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I need to set 40 or 50 cedar fence posts in flat but rocky soil, mostly potato to basketball sized granite rocks. I've learned that shovels don't work on this property, so I've got a Woods 80X backhoe on a B7800 that can dig through most everything. I can dig the post holes with that, but...

The new 73" flail was delivered yesterday (4 days from ordering!), and I had to shorten the cardan shaft 5" (strictly forbidden in the Caroni manual). I have a couple of questions for those of you who have been here before: 1. The manual says that the gearbox has no oil in it, but it clearly...

I've just picked up a low hours B7800, and I'll be buying a trailer next. If anyone can help me with length and weight of the B7800 with FEL and BH (probably a Woods BH80-X), so I can spec the trailer, that would be very helpful. I have to trailer the tractor to the Kubota/Woods dealer to get...

John Deere 4115 compact utility tractor, 24 horsepower, 4wd, hydrostatic transmission, folding ROPS, with Deere 410 front end loader, Deere 46 backhoe, and LandPride FRD1660 60 finishing mower. 165 total hours, stored indoors, professionally serviced. R4 industrial tires, 3 point hitch...

I'm a weekend tractor guy, mowing 5 acres of fields, fixing stone walls, setting up gardens, and the rest of the week I'm far away in an office somewhere. Someday I'll leave the desk job and do some small time ag, but that may be 5 years away. The nearby JD dealer that I bought my 4115 from 5...

My 4115 came back from its 50 hr. service with what seems to be a very full transmission. The sight glass is completely orange, and the dipstick shows fluid all the way up to the stopper. Am I reading this right, or just being dumb (again)? Should I be worried about it being overfilled? Next...

My first prototype dolly for my subframe backhoe (Deere 46), a 1200 lbs. rated oak dolly, failed. It was bound to happen: a $40 experiment to save several hundreds. The bh is long, with the cg halfway between the back of the bucket and the front of the frame (about 5'), and the dolly needs to be...

Is it possible to add cruise control to a tractor with hydrostatic transmission? Is there a kit? The tractor is a JD 4115. When I bought it I didn't think I'd be spending so much time at constant speeds (mowing, spreading, etc.) Thank in advance. RK

I work a lot with piles of stuff like woodchip mulch, crushed rock, compost, etc., and I'm building a retaining wall as a backstop against which I can have 6 yards of these materials dumped at a time. I was going to use the 2'x2'x6' precast blocks, which are pretty cheap at the concrete plant...

We've been busy this summer and fall, and are just about completed. Its a project that started last winter with me walking around the property and figuring out where and how I could get the tractor attachments under cover, make room for the contents of the garage so we can turn that into a...

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Deere 4115, 46BH. When I removed the BH yesterday to mow the field, I forgot to cycle the BH controls, and today when I'm trying to get the BH back on there is so much pressure in the BH hydraulics that I can't get the couplings together. Is there a bleed mechanism on the BH? Some other trick...

Mowing season has arrived and I'm looking to upgrade. I have a JD 4115, FEL, BH. The tractor is 24hp, 19hp at the PTO. I have 4 acres of slightly sloping, bumpy fields surrounded by stone walls, that I'm currently cutting with an LX4. It looks terrible, and takes too long. Midmount mower vs...

I'm looking for tiller advice, and I've searched the old threads but haven't found anything on point. I've got a Deere 4115, which has 19hp at the pto. My land is rocks and sandy loam, mostly rocks. The rocks are rounded granite fieldstones, from baseball to beachball size. The photo shows a...

Is there any reason not to use the toughest, longest lasting trimmer string one can find? I'd become pretty unhappy with my trimmer as I was trying to clear some stone walls of vines and brush. Metal blades would invariably hit a stone, throw sparks, and set my teeth on edge; the hinged...

I am kind of embarassed to tell this story on myself, but if it helps someone else to avoid doing this, I guess that's good enough reason. I've got a JD CUT with a backhoe and loader, and a rotary cutter. I keep the tractor in the garage (next to my car), and I have to lower the ROPS while...

Newbie's dumb question: How do I get 1-2 bushel-sized field rocks into the FEL? I mean, without getting out of the seat. So far, I'm either lifting the front of the tractor by the front edge of the FEL and not getting the rock, or I'm pushing the rock all over the field until I run it into...

I'm trying to attach and adjust a new LX4 cutter to my JD 4115. Basically, I can't get the cutter deck far enough away from the tractor. The tractor came with a backhoe attached, so I removed that and installed the 3PH per the manual. I set the cutter attachments low, per the manual. Then I...

I'm using my JD 4115/FEL/BH to rip some big (6'x40') juniper shrubs away from my house and stone walls. Once I've cut or broken the trunks off, I'm grabbing bunches of trunks and branches in the crook of the BH arm joint and bucket, and dragging them to my burn pile a hundred yards away. Am I...

My 4115/410 FEL/ 46 BH will be delivered tomorrow. First tractor for me, and I've been mining the archives for information. I extend my thanks to all in this forum who have contributed so much. I've got 6 acres or so of fields, woods and stone walls, some sloping land, and a long list of...