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Here is how I attached mine. There are 2 bolts holding the cover plate onto the cross bar, so I got 2 longer ones. I used bulkhead fittings to mount the couplers to the plate. 1/4" steel, IIRC. Very similar to how Kubota did their factory 3rd function on these models.

Saw this today on the freeway while driving with a co-worker. I asked him to take some photos as I was driving. More WTF than wrong...

No plasma, these are made from rods bent on a slip roller. Frame is 1.5" sq angle (1/8"). Here is a close-up of one before I brought it in for electropolishing, which cleans up all the discoloration from the welds, passivates the surface and makes everything shiny!

Well, the tile on my deck, having been through I think 3 Wisconsin winters now would disagree with you. I did my best to pitch the decks so water would not pool, used a very sturdy substrate of 2 layers of 3/4" treated ply and 3/8" backerboard, plus waterproofing. Of course the tile needs to...

Re: Bought a 渡ew Farmi winch I have the exact same winch, but my price beat yours - free! :D But I still think you got a great deal. They are very handy! I got it from a friend that bought it back in the 70's for his firewood business when he was in high school and college. Someone had...

Re: Big Barn痴 Retirement Farm Shop How about this? Make your self a small inverted U shaped stand from some plywood scraps with a hole in the middle that drops over the shaft of the nibbler. staple some sheet rubber over the opening (slitted) if you want to seal out chips. Make it the right...

Unroll the biggest dang roll of wire/cable I have ever dealt with. I think it was 450 MCM alum x2 plus a slightly smaller 3rd for the neutral:

Re: Big Barn痴 Retirement Farm Shop Been following the thread but haven't posted until now - great fun to read! I have nearly the same metal BS, but mine has a gear head which is nice for speed changes and I expect will hold up forever. Cuts very square. I had maneuverability issues with...

Just saw yesterday in the paper that Youngblood lumber is closing down. I was really shocked and saddened by this as it is like losing a family member. This was the premier hardwood lumber yard in the entire Metro area for anything and everything, including tons of sheet goods. And they gave...

Like the title says...I'm specifically looking for a portable air compressor to drive finish nailers, air up tires, maybe an occasional framing nailer for minor stuff. Right now i have the very common Porter Cable pancake compressor that I have been using for probably 20 yrs now. I hate it...

Thought I would throw this out there for giggles. Made this last summer by modifying a table I bought off a guy for $20. He was a one-man injection mold shop. Pretty rare in this day and age, but he decided to hang it up and retire finally as things were getting pretty thin and there wasn't...

I've seen some info on adding the Mid PTO, which my tractor currently does not have. My understanding is that it can be added by removing a cover and adding in the PTO gear without splitting the tractor (apparently you need to split it to do this on the non-cab version). So My question is...

Anyone heard of Jenkins attachments out of Minnesota? Any idea where they stand in quality and price? Great? Junk? In the middle?? Jenkins Iron & Steel Skid Steer Attachments Thanks, Dave

Didn't get notified about PM...apparently I had a setting turned off, hopefully fixed now. I went back and looked over your photo from post #250, and your system looks pretty straightforward, other than the mixing valve, which I already noted. It looks like an air separator is right above the...

I bought 16 of them and still need to get rid of the tanks... I did this because my wood stove is a Tulikivi (Finnish design) and they left out one key detail - the firebox can only take 12" wood. Impossible to stack, so I split and throw into these bins. Works great. I think I get somewhere...

Here is my skidding winch dolly. I custom made the base from swivel casters and 2x4's so it would fit right. These are awkward to handle, so this one is set up with a prop bar that it leans back on (towards the wall) that is captured so it can't slip out. You can roll this up to the tractor...

Yeah the tan/yellow stuff is clearly closed cell foam. And it sounds like it is wet-laid cellulose on top of that from what you describe. I used a similar construction in my great room ceiling, but it was regular dense-pack cellulose that was blown in dry. You can see the foam all completed...

I think I am starting to catch on, but still a bit confused on this, and if what I am thinking of doing would work. I had a thread on mounting a rotary broom on my FEL a while back here: https://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/kubota-owning-operating/395975-grand-l-5240-rotary-broom-2.html That...

Try ferrite choke (not core) on the lights as noted, but not the one shown from Mcmaster. You see these on a lot of power cords for electronic devices. Digikey or Mouser or one of those type places. ferrite core cable - Google Search This should look familiar to you. The round thing on the...

Ah boilers. This is the source of religious wars in radiant heating circles: boilers vs tankless. Anyone who is a pro in the HVAC field and installs or designs radiant heat systems will tell you that only an idiot would use a tankless heater for this as they are not designed for it as they are...

Some photos of my shop setup. 2 zones - 5 loops on one side, 4 on the other, ~2600 sf total. The shop is 32x80 with the 2 zones split about 32/48 on the length: The house is zoned pretty much by room. I lost 2 zones during construction, which was very annoying. One was me being stupid and...

Here is the chart from the owners manual of the LXX40 series. Very similar I imagine. You could look up the LXX30 series on Kubotabooks.com or whatever that site was called... These don't really look like standard battery numbers, though. If you take measurements of the tray and hold-down...

Ayup. Tree right out front of our house pictured, 2015.

