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I have a friend who bought a new dodge, he drove to Ky. for a work convention, when he got there the truck quit running. Local Dodge dealer towed it in and three days later he had a rental car to get home. Turns out a computer failure, and there wasn't a puter available before he left Ky...

I picked up a 5 gallon pail today. 39.99. Today’s the last day of the $10 off , for anyone interested No thanks, I already have enough junk oil to mop on the decks of my trailers. lol SR

I think that coupler is just so embarrassed about being so filthy, it's trying to clean itself! OMG, clean those things out, and get some "plugs" to put in them, when you aren't using them! SR

Anyplace that adds ANY fee's to my meal, it's the last time I EVER go to THAT place, no need to, there's plenty of other places to go eat.. SR

If you look close Mr. Sawyer Rob, there's a big 'ol bass under that overhang just to the right of the ducks... The pond IS stocked, but not with bass. lol SR

Well, I FINALLY got all the grass cut at the tree farm job, here's a couple more picts., Here's one of the ponds, I left one tractor/cutter there as there will be maintenance cutting to do there. SR

It is as loud as my wolverine with the seemingly unbreakable (in my experience with Yamahas) ultramatic belt driven drive line though Yeaa, Yamaha easily has the best belt drive, they have that figured out and it works great. SR

I won't use it, cheap or not. I dug DEEP into THEIR specs, and the fine print said, "not for heavy duty hydraulic use". What does THAT mean? When am I using my hydraulics "heavy duty"? I'll just pay a bit more and use better oil, so I don't have to worry/think about that line! SR

We were back on the job yesterday, here's the two tractors, both have 3 cyl diesels in them, SO, when you park them inline, does that mean they are an inline six?? :) SR

Where do you guys come up with this BS?? I think the same piles must just keep on getting repeated instead of doing your own homework. 1. NONE of my "modern" tractors use DEF or need regen or any other crapola, not even the new one I bought a few months ago, so YES I can ajust my speed using...

Somehow, I was born with the ability to know when I NEEDED the rear axle "locked", so I'm happy to report that my Kubota S&S has a lever to lock the axle "as needed". I just don't need/want the complexity of auto this, and auto that, for such simple jobs. It's very easy to use, just like...

They do, do a pretty good job. Ones a Cadet 72 and the other is a Brush Bull, both Woods brand and both 6' cutters. SR

This was my view all day today, The pay is good, but it gets old pretty fast! lol SR

Yeaaa, you never know when you are going to want to pull a load of logs home! SR

It was a really nice day here today, and I put my nephew to work, we spend the day at the treefarm, We cut lots and lots of grass with some of it as high as the hood on the tractor. SR

The only downside I've seen to my 72" tiller is that it pulverizes the soil to the point that after a decent rain, those tiny particles coalesce into a solid crust. The plants don't grow well in that. Even a couple days after breaking it up, you can see a visible difference between areas that I...

All depends on how yours comes apart, some are welded and some aren't. SR

Do you need the complete shaft? If the ends are intact you can buy just the shaft material (inner and outer), assemble into the ends, and cut to length. It's a lot less expensive than a complete drive shaft. I did that when my mower shaft came loose from the tractor and got a few dents in it...

Here's the main reasons I didn't buy a hystat last time around. 1. My gear drive cost me a LOT less than the same model with the whiner tranny. 2. I can't stand listening to the whine of those whiner trannys! 3. it cost a LOT less for maintenance on a gear drive, a LOT less! 4. gear...

Interesting, I would have expected the gear unit do do much better. Lou, there are so many unknown variables in his test, it would be easy to sway it either way for the win. I can get things done faster than my neighbor, even though his tractor is bigger with more pto HP, even doing the...

Oh, it's happened all right, and IF you really knew anything about the "B's" you'd know it happened too. I supose you don't believe they had dowl pin issues either... Who are you that I have to prove anything to, don't be lazy, educate YOUR SELF, don't expect everyone to do your homework...

