Recent content by djw250

I'm probably about to get a new truck. I'm looking right now at the F150 and Ram 1500 both with V8 engines. I've driven Fords for 30 years, but frankly the current F150 doesn't impress me that much. I'd like to hear how Ram owners feel about thier trucks. Has it been reliable? Does it tow well...

Well after 7 years my grandson finally killed the battery in my Mahindra 3510 by leaving the key switch on. I am now in the market for a new battery, and figured I'd tap into the collective experience of TBN. Anybody have any recommendations for a new battery? Any experience with the brand that...

Maybe somebody that knows something about hydraulics (that aint me) can help me out. I seem to have air in my curl cylinders on my loader. When the bucket is tilted down any, and I set it down, the bucket curls up several inches. I don't remember this happening when it was newer, so I'm guessing...

Well, after playing with my new ratchet rake most of the day, I have noticed that there is quite a bit of play in my curl cylinders when extended. I know you shouldn't back drag with a lot of down force with the cylinders extended, but I do some finish dragging with the loader in the float...

I'm considering buying a trailer, and I'm trying to figure out how much my tractor and loader weigh. I found the weight of the tractor, but I dug through the loader manual from cover to cover and couldn't find the weight of the loader. Does anybody know what the ML112 loader, subframe, and...

Considering a tiller to use with my 3510. My question is will my 3510 drive a 6 foot tiller that will cover both tracks, or should I get a smaller tiller that I can offset? Our soil is generally a clay loam with no rocks but usually some roots. I'm thinking it will handle a 6 foot tiller, but...

Wasn't sure where to put this, but here goes. I have an older Bobcat skid steer loader that I've been working on trying to get going, but it currently doesn't run. I need to move it this week because my daughter is getting married and we are having the reception under my tractor shed on Saturday...

I recently acquired a Melroe Bobcat M700 circa 1974. It runs good, but has problems with the drive. When you first crank it up, it drives and turns pretty good, but after about 5 minutes, the drive gets noisy, jerky, and almost quits completely. If you let it sit for a few minutes, it will go...

I am about to call about a taylor-way 6' heavy duty disc harrow that is on the local craigslist for $600. I don't know anything about these discs, so if anybody has any info about quality, parts availability, etc, I'd love to hear it. Thanks, Dave

Well, after about 2 years of procrastination, I finally built myself a grader. I have about $200 of materials in it, plus some stuff I already had and scavenged. I think it turned out pretty good. If you are interested in the build, I have quite a few pictures at Image hosting, free photo...

Got a chance to work ;) with a reasonable size excavator (16000 lb machine) yesterday, and decided to remove a stump. This was an oak stump about 2+ feet in diameter cut off near ground level. Well, I dug a while, and dug a while, and dug a while, and still couldn't budge the stump. I wound up...

While cleaning up a lot of trees and debris from Hurricane Gustav recently, I noticed something strange (or maybe not). When using clamp and strap on forks with my bucket on my ML112 loader on my 3510, it would not curl the heavier loads completely. The loader would still lift the load, but it...

I'm in the process of building a middle buster and subsoiler from the parts of an old middle buster that got twisted a bit somehow. :D I would like to be able to put the plow bottom on for shallow plowing and trenching, and remove it and have a small hardened point for deeper subsoiling and...

Some of you may remember that I found this Dearborn Disc Plow a while back. I said I'd post some pictures when I got a chance to try it out, so I'm posting a couple now. I used it a few weeks ago at our big garden spot, but didn't get any pictures. I broke up the small garden at our house and...

As some probably saw, I recently bought a Dearborn disc plow, and I have a question about the offset link for the 3 pt hitch. On the plow I have, the offset is on the left side of the plow when looking at the plow from the back, however, the manual for the plow shows it on the right side of the...