Recent content by tbjack

first time changing blades on my G2160 mower. 48inch deck 3 blades. the two outer blades are belt driven the middle blade is driven directly by the PTO through the deck's gear box. the two outer blades tighten up with no slippage at all. the middle blade seemed to me to slip too easily...

I recently heard that zinc has been removed as an additive in oil and is causing premature wear. so this raises the general questionsof oil spec/stds. They change every so often and I wonder if it is a problem for our older machines. my Kubota B1550 is a 1995 vintage. And I notice that...

Well for quite sometime the bucket on my B1550 would droop. It was quite annoying really. It would take long enough that I was always startled when it hit the ground. Today about 30 minutes into 3 hours of FEL work the bucket started rising all on it's own and very quickly. This was rather...