that it won't turn the engine. If that's the case, he has spun a gear in the starter motor, or has a hydro lock from the stall out or has fried a safety switch among the many, or his starter relay is shot (just switch the two with each other on the firewall and see if it starts)...
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    TODAYS SEAT TIME

    How many yds? Looks good
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    Christmas came early!

    I have to disagree on several fronts. See above. There is only one thing a buyer needs to know no matter what the lenders come up with: “what’s coming out of my pocket”.
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    Christmas came early!

    Nope. Not always true but the caveats to mitigate paying more for financing necessitate other financial actions.. If you’re financing say at 3.9% and you find an interest return of 5 or 6% or more, better to retain your money expenditure and put it toward investment. What l also find is that if...
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    Tractors and wood! Show your pics

    Backhoes are pretty handy. You can correct me if I'm wrong but I have to say I would not be enticed with traveling any great distance however with this rather narrow track width. Very nice set up none the less.
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    General opinions on R1 vs. R14 tires?

    As an aside to this thread, during an agricultural show here in New England, I saw a larger size utility tractor shod with R1 radials make hard left and right turns on the grass. Hardly a mark on the surface of the grass that would have been completely torn up with traditional R1's.
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    General opinions on R1 vs. R14 tires?

    Well, since the op posted his inquiry back in April, he probably has the tractor by now with whatever tire he chose. (r1's) In general for anyone else reading this thread with the same puzzlement...IT'S NOT JUST THE TIRE nor the general usage of the tractor to be considered. What ppl must also...
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    Mahindra 5155 Anyone?

    Good inquiry. I can tell you how I acquired mine. I first went to Lowes and asked if I could have a large piece of cardboard that one of their reefers or washers came in. I then cut this card board to length and width based on what areas I wanted to protect underneath. I went to my local...
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    Christmas came early!

    Very nice machine there Mrs Shirley. I am quite sure your husband will like it.
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    Christmas came early!

    What part of Bill's contribution are you saying is false? Prices went up because of market share more than anything else. What a buyer is shown for trade in, has more to do with market value and for a clean piece, value is higher. Also, the word "shown" is most certainly a variable of price paid...
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    Mahindra 5155 Anyone?

    Skid plates should be in your future. I cannot begin to list the damage mine saved me from while traversing through the wood. Last year I dismounted it just to hammer out the dents and indentations made to the diamond plate. Like every day I hear something bang into it when skidding. My...
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    Removing Oil stains on asphalt driveway

    Concrete mostly.
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    Removing Oil stains on asphalt driveway

    We use a steam pressure washer at work. It does pretty well but our oil spots nowhere near your size. The easiest but more expensive solution is what others have stated about re-sealing.
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    2023 Kioti RX7320pccb shoe service manual

    I believe he is looking for a shop service manual. Your example looks more like an operator‘s manual.
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    Mahindra 5155 Anyone?

    Yeah, there were two arrows. One was ignorant and the other educated. Don't listen to the first arrow. Or, you don't have to listen to any arrows if you wish.
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    2023 Kioti RX7320pccb shoe service manual

    This one is 920 pages long so I'm thinking it's legit.175885821478 Also, there is one on eBay where bidding has started at $45. No one has bid on it as yet. Careful of the "year published" as later copies may have updates. On this eBay page there are others for $36. You could contact the seller...
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    2023 Kioti RX7320pccb shoe service manual

    Just about no one "gives" away service manuals. They cost close to $200 per to print and usually, more associated with a publisher as opposed to a tractor manufacturer. Just separate "accounting" nomenclature and all that. I mean people feel happier if their tractor costs $50,300 and are told...
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    BEST WORK GlOVES??

    When I was a logger, I only used the thick cotton chore gloves as they were cooler in the summer to wear and broke some of the vibration due to their thickness. It was all you needed to set chokers and run saws.. Loggers do not touch wood much. Not like homeowners who use firewood to heat with.
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    BEST WORK GlOVES??

    They have these at Runnings stores as well. I use the goatskin model which are a buck cheaper. No gloves short of welding gloves, have ever stood up to firewood work for long that I've used.
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    Land plane for dirt/sandy driveway?

