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If your tractor is a hydrostat I find I can do silly things slowly without breaking things. I believe my box blade is an old 7' gannon, so its not not going to break with my tractor on it.

Yeah I don't often turn super sharp but I don't really worry about it either, but I did pop one of the sway control mounting brackets off a lifting arm... My buddy said it wasn't a great weld to start with so and the other side does look better so we left it alone. I've got quite a few hours...

I guess it is a light duty box, but you would hope they would make the hitch points better than that... It looks like the designer was counting on sway adjusters that are inboard of the lower arms, but now almost all small tractors now have outboard sway control adjusters. A bolt and nut seems...

That's what mine was, although the positive connector looked OK, there was a bit of fuzz growing out from under the wire insulation. I think the connector, wasn't all lead, and there was some kind of galvanic/oxidization going on between it and the copper. I cut the positive wire back to nice...

I'm going with my Kioti, I just need ~30 more years out of it! It's mostly made with KISS repairable stuff except the HST I suppose? Maybe they are rebuildable? Or in 30 years you just take the old one apart, 3d scan it, and the 3d print a new one with new wear surfaces?

My main tasks are the same as yours, and the only time I wanted a gear tractor was for pulling a big two furrow plow in tough sod. Low range would pull it fine but not quite fast enough to flip it completely, and medium range was geared a bit too high and was working the HST too hard for my...

I can tell you 42 gross hp doesn't run an old MF 1440 4x5 round baler very well as the humidity goes up! Did surprisingly well before then, but it was to hard on my tractor for regular use. If you want to round bale then you need to size your tractor for your baler or one you are likely to use...

Maybe do a home made torque beam on your loader arm? Like a beam torque wrench? Maybe your loader wouldn't flex enough with only 1800lbs on it? Or shouldn't the simplest way is to T in a 10,000psi hydraulic pressure gauge on the lift side of a loader arm cylinder? Then just add your own...

I do remember in grade school that a few times, we'd see the same tractor stuck in the ditch in the morning... It was something old and 2wd and the old guy would get drunk and crash it sometime during the night... He's lucky he didn't roll it onto himself. There is the odd riding mower zipping...

I think once you are into the EPA engine management stuff you might as well go bigger than 35hp for the intended uses. You can now get 48-50 pto hp in a 6' wide tractor which can run bigger implements and still not require building wide trails in the woods to get around. I like my tractor's...

I started with one of these for the tractor and its had a good size cedar tree top that snapped off in the wind fall on it, and while the cover got a few tears, the structure survived fine. This profile sheds snow very well and as long as you don't want to use the doors these silly things seem...

Time for a new view(and hole...)

For travelling some distance on snow, a modern snowmobile is like a magic carpet that does mach 1 compared to an atv or utv with tires or tracks in snow. But for flatter places with not much snow an atv/utv can still function in winter pretty well as a work machine. We do a bit of firewood in...

I do a little bit down the side roads, but never on the highway. Too many city people, or big trucks in a hurry. Even with a seat belt and a roll bar, a tractor my size will be broken in pieces if hit by a texter in an average size vehicle hits it going highway speed. We lost a good community...

Its interesting that you haven't seen this before. I guess the east side of the continent was settled for quite a while before the west coast, so there's lots of houses still standing here built with full dimension lumber, and in my area every timberframe barn built in the 1800's and early...

I have a 5' and ~32pto hp I would go 6', 6.5', even 7' if my trails were wide enough if I bought again. I don't think I've ever really bogged the tractor with grass, it just quits cutting nice if I go too fast, and only some sections of trail allow me to go much faster anyways. With the hst...

That is one way to learn for sure! But I try pretty hard not to learn some lessons from experience!

Maybe a ~4000 lb tractor with turf tires? Lifts pretty heavy things, (I picked up the front end of a car this weekend to put some blocking under it), and can run some good size implements. I like mine anyways, but I don't mind marking up the lawn if needed with my Ag tires. I can't say I've...

What is the road surface? On my hilly gravel driveway I plow with a rear blade and no shoes, so its always got some gravel exposed and then the sun melts the rest. The hills for the most part aren't shaded by evergreens and I am going to keep it that way by selecting for deciduous trees near...

No bends in the frame? do you think the tractor landed on it when it fell? I would have a good look at the front mounting bolts of the loader frame, see if there's any evidence of movement? Probably pull each one out and see how the threads are doing. I would think to crack the frame there...

The NS series is back to a design without so many electronics. I haven't gone to look at one in person, but I think its basically a DK40/45/50SE with a tier 4 engine?

2x4's and angle iron will work for light snow or until you have frozen banks, and then you'll catch a corner of the plow and break it off... You are running your rear blade pulling forwards? I do that unless I've got 8-10"+ of snow then I reverse it and plow backwards. If you want to try the...

Everytime I grease the loader, I wipe some on the top and shaft of the pins, which kind of gets all over, but I don't think mine has ever rusted either. For yours I would take the pins out and cleanup the holes they run in a bit with some sandpaper wrapped around a drill bit.

Its an odd picture but the bucket part has only the chamfer started into it. I would get the bucket up in the air, and rolled all the way back so I could use a drift pin type tool,to hammer on the bottom of the ssqa pins, straight up, but also try some a abit sideways, see if you can rotate...

I like it, my DD is pretty basic with wind up windows, manual trans, simple radio, and AC which I do consider a must for a vehicle driven on the highway. I would need 4wd as well, but I think a lot of these would sell instead of the 15+ year old pickup for farm or lawncare trucks.

