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I bought a used Abbott Bros. 3-pt for an M and widened it 8 inches to fit my 560. It has 2 big cylinders on it and will lift a tank with no problem. Front end comes off the ground a lot! Be careful with them! The Abbott Bros hitch is built like a tank and indestructable! VERY heavy unit!

My cauliflower and brock. plants got leggy in the greenhouse and the cabbage got stunted in the trays for some reason. Transplanted 1 row 130 feet long of cabbage then ran out of cones to put over them so had to quit til I can get more tile to cut up. Cant plant anything here without the tile...

change the oil in a motor and while its hot go dump it on the trailer floors and mop it around!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have tilled grass under before,---- just chop it up good a few times and you will be fine!

well, I have dug burn pits, set trusses, graded the drive, carried brush limbs and logs, grubbed out small trees, lifted motors out of tractors. Now getting more ideas for attachment builds for it since I know about what it can do and what I can get by with doing.

Well,---- damn wind was trying to take the roof off my wood shop, ----- soooo not being able to go up a ladder in this wind, guess whos holding down the fort for a few days???? LOL!

I have a small package of buckwheat that I am going to try in a small area this year just to see what it will do.

a few things coming up here. cabbage, radishes, and broc. so far.

ran 6 of my 8 in December. Busy here now with the greenhouse so generators are getting run one at a time when I get a chance to start one. Gotta put a new shutoff under one of the tanks for sure and its ready again. IF we get the spring storms , ---- might need to use a couple of them! lol!

cant use any type of ground cover here since it harbors voles, mice , bugs, and disease and makes the ground stay cold , nasty and slimy

Plant rr corn!! lol! worms dont like it!

I go for and grow 2 pound onions! lol! Dont take as many to fill the freeze driers that way plus the big ones have better texture and flavor. Just my findings. Gotta do whatever works for you! my ground is dry so I have to keep things low. Never had an onion sunburn here yet!

for onions you GOTTA take dirt AWAY from them as the grow or they wont get very big.--- at least not here! They are a surface crop. For beets I never hill them either. The main thing with them is to get them spaced apart since they take up a lot of room in the row. 6" spacing for both onions and...

Its not all that tight. Right now I am fighting to keep it warn in there! I have an old hoghouse fan and a furnace fan that I can set in there if it comes to that later. I never hill beets! Planting them thin enough is always a problem. Never tried transplanting them from flats. LOTTA work but...

Starting seed boxes in the greenhouse now. Hope it works. Really need a small heater in there.

IF the dirt there is rich and you give them a LOT of water and fertilizer a half day of sun will work. You might try bush varieties to cut down on the vine problem OR cut the ends of the off vines when they get to the limit of your space. You will still have to keep the weeds out and cultivate...

my ramps are 8 footers. I back the New Holland L-781 up them all the time,---hold your breath and go for it! LOL!!

Did that with mine in the dump trailer, only I never got half way!! only just over center an dead. Used a comealong to pull ass end back down and all was fine! LOL!

The thread size is probably METRIC crap! See if anybody can find out! Thanks!!

no ELECTRIC carp allowed on my farm!!!!!! LOL!!

Wasnt aware of a tube. Where do you have to get them from?

Ya 20 3/4 is closer on this one too, --- hard to measure with tape measure in 45 mph wind but I checked again yesterday and they are 20 3/4 for sure.

Same here--- one old STANDARD gun --- use it on everything!!

I might have to do that too! Great idea!!

I want to replace the nasty needle zerks on my L-12 if possible-------- HATE them nasty needle things! lol!

Well, ----- I struggled for an hour, ( by my self), and finally got the track back on with 2 six foot pry bars so I could get on with the day! NOT something I will do again either! I was tempted to try getting the grease pressure out but wasnt aware of how to do it. The first video shows the...

What I did yesterday was have the right hand track jump off! ---- How the hell do you put them back on???? L-12 has that STUPID grease tension tightner on it instead of the good old wrench manual type. Tracks were tight and I check them every time I get on it so I know they are o.k. ( I NEVER...

Ya, -- left motor is the leaker!

Between the bosses behind the bolts is 20 1/2 to 20 3/4 as near as I can measure on mine. I tried to make a yellow line to show the points to measure from. This is same on the front side as the back.

Will do! Ya it started out being a nightmare but after a lot of work I am getting the feel of it. Still gotta fix the teeth so they quit bending every time I dig with it. I still like the L-12 WAY better than the H-12, qsr-12, etc as you cant get to anything on them! On the L-12 the hood raises...

Probably 20 hours total. hour meter showed 4 hours when it came out of the shipping container and I left the damn switch on for several hours shows 35 now but I know its 15 too high!

