What did you do to or on your Mahindra today?

[millsan1]

Sadly, I used my machine to disassemble the remains of an outbuilding that burned down. Said outbuilding contained all my "man stuff", tools, old car, 3 motorcycles, ATV, lawn tractor, hunting gear, golf gear, everything. Only "man stuff" I have left are my guns, which were in a safe in the house, which was not involved, thankfully.

That being said, the 2538 and EA grapple did a great job of making a pile out of the remains of the building. Also picked up the motorcycle remains, a rebuilt motor and stand and the ATV remains without hesitation. It helps to have the right equipment to do work.

During this work, she developed a leak in one of the curl cylinders. Just a drip, but have to rebuild the cylinder. But I have no tools left. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

 

[duffer]

Sadly, I used my machine to disassemble the remains of an outbuilding that burned down. Said outbuilding contained all my "man stuff", tools, old car, 3 motorcycles, ATV, lawn tractor, hunting gear, golf gear, everything. Only "man stuff" I have left are my guns, which were in a safe in the house, which was not involved, thankfully.

During this work, she developed a leak in one of the curl cylinders. Just a drip, but have to rebuild the cylinder. But I have no tools left. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

So sorry to hear about your fire and loss of tools and toys. That sucks.

I too, had a curl cylinder spring a leak, due to seal failure. Fluid wasn't coming out all that bad, but I'm not one to let things "fester", so I took it to a local farm equipment repair guy and he had the seal in stock and repacked the cylinder in a day for me. Was also $125 LESS than another construction equipment shop and the dealer (25 miles away) was somewhere in the middle.

Since you don't have the proper tools (yet) to fix your cylinder, call a couple of guys and you might be able to get it done for $100-$125 for labor and the seal kit combined.

The only good thing you get from this loss (hope you're insured) is a bunch of NEW toys !!!

Good luck, and keep us posted.

 

[mikeman1]

Wow, I am sorry to hear that. if we didn't live in freeze areas i would think about putting 400 gallon tank of water up on the hill and jsut pipe it to sprinklers in my barn. a wild idea anyway.

hope you are able to get new stuff.

 

[millsan1]

It is scary how the situation went from, "holy cow, a small fire, let me try to get that put out" to an out of control blaze. Maybe a minute or two.

MOUNT your fire extinguishers! Fixed location, so you know where to get at it. I had an extinguisher in the pole barn, but damned if I knew where it was when I needed it.

 

[duffer]

Got a call from my next door neighbor. Had to take my 2538 and pull his Kabota out of a jamb. Seems he ran over a stump (flush to the ground) that he didn't see, and his box blade got hung up on it, pretty bad. It took everything both tractors had to get him "un-hooked" from the stump.

 

[tmcj]

I installed bolt on hooks & clevis mounts on my loader bucket, and fab'd a mount that attaches to the ROPS to support a small tool box. :thumbsup:

 

[millsan1]

Did some snow fighting. Had about 6" of wet snow. Driveway is about 1/4 mile with a lot of elevation change and curves. The 2538 and 8' snow pusher did a great job, with the scraper blade cleaning up.

Mahindra 2538 snow pusher - YouTube

 

[duffer]

Finally got about 90 minutes of seat time today, after a 3 week recovery of surgery. (Nothing serious, just inconvenient.)
Neighbors lot doesn't have any ground cover at all yet (new build house and new clearing of lot), and with the rains we've had I got a couple of tons of silt that ran off of his place onto mine. So I spent about an hour or so scraping that up with my FEL, and then another 30 minutes grading our ｼ mile drive. It was a great day to be out and about.

 

[sideskraft]

Moved lots of snow last week with bucket, front plow, and rear blade. Today I tried out my new Titan 48" pallet FEL attachment with integrated trailer hitch receiver. I used the receiver to move my utility trailer (1400 lb), 26' boat/trailer (7500 lb) and toy hauler travel trailer (8500 lb and 1200 TW). It worked like a champ, and I love being able to face the trailer rather than twisting around to see behind me when I'm using the 3-point trailer hitch. It's handy to be able to lift the boat trailer as high as I want -- will come in handy in the summer.

 

[linuxman51]

Popped another hose. 3 in 106 hours. This one was on the curl cylinder for the backhoe, the other two have been on the FEL.

I think I'm going to sell it.

 

[sideskraft]

Popped another hose. 3 in 106 hours. This one was on the curl cylinder for the backhoe, the other two have been on the FEL.

