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I own more than one bucket. I have a light duty bucket and a heavy duty double bottom excavation bucket that usually has a hay spear bolted in it. I'm always careful with the light duty bucket, don't want to impart a smile in the bottom. I've repaired more than one smiling bucket in the past...

Old remodeled 120 yar old shack... The house has it's own propane fired 20KW Generac and the shop and barns have a 35KW John Deere powered diesel fired Generac that makes 110-220-3 and 440 and it runs off my 500 gallon farm diesel tank and it has it's own 150 gallon tank underneath the unit as...

Only streaming here is the creek out back.

Not me, IMO, total waste of money. When I order anything from Amascon I'm never in a hurry to get it anyway. I will say if the item is in stock at the Amazon warehouse, it's under a week usually and the warehouse is about 30 miles from here but if it's a 3rd party selling on Amazon, it usually...

Good, high quality stump grinders are basically immune to rocks because all the cutter teeth are solid tungsten carbide, least on mine they are and they are indexable to 3 different cutting edge positions. Of course I'm grinding stumps, not cutting concrete. Why I bought the grinder I bought...

We have an over population of doe's here in Michigan and the DNR is requesting hunters to shoot them instead of bucks. I have no issue doing that as I prefer doe meat over buck meat as it's less gamey tasting. I only take does and always been that way. Not interested in having another mount...

Because I own a stump grinder, I never 'pop' stumps out of the ground which results in a big hole that needs to be backfilled anyway. I use the loader for it's intended purposes only.

Interesting. The front outboards on my M9's are substantially more 'beefier' than yours are. Just removing them take 2 men to manhandle them but regardless, the ball bearings are the weak point. Mine have no less than 26 hex head cap screws holding the outer housing to the inner housing as...

I do believe that all brands, not just Kubota use ball bearings in the front outboards. In reality they should be angular roller bearings. Like I said, mine are fine and I've had both sides apart on my open station M9 but the ball bearings are the failure point as in too much load on a...

Both my M9's have that sticker as well. Speeds in gears according the indicated RPM.

We had to replace a leaking outboard seal on my 2002 M9 Kubota a few months back and the outboard is very heavy as in removal is a 2 man job. The tractor has over 4500 hours on it. 2 years ago the left hand side, we replaced the king pin bushings as they were shot and the radial seals were...

I'll be happy if no kids chuck one at my roadside mailbox this year.

I will say that my 45+ year old 028 still has the ORIGIONAL spark plug in it. I've gapped it a couple times but it's original. The 028 is an RPM saw as well and it pulls a 20" roller nose bar with 325 full tooth chipper no issue. Has to be my favorite saw even if it's older than dirt. Not...

Bought my wife a battery powered chainsaw. One thing I noticed right away was the chain speed is a lot slower than a gas saw. It's her's not mine. Won't touch it except to adjust the chain tension and put bar oil in it.

Most good shredders come with slip clutches installed. Cheap ones don't. Both my bat wing and my 8 foot flat back Land Pride both have friction disks on them plus I run an over running coupler on the PTO stub so the freewheeling cutters don't eat the PTO brake up. M Series Kubota's have...

Never owned a battery saw and don't plan on it either. Same applies to lawn mowers.

Every small engine manufacturer recommends no more than 10% corn alcohol in their engines. I think the reason is, e-gas burns hotter than regular no corn alky gas. Not sure though.

Chainsaws do just fine on regular no lead. I still prefer canned fuel however. Had a tree limb come down on my buggy last night and had to have one of my arborist friends come out and take the tree down but I gave him a hand and I have not fired my 028 Stihl since early spring and it popped...

One thing that most owners fail to understand and that is, you have to allow the shredder to swing side to side a bit and not having it rigidly attached to the 3PH. With it firmly attached to the 3PH, every change in direction or turn, imparts a lot of stress on the mower as the tractor turns...

..could go on forever about the pro's and con's of any saw.

Time to pull the head and take it to a competent rebuilder or machine shop and let them remove the stuck glo plugs and machine the head and of course you need a new head gasket among other parts.

really, the only difference between a 'Pro' saw and a 'Prosumer' saw is how they are built and internal components and for most users, spending a premium amount of cash on one is really needless for the amount of total use incurred.