My L-12 has marks all over it AND one wheel motor has started leaking around a fitting, so something was NOT put on right. It wont tighten any more and I am not about to mess with it unless it starts really spraying. I think the fine chimineese cross threaded the fitting,--- probably looked...

I had to junk the thumb on mine cause it was always in the way! Never found a use for it anyway! IF ya gotta have one make sure its hyd. and NOT solid. Dont get stuck with a used unit!!!! Just go buy a new one to start with. 20 hours of abuse and these things are JUNK so dont fall for it! I...

the chimineese dont want to spend any time on quality OR make anything standard! It's just NOT their way!!!

check that the blades turn by hand with motor turned off. Then check electric clutch IF it has one, (these can lock up). Make sure nothing is getting in a bind. sounds like something hitting somewhere.

LP here,--- ditched the damn electric junk 15 years ago! -- I can fine tune the gas to run my pressure canner and never could on the electric junk. ---- PLUS its a hotter heat!

Didnt get any pix but I used the digger to set logs on the bandsawmill yesterday. It handles MOST of the logs I saw. Its faster than using a skidloader, plus smaller and easier to get around with. I can set them instead of dumping logs on the mill. They do tend to roll off the loader forks.

My L-12 dont freewheel OR speed up going down hill, (wish it did!) Anyway none I looked at will freewheel, IF they do/did, you got a major problem.!

used mine to set rafters on the greenhouse,--course had to cheat and bolt an angle iron to the side of the bucket! lol! I just used the tooth holes and drilled the angle iron the same hole size. Bolted it on with the tooth bolts. I HAD to take the teeth off to get the bucket to dump dirt anyway...

My neighbor gets the rr sweetcorn seed and plants his side of the river then drives over and plants my plot. We found the kind he gets to be WAY better than regular kinds. Not all rr sweet corn varieties are good. Not sure what he gets but in the past we found Wyffles corn to be the best on the...

I use what works for me! Everybody has their own opinions.

herbicides target only certain weeds! Gotta get the right stuff for gardens as NOT just anything will work!

Pre- emerge does NOT prevent veggies from sprouting! I spray half dose after I till and lightly incorporate it in then plant. I have used Me-Too for all the years its been out. It can be applied a couple weeks before you plant but dont till more than 2" deep before you plant or you mess up the...

grab the 4" angle grinder and get rid of that crap between the cutters!!! Thats the first thing I do when I run into one of these stupid design chains!

take plugs out, dump a bit of gas in the cylinders, put plugs back in and start it! It gotta be primed to get it to start suckin gas on its own. Got 420's here the same way.

ALL diesels and automatic transmissions are JUNK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

all plastic does is harbor bugs/worms under it and the ground gets/stays slimy cause air/light cant get under it! -- Its the WORST stuff on planet earth for gardens! It kills the soil! ONLY way to keep weeds out is a good pre-emerge herbicide early and a LOT of hand weeding during growing...

The greenhouse I am building will have twin wall 1/4" thick sheets that are 6' x 12' and I will cut them so I have 6' with a 1' bottom board giving 7' ground to truss height. 12' wide and 24' long. I bought a bunch of leftover stuff from a commercial greenhouse that sold out and thats what they...

I use a KK 72" for first 2 passes in the spring then after planting I use Horse's and Tuffys to cultivate with Have 14 Horses now. Plus 6 other various sizes/brands.

I just want the tractor to run my 72" 3 - pt. tiller with. Get rid of every pound possible to run light and not pack the ground. The loader and the top and whatever else I can take off goes! Loader will sell , top and front frame around the grille might, if not I can always bury it.

I tried every parts yard and every dealer on the internet and there are NO reverse idler shafts left on planet earth cause the 310's ate all of them a long time ago! LOL !! This was a design flaw and Case went ahead with it anyway and it will never hold! The 2 tiny roller bearings inside the...

Just bought this one for junk but going to try to get it running first. Its got major problems,---been sitting for 10 years or more out in the weeds. The loader is a 2050-A and is in good condition but I dont do tractor loaders, ( useless to me since I only use skidders here), so the loader will...

I have 2 580ck's both 1968 one direct drive the other is fluid drive. Great machines!

I have my 310-G TOTALLY apart to put a reverse idler shaft in it. NO shafts left on planet earth and 310's ate them for lunch! SO now I gotta make a substitute shaft somehow. In answer to your question yes the shifter comes out the side BUT to do much on the transmission you have to totally...

Around 20 hours on mine and I only set the tracks when I got it running and didnt touch them since. They are holding for now but its only a matter of time til they start leaking grease and tracks fall off.

They get water and dirt in them and rust shut making them useless!

