gunmonkeyintl
Silver Member
Thanks again, all, for the advice. I ordered my tractor last week and took delivery of it yesterday:
DK40SE HST w/ loaded R4 tires
401 Loader w/ toothbar & hooks
2485 BH w/ 18" bucket
Howse PHD 45 w/ 9" auger
Bush Hog BH116 (being delivered later)
On advice from this forum, I got it with two rear remotes - still not sure what I'll use the second one for, but sure I'll figure it out. The dealer set it up so that one has detents and the other does not. Not knowing how I'm most likely to use them, I'd like some input on if this is the best setup. I've read that detents can be removed from a detented remote, and saved for reinstallation in the future. The dealer did not provide me with the detents from the first remote so, if I'm going to need them, I'd like to follow up with him in the next day or two and get them.
I tooled around on it for a little while with the dealer there, and then put it to bed...
...and went and read these.
The op manuals were written in Engrish, but mostly easy to understand. It turns out that the dealer did a better job than I thought in walking me through the tractor. I didn't find much in the op manuals that he hadn't already covered with me. The shop manual was $135. I knew they were generally expensive so I wasn't expecting much for that price. But, I didn't want to have to try to find one 20 years from now, after model specs have changed, and the correct manual for my tractor became difficult to find. It turns out that it really is a well put together volume, and I'd recommend getting it with your tractor even if you don't expect any repairs in the near-term.
So, then I went and had some fun.
Here is a closeup of the bucket. Ended up using both the toothbar and the chain hooks in the first day. I had a dying apple tree and stump, and a seperate stump to take out and I'm thinking the bucket hooks may end up being the best $25 I spent in the whole package.
I did my first real project, too. The "backdoor" to my garden, where I keep compost and such, is across a small ditch off my driveway. When I first went over it, I nearly high-centered my F150. I cut it out a little bit with a shovel, and was able to get in and out of it with my truck, but it was still pretty rough. I found I could use the bucket and toothbar similarly to a box scraper and widened, filled, and smoothed the ramp. I can get the wife's RSX down it now without rubbing anything.
I'm still a little slow and clumsly with the loader and BH, but I'm confident I'll get it figured out.
DK40SE HST w/ loaded R4 tires
401 Loader w/ toothbar & hooks
2485 BH w/ 18" bucket
Howse PHD 45 w/ 9" auger
Bush Hog BH116 (being delivered later)
On advice from this forum, I got it with two rear remotes - still not sure what I'll use the second one for, but sure I'll figure it out. The dealer set it up so that one has detents and the other does not. Not knowing how I'm most likely to use them, I'd like some input on if this is the best setup. I've read that detents can be removed from a detented remote, and saved for reinstallation in the future. The dealer did not provide me with the detents from the first remote so, if I'm going to need them, I'd like to follow up with him in the next day or two and get them.
I tooled around on it for a little while with the dealer there, and then put it to bed...
...and went and read these.
The op manuals were written in Engrish, but mostly easy to understand. It turns out that the dealer did a better job than I thought in walking me through the tractor. I didn't find much in the op manuals that he hadn't already covered with me. The shop manual was $135. I knew they were generally expensive so I wasn't expecting much for that price. But, I didn't want to have to try to find one 20 years from now, after model specs have changed, and the correct manual for my tractor became difficult to find. It turns out that it really is a well put together volume, and I'd recommend getting it with your tractor even if you don't expect any repairs in the near-term.
So, then I went and had some fun.
Here is a closeup of the bucket. Ended up using both the toothbar and the chain hooks in the first day. I had a dying apple tree and stump, and a seperate stump to take out and I'm thinking the bucket hooks may end up being the best $25 I spent in the whole package.
I did my first real project, too. The "backdoor" to my garden, where I keep compost and such, is across a small ditch off my driveway. When I first went over it, I nearly high-centered my F150. I cut it out a little bit with a shovel, and was able to get in and out of it with my truck, but it was still pretty rough. I found I could use the bucket and toothbar similarly to a box scraper and widened, filled, and smoothed the ramp. I can get the wife's RSX down it now without rubbing anything.
I'm still a little slow and clumsly with the loader and BH, but I'm confident I'll get it figured out.