Was cruise control ever an option? On my tractor is just an electro magnet on the forward pedal linkage, flip a switch and its charged, then hitting the brakes or the switch shuts it off. I don't use it too much for mowing though, just on my driveway or roads. Maybe get some heavy steel toe...

I put some bottom bevel on my riding mower blades too, just so they don't dive into the dirt at first touch, as I mow trails and some mountain bike trails where they cross a field. I didn't find much difference really and as I touch dirt fairly often I don't bother sharpening to often either...

I would disagree that a 3pt can't handle pushing in reverse due to geometry. Every time you lift a heavy implement on a 3pt and go bouncing across a field, the lower arms take lots of compression forces, so the 3pt hitch system has to be built to take its max lift weight and then 3-4-5 times...

Although to be fair, Ag's spinning backwards do pack up with mud as well... Going forwards though, I have been wheel barrowing(put it in N and pick up the back end) an old car in the spring, and the front axle was dragging in the mud and the tractor just kept going! I was very surprised I...

We had a couple complaints with our Outback, squeeky driver seat, and the silly screen acting up once in a while. They replaced the seat bottom, and updated the software on the screen, free of charge. Some people have an issue with the battery draining/dying so we got a letter from Subaru that...

Here's mine when I got it, the sides have been worn down and they flipped the cutting edge on the inside to the new side, so you can just see the angle. The cutting edge on the rear isn't flipped and is worn almost an inch This one is around 150+lbs per foot, an old 7' gannon high back. The...

Build it strong and heavy with some good size scarifiers. Some times I'll use a scarifier as a rock pick to hook a big rock out of the ground, using the hyd top link and 3pth. So often the whole tractor gets pulled back by one tooth.

Yep, IMO they are now just a good all round vehicle, with great IIHS numbers, good visibility, good standard equipment, decent mileage, well designed AWD, and they stand behind what they make. They KISS by really only making one drivetrain and 2 engines for all their vehicles, and it seems the...

While pulling maybe don't turn sharp as you can. I run quite a large box blade for my tractor and I just go slow, no ramming into stuff.

I like the humbolt notch on a steep slope, it also stretches the small white cedars we have here. I do plunge backcuts on leaners as well. I did a 2 weekend course and its been a good investment. Never used a jack, but should have the once on a 3' red oak... Stacked wedges wouldn't quite...

I would try the rear blade first, make sure you can reverse it for heavier snows, or try to plow with the storm. Also if your tires have the tread depth, you can stud your tires for $20-30 with some hex head sheet metal screws. They give some decent grip on ice, but won't damage your road or...

All manufacturers price their tractors for maximum profit, and the more common brands use their reputations to be able to charge more, because they can. I guess there's lots of guys who think like you, and if you've got the cash, and like your dealer, then sure keep paying a bit more and assume...

My buddy paid cash for a driveway paving job, they spread all the asphalt around with rakes and tamped a bit by hand, then "went to get the roller" and never came back! They actually seemed to know what they were doing as its all sloped correctly and amazingly flat for a rake and tamp, but you...

If you put the $25k saved by buying the TYM 4820 into an investment that made 7% per year, in 10 years you'd have $50k and a TYM... But the way kubota prices are going up, in 10 years, $50k might get you a kubota lawn tractor ;) So I guess you better buy your Kubota tractor now if you want one!

I like that 3pth stump grinder, but flopping the trees with a saw and scooping a bunch up at a time with the grapple would be faster... and break less stuff!

I would think either tractor has the hp to do what you want, which is easier to use for grader work? That's what I would get.

I think it would be good to have a bit less industrial agriculture, and investigate how to make sure farming practices are sustainable for the long term, but doing stuff like Sri Lanka and doing full bans of importing fertilizer and pesticides isn't too smart.... Moderation is the key, you...

Perhaps fortunately, tractors aren't nearly tuned up as much as Porsches. When I looked at rad and hydraulic cooler part numbers between the 3 hp levels of my tractor, there was no difference. Being NA the engines were different displacement, 2.0l, 2.2(stroked), and 2.4(bored and stroked) IIRC...

Wow, those knotters make me shudder! Is that 4 hydraulic motors per knotter? Suddenly the old round baler with the manually guided twine feed seems not to bad! But I think you might be still baling if your used that, as I don't think it comes close the tonnage per hour the big square baler...

Mahindra 5100 series? Heavy iron cheap!

I'm pretty sure the skin "juice" is dark and will stain other while skin birds if they are processed together. I seem to recall talking to a local meat processor and they did one batch of those and then had to shut down and clean their whole operation before they could do other chickens. We...

Try backing up in 2wd across a slope you are worried about, on a slight up angle. If the up rear tire is getting light it will spin much easier. Also you can just park it on the side slope and rock the tractor yourself or use a long 2x4 as a lever and try to lift the the uphill tire off ground...

I think the NS is the return to simpler tractor more like the DK40/45/50SE, which I think is a good thing. With either tractor, get the dealer to add the remotes you need as part of the deal. I suspect some of the install is under the cabs? Also think what hay format you might get into...

If your bucket has enough dump angle(ie the top of the bucket is ahead of the cutting edge), Bolt this thing on a hinge on top of the bucket where you can see it... The real trick is now how to collect the t posts without getting off the tractor!

Also check your battery leads, my tractor would stutter start, or just click with the engine not turning over. It turned out the ignition switch and relay were fine. It was the positive battery cable clamp, looked a bit corroded but OK on the outside but it had corroded around the copper wire...

Yeah, I don't have a convenient set up for my pressure washer, so things get washed when its time to do some maintenance or repairs... I don't like working on dirty stuff, but I don't mind driving it! I do keep the remote outlet plugs in though but the pto cap is on a shelf somewhere? I don't...