Ya, that be Moose! ALL earlier crawlers had manual spring tensioners on them. Later they went to the grease crap that never worked!

I would like to find spare tracks for $100!! lol! I have been over some nasty stuff with mine and they are fine so far. On the track subject, I dont care for the grease type tightners! I will down the road convert them to rod/spring/nut manual tensioners. Have the hyd. ones on my IH 250-c...

best value (my opinion) is the L-12 after using mine quite a bit and looking the other models over.

Seat belt???? no got one !!! LOL!! Seriously, --- Also you have to watch which model you end up with! L-12 is the best, cause the back raises up and you can get to the gas tank, check oil, pull the recoil to start motor, remove motor, ( I had to), and in general reach most stuff in there. H-12...

On my L-12, you cant back up the ramps!---- hyd. dies! -- GOTTA drive up with boom WAY out front! Course I am hauling mine on a high profile dump trailer! LOL! --- just gotta idle the motor as slow as possible to keep from killing it and brace your elbows solid on your knees and carefully work...

I was going to bolt on a blade extension but didnt like the overlap. Mine is the L-12 and I cant get fittings to install my variable flow control to slow the hyd. down so it dont throw you off the seat every time you touch a lever. Mine has the fan/oil cooler setup too. I found out the hyd. will...

No, I am just going to make the one on it 2 or 3 times as thick. I dont use it that much and most of the time its in the junkpile! Damn thing is in the way when digging. Also have decided to weld a 6" high extension to the blade. It will never hit anything the way I use the digger.

put my mini to bed for the winter today! Gotta make some teeth for it this winter, rebuild the thingy that sticks down in front of the bucket in the way, AND install my adjustable flow control in the hyd. system! Other than that I am satisfied with it,--- oh and rewire the damn hour meter so...

Tomatoes here are WEEDS! LOL! They take over everything! Have not planted any plants for 10 years! We just transplant volunteer plants to a row and till/hoe out the rest! We have several kinds and all do well for us. As for greenhouse,--cant answer that one, (yet)! Plan on building a small one...

WELCOME !! Time to do a garden thread for 2024! Post what you would like to do this year. Varieties, equipment, garden size , etc. and yes pots, barrels, and raised beds qualify as gardens here.

Sposed to have been a NEW machine, BUT motor was junk when I got it,---had been used for something BEFORE it got put on the digger,--intake valve was burned full of crap and stuck open, carb was rusted shut, etc. ----meter showed 4 hours on it, course I left the master on and now shows 33! lol...

Ya its the L- 12. Bent both outer teeth about 45 degrees down from where they s'posed to be. Dont do any good to straighten them,---they wont hold. I am not pulling that hard on them either,---engine at fast idle is all I run the motor.

dug out some honeysuckle bushes and bent another outer tooth! Damn teeth are junk on these things!

Ya, the old IH 250-c dont sway under load for sure! My friend that hauled it home got scaled by DOT on the way home and it weighed in at 60,000 pounds. Our permit was only for 92,000 and his semi was 36,000 so we were over a bit BUT they did let us go since we were only going 7 miles with it! (...

stay away from lectric crap! LOL!

Mount it on a 3-pt. platform and junk the trailer! Would make it much handier!

pto shaft is SUPER easy to bend if you get it in a bind. Run mower level and go slow, should be ok. Dont crowd things!!

gonna buy a couple for parts machines soon! Price drops another $100 and deal is on!

Dont want longer arms! ---that would defeat the purpose. Gotta have the blade taller to hold more dirt to hold the digger from sliding in the hole. I am NOT bulldozing with it! A 6" plate on top of the blade is just right and NO it wont hit anything! I NEVER turn more than 90* with it

The blade is out front and drove into the ground when diggin so shouldnt hit,---gotta check. Mine pushes dirt over the blade when I try to dig. got blade stuck almost full cyl. stroke in the ground and still drags me off in the hole. Backfill, grading loading on the truck, going to dig areas...

After taking the motor apart and cleaning everything out, ground the valves, cleaned the burned crap out of the ports in the head, drained the gas out of the crankcase and out of the tank, got the crud out of the carb, --finally got it runnin, THEN bent one of the outer teeth diggin horseradish...

Nothing has gone over mine since I put it up 10 years ago.

Yes I do a 4.5 acre garden. Donate all but a small amount to the Midwest Food Bank.

I just bought a Lifan 7,000 watt generator AND the motor looks exactly like the one in the L-12. I think they just make one motor at the factory and stick whatever name on them that you want.--- including the ones hf sells, so IF its chimineese, it came from the same factory. Just my .002!