Show me all the windowed cummins blocks. Are you saying it didn't happen? SR

Let a proper truck engine company like Cummins build it for you. I guess you already forgot about all the bad blocks Cummins had, that rods went out the side of. My buddy had one of them, it was a nightmare for him. SR

What did you buy this week? I saw this tractor and the townie that had it had no idea what he had, so he was way low on his price, So, I handed him the cash and brought it home! SLH 35hp air cooled diesel, FARM tractor, built to do farm work, made out of cast iron with a steel hood...

To be honest I'm tired of gardening! After growing up on a farm with a HUGE garden and having gardens ever since, they have just become pretty much all work! SO, I just plant a little for my wife and me and call it good enough. So here's a row with my fav potatoes, Yukon Gold's, and my two...

Harvested potatoes today. This was from 2/3 of a 3x8 bed. If only we had a root cellar... Dry can them, they taste good and last a long time! SR

A canopy would get tore off in the first hundred yards, it's a tree farm! That's why I start with that tractor, no roll bar ect... SR

This was my view today, It pays good but it sure wears you out by the end of the day! SR

My skidsteer would never have been able to pull this load through a deep mud hole coming out of the woods like I have to do at times, OR through deep sand like I had to do today, no problem at all with my tractor though. SR

Except that an "inverter" generator doesn't run at 3600 rpm's all the time. SR

Nice log. Is it a sugar maple, or maybe something we don't have here? It's a Sycamore, it's going to make some great beams that are going in a small cabin. SR

I sorted/moved some logs today, this one was 13' by 35", and it was about all my loader wanted! It's going to be 10" x 10" beams; I should be able to get several out of that big one and a few more out of the other logs I staged today. SR

Thus I am starting to use tracked tractors. Dang, you are running that machine with the tracks VERY tight. That's really hard on the undercarriage and robs power. SR

Almost all have a locked rear, besides maybe some Polaris models I think it has a selector for turf mode unlocks the rear dif? Both my Kubota 500 and 520 have open diff's with a selector to lock it. SR

I bought a skid steer, it didn't take long to see a tractor is a much better general-purpose machine, the skid steer is too specialized for me I sent it back! The skid steer is useless in deeper mud, especially if you have logs to skid out. How do you go a couple miles down the road with a...

Both of mine were diesel. I used it until it became a common problem and then let the dealer figure it out, it was under warr, so no need for me to fidde with it. SR

I had a 721 that acted up like that, it turned out to be a curcit board in the right console, I had bought it used from a dealer, but they replaced that board under warr. and it never gave another problem. My 725 has been flawless since new and it's several years old now. I REALLY like my...

Another really nice day out today, and one of today's jobs was to mill another older Cherry log, so I loaded one on the mill with my tractor. Once I opened it up, it was pretty nice inside, Here's the slab wood that came off it, I turned it all into firewood, I ended up with a pretty nice...

My seat time yesterday, was loading logs onto my BSM and hauling slab wood away from it. I have a few old logs that should have been milled long time ago, so I loaded one of them on the BSM, This one is a pretty nice cherry, and it did turn out some decent lumber even with the split ends...

One factor to consider is the noise. The PTO generators I've looked at want you running at rated PTO speed which isn't going to hurt the tractor but will be loud up next to the house. My tractor running my PTO generator next to the house is quiet enough that any noise in the house drowns it...

My seat time was to put the radiator back in my tractor, I had put a stick in it last time I use it, so I had to get it fixed, but all is well now. Next will be to change the oil in it! SR

Look at the new "Scout Motors". Scout was a product name that was part of International Harvester. Obviously, when IH was bought out in the early 80's, the Scout name was part of the purchase. It got stuck in a back shelve for decades. The name got sold off recently. Now, there is a Scout Motors...

It was a pretty nice day here today to get some things around here done, and I made a little money today too, It's always nice to make a few easy bucks! SR

Plenty of E0 stations here, but the one I buy from, ALL of their hi-test fuel is E0 and have it's own hose. SR

Load that baby up, and it's going to be thirsty on propane. SR

Ive owned both, love the HST way more than the old stick. What noise. You know, all the whining noise you USED TO HEAR before it made you go deaf. ha ha ha SR

I wear ear plugs religously... because I didn't in my younger days and my hearing leaves a lot to be desired. Best way I found to get rid of that obnoxious whining noise, was to NOT buy the "whiner" tranny in the first place! lol SR

A zip tie is your friend! SR

Hadn't thought about the effects a tiller would have to worms. Hmmm. Too much work to shovel 18 125' rows but I like the way you are thinking. That's called "operator error", have you seen how the folks on this site tell people to till their gardens? They tell them to go sloooooow and yes...