I think I'm going to sell it.

Is it possible that the hydraulic system pressure is too high? I'm pretty sure that Mahindra (or whoever makes the MAX) uses industry standard hoses and fittings and hose assembly equipment. The odds of having three hoses pop in such a short amount of time makes me think something is causing that. Have you asked the dealer about it?

 

[Peter 315]

Maybe they had a bad batch of hoses

 

[Sysop]

Not sure about the Max, but the loader is made by KWM and the backhoe is made by Bradco on the larger units. Both are US companies and use high grade US made hoses. The green tractors actually use a lot of the same loaders and hoes.

I moved some stuff around the barn and toted a bucket full of gravel around to fill some low spots in the driveway from winter. Today it was just a (diesel powered) hand-dolly and wheelbarrow. With weather like today, it will soon be a tractor again!

Made a good excuse to check the fluids and let it run a while.

 

[sideskraft]

Not sure about the Max, but the loader is made by KWM and the backhoe is made by Bradco on the larger units. Both are US companies and use high grade US made hoses. The green tractors actually use a lot of the same loaders and hoes.

I moved some stuff around the barn and toted a bucket full of gravel around to fill some low spots in the driveway from winter. Today it was just a (diesel powered) hand-dolly and wheelbarrow. With weather like today, it will soon be a tractor again!

Made a good excuse to check the fluids and let it run a while.

Thanks for the good info Sysop. With my 2540, I assume both the tractor and loader came from TYM. I've heard about some Mahindra loaders having a "made in USA" sticker, but mine does not. Is there a chance that my loader came from Korea, like the tractor did?

 

[Sysop]

Indeed that one is entirely TYM.

 

[linuxman51]

Is it possible that the hydraulic system pressure is too high? I'm pretty sure that Mahindra (or whoever makes the MAX) uses industry standard hoses and fittings and hose assembly equipment. The odds of having three hoses pop in such a short amount of time makes me think something is causing that. Have you asked the dealer about it?

Not sure about the Max, but the loader is made by KWM and the backhoe is made by Bradco on the larger units. Both are US companies and use high grade US made hoses. The green tractors actually use a lot of the same loaders and hoes.

I moved some stuff around the barn and toted a bucket full of gravel around to fill some low spots in the driveway from winter. Today it was just a (diesel powered) hand-dolly and wheelbarrow. With weather like today, it will soon be a tractor again!

Made a good excuse to check the fluids and let it run a while.

I have a separate thread with more details regarding the failures. Given the relative 'weakness' of the tractor compared with my previous max 28, I wouldn't think the pressure was too high, but based on some other things that I've noticed lately, it's going in to get checked out once I replace the busted hose.

 

[Sysop]

My brother in law has one of the smaller Kubotas. After having the dealer replace the same line twice in the first month of owning it, the third time he had NAPA make a hose and it's not been a problem since. Other hoses have failed since, which he has replaced with NAPA hoses. He hasn't had to replace any of the hoses NAPA has made. After 4 years of owning it, I don't think it has a factory hose remaining.

I don't think it is an issue worth taking a loss on replacing a new(ish) machine. It is something all manufacturers come across now and again. Just replace them as they fail with good components assembled by experienced folk.

If hoses are the worst thing your machine breaks, you're doing great compared to those that bend their loaders and break steering knuckles off their new machines.

 

[linuxman51]

If three hoses were the only problems I've had with it, I probably wouldn't take the time to gripe about it (much. maybe after the third). Frustrating to deal with (esp on the weekends when you're trying to get work done) but certainly not the end of the world. I have a growing list of issues with this particular unit, this happens to be the latest episode.

 

[BlackOps]

moved chips to vineyard and also my storage area in the back of proeprty - too wet to do anymore as has been the case the last couple of months. about 20 ton or so of chips moved so far.

 

[Roger66]

Filled my tires. I though it would be easier to buy a drum of Rim guard and fill them myself than haul my tractor to the dealer. It was super easy, definitely less grief than transporting the tractor. I just pressurized the drum with compressed air to push the fluid. The only problem is I needed ~ 60 gallons to fill the tires and my drum was only 55. I pumped roughly half the drum into the right tire and then pumped the rest into the left. I wasn't sure how to tell how full I got them, but then I thought to bust out my FLIR. The FLIR gave me the x-ray vision I was looking for. The Liquid is slightly colder than the air and it shows on the camera.