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Everybody should be able to learn something from watching this video...no safety police comments necessary...consequences obvious in the end, but how some of these catastrophic failures develop is not always obvious in the beginning. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5s2NzRzK9A

my son married a Brazilian, family is now visiting us in USA. I have to agree that they are the happiest people and most accepting people I have ever run into, as a group. However, there is yet an even more wonderful farming community, as reported below...and, it's past April, 1!! MailOnline...

I've heard and read up about drip irrigation. Have acquired a bunch of the usual stuff...filters, pressure reducers, lines of the usual sizes, fittings, shutoffs, emitters of various rates and adjustable, etc. I figure I can hook up and learn from my mistakes....or ask y'all for your best tips...

Smelled something burning/overheated..water temp near red line, ran hose on radiator/engine, noticed fan not running. Discovered electric fan motor got HOT , melted plastic fan off motor and fan attachments to radiator shroud. :fiery:Subsequent analysis shows the fan to be the only failing...

So, I'm getting lazy. I'm wanting a weather station that does the following: wireless rainfall wind velocity temperature alerts for very high wind for safety and low wind for herbacide spraying nice large display, maybe backlit nice-to-have atomic clock PC connectivity .any recommendations...

Yep. That is what I said, Linux Rifle/Scope. It is a rifle with a Linux powered scope. The scope is not just an optical scope. It has all sorts of sensors to feed its brain, including target tracking, ranging, wind speed, humidity, and video recording are just a few. It will have to bring down a...

I have an interest in getting a light to augment my scope for night hunting of hogs or coyotes. Hogs hunted over bait. Coyotes called up. I've done lots of night hunting with regular spotlights, etc. some years ago. I'm now reading about green lights, rifle mounted, which spook animals less and...

I was disking around a new tank for native grass seed planting. I misjudged the turn radius slightly and the slope slightly and got slightly tipsy. Luckily, I was keeping my FEL just inches off the ground and the lower edge of the FEL hit the ground, keeping me from flipping. I waited for my son...

You're too kind...it was my little Kubota 5030 that did all the work! Here are a couple of photos. One of the more successful pulls I had The whole rig weights on 3ph dig area, rig in distance in front of existing dirt tank (been in a drought) spoil area above spillway water line

Been doing lots of work on slopes lately...digging out a dirt stock tank. Decided that everybody says to widen front end stance just make sure tires/rims are set so they dish "out, not in." Might be a good idea to do it now. Feeling that I would benefit from a improvement in stance, thus safety...

I did a search but found no prior posts re Kubota fuel gauges. My L5030 fuel gauge has been reliable until this morning. Just a couple of days ago I ran it down to one bar and the red "fuel" light came on...drove back to house to fill up no problem. But, this morning I was thinking...sure...

Massey, you will want to use this kind of fence strainer on both barb and smooth wires. Type of low impedance fence charger you need also pictured. I get these from Tractor Supply but they are available elsewhere.

I needed some AC parts for my Kubota L5030, looked around on the net, found tractorjoe.com, checked their prices versus local dealer. Price difference was just too great to go with Kubota local dealer, which I had planned to drive to if the difference was acceptable...but parts were not in...

The other day I decided to wear a pair of pants I don't like for a day of rough dirt work. No hip pockets and front pockets too shallow to conceal my pistol. So, no wallet or pistol for first time on ranch or off, since I got my CCL over 2 years ago. A friend and I were digging post holes on my...

I admit it... am embarrassed by this question, I should be able to figure this out myself but am stumped. This is a friend's equipment, very well maintained, in fact, by dealer. She's owned equipment 5+ years, all she does with it is mow grass, she knows the equipment and how to mow, she never...

Having used my 1140 for a while now, I find that I often have two vehicles out in the pasture and only one driver. The RTV and the tractor/pickup/etc. The solution would be to put a tow bar on the front of the RTV and simply put it in 2wd neutral and tow it over the ranch roads to the next...

I'm looking for ideas to try a fix. I used the tractor for a couple of hours with a drag disk turning over the ground with no problems. All was working dandy until symptoms developed suddenly during this operation. Disk has been removed, symptoms remain. symptoms: Grand L5030 with nearly...

I'm seriously bit, planning on getting a Kubota RTV 1140cpx...it's the one which can be converted between two bench seats for 4 people and one seat with a longer dump bed. I've looked at the newer version and see the following improvements/changes, all of which seem to be a move in the right...