He did mention Nut Cases, so economists should be covered:D:laughing::p

I put my grapple on that lower shelf by setting it on a pallet and using the forks to place it there. There is only a couple inches extra headroom to fit it in, so watch that as it would be nice to have a bit more wiggle room. Keep in mind that if you don't have really good access, you are not...

2 sections of pallet racking spaced ~4' apart. The racking is 42" deep, IIRC and 10' long beams. It's much more full now than when this picture was taken. And yes, it does not matter how you stack it, the ones you need are on the bottom... Pallet racking is typically rated for 4 tons or more...

Ooo! Ooo! My turn. Got my new mower delivered today. Went out to meet the guy and knew immediately that I had a photo op for this thread. Note securement method that he is untying. Yes, that was everything holding the mower in place... Glad it made it in one piece! Disclaimer: I was not...

Anyone have any clues on the front rotary broom for the -40 series? And a rough price? I'm not having much luck finding info on it. For giggles, I priced out a broom for a new -60 series and it looked like $7k+ from the "build your own" Kubota website. That's nutz!

I have one double door in my new house build that i have been working on for the past 5 years. It is the main door to the master suite and it is about time to start building those doors. I do not want the type where one door is fixed in place with manual deadbolts or such and then only one is...

This would normally be something I would ask on welding web, but...ya know. I am modifying a table I picked up for $20 into a welding table of sorts. I'm adding a 1/4" steel top and some reinforcements, but I also wanted to weld on a few receivers so I could mount vises, etc like so many have...

Lots of ways to get firewood into the house: :D :D I have started using IBC totes with the poly tank removed. I fork these into the garage downstairs and then bring up wood 2x 5-gal buckets at a time. They aren't the best format for hauling wood, but they work so far. Maybe I will make...

Seems like the site is down last night and still tonight. Hacked? Server blew up? Or???

I ended up welding expanded metal onto the back of my grapple. I had too many close calls with sticks poking through and trying to stab expensive tractor parts. It also allows me to grab more with one bite as nothing slips through anymore. I had an early problem with the grapple popping off...

My experience is much different than CalG's. We have a soapstone fireplace (well "masonry heater" if you want to be picky...). It is Finnish from the Tulikivi people. The local dealer builds up orders for several months, and then gets a shipping container's worth of them at once, as they are...

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I used a pneumatic stapler on the tongues. Just did it at an angle back towards the board a bit so it didn't interfere with the next board fitting over the tongue. Next board covers it up. Been up in my outside decks and entry ceiling for 2+ yrs now. No issues.

It is hard to tell from the photo, but the hub disc appears to be inside the wheel rim mounting points. Still there may be one wider setting by flipping the tire around on the hub (and you would have to swap sides too). The mounting points on the wheel rim are not centered on the rim, so for...

I finally remembered to get photos and measurements tonight. The tape measure isn't the easiest thing to see, but it was a little over 3" from the chains to the metal piece that protects the wire running down the inside of the fender. That would be the closest point where a chain could...

For that height T5 fluorescents can be a really good way to go. That is what I did for my 13' ceiling. For the "shop" side of the building I put in 9 8' T5 fixtures, each of which is essentially a pair of 4' fixtures stuck end to end. 4x 4' T5 bulbs for each. The shop is 32' wide and 50'...

This was mine. I now have a decent 10x12' spray booth room built into the new shop. in the new one I made a panel, like a window made of a section of foam and sheathing that I pull out and drop in my fan when i want to spray. So normally it looks basically like a solid wall with some trim...

Phillips used to have a really nice lighting calculator that I used a year or two ago. It seems to be gone, with no good replacement on thier site, which stinks because it was easy to use and helpful. And free. Here is what i did. 13' high flat ceiling (not vaulted). My 32x80 shop is...

Ha ha ha! You got nothing to complain about... This is all LV wiring... I ran many extra wires as you never know what will need to go where. Half+ will probably be wasted

I had some time tonight so I tore into the crank housing to check the governor. Attached are a couple pictures. As far as I can tell, it is working perfectly. The weights move freely and mover the plunger in the middle freely. No binding in the mechanism anywhere I can see. Gear teeth all...

Some pics to help out. I removed the intake filter and housing to get photos that show something for most of these. Linkage to throttle plate is the black plastic part. Only 2 holes and the linkage will not fit in the smaller one. Seems idiot proof enough. Throttle in the full...

I've got a Robin/Subaru engine on my splitter (Super Splitter) and it is now giving me trouble. I started it up a couple months back as it had sat a while and I wanted to make sure it was working. Started and ran great for 5 or 10 min. Flash forward a few weeks and I had a friend come over to...

Title pretty much says it all. I have searched in this subforum but have not found anything talking about it. I know there have been some problems in past versions. Did they fix them here? What is really new? Thanks! -Dave

Was just a couple thoughts from my experience... As they say Keep or Toss! :D I was able to reuse the bolt holes for the tubing guard for my 3rd function mount. Maybe an option for you if you have something similar? I just need to match the thread with longer bolts. I don't have a pic of...

Saw this one last summer in a tree overlooking our house. They are around here with the river nearby, and i see them fly overhead from time to time, but I hadn't seen one hang out here before. Got some decent photos of it. Many years back I was at work walking past a conference room around...

