Recent content by Berniep

Havent been around here in a while but when my tractor started acting up the first thing I did was search here. The symptoms matched exactly the folks who found rusted fuel level sending units. Stalling, sputtering and such. Seat switches check good with an ohm meter. I could see trash in the...

Here is a short video of my 8yr old on my BX23. She is good enough to pull up to a pile of debris and put the bucket down for me to rake it up. YouTube - Lost my tractor

I spent most of the weekend on my 23 running my 4 foot rotary cutter on some ground that had not been mowed since last August. I wasn't concerned with quality but it did pretty well if I overlapped a little. I snapped a cell phone pic, sorry it's not very clear but I think you can get the idea...

I recently checked the pressure on my little kubota and found it low. I shimmed it back to top spec and it made a pretty good difference. My neighbor has a JD4110 and he thinks his might be low and wants to check it. I told him I would ask on here. What should the pressure be at the loader...

Here is a quick paint drawing that I made to show the basic idea of something I have been thinking of building to get a bigger bite on loose light material. Your cardboard cutouts reminded me. You would only use one cylinder and use a connecting link to actuate the tip of the grapple. The...

Ok it was drizzling a little bit but I got it out at shot a couple pics with my cell phone. This is how I start, level ground and nothing under the backhoe. A little up pressure to get the tension off the latches. In this picture the lathces are as close as they ever get to the sheetmetal...

I would bet several owners in this picture would not agree with that statement:D A lot, if not most, have 6 cylinders.

Here is a pic of it running. Here is one of it just after I turned off the oil. It is made out of two cast 2 inch pipe caps. This make a very good heat chamber to get a good burn although it take a few minutes to get it up to temperature. As you can see it get red hot. This is after about...

One of my winter projects for the last few winters has been a waste oil burner. I started with a standard mother earth news type drip design scaled down but never really got a clean burn. Then I happened upon the Babington ball stetup and tried for a while with that and a vertical version...

I have about 230 hours on my BX23. A couple of weeks ago while doing some extensive fel/grapple work I noticed some clunking when I backed up and turned at the same time. It's not audible but more of a feel through the floorboards almost not noticeable. I kinda thought it was a stick stuck up...

Well if you read my thread called "One of those days" you know I was having some bad luck with the stock ag tires while running the rotary cutter. I went and ordered some R4s and they cam in yesterday so I went and picked them up this morning. I noticed right away they are heavier duty. They...

It started out very nice. Good weather and all. I thought I would trim some branches off Some trees to make it easier to mow under. About halfway through I decide to cut a sapling close to the ground and hit a rock. This is my last good chain because Lowes had the wrong chain in the box the...

I did that exact thing I used 4 standard nozzles on about a 7 foot boom. It is on a 25 gallon wand sprayer setup with a 2gpm pump. It used to maintain about 20 psi now it's lower, the cheap guage quit on me so I don't know exactly how low but it still gets good coverage. I think I would use a...

If anyone is still debating on whether to replace the seat on their BX. Let me be another one to say it's worth it. I had pretty much decided to just use what came on my BX23. I happened to be in the dealer for the first time since last summer to get some filters. I asked about the...

Here are a couple of test burners. The first one is about 4 inch diameter fed with the air compressor turned down really low The second one is 6 inch diameter but I cannot find the pictures of the test burn that I did with it but it worked about the same as the first one and I was able to vary...