Bottom line is, they are all good so lo9ng as they start reliably and you run a sharp chain loop. The exception would be the Chinese built, sold on Amazon cheapo saws because they aren't build to be long lasting for the most part. This thread distills down to whatever model a person owns and...

I would not worry about the gouge in the metal spindle, a new bushing will cover that gouge up. Far as the bushing goes, drive it out and replace it with a new one and drill the metal spindle and the new bushing and install a grease fitting and do the same with the opposite side. That's called...

After destroying an almost new 700 buck Stihl top handle professional arborist saw (ran it over with a chipper truck), I said no more and bought an Echo CS top handle saw. It's lighter than the Stihl was but stock, lacked the grunt the Stihl had until I pulled the limiter caps and exchanged the...

On carbide tipped loops. what first responders use when cutting through roofs during a house fire. They are expensive and must be sharpened with a diamond wheel. I'd like to have one, problem is, my wallet isn't that large. On mufflers, they are all restrictive, especially Stihl mufflers...

As I've said before, ANY saw will cut well with a properly sharpened chain and the depth gages set correctly, but once the chain gets dull, so does the saw. Don't matter if it's full tooth or skip tooth or square ground, dull is dull. My rule of thumb is, when the teeth start building pitch on...

Both my M9's top out at 22 mph. Like I said earlier, I rarely go that fast. Like smelling the roses along the way and being nosey too.

It's fancy for sure and it's only 2 years old. It's a Kubota BV silage special. Really easy to thread net as well, unlike my old traded in New Holland where you had to feed the net through the center and deal with the net knife. This one, you feed the net into a cutout on the right side of...

Very bad advice, especially if your saws sit for extended periods like mine do... and a 590 has no primer bulb either.

I don't 'love' my saws or my tractors or anything mechanical. I do love my wife however. Just tools and nothing more and until you learn how to properly sharpen a chain loop and drop the depth gages correctly, no was will be anything other than a rock. I have a couple Echo's and 2 Stihl's and...

I do the same with my Focus RS 6 speed and I always float the gears when I drove big trucks. It's an acquired trait however. Big truck gearboxes are not syncronized either. For me, a clutch is for starting out and coming to a complete stop.

Why my Kubota's have hydraulic shuttles as in NO DRY CLUTCH. I can slip the wet pack and not hurt anything. I would never have a tractor with a dry clutch.

I road a lot as well,. it's almost 7 miles to my remote fields on mostly paved 2 lane roads and some gravel as well. One thing about having multiple gears is I never run through all the gears when roading. In fact, I'll start out in 1st and then jump to 5th and then into high and skip...

Whatever you get, make sure it's a hydraulic shuttle which has no dry clutch at all. Both my M9's are hydraulic shuttle and I've never had to adjust either of them and one is a 2002 and the other is a 2000 and basically all they do is run hay, but then I round bale everything. The cab tractor...

Especially when new or just cleaned and re-oiled. In reality, a K&N filters best when filthy dirty. I know, I used to sell them to the hot rod crowd and they kept them clean which isn't the correct thing to do. Guess they liked seeing the red filter oil. They do make good oil filters however...

You got that right. K&N has been trying to break into big truck air filters for a while now (as in Class 7-8 diesels but the owners as well as companies won't use them. They refer to them as 'dirty air' filters. For the retail price of a K&N. you can buy 3 paper air filters.

Most times, I only use 2 sets but I use the flow control a lot. Especially handy when running the grain leg as I can control the auger speed.

Not familiar with that brand but if it's like my Kubota M's, there is an internal coupler (splined sleeve) that the pto stub has to engage and on mine, there is an internal snap ring the retails the stub. Had mine apart before and you have to align the stub with the sleeve before the stub will...

I run a Red Beard oiled foam air cleaner on my Echo 590. Did the muffler mod as well and I oil the Red Bead foam with Bel-Ray filter oil.

Plumbing isn't my strong point so when I bought my Kubota's I ordered them with 3 sets plus flow control.

I guess owners never clean their air filters...

FEMA is managed by Mayorkas, the professional deflector. Need I say more?

I have it, actually I have a pair of them in my M9000 cab tractor and 1 in my M9 open station and I use both of them in the cab tractor, one to power the computer that runs the round bailer and the other powers my greensaver applicator. You can get the mating connector from a Kubota dealer.

