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Remember, if you are pulling with any kind of rope except Dacron, you will be dealing with a lot of stretch. If something breaks, the rope will come right at you, so fast you can hardly see it.(Don't ask how I know this). Put about 20 feet of chain about 3/8 size between your rope and the...

I have been an ag mechanic for a long time. I want to give you some more information about tire sizes and differentials and 4 wheel drive tractors. First, the tire and wheel sizes on a 4 wheel drive tractor are picked by the manufacturer to be compatible, ie., one driveshaft revolution moves...

Your problem is the too long extension cord. Not check valves or anything else. Buy a long air hose and keep the compressor by the power source to avoid the voltage drop. A long air hose is much cheaper than a 100 foot 12 gauge extension cord

I have run a 48 inch Land Pride light duty rotary mower on a BX 23 fairly often. BX engine rated 16.7 PTO HP. Works OK for most uses. Will cut 4 foot brush and heavy grass but you must slow down a bit or take a partial cut. However, the mower is not struggling to cut when you take about a 40...

Stabil Marine is about as good as the other premium names for me and easier to find. Mixing rate is in the label. For 2 cycle, I use premium synthetic oil mix which already has fuel stabilizer in it. (Stihl premium synthetic or Red Armor(Echo)). Mixing rate is on the label. I can start 2...

If you want to test for a head gasket leak, there is a tool called Bloc- Check. It has an adapter which goes in the radiator neck and holds some test fluid. You squeeze a bulb on top to pull gasses(not fluid) from the radiator through it. (Make sure radiator coolant level is low enough that...

Diesel mower referred to is too small an engine to have regen, so no worry on that point.

I have run a Kubota ZG227 zero turn commercially for years. Nice machine with a 54 deck and 27HP gas V twin engine. It has a true hydrostatic transmission with all the pumps and motors inside it. No external pumps, motors, and belts to fiddle with. Never had to do any service except replace...

Looking at that weld, it is a machine weld, done with parts in a jig. The slip clutch tube slides over the toothed shaft and both are locked in place by a jig. An automated mig head then welds the joint as the jig rotates. In this particular weld, the welder head location was slightly too far...

I have run a 5 foot bush hog type mower on a 32 pto HP gear transmission Kubota for many years. If I am mowing heavy growth grass 2 feet tall, that is all that 32 HP can do, and I slow to a walk or less. Same for brush 4 feet high. I would say that a 6 foot bush hog would only work for you if...

I had an Italian finish mower. Caroni? I believe. 5 foot, wheels on each corner. Seemed to be pretty strong. Never had any problems.

I wish I could figure out what to buy to get MY wife to do the weedwacking. Put power steering on our JD 317 but no luck there.

Things I have found with the bucket mowing overgrown customers' fields: Ford Model A rusted and collapsed down to 2 feet. Giant child swing set. Forgotten cellar hole unknown to new property owner. As well as numerous steel pipes, spools of wire, giant rocks, abandoned farm attachments, 100...

The first thing to check on the backhoe is if all the quick couplers are tight. If you have a coupler which is not fully engaged, that will restrict flow to zero or almost zero and it is not easy to see. Just to be sure, take off all quick couplers and reconnect to eliminate that as a problem...

Another thing you can do if the hoses have strange threads on the ends, is take the hoses to the hydraulic shop and have them put new ends on the hoses to fit the couplers they select to fit your tractor.