Yeah, I can see the usefulness of a hay sled if you don't have a FEL, or the FEL can't lift the bale. And it doesn't have tires to go flat! I would add a rigid tongue to it so it doesn't slide into the back of the tires down a hill, or if you jam on the brakes. I like your design with old TV...

Set your rear wheels out wide and add something heavy and low on the 3 point, like a bush hog, or box blade. And even then you can tip it pretty easily on a side slope when using the loader if you lift up high, or hit some holes and bumps. Also if its not muddy, or you don't have to back up a...

I go basically straight up and down the real steep stuff, with the back end down the hill, and start from the bottom. Then bumps or holes don't matter much, and I keep the front end loader on to reassure myself I'm not going over backwards as in 4wd and r1's can grip pretty good in turf! I...

For a home owner or occasional user, I think Rigid is the best choice due to free replacement batteries. My 18V Rigid 1/2" hammer drill is 15 years old now, doesn't get daily use but has been abused quite a bit. I don't use the hammer function too often(sometimes the whole thing is the hammer...

It does make the tractor shorter, and you can maneuver much closer to stuff, I do this fairly often dodging around cars and stuff when I plow snow at my place on a mostly level driveway. Also in a 2wd tractor it puts a bit more weight on the back end, but only on level ground. Otherwise I run...

Going to the dealer is a good idea on a known problem vehicle, or one with extremely expensive engine or transmission. I have done the CVT fluid changes on my Subaru at the dealer, as its potentially an issue and they've extended the warranty on it, but after a while I got tired of the $110 oil...

I did a short triathlon last weekend with my 2 boys 13 and 10. 300m swim, 10km bike, and 3km run. Each of us is fastest at one event so it was fun to see who won out and it was our first triathlon. Turned out that a 2 minute advantage after the swim is hard to catch! And I may not be fastest...

I would put it up tight against the roof of the canopy somehow? In easy reach but out of sight from a distance, and out of the weather too.

I would do some research(talk to a local older farmer?) on why the forested part wasn't cleared years ago, or kept clear if it once was cleared? I do see people here nibbling away at woodlands to extend fields, but then I also see the big equipment rutting up soft ground as usually its quite...

I don't know how far you'd get before the tire comes off the bead and you start riding on the rim? With 4wd I suppose you could get fancy with some ratchet straps and use a log as a skid or something, or pickup one side of front axle?

The rears have plenty of extra load rating then. I think with loaded rears you could go very low as there's only a third of the air in the tire, and so you don't get as much sidewall deformation at a low pressure, as you would with an unloaded tire. Anyways, seems like your blowout was just a...

Yeah they should be fine with that, I do like running lower on the rears, for grip and ride. Unless you are roading a lot with something heavy on the 3pt lower is better overall IMO.

What's the pressure in the other one? A "boom" and a big split seems more like high pressure tire failure? With a 2/3 full loaded tire I'm running like 10-12ish psi in the rear R1's to gets some traction and smoother ride. The fronts are running 30-35psi but they are R1's and get very...

How about a disc plow? Maybe will cut it up in short enough lengths not to bother you?

That's how I do mine, but I add a 4x4 under the back edge. I notice you don't have a tail wheel? How does that work out? I was thinking of adding casters on the front on mine and just running it on the ground for my smoother areas where I'm basically using is as a finish mower.

Have a close look at the battery leads too, I had an intermittent starter issue and when it would go, it would engage, then disengage, reingage, rapidly, banging away. The positive lead on the battery looked "ok" but when I cut back some insulation the wire was mostly green powder...

I find sharpening them with an angle grinder and going a bit slower can leave a pretty smooth cut on short grass. Its what I use for our grass trails and areas away from the house.

For shortish moves I would try to drag/lift it with the 3 pth, which uses the strong axle on your tractor. You don't even have to lift one end off the ground, just get some weight on the back wheels and go slow. Just be careful with using strong enough chains and a strong but lightish...

It's described as electric over hydraulic control, so I believe its a solenoid that controls a hydraulic valve, that I guess pressurizes a cylinder to engage the clutch. I've broken the shear pin in my 5' cheap rotary cutter hitting the switch by accident at near pto rpm! But then with a real...

On my tractor there is a switch that turns the pto off when the 3pt is raised and back on when lowered. I guess for roto tilling? I never use it anyways. I would start with that switch and see if it makes any difference?

Get the rears set as wide as they go instead of filled tires for $2k. I do have beet juice in mine too but setting them wide is a bigger help IMO. Get a nice heavy implement for your $2k when the back hoe is off.

I assume the 4wd version has the HD loader, which has half a chance of lifting a ton rock. If you are doing dozens of these and 8' high I think a good size excavator would be a good idea. Or if you have a sloped working area. I think it would be hard to eye ball a 3000lb rock vs a 2000lb one...

Wow, $4-5-6k for a simple coop too... Goes to show you that lots of people have lots of money to spend! Our rural area is now priced out of average incomes, so the people with room for chickens also have lots of money for nice looking coop. We have a few local guys that have a sawmill and...

How much in your area in China would this cost? I'm just curious?

Good point, but I think as long as he isn't doing jumps with it, or pulling hard on rough ground for hours at a time, its probably fine. I've seen the abuse of a field tractor has to take when rain is coming and this last junky hay field needs to be baled!

Is your tractor HST with wet brakes? Mine is and I figure I will never wear the brakes out normally, so I just drag the brakes abit if I need some "diff lock" if I'm in low range doing dirt work in the mud... A trick until you get yours fixed anyways.