I'd rather have hydraulic fluid in my sump than antifreeze anyday. Antifreeze can spin a bearing, fluid won't.

Only Stillson pipe wrenches I own are Ridge Tool and I have the huge one that the handle is 4 foot long for extra grunt. It's HEAVY though, not aluminum. I've broken many sockets with my impact wrenches, SK's, Snap On, MAC's and Craftsman but I've never broken any of the HF black oxide impact...

Another HF tool(s) that I really like and work well are the Icon internal and external snap ring pliers. While not for smaller snap rings (HF sells an interchangeable set with removable internal and external jaws for smaller snap rings, the Icon set is for larger snap rings like you will...

You can always use leaves to wipe with...lol Americans are not stupid, however they are gullible when it comes to talking heads (media) telling lies.

teamsters have nothing to do with the longshoreman strike. Totally different union.

Bottom line with HF is, they have mostly good tools and acessories but you have to use discretion when buying there because while the majority of their offerings are good, the minority of their offerings are basically one use and break junk. Why I stick to Icon and Chief and their higher tier...

I've always maintained that the only thing made in America is babies and they are delivered with Chinese tools... I see Picker is no more as well. When I lived west of Cleveland, many, many years ago, I worked at Picker in Elyria, Ohio Only thing left there is Ridge tool and lots of their...

Good deal, I guess. The head of that union said they were going for broke. Guess they changed their tune. 62% is light years better than what the UAW got.

With the large rivets you can pop about anything together. I'm working on the front and rear bulkheads for our Generac propane fired house generator that the cabinet went south on (rusted out) and I was not about to buy another 20KW generator for 13 grand so I special ordered a new cabinet from...

Interestingly, it didn't show up on my HF app at all but it showed up on my bench, after I bought it. Only thing I see is there are no replacement jaws available but for the price, I'll buy another one when the jaws wear smooth. Either that or return it and get another one as it has a lifetime...

Not correct. An open differential (front or rear) will only power one wheel and it's usually the wheel with the most traction, not the least. How a differential operates. Limited slip uses a clutch pack to drive the opposite wheel. In my case I have a Detroit Tru-Trak out back and an ARB in...

Interestingly, I'm running the ORIGIONAL plug in my ancient 028 WB Stihl (like 40 years old) and I've never replaced it either. Just took it out and checked the gap and that is it. Could be because I only run canned fuel (Echo Red Armor 50-1). Not sure but for the bulk of the 028's life it...

Far as cordless electric chainsaws and other cordless stuff is concerned, I try to avoid them if possible simply because of one, where they are made (China) and two, how the materials for the batteries are produced (slave labor in China). You all can bury you head in the sand, I don't care...

I machine all my chains as well as my arborist's customers chains, I would never hand file or use the Pferd-Stihl hand sharpener simply because machine grinding is much more consistent with the correct angles and is 100% repeatable tooth to tooth. Machine grinder are more expensive but do a...

On bargain's at HF, I needed a set of substantial pop rivet puller tool as I'm pulling large diameter (1/4" and larger) pop rivets for a project I'm working on so I went to HF yesterday and perused the pop rivet tools. The toll I own presently don't provide enough mechanical leverage to pull...

Better get the Amazon, made in China stuff while you can because the port strike is gonna put a helluva dent in all the stuff from China that Amazon sells as in when it's gone, it's gone and if it comes back. it will increase in cost substantially if the port workers get what they are striking...

True but. UP keeps a diesel locomotive in the consist to power the cars. While 4014 has an onboard generator powered by steam, it's no where large enough for auxiliary car power.

Be apprised that standby generators have went WAY up in price. A 17KW Generac will set you back around 15 grand installed.

I'm glad my M shipped from Japan and came with the creep gears already installed. I also have the 2 speed PTO. One thing I never get is crud on top the fuel tanks because it gets blown off and pressure washed regularly. For gasket sealing, I only use 3 Bond, never RTV silicone.

Whatever you get, make sure it's an inverter genny because inverters produce clean power.

Sushi and Tofu top my list as yuk food. Avocados are next.

Whatever and I don't consume any of it either Sushi sucks IMO.

