RSKY
Veteran Member
- Joined
- Oct 5, 2003
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- Tractor
- Kioti CK20S
It's that time of year again. Everybody is out mowing their fields. One of the tractors we are using has a broke heat gauge. And for some reason the weeds that tend to clog up a radiator are the thickest I have ever seen. I'm having to stop and clean my Kioti radiator every other trip round the field. So when I stop to clean it I clean the other tractor's, with the broke gauge, at the same time. Now my 89-year old mother is driving the bigger tractor. And before you jump on me for having her in the field you must know that she has been looking forward to doing the mowing for weeks. She is telling my sister's and her neighbors about all the wildlife she is seeing and about how much fun she is having. Anyway to the point of this post.
The first day we were at the farm she lives on and we would drive back to the house and use a water hose to clean the radiator. The second day Mom pulls out her battery powered leaf blower! It does as good or better job blowing all the thin junk out of the radiator housing. Even on my little tractor that has a screen over the radiator the little blower gets more out that any other way we have used. Put the thing at the edge of the field under a shade tree and pull over and blow it out, crank up and start mowing in two or three minutes at the most.
Remember all the newbies out there, if you are bushhogging keep a close eye on the heat gauge or risk ruining your tractor engine.
RSKY
The first day we were at the farm she lives on and we would drive back to the house and use a water hose to clean the radiator. The second day Mom pulls out her battery powered leaf blower! It does as good or better job blowing all the thin junk out of the radiator housing. Even on my little tractor that has a screen over the radiator the little blower gets more out that any other way we have used. Put the thing at the edge of the field under a shade tree and pull over and blow it out, crank up and start mowing in two or three minutes at the most.
Remember all the newbies out there, if you are bushhogging keep a close eye on the heat gauge or risk ruining your tractor engine.
RSKY