Shucks that was some of the flat stuff, I will get some pictures of the other. Hopefully I will be back out today or tomorrow.
On the hydraulics issue. My cat has been doing this since I first got it, just slowly getting worse. Wasn't sure what it was. Previous owner had never used any accessories requiring aux hydraulics, which really exacerbated the problems. Finally just got fed up with it and took it in. I was fortunate enough I got to see the inside of the drive motors at the the shop. Basically what happens, the wear in the drive motor allowed hyd fluid to essentially bypass like a relief valve had opened. This happened as the hyd oil would heat up and the viscosity of the oil would drop allowing it to pass through the areas with the most wear. The more it warms up, the lower the viscosity and the worse it would get. So I could bushhog maybe 30-45 min at most. As the fluid would bypass the motors, my pilot pressure would drop, which is required to run everything else. It never did or would overheat before, and after 3 hrs in 90 + temp yesterday it still didn't.