Depends on a number of factors. heating time is dependent on the wattage of the heater element, where it's located in the cooling system, the outside (ambient temperature and if the unit is sitting out in the cold wind. The best heaters install in the block in a freeze plug hole and have...

Have one as well, but I made my own in the shop. I rarely use mine simply because I only grease with non clay based grease which never hardens in a fitting and is easier to clean up as well. If I have a questionable fitting, I just replace it with a new one. Have plenty of SAE as well as...

One thing about Li-Ion batteries is, they run unimpeded (at speed) until they run out of juice and then quite suddenly they die. Don't believe I've ever seen any electric saw where the chain speed over the bar is even close to a gas powered saw. I'll never have one, ever the prominent reason...

Typically, YT vids on chain sharpening are replete with bad information. Better off watching the Oregon video's. They know what they are doing. In my perspective, YT vids are mostly for entertainment purposes only.

Up here in snow country, 4WD is a requirement dictated by the weather mostly. Of course 4WD (unless it has limited slip differentials or lockers) isn't really 4WD, it's 2WD one wheel in the front and one wheel in the back. Our farm is 1.5 miles off the pavement and a lot of times in the...

..and some truck drivers are tools as well..

I use it religiously in all my diesels. It ain't cheap but it works and it don't take much either. Keep in mind that the PS biocide will kill the algae but it won't remove the exoskeletons that are left behind so you must clean the fuel system anyway.

Moose and Elk are just fine in the deep freeze. Bear as well.

Time for a carbide tipped full or semi chisel loop. They are expensive but will last and last. What firefighters use when cutting through shingles on a burning house. On my saws I run either 325 or 404 full chisel but then I do breathe on my saws as well. Takes some grunt for full chisel...

A loop is only as good as the person who sharpens it and all loops get progressively dull as you use them. I suggest you learn how to properly file a chain and cut the depth gages. Oregon has some excellent tutorials online.

The issue with an aluminum trailer is repairing it if it cracks or has a failure. Has to be TIG welded or pulsed MIG.

I was an employee (and was dating his daughter as well), so I did what I was told to do. That was over 60 years ago btw. You seem to dwell on negativity for some reason. Maybe I need to put you on ignore. I don't buy your comment either. You aint no saint.

I'm a dedicated watcher of Wrist Watch Revival on You Tube. That guy is amazing and his Schnauzer helps him a lot too.

Don't know if I collect or invest, maybe a bit of both. I own a pair of Rolex's, a Presidential day-date and a Submariner that I purchased years ago as an investment but I wear (everyday) a Seiko 5 sports automatic that keeps fantastic time. It looses so little time I rarely have to set it...

Most stuff around here, especially in the summer months, gets microwaved. We don't have ac so range work causes excess heat and my wife buys microwaveable meals mostly.

Take a HARD look underneath at the chassis as well as the tires and hubs, Horsey trailers sit for extended periods of time and mostly sit outside in the elements.

Did the same thing when I was a kid working at the local Pure Oil (remember them) station, The owner insisted we always check under the hood (was all full service back then) and if the oil or windshield washer was low to be sure to tell the customer it needed filled and if they agreed, we...

Yes, they are and my Kubota front mount diesel came with air ride.

Once I went to a Kubota front mount diesel, the ZTR stays in the barn almost all time now. Think I'll sell it. Don't need the extra upkeep anyway and it's my wife's mower and she never uses it.

Sure have some strange names.

Keep in mind that you live in an entirely different geographical area than we do. Cottonwood's and willows like to resprout after grinding. Evergreens never resprout.

About the only thing to fail on a gas range is the Piezo ignition.

So long as you compensate with your feed rate it's all good. Why my stumper has a slip clutch on it.

Hard as a brick or punky as a sponge don't matter to my stump grinder other than it takes a but longer to grind a brick like stump. The solid and indexable tungsten carbide teeth can care less. I don't get concerned about them every sprouting again anyway as a quick blast of Roundup Ultra...

Where did the old hand washing of dishes in the sink go? We still do that for most dishes. Far as appliances go, they are designed with a 10 year replacement life today. Don't matter what brand actually.

Time to buy one... Never heard of anyone not having a vise...

What a lame video.

Musta not looked very hard... LOL Every box store like Lowes or Home Despot will have them and the washers as well and so does Tractor Supply or Bains or Farm and Fleet... Far as the 'bent over washer' is concerned, buy a flat washer clamp it in a vise and bend it over... You'll need a...