Another nice day here, mostly sunny and 75*, just right for me these days. Anyway, today was Cana planting day, so I put the "middle buster" on my tractor and made two pass' the length of the back garden. {The second trench will be used for the veggies I'll be planting later.} With the...

Nope, I don't drink or use drugs and never have, I guess if you don't know what you are going, then yes, you shouldn't do it! SR

That implies that it wasn't a safe thing to do, it was, and so given the same conditions I had then, yes, I would do it now. Those days I lived where we had a lot of snow, and it was easy to load right off a snowbank. These days I live where we don't get much snow at all. SR

I've been direct seeding my own bulbs for years and years, I dig them every fall and sell 2/3 of them in the spring to a greenhouse and then plant the last third for that's years crop. I've been doing that for a LONG time and always have the same plants come up every year, nothing usual at...

Another sunny nice day here today, I cleaned out a ditch today, and dumped it along side my back garden to widen it out a bit, Then I took my Howard Rotavator and tilled over it, New tractor runs that Howard just as it should! After it dries out a bit more, I'll till it again...

What the heck are weak overriding cams?? SR

I use one of the tines on my pallet forks under the PI vines, and pull them off with the tractor. My dad used to pull PI up with his bare hands and never got PI, he use to pile/burn it. One time my sister got some of the smoke on her and she got PI really bad just from the smoke. My...

MANY years ago, I used 2x4's on their flat and plywood on top of the bed sides of my pickup to have a place to haul sno-mobiles. It worked just fine. SR

Only if I touch it! lol SR

It's going to take a bigger tractor to run that one. SE

Today's project was to take a big oak down. Anymore I don't do those big ones alone, so today my "tree surgeon" buddy showed up and as he owed me a favor, we decided to get R done! First thing was to use a line to pull heavy rope up and hook my winch line to it, to pull all the dead...

NOT true, offset the tiller to cover one tire and go the same direction for each pass with the tiller covering the tire track on that side. SR

How many tines per flange? SR

Depends on what tiller, I have a six foot Howard and there's NO WAY your tractor would run it, at least without overheating and it wouldn't take long either! SR

Your right they should, but MY experience has been they aren't! Especially compact tractors. That's why I buy "farm" tractors do do any heavier work that I need done! Farm tractors take it MUCH better and for much longer. SR

Actually, what people call cable, is REALLY wire rope! Different name for the same thing. SR

Pole barns are popular around here, and the builders "used to" cement around the post, years later they learned that the post shrunk away from the cement and held water against the post, shortening its life. That practice quit around here long time ago. My neighbor soaked his 6x6 poles in...

Diesel leaves an oily film behind, I don't want that on some parts that I wash. I have mineral spirits in mine. SR

I have no problem using diesel that's YEARS old, it's never given me even one second of problems! SR

I put my small Howard Rotovator on the new tractor, as it was time to till in all the hay, grass, leaves and woodstove ashes that were put in this garden since last fall, As I get used to this tractor I like it more and more. SR

I just bought a new Kubota with gear drive, I wouldn't have it any other way! SR

I don't do any heavy lifting of big rounds, I move the logs with my tractor and then cut them to length over a wagon, or a trailer, and then roll the big rounds right onto the splitters beam using a board, It works very well, and I don't have to deal with them on the ground at...