YA!! Its the B&S clone! or fake or whatever you want to call it! chimineese built copy! --- seams to be a good motor now that I took it apart and went thru it puttin **** where it was s'posed to be and a good clean out of everything. Cant put parts in right if your eyes are not straight! lol...

I am waitin til they get down to 2,500,---then I will buy a couple more for parts machines. --- Cant build one for that!

The first things I had to do was get rid of that pos iron hanging in front of the bucket,---it went in the junkpile,---- next was to take them bottom blobs off iron off the bucket before it would even attempt to dig. bucket filled but wouldnt dump at all till I took them off. next thing is the...

my L-12 was 4,000 auction buy,--the rest went for 5,800 to 6,200. everybody knew sumpin about mine that I didnt. Still doin modifications to the POS since I own it. Contacted everybody about it and the motor and they all act dumb and say your problem! Gotta put flow controls in the hyd. system...

This is how I put my 60' x 120' shed up. Moose Building Shed by sonny reese, on Flickr

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Jermoos seamed to be in Madison, Wisc. at the time.

Moving is NOT an option plus south gets bad weather too nowdays! lol!

exactly my point! They are TOYS! For REAL work ya gotta go big! and I only use blowers here. Snow drifts here get deep,-- like 6 feet or more and the full length of my half mile drive! Bring that cub and clean that out for me! LOL!

Anybody ever hear of them??? The other tag is worn off so I cant see what it has on it. It has a 3-pt of sorts on it, 6' single auger with thrower paddles in the center, no second stage on it. Will get a couple pics next time I am out there.

I despise snow and winter!!!!

my 4.5 acre garden is fenced with standard woven wire,---had to do that to keep coyotes out,--- they destroyed the sweetcorn one year. deer dont jump the fence, too lazy I guess. ---got lucky on that.

you will find it useless in snow! a inch or two works BUT for REAL snow it gotta be a blower! Got cubs here so I know how useless they are.! lol!

Dont remember seeing that in there,---been 5 years since I was in it. This one dont have power steering either. The guy I bought it from said when he saw the tractor wouldnt steer, he knew it was an expensive fix and wasnt going to mess with it. I used it for a year, mostly just to lift stuff...

SCAM!!!!!!!!!! Just like the $99. Sthil 880 chainsaw ads!

Turf tires are a joke!!!! NO traction at all AND they have the same carcuss as bar tread tires do! Go with bar design that has bars close together OR long bar short bar and never look back. I use long bar short bar on every tractor I put new tires on.

It could be rewound at a motor repair shop most likely BUT the cost would be more than a new grinder. I have a nice old 9 inch jobber and thats what I ran into so its under the bench in the junk

transmission input shaft and bull gears are the weak point on these. Gotta split the tractor to put one in. Bought 2 of them with the same problem ---- got lucky at a junkyard for parts. Both of these were lp gas,---never had a diesel but had 2 ubs diesels which had injection pumps out. Stay...

14* here for last 2 nights. got 2 generators ready to go. 4 others are about ready. I depend mostly on the 2 electric start ones. Gittin to damn old to pull ropes anymore but do when I gotta! We have more outages in the summer than any other time of the year. -- just long enough to mess up the...

There USED to be estate and farm auctions around here and no more since the big green farmers took over the country! 70,000 acres or your out in this area! What few smaller sales there are get trucked to the auction yard and not onsite so you never know what you are buying or the history of it...

Got tied up all summer and wasnt on the computer a great lot this year. Had a very dry year this time and none of the harvest wanted to keep so we freeze dried as much as we could to save it for winter. We just finished up sweet potatoes, regular potatoes and now on to parsnips. Started freeze...

251c was in its own class,----250's were the cheeeepie saw that stihl came up with to compete with the imports. I am not putting the 250 down, have and use 4 of them myself! HOWEVER they are also in their own class as to how they start and run! Gotta be super fine tuned and they are one picky...

Buyers premium here is up to 15% now on the average. A few years ago there was 0%, then 1.5, then 6%, etc, etc. ----Taxes on top of that and that "CHEEP" item just went thru the roof!! lol!!!

I just set my mill on my implement trailer and go! When done I set it off and back in the shed. Saves all that leveling and messing around. True it ties up the trailer BUT I dont use it that often anyway so it works for me.

I buy 1 oil here and everything on the place drinks from the same bucket cept the 2 stroke motors. its diesel rated. goes in the ford trucks gas and diesel 7.3, IH 250c crawler loader, the 98 explorer , all garden tillers, etc. --- been using it for 20 years.