Keep in mind that if you excavate any stump, you are left with a hole that has to be backfilled. With a grinder the depression is minimal and really no backfilling plus stumps are a PITA to get rid off. They don't like to burn and are messy. I much prefer grinding them and most stump grinders...

The most important aspect with any turbo charged engine is cooling the turbo down after running it hard. I idle both my Kubota's for about 2 minutes to allow the hot side of the turbo's ceramic bearings to cool off and get fresh oil. Besides, both of mine are straight piped and I love the...

Better get yourself something with large gonads, tractive effort as well. I prefer a stump grinder myself but with a grinder the stumps have to be cut a lot lower.

Emissions do but hairdryers have been around for decades and well proven so not really.

The 64 dollar question is, where did the ground strap go and what did it do? I will say one thing I have never had an issue with are sparkplugs.

The sun in general is wicked on Kubota's, especially the paint that fades from Kubota Orange to Mary Kay pink.

Just like you but neither of my tractors would fit in the garage anyway, way too tall. Tractors in the barn along with everything else including the RV.

I don't live in the city and won't live in any city for that matter. One, I don't like neighbors in close proximity and Two, you cannot farm in the city.

If you have an open station and keep it outside at all in the rain, check the gearshifter boots for cracks and holes. Sure way to get water in the transmission.

Sadly, the only 'natural gas' I have I cannot combust but it sure does stink. :p

Interesting. Around here it's bare flexible copper line.

All pellet vent has a stainless steel inner liner, the only difference between venting approved for combusting corn versus combusting pellets only is the grade of stainless used. That's it. In reality there is no difference between 'Premium' pellets and normal pellets. Most are produced...

Additionally... Biomass (pellet and corn burning appliances) don't produce creosote if vented and operating properly. All they produce is fine fly ash, no creosote what so ever and why they mist be maintained religiously and often as the fly ash will plug them up. When I'm using mine, they...

Keep in mind that Harmon is by far the most expensive solid fuel burning units on the market today and far as I know, none of them are corn biomass capable. In my opinion, Harmon's are pretty units but I'm not into pretty, I'm into functional and all of them basically do the same thing and that...

Today, it's all about making it a cheap as possible and selling it for the maximum profit.

If keeping your butt warm when it's cold out, 'carbon neutral' is the last thing on my mind. In fact, it's dead last anytime.

I agree but.. Key is changing them in a timely manner or the result of inaction can be very expensive. Therein lies the issue. If it's working fine, why change it, kind of like checking the pressure in your tires, sort of. Serpentine belts can look just fine but are ready to fail.

At today's inflated prices, anything you heat with will be expensive...anything.

Understandable. I've read about numerous scams at the quick change oil places in the past.

Air filters, tire pressure, starting batteries and connections as well as not greasing grease points are all the major lack of maintenance issues.

They are not. Only blow out with low pressure compressed air from the inside out. Low pressure means below 35 PSI.

I see you have a 'Ritchie' watch band on. Good watch bands. I have one on my Seiko 5 Sports Automatic watch. I have the solid (no stripe) canvas one in blue. Matches the dial face on the Seiko. Sometimes, the camera sees the unseen....lol

No picture but the tapered (slope) part of the vanes face the outer inner diameter of the pump cylinder and that applies to air operated rotary tools as well.

If anyone wants the Lock-N-Lube coupler or the McNaught coupler I have, I'll send them to you, you just pay the postage (USPS Flat Rate Priority box) as neither one of them work in my application.

The OP needs parts for sure. Probably a gearbox.

Hope you used a Genuine Gates Fleetrunner cogged belt. All I run are Greenstripe Gates Fleetrunners I'd never buy any modern vehicle with a timing belt simply because most modern engines, the valve train is an interference fit, IOW, a broken belt equals the valves hitting the pistons when...

I have never 'trusted' any of the 10 minute oil change places and would never go there simply because you really don't have a clue what oil or filters they are using and most of the 'technicians' and I use that word very loosely, are ill trained in the first place and probably don't make squat...

My view is that TSC will purchase their lubricants from whomever they can get the best price from and make the most profit with. They are, after all, a profit orientated company and why a growing percentage of the goods they offer, come from China and India. That may soon change with the...

