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My old B7800 is getting long in the tooth and I am considering a new Kubota. I think the B7800 was too small for what was asked of it. My thoughts is that I should have bought a 40HP tractor instead of a 30HP. Some considerations: I'm getting old and need a nice seat for my old back. Will be...

My B7800 is twelve years old and I'm twelve years older. Looking for a more comfortable seat that's not too hard on this old back.

While mowing the yard this spring we found a road kill deer in the front yard. I drug it to the woods (downwind) and set up the game camera. Between the vultures and the coyote they reduced the deer to fur and bones in six days. The vultures did the majority of the work. I only got a couple of...

We got hammered here last winter. Worst winter since the blizzard of '78. A few nights of wind chills of -30. Luckily we did not lose power. Going into last winter I didn't think our setup would survive. We feared our horse waterer would freeze or the lines to the barn freeze. And we had a lot...

It had to happen sooner or later. My wife hauls her horse on long drives for trail riding. She stopped at a restaurant to get something to eat and her truck wouldn't start. She was over an hour from home. Two hour round trip. So she calls our roadside assistance provider, who can't speak...

On the way to work every day I pass through some big acreage farm land. One is farmed by a mega-farm outfit. Some amazing equipment. Last week a John Deere pulling a disk pulled out on the road and it had three ag tires on each hub. I've seen a lot of duals but this was the first triple on each...

We have been mowing about 7 acres of yard with hundreds of trees with a tractor with a 72" RFM and a lawn tractor for over seven years now. Our decades old lawn tractor bit the dust last week. My first ever zero turn was delivered today and I mowed with it for about 2.5 hours. All I can say is...

So we have a new horse boarder and she wants to go to round bales. I'm willing to give this a try. I have never fooled with round bales. For sure I would have to buy a spear. I don't even know how much a round bale weighs. Would my B7800 handle a round bale with a spear on the front loader or to...

These puppies are heavy. And like handling warm jello. When we moved 4 years ago we brought about 50 of these with us. My wife decided to carpet our horse barn floor with them. I was horrified. I had to come up with a better way. I ordered a set of clamp on pallet forks for my loader. These...

I was born with a very low, quite, and not easy to hear voice. For whatever reason. But one of requirements of rural living was the ability to call livestock. If they don't come you gotta go out and get 'em. It took me a long time to teach myself to holler. Pitiful though I am at it. I do an...

My wife is wanting a pistol for home protection. Something she can pack with her while taking care of her horses. She doesn't have much strength in her hands do to rheumatoid arthritis. We have a double action S&W Airwieght but she doesn't have enough strength in her hands to pull the double...

Red foxes have been pretty common sight on our place. We have a large yard with a lot of rabbits and I'm sure that has something to do with it. Last spring my neighbor started raising guineas. He doesn't cage them and they run loose. These guineas are in our yard a lot which I don't mind. This...

My true blue B7800 is due for a valve adjustment at 800 hours. Today it turned over 795 hours. I'm trying to decide if I should haul it to a dealer or buy the manual and do the valve adjustment myself. I have done all the other maintenance for the past 795 hours. I have done valve adjustments on...

My wife is constantly wanting to move these things. They weigh about 50 pounds each and are like trying to handle warm jello. We have bought a couple of the plastic mat grabbers. These things work well for a couple of times and then they are toast. I've tried rolling these things up, hog tying...

For 35 years we have always boarded a few horses along with our own. Just something that we have always done. When we moved here 5 years ago we moved way out into the boonies. This was a very good choice for us and our (1) horse. We have been advertising for boarders for five years here now with...

Not saplings or trees. Just an old fashioned weed. For me it's chicory. I just mowed a small chicory infested field today that I hadn't got to yet this year. The chicory was shoulder high. I had to mow it three times before it stayed mowed. It's almost like trying to mow wire.

The wife has decided she wants to dump horse manure in a manure spreader during the week and spread it once a week to keep the flies away from the horse barn. Not a lot of manure. Just what the 5 horses leave in an outdoor run- in shed during a week's time. Just wondering if anyone has a small...

When I bought my Polaris Sportsman I also purchased a Warn 2.5 CI winch with it. I don't use the winch that often. My wife was mowing tonight and decided to take a shortcut over the horse manure pile with the lawn tractor. She sunk it to the axles in wet horse poop. This is a 1300 pound Gravely...

I can see these types of errors: Tractor not found. Please check your security settings and try again. Your security settings are not correct for running this tractor. Please check your security settings. Tractor won''t start. Your ignition system running system is out of date. Please update...

My wife and I are not really cat people but after owning horses for 40 years we have learned that having a couple of barn cats around greatly reduce rodent problems in our barns and rodent nests in the equipment. So we have always kept a couple of cats. Feed them every day and take them to the...

