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Complete Pats Easy Change Cat 1. Had it on my Kubota B7510 for approximately 50 hours then decided to go with power top-n-tilt and the top cylinder is not long enough to use with easy change. All parts including spreader bar, instructions, extra washers. All in good condition. $100 + shipping...

The thing that really irritates me about Microsoft is the way they take a perfectly good program and screw it up with bloatware. I have been a fan of MS Streets & Trips software for several years and have been happy with it. Other than having to reinstall it about every 6 months for no apparent...

Please pardon the impersonal nature of this message since I am posting it to numerous people and a couple of forums. Please do not reply to this message as my computer time is limited for a while due to lack of electricity and we are very busy trying to help with the clean up. Feel free to pass...

About the time I am ready to give up on the government some part of it does something that makes sense. From the New Orleans Times-Picayune "Treasury, IRS take steps to make additional diesel fuel available Friday, 11:55 a.m. WASHINGTON, DC - The Treasury Department and IRS today announced...

Russian spammer found murdered There may be some justice in the world after all. Bill Tolle

I continue to see a lot of posts from folks who have not filled out their profile. It is hard to help with some questions if we have no idea where your are and what size of place you are on. It is also hard to recommend dealers when the dealer might be 5 states away from you. Please take 2...

Just wanted to pass on the information for those who are not aware of it. There is a program called "Picasa2" that is available for free at Picasa2 It is really a very good program. You can use it to crop, straighten, and do other basic modifications to photos such as lightening or darkening...

I got the power beyond fitting from Mark at C & C this week. After much fumbling on my part (don't ask) I finally got everything installed. This was my first experience with hydraulics. 2 problems, 1 small, 1 may be large: The top cylinder makes a "chattering" noise as it extends when it has...

My old Epson Color 980 inkjet printer is on it's last leg and it is time for a replacement. The color output has never matched the screen colors very well anyway and I'm sure printers have improved in the 4 or 5 years I have had this one. Anybody have a color inkjet printer they are really...

When I try to go to http://www.tractorbynet.com/ I still get the error message about emergency downtime. Bill Tolle

I don't know if it has ever been mentioned here or not, but I have become aware of a potential problem that we all may want to watch out for. It seems that we have a few methamphetamine maufacturers setting up shop in the woods in East Texas. Charlotte and I enjoy riding the back roads in our...

I visit TractorByNet at least once a day, usually more than once a day. I like to see what has been posted since I have was there X hours ago but the forum is so busy that I have trouble sorting out the posts I might be interested in. Since I own a Kubota I have no interest in other brand...

I received my Top N Tilt kit from C & C Machinery today. Let me say up front that I have no idea what I am doing and have never worked on hydraulic systems before so I need all the help I can get. I "think" I have the hose connections figured out using the recently posted joystick valve...

I was really paying attention to my use of the hydro pedal yesterday while moving a lot dirt up a hill. I still have to overcome the tendency to push harder on the pedal when the RPM's start to drop going up the hill but it works better if I back off a little bit. The RPM's stay up and it easily...

Used 2 gallons of antifreeze (it doesn't get cold enough in East Texas to need more than that) and then topped off with an unknown number of gallons of water. Took me about an hour and the most time consuming part was figuring out the cheap plastic pump I bought that said "Self Priming" on the...