Turns fine if you put the loader bucket down and raise the front end off the ground with it. Had the top cover off,--all kinds of grease in there, cant see anything broke. I imagine the vertical bushings are worn out in the pedistal. ---- did have a pic somewhere on my computer without the hoe...

runnin would be IH 340, 560, A, SA. Deere 730des,420-w loader backhoe, 420-c loader. Ac 190xtd and 2 WD045's Non runners you dont want to know!

The items are at auctions for a good reason!!! Sumpin wrong and seller dont want to spend the money to fix it in most cases!!!! Bid accordingly!!!

I was told 30 years was antique and that seams to vary with groups!

I think my 420W is a 57, came with heavy loader and backhoe from dealer and is mostly original as far as I know, still 6-v system. wires seam to be good on it so far,---- I dont use it anymore since you cant steer it and I dont have time to work on it.

I totally DESPISE snow and winter!!!!!!!!!! Spent 35 years of my life driving them old cold snowplows with no heaters working in them most of the time. The Cat 12 I drove one winter for the township didnt have a back window in it, this was back in the 60's, nowdays they drive around in short...

Thats one of the things around here that gets overlooked! lol! BUT I try to keep 3 of the biggest ones run every 3 or 4 months and let them run an air compressor or big fan. The smaller ones ( have NO idea of how many of them I have) get run when I need one out in the field or woods to run...

I dont know a great lot about these new models, so my info is probably wrong! I do know it has the sheet with it saying 250000 13.5 motor. cant see in there very good but will try looking with a mirror and try to find numbers or tags. I did get the head cleaned up and ground the valves in it...

As I posted in the other thread, You have to start re-building these diggers before you can use them , BUT you cant start from scratch making one for the price you can buy them for, so I figure I have a good base to start from!

This one has the XR 250000 motor in it not the 210000. The spark plug has the B & S logo on it so who knows what it is. Didnt think to take pix of the intake but it was hard melted on carbon like crud, and NEW motor right off the shipping crate should NOT have anything on it! Did finally get...

I just got the L-12 ----- WAY better than the H-12 setup. These things are confusing cause they all look alike but are totally different inside! The L-12 has the rear hood that raises up to get to the motor and the H-12 does not,--only the seat tips and you cant get anywhere near the motor to...

they are luni and it swells up and warps internally blocking the passages so kits are useless in the old body. Got 2 154's and 3 185's here and all have junk carbs! Just slap on a chimineese $30 dollar one and go!--order 3 so you get one that actually works!!! LOL!

$29.95 chimineese Worx here just for the heck of it! --- I only use it around the yard but did take it and the generator out in the woods one time. Does great for light use, cuts about as fast as the stihl ms 250 which aint bad!

I use 150 rpm on all my drills no matter what size and keep the oil flowing! Messy? ya but beats fighting bits!

The problem with the old ones is that our fine govt wants them gone! just like old cars/trucks! GOTTA buy that letric chit!

The transmission, rear end and steering bands are all in the rear housing unit. Bout gotta take everything apart just to get to a 2 dollar part! A real pain in the *** to work on. Even bought new track rails and bolts for mine! --- may just sell the whole package for the right price and move on...

It will work til you bump into something frozen in the ground! LOL!

My 310-G is all over the shop floor right now! Had to take everything apart and still looking for reverse idler shaft,---I was told now that they eat these shafts for lunch every day!!!! ---bout ready to junk mine!

Got one here, just bought it this spring, motor stuck,--got that running, now the engine clutch is junk, gotta pull motor and put in new clutch, then on to steering units which probably dont work either! Nice tight little unit. They had just spent $10,000 on the undercarriage and motor rebuild...

Thanks for the links to the manuals!!! Thats what I was needing!

over 26,000 gotta be CDL in all states I been thru. They told me I gotta have my CDL to pull my dump trailer behind my Explorer! Trailer is rated at 14,000! -- AND yes I been stopped many times with it! Whipped out my CDL , pissed off cops cause I had one and went on my way. Its best to not...

Just got this one last week and got the motor loose, now I need a battery for it. Wont be in town for a while, so for now it waits. It has a complete new undercarriage on it and does need a different grille. I think I can straighten out the frame around the grille if I can find the mesh center...

Pre-heat is always your friend! I always pre-heat all my thick stuff. For the high carbon stuff its 7018 BUT ya still need that pre-heat! lol!

Keep the hoe on it!!!!!! dont ask how I know!!!! LOL!!!

in my 650,---the shifter rails were rusted. I cleaned them and it worked ever since. Probably stuck now since it been sitting for many years outside. I never could find any manuals for mine so cant help on pix.!

I have a spare winch that I was going to mount on a 3-pt frame/blade type set-up. I have a very heavy 5 speed truck transmission to go ahead of the winch so I can have power reverse. A winch without power reverse is useless besides being a good way to kill somebody! Be careful with these things...