We have large dogs. We have always had large dogs. Large dogs come with a responsibility. My wife and I accept total responsibility for our dogs. As well we should. When we moved here five years ago the fences were horrible. Not acceptable to contain either a horse or dog. With moving and...

There is another thread going on about these now. I always wonder if these walk behind trimmers are better than a weed whacker. Which is less work? I have about 2,500 feet of fence line (both sides) that I trim with a weed whacker 3-4 times each year. We don't use chemicals on our fence lines...

We have an automatic waterer and my wife wants me to fence in such a way that horses can access it from both sides. So that the horses can get to it from both sides. Basically she wants some horses on each side of the fence to be able to get to the waterer but not able to get through this...

I put up the game camera last weekend hoping to get some photos of wild turkeys. A week and 845 pictures later this is all I have to show. Not many turkeys here. A lot of fox, racoons, and deer though. I put up a hen decoy this afternoon. Maybe that will help.

I don't have a lot of guns. One center fire, four shotguns, three pistols, and one .22 caliber rifle. These are all very high quality guns. But my most favorite is my .22 caliber rifle. It's a bolt action with a nice scope and is deadly accurate. For pure fun that's the gun I always pick. I was...

Last year I mowed my yard for the first time ever in March. Tomorrow 5"-9" of snow is predicted. The tractor is still rigged for snow and not grass. March here is not really a winter month. But not a spring month either.

I don't need a: "Service Engine Soon" light. "Service Tire Monitoring System" light. "Service Air Bag" light. "Seat Belt Unbuckled" light. "Door Open" light. "Hood Latch Open" light. "Turn Signal Is On" light. I just need a simple truck. A truck that doesn't complain to me while I'm driving...

Even after plowing 8" of snow this past Wednesday I know spring is coming. I have seen posts on this in the past and the signs are not the same for different areas of the country. Around here the vultures are the first sign of spring. I started seeing more vultures last week. Next are the spring...

I am relatively new here. Not one of the old timers. There is a constant and tremendous amount of excellent information to be gleaned here. For me it makes this forum very worthwhile. There are disagreements here. I have had my fur fluffed a few times and fluffed a little fur myself. But, all...

I'm not the horse person the family. The wife is. She doesn't believe in shoeing horses. Says it causes hoof problems. I'm not the one to argue this point one way or the other. She started doing a natural trim on the hooves on our horse 3 months ago and kept a photo log of these trims. Tonight...

We aren't photgraphers but our old and cheap 3.2 megapixel camera isn't up to snuff compared to the photos I am seeing here these days. Looking for a new camera. Only priority is a camera that does good close ups and would like to keep the price under $300.00.

Maybe it's just me but I have spilled more fuel using the new spill proof nozzles than I ever did before with the plain old pouring spouts. A definite case of over engineering gone rampant. On one type of fuel spout I have to push a safety on the nozzle and a lever at the same time. What's next...

I'm not the horse person in the family. My wife is. I'm just the one that helps care for them. She has had several flavors of horses over the years. I deal with the horses every day whether I want to or not. We're talking about horse temperament here. My favorite is a Warm Blood. A draft...

Just wondering if everyone has their chains on yet. We got done with Thanksgiving early so had some time this afternoon to put them on. I know how to put mine on but even at that it takes me a couple of hours. I don't have very much fender clearance and the chains have to be centered, tight...

My nearest dealer is 90 minutes away. We moved since I bought it. I am trying to find an online source for oil and filters. Pro Polaris redirects me to a dealer. Any good online places to shop for Polaris Sportsman oil and filters?

I truly dislike the new forum set up. Something that wasn't broke was fixed.

Just wondering who has had the most deer damage to their cars or trucks in the last two years. Right now we are at $3,200 in the past two years and still dodging them.

I was up early today. Had some weed eating to do and was pre-cutting some weed eater line to take with me on the ATV. I kept hearing noises. Maybe some birds I thought. They fly in to the garage time to time. Then I hear things being knocked off shelves and hitting the garage floor. I know now...

I have tried a bunch of different trimmer lines. I have always ending up going back to the Stihl .095" round line. It seems the odd shaped lines cut a little bit better but they seem to weld themselves together in my Autocut heads and won't feed without taking the head apart. I keep about 4,000...

We have always had one or two nesting in our long gravel driveway. Not a problem. They have always nested in a place out of the way. Not this year. She built her nest in the most high traffic area of our driveway. So we roped this off. These are pretty spunky little birds. She has attacked my...

Having hard well water here kind of makes a water softener a necessity. Our twenty year old water softener bit the dust this week so I am looking for a good one. I did a search tonight but the styles and prices seem to be endless. Just wonder if someone has a good brand to recommend.

