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Please ignore. I'd delete this post if I could figure out how, lol. Found the right valve, etc. at Surplus Center (thanks to an earlier KennyD post).

After four years carrying calcium chloride solution in my JD 3032E's rear tires, they have both predictably developed minor valve core leaks. I have on hand various brands of nickel plated steel or "unknown-plated" steel spare valve cores, but I'd prefer to use stainless cores for replacements...

Anybody had any experience with this stuff for driveway use? Better or worse than crusher run gravel? Cheaper per ton? Does it pack down well to help avoid washing out in heavy rains?

Gotta love Oklahoma weather. Yesterday I was wearing shorts and a T-shirt while working on smoothing up our gravel road. It was 79 degrees and sunny. At 6 AM this morning it was 31 degrees with 30 MPH wind and 40+ MPH gusts out of the north, blowing light sleet. Glad I got the road work done...

I maintain about 800' of private lane for me and two neighbors. Last time I had gravel delivered it came in a pair of belly-dump semis, and they laid the gravel down in two very long skinny piles by cracking the belly doors part way and driving slowly away. Except for a bit of a dicey balancing...

Finally got around to finishing up the install of a 28" Greens Machine Shop bucket thumb on my JD 3032E. Works great, especially in combo with the tooth bar. This will be a huge help in cleaning up brush this winter. Total weight of the thumb and it's base mount was 108 lb, plus of course the...

Administrators: I've played with a lot of databases over the years, and I've been experimenting without much success trying to figure out which if any boolean keyword search terms are functional on TBN. Various database schemes use variations, but boolean (AND, OR, NOT, etc.) search terms of...

Having trouble locating a particular fitting I need a couple of... namely, straight male to female SAE -6 (ORB) swivel adapters. Lots of SAE swivel elbows, swivel 45's, and non-swivel SAE straights around, however a simple straight M-F swivel has proven hard to find. Why, I don't know. I've...

Does anyone happen to know the US equivalent of this UK supplier of DPOCV's? I'm wearing Google out trying to find these in the same small form factor. Lots of the giant versions available in the US, but haven't located the small ones yet. Flowfit DOUBLE PILOT OPERATED CHECK VALVES I've found...

Maybe everybody else already knows this, but I'm a newbie to hydraulics, so here's my story: Had a couple of new 38" hoses made up at a JD dealership the other day, and when I got them home, just as a precaution I filled them each about 1/2 full of diesel fuel, sloshed them around a while and...

The more I mess with implements/attachments and tractors the more times I find I need to make choices on the right fasteners to use. So I wanted to pass along a link to a brief but very informative page on the subject. I learned a lot from it, maybe some others will too. BTW, the subject may not...

I bought a 7-tooth 60" Tooth Bar from Iowa Farm Equipment at 8 AM yesterday morning via their Ebay sales folks ("tractorparts247"). $350 with free shipping. Believe it or not UPS delivered it at noon today to my place in central OK. Holy fast service, Batman! It's a great tooth bar, very heavy...

I have a set of Chris Perry lightweight forks and like them very much. Seems like they would be ideal to use as a quasi-grapple for handling brush piles if they had some sort of removable hydraulic thumb on top. Has anybody tried this?

Yeah, I know, I'm just full of hydraulics questions this week. Thinking of building a hydraulic side link, which will require welding a ball end and clevis on a new cylinder. Welding the clevis on the rod end doesn't worry me much, I can use water-soaked rags for a heat sink, but welding on the...

Today I ran across another web vendor who appears to handle HTL's, but have never seen them mentioned in the numerous HTL threads. These are the only ones I've seen outside of CCM that also come with the "miniature" size DPOCV installed. Doesn't appear that they do sidelinks, but they so sell...

Will need to buy some hoses soon, never done this and have a question about lengths. I'll be putting TnT on soon, and I'd like to have compact and neat hose routing without a bunch of slack to deal with, but I also don't want to end up with something so short I damage things with flexing. So...

File this one under minor pet peeves: Is is just me, or do others also think Frontier's logo and model numbers look a lot like they were bought at WalMart--you know, those 3" black-on-white peel off and stick-on letters & numbers people buy to put on their mailboxes? First time I saw these at...

I'm having JD's dual rear remote "bundle" installed in a couple of weeks when my dealer gets the $720 kit he ordered from Deere, and I'll be adding CCM's Top 'n Tilt cylinders for these remotes. Someday I will add a grapple and run some hoses up front for it from one of these remotes. But in...

I have a set of Chris Perry's JDQA forks coming, and the only other "major" attachment I am considering for my new 3032E is a tooth bar. In doing my homework on these things, I noticed most seem to follow a common design with the support bar above the bucket lip, with each tooth hooked...

After nearly busting my wrinkly old butt a couple of times clambering around on painted surfaces that had morning dew on them, I did some non-skid painting on my 16' utility flatbed trailer. After using it I can highly recommend Valspar "Skid-Not" from Lowe's. I used the grey, not sure what...

Hey, Administrators: How about a review category for attachments? We all use 'em, we all need 'em. But you and I know there are good ones and others that are not so good. I, for one, would like to read about which ones worked great, which ones broke the second time they were used, and which...

