Recent content by MikeinMich

So I have a kubota MX5800 and I've been bailing with a NH 311, which works pretty well, but I've been having a bit of trouble looking for suckers - I mean helpers- to put up the hay. So due to this, and because I have a hay hut and net that I like to use round bales with too, I've been thinking...

So I have a Kubota MX5800 and I've been bailing with a NH 311, which works pretty well, but I've been having a bit of trouble looking for suckers - I mean helpers- to put up the hay. So due to this, and because I have a hay hut and net that I like to use round bales with too, I've been thinking...

Hi all. After a decade of using my l3400, I need to move up to something bigger. I've got about 20 acres of hay and 40 acres of wood, horses and we're in the middle of building an arena. I'm cutting hay, using a 5' drum mower and a new holland square baler, and although it works ok, it's kind...

I've got a small leak in the hydraulics for the loader on my l3400. It's the cylinder that raises/dumps the bucket I think (if I leave it up for a bit the bucket slowly tips down. I've also noticed a small amount of hydraulic fluid on the block where the lines meet under the tractor (not the...

A follow-up question to the one I posted earlier about getting rear wheel spacers for my l3400 (which appear to be an elusive myth thus far). I've been reading about being able to switch the tires around (so the valve is on the inside) to get a wider tread width. Has anyone done this on an...

Hi. I'm trying to hook up a jd #9 mower to the back of my L3400 (with the frame for the loader/backhoe) and with the stupid thing straight the castle nut on the stabilizer bar hits the right rear tire. I can pull it over a little cockeyed and have it not hit the tire but I think it might give...

I just purchased a john deere #9 sickle mower to use with my first attempt at cutting hay. I did manage (with some help) to get it hooked up, and actually cutting. But it's missing the grassboard (and apparently some other piece of wood as well. I saw a metal grassboard on e-bay- does anyone...

I just purchased a john deere #9 sickle mower to use with my first attempt at cutting hay. I did manage (with some help) to get it hooked up, and actually cutting. But it's missing the grassboard (and apparently some other piece of wood as well. I saw a metal grassboard on e-bay- does anyone...

I just purchased a john deere #9 sickle mower to use with my first attempt at cutting hay. I did manage (with some help) to get it hooked up, and actually cutting. But it's missing the grassboard (and apparently some other piece of wood as well. I saw a metal grassboard on e-bay- does anyone...

Hi. I need some advice, if anyone has some expertise with this sort of thing :) I'm thinking about purchasing a tractor to mow hay with (having purchased a new home with about 20 acres of it and realizing my 3400 isn't going to do the job, poor little thing). There's a JD4020 for sale near me...

We recently purchased an L340 HST with a FEL and a BH (75a) and I'm trying to figure out how large of a trailer to try to tow this beast around with. I've got the info about the tractor weight itself, but I'd appreciate it if anyone knows how much the FEL and the BH weigh. Of course, any...

I was all set to go with a B3200 until I walked into a dealer ready to buy it and was "bait and switched" into considering an L3400 (not really- the price he gave me on the B3200 was extremely reasonable considering what I had been seeing before). We talked some more about what I was looking to...

After limping along for the last 15 years with my inherited simplicity tractor (which was about 20 years old when I got it), my wife has finally decided that it's time to try to use the rest of our ten acres of mostly swampy (at least in the spring) yard. She envisions paths, some garden...