The reason cubs were made in high numbers was the selling price--- cheeeep to buy cheeep made!! I have 7 of them and only the yellow and white one is any good. I plow with it but its a struggle! Hard dry ground this fall was a bear, anyway this one is a nice tractor for the sprayer, plow, and...

Well my garden is 4.5 acres and most people call it a field! lol! --- In the spring I use a KK 72" 3pt. tiller on a IH 340u tractor before planting. Some of the garden gets run over several times before its planted cause not all of it gets planted the same day. After planting I cultivate with TB...

Now my donor mag is also dead! --next step is to convert mag coil to external tractor coil an go with that until I can figure out were to get a coil at a reasonable price. Not going to spend a ton of money on this thing right now not knowing if its a good unit or not.---gotta get it to run so I...

some of my stuff has crude switches on them but most are too old for them. I was going to add aftermarket switches but the job to install them would be complicated since they were never designed for that crap to begin with. I despise them and wire the handles down on mine. They are still on...

Only saw 1 around here as this is IH cub country! Now there IS a USLESS model ! The G probably was o.k. for its intended purpose, BUT who ever used a tractor for its intended purpose? IF it pulled 1 bottom plow surly I can pull 3 bottoms with it----right?

once you fill with oil,--you have to cycle several times from stop to stop to get the air out. This is mostly the problem when the steering unit wears out. It may or may not come back,---my 706 didnt and I had to put in another unit. ( had another used one on hand) also are your top seals good...

YA!!! fall plowing allows the chunks to weather down so you dont have clods like spring plowing makes! Also lets fall/winter rains/snow soak down to the root zones and stay longer so the plants have moisture for longer period of time before you need to water.

Dug the last of the carrots and have about half of the garden plowed. Raining today so no outside work.

I still use horse manure when I can get it! Thats the only thing we can get in this area,---no livestock here,---just horses.

Everything is harvested by my sister and I,--no others involved in it. Not sure how much longer we can do it, but possibly 1 more year. Been donating to food banks for 40 years now. Health is giving out for us to go much longer.

They will NOT honner the replacement!!!! IF you actually could get them to, --they prorate it so you still get nothing! --- figure if it dies you just have to buy another one. As far a 8 volt batts--------Stay away from them! its either 6 or 12volt. Stick 8 in there and you screw up the...

Got the sweet potatoes dug and delivered to Midwest food bank. We had over 3,000 pounds on the truckload this year. They were glad to get them,---said people were asking for sweet potatoes, so it made us all happy in the end. Sis has taken over 3,000 pounds of tomatoes from our garden this year...

HEY!!! I had 2 of them Jeep-a-trenchers at one time! Still have one of the auburn units on a IH 2504 that I never use. --I think the diggin chain boom is 7 or 9 feet. been extended for farm tile installations by former owner. A word of caution on chain trenchers and roots or rocks, -----stay...

with 41% ,---on the low side early in the season on VERY humid days 2 oz. will do the job. On big tuffer weeds/trees/brush/etc 4 oz. will USUALLY do it but may need a second shot to get strays. IF the 4 oz. dont do it then its time for the bulldozer! lol!

gotcha!! I misread your post! Ya the LINKS moved in would increase lift at the cost of lost lifting power. Kinda a balancing act to figure out what works for each purpose. On my homemade 3-pt. I drilled several holes in the bottom arms to give a bit of adjustment for my many pieces of made...

Industrial size tires are a major problem to get rid of in any state! --- Why do you think the woods are full of them??? LOL!

You can do some very big holes with the time and care required! I have welded and redid some very nasty holes in blocks and heads. Now it wont win you any beauty contents but it will hold water. Sometimes you about have to go this route on these rare parts and it still gets expensive!!

Vigo 327 got it backwards!!! Closer in gives MORE lift power but LESS height! For light tractors its best to keep everything in close as possible to keep the front end on the ground. Farther back makes the front light and you cant steer!

I try to do 4.5 acres here and its a ***** to keep up with weeds! Most of the crops go to our local food bank. ( Midwest Food Bank) and they ship stuff out nationwide to disaster areas when needed. They try to keep what we take in for local use. They told me it was great quality and would be...

Here is kind of a catch up of the summer/fall harvest so far. Sweet potatoes did o.k. BUT only 7.25 pounders this year. Last year we had 10.5 pounders and quality is down on everything this year. Too dry/hot during the growing season and I couldnt haul/carry enough water to do much good.

summer went by so fast I didnt have time to get on the computer! Anyway we are now into fall harvest and doing sweet potatoes.