For your wandering, you can try having an alignment shop set the rear toe and camber to the minimum specs. My parents have a 2015 forester and it drives much more stably after doing this.

I think the Kioti NS is a bit too tall, but it a nice tractor too. Simpler than a NX but still has nice features and is heavy, kind of like my DKSE, just with a turbo engine.

I imagine a used 2wd must be pretty cheap compared to a 4wd one? It sure is a strong negotiating point to knock the price down to something realistic. If you are buying new, the extra bit that 4wd costs will be worth it at resale time or if you use it off the property. I guess if the main...

Load and unload from the sides... With your loader on even with nothing on the forks, you won't be able to lift enough on the 3 pt to worry about doing wheelies unless you are climbing a seriously steep hill. Use a significant counter weight, be it a loaded pallet or whatever.

My buddy does his 4' rotary cutter with a 25hp kubota gear'd between his Xmas trees in 3' grass quite fast. He has a new turbo one so it holds rpm pretty well. He also used to run a "stump smasher" kind of a HD 2' rotary cutter, but it breaks PTO shafts in the tractor eventually.

Oh not that much head then, so you do need the big pipe, cool project though, post some pics and specs. I have 40m of elevation at our place, but no water source at the top of the hill. I don't think pumped hydro micro storage really pencils out but I think it would be fun to mess around with...

I guess to late now, but 8" is a big pipe, and needs to be pretty thick to handle a lot of water pressure. What's your calculated static pressure at the bottom?

If your turf is pretty tough and flat, and your rear blade is pretty light, I've had decent luck just using it to pull some of the gravel back, not all of course. I think the real solution is calcium chloride on grade A gravel so it stay hard and packed as a municipal gravel road and a lighter...

True, although you if you increase the diameter of an axle tube materials can be worse and still be as strong, and if materials are equal its likely to be a bit more robust. In practice, I just checked here to make sure DK40SE's were holding up. It seems not many brands have common front axle...

Anyone ever blown a front tire by overloading it? How did you do it? I assume is basically during stationary lifting? I have R1's and the load rating is pretty low really, but the odd time I've had probably had triple the rated load on them(rear tire off ground with 1000lb on the back when...

2011 DK40SE 41hp ~5500# = 0.00745 hp/lb or 15hp/ton. 2002 372xp 5.3hp ~18# = 0.2944 hp/lb or 558hp/ton

Sounds like its the same thing again, an issue with the pressure release valve. Must be getting partially stuck open? What's your hyd fluid look like? what type are you using? I wonder if its somehow gumming things up? There's a free download of the daedong EX/ DKSE manual somewhere on here...

Going straight up and down a 40% incline is possible with most 4wd tractors, I've mowed on that and maybe a touch steeper with mine while watching the oil pressure light. But I wouldn't go across that slope and you have to be very careful the whole time and I'm not really interested in doing...

Do you have the factory discount offer in front of you? Did his explanation make sense? If he made a legitimate mistake, sure, I guess I wouldn't make him eat a $5k loss... If he's just trying to jack the price $5k, maybe lean on him a bit, maybe drop in a lawyers office and see what the...

I don't subaru is using that system? I had a 2022 Legacy as a loaner and it seemed to crank normally after every stop. I can see how it saves gas if you have a lot of long stoplights in your normal driving.

We ended up with a 2018 Outback 2.5i which in Canada has heated seats and mirrors. It's a japanese buick wagon, with AWD. My only real complaint is that they didn't put in a front bench seat so it would seat 6, and the sunglasses holder up between the sunshades is tiny... It floats down the...

Good dealer? That tractor is pretty close to mine and that price is pretty much inline with the official inflation rate from 2011. For price differences like that, Kioti orange was good enough for me.

https://www.tractorhouse.com/listing/for-sale/221185637/2022-kioti-ns4710-40-hp-to-99-hp-tractors Maybe they add a bunch of fees? But $31k is a good place to start for that tractor. I assume they sell the smaller ones for a bit less.

On one of mine the nut was just loose, so I that tightened it back up... I think the other rod end now does have some play though.

These guys have the newer version of my tractor, a NS4710 but with shuttle shift for $31k. https://www.tractorhouse.com/listing/for-sale/221185637/2022-kioti-ns4710-40-hp-to-99-hp-tractors HST would be a bit more. This will lift 1500lbs pretty easily, still need a counter weight though...

I don't think even the biggest 3 series JD's will lift 1500lb to well, but will probably lift a full bucket of gravel good enough, with some 3 pt weight. I went with the least hp in a bigger frame which isn't bad for dirt work, general mucking around stuff, wheelbarrowing dead cars around...

I forget exactly, but I think we got out of that one for around $1k including the surveyor, so pretty decent really. The kids selling later gave me Jack's old hay wagon so maybe I broke even?;) I think in hindsight they appreciated a non confrontational approach? So far I haven't been burnt...

We had a little issue with our driveway crossing a narrow strip of claimed private land along the public road. There was always an access there to the fields on our property so I had just talked to elderly fellow who owned the strip and he was fine with us improving it for our driveway. Well...

Lugability was a real thing in geared field tractors for ground engagement as its a measure of how torque builds as rpm drops so the tractor wouldn't stall out, and since you can't downshift nicely under load, a tractor would just gut it out at lower rpm until it climbed the hill or got through...

Maybe some cars put the sensor on a flexible part of the lower plastic bumper cover? I could see one of those getting quite a jolt hitting a hard drift fast, and fooling the sensor.

No bad noises? I don't think you are missing anything simple unfortunately. If no rear wheels are moving even with diff lock engaged you've probably broken the rear diff, since you still have the front drive. I wouldn't run it more than you have to, to get it to the dealer, as there could be...