Well, I claim the prize for best value for pounds lifted for $$ spent versus pounds of implement to facilitate lifting. $$ = 0.0, I scavenged some used axles/hubs from scrap laying around implement weight = less than 20 lbs for the axles... maybe a little more if you count the non dedicated...

Been there, doing that...I have a source of free concrete culverts...defects in manufacturing... Pick one of these suckers up, go to where you want a corner, plunk it down and there it sits. No drilling holes, no bracing posts. It doesn't rot. It doesn't pull out of the ground. Wrap your wire...

I have diesel tanks for both on and off road diesel with a Goldenrod water block fuel filter with clear bowl installed on each one. These are large metal tanks and condensation creates water in them which successfully gets caught by the filter. However, I have had problems with the filter...

This amazing video shows a 4 person family living off of plants and animals grown in their yard, in town. Sorry, no tractors. Just subsistance farming the old fashioned way, they make it happen!:D

Hmm.... when will you learn it's not the size of the tool but how you work it that counts:thumbsup: 50/215 = .23 hp/ac Here's a photo of me carrying an absolutely immobile post hole and fully braced corner which won't rot or rust, when I set it down .

Well, I sought to lift a concrete drain culvert...no go. Then, I read about getting the pressure relief valve adjusted...dealer discovered the valve was set low and raised pressure to just a tad over spec. Made the difference between can and can't. Now I can lift it about 1 foot before relief...

I'm putting steel casters on a tool chest....discovered some from Northern Tool...1000 lb, 4 inch, $12.99 plus shipping. 4in. Swivel 1000-Lb. Capacity Steel Caster | Heavy Duty Casters | Northern Tool + Equipment photo does not show it, but there are two grease zerks, one for swivel, one for...

This is an amazing video, an excavator climbs a tower ...I understand what I see, but not a word of what I hear. YouTube - Liebherr

Bought a 3ph backhoe off Craig's List, AC3 is the decal on it...absolutely no other markings.:confused: Fits a 50ish HP tractor. Swing hydraulic cylinder is busted...cracked gland. No sign of manufacturer or other markings on this cylinder or any other.:confused: Took cylinder to local...

details of joining high tensile wire are here How 2 Archives A knot that I use all the time, with great success, is the figure 8 knot. I have never had a knot beak on me.

Relative is gravely ill, has large amount of tools in his workshop, has asked me to dispose of them so his wife does not have to do so. Is there an simple way to keep track of several hundred items, label each, post them on CL, keep track when they are sold, update CL posting every couple of...

F350, 97, 7.3 diesel crew cab dually has twice now given me power steering problems. About 8 months apart. Both times it began when I had my steering wheel cut all the way over to the stop to make a tight turn to the left. Am not sure same would occur if turn was to the right. haven't tried...

I'm worrying over which kind of flatbed to get. It will be a gooseneck... and it will be 20 feet. I already have a 18 foot tongue pull lowboy and a 6 round bale trailer so, I can haul hay over the road and pull equipment and stuff on the flatbed. Problem is, existing flatbed does not have...

Spent all day yesterday and today cleaning out a dirt tank using FEL and a Soil Conservation rented 5 cu yard dirt buggy. I was on the edge of tractor capability and had to use every feature and trick to get the job done... let me count the ways: 1) Got "stuck" numerous times. When front wheels...

So, I busted the glass door on my Kubota Grand L 5030 cab. It is a flat sheet of tempered glass (it busted into a thousand shards each the size of a pea) except that it has a uniform bend at one point of a few degrees. It's straight up and then bends inward a little toward the center of the cab...

OK, I fess up, I've had my first tractor accident. Here is how it went down. 50 plus days of over 100 degree weather leads to extreme drought and no hay. I'm kinda desperate for hay. I called my neighbor and he said I could pick up some from him...he's a good fellow, 'bout 40, has extreme...

We're moving my mother's resting place from a public cemetery to a private family cemetery about a mile away. All is going well except moving the headstone. It is a granite double headstone for both mom and dad (still going strong at 96), 6 feet long, 14 inches wide at the base, no more than 2...

Well, I hunted and hunted to determine the maximum amount of gasoline (flammable liquid) I could carry in a container in the back of my pickup. Lots of searching on the net was fruitless... at least for me. Phone calls determined the following: Gasoline is a dangerous substance, controlled by...