Doing a composite beam with wood and steel is possible, but you aren't thinking about it in the most effective way. I went through this exercise a number of years ago. I'm an engineer, but one of my good friends is a structural engineer that deals in this stuff. So i know what he's talking...

I've been having a lot of trouble with CL for the past month or so. I keep a few searches running in a News reader that runs off the CL RSS feeds. I use Search Tempest in these feeds also to check some of the nearby cities that are close enough for a drive for the "right thing" (I'll explain...

I had a few causing me trouble last spring. Gray squirrels in my case. In the process of building, so I had not finished deck ceilings, and they got up in there and into the attached soffits. A couple connibears with peanuts did the trick. Got 3 within a few days and then the remainder...

Posting this to help a friend as I am not familiar with these systems. It is a Mastercraft boat and trailer combo. The trailer is a single axle with hydraulic disc brakes (surge type brakes) in the ~5k lb range. He went to bring it in for winterizing/storage and found the brakes were dragging...

Well my friend came out today with his X320 48" deck and had a run at it. He was able to mow many areas OK. He did comment that the yard was extremely bumpy, so I will need to fix that somehow. He said it would beat a mower up in no time like that. He did lose traction in several spots...

I need a mowing solution for our new place. It is pretty steep and built partly into a hill. The lot rise 60-100' from the street to the building pad area (unevenly, of course), and there are some very steep sections due to grading. Some parts are close to 40 deg, which is not area that I am...

Summer work 2014 - Exterior Paint The siders finished up in mid august. In this part of the country that means you are only weeks from snow :-). OK, not really, but the weather does turn fast, and getting a decent shot to paint the exterior means that I had to get on it pretty quickly. There...

Summer Work 2014 - Siding I had intended to do the siding myself, with help, but I came to figure that the task would require 2 people for almost all of it, and that was too much to ask of my helpers, so we ended up subcontracting it. As it was, it took the crew about 3 weeks to finish the...

Summer work 2014 A lot of things have happened this year. After wrapping up insulation and the initial stab at the landscaping (still ongoing, but at least stable for now), the tasks turned to siding, final electric, some finish work, and getting the driveway in better shape. Still it feels...

Subfloor over radiant on main level Got a pallet and a half of subfloor sheets delivered to put on over the main level floor over the concrete. It took 2-3 weeks to wrap that up, but it went down pretty good. Had some help on a couple weekends, and did some myself during the week on evenings...

Mother nature hates me The weather up here had been overall pretty mild the 2-3 years before we started building. The moment I committed to starting this, all **** broke loose. Last year, we had about the wettest spring on record. I was fighting driveway and dirt washout problems constantly...

Drywall took all of 5-6 weeks or so, in the end. As of this writing (5/31/14) all the rock has been hung and the taper is well into taping and mudding. He has about a week left, he thinks. He has been at it for 4 weeks already. We had done some of the ceiling drywall ourselves, as...

Wrapping up radiant Here are some final shot of the radiant tubing on the main level. Here is the shot with all the sleepers completed. This was a a lot of messing around to get here. The wood sleepers are for screwing down the subfloor, and also to keep the concrete nice and level. Great...

Insulation I talked a bit about insulation in the last post. This was a great milestone to hit as it now means the house can be somewhat livable to work in. Only too bad it didn't happen in November before it was 150 below zero for 3 months! The ceilings in the house are divided into two...

Here is some detail on the HVAC work (Heating Ventilation Air Conditioning). Primary heating is through radiant water tubing in the floors. This got complicated in several places. We also put in a full forced-air furnace mainly for the AC, but it is also nice to use as heat at times. Radiant...

Given how far behind I am, you need to keep in mind while reading this, that it was last winter - 2013-2014... For those of you in the upper Midwest, you know how bad this winter has been, but frankly it is off-the-charts-insane. This has been, by far, the worst winter I have ever seen - in...

So I am thinking ahead to next year. I am going to weld up some SS railings and mesh for a 3 decks/porches on our new house. My power supply is a Miller XMT304, run on single phase 220. It can do MIG, TIG (DC only) and stick. So far I have only done MIG with it on plain steel, though I did...

I need to make a couple of post bases, as the posts are not a standard size for typical hardware. It looks like the best method (with what I have on hand...) is to weld them up from plain old bar stock. These will get buried in concrete next year, so they need more than a rattle can of primer...

I did my 50 hr service and realized the shop sent me the wrong hydraulic filter, so I did the engine and the HST filter (gorilla-tightened! It took a chain strap wrench and a 3' 2x4 lever to loosen it...) previously. Once I got the right hydraulic filter today, I replaced it and figured I...

Windows and doors aka "The Great Window Panic of 2013" A bit of a story here... So this was one in a lengthy series of mad scrambles. The windows arrived at the lumber yard in Early/Mid Oct. We weren't quite ready and they were fully willing to store them for a bit, so no big deal. The...

More concrete I had one more bit of concrete to pour. There was an 8x24' deck that was over the garage and needed a slab poured on it as the final surface, at least for the time being. I asked the main concrete outfit about it, and they said it was less risky as it was not on grade, and was...

Electric to the house You've seen the Trench Of Doom already. That work sat for several weeks after we got all that wire and conduit in place (and covered) as we needed to do other things. Now with framing wrapping up and concrete slab in the basement, we needed to get power to the house...

