Recent content by 1gr8bldr

I use my s 250 BCat about 40 hours a year. I usually keep good records about my oil changes in my equipment and vehicles... but I can not find where I recorded what kind of oil I was using for my BCat. Since I like to run the same thing, yet I don't know, I am starting over so I thought I would...

I have purchased two, what I think is Ford 101's. One has shear pin trip and the other has a cam spring type of trip. I will sell whichever I don't prefer of the two. But my tractor is broke down at the moment, waiting on the injector pump to be rebuilt, so I thought I would ask who prefers which?

I have purchased an 8ft Harley rake. In good shape except.... the float bars, the connections. Apparently the extra size and weight of the eight footer is more force than the typical six footer, because the holes are rounded out pretty bad. I could weld over each hole with a quarter inch...

On some brands, the drum floats. On the bobcat version I rented, they do not and the wheels are adjusted by a turn buckle. I was thinking, what good are these wheels other than lifting if you approach an incline, even then I assume they lift the drum prematurely. I am looking at a used power...

Help my think this through. I assumed I wanted a hydraulic angle. Do I need this? They are hard to come by used. My thoughts were that if I wind rowed my debris to my right and went the length of my run, I should turn around, change the angle and continue wind rowing that same debris, and then...

I found a good deal on a hardly used Bobcat trencher. Good time to stop renting. But now I need to learn the machine. I put it to work today but was having trouble because the chain was loose. I called my guy at the BCat place. Interesting way to tighten a chain. So I probably put to much grease...

When finishing up a house, it is best for me to grade everything and then pour the sidewalks. This eliminates any, I wish I had accounted for that.... or that area is lower, etc. I realize that most pour and then grade. This mostly being that you don't want to pay your grader twice. When you...

I used a Harley Rake.... or should I say soil conditioner today for the first time. Tearing up, leveling, easy, but I never learned to wind row debris. The rental I had was almost new, LOL, it may have been new. It did not have the hydraulic function of left and right angle. I tried the angle...

Looking for a 45+ hp hydrostatic tractor. No front end loader. I have a skidsteer. Any opinions on Mahindra tractors. I can get alot more for my money.... probably why they are the best selling tractor. Money talks. Resale would say go with a Kubota or JD... but I will likely never buy another...

I am looking to buy a tractor suitable for doing my own landscaping. Most of my rough grade will be done with my skidsteer, even power raking. What I need .... and I don't even know for sure, is for a box scrape, a drag, etc. Something that can move quick. LOL, I don't know what all I need it to...

Anybody ever used simulators, fake nice rims, on their trailers? I am thinking about it for my new trailer.

I have talked to Pro line, Kraftsman, Kaufman, Mikes trailers, PJ and Gatormade. I may be going with Gatormade. I saw some bad feedback in years past history, but this I assume could be corrected in little time so I can't assume it still exist. I am looking for a 16K, 12,000 pound capacity...

I am about to order a custom 16k deckover trailer. I have never had a two speed jack before. I don't know if I want this option or not? The electric hydraulic would be great but maybe more than I want to spend. Pros and cons of two speed?

I just bought another trailer for my skidsteer. LOL, just like the one I have but better shape and has had a new aluminum floor installed taken from a tractor trailer. My present one , Hudson 16 flat, 3 ft dovetail deckover has braces that support the ramps it transit. The new trailer has...

I am looking to purchase an implement to prepare a seed bed. I am a contractor whom wants to do his own landscaping. My S250 Bobcat would be my power. I have looked all over the internet. Power rakes are no longer just a Harley Rake. But experience trumps all. Anybody ran different attachments...