Recent content by eflyersteve

I'm within 3-4 hours of my 50 hour service on my new 1533 so stopped by Wally-World to get some Rotella T oil for the engine ($12.73/gallon) and then stopped by the dealer to purchase the remainder of the items needed: engine oil filter, hydraulic filter, fuel filter, fuel pre-filter and...

I have a 5' rough cutter with shear bolt type PTO safety. I'm getting tired of replacing bolts and see that there are add-on slip clutch adapters available. Would this be the best route to go or would it be better to just buy a slipper clutch PTO shaft? Any recommended products? For those...

Got a new 1533 with a 5 ft cutter and had catastrophic failure during it's first run up. It looks like there were only 4 tack welds holding the stump jumper on and it simply failed with the first run. It threw the assembly out the back, mangling things out the back. Has anyone seen something...

I'm researching a first tractor purchase and was looking at LS L3038 and an XR4046. Then I stopped by the local Mahindra dealer and they were really pushing the 4540 which is a bit large for brush clearing around trees I think and it is at the upper end of my budget. I see they have the new...

I know - two different tractors right? I started looking for our first tractor to take care of a small acreage. Brush hogging, some ground leveling, tilling a large garden, drilling post holes, etc. Nothing that the L3038 won't handle. Then I went and looked at the tractors side-by-side and...