Right at the end of Sept, the shop was painted and we got the lights up and going. That was the final thing I was waiting for. Now the tractor could get parked inside! Woo hoo! I put it in the back shop area temporarily, but it is now residing in the front garage where it will stay. Here's...

More framing work Here is showing the Kitchen deck and the front entry porch. You can see they pretty much finished Tyvek on the house too, Eddie. It will go through the winter with Tyvek for siding. They still had to finish cutting out the Tyvek on the 3rd window on the upper floor. This...

More house framing Completed main floor panel framing on Day 3 and got into second floor deck. The second floor is only a partial floor, so it was a lot smaller to deal with. Here is working on the second floor deck on 9-20 On 9-24 they were done with 2nd floor walls and The Big Beam is in...

Framing the house Again SIPs panels for the house, similar to the shop. The delays were killing us on schedule. We were able to get the SIPs guys to split the load and give us the basement walkout panels a bit early. This helped a lot as the framers could get the basement set and the first...

Trench warfare The trench was one of the most awful things of the project (so far...) I hated having to tear up settled driveway and ground to do this, but there was no other way. The excavator made short work of it (took an afternoon after he finished the septic) and buried the water line to...

OK, I'll try to catch up a bit. My last real post here had heat index of 105F...Today we have wind chills overnight in the -20's. What a change a few months bring... It's so cold it is hard to get much done right now, so I might as well do some updates... So what is done. Well the shop is...

Wood chippers, PTO Woodchippers, Woodland Mills Ontario Canada I have a friend that is interested in getting a chipper for use probably 2-3 times a year. He has a 25 PTO HP tractor, so at the low end of the range for this, but use will probably not be heavy. Another friend pointed him to this...

Can't say the correct length for sure, but I know that is WAAAAAAY short. I have a similar tractor with only a FEL and a BB on the 3pt and it is way too long for my 16' trailer (but it works OK for the short infrequent trips I make - it is rated 10k which is important...). 2' more would help a...

And then the walls. This is about 50% walkout, so half of the walls are just frost footings below grade. Forms out the wazoo! All ready to pour. Minor detail here in that I showed up a bit late and there were concrete trucks already on site. I asked the crew where the step (essentially a...

Pouring the footings 2 different concrete companies on the same site!! Fight! Fight! Fight! :laughing:

So while I've been spending most of my time working on the shop building, the house site got started somewhat. I had the excavator dig the foundation pad and then the concrete guys go the footing and foundation walls in. Here's a few shots of it. Digging the foundation Footing Forms

Thomas, The foundation was designed using the Shallow Frost-Protected Foundation Guide (attached below, or search online for it - free). It works based on your local climate conditions, so have a look and you can decide if it makes sense. In this case, it saves me digging and pouring 4' stem...

Then the framers started on the SIPs walls. Took 3 days for the 32x80' shop walls: Then roof trusses and roofing Then I installed the meter socket and main panel And the power co eventually connected the power (what a bunch of slackers - they were even sleeping in their trucks at...

Been too busy to post. Here are some updates in order: Shop slab pour: I have gotta get me one of these! Final product

More progress today. I had 2 friends helping with the radiant tubing. We did all 9 loops and placed the manifolds. Took a lot of time to get the first loop set on each end, but after that it went fairly fast. During evenings last week I had finished up the rebar tying and the last of the mesh...

Day 2, got the front section of the slab insulated after wok with my helper. This weekend will be the big push to try and wrap up the insulation and rebar and hopefully the tubing too. I have another weekend in there before the pour to finish if needed.

Eddie, no basement on the shop, but yes on the house. The shop is being done with the "Shallow frost-protected footing" method, so it is a thickened edge slab with insulation around it to keep the footings from freezing. Dave, yes getting used to it. I really like the 2-speed hi-lo switch...

Progress finally starting... Got the septic permit, and just need the plumber to connect with the building inspector with the septic permit to get the full building permit. In the mean time,l started some dirt work on the slab area for the shop. A week ago, the excavator did some initial...

Bulkhead fittings, as noted. Make sure you also get the nuts, or that they are included. Also make sure you allow enough space around them to get your hand on the fittings, especially with a glove on. Also, it helps to make that bracket pretty sturdy. "Things happen" and my grapple ended up...

The radio harness came in, so I got that powered up and am rockin' the cab now!!!:cool2: And the wheel spinner came in from Coleman equipment. Now my life, err, tractor is complete. That should basically do it for the new tractor. Now time to start using it...

Then what brand new bucket isn't complete without some welding on it? :D I added 2 chain hooks and a receiver. I used a piec of 1/4" 4x4 angle with one leg cut down to about 1.25" to get a nice flat reinforcement to hold everything in position. This is the heavy duty bucket, so it probably...

Here is the electircal/control side. I tapped into the cigarette outlet in the right hand fender trim area. Here you can see it all torn apart for wiring. I used a relay (black cube) that I stuck to the fender with foam tape to drive the diverter so the joystick microswitch doesn't get burned...

I added a 3rd function to my new tractor. I did it before on my L3130, so I knew what needed to be done, but the new L5240 has a different setup for the hydraulics that made it a bit harder to do. That mostly just meant more expense in the hydraulic lines/fittings. Such is life. Here are...