At 74, I still do my own services. Not that hard anyway.

Chinese parts...lol

have not purchased factory rounds in at least a decade except rimfire of course.

just replaced the pulse pump and fuel filter on my wife's ztr. corn squeezed gas again. kawalski v twin.

I have 3 of them actually, 2 in the shop and one in the house and all pellet vent has a stainless liner with an air gap and it's twist lock. I don't know how big your shop is nor the insulation but I can tell you, you won't be happy with a pellet stove as the BTU output, even on high is not...

If you put the choke on and it runs better, sure sign of a gunked up carb. Corn squeezed gas is the bane of small engines.

Crappy corn squeezed gas....

Nice thing about the Lincoln or Alemite couplers is, the bottom half of the coupler is adjustable for grip. The cheap ones cannot adjust.

I know people say Seafoam is snake oil but I use their Top End intake cleaner on my Focus RS at every oil change and you'd be amazed at what comes out the tailpipe. Not the Seafoam in the can but the aerosol one with the included straw. You have to put it in post MAF sensor however, it will...

But you have NO choice. Government mandate and you comply or do without.

Well, I bought the LNL coupler only and found out the body was too large in diameter to fit in the recessed openings on my loader so for me, it's worthless. Tried a McNaught as well and it's worthless as well. While it fits, it won't stay coupled so I'm back to the standard diameter adjustable...

90 bucks for a manual grease gun seems over the top in my view.

Candidly, I don't believe I've ever used the brakes on either of my Kubota's. I need to check and see if they even work.

Better you than me.... Good luck. All States Ag Parts has a huge inventory of salvaged and parted out units as well.

Not really other than maybe my disc bine. I have to be careful with it because the rotating knives can cause small rocks to get ejected forward when mowing. Even my owners manual cautions about that and recommends mowing with an enclosed cab tractor instead of an open station. I have no...

I can see folding it if it presents a clearance issue like keeping it in your garage for instance. In my case, the units stay in the equipment barn and it has a 14 foot high overhead door. ROPS structures are 100% operator discretion until something unforseen happens and then it's the I should...

With my M's folding the ROPS is NOT an option as the cab unit has it's ROPS built into the cab frame and my open station has a canopy attached to the ROPS so they are always 'deployed' and yes I wear a lap belt in the cab unit. The open station has no seatbelt. Never did.

TS to you:LOL: Reminds me of the JD plastic hoods...lol

Specifically made in (assembled) in Georgia. The big ones still ship in containers from Japan (and Italy) and the little ones are made here with, I believe crated engines made in Japan. Any time I see the blurb 'globally sourced components', I cringe. Kind of like the blurb 'World Class...

All it takes in ONE time and you have a flat head or worse. Like your picture of the boom pole with the weight box on the end. One dip or hole and she's going over and your 17 years comes to an abrupt end.

Another owner with a folded ROPS that is doing nothing far as protection is concerned.

I've had the same 'Torch' plug in my pressure washer since it was new, about 10 years ago.

Is it even possible to buy a Deere from an independent dealer? Are there any left?

No Cuts, Scuts or Putz here, never will be. I have no plausible use for a small tractor. Only 'putz' is me. If it's not at least 60 PTO power, it has no place here.

So what is your point other than you have had a bad experience, something anyone can have but something most people don't want to have. Arly, you need to run spell check on your posts or at least proof read what you post, before you post it....lol "Seems to me all tools are no built with the...

What concerns me is where they are made and by whom. India, in general isn't high on my list of desirable countries to have a complex machine built at. Maybe that is just me and my views but I'd never consider one to purchase. Of course having said that, I'd never consider a NH tractor...

That is entirely dependent on how the tractor was maintained and if the oil was changed in a timely manner. Oil clearance with insert bearings is entirely dependent on regular changes with quality oil more than anything else and good filtration as well. Using cheap motor oil and extending...

Not me (though I posted the original comment), certainly not a 'tractor virgin as you call it, I'm on I believe my 10th and 11th Kubota's and the 2 I have now are getting old and have had little to no issues other than routine maintenance. I farm with mine not 'hobby' tractors by a long shot...

9 hours and 49 hours, there is a lot more to the story than what you are alluding to I'd say.

