Sorry for the delay. Here are the pictures of what they adjusted. It's the silver piece shaped like a sock that has an adjustment area by the grease. To me, it just looks like a cam that gives a different distance as it's rotated. If you look at the tractor from the right side (side of the hydraulic FEL bucket controls), its just under the pedals.
In the picture, it looks like mine started all the way at the bottom, but I don't remember what the tech said.
From the outside:
From laying under the tractor, by the mid-PTO, looking to the outside of the right (pedal) side of the tractor. You can see I have some adjustment left and have over-filled the pedal zerk with Kubota grease. I had some issues with the Kubota grease gun, too, but was able to rectify it by loosening the end.:
As to the 2-3 feet stopping distance, it is consistently around 2 feet (I didn't measure), from around 2,800 RPM with the pedal all the way down. This is abrupt enough to make my a slight slide in the seat-jeans-butt, contact point. Any more abrupt and I would have to wear the seatbelt, just to stay on.
JOHNTHOMAS, how abrupt should it be? There has to be some roll, it's physically impossible to stop instantaneously. Six inches, a foot, what do you think. As you can see, I still have some adjustment left, if I need to wrench it.
Towing Issues:
From what I can find, the way we secured the load was within legal and physical recommendations. Remember, I am not a commercial vehicle. According to KSA 08-1906(c): No person shall operate on any highway any vehicle with any load unless such load and any covering thereon is securely fastened so as to prevent the covering or load from becoming loose, detached or in any manner a hazard to other users of the highway.
My friend, who works at the County R&B (part of his job is towing large equipment), helped me secure it. We used two 10,000 pound heavy duty ratchet straps on the back (didn't X them, though). I, the front, we used one of those straps through the front frame to each corner of the trailer. We then used the fourth strap over the FEL bucket.
It will be easier to load, in the future, after I weld some heavy duty D-rings on.
My friend said what they usually do is get the two front chains on and back up the equipment, so it's tight. Then, they bind the rear two chains. After towing it a few times, I'll probably go to the store and buy some short lengths of Grade 70 chain and make them just for towing my tractor.
I played for around 1.6 hours, today. I had to work on my garage-made some room! I was careful to regularly adjust the RPM and made sure to warm it thoroughly. Carrying 350 pounds of sand bags to the shed was easy-peasy! Would have sucked with the shoulder or wheel barrow methods.
I do have one issue. The left turn signal is not working. It doesn't work to indicate left or with the hazards. If anyone has any ideas, shoot!
Here's the garage, before and after:
