Recent content by bearthebruce

It will help me out also for when I add the 3rd function to our Missy.... I want to add a grapple arm to our forks or buy another fork set and add it to that fork set... I still consider myself to be a noob at all this. Probably will forever. After all, I only have 450 hours in the seat! Noob!

This manual covers the 1533 & 1540... Not sure how appropriate it will be to the 1532. I'll send it.

I have it in pdf form and can PM to any that needs it.

The info that @ptsg has given is what I have read in the service documents on the MF1533 which we have. I wanted to put a hydraulic powered cutter out front of ours but learned that we could only get max of 9.1 gal/minute flow - not enough to run the cutter. I too want to add a third...

If you want it, we have a sickle mower sitting in the corner of the barn. We no longer have a use for it. See this post: Road Side Mowing with a Sickle Bar I can and will post photos if you want to see it. We can talk price and so on if you have interest.

Have you considered cutting them down and then stump grinding? I did that with my 200' long 6' tall overgrown hedge. Rented a walk behind stump grinder (Stump Grinder Walk-Behind | Sunbelt Rentals) to chew it all up. Planted new right after grinding. The chips were mixed with the soil. So...

I remember seeing you were looking for a new grapple. Is it your plan to use the tractor and grapple to shuttle the brush? Are you allowed to burn? In Virginny, we make piles close to where we are working and burn there. We usually dig a shallow wide ditch and keep the pile small, feeding...

Can't say about larger.. We have Massey 3-4k with loader and do the kind of work you describe. We are hills always. Almost no flat ground. Its rare when I run in 2WD on the hills. The driveway - half a mile gravel. We have a grader blade, box blade and rake. The maintenance is slow...

When they heard my report on that, they checked. We're satisfied they did the right thing. We appreciate your (@GS650GL ) knowledge that allowed us to tell them to check!

Follow-up news... The cylinders were replaced under warranty. Lil Blue is awaiting pickup at the dealer. Our thanks to those who pointed us to the TSB. The dealer had no knowledge of it.

@Lineman North Florida - I think the one you were trying to remember was Mathew. That one mostly damaged the East Coast of Florida.

@GS650GL thank you. We'll try your test today. Glad to know there was an issue with the cylinders. I have stopped in to see the dealer. I'll make a point to get to them this week. Thanks for the other responses. I've read them all. For those asking, the droop is as @GS650GL described, a...

Our Lil Blue has less 50 hours on him as we also have a Massy 1533. Blue was purchased to do stumpin... Yesterday while carrying wood to our fire pit to burn, the bucket curl would not hold position - like there was a leak from a cylinder. No leaks were discovered but there were loose...

I too have no direct experience on a tractor with this but have answered many VW owners with similar issues.. If that crank sensor is not indicating rpm to the ECM, the ECM will not call for fuel. I don't think the code will stop a restart. But no crank signal? The controller has no idea...

@D&D - that is our method also... We had new grasses growing within a week of putting the soil back on the spot. We did spread the ash evenly before putting the stripped soil back in place. Then we seeded...