NEVER use them!!!!! only takes one small overload second and you have destroyed your bucket! I modified a bubcat set to fit my NH L-781 and never looked back! IF you need forks --- get the real thing!! MOST loaders nowdays are quick-tach,--- so why chance damage to your bucket! Also with the...

Third lever and straight plug! lol! Ya,--- I downloaded all the manuals that I could find last year when I was trying to get the L and LI running. --- never did get them to go but have not had time this year to work on them. Found another 1 or 3 for the C models so copied them as well. Really...

anybody have a wiring diagram for one of these??? This has the 188 diesel in it and seller says starter dont work. He tried to wire a new switch up in it and it looks like a mess. I dont have a clue as to where all the wires go to and need help. I hot wired the jumper pack to the starter direct...

Lincoln or Hobart are the best rods I ever used for general purpose welding. as for HF rods,---never tried them, so cant give opinion on them.

anybody know if the mag from an L will fit the C?? got 2 L's here and mags were good last year so was wondering if they would fit the C. all 3 are wico, but may have different spec # on them.---I hate mags with a passion but I need to mow weeds and this is my only hope for a quick fix other than...

I leave the stalks on them to cure them. IF you cut them off,---they wont cure or keep very long. Ya if you were going to use them right away it wouldnt matter. We usually have a ton of cutoffs when we freeze dried the crop but this year we didnt run the freeze drier on anything. Too many other...

finished the onion harvest. got a lot of 2 pounders this year. all of the water carrying paid off for sure! We need rain! First planting of sweetcorn done, now to chop the stalks down. last planting might make corn but if it dont rain it wont pollinate so I might try the old water spray trick...

Ya!-- AND us truck drivers were labeled as the bad asses, ----AND some of them are and have no business driving anything at all.

wind storm hit the other day,---did a number on the gardens and fruit trees.

type F was replaced by dextronlll/mercon.--or thats what I was told so I run it in my 350 ford truck---trans in it is junk anyway so whats it gonna hurt? LOL!

Mine has a carb problem too and I think you might have gotten fine rust in the carb on yours. These carbs have a million tiny parts in them and are impossible to work on. I ran mine with the choke on and hooked a cable up so it was easy to operate. one hand on the choke, and the other on the...

ban cell phones and crash rates will fall instantly! Drivers kill,--not cars/trucks.drivers not paying attention is the major problem today, then throw in the idiots on bikes and as stated JOGGERS with headphones runnin down the middle of the road! I have seen all of the stupid stuff when I...

I mow steeper ones that that here! z-turn works , also I have used the IH 185 with creeper gear, but my fave. is one of my Sunstar 20's with 60" deck. They have diffy locks in them and hang up the side's of banks like a magnet! lol! --- corse people say I am crazy for mowing the roadside in the...

what ever you do do NOT put that goop in the tires! It eats the rims up and even if it dont most of the brands ruin the rims cause you cant get it off later when you replace the tires and you will replace the tires!! Put tubes in them and go for years! --- you should see some of my horses...

flimsy needle bearings go out and eat the shaft up and IF you were lucky enough to stop in time, the shaft is cut all to hell but if you didnt stop in time it breaks and takes out a WHOLE bunch of x'pensive gears! lol!

That is another possible thing. Wrong clutch could throw things out big time! Will try to look into it and how its mounted. It sits way up in there and hard to get at. May have to remove it to actually see or find #'s, then see if they match up or not!

gardens are still hangin on. getting a light rain now. Been trying to haul water all summer. Weeds and bugs are a real problem this year too. a few pix of things at this point. Onions about ready for harvest/processing. carrots and beets starting to get ready. radishes long gone and turnips...

a couple pix. 1 shows the step that they made the belt run from motor to deck. you can see how radical it is. Its hard to get good pix under there.

po planted 2 of them here,---- after 5 or 6 years the wind snapped 1 off at the ground and last year the ice took 2/3 of the other one down and it looks kinda sick this summer so it will come down later. I never did care for them! I want trees that give me fruit!!!

Transmission reverse idler shaft is out!! Never saw a 310 yet that wasnt or didnt shortly after purchase! --got one myself sitting in the junkpile cause there aint no more shafts to be had! Mine is a 310-g loader model. Been looking fo 2 years now for parts for it and they are hard to find and...

Hope that model wasn't made by MTD!!!! IF it was I feel for ya buddy!!!! Got stuck with a cc Z-Force 48 and its JUNK!

got the tag #'s off the mower Factory# 53AA5A7M710 Serial# 0D284Z00005 Item# 01009448 UPC Code 043033528745 I also looked at the parts pic. in the link above and #46 idler pulley shows a 1.0 od? both of mine are same and both are flat and run on the OUTSIDE of the belt. ---all line up except for...