Does anyone have a wiring diagram or can scan one that includes the PTO switch circuit? I was putting in a 3rd function on my new tractor (yes, new) and it would start yesterday but will not start today and is giving me the "PTO on" error as the only reason. I have searched through everything...

Barlow's delivered my new L5240 HSTC this AM. Of course, I immediately got to work adding my 3rd function to it and prepping to weld on grab hooks and a receiver to the bucket... Here's the obligatory pics, though it is just a regular off the shelf tractor, so I'm not sure why everyone always...

Time to revive this. I've been going crazy getting ready to start the build as a result of the first rounds of quotes I got late winter. Not surprisingly, everything came in too high to make it happen as planned, so I have been scrambling with redesign and got the cost down to manageable...

Yep, that would be the normal way to do it properly, at least around here. Here is the reference on what you are thinking about for insulated slabs. Frost-protected shallow footings is the technical name... If you read through it, you will see how and why it works, and for both heated and...

I am upgrading my tractor and will need to do a 3rd function again. I'm trying to source the components at lower prices now that I know what I'm looking for (mostly), which leads me to my question. The Bosch valve on my old tractor uses the "6B" spool type from the drawing below where the work...

I had to flip around the rear tires last winter for snowplowing as we needed chains on the Ag tires, but they would not clear the fenders in the "normal" position. So a friend and I did it, and it was painful. These tires are close to 1000 lbs each with Rimguard in them, and 2 guys can't do...

Time to resurrect this... with the warm weather, the garage is bearable to work in now. And I had a bit of time. I went and watched Jody's video that was referenced above, and the settings he said blew me away. 18v and 200 ipm on .035 wire. Compare this to the slider chart from Miller I have...

It's a different system. You have a blower unit that is self-contained and usually runs off of regular 120V electric. It is a lot cheaper to buy a good turbine unit than it is to get a compressor big enough to supply true HVLP air quantities. Most HVLP run off compressors (except major...

Bullitt - do yourself a favor and run this test. Put the grapple on the tractor. Curl it down. Press the tines into the ground in this position. Then try to curl it more. Make sure it does not pop off the SSQA on the tractor. I do not think you will have a problem as you have a vertical...

That tree in the first photo must be a "dogwood"?? :D 5/16" is fine, especially at your size tractor. Much easier to cart around than 3/8". If you can find the choker style hooks, they work better than regular slip hooks, IMHO. Chains stay in them a bit better - they have a more rounded shape.

I started looking on ebay, but then found the same stuff cheaper from Digikey, and I trust them a whole lot more. Mouser too. Especially when I added up shipping, I bought 4 switches (1 to replace the dorman, and 2 new ones for my lights, plus a spare) and it came to like $10 including...

I thought this was an interesting story on the founder of Erskine Equipment who passed away this Christmas. I figured folks here might be curious given how popular their equipment is. Obituary: Roger Swanson sailed around the world -- 3 times | StarTribune.com

KennyV - Thanks. Here is what the manual shows, but it is not real clear. It does appear that the central piece (probably what you mean by dish) never changes around and it is just how the rim mounts to the dish that adjusts. Normally, I would just play around with the possible settings to...

Thanks for the tips. Will definitely have help. These are 14.9-24 filled with Rimguard, so pushing 700-800 lbs each... Hopefully 2 of us can handle it. Here is the best pic I can find.

OK, I need to add chains to my Grand L3130. I am storing it at a friends house at the moment with the condition that he can use it for snow clearing this winter. Steep drive, ice has become an issue. I bought chains that were shipped directly to him. Fronts were no problem to mount (Ags - 8x...

I realized I haven't posted the final results of the wall. Here are a couple pics of the final result. This was wrapped up in Mid Oct. The guy who sold me the rocks did the placement of the upper deck with his excavator (Deere 312L, I think?). It is amazing to watch someone who is an artist...

I just added 4 LED lights to my tractor for winter snow removal needs. I picked up 4 of the 27 W floods from seller "ledstores" on ebay. They sell the typical China stuff, but are based in the US so shipping was pretty quick. You have to specify flood or spot when buying from them or they...

Well I applied the stuff on Sat and let it cure 24 hr in the warm garage (kept the electric heaters on and doors closed). Strange stuff. Went on like a somewhat runny paste, and then set up solid over the day. After that, I cooked it with the heat gun to do the final cure and it foamed up...

They look like this, and I cannot find a darn thing on them. I can't even track down the base style. That is insane for what should be a very easy, common part - a lightbulb! I had my wife stop at NAPA while she is out to see if they can match it, but I doubt they will have any luck. So...

I tried searching but didn't find anything. Is this headlight bulb some special Kubota-only thing, or should I be able to find it at an auto parts store? It doesn't say much on it as far as identification and it doesn't look like a normal bulb to me... This is for the Grand L 3130

I prefer posting my welding questions here vs WeldingWeb as the atmosphere is much friendlier here... I have an older Honda civic 1998 that I found has a cracked exhaust manifold. It appears to be a very common problem. See pic. Given 193k miles on the car, I don't want to spend a ton. I...

That's bleeping ridiculous. You could call Fasse and see what they will do for you. Here is a pic of mine that I got from them: I found the switch: K1008 Normally Open Internal Lever Switch | Control Products Inc Call those guys and get one direct or from a distributor. $120 is just silly.