This is my poor man's quick hitch solution. Not very fancy but it works fine and saves my tired old back a lot of wrestling stuff around. The cast iron hooks are a pair of Pat's Easy Hitch wanna-be's I bought off Ebay several years ago for $40 or so. They work fine, but do require manual drop-in...

I'd like to have an iMatch hitch on my 3032E, but I keep hearing phrases like "they're great, all you have to do is modify all your implements to match the iMatch and you're good". This doesn't give me warm and fuzzy feelings. I only have two 3pt implements I'm concerned with: a brush hog and a...

For some reason I've been on a roll with expanded metal lately. I like to carry around two or three lengths of 5/16" chain for all-purpose use, but lacked a convenient way to carry them. Since there are some unused cast bosses with 3/8"-16 tapped holes on the 305 loader's right side mast, I...

This falls in the category of trivial shop projects, but my new brush guard looked a little naked so I did this.

Every time I look at my new JD 3032 I see something else that gets my curiosity up. This time it's "holes" again (photos attached). 1. There are three hefty threaded bosses on the 305 loader's cast iron mounting frame, but ONLY on the right side. What were they put there for? Looks like...

I bought this book (although not from these people, I bought mine on the cheap from Amazon's used book store) and just finished reading it cover to cover. Definitely a great read for those new to hydraulics. It gets a place on my shop bookshelf. As a bonus, it has a pretty good section on...

Compared to most of the projects on here this one is pretty insignificant, but I'll post photos anyway. My new little JD came with a decent grille guard frame as standard equipment but the first time I handled brush with it I knew it was too open to do much good against sticks and brush poking...

I know most of you experienced tractor owners on here know all about how and why modern hydraulics systems work. My personal background, however, consists of 45+ years in electronics, so in spite of owning and operating tractors for quite a few years I have lived in the dark about open vs closed...

I see occasional posts referring to "just remove the rear wheel" to gain access to hydraulics and controls for upgrades, etc. I'm not 100% sure this is as easy as it sounds. I have loaded R4's on my 3032E, and I suspect I'm looking at 300 lb plus to manhandle. Exactly what method is commonly...

I'm looking at ordering a Markham tooth bar for the 61" bucket on my JD 305 loader. Standard is six teeth on this size. Is a seventh tooth of any major advantage on this size bucket, and worth the extra bucks?

FWIW, here's a piece of paper I collected while tractor shopping in Oklahoma. The Mahindras I looked at were very nice looking and easy-driving machines, and I was very tempted to buy one, but I finally bought a John Deere 3032E and 305 loader for $900 *less* than a Mahindra 2816HST 4WD with a...

My new JD 305 loader bucket has two holes in the top (see arrows in photo). Anybody know what these are intended for? Not mentioned in the manual.

Took the new 3032E down and had the rear tires loaded today. I had them use a weaker than normal solution of calcium chloride--25 pounds of cc in each tire mixed with 35 gallons of water (no ultra-cold winters in my part of the country, and besides, I keep this tractor inside). I later decided...

After an agonizing week of studying, shopping, looking, trying, test driving, and talking to dealers, I bought a new JD 3032E today, will pick it up tomorrow afternoon. My recently sold old reliable was a Kubota, and I had full intentions of going orange with the new one, but I just couldn't get...

After all these years, I'm finally going high-tech, have just ordered a new Hornell auto-darkening helmet, and can't wait to try it out! Are there any special tidbits I need to know about using one of these things? I ordered Hornell, but noticed Hobart/Miller sells a similar rig. Hope I did the...

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Embarassed about my lack of technical knowledge of tractor hydraulic systems, I was scrounging around for a good book on basic hydraulics - maybe a Votech textbook or something like that - so I could at least learn to speak the lingo, and maybe avoid showing my ignorance when asking newbie...

Power Beyond vs. Dual remotes vs Top \'n Tilt, etc? I'm a babe in the woods on modern hydraulics, my current old '79 model tractor only has the basics (3-pt and steering). Starting to think about a new JD 2520/200cx or 3120/300cx, but JD's "options" list in the hydraulics area is confusing me...

Had some time to kill today, so I visited one of my local Kubota dealers to kick a bunch of tires. I climbed up and sat in/on everthing under 35 hp on the lot, which was mabye 15 or 16 tractors. Not a single solitary HST tractor on the lot was comfortable for my size 14 work boots. Much of this...

Question 1: Would dearly love to have a loader but can't justify putting a new $5K aftermarket loader on a 25 year old tractor. Plus I love this little tractor (400 hrs) and would hate to have to give it up for a new one just to get a loader. Anybody got a loader out back sitting in the weeds...

The steering assist cylinder on the drag link of my L295DT is leaking after only 26 year's use. You just can't get good stuff these days. (1) Are rebuild "kits" for things like this usually available? (2) If so, is this a job for an average shop do-it-yourself guy? I can follow directions...

Just in case some owners of older Kubotas think they can't use a ROPS, here's a photo of the one Kubota sold me for my L295DT. Works great, was easy to install, just looks a little different from those new fangled things.

I'm tired of cranking the top link back and forth on my faithful old Kubota L295DT. If it had remote hydraulics, or I'd put a hydraulic top link on it in a heartbeat. So maybe the next best thing would be a top link that has a ratchet handle on it - like a ratchet jack, but with ball ends for...