That's exactly right, it's very easy to do and those shavings make the best fire starter! I always keep a tub of them around for just that purpose, SR

They are really no big deal if you have decent equipment. I take all the big stuff I can get; there's HUGE amounts of excellent firewood in those big rounds! SR

I have the older Kubota 500 and the new updated Kubota 520, the 520 is much improved over the 500 with a power boost and it's much nicer to run. Both go about 25 MPH but the 520 gets there much faster and holds its speed much better on hills. SR

I didn't choose it, Timberwolves engineers chose it for their industrial strength splitters and after owning it, I think they made an excellent choice! No low speed means it has speed and strength all the time, and it really kicks butt! SR

SO, like I said above, "it depends on what pump you have". I woulod consider my Timberwolf splitter "modern", and it has a "single stage" pump on it and requires more than 12hp to get full power out of the splitter! BTW, I really like the single stage pump it has on it. SR

Using my old splitter off the remotes I NEVER had even one problem with heat build up, and that's over several years that I ran it with several different tractors. SR

That's aabsolutely not always true, it all depends on what pump is on the splitter. SR

I have a 3 point splitter that runs off the tractors remotes, but the one in the pictures above has it's own pump. The difference between the two is speed! Having it's own pump really speeds the ram up and it's plenty fast even at the aprox 1400 RPM I generally run at. SR

Sunny 60's here today, so it was a good time to split this load of big oak along with some others I had around, So I used my little tractor to bring them to the splitter, Even though most of them were "quartered", they were still quite big, I ended up with about 3/4 of a cord of...

My vote went to the Kubota 520, and I'm very happy with it. It's much improved over the Kubota 500 that I also own. SR

Today my nephew and me, quartered some big rounds, Now to find time to split them. SR

I split quite a bit of wood each year and I bet you I don't add 50 hours a year on my tractor. IF a tractor can't handle even two or three times that EVERY year for decades, you should have bought a different brand of tractor! SR

You better jump on that splitter! I bet it will be a decent deal and easily be worth it to go get it, or even ship it!! SR

I agree, waaay too much work for me too! I split into my half cord boxes, then line them up in the sun and let the splits dry, I just move one to the house with my tractor as needed. SR

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There's a TW3 and TW3HD, you really want the HD model. SR

That's too bad, they are a fantastic splitter! I'd be looking all over for a used one! SR

I broke two crapsman half inch breaker bars getting the nuts loose on my loader tractor, used a Proto half inch to get the job done. I turned them in to Sears and got two more new crapsmans in trade, twisting them off next time I was working on those same nuts. SO, I bought a new Proto 3/4...

I guess if you have never ran a grinder with "creep" trans you really don't know for sure. I have BOTH types of trans, and I much prefer to grind stumps with my above AGCO with creep. I've ground some huge oaks, but I've never found not having the whinner trans to be a "real challenge". SR

My stump grinder works perfectly on my AGCO with "creep" transmission, no clutch slipping or any other problems at all. SR

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Well, my nephew and me, managed to get one of the two big oak logs I have to cut up, blocked up, and I even managed to think up a job for the new tractor, I loaded them on my sno-mobile trailer, to "quarter" later with a chainsaw, and we ended up with a pretty good load of rounds...

If that planer is an earlier model 380 made in Brazil, they are a pretty good planer, if it's a later one made in china, then not so much. SR

IF you buy a cheapo tiller or a light weight tiller then NO, but if you buy a heavy well-built tiller, then YES it will work well. Mine are Howards and they would do a great job. SR

Yeaaa, and you don't even have real money!! lol SR

A new puter, last one was more than 15 years old. SR

A chain drive tiller is only less durable IF you buy a cheapo tiller with an undersized chain to begin with! GOOD tillers are expensive. SR

Years ago I bought some expensive HEAVY welding cable, (not some china junk) Anyway, I made up cables to put a couple batteries under a pu, also a set of jumper cables and all I can say is, the outer cover on the cables is now full of cracks and I'm NOT happy with how they have held up. I'd...

Just that much info would get me to walk away from the JD. SR

I have one ALO on a tractor that probably puts out the same at the remotes as the OP's tractor, and 10 seconds isn't far off. My second tractor with an ALO had 15.9 at the remotes, and it has pretty good loader speed. ALO loaders are pretty close to an industrial loader, and if you are...

What post number did the OP say it took 30 seconds for the loader arms to raise? I can't find it. SR

Welcome to the world of everything being Intergrated these days! One thing goes bad, and you have to buy a whole big part to fix it. SR

I have two of those loaders with THAT valve, both of them will do two functions at once! The reason his loader is running slow is because he has it on a tractor that doesn't have a lot of hydraulic flow. SR

If you are going to keep the trailer, put good tires on it! I WILL NOT buy china tires for anything I'm going to keep! SR

This is what he said, and I live in the US. In fact, I can't find anyone in the US who owns a Fendt.