I thought I would post this up for people to find during searches when looking for info on trailer sizing. Here is what a 16' trailer looks like with an L3130 and a 72" boxblade and 48" grapple on it. Really pushing it. It fits OK, but I was barely able to get the lift arms onto the trailer...

It is inevitable that the cable will not be rewound under tension all the time during use, so don't lose too much sleep over this. It would help to put some tension on it for a complete wind as it will sit on the drum better, but that could be as simple as just dragging a small log section or...

OK, Time to revive this. I haven't had a lot of time to practice welding the past couple months, but today I had a free day and nothing to do, and it occurred to me I needed to get back to this. So I looked over this thread and tried a few things. Executive summary: There must be some catch...

Tom - You need some sides for that truck, man! They don't have to be fancy. These are "temporary" but I've gotten 3 yrs out of them so far...and counting. Your dually is more than capable of handling a full load of oak. I am seriously overloading mine if I fill it up too much, so I don't...

Some of you may recall I have had problems with pressure relief on my 3rd function diverter that I added for my Grapple. No matter what I do to relieve the pressure it is always very hard to connect and requires me to use a bar clamp to pull the fitting tight while alternating relieving the...

I'm not as sure about the excavator with thumb as I used to be. It is not as good of a tool for this as you might think base don my experience. The proper tool is a large Excavator with a rotating clamshell like below but they are rare and very spendy. The telehandler did come up as one...

Please please please post this safety message near the laser. They are VERY dangerous :laughing:

Sun was my last day with the SS and so I wanted to finish up what I could. I laid in the section of layers 5 & 6 that sit on the main section of the wall. Layer 5 will sweep back onto the upper terrace and continue there. You can see the shovel leaning against the wall in the first pic...

Since I was slowing down, I only got ~2/3 or so of layer 4 in on Fri. I started late Sat (tired) and finished that row up. I had some help for Sat afternoon, so that was nice, but I was just tired. That was the first help I had all week since Sun, prepping the base. Layer 4 takes it up...

Day 4 I was cooking along pretty good. Got the 3rd layer all wrapped up. Day 5 (Fri) I was just getting durn tired. It also started going slower. Since the blocks are irregular to some degree (though reasonably flat), you end up with some dips and bumps in the wall that just start...

Day 2 I wrapped up the base layer and then worked on backfill. I needed to put perf'ed drain tile in and filter fabric up behind the wall. Then I could fill with the 2" crushed rock. That took a lot of time and I found back filling was the hardest work of the whole job. I compacted with a...

Time for some updates... I spent all last week building the lower level of the wall. It did not start well. I thought a mini excavator with a thumb would be the tool of choice for this, so I rented one. The problem was that you could not lower the bucket with a rock in it much or it would...

Like the title said. I was using forks to build a natural stone retaining wall last week and they worked quite well. What would have been nice was a feature to push the rock off the forks at times. It got my creative juices flowing. I was thinking a scissors type mechanism with a hydraulic...

Thanks, Eddie. Did you say you wanted to see dirt moved? I would hate to disappoint... Here's the start. Big dozer, last look at the land before they really dug in. You can see a small pile of dirt in the far distance. They started scraping off topsoil a bit, but it was a very short first...

I had wondered if the nest was active. I found the hen on one of my trips to haul wood. She got used to me so much that here she is walking 20' away from me running the chainsaw and loading the truck. I wasn't sure if the eggs were duds or not. Given how late it was I suspected they were...

It's been a while, so I thought I would update this year's progress... In the spring, I had talked with a couple excavators and got some estimates for flattening out the pad area this year. I just wanted to get some prep work done as there is a large retaining wall that needs to be built, so...

One final pic. I bought a Kubota sticker off ebay and stuck it on the moldboard. Mostly for giggles, as I know it won't hold up to plowing for long. It was worth $20 to me just for fun. I extended the hoses 2' more to make sure they will be long enough no matter what you do with the plow on...

Umm, it doesn't work that way - in fact it is the exact opposite. You want the growth ring oriented so they look like they are facing up - the inside of the tree is up. This sounds counter-intuitive, and I got caught by it many years ago when I added onto my deck. The boards I laid with the...

I'm seeing the TBN app crash and have issues today, after I did the major operating system upgrade yesterday. It was working fine, then just started crashing for no reason. Now working again (for now?). It said something about possible version not being current or something. That could...

And finally today I got it fully assembled and mounted over at my friend's place (where the tractor lives at the moment). I still need to make the hoses a bit longer as I miscalculated and they can be damaged if someone pushes the plow to full dump, so I will extend those another 2' and add a...

Then I primed it, especially areas I wouldn't be able to get to later, and welded it all up. Not the most horrible welding, but could be plenty better. Need more practice... Given the way it was designed/braced and the welds beveled, I am not worried about strength. Here's a close-up of the...

Designing and building the mount I started with a heavy duty 3/8" solid SSQA plate from ebay. No sense reinventing the wheel, and again, I could buy the steel for this price. I had shortened the A-Frame by about 4-5" and welded a new crosspiece from angle back there, since I had plenty of it...

Next up, I needed to get a new skin for the moldboard. I had a local shop do it as they could roll it to fit. I dropped off the frame and let them do it when they had time. It was not much more than it would have cost me for a sheet of 11 ga steel, so it was well worth it. Besides, you ever...