Depends on your property I guess, if you don't have narrow trails, or want to go fast off road, or have spots where a pickup will sink, just get the truck. ATV's and some side by sides have less ground pressure and you can do stuff like drive through a pasture just after a rain without rutting...

I found when I was buying, the used prices didn't really reflect the number of hours or wear and tear on a machine. Also it was my first tractor so I wasn't experienced enough to really evaluate a used tractor. Also I wanted a larger CUT to do some utility size tractor jobs and they are a bit...

I think you just have to slow down using a box blade, use low range and its not a momentum tool... If you can't push it from a crawl then getting a "run at it" is going to be tough on something! That casting break looks a little funny at the top as well, like there was a flaw up there?

Eh, I just have a hyd top link and a HD box blade without a hyd scarifier bar, and just leave the teeth level so with the box level they don't really do anything. But with a little tilt the scarifiers do their thing just fine. I can get the driveway smooth enough and crowned for 20mph anyways...

Do some math I guess, is it $1 for 32 sqft of 1/8 ply? So 25 cents per board foot of plywood(8 layers to make an inch think)... hmmm... Spruce sheathing plywood is about $3/ bdft... Do you have some workshop space to devote to it? What species is the 1/8" ply? exterior grade glue? A 20l pail...

I whack in a bunch of sheet metal hex head screws with drill, if the driveway gets covered with freezing rain or if I let a bunch of small snowfalls pack down and it goes to ice. Search my posts back to 2012-13 and you'll see what I use. They stay in if your not doing donuts and must be...

Wow, that is some impressive wood! And some good milling to get the grain right!

I guess like 120+hp 2wd tractor with some chains and a big dual auger blower on the back or mounted up front would be faster and you never move banks. For now, do you have a HD box blade? I have a flimsy 7' rear blade I use for fresh snow but if I need to move banks back or rip ice, the...

One of our pot-bellied pig has decided twice now in 8 years to go for a tour, and the first time she made the newspaper as one of the local police forces oddest calls of the year... The pig got about a half mile away before getting tired and laying on someone's front yard. The folks there...

My parents had a Franklin stove and it needed no gaskets either! Always fascinated me as a kid that you could see the fire through multiple cracks and gaps but no smoke came out, but my Dad explained the draw from the chimney kept the pulling air into all the gaps and cracks.

Yeah, I've done that before... Usually just a few meters but the one time I went a couple hundred... I guess if you drove all day with the brakes on it might wear out? Multi plate wet brakes on an HST tractor are usually lifetime I would think.

Is it factory fill in the crankcase? I imagine its some plain stout 15W40. My tractor certainly starts less smoothly with oil with poor low temperature flow. I've run Rotella T6 5W40 and the starts are much much better in the cold. I now run Rotella T4 15W40 and it flows a bit better than...

I used to have about a 1/16 scale diecast toy of that tractor, it did a lot of farming and earth moving in the sandbox. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did! I like the look of the IH and MF tractors of the 70's. I almost got a local MF 360 4wd but it was in too rough of a condition for me to...

Yeah, HST's aren't the greatest in high range. I borrowed my neighbors turbo 55hp gear utility tractor and it felt like a race car on the road! It also feels like a driving a racecar when unloading round bales off the wagon with its 8x8 unsynchronized transmission... grinding gears back and...

I assume as more new tractors are available at dealers, then used prices will drop a bit? I think the days of buying tractors and pickups new and trading even the next year are over for now. Buying what you need, and then keeping it in good shape is still probably the best bet for resale. I...

The relationship between Bobcat and Kioti has always been a bit strange to me, but having another big company selling and providing parts for at least some of the Kioti line is a good thing in terms of parts and support in the future.

Yeah, I don't really get the "let the coyote's live in the city park where they kids play" mentality. They aren't rare and while I guess they mostly eat other pests in town like racoons, rats or possums, having a couple 50lb predators watching you to see if you are watching your kids closely...

Everyone's situation is different, your local brands dealer quality and location isn't the same as the next guy, I certainly have no regrets so far with my Kioti. My Kioti dealer was the closest and the best local one around, and I like how this tractor was spec'd out. It was about $8k cheaper...

Yep, I'm in your camp, a two post or hoop ROPS is not a highly engineered structure. It's some rectangular structural grade tubing that's got a few bends or welds put in it. I'm sure there's 20-30% of the tubing where you shouldn't put a hole in it or weld on it, and the rest could have 100's...

I would call a lot(all?) of tractor wreckers first to see if they have a good head or engine for your tractor. Also do some research on what else that engine may have been used in over here or anywhere else, NZ Aus GB? Back up generators, etc? I think you will be losing many many thousands of...

Tractor data say its a Kukje, who is now owned by tym, so maybe start with a TYM dealer, and then a regional rep on some help. Maybe they can find one in Korea and throw it in a parts shipment.

Most people around here who have some acreage have a tractor, not too many CUT's of my tractor size though, usually its an older utility 2wd tractor as they were pretty cheap as the small family farms faded out here 30-40 years ago. The supply of cheap maintained 40 year old 2wd's is gone...

Maybe get a new trailer? I run my tractor wide as I have no level land either and I don't want to tip it. For sure people have turned their tractor on its side on 10 deg slopes, but you have to be doing alot of things wrong. No ballast, something heavy on the FEL up a bit high, a bump, and a...

Do these regrow from roots? I find chopping a few roots off with the axe is time well spent, and the scoop under from that side with a sharpened FEL bucket to chop some more roots and lift. If you rest the bucket on the ground and lift with the bucket curl function I don't think you can break...