My OEM Bridgestone Duellers on my 2007 Chevy Z-71 have 96,000 miles on them. Even at that they have more than 1/16" tread left. I am pretty amazed that I could get this kind of life out of any tire. But it's tire time. For value and wear I would consider these Bridgestone Duellers second to...

I guess we all have different signs of spring. For us it is the return of the vultures. A few turkey vultures hang around all winter here. But I saw my first black vulture this week since last fall. What is your sign of spring?

Our water pressure is dropping off. I suspect our 13 year old submersible well pump is getting long in the tooth. I'm not sure how many years these pumps are supposed to last. We are going to give the plumber a call to take a look. Any suggestions on a new submersible, good or bad, would be...

The first time I really used my four year old Honda EB6500X generator was this past February during a four day power outage. It ran about 80 hours continuously except stopping for refueling and did great. It wouldn't start today. I am a little upset because of the extra money I payed for a Honda...

I drug them out of the pole barn and positioned them on the garage floor last weekend. I have walked around them a dozen or so times since then. Kicked them around a few times and have prepared my war face. It's on for tomorrow. I'm going to Sumo wrestle with a few hundred pounds of warm Jello...

Just wondering what others do for winter preparation. It's always been something I have to do in the fall and does take some time. For me the mowers come off and are stored in the pole barn. Poison put out in the pole barn to kill the mousies that eat my wiring and foam seats. I clean the...

It's about that time of year to find my favorite thing to eat. Some say the best time to look is the week after the Dogwood blooms. For me it seems the best time to hunt is when the Mayapples come up. They are getting harder and harder to find. Does anyone grow them?

I am looking at getting a Smoker. Small and easy to use. If it's not easy to use its probably not going to get used. I have been looking at the Masterbuilt 30" electric smoker. Can these be used under a covered deck without staining the ceiling? Masterbuilt 30'' Electric Smoker

Although I'm no expert on wildlife I do a lot of reading and research about the the subject because I enjoy it. These pictures impressed me. These were emailed to us by a friend. I can't confirm their authenticity.

I have been considering purchasing a snow blade for my B7800. These blades aren't cheap. I was wondering if others have spent the money for a blade and was it worth the cost over just staying with the FEL. From what I have read the FEL and blade set up are not a quick change deal.

After trying many years to find the best knife I finally found one a few years ago that I consider one of the best made. It's a Dozier Personal. The blade is made of D2 steel. The blade is glass hard but not brittle. It has to be sharpened with diamond stones. I have dressed two deer in a row...

czechsonofagun started a thread on favored target rifles that I have enjoyed reading. It was geared more towards center fire rifles. Us .22 rimfire guys have some favorites too. My favorite target rifle is a .22 caliber Kimber Model 84 Classic with a Leupold 2x7 scope. I bought it back in the...

There have been some recent posts on chains and ballast. One of the members asked me to post pics of my chains. I don't know if I have this picture posting thing correct but I'll try.

My Aquiline Talon tire chains finally came today. Out of the box I was very impressed. These are some super heavy duty chains. Much heavier than I imagined them to be. I've only seen them in pictures. The pictures don't do them justice.

It's time to harvest now. Several people at work ask me to bring them some every fall. They say it keeps spiders out of their homes and garages. I have never tried this. I just try to get the hedge apples up because it gives our horses the runs.

Have you ever heard of insulin resistant horses? Horses that can no longer be allowed to eat grass with out the risk of laminitis?

My 20 year old Sears battery charger bit the dust today. I did some searching today looking for a charger with all the features that I like and came across a Granite Digital 1702 charger. Maybe all hype but if it works as advertised it has all the features that I would like to have. Plug and...

After sliding around all winter I'm doing some serious shopping for tire chains. I like the looks of the studded chains. The best I have looked at so far is Aquiline Talons. I have also read that Norse chains are good but can't find any good links on Norse chains. Any tire chain help would be...

Our fourth winter here last week and it was a dandy. 29" of snow and winds of 30 MPH. I've gotten by for years with an ATV with a blade. Not here. Flat as Kansas it is here. The loader and tractor has now become a necessity. Even with 4 wheel assist and loaded tires I had trouble getting around...

From what I have been reading on these posts I am getting the opinion that the front drive gears on Kubota's are as fragile as glass. Don't use front chains, don't run them on dry pavement, and don't put a strain on them, etc. Some things like not running on dry pavement I can understand. I'm...

I have been trying to find some information and pricing on a three point ballast box for my B7800. Kubota site user unfriendly. Any help would be appreciated.

Can a PTO generator be ran when it's wet? Can the tractor and PTO generator be parked outside running power to the house when it is pouring rain?

We have our place set up pretty well for taking care of our horses during the winter. Always looking for a better way. Wonder what ideas and suggestions others may have to take care of livestock when it's cold outside.