I sandblasted everything. That was another learning experience. Here is the basic tent I used to help contain the mess. And the sector, A-Frame, and moldboard frame blasted and cleaned up nicely. Sandblasting is dangerous work, and you need to protect your lungs properly. Here is the...

Some of the problems: Moldboard was pretty rotted out. I ended up cutting it out and replacing it: The frame was bent in a few spots. Here is a bad bend in the sector (the end on the left) I had to straighten. It was worse than the pic shows. Peeling off the moldboard skin with the...

I decided to put the build all in one place, so it is easier for others to find if they want to reference it later on. Here's what it cost me. I did well more than was absolutely necessary, but I will keep it for a lifetime, so I prefer to do it right now. Plow Used 175 Cushion...

Progress... I got the spray booth set up late last week and got it final painted over the weekend. That paint takes forever to dry, even with the hardener added. Oil based alkyd enamel from Van Sickle (what the Fleet Farm stocks). The hardener is pretty toxic, BTW, as it has isocyanates in...

The codes given were not a color code but a complete product including the color. See attached. Perhaps they are not as bad as I suspect, but most industrial urethanes I am familiar with use dispensing equipment to accurately mix the proper ratio of the 2 components as they are pumped from...

Sorry for the delay - I wasn't able to get a pic until now. Here's how they did it in our house. Whatever you decide to try, I'd prototype it first to see what it looks like.

I'm having weirdness with Firefox 13.0.1 No problem with IE9, but I only use that when all else fails... This is what all forums look like.

Tacked it up and checked the fit and everything was a go, so I fully welded it up tonight. I had primed it before welding so I could get the areas that were hard to reach. I masked off the weld sections, except where I forgot to...then I just wire brushed it off first. I'm bringing the mold...

In my welding class we did a ton of out of position work, but it was all stick. I got to the point where I would call most of my vert up "acceptable" with stick. We did literally about 5 min of MIG in the last class, just for giggles. We didn't try anything out of position there as it seemed...

Just ran across this on CL in my regional search. Looks like a clone of the Markham/Gator style, though the price seems a bit stiff... No connection to it, just FYI on something I ran across... ***NEW)grapple light duty(NEW***

I am refurbing and modifying an old Meyers ST90 snow plow for my tractor (SSQA from truck mount conversion). It looks to have sat outside for years. The angle cylinders have a few pits on the exposed chrome, but don't look real bad. I have no experience in what is good vs bad for this or how...

So I've got a cute-and-fuzzy bunny taking up residence under my front sidewalk. In the city right now, so shooting is out of the question. I borrowed a 110 Connibear from a friend but it is pretty rusty and has tripped a couple times with no effect (may not be working well). The rabbit or two...

I'm going to start fishing on CL for an old plow to modify and adapt to the SSQA on my FEL. The question I had is what size is considered about right? It is a Kubota L3130 with Ags and the rear tire width is about 66-68". I'm thinking 6' is not wide enough. Is 6.5' OK? Is 7.5' too wide...

Lincoln 250 welder arc welder I may not have been around welders forever, but I have seen a bunch, and this is a new one to me.

So my 10k loboy trailer has the typical jack in the nose, right behind the coupler. It's a solid Bulldog 8k jack, problem is that it is too close to the front so I can't open the tailgate on my PU as it hits the jack. Sure there are things I can do like putting a blanket over it or something...

Quality Trailer 2005 32' 2 car hauler Never seen one that long as a BP.

This is for erosion control after some excavation work. I'm told a typical square bale is good for ~150 sf or maybe up to 300 if you spread it thin. I'm having a hard time finding it for decent prices, but I am seeing some of the larger round bales around (4'x5'). Obviously they are larger...

I'll play with Obed's thread title for mine as it is pretty close to what we are doing too. I'm going to use this to document our progress towards building our house. It's on the looooong time frame. Several years back I started referring to it as our "rolling 5-year plan"...because it was...

I made a guard for the back of my grapple earlier this summer out of 3/4" 9ga expanded metal, and that has helped a lot, but I found that there are times when the grapple is up, usually when dumping high up on a large burn pile that sticks would poke at my grill, and were denting it, and risking...

So I recently got a nice upgrade to my welder with the new Miller XMT 304 and a wire feeder I picked up at an auction (separate thread). The bonus was the heavy duty welding cart that came with it. Made from 1.5" x1/8" angle and 1/8"/10ga plate shelves. It has space for 2 bottles on the back...

I took them apart last week to see what they looked like. This is the first time I have done that since I got the trailer used a year ago (yeah I know...). These don't look so hot to me... It looks like these are 12" brakes. I didn't measure the shoe width, but it looks like 12x2" is the...

There was this box in with the welder I just picked up. I see a Hypertherm packaging card in there, so I an guessing these are for that as they sure aren't for the MIG welder (plus a few pipe fittings...). I assumed they were for the MIG gun until I opened it when I got home. It was on the...

I managed to find a great deal at an auction and picked up this Miller XMT304 CC/CV and S32P suitcase feeder for dirt cheap. Now I will sell my previous Thermal Arc welder with this upgrade. I even got the cart, which is pretty basic design but VERY beefy. The shelves are 1/8" or 3/16"...

