Recent content by jiggseob

Batteries "last three years" because electronics never turn off? The battery in my Kubota is 12 yrs old, but it keeps in the shop and does not get cold. The battery in my 1998 Toyota Rav4 is eleven years old and still going, it lives outside and still starts at -30C, sometimes 2 ~ 3 weeks...

To minimize tire wear, air up all the tires to the max bead-seating pressure indicated on the sidewalls. Tire wear is caused by the tread area "slipping" as the tread flattens out and curves as the loaded contact patch rotates around the tire. If the tire is inflated to max-pressure, that...

If when connected to only the suspect-battery, the starter cranks real slow, or does not crank at all, and then when connected to a jumper battery, the starter behaves properly and starts the tractor, the problem is probably not the starter. If the starter is fudged and drawing too much...

The idea of the battery store leaving the battery on-charger overnight, then taking charger off and immediately testing next day is hoakey at best. A real test would be put battery on-charger overnight, take off-charger, and leave for 2 weeks then test amperage output. That would be a...

Got the manuals, thank you Chewwy for the links. After reading the manuals, have the controls figured out, specifically how to disable the "Auto Throttle Advance". Tractor spent the day baling, very capably driving a New Holland 315 square-baler.

2008-ish Kubota L3540 HST with 723 loader. Theres a long back-story. Tractor came to us by a lock-stock&barrel purchase of some farm-land. It was sitting in the bush for at least the last 10 years, and the (5 years ago deceased) previous owner left the tractor in the corner of the yard...

The DPF emissions gadgetry will fail and cause you to need to spend money to make it better or make it gone. Even if you operate the unit in accordance with recommendations - high rpm, hot, etc, - it will fail. Eventually. If you operate your unit as a UTILITY tractor, doing little chores...

Because they can... dealers do business in a manner that is profitable for them and not so for their customers because they can. Yes, it may seem that owners of the brands being treated "unfairly" should be afforded some protection from the "big evil" established brands. "The gummit"...

OP asks "Why manufacturers would...." because they can. Competent, prudent design and manufacture builds and rates an assembly for X pounds of load. That does not mean it fails/collapses when loaded at X+1 pounds. That means there is some undisclosed design margin - for...

A "skid steer" as its name implies, steers by skidding. Every time it "skids", it chews up some ground material. FWA tractors have front and rear - and sometimes mid - differentials, so there is alot less "skidding" to maneuver around. If you are handling logs on frozen or well-compacted...

Wow.... 14 PAGES of free advice on how to spend your money... worth every penny you're paying for it... You do not mention if you have snow removal to do, if thats part of your gig you will need a loader, or at least a 3pt blade. I have 1.5 acres. 2 @ 20x75m gardens - off site at the family...

Tracked vehicles - bulldozers or sno-cats - are sketchy to operate on a slope. They can climb straight-up or descend straight down real well, but operating in "side-slope" conditions is genuinely scary. Those grousers on the tracks make great "runners", and the wider the tracks, the...

I'm with Yomax... 13 pages of advice for a novice... Being a novice (mig welder) in the same state as Original Poster, that you already have and are reasonably competent with a stick... and now wanting to broaden your capability and take on tasks you wouldn't dream of tackling with a stick...

All better, back running again. Went to town and picked up a fuel filter, $7.14 Canadian pesos including tax at Extreme Kubota in Camrose. Turned the fuell tap off, removed filter. Placed funnel into gas-jug to catch fuel. Opened fuel tap. Fuel drained out. Took floor jack and jacked up...

Its time for a fuel filter change anyways. I think the fuel filter is going-on 10 years / 150 hrs since last change. So I will change filter. In doing that, I will drain tank through the filter housing. Is the fuel system on this unit totally gravity? I do not see any sort of lift-pump...