HF has their deep cut porta band on sale this month...

replace it...

I did none of that. I have multiple outlets on the back of my tractors so I purchased applicable length's of hydraulic hose and applicable couplers plus a set of disconnects at the loader connections so I can easily break the flow if I want to remove the loaders. Fabbed up a bracket and...

Replace the 'idiot light' with an analog gage. Idiot lights are just what they say... for idiots. Unit is old and clearance are probably excessive so change to a heavier viscosity oil...

Actually, they make casement ac units, I have casement style windows in the back of my shop and a window unit in one of them as a supplement to the climate control in the shop itself.

I use a red paint marker on my Kubota's. Kind of blends in with the paint color on the units. Just be sure to use a 'paint marker', not a felt tipped marking pen as the marking pen ink will fade quickly.

I contemplated buying a PTO driven genny but went the other way instead. When we loose power, it's usually in the dead of winter and I didn't want to be fiddling with a PTO unit when it's below freezing anyway. I actually have 2 standby gen sets, a diesel powered Generac that is plumbed into...

Why I paint mark (I use a hard tipped paint pen) to mark the heads and shafts of the bolts. That way you can see immediately if they have loosened. Pretty much SOP on big trucks with 10 hole Bud style wheels today as well, but in that case, they use a pointed that attaches to the lug nuts and...

I TIG weld alloys all the time and the issue is: It's oil soaked and aluminum alloy tends to soak up the oil and so you cannot TIG it unless you remove all the oil from the 'pores' of the alloy and that can be pretty complex and time consuming as in repeated 'baths' in various non contaminating...

I use amber Fluid Film on my terminals and lugs. Never have any issue with it. The black stuff makes good tree wound dressing as well.

When I'm doing second or third cut and it gets dark early, I'll shut the engine off in the tractor, tilt the wheel all the way up and put my feet on the wheel and listen to the crickets, the engine cooling off and watch the Northern Lights in the sky. They are faint here but out in the field...

Too big of a crack to TIG. Replace it.

Sounds like the AC is low on refrigerant and that tractor will most likely have R11-12 and that is Verboten today so it needs to be refitted to R134A or Propane which requires a seal change and maybe a compressor and none of that is a cheap date and probably why the AC don't work. Curious as to...

Out of the ground of course.

Bet not. Between airing tires and checking bolt torque and battery maintenance the bolts have to be the most neglected thing on any tractor. I check mine at every oil change and I paint mark the heads so if the get loose, I can see it right away.

I still maintain that the owners that modify their pickup trucks to 'Roll Coal' are the biggest offenders and should be fined or their trucks confiscated for it. My 97, 7.3 is modified with a full Gale Banks kit and it don't 'roll coal' ever. Maybe a puff when working hard, but that is it...

You got that right, every weigh station and roadside inspection always includes a check for emissions compliance and it's easy to tell, all a driver has to do is throttle up the engine and if black smokes comes out the exhaust, they fail. Of courde that don't apply to older units like I own...

Take the plate off and look, it may be an eye opening experience. Yours is much easier to access than mine are and why I turn the knob often before and after I use an implement that requires a lift rate adjustment. No one on here is gonna come over and help you deal with the issue. It's 100%...

Just 'puree' those snakes with your shredder. I do by the creek, often. Pureed snakes make good fertilizer.

Not germane to me at all actually and don't change my view of TSC lubricants at all. They don't refine anything, never have. They buy them pre packaged from a middleman or refiner and then the middleman or refiner applies their label and ships it off to TSC and they distribute it. I know where...

Cheap fencer lacking enough Joules. Far as juicing the strands, not the bottom on e but the top run or the next one down and never pee on an electric fence wire either or it will cook your pee pee.....:p

We have an answering machine built into the landline phone, we run a Brother Intellefax answering machine and never physically answer the phone, ever. They want to leave a message, we call back but panders never leave a message anyway.

If they come on either my wife's desktop or my laptop, the security software than my cousin installed on these computers (he a Lenovo retail seller and runs his own software business and has 30 full time employees), deletes them before they ever show up in my inbox, plus we run Nord VPN on both...

I have one of each of the Kubota M9000's. One cabbed and one open station and they each do certain jobs on the farm and yes, I broke the left hand side door from my stupidity and it cost me just under a grand for a new one and I paid for it out of pocket because my farm policy has a 1000 dollar...