The first ever problem in 630 hrs has hit. Tractor will not start.. am sure it's electrical safety switch in nature. It is sitting in the middle of my single lane road ... can I tow it (SLOWLY) backwards about 50 yards to get it out of the way until I can figure it out? I can do this with my...

I've got a 90gal diesel transfer tank in the back of the pickup. Power is 12V pump wired unswitched, unfused (yes, I know, that way when I bought the pickup, used) to the battery. It's quit pumping twice on me now, mysterious to me. First time, it just refused to start. Meaning that I removed...

This Fri/Sat/Sun there is a Texas Early Day Tractor and Engine Association show in Temple, Texas. I've been to one... old steam engines, all kinds of old tractors, some running, some not... very interesting... Saturday Oct. 4 2008 is the big day... I'll be there along with several...

I find that it's increasingly hard to back up properly the first time to hook up my: flatbed 18' bumper hitch dump trailer..gooseneck cattle trailer..gooseneck 5 bale hay hauler..gooseneck 1000 gallon water trailer...pin hitch, front steering, 4 wheels cotton trailer... pin hitch..front...

Here you go re t post drivers. Simple, really... get some metal pipe, heavy walled...just larger than T post shaft. Cut to length just short of the spade such that when you have driven post and bottom of driver is at ground level, you have driven it to your desired height. CRITICAL that pipe...

Well... bet that title got your attention. I just thought I'd give my TBN community my decision process since there were so many of your posts gave information to me that assisted me in my decision. This is my pickup purchase path. I have a gas F35O that is 20 years old, manual transmission...

I'm needing to butcher a calf or two and maybe a deer or two annually... need a way to cut stuff up after it is quartered. Is a meat band saw the right tool? If so, how much different is a MEAT band saw different from a WOOD band saw? I've looked at specs and meat saw blades seem to have 1 to 4...

Chain hooks visible on top of bucket. three T post driver/sheaths of different lengths for different length T posts.

Ok... well, I learned something, thought I'd pass it on. Tractor was running purrrrfectly dandy but I knew the low fuel light was on. It was also leaking slowly at the fuel filter... bad O ring gasket.:( Making a mess and costing $$. I replaced the gasket... pennies from the Kubota dealer...

see my attached photos... added an extension with ball at each end.

You might have chain hooks added to your bucket. I kinda went overboard with mine. A grab hook and slip hook on each side, one grab hook in the center. They are used far more frequently that I ever thought they would be. I used this rig to ride in while a buddy drove slowly over the pasture...

I've got a Grand L5030HSTC and when you replace the fuel filter it does NOT come with a replacement o-ring for the glass bowl. After 500 plus hours, my o-ring has had it and leaks. Today I looked unsuccessfully for a replacement at the following local locations: O'Riley auto parts Fox Auto...

I've got that exact toothbar... fits into my HD Kubota FEL bucket wonderfully well... about .5 inch short of a press fit... fixed by a few washers. Heaviest toothbar, best price I could find. Superb choice.:)

Got it... yep, you didn't claim it was your setup...just that it is similar. My incorrect assumption. Yes, the rear hay fork I have remains useful for 4 things... doubles the number of bales I can carry at once as a base for a carry-all when it isn't hay season. extra weight always attached...

Pat, well.... I have learned to watch the front wheels and NOT get them off the ground... if it stops pressing in, then I give it a couple of taps to see if it will continue in with impluse shock... if it's a small rock, then it gets smushed or pushed aside and downward motion continues. Yes...

What comes up must go down... so, here is a photo of my three T post drivers. A pipe with closed end, length selected to match desired driven depth, lower FEL on it and press down. The sheath stops a bend very quickly and transmitts force to the point. If it's tough going, you can pound a...

Raykos, I'll do my best: top link: my description is: 1. Hydraulic top link. I read much and worried a lot about the need for a proper control valve. However, since I already had an extra cylinder and two ball connectors, I welded up the connectors as 4 inch each cylinder extensions which...

I'll go first. I had a college teacher once that told me that "learning implies a change in behaviour." Thus, learning something from TBN means you have DONE something different because of TBN. After a couple of years of reading, here are the things I learned about at TBN and use/do. Let up...

Well, I put a pipe sheath, closed on one end, over the posts... keeps bent posts to minimum.... and, for me, rock can be maybe 1 to 4 inches down... so hard drives DO happen.

Good idea... I needed to carry chains as well... I used PVC pipe and stuck it into all available orfices of sufficient size.. and bolted some on the rear.. see photos.