    Some think the land plane is a one trick pony with the box blade being more versatile. The best people to answer that question are those who have both and can ascertain which is better to spend your money on. I've used a land plane for a processed gravel 1/4 mile long drive. It took multiple...
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    3 Pt hitch jerks, on lifting

    Sounds like a proportioning valve is shot If it ever had one. Some call it an inching valve. The flow is not being regulated with your pressure orifaces being wide open. You can fix this by installing a 3 pt proportioning valve on the feed.
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    I have a bad feeling about this

    The rims don't look fine to me if that's a crack I'm looking at.. If you're seeing this on the outside, what must the internal parts of the rims look like? CC traditionally is pumped into tubes. Some part of the tube let go and the stuff cascaded onto your rims. I had cc in my tractor for 28...
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    Glow Plug Life Expectancy ??

    Glow plugs fail for several reasons with high heat being the most predominant. Kinks in the inner coil can cause higher resistance and thus more heat. You change out your relay or gp controller at all? Could be a substance in the fuel treatment you're using making ignition hotter and may erode...
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    Mahindra Max 22 Won't turn over

    Sent you a pm
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    Mahindra Max 22 Won't turn over

    Even applying grease to the base of the posts is also a preventative. There is also a battery terminal spray available that basically accomplishes the same thing that I think is shown in the kit you posted..
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    Tractors and wood! Show your pics

    Love these things. Big enuf to load some serious wood yet handy in size to get to it.
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    Mahindra Max 22 Won't turn over

    That was another ear marked problem for these. Mahindra bought a bunch Excide batteries that were faulty and would Leak through the post insert. I should have mentioned this as well but when you said you replaced the battery, I thought you may have then noticed the corrosion. Glad you found it...
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    Mahindra Max 22 Won't turn over

    It chatters. They all do on most Mahindras
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    Mahindra Max 22 Won't turn over

    The seat safety switch is a known culprit. I’ve had to fix 3 of these in the field over the past 6 yrs. l would start there first because it’s so easy. Unplug the connection, insert jumper wire from A to B female so as to create continuity and start her up.
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    Mahindra Max 22 Won't turn over

    Lift t the seat and find the safety cut off switch. By pass the switch with a jumper after unplugging the connection. See if it starts. Not meaning to insult but did you also check fuses? I do not think you have a relay problem if they are engaging by your description.
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    Mahindra Max 22 Won't turn over

    Could be you have a wire fray or short at the start position. Mice are very good at creating electrical havoc.
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    Tractor sold to me as a 2021, but is actually a 2020

    If that was stated to you, you have a case. l believe they have other motivations that if stated, would make ppl go thru the roof so they come up with another reason. This is a lame one if so.
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    Tractor sold to me as a 2021, but is actually a 2020

    What absolutely increases the value of the older tractor is the new, upscale pricing of the new models. This how l can sell my 10 yr old tractor now for almost what l paid for it. Cars did this for the first time during Covid When production was curtailed.
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    Help w compressor selection.

    Thanks 2 bit. They don't list pricing on their website for the various models they make.
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    Help w compressor selection.

    You have a world class set up there. Hate to tell ya 5030. but the small Quincy is also made in China now. The thing that turns me off on the Quincy is the duty cycle. 50% is not gonna cut it with that small of a tank. The 60 gal IR has a continuous run motor as well. And for only $150 more...
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    Tractors and wood! Show your pics

    Yup A smaller kerf should make for a faster cut. There was just something about a worn down chain that just didn't seem as efficient when cutting the hardwoods around here. Maybe had something to do with the leverage aspect of the cutter. As you file the cutter further back, there is more...
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    Help w compressor selection.

    Nope The Quincy 24 gal has a 50% duty rating. The IR is looking better and better.
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    Help w compressor selection.

    I checked on this model. Northern no longer carries it but it can be purchased direct from IR for about $150 bucks more than the Quincy ($1019). I have to see if the new place has a 220 outlet in the garage.
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    Help w compressor selection.

    Ok, thank you Eric and PT I have to check to see if the motor on the Quincy is a constant run type as opposed to a percentage run time.
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    Tractors and wood! Show your pics

    The progressive raker gauge is especially good if you like to wear your chains down to get every bit of use out of them. A regular gauge just doesn't cut it at that point. The truth be told, as a logger, I never wore my chains down that much as the chips got too small and I didn't think I was...
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    Tractors and wood! Show your pics

    This is a great kit. We sell alot of these at the shop. These are made for Stihl by the Swiss company Valorbe. Whatever files a person uses, a file card or even a stiff tooth brush is essential for top cutting performance of the file..
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    Help w compressor selection.