Just for giggles the instructor had us doing a few random things in our final class Thurs. I wanted to try TIG, so he set me and another student up. We used some 12-14 ga steel and SS. I didn't bother with Alum as I don't have AC capability on my home unit. It really wasn't too bad. If you...

Some of you will recall my previous posts last fall dealing with my grapple falling off. Here is some of it, if you are curious, but basically it turns out that the grapple as designed is not perfectly compatible with the SSQA on Kubotas as the Kubota plate is stepped back slightly at the tip...

We're doing some test plates in class for AWS cert practice (not that I'm going to get a cert, it's just good practice). The teacher has us doing G3 vertical up plates with all 7018 1/8" on 5/16-3/8" mild steel (with backer strip - startup and runoff tabs). Running about 120A, usually. And...

Last night, we started into overhead position. Laps, butts, Tees. Mostly 6010, but then when I was doing fine on all of those, I grabbed some 7018 and did that in overhead too. Looks better in person than in the pic, IMHO... Only one tiny little spot of undercut where I slipped. It was done...

The guy I picked up my welder from had a set of Oxy/Acet tanks/cart/torches that he was getting rid of too. I don't have room for them right now or I may have jumped at it. But it got me thinking about the leased/owned tank thing. I wouldn't want to accidentally buy a used set of tanks that...

I am happy as a clam. I have a Lincoln AC/DC tombstone I picked up last summer for $150 and it worked OK for the things I needed last summer. But I started a Stick class in Jan in which we are using ~$4k Miller XMT 304's and I have gotten spoiled. I've been watching CL for something, and it...

I need to do a couple upgrades to my trailer this spring. I have another thread running on fork pockets and I think I have that sorted out OK. The other one is the fenders. The ones on there are getting pretty rusty and cannot handle being stepped on, even though I do it at times (sometimes...

I am thinking of adding a fork pocket under the deck of my trailer to hold my QA forks. Does anyone have any pics or links to how these are generally done? I'm thinking some kind of U-channel (channel, bent plate, or angles welded together) plus a couple of chains to keep it from popping out...

Here's a snow blower and story for ya. No, it's not me or anyone I know. I just got a giggle out of it: Skidsteer Snowblower

49 1/2" x 11' Goose NeckTrailer Has anyone ever seen anything like this? Makes no sense to me...

Here's a little project I just finally finished up. I really needed a place to hold my toolbox and a chainsaw on the tractor as I use it heavily for clearing our land. I figured that since I had a solid toolbox already well stocked, that I should just make a holder so I can drop it in when I...

I haven't had the need to do this yet, but I see mention of a backing strip for some welds. I get the general point in that it helps stop blow out and holds everything together a bit better for a cleaner full penetration weld, but one thing is missing from every description I have seen of...

So I just cracked 1000 hrs on the tractor and the light came on to do scheduled service. I'm going to get to most of it here in the next month pretty much when it's time to put it away for the winter. But in reading the manual there are a ton of things they tell you to replace every 2 years -...

I swear someone here recently posted a drawing that showed the actual size profiles for the various sizes of common quick connect fittings, but I can't find it (figures...). Anyone remember it and can point me to it? The quick connects I have on my new grapple appear to be the flat face skid...

I am building my grapple system now. I got a Fasse valve kit (great people to work with) and have ordered the 48" Gator/Markham light duty grapple rake (with extra tines - seemed a wise move). The grapple should show up early next week, but I want to be ready for it as much as I can. I guess...

I'm looking to add a grapple to my loader and need a diverter for my LA723 loader (Kubota L3130 HST tractor). I'm not sure what size the lines are as I am not familiar with hydraulic components and fitting sizes (plus I do not have the tractor on site with me to check this easily). Does anyone...

I'm rebuilding this for a friend, but I have no experience with these units. I marked the tines before pulling it all apart but all the markings (except one) washed off in the clean up process. Do I have the tines on correctly, or are they reversed? Thanks, Dave

I picked up a Lincoln AC/DC tombstone for dirt cheap a few weeks back on CL. Now I finally have some scrap steel to start practicing with. I took a Tech college class about 12+ yrs ago that covered all kinds of welding from OA to Stick, MIG and even TIG and one shot at submerged arc (the...

So after reading the recent thread on hitch capacity, I decided to look into mine more closely. I have the stock OEM receiver on my 2005 F250, and the sticker says 5000 lbs/500 tongue load carrying or 10,000lbs/1000 tongue weight distributing. Right now I am running a plain old ball in the...

So a friend of mine sent me his old skidding winch, a Farmi JL304 that is right about 30 yrs old. He used to use it on his Ford 9N for his firewood business when he was in high school and college. It had been kicked around a lot over the years and was in sad shape with the main post bent and...

Yeah, a noob... So I try to do "the right thing" and put the parking brake on at various times when i get off the tractor. I have a very steep hilly wooded area I am working in, so it makes sense to me at times to do this. Now last week I managed to forget to pop the brake off 2 times when I...

New member, though I've lurked a bit here and there. Just picked up a used L3130 with 950 hrs on it. Good overall condition. And I'd like to keep it that way. I have the owners manuals for the tractor and loader, but that is all. For all my vehicles I like to get the OEM shop manuals so I...