Recent content by Racer71

The little green sprouts are just starting to come up so I mowed all of the tall brown weeds. I think this is the first time this land has been mowed. I was able to mow 2 acres per hour.

I have 80 hours on my L3400HST. When driving from here to there the RPM will just drop. I'm talking a drop from 2,300 to 1,000 in one or two seconds. When I lift off of the HST pedal the RPM will come back up and I can continue on. This has happened several times. It is just when I am...

I have added gauge wheels to my box blade and I am getting the floating action I want most of the time. The blade will ride on top of hard ground raising the wheels in the air. This is on a packed sand drive. The box weighs 500 pounds now. What is a good starting point for adding weight...

Hi all, My rear blade has an adjustment pin so I can "tilt" the balde and cut at an angle. I run out of travel on the 3ph when I configure the blade this way. I can't get the blade off of the ground. What is the best way to get it up in the air? If I shorten the top link I loose the cutting...

What is this thing called? What is the normal use? It does work good for preping a race track. The tines spin on a vertical axis.

I was putting the tractor away after 4 or 5 hours of work today. When we built the barn we had to dig out a level spot. This left a rather steep slope on two sides. One of which has a barn door facing it. Anyway, I was driving the tractor inside the barn to park it. Completly under control...

How long do I have to wait before I remove the form? How long until I can use it?

I got the gauge wheels added. :D Now I have to learn how to use them. I used an entire roll of electrical tape on this project. See if you can find it. Hint: You have to zoom in on the back view picture to see it. ;)

We all like pictures so here I am digging through frozen dirt.

I am going to Tulsa in a couple of weeks. My wife wanted to learn how to drive the tractor in case we have a heavy snow. After "Working" with it for a little bit she commented "This is easy;) ". I can't complain about my chores anymore. :(

We had some frozen fog. Here is the view after it cleared.

I am adding gauge wheels to my box blade. What do you guys do? 1 Attach the top link like normal. 2 Use a 2 piece top link like the rotary mower. 3 Do not attach the top link at all. I am smoothing my dirt driveway.

Can you have too much rear ballast? :confused: I am doing some heavy digging with the FEL and the back end is light with filled tires and the box blade attached. So I am thinking about building a concrete ballast block. Therefore, I can make it as big as I want. My current design is 1,300...

I am digging dirt with my L3400 HST. It is sandy soil. I started with the tractor in low. When the FEL dug in and the tractor stopped going forward the tires would spin and dig in 6-10 inches. I switched to medimum on the trany and the tires would stall while still applying forward pressure...

I am moving a lot of dirt and need a dump trailer. This didn't work for several reasons. 1 Not all of the dirt emptied out of the trailer. 2 The tongue didn't come down so I could hook up with dirt still in it. 3 Without anything hanging on the 3ph the back of the tractor was too light...