    So the new place needs a little bit of air. I don't paint with it so I'm not thinking I need a 60 gallon. 30 gal would seem plenty. I like Quincy stuff but over the last few years, their offerings of 30 gal compressors have been eliminated. The largest garage type they make went from 27 gal to...
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    Tractors and wood! Show your pics

    I know!!. That crane thingy he built was truly amazing on how he constructed it. I also built my own from a kit as well and first went out to Idaho in 1972 with a crew to build one on a mountain side. I hope to never unsee the majestic panorama I saw in Idaho. Cheez. From 1970 to now, is like...
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    Tractors and wood! Show your pics

    You know what'd you like RBC. On You Tube, there is a guy building a log cabin from dead scratch. Although there are several of these, this guy is the one pictured where there is a roof support cantilevered off the main cabin. It's a rather long vid but to see what he comes up with to mount the...
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    Tractors and wood! Show your pics

    More importantly, that looks like a Challenger in the background pic but I don't recall a grill design with vertical slats. Road Runner perhaps but looks too short to be one?
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    Tractors and wood! Show your pics

    Interesting question so I did an experiment. I put a file to a saw like I normally do and was cognizant of the amount of force I used. Then I took various weights of stuff and put them on a small scale. I used weight from 1 to 5 lb. So going back and forth from saw to weights so I'd get an idea...
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    Tractors and wood! Show your pics

    I don't know what a tracked harvester uses as track configuration. I do know a tracked harvester is articulated and with two set points which allows it to adjust better to terrain. A stupid bulldozer is all one piece and adjusts poorly on uneven iced terrain. Trust me, you do not want to be on...
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    Tractors and wood! Show your pics

    These aren't any guarantee for sideways stability on uneven iced terrain. They are mostly for back and forward traction.
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    Upgrading tractor for dragging horseback riding arenas

    I had one dressage riding ring I built to event size standards and layered with different recommended ground product for such. We did stadium jumping and dressage within this area. The only tool I used to dress it was a reversed rear scraper blade. I scooped up manure with a front mounted fork...
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    Tractors and wood! Show your pics

    My boss once rented an old type D6 just to see how it would fit into our logging world. We had it less than a month and it proved to be a disaster. First off it was slow for logging. On some hills with a bit of ice and snow, it was butt puckering as it would skid sideways wherever it wanted. We...
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    Tractors and wood! Show your pics

    You wanna see the rocks they took out!. I should take a pic or two.
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    Tractors and wood! Show your pics

    I watched a 300 acre parcel of trees being chipped about 6 months ago. It is being groomed for a solar field. All chipped wood was carted away in 40'-45' chipper trailer semis and brought to wood pellet processing plants. Most of these trees were hardwoods.
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    Tractors and wood! Show your pics

    I watched the entire half hr. Gordan When I was a baby, my parents had to put me in the car and I wouldn't go to sleep until I saw some construction equipment. I also just woke up.
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    Compact tractor options

    Great! Glad it all worked out for ya. Hope you and the wife have much success w the new machine.
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    Compact tractor options

    Yes it was.
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    Compact tractor options

    Not necessarily. Everything has to do w supply pricing agreed upon at the original contract between the two parties. If the TYM costs say $15,000 to actually build and they sell it to Mahindra for 20K because of volume purchase, then Mahindra can figure out how much profit they want to make...
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    Compact tractor options

    Ok It's important to get things straight here in the meantime. The op is about to spend big money so he should have accurate facts to make his decision. For instance, TYM makes the Mahindra 2600 series but they do not use the same engine TYM puts in their comparable model. Nor are the pumps the...
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    Compact tractor options

    I don't think I may have processed your post at the time. I did just now however so thanks. Email sent.
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    Compact tractor options

    Well, here is another example of a tractor Data mistake:10023-mahindra-1626.html. Notice it states the manufacturer as Mahindra when it is so not. Mitsu makes these just as TYM makes the 2600 series for Mahindra. I guess TD feels they must also be the manufacturer because it says "Mahindra" on...
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    5145, 50 hour service

    I bet you used to love snow as a kid. I must have never matured cuz I still love the stuff.
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    Compact tractor options