MikePA's description of using FEL to drive T posts is perfect. That's the way I do it, and precautions I take. All I can add is that I made a T post cover/sheath of proper length such that when post is driven sufficiently the cover is at ground level. Different length t posts require different...

dmccarty, the following tehnique is recommended: high tensile wire for everything, either barb or smooth high voltage, low impedence fence charger on at least one smooth wire. Smooth wire is made hot. Use a 100 mile charger only... the smaller ones don't work well. 5 strands minimum, 3 barb...

This fellow really beats us all in collecting tractors!!! His collection, which is housed in 80,000 square feet of old barns and ramshackle buildings on his property, includes an 1896 single horse power machine, a horse-drawn hearse and hordes of old maple taps.

Why, John_Bud, you know what I did as a 6th generation Texan, concerned about the environment and comitted to the preservation of the land and its productivity and maintence so that I and my heirs may enjoy its fruits!:D I'll try to post the images here.... they only show part of the...

Here's what I did... There are 5 chain hooks. One in the middle (orange) and one on each side (silver) that are catch hooks. There are also two slip hooks (silver), one on each side. I positioned them back away from the loader edge so I can place items "flat" on the loader without hook...

OK... photos are taken, looking into the hydraulic bin in the front of the trailer, in order of increasing detail. pump and connected motor and tank pump connections two hydraulic connections that go back to the big lift cylinder... they are the brassy looking fittings connecting into the...

Dump trailer hydraulics overflow and are slow.. .I wonder why?:confused: OK.. more info...The facts are: It's a 20 foot gooseneck PJ dump, I purchased it used, it's about 2 years old, was used to do Katrina cleanup. Cylinder is double acting... there is a hose that goes to each end of the...

Here are photos of my subsoiler... heavy about 4" solid bar on 3ph, sweep plows rotated 180 degrees so I can mount weights on them, sweep removed from the single shank that engages the ground and replaced with a chisel point. chain attached to metal cap that is pulled underground by the chisel...

I used my 3PH hay fork, put a carryall on it, welded a gooseneck ball to the hay fork, put a grate floor on the carryall (makes it easy to chain/tie stuff down), added weights, toolbox, other heavy stuff. This rear rig goes with me everywhere except when I'm actually hauling hay on it. The...

Now, Y'ALL, here's a challenge for the TBN community. I'm looking for a used dump trailer, 16' to 20' length. Craig's list has this listing where there are TWO 20 TON TANDEM AXLE 26 CU YD HYDRAULIC DUMP TRAILERS. Sounds like just what I need. Only problem is... no phone number and no email...

OK... it cost me years to learn and untold $$ ... and all my experience is now brought to you via the joy of TBN.... High tensile wire is superb... but you MUST learn how to handle it... there are special knots (trust me) that you need to learn about.. for splicing wire and tying off at a post...

Well, I had been thinking about a dump truck... but have decided that I really don't need another engine, etc. to try to keep running and, it's a single use item. So, am trying to decide between a 16' and a 20' hydraulic dump trailer. I have an almost unlimited supply of fill dirt and material...

OK... so, on Craig's list is a dump truck with wood sides $2000. I have access to a nearly unlimited, free, amount of dirt and gravel within .5 miles of my place. I just have to drive my tractor/FEL to it, load up and drive back to my place along little used county road. I need quite a bit of...

Well, guys, It's my fencing rig: Kubota 5030 engine with FEL, hay fork on 3PH with carryall platform on it and trailer hitch, 18 foot flatbed hooked to the carryall has a trailer hitch on its rear to which a 20 foot cotton trailer is hitched. FEL drives and pulls posts tool box and counter...

I have a 3ph hay fork. Metal carry all can be attached/detached by sliding on the forks. Forks themselves have a ball attached for a gooseneck trailer and extra weights. I have a regular ball hitch on the rear of the carry all and put a tool box on it strapped down with bungee cords. It is...

I have a neighbor who purchased an old dump truck, the kind with a single rear axle, dual wheels. It's the small dump bed, maybe 8 feet long. He has removed the dump bed so he can use the truck itself for other things. This isn't the truck/bed, but lets you know the size of the equipment I'm...

Harbor Freight has a metal detector on sale for $20. I'm wondering if this is worth having in case somebody loses a ring in the hay, or if I were to drop a tractor pin into tall grass... or? Sometimes, I use old lumber and this might locate hidden nails and save a saw blade? I'm not planning...