Bought this thing at an auction and found no drive belt from motor to deck,--deck belt there and good! O.k.,---whats up with this?--new idler pulleys also on it! HMMMM! so I go buy the 79.5 belt that dealer said it S'POSED to use and finally got it on,--way too tight but hey never argue with the...

didnt have many roots for a tree of that size! --I have trees here that do the same thing,--one day fine---next day dead! I was told its soil bacteria killing them. O.k. WHERE and when does this come from? I cant get real answers here from anybody!

alt on mine is 35 a. --- the new fans are low draw so you wont have any trouble runnin it if you dont have any other stuff hooked up. lights/etc.

I have 2 of the 310 saws and use them more than all the others for what ever they can cut. Bigger saws cut the big stuff. 310 starts easier when you shut down and toss brush then pick it up and 1 pull your cuttin again! Sthil wont do that!

I sub soil 3 feet deep here every year and have never had water problems since, so in answer to your question--- YES it works!

At one time my compost/manure/wood chip pile was over 20' high, never got turned for a long time and was still hot. the piles do need turned a few times but not too often or you lose too much heat and it slows down the rot process .

worms, toads, frogs, unknown bugs,--you name it I got it in my high fertilized 4.5 acre garden! Always have had them and the wood chips and compost dont seam to hurt anything.

anything that will go thru my 16" Vermeer and gets chipped goes in the dirt to rot. If you leave it on top it takes longer but will work.---spread it med. thickness, plow under 18" deep and good to go! Mixing green material and manures does wonders to speed up the process. I add a lot of...

Tractor dont run anymore so dont need to add any! lol! What I really need is a motor for it!

Cabbage and green beans do o.k. here under the trees, also radishes. The only thing that do do the best is tomatoes, they grow and turn red, BUT taste like store bought ones! lol!

Mine just has a regular push/pull switch on it. --dont have any lights on it anyway since my tractor didnt come with any.

Ya, not everybody has ground like we do here and the tillage methods will vary as to what will work for you. We have the onion plants in hand and ground tilled up for planting --- BUT with 3 days of rain, planting is on hold! lol!

Trying to clean the onion garden off but got over 3" of snow last night so no gardening today! S'posed to get down to 6* tonight. Kinda tired of this crap!--time to hit the dirt and get planting!

got 4 here by the road dying----a friend says its from some bacteria they picked up out of the soil. I have no idea. I planted a couple more 20 feet away from the dying ones and they too are showing signs just like the big guys! -- Well come hell or high water,--- I am going to have evergreens...

Can you add some weights to the front like the tractor pullers use? a couple hundred pounds mounted out front 3 or 4 feet would do wonders ,--kinda in the way but IF it does the job,---- might be worth trying.

I agree with you guys on the "overkill" amounts that people dump on their yards,--- and for what useful purpose? Yard mowing is such a waste!--- Ya I know its a billion dollar business to the commercial lawn guys, but at what cost to the land?

Narrow fronts are just as safe as wide fronts!--in fact safer! lol! wide fronts have ONLY 1 little center pin holding the whole front of the tractor up and it makes them more tippy than narrow ones! On narrow fronts you have heavy pedestal with 2 wheels together and a much wider footprint making...

Non-alki gas here in Il. is hard to get too! --- SAD for sure!

Allis model D roadgrader works good--not too big dont use much gas, already made, does a fair job,! lol Old Farmall cub will smooth out loose dirt but wont work on packed gravel at all. No small tractor will do hard gravel drives unless you rip up the hard stuff first.

well,-- lets see,---Powerful?,--lightweight?,-- start on first pull????????????????? THAT rules out ALL chainsaws! lol! Better opt for a big dozer and be done with it!lol!

I made a plow that will go 24 inches deep, BUT takes a 5 bottom tractor to pull it that deep. at 18" one of the 560 will do the job. When we harvest a cabbage head, we use what is needed for 1 setting then put the rest in the fridge til the next day. One head per year goes into the freezer cut...

I have access to horse manure from 5 people in a 10 mile area from me. 1 is a 1 horse operation so a load or 2 a year but the biggest is a 14 to 20 horse boarding operation where its a load every few days. I stack it and stir it, ( IF I get time) and spread it and plow it under deep so it rots...

The only thing here that has one is MOOSE, and its always in the way. ---just something to get used to. One of my 580's has the cab rated as rops and its a REAL pisser to get in and out of!

For the shade , we have good luck with cabbage and green beans. MOST veggies will do good in partial shade,--even tomatoes. We do 4.5 acres in the open gardens but have a "window" garden close to the house in partial shade and everything does good in it. The main thing is the low hanging limbs...