Recent content by farmyid

Hi Folks, I have owned a Century 3040 for three years and have loved it. Now I am going to invest in a backhoe for it and have been shopping around between what the local Branson dealer has to offer and also what another dealer who used to carry Century, but got shut out because someone else in...

Hi Folks,

Not looking forward to another winter of plowing and blowing on the tractor with no cab, but can't bring myself to buy the soft side cab my Century dealer offers for a very large price. Anyone out there adapted or built a nice cab for their Century? Mark

I am trying to create a pasture in the foothills of the berkshires of Western Mass and have just finished clearing a half acre of dense mature forest. I had someone in to remove the stumps which are now in a plle waiting to be hauled out and ground up. My excavator will be back with his...

Well I got the driveline lengthened just in time for the big snow (actually a bit less than we expected at 18") cranked that baby up started backwards and.... lots of snow churning around but not that much coming out the chute! Took me quite a while to figure out what the problem was. The guy...

Do we have any tractor supply stores in New England (like TSC?) I am in Western MA and sure haven't seen any. Farmyid

I am trying to get my new-to-me snowblower hooked up to the three point and find the pto drive shaft a bit short. This is complicated by the fact that the blower end is 1-3/4" six spline and the tractor end is 1-3/8" six spline. I found an adaptor between the two, but want to avoid the expense...

The recent post on sand blasting has made me decide to wire brush and prime my old snow plow blade with rust converter, but I need some advice on what kind of paint to slap on there. Is implement paint the way to go or is there something more widely available that will work? Just looking for...

Just got a set of 42" Alondoni forks for my 3040 and I am really pleased with how fast it is to get into and out of the new forks and the bucket. Once I got the hang of it it takes only a couple of minutes unless the pin mechanism jams. I am going to try a liberal coating of grease on the holes...

My next door nieghbor who also happens to be my older brother borrowed my BRAND NEW tractor and put two nails into one of the front tires. I had been pretty sure he would manage this if he wasn't careful as he is trying to clean up a terrific mess that up until recently was a small barn and is...

I need help figuring out what kind of rake I need to rent or buy. I am clearing another acre of forest around my place here in the rocky hills of Western Massachusetts. I will be hiring a dozer to push out the stumps and the4 bigger rocks which will leave roots (including some big ones) and...

Is it possible to attach skid steer attacments to the C-50 loader frame with some modification? Thanks, Mark

My brother ,who makes a few thousand gallons of biodiesel a year from waste cooking oil, had his biodiesel barn in Ashfield Mass burn down last Saturday. The thermostat on the cooking vessel malfunctioned and the extra heat caused the methanol that was being stirred in to vaporize enough to...

I picked up a snow plow set up at a tag sale the other day that had been used as a over the bucket rig.It includes the hydraulic cylinders for angle change, springs to let it swivel down and the shoes or skids that space it from the ground plus a seperate frame that attached to the bucket. I...

What a long strange trip it's been? But more importantly how useful your input has been, THANKS! After considering used, grey, orange, green, blue, and even Lamborghini (still think that's a cool tractor) I finally decided on a 6400lbs (with beet juice and loader), 40 horse, syncro geared, RED...