I have a water softener and well water filtration system that both back flush themselves into the pit for our basement sump pump. My concern is that if the sump pump fails the basement will be flooded. I'll admit this is a bad design. It came with the house. Has anyone had to deal with something...

My old true blue 2000 Rancher is getting hard to shift. It sometimes sticks between gears and has to be rocked to shift sometimes. I replaced the shift angle sensor last year and that helped a lot. Have any of you guys had shifting problems with the ESP transmission?

Just wondering if anyone's food plot worked as well as the first one I ever planted this spring. I planted an acre of Ladino clover this spring inside of 12 acres fenced all around. I kept it mowed to 8" and checked it every week all summer. Nothing. No deer sign at all. I thought I had wasted...

One of my major chores is weed eating fence lines and everything else hauling a weed eater around on an ATV. About two to three hours a week in the growing months. I have no good way to haul the weed eater. Do you guys know of any good weed eater mounts available?

Three years ago when shopping for a new tractor a friend of mine let me test drive his B2400 here at home for a day. He had just purchased it used but the previous owner had kept it looking and operating like new. I was so pleased with the way his Kubota handled I bought a B7800. A bit bigger...

My wife and I have had Dobermans for 35 years. A friend of ours has had pit bulls for about the same length of time. We got attached to her pit bulls. So we got one three years ago. We still have one Doberman. These dogs don't seem to be the monster the media wants them to be. We are responsible...

I am thinking about buying a beef cow or two. I have everything I need except water. No water or no electric close to where the cows could be. The thought of hauling water and dumping the water trough every day in freezing weather is holding me back. I am not wanting to dig a pond. Have I...

When we bought our place three years ago it came with geothermal. A Water Furnace system it is. I knew nothing about geothermal until we moved here. It's the most amazing system I have ever seen. Heating and air conditioning costs are a third from where we lived before. And this house is twice...

When you read some of the threads you would think preparing your house for a home generator is like building a nuclear power plant and costs as much. It's not all that difficult or expensive. For sure have a qualified electrician check every step of the way. There are $1,400 power management...

When we bought this place three years ago it came with a Whitfield pellet stove. I know nothing about pellet stoves except how to light one. We don't use it that much. Some cold winter nights the wife fires it up and turns it off before she goes to bed. We don't use it all the time because we...

I have had one for two years now. It's just about the neatest toy I have ever owned. I planted a food plot this spring. Today I put new batteries in the trail camera and placed it overlooking the food plot. I have two memory chips. I just take the ATV out and switch the chips. Then I plug the...

Fall is coming. Some like to live in places that is summer all year round. Not for me. Winter can be a bit ruff n' tuff around here. I don't want to mow grass all year and I don't want to push snow all year. So a little of both here in Ohio. I do enjoy the change of seasons. There is good in all...

You wouldn't think one would have to worry about the hurricane season in Ohio. Last September hurricane Ike took out our roof and we were without power. Having a well without electric gave us no way to flush toilets. No water for the livestock. It was a wake up call for us. We are better...

There was some discussion a few months ago about finding wooden bearings for a Ferguson ABO-22 disk. I have a Ferguson ABO-22 disk that I would like to rebuild. Someone suggested a link to Woodex Bearing Company. I wish I could remember who so I could properly thank them. They do still make...

I have a friend that moved to the country for the first this last winter and planted a garden this spring. He has lost all his green beans to groundhogs. They snipped them off the first time, he tilled and replanted, and they gnawed them to the ground again. I know about groundhogs and beans...

I was looking for a generator cover and came across a "Generator Extended Run Fuel tank". It has a pump and feeds through the generator gas cap. It adds an additional 6 gallon capacity to the generator. So it says. I have a pull start type generator that my wife can't pull start. So if I had the...

Can someone please tell me what brand of disk this is? I bought it today. Not purty but after a bit of oiling and greasing it works like a shiny new one. It's a 7 footer. A little bigger than I wanted for my B7800 but the tractor pulls it OK. I played with it a couple of hours today. Just using...

Dogs found a way under the fence last night and got tangled up with a skunk. Our ham-headed "American Staffordshire Terrier" got the worst of it. Fourth time in less than a year the skunks have sprayed the dogs. Just now able to enter the house without my eyes watering. It's going to be me or...

No matter how safe one can try to be this is what can happen: I was brush cutting a nice clean unfamiliar pasture. Buried beneath the tall grass was a 6" diameter tree 10' tall with a single root 18'' tall. When I ran over the covered 18" root with the rear tire it flipped the tree up like one...

I have been checking this forum daily for about a year and a half. I decided to join today. The wealth of advice, information, and links provided have saved me a lot of time and money.