I've got a Miller 172 MIG welder, 220 volt. I have a bunch of stainless steel legs from office tables that I want to weld up for various things. So far, I think I understand that this rig will do the trick and I plan to use the following.... what am I missing? ER308L Wire, .35mm, flux core...

Finally got to where I can upload photos... all shot in my new shop with the circuit breaker reset... I used my phone camera, am impressed with the way they came out... bare concrete, hard for a snake to hide:D Yellow thing is ruler... snake is next to it. I guess that I'm kinda like your...

A friend, knowing I'm interested in saving money and have a diesel tractor, sent me this URL regarding how to make diesel for $.46/gallon. I know it's too good to be true.... and they say it's not biodiesel and no conversion is needed to run this stuff...just their magic addititive...

Tonight I cleaned the filter in my shop vac... got sawdust everywhre, including blown all over me and on my glasses, which does nothing for visibility. Then, after dark, I turned on too many tools/lights and popped the circuit breaker in the house that is feeding the work shop until I complete...

Here's the lights. Photo taken at night, thus no light thru skylights, using mobile phone camera. Photos taken from one end of 40X60 shop, so you see 1 bay and a half. Perimenter of shop has commercial metal rack shelving. I try to have everything on wheels so I can rearrange stuff. A...

Here are mine.....bought from auto supply store, installed myself. They are spotlights... should have gotten trapizodal flood lights...live and learn.

I already had a couple of cylinders laying around unemployed, so created adapters for each end to make one the right length, hooked up hydraulics for one and tried it out. Works fine for me, no drift down after 2 years of occasional use. Really dandy implement. No doubt the CCM works...

My multipurpose rear attachment tool is a hay fork with welded support for gooseneck trailer ball, weights permanently attached to the hay fork, a carryall platform on the hay fork to which I can add additonal weights. In my case, I obtained some old elevator weights, 80 to 100 lbs each, at a...

Alternatively, the ability to manipulate the hydraulics from the rear while mounting equipment via the hydraulic top link is wonderful!

Well, for cost benefit, I love my chain holder, made from plastic pipe and stuffed into some support tubing.

I have been gifted with an 24v electric articulating Scissors lift, Condor Chick model 2532. Currently non operational. I'm wondering if anyone out there would have a operator's manual or repair manual for it. I've just started looking into what will need repairing to get it working so I can...

I'm opening this net thread to let y'all know what I decided to do, and why. The other thread http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/projects/90347-shop-light-advice.html got long and I thought I'd pull all key items together here. The problem: Light a 40X60 metal workshop and carport between...

I'm going to electrify my 40X60 metal shop building. I've looked at all the various types if indoor/outdoor lights available... mercury vapor, metal halide, high pressure sodium, flourescent... etc. Daytime is plenty bright.... have skylights ... there are three 20 ft bays and one skylight on...

I found this site that gives details regarding towing laws in all states... intersting. Rules of the Road and Towing Laws

Have any of you built a scissors platform lift? Any comments on design parameters or things to avoid? I've got a bunch of extra heavy duty metal rails for warehouse racks, 9 feet long. I have the entire 40X60 foot barn with warehouse racks around the perimeter and shelves to 10 feet up. I also...

I've just gotten a Miller 175 MIG welder. Where is the best place to get supplies such as tips, liners, welding wire, gas, etc. Options in my area include: TSC Home Depot Harbor Freight somewhere on the internet.. I buy lots on the internet... where to go? Alamo Welding Supply in Austin...

I'm building a 40X60 metal building for all the usual reasons. It will have a passive ridge vent running the entire length of the roof peak and efoil bubble insulation/radiant barrier on all walls and roof. Concrete floor, 16X14 rollup door on one end, 14X14 rollup door on the other end, 4X7...

Many places I can use my FEL to mash t-posts in. When an occasional rock is hit, I put a meta lpipe sheath over the post to be driven (keeps it from bending too much) and drop the FEL on it a few times to see if the impulse will pound the t-post in. 50% of the time this works sufficiently well...

I spent a while reading the freakin' manual... always dangerous... discovered in the electrical section that there is a little 8bit CPU, ram, and digital communications running all around in the 5030 (other models too). You can even program the booger in case you change tire sizes, etc. Lots...

I'm working on computing total weight and front/rear weight dirtribution for my 5030 HSTC. The Kubota manual says it weighs 4090lbs and the plate under the seat says the reference weight is 4638 lbs. I haven't taken it to a scale. What is "reference weight" and why is it different from what the...