Recent content by BGL990

I've got an old Farmall M with front mounted post pounder (An old Shaver - hydraulic up, spring powered down). The old Farmall has seen better days and is a royal pain to drive due to the questionable steering and extremely grabby clutch. As a winter project I want to convert the post pounder...

Just thought I'd share my bit of fun from this past weekend. My tractor (JD 990) has always smoked a bit when cold, probably more than some others because it has no glow plugs, just an intake preheater. In the past month or two, however, it had gotten much worse. Even given that it's getting...

I'm starting to think about getting some sort of mower for my tractor (40Hp JD990) but I'm not sure what style. I don't have any clearing of land to do per se, but there could be saplings an inch or so diameter occasionally. Mostly it's just field grasses and clover that have grown up a couple...

I'm going to build a quick attach mechanism for my neighbor's mid-70's JD ag tractor so he doesn't have to fight with lining up 4 separate pins and wrestling with his bucket and bale forks all the time. I figure it makes the most sense to build a standard skid-steer type quick attach adapter...

I just came across something called the "motor oil bible". It's a long (170ish pages) document describing everything you ever wanted to know about motor oil - what all the acronyms mean, how oil is produced, what the additives do and how, the mechanisms of oil breakdown, why it IS legit to...

There has been much discussion here lately about synthetic oils (all of it interesting) and it reminded me of something I heard once. That is that synthetic oils probably shouldn't be used in applications with wet clutches or brakes (those where the friction plates are immersed in oil). The...

In the thread “What can you expect from a plasma cutter”, sassafraspete commented on wanting a welding trailer. His description was almost exactly what I happened to have built for myself a couple years ago. Here are some pictures of it …. First picture is of the front. You can see the red...

There have been a couple of threads lately where someone has considered the 990 alongside the fancy hydro machines when shopping for a new tractor. Since there will always be someone struggling with a similar decision and I just crossed the 50 hour/first service interval with mine, I thought I...

How cold is considered \"cold\" for a diesel truck? My mom has a '95 GMC turbo diesel pickup with a '98 engine in it (long story - bad turbo on the '95, ate it's own oil, blew up). We've had the glow plugs checked and they are supposedly OK, and it has a brand new injection pump and was all...

The first project I was going to build when I got my tractor was a rear blade. As many of you may have noticed, it didn't turn out that way. Finally I have completed it and for those who might be interested, here is the story .... First shot is of some of the raw materials. The blade...

A friend has a Muratori 3pt tiller, model MAS 165 that I might be able to get pretty cheap. I've never heard of that brand and was wondering if they are any good. It is about 60" wide (maybe 65" hence model 165?) and seems pretty heavy duty, although I have no experience with 3pt tillers to...

I've seen a couple of pictures of what I think is usually called a shrub bucket. A narrow, pointed sort of bucket good for digging out small trees and shrubs, or maybe trenching. I wanted one, and a friend needs some help digging out some echinacea roots soon, so I built one. The backing...

Lights, Lights, Lights. Never enough on a tractor it seems, so I added more. This is the source of their power. I attached a fused, heavy gauge wire to the main battery cable post on the starter (orange wire). From here on I ran all the wires in that black wire protector stuff so it looks...

As some have noted in other threads, some tractors don't come with toolboxes these days. The 990 is one of those cases. I was wandering around Canadian Tire (sort of a cross between an AutoZone or PartSource and Walmart for those who haven't heard of it) and a simple little red toolbox caught...

Every so often I need to move our trailers around, for mowing and so on, and it is always a hassle. There are 2 flat decks, a horse trailer, and a holiday trailer, none of which is too easy to move by hand. Following the lead of some other TBN'ers and some commercial units, I built a 3pt hitch...