    Kubota already has. They are now in joinery with India's "Escort" tractor manufacturing producing tractors, farm equipment, construction equipment, implements, handling and railroad equipment and is now called "Kubota Escort". Kubota's market share has jumped over 90% as a result. They will also...
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    Compact tractor options

    Yes I called the old Mahindras the "Fred Flintstone" tractors. Very brutish machines that would get the job done because of weight and lift capacities but lacking in the "refinement" catagory. The newer 5000 series Mahindras are much more refined with over a hundred improvements from their older...
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    Compact tractor options

    So Mahindra has had a long standing relationship with Mitsubishi. The current Max and 1600 series Mahindras are made in Japan and purportedly have the least issues of the 3 branding types. The Mahindra branded TYMS for us have also been very reliable. Mahindra wanted a tractor for the world...
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    Compact tractor options

    Well, that's not the greatest weld I've seen. The 2600 series are nice tractors made by TYM which Mahindra has dissolved its union with. You also have the option to wait out for the all new Mahindras which will be a collaboration with Mitsubishi. Those will be of the new K2 line which was...
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    Can I grease too much?

    I have the cheaper Ryobi battery powered one but it can still push out the old stuff. I grease more than I used to just to justify what I paid for the Ryobi.
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    Tractors and wood! Show your pics

    You struck gold there SB. Like your trailer supports allowing you to roll these things off the edge if you wanted w/o destroying the fenders .. Great Idea!
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    5145, 50 hour service

    "NO SNOW"! You poor thing.
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    Tool for Draining Filled Tires?

    Go to Harbor freight electric pumps. l used it to refill new tires and tubes. First batch lasted 26 years.
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    5145, 50 hour service

    Wow. Things are cheaper in Texas. we get $1400 for a complete service on your tractor. That includes all oil and filters And greasing.
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    Tractors and wood! Show your pics

    I get it now relooking at your pics. You had more than one cant. Deceptive what can be milled out a stem w a band saw. Nice going.
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    Tractors and wood! Show your pics

    Love that thing.
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    Mahindra 5155 Anyone?

    Ok that’s fine you cannot agree. My thoughts came from studies on hydraulics l’ve had the opportunity to study at the dealership. Water indeed in systems, causes the most failures in said systems. Our tractors before we got them, were outside in all kinds of elements from monsoons, tropical...
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    5145, 50 hour service

    Even if you bought the Mahindra oil and filters from the dealer, it still saved you at least 700-900 bucks doing yourself.
  191. A

    Tractors and wood! Show your pics

    Surprised at the amount of lumber coming from what looked like not that wide a stem. Was there another section?
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    Dealer Prep Time on New Tractor

    Makes Shakespeare's "Dick the Butcher's" assertion more and more correct.
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    Dealer Prep Time on New Tractor

    No, you're right. It seems honor and righteousness have taken a back seat to greed and manipulation. Is it of any wonder how we are what we are presently?
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    Dealer Prep Time on New Tractor

    As I have heard myself being in the industry for 20 yrs. Most auto manufacturers who mass produce, fall under very similar circumstances. I mean look at Toyota w their "stuck accelerator pedal" syndrome a while back that would send cars careening to wherever they wanted to go as a result. Who...
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    Dealer Prep Time on New Tractor

    All they do is check for body damage. A rail car can hold 12-15 cars and at different levels. Cars from container ships can amount to 8500 units at a time and many of these are protective wrapped. As the cars come to the rail ramp to be loaded (mostly in big cities and with Union Pacific doing...
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    Bout to purchase a 2638

    Working for a Mahindra dealer, this is one of my favorite machines. Engine smooth as silk .More than adequate lift capacity and a weighty tractor at that. I also dislike the closeness of the 3 pt controls and gear selector but I find one can get used to just about anything.
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    Full figured 25hp Tractors

    Those forks are good for light weight stuff as you describe. People have bent the bucket however when doing heavy duty stuff such as a 1000Lb tree stem or a pallet of heavy building material. That is a very nice tractor and wish you good fortune w it.
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    Won't start after recharging battery

    Wondering if you fried the points on this thing. Easy enuf to check. This tractor as I recall, runs on positive ground so careful if you jump it. If the battery is more than 3 yrs old, replace it. Make sure starter drop off switch is engaging.
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    Tractors and wood! Show your pics

    I'm impressed as well considering that piece is approaching a ton or at least 1700 lbs if dead.. What do those things weigh?
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