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First thing- use the recommended grease. Second thing- give it maybe one squirt per day. Don't overgrease. It'll push out the dust seals and help dust/crud get back in when they go back in place. Three- make sure it's in balance. Missing teeth are hard on bearings and the main mower frame. Four-...

I've got a homemade one that plugs into 240 but has a standard 120 receptacle on the other end but only uses one hot leg, so I can get 120v in emergencies for welders/chopsaws/whatever that I can't blow a breaker on easily. It's a bit unorthodox but as long as you don't melt your equipment down...

Look on Amazon. I got a Warfox plasma cutter a year or so ago for a stunning amount less than a comparable Hypertherm. I think it was $240 Cdn plus a couple of large packs of consumables and an air dryer. Well, 2 air dryers. The first one disappeared in transit. LOL Got everything for well under...

I came to suggest operating the fuel solenoid manually if possible but LouNY had that covered. Good way to get you out of a bind short term, or save $600 or whatever Ma Deere wants for a fuel solenoid if that's the problem. Lots of other good suggestions too. Poking around the electrical...

I run regular Rotella 10w30 per the owner's manuals in my Kubotas. 15w40 works fine as well but not in the winter. I just run 10w30 year-round so I don't have to worry that someone jumps in something that had summer oil when it's minus a million to clear a driveway or something. I'd change the...

I've got a couple of flail mowers where "land plane" cutting height is recommended by the factory. They do a phenomenal job on land just levelled with an excavator and tend to shave off the tops of undisturbed knolls a bit and deposit the dirt in the low sections. They'll even shave off moss so...

I'm pretty sure it's been covered, but "it depends". Trailer brakes? Traction? 4WD engaged? Hills? Wagon or trailer? Try it conservatively in your usual conditions and work your way up. Easy rule of thumb with lots of traction "here" is wagon weight = tractor weight is a good load with no...

I know a couple of fellows who wanted to "race" tractors down a long and VERY steep paved road. Both topped out around 20mph but one guy cheated by popping it in neutral after hitting high idle. Scared the living crap out of him as it sped up downhill WAY past what the twitchy steering was...

No Crocs at work for me. I like my feet in one piece. Crocs are for putting the dogs out back to do their business. And when did Crocs become "high end" ish? I remember them in the dollar store a half dozen or dozen years ago.

Flails are nice for some things but a heavy rotary is hard to beat in the big stuff. My Woods rotary BB7200 is rated for a 4" stump. If I'm mowing big bushes and trees I take that, not a flail. That said, a flail can work if you're in creeper. And not all flails are created equal either.

If it's angled up then you're more likely to thump the stump with the body of the bucket and it'll ride up and over while still giving you the feeling of impact. If you hit a stump with the blade at the lowest point then you're pretty much guaranteed to fetch up the tractor unless it's a small...

I'd be careful running with the loader down low when bushhogging. I've tried that trick in thick weeds and found a stump that bent me WAY over the steering wheel when standing on an open station tractor to see better. I don't want to hit stumps or whatever but I'd much rather have a repair bill...

Half inch impact gun, high torque version. My first Milwaukee converted me even though it was before the brushless generation. Soooo handy for so many things. It'd be the first tool I replaced if it went missing.

I used to retrofit HID bulbs into the cab corner lights in the really early days of LED but they're good enough now and a lot simpler. Mounting the ballast under the roof was neat but makes initial installation and replacing them a pain. Between the front cab corner lights and loader lights the...

I went LED and HID on cab corner and loader lights. Hood lights are less important because they light up the buckets but I'd still like them working if needed. Mini light bar in the bash guard would be good though. I just bought a big one to try between the front cab corner lights but haven't...

Where did you find LEDs bright enough for headlights that fit an 1157 socket? Tons of them out there, but even LED blinker lights aren't THAT bright and I'd worry about the duty cycle on the bright element that isn't meant to run for hours on high.

Aaaannnnnd a bunch of years later I need more bulbs and liberty lightbulb has gone under...

Here's a pic of a camera on our pallet forks unloading pallets of bees at night. Missing the pallet slot and poking a hole in the hives isn't a great experience. edit: camera is mounted on a magnet on the lowest backplate shelf for easy moving from the forks to wherever is needed.