It gets cold here and I see those Fendts working all winter long, so I'm betting they start just fine. Only complaint I hear about Fendt is how much they cost. SR

HUH?, there's three dairy farms just around me that run Fendts on their farms! SR

Kubota doesn't have any FARM tractors with a hystat tranny. SR

The one that will lift it, of course! :) SR

I KNOW I couldn't, but I'm pretty sure my tractor can! lol SR

Keep in mind, you may have to take a thin cut off the cant to get it flat again, once the cant sits a while. SR

It's a 2401, about 21 engine hp, it's a replacement for an older model that I bought new in the mid 80's. It has some nice upgrades from my old model, without all the disadvantages of some of the wizz-bang crap everyone is putting on small tractors today. SR

It was such a nice day today, I took the new tractor out and plowed the few inches of snow that fell since the last time I plowed, SR

I would make sure both gasket surfaces are smooth, (flat file off any burrs) then put on a new gasket WITH a thin layer of auto grade silicone on both medal surfaces and torque the bolts. Then let the tiller set overnight before you use it. SR

Same here... AND the tractors have long oil change intervals too, even my little one has a 200-hour oil change schedule, and I wouldn't have any problem at all stretching that a little with synthetic oil. SR

It's a B6200 that I bought new, it has about 700 hours on the clock SR.

I had to go down a long hill with this load, I kept it around 10 mph by choosing a lower gear and then using the brakes on and off to keep it slowed down and under control. SR

The small engine models were broken up with Kubota buying a couple, Yamaha bought a couple, and the rest went to a company in china. Kubota made some improvements on theirs and Yamaha probably did too, the rest, I have no idea.

I already have a Kubota close to that size and it needs a bit of work that I don't want to spend the money on. The diesel and pto driveline are still good, so it will probably stay on the pto generator. The new one will be used to plow a little snow, till the gardens and do small jobs like...

I plowed a little snow today with my new tinkertoy tractor, It did a pretty good job. SR

The Briggs Vanguard line of small gas engines, are very good engines. SR

The big Kubotas are just re-badged Versatiles. SR

I've seen used ones over here, but never a 200. SR

Now you know why I use the terms, "tinkertoy" tractor and "farm tractor", farm tractors are just built MUCH stronger even with the same HP as the tinkertoy tractor. BTW, we have a good Zetor dealer here, so like with every brand, parts ect. all depend on where you live. SR

Last JX95 I saw do that, had a cab and the cab was pinching the fuel line. I'm betting it's fuel related either way... SR

Of the ones listed, I'd buy the Zetor for sure. SR

Many of them have been made in china for a while now. SR

Pull off a tractor? Are you asking if you can pull start a "modern" tractor? Depends on which tractor, some you can some you can't. SR

Fortunately, when I got started, I had a guy like me, criticize my work and I listened to him to shorten my learning curve. Now, this many years later, I'm sure glad that I did. You could learn from that too. SR

Those prices don't seem like a good deal to me, especially since in my 40+ years of woodworking I've never got one stick of lumber kiln dried, and I owned a custom furniture shop for many of those years. Then there's the fact that different species and especially different thickness' of...

Not at the remotes they don't... I have a pto splitter, my big tractor has 16 gal at the remotes and it's still a bit too slow. SR

That works but be prepared for a really slooow splitter unless you are willing to spend a fair amount of money to speed it up. SR

Eggs, 2 bucks a dozen. SR

You see them here, they are a pain in the but to use! Heavy stiff hydraulic hoses to pull around. SR

I watch my Direct TV anyplace there's internet. SR

The white oak is going to be MUCH tougher! PT lumber isn't nearly as strong and you still have to oil it. SR

This is how I deal with those totes of firewood I love to hate. lol Because the bottoms are fairly weak, and I HATE having to get off my tractor and narrow up the forks "just to move one", I put a length of tree across the bottom of them in two places, like this, and you can get a lot...

