Recent content by kentuckydiesel

The site is functional and clean looking with no popups when I view from my computer. Here is the screenshot that I took when viewing from my mobile this morning. -Phillip

Can't scroll through threads without popups locking my tab on android phone. Tried a few different threads and was careful not to accidentally touch any of the numerous ads.

I am on a hilly, rocky, brush and honey locust covered piece of property, and I can't keep my tires up to save my life. (Short of breaking them down every couple weeks) My rears are filled, so slime and such isn't an option. Is there any sort of flat preventative that can be mixed with water...

I have been looking for a decently priced 10'-12' mower as my tractor is just over 8' wide to the outside of the rear tires. In the meantime, I have been mowing my property along with a couple neighbor's places with a rusted old 5' king kutter that belonged to a friend's grandfather (one house...

Here's a better one. We had an old shed back by our barn that was in pretty rough shape when we bought the place. My wife wanted to build a chicken coop, so I suggested that we move this shed and repair it/convert it to a chicken coop rather than build something from scratch. Finally I got...

The old porch roof that I removed from the front of our house. -Phillip

They do now! Yesterday afternoon, good ol' Spider Tractor was looking a bit hungry. A couple hours later I found that he had eaten a neighbor's Kubota...and kept it's rear tires as trophies. Haha, what was a Kubota rear tire/wheel is now my front tire/wheel. Must have been a cute little...

Was doing some general gravel work the other day when my front right wheel locked up. Tore it down to find a broken yolk on the outer shaft, along with the ears broken out of the double cardian type center connector between the inner and outer shafts. Not too happy. Check with John...

Have my Great Grandfather's Cub Cadet 122 sitting in the garage. Engine is a K301AS About 15 years ago, a friend and I were doing some mowing at my Grandparent's farm. He was on the 122. He was going along just fine, then it suddenly shut off. We pulled it back to the barn and took a look...

The mounting bolts connecting the front of my 540 loader frame to my '95 5200 keep working their way out. I have been replacing them here and there, tried Loctite, and even tack welded the bolt heads to the loader frame trying to keep them in. They keep flexing enough that no matter what I do...

I recently uncovered an old well on our property which the previous owners had stopped using once they got county water. Well is 50' deep with 30' of water in it (20' down from the top)...and we're in the middle of a drought! Casing is 6". Anyway, I am going to put a hand pump and electric...

I found out the other day that the drawbar capacity on my '95 5200 is only 1600-1700lbs. I thought it odd that they made the drawbar this weak, especially considering the 3pt hitch is rated for something like 3400lbs. Did Deere ever offer a high-capacity drawbar kit for the 5200? As the...

When I bought my tractor last summer, it was a basic '95 John Deere 5200 MFWD with a 540 loader and forks. It was missing it's front driveshaft and it's pto shifter linkage, it looked a bit rough, and it was flat scary on any kind of side-hills due to the tires being set in at the narrowest...

I have a 540 loader on my '95 5200. While it will lift almost anything (obviously has good pressure), the loader hydraulics seem very slow-acting (like flow is not high enough). I don't notice the same issues on the steering and 3pt hitch, although I'm sure they use less volume than the...

I have a '95 5200 4x4 with two sets of joystick controlled (rear mounted) SCVs for the loader. I would like to add three more sets of SCVs using a standard hydraulic valve rather than buying the (expensive) JD kit, and at the same time, move the joystick SCVs to a mid-mount position like they...