Anybody rigged up something for an aftermarket muffler for an M9000 yet? I've had to put an elbow right where the pipe exits the muffler but it looks like more surgery or a whole muffler is in the works. Don't even want to think what the dealer wants for one. What have you done to replace the...

Anybody have one of these yet? How do you like the front axle suspension? How about front loader suspension? I'm looking at a new tractor with suspension but I'm not stuck on Kubota (have three already but I'm not color-blind). A New Holland 6030 or maybe a hair bigger is also a...

You can never have enough light when working at night, so after converting my cabcorner lights to HID, I added a pair of floods from Sloan's that accept 9005 bulbs. VVME has a nice 35w slim digital HID kit that I ordered with 4300k 9005 bulbs. I was going to go with 55w kits, but VVME...

I do a fair amount of work at night and needed a lot more light to be able to see properly so I did a bit of reading up on HID light conversions. A good choice for my cabcorner lights was a kit from VVME on EBay. 35w, 4300k light temperature, and H3 bulbs to match the stock floods on my M105S...

Anybody found a source for these Kubota headlight bulbs? The only writing on the bulb says "12v 45/45w PEACE". The base is virtually identical to your standard 1157 taillight bulb (I put one in and it fit and worked). I'll attach a pic at the bottom that shows a picture of the bulb needed. I...

I'm looking to turn an old steel outboard motor fuel tank into an elevated fuel tank for an engine with no fuel pump. It seems to me that it should be easy to find a small metal bulkhead fitting suitable for use with oil or gas but guess what? No luck so far. I've got 1/2" and larger...

Anybody have some experience with these tractors? I like the idea of the new 6 speed DualSpeed tranny with pushbutton shifting. My 105S has a 4 speed stick with DualSpeed and I love it. Also wondering if anybody can compare them with the older M9000 models. Any flaws/weaknesses in the new...

Has anybody found a place to buy the Kubota headlight bulbs from a place other than the dealer? I'm looking to put some serious light on the tractor and the factory bulbs don't quite cut it. They'll have to stay street-legal but a brighter and whiter alternative would be very nice. The last...

I'm looking to mount a rearview mirror inside my tractor cab like the ones that the bigger Deere tractors have in them. Most of the ones I've seen mount in the upper right hand corner of the cab. There has to be a cheap aftermarket source for stuff like this, but I've looked in TSC, Shoup...

Put a good load on what you're towing, roll over a few hills and gullies (putting vertical pressure on the top of the hitch pin), and VOILA! One pin, one top, and, oh yeah, where did my trailed mower go???

Here's a few pics I took today of a land clearing project to turn it from old cutover woods into wild blueberry land. There's close to 5 acres finished so far this fall in this field and I think we're just about done. Some interesting (to me anyway) statistics is that I tanked up the...

I've been needing a grapple for a while at work and finally ordered one after quite a bit of online research, price-checking, and figuring out what we'd be using it for. I looked at 4 basic designs- stone fork or rock bucket (long bottom teeth with about 3" spacing), Millonzi/Markham longtooth...

Has anybody seen a source for a fan that looks like this? This one came loose on the shaft, ovalled the center a bit, and wore out the blades on one side. It's cast and the vanes and center are roughly 1/4" steel. It's belt driven at a speed approaching 10,000rpm, so whatever I replace it...

Anybody have any experience with FEL QA forks with some kind of rotate function like in the following link? forklift attachments manufactured by Bolzoni Auramo Every spring it seems like I might be forced to get a pair to work with pallets on uneven ground where the pallet might be tipped...

YouTube - Tractor-Truck-Car CRASH Unfortunately mixed with some heavy equipment/car stuff, but some pretty amazing pics of tractor accidents as well. Be safe folks, and don't get into one of these vids!

I know that a grapple is great for piles, but I have a lot of land I'd like to clear of trees and brush. Cutting trees with a chainsaw and removing them whole eliminates most of that brush, but I'd like to use a bushhog/rotary mower/whatever to cut up the stuff that's 10-15' high and have a...