I want to add, this is "especially" true with compact tractors! SR

Used, yes, rental tractor NO. SR

Just remember, the FIRST half is always the BEST half!! Personally, I'd not buy the second half... SR

WEEEEEEW, and I was just about to go out and drill big holes in the rear tires on my loader tractor, just to take the weight off the front axle!! SR

You are gonna have to "splain" that one to me! SR

I'm glad it was only "suggested", because this white oak had just over 100 rings, It REALLY depends on the climate and where it grows. A lot of this one is going into a building, and it made a lot of firewood too, SR

33" on the big end, it's gonna be fun on the mill! SR

I brought these home today, They even loaded them for me, SR

TRUE, but who buys a tractor "just to load logs"? SR

A new tinkertoy tractor... SR

WHAT? There's pot heads on TBN? Well, that "splains" a lot about some of the post I read here on TBN! SR

That's called wishful thinking.. I'll bet you, Kubota figures the steel ect.. is good enough, IF you aren't overloading the front end! You don't have to read long on this forum to find people trying to make a "farm tractor" out of a tinkertoy tractor. SR

I have both, the 500 and the 520, the 520 has some good improvements including more power. SR

Built or assembled?? There's a big difference in a factory or foundries casting/machining most of the parts and then assembling them into a tractor, instead of getting parts from factories in china, india ect. and assembling a tractor out of them. SR

I quarter saw from time to time, it is more work, especially if you do it RIGHT. A lot of diagrams showing Q sawing isn't true Q sawing though, it's mostly "rift" sawing. SR

They are not uncommon here in the US either, at least not here in the farming community. I have (5) Deutz and SLH air cooled diesels myself, and I've had others. I really like the SLH made air cooled diesels... SR

I'd take that sensor out and put it in a small container of clean antifreeze and plug the hole it came out of. lol SR

What are you saying? I said under $50 for an oil change/grease and check over. And then under $100.00 for trans oil/filter change. That would be a "major service", wouldn't it? I don't buy tractors that cost an arm and a leg "just to own", and then not use them because the service cost too...

Agreed, and that's why I said. YIKES!! Personally, I wouldn't have bought a tractor that cost THAT much, just to use it! SR

As per my manual, every thousand hours, it takes 10 gallons of trans/hydraulic oil and a filter. SO, less than another hundred bucks... SR

over $1K for the 400 hr. tractor maintenance. YIKES!! Personally, I wouldn't have bought a tractor that cost THAT much, just to use it! Mine cost under $50 bucks every 200 hours, it very easy to change the oil and do a quick check over, the tractor! SR

I have Direct TV, it cost me 120 a month and it works anyplace there's internet and up to 5 can be on at a time. I'm 800 miles away from my home right now, streaming the shows I like on Direct TV right now, no problem at all. SR

I'm "streaming" Direct TV right now as I write this, it works out great for me. SR

IF you have 15 or 20 people wanting slabwood for firewood, then NO chainsawing on site! You haul the slabwood away and cut it someplace else! That will take care of a lot of potential chainsaw problems. SR

I'm glad you are happy with your deer rotary cutter, but I still have a bad taste in my mouth from all those MX6's that broke bottom shafts over and over. As for your dodge, I have one of those too, and it's been a POS with electrical problems, I'll never buy another one of those either...

This year yet, you have to add Yamaha and Artic Cat, but 2025 is the last year for those two. SR

Have I ever mentioned how much I LOVE my 4-way wedge, OK, I got that out of my system for a while! lol SR

LOTS of deere, Kubota and CIH orchard tractors sold around where I live, so there's plenty of choices if you go to a dealer and see what's available from them. SR

Are those deere loaders, that are made in china? I looked at some deere loaders and they were made in china. SR

That's how mine work too, I have ALO loaders... SR

Time to put some more meat in the freezer, so my "seat time" was moving and hanging up a couple pigs to be butchered, SR

You mean brush like this? Or like this? I move/pile a lot of both and even smaller stuff with my pallet forks/grapple and it works perfectly for those jobs. I really like the longer reach the forks have, you can get a lot of brush on them. SR

And if you add a matching grapple to the pallet forks, you have a tool that does both jobs without having two tools. That's what I did many years ago and I'm NOT going back! SR

What kind of vintage car do you wish you had? NONE thank God!! I wouldn't trade what I have now even for anything in the past, IF I had to keep and drive it!! SR

I was surprised to read that, as that is something I do all the time with my pallet forks and its no big deal to do at all. I bet I've moved brush and logs a thousand times with my pallet forks, I just move the forks as far apart as they will go and drive under the load. Most sawmills use...