I use the rough estimate of ~18 small squares to a 4x5 hardcore round. You could ask what model of baler they use and if its got a hydraulic tensioner and probably the sellers bale weight estimates may become more reasonable! Before the tractor, we used to buy 4x5 rounds and just peel off what...

Backwards blade on the skill saw didn't have much too trouble cutting a car tire all the way around through the steel belts. Just hold onto it tight with two hands. Having some wooden wedges handy would help keep the cut open.

Hopefully Putin! I don't think anyone else in Russia really thinks the war Ukraine can possibly be successful... I have a buddy a little ways up in our armed forces and he told me years ago, Russia only has an eggshell combat force, could be tough initially for a couple days, but after that...

Probably mostly used for scouting, or rapid deployment of a drone closer to the front. With no protection for anyone, I don't think it would be wise to get near enemy lines let alone behind them...

If you are going to do some bulldozer work with it too, then a 7' is probably a good compromise, my HD 7' is all my tractor can really handle well on the flat or downhill. I don't have enough traction to pull it through undisturbed soil going up much of a slope.

I just use hex head sheet metal screws for my driveway, $20 box of 100 per rear tire, and I use smaller ones in the front. They don't seem to wear enough to matter so far in the 4 or 5 seasons I've used them. I think they are hardened a bit as they are self tapping. No need for carbide studs...

This summer a fellow with a ~40-50hp tractor and a side sickle mower must've got the contract for my municipal road. I run along the road and the sickle bar seemed to mow pop cans and plastic bottles quite well, and skipped over some higher stumps from the tree mangler thing the municipality...

Quite a bit of manual labor to put them together and quite a facility to lift and move the tractors one by one. I guess its so they can use the same line for a few different sizes of tractor as well.

Hmmm, I have near 800 hours on mine but haven't had an issue with the parking brake. I use it all the time too. I should have a look at it though.

We heat with a mid size woodstove, and a bit of electricity if we are away for a few days. I use a 5lb Collins maul, or a 4lb Fisker maul to split, and if they don't work, the chainsaw splits it...

Also I wonder if the buyers at Uncle Weiner's wholesale could order you the engine? They must have multiple containers of chinese stuff coming in everyday, and know how to deal directly with the factories there.

I'm going to guess shipping would atleast as much as the engine? I buy bike parts from Aliexpress and they always seem to have someone to chat with in english. Send a few messages and see what they say? I'd like to see some details specs on the engine interface as well, to make sure it will...

We have a similar driveway with a max 10-12% grade, and you're right about the rear blade to scrap all the snow off to prevent ice buildup, and it also lets the sun get rid of a lot residual snow, I don't use skid shoes on it, just blade to ground, which is ok at tractor speeds. Our vehicle set...

I think mine had a 5 gal jug in it, so half full, and I got a couple hats, a Kioti one and a Husqvarna, he delivered it as well. His wife and kids put on a big dealer sticker on the hood without asking him, so he apologized for that, but I've left it there. They filled the rear tires at their...

We did the IKEA ones 15 years ago, and a friend just put them in his $700+k house to save a few 10's of thousands, and they look like an expensive kitchen to me. They were easy to assemble, good adjustable hardware, and we got solid birch doors, which are a touch thin is my only complaint...

I had basically a "rotten" battery positive cable end along with a couple inches of copper cable under the insulation. It looked "good enough" until I cut back some the insulation and that looked quite bad! I wonder if the battery clamp had some sort of impurities causing a galvanic corrosion...

Buying a tiny house seems to be pretty close to a down payment on a full size house, so you might just want to give them the down payment on a mortgage for a house they want? Then there is no rent being paid, and nothing built on your property for them, and you have "set them free" to own what...

At a certain slope angle, almost no tractor will be able to do much ground engagement work going up the hill with an implement sized for flat land. Maybe a 4' land plane isn't much of a load to pull? I don't know, I've never used one? I can pull a pretty full 7' box blade up the 10% grade on...

I think as long as your new tires get close to the same diameter tires currently on the front, the tread pattern doesn't need to match the rears at all. As for dismounting and mounting yourself, if you can break the bead with something heavy(I've used the corner of the bucket on the FEL), just...

Virtual grapple? I got this guy out by cutting the roots with the bucket edge on 3 sides, and the pushing it over, and then shoving it forward by the root ball until the rest of the roots ripped out. Then I scooped it up and dropped it off in the woods. Its fun when a plan works out well.

Hopefully the barn in his Avatar! I do like the ballast box too, I still use my heavy box blade and I like wheeling around with the tractor in 2wd doing loader work, but something smaller would be handy sometimes.

I took mine in my Mom's 1985 Corolla. My Dad took his in his boss's work truck at lunch, he passed the test pretty easily. After the test was over and they got back to the office, the instructor noticed that my Dad was there alone, and asked who drove the truck over? My Dad had the guts to...

Yeah, its kind of in rough shape at the moment in most provinces.... Per capita we spend something less than half what the US does though, and are, as a nation more healthy, so it wasn't all bad before... Before COVID we were running things with not enough margin to cope with a pandemic, and we...

I can buy hardwood, cut, split and delivered for about 40% less per ton, not including delivery of the corn.(never bought corn by the ton) And then I can stack it on some free pallets under some old roofing tin for years without it going moldy or the mice eating it...;) Or I can get some paid...

Unless you seal the equipment from the ground and the air, I think non climate controlled storage is always going to have times where the metal is cold and the air is warm and humid.... I have a hoop barn with a tarp cover and even when its closed up relatively tight, a cool night followed by a...