And all of "that" is caused by operator error... SR

Same here Lou, my 15kw just sits and makes good power and the tractor governor adjust itself as needed. SR

My winch is a FX90. SR

First GUESS is, the clutch plate is worn enough so something is going over center when you pull the rope, and sticking. I'd see if adjusting the clutch will stop the over center from happening and taking care of the problem. Remember, this is a guess! SR

Mines is 15KW, and it's not loud at all. SR

I managed to get some rotavating done today, It's one job with a tractor I don't mind doing. SR

I didn't read all the answers, but I think it sucks that they don't have a dipstick! You have to depend on a light, I REALLY don't like that. SR

I'm sure glad I already bought QUALITY built tractors and tools, and I've held onto them! I've always run my life like things could get worse at any time, so IF they do, it won't bother me much. I'm not worried at all. SR

Running gears are very stable, not tippy at all the way they are built, I load the hell out of mine and never have had one try to tip over, It's more about having tight bearings and good rubber on them, than anything else. SR

Don't you mean, you forgot to tell where it is??? SR

Dave, between my three rotary cutters I now have in service, I put several hundred hours in brush hogging, in less than TWO years, and I have no idea how many I've accumulated in the last fifty years? Even with the little one, I hog out whatever is in the way, but you should already know by...

I think you got lucky; I don't think they owed you a new tiller. SR

PTO shafts also come rated for different HP tractors too, bigger HP tractors need higher rated PTO shafts. SR

Those here who are saying you need 20hp to run a 48" rotary cutter must not have ever run one! I have an 48" Woods and a tractor with 12-1/2 hp on the PTO and it runs mine quite good. Yes even in fairly thick grass it mows it right down, just not going really fast. In normal grass/weeds...

I bought a new pu in 2012, it still has the original battery in it and it's working fine. SR

You mean you can't sell it for what YOU want for it! SR

YES SR

When/if the crapola hits the fan, those addicted to electricity will be some of the first to go, and that's not us. If needed, I'm just fine walking out the back door of my home to start my tractor/generator or to check on it. Truth is, the way I'm set up here, I really don't have to run a...

When I get to that point, I have an older small Kubota tractor that's no longer worth much, that I'll just leave hooked up to my pto generator and build an encloser around it. Then I'll call it a cheaper way to have a very good whole house generator, and I already have everything bought plus...

Thing is, when the NG is shut off, that's it, you are done. With diesel you have other options as in trading or scrounging some up. Even used oil, fry oil and other oils can be made to use. Not that I "need" electricity so bad that I would do any of that, as electricity is more of a want...

IF you have to lift the weight of the bucket AND those forks, you won't be lifting much else! SR

I had a Deutz that did the same thing, it ended up being a drifting leaf that would sometimes cover the fuel tank outlet! I ended up pleading with my little niece, talking her into reaching in with her tiny arm and getting it out! lol SR

My nephew and me, put in another day splitting for my customer friend and moving firewood for him, just over 4 cords total. The guy even had some huge oak crotches he said I could have if I wanted them, so we put the Husky 562 to work cutting them down a bit, After moving 13 heaped baskets...

I'm still on the job doing some work for a customer friend, yesterday my nephew and me, split a LOT of wood for him, we also helped him put a bridge over a creek. We had to snake some long heavy I-beams back through the woods and here's how I did it, It was a long day but at least we...

ANOTHER reason I prefer the "Euro" mount over the skid steer mount, SR

Yes, doesn't that have the battery in front of the radiator? Don't get a batt that sits back to far and blocks the air to the radiator. SR

The last pict. has been on the net for ages and is a known fake. SR