Sounds like neither one was wearing their seatbelts as they were ejected? I guess if you hit the bull flush at 60mph it may not have mattered, but I would feel silly getting killed because I was too cool to use some simple safety equipment... My wife doesn't need a final reason to put "He...

I've thought about trading my single spear hay fork for a double spear one, with two bottom spears to work as pallet forks as well. Price them out locally, these are way cheaper than a pallet fork and I don't think your tractor could break a tine and you could lift full capacity. Down side is...

Big cables directly to the battery clamps and switched solenoid to provide power to the positive. My dealer that did my ATV winch just uses the low beam setting to close the solenoid. It can pull down the battery quite a bit with more that one pull even with the ATV running, but I guess the...

I am impressed with all the back blade setups and options shown here, I didn't know that some of that stuff was available. I think for a rear blade to be a really useful road tool its got to be attached to a pretty big tractor, cat 2 3pt and 7-8k lbs+? And a good back blade seems to be...

Maybe try rounding off the cutting edge a little with a angle grinder? Or just run it backwards? For just a general smoothing in an area like that, back dragging with the loader is good and just adjust the bucket angle to suit, or an atv dragging square of chain link fence with a fence post...

My Korean tractor? or you mean my rotary cutter? I almost bought an Indian JD but researched why so many were for sale with around 1-200 hours on them and for so cheap...

Oh yes, I always drop the rpms down to idle for the RC, and I put gr8 bolt in... it was breaking the gr5's pretty easily hitting minor stuff like ant hills.... Maybe a bad idea but my RC has a nice round stump jumper so it should fold the blades and save itself? I guess from your experience I...

I am amazed they come up our 1/4 mile driveway, but most do, as we do have a large plastic tote down at the end of the driveway for deliveries if they don't want go for scenic drive... Amazon here uses a private delivery company and its all recent immigrants, younger Pakistani or Indian guys...

My tractor has the same electric over hydraulic switch for the pto, and I broke the gr5 shear bolt on my 5' RC hitting the switch at near 540 pto rpm. The circlip was installed on the cutter shaft and held the pto shaft in place though, so there was no carnage. Now when I was hooked up to a...

I guess in FL it shouldn't be an issue, but I bring the fluid inside and put it in front of the woodstove, if its heating season, or leave it out in the sun in the summer. I've used the 2 oz pump and its not terrible with warm fluid, but after 10 years it broke, so now I just dump the 5 gal pail...

Have you tried sharpening on the saw? Round file with a clip on the file guide. I just do that on my 20" bar, probably is a bit slower than swapping chains but I'm a 1 or 2 tanks and done cutter anyways...(372xp) A flat file and a depth gauge guide for the rakers may every 4-5 cutter...

4wd kind of does, I have gone for a short ride down steep wet clay patch in the pasture watching the tires slide with my feet off the HST pedals, with the tires on one side spinning backwards and the tires on the other side spinning forwards! I then hit the brakes which stopped the rears from...

I guess we were trying not to leave sickle bar teeth in the old ground hog mounds! I also kind of assumed that leaving the cut a bit higher was easier for the grass to regrow, and my goats and my buddies horses don't really like stems that much? It's all my buddies hay stuff, I actually never...

I have been pretty lucky, I've never stung on the tractor, but I have driven close to a couple small paper wasp nests and seen them go after the tractor for a few moments as I had drove away. I did recently brush hog a trail right by a ground wasp nest, but I knew it was there and I just went...

Mahindra sells alot of rebranded TYM so they should take it? I think yours is a mahindra 4010, tell the sales guy there that's what your tractor is and they will know what it is atleast. Probably they will give you some story about it being worth less than a 4010, but that's the stealership...

Cutting and raking seems to be easy with not much hp, this is a 9' haybine and I can zip along in mid range as fast as the field allows, with either roughness or volume of hay plugging up the crimper. Baling is a different story, I could make 5' when it was really to dry to bale, but as the...

I think ~3/4" in the rears and smaller in the fronts, well short of the lug depth anyways! I wouldn't use these in the woods in the winter as spinning and gripping one on a root would probably rip it out, but they seem to stay in very well on gravel and ice. It's best to put them in when the...

Do you have any slope on your driveway? My tractor probably wouldn't pull up my 7-8% grade hill on ice with just the fronts chained and a 7' blower on the back. Or it would be spinning a lot. If you only do one end, usually its the rears, and you can steer with the brakes. I also just stud...

I usually mountain bike, run, or swim, 4-5 times a week. This year has been the first since I was about 15 where I can run without pain in my shins... I usually go for a 1/2 hr run or swim in the pond, and a 1-2hr bike ride. I'm down about 35lbs in the last 2 years so getting up the hills is...

So was yours plugged? I can't say I've ever really looked at mine. Next time I run my tractor I'll put a hand over the fill hole and see if there's any pressure building? I can't really think why there would be? I assume it should be a mostly sealed system?

I made these pallet wood storage things out of scrap lumber and tarp trimmings from my hoop barn. The original idea was to stack two rows of wood on each pallet with a gap between the rows, so my tractor could lift them onto my hay wagon. I also made them pretty tall to be able to stack the...

The filler rubber cap has an upside down U bend with a small hole in it, I assume that's the vent.

How heavy was the tractor in the 5th picture? closer to two tons? I like our little trailer too, its more of a half ton model but its a handy size for behind the atv in the woods, but also carries the atv as well. I pick up 800-1000lbs of firewood round somewhere, tow it home, drop the...

There is a tendency to scoop from the bottom of the pile while driving forward so you are trying to lift way more than a bucketful and if you are in 4wd there's not going to be any wheelspin either, so you can easily run out of pushing power in medium range and start to bypass the HST...

Just get a trailer with strong fenders, or make them strong... I stack 3 more on top in the middle of the 8 on bottom. These are 4 by 5 hardcore bales but not super tight like a some balers make. We've never tried 14 bales, I don't think the trailer is rated that high and there's some pretty...

Legally you can probably tow 2900lbs or so, unbraked with any vehicle. I can in Ontario and most states are similar. My tractor is 6000lbs though with the average implement, so if you are following manufactures ratings, I don't know if any $10k ranger can tow it with a decent trailer. Even a...

Maybe its been said already, but nearly anything can pull a small utility trailer, and that does most jobs a 2wd Ranger can do, with a few advantages. For sure there's lots of other reasons to get another vehicle, and as a spare, a cheap pickup is pretty useful.

I don't try to use tractor weight for back dragging, to often, just with like dump truck delivered loose gravel to smear it out thinner if I need to. Usually I float the loader and change the angle of the bucket for more scraping or spreading action. But I guess my loader and bucket is...

I usually back drag in float mode, some times with the bucket 15deg from vertical.... I go pretty slow and do multiple passes because its easy to do with the HST. Haven't bent anything yet on the loader.

I have a lighter duty 7' rear blade, not near 100lbs per foot. Its my main snow tool and for that probably an 8' would be better. It will push around grade A gravel but its not eager to dig into packed gravel at all. I can kind of ditch with it, setup to make one corner dig in, but I've...

Mow straight up and down with the rear end downhill. And leave a fringe around the pond. I've had my tractor on a bumpy near 30 deg slope which I wouldn't take anything sideways across. Takes a bit longer but with the loader on the front for counter weight, I think its pretty safe otherwise I...

If you can mow it straight up and down a normal 4wd tractor with Ag tires will scare you long before it will go over backwards, IMO. On the slope in front of the pines I was watching to see if the oil pressure light for the engine was going to go on, and I was happy I left the bucket on the...

Mine had that issue, the positive lead on the battery looked "good enough", cleaned the battery post, and lead. It would click the solenoid, but as soon as the starter kicked in the solenoid would disengage due to low voltage I guess.... I cut back the insulation on the positive lead and the...

Other than the fuel tank down low I can't see too many differences in those pictures and I think the specs on the website are pretty much the same from what I remember.

For a little pile like that I think I would beat that quite easily with my splitting maul and my 372xp to cut the stubborn ones. If he had a trailer right there to spilt right into then it would start saving a bit of time and using a skid steer would be much quicker of course.

Yep, its just a terrible stupid weak design to have extra long hydraulic shafts on the bucket cylinders. All to save a few dozen dollars and not have the linkage installed.... Some bean counter won the argument to get that design approved and now hopefully MF and dealership will step up and...

For logging I think you should have a much smaller saw than you would for firewood. 550xp with a 20" bar should cut anything up to 36" or so. Sure a 572xp will be faster for the 3 bucking cuts, but for limbing and walking around with, you will be much less tired after a couple trees. Also...

I'm sure this isn't news to most country drivers, but I have been in a car with some city friends who weren't going to slow down after they saw a single deer cross the road up ahead. If you see one cross, slow down and be ready for a few more! Sure enough a couple more went across and if we...

According to some websites, Kioti USA(which also sells in Canada) has a yearly revenue of 75 million. Kubota Canada(only sells in Canada) has about the same yearly revenue. I'd estimate the US market to be about 10 times larger than Canada so Kioti sells roughly 1/11 as much as Kubota in North...

I think for actually moving dirt, your current tractor is the minimum I'd want for a 6' box. I guess a smaller tractor could use it to push loose gravel around but you might do a lot of scarifier passes to loosen things up and then use the blade to move material. I've got a hydraulic top link...

I'm curious what's the average tractor age is before the AC needs some work? Anyone ever fix up an old AC system that has sat for a few years? My buddy has 3 cabbed tractors but only the one under 2000hrs has working AC. He's not in a hurry to spend the money to fix the other two as he doesn't...

My buddy broke the pto shaft on his little kubota with a 4' bushhog hitting a few Christmas tree stumps every year. But it had over 3000 hard hours on it, mostly mowing using the full hp so I think your odd stoppage will be fine.

That's why I ended up with the Kioti, the other dealers were farther away and less interested in selling a compact tractor. Also at the time, I think the DKSE series was the winner on paper for weight, loader capacity, features, and cost. Not the best reseale but I haven't sold it yet so that...

The JD 5045e is made in Pune India, maybe they've got the bugs worked out now, but in 2011 when I was looking they had some issues and lots were for sale with ~100hrs on them... To crude for hobby farmers and not reliable enough for a small farmer. I think in the compact tractors sold here...

Go drive the bottom end utility tractors and see how you like them, my neighbor has a low end MF one and its nice if you need the hp and pulling power, but without any type of shuttle shift for forward to reverse, its no fun using the loader on it. My tractor will work circles around it for...

Even in float mode? I guess if you are going fast, I try to keep the tractor from having too much speed when using the loader as its nice to take it slow and steady with the hst.

Back dragging with the loader in float may take a couple passes but less chance of breaking it I guess. With the bucket bottom near vertical it still moves a decent amount of material and still bumps over the imbedded rocks.

I think the main downfall of using any type of blade on a tractor is that it can't go fast enough to wing snow over the bank like a truck plow. With only maybe 4-5' total snow fall for a winter at my place, I start very wide at the beginning of winter and push each new snow on to the existing...