I get 40 out of my 18 Focus RS so long as I keep my foot off of the fuel pedal. I tend to drive on cruise as much as possible and interestingly, I get my best mileage in the summer with the climate control on... I get it up on the turbo and the mileage goes south real quick. The emissions...

Interesting. I get 22 unladen out of my full Banks equipped forged rod 7.3 in my 1997 Ford CC 4wd I bought new in 97 and will never sell it. No rust either. It's never been in Michigan snow. They built trucks back then, unlike today's tinfoil trucks. Has a real full ladder frame and sits on...

Why when my wife bred and raised Percheron horses, I fenced off the back pastures with 12.5 gage smooth high tensile wire and electrified it with a solar powered Parmak fence charger. Dang horses were too expensive to damage. I took that tip from the Amish. How they fence their pastures...

Not here in Michigan or none I've ever seen here, but then Michigan don't do emissions certifications to renew tags anyway. Most of the jalopies out here would never pass anyway. I constantly find lost auto parts and tools in the roadside ditches in front of the farm. People around here loose...

Soundguy would be jealous if he's still around. Bet it's not the original tires either. I just put new Trelleborg radials on my open station and 4 tires were a tad over 5 grand mounted here at the farm. That hurt.

Looks good for it's vintage. You take excellent care of it, I must say. My comment is if it's electrical or mechanical engagement, the final engagement will be mechanical, probably via a cable or/and lever on the center section. You need to check the mechanical engagement parts to make sure...

Compact tractors have no place on this farm. Closest I come to that is the Kubota gas side by side I have my spray rig in and I pull the Tine harrow to set my alfalfa overseeding with in the spring. Nice thing about vernal alfalfa is it propagates naturally unlike Round Up ready alfalfa that...

I've gassed up when visiting my cousin in New Lennox and the gas station I fueled at actually had shrouds over the filler nozzles to catch the fumes and they were a PITA as well.

Only thing I buy from TSC which we not so affectionately call 'Tough Shitte Charlie's' is Rotella T6 when on sale and lynch pins and bird seed and suet. That is about the sum total of what I buy there and never any 'Traveller' fluids, ever. My tractors were expensive to purchase and I only use...

What 'stuff' was stuffed under it? Curious minds want to know?

I've taken no less than 10 price increases on hot rolled steel sheet, plate and shapes since inflation has been the deciding factor and I don't buy foreign made steel either. Has to be marked made in USA or I reject it and I buy in truckload quantity only. Mostly from Alro or Contractors Steel...

if I'm not mistaken, when Kioti first started out, they bought the out of date tooling from Kubota and then painted their tractors a shade of orange and Kubota sued them for Trade Dress. Don't know what the outcome was but I will say, if there was a Kioti dealer nearby and they built a large...

Additionally, I read on here about owners that have selective catalytic reduction units on their tractors and I'm here to tell you that a failed or malfunctioning DEF dosing unit on a big truck stinks terrible. It's worse smelling than any diesel exhaust could ever hope to be and truck drivers...

The thing I don't like nor understand is, you have to run the new emissions compliant diesels at high rpm which, in my view, flies in the face of what a diesel is all about. Diesels are supposed to be high torque, low rpm engines, not high rpm engines and it seems to me that the regenerations...

I have no idea how many. I know California does, so does Ohio and so does Illinois. Michigan don't (I live there) but who else, I have no idea.

I could be wrong. I remember reading something about them a while ago.

I have no issues running pre emissions diesels (including my diesel pickup truck) but one thing I frown on are these kids today with their chipped up and juiced up diesel pickup trucks, rolling coal, which is nothing but visible particulates and for show. I have a full Gale Banks kit on my...

I disagree with that actually. Every state and municipality with emissions testing is sniffing your tailpipe and if you don't pass, you don't get your license plates renewed. Kalifornia is especially hard on that. So is Illinois.

My only comment on that is... Tell that to China and India.as they don't give a hoot about clean air or water or anything else and what they spew into the atmosphere, we get to breathe eventually. Remember, we all live on the same planet. Until every country on this orb gets with the program...

Don't matter one bit to me. Both my tractors, Kubota M9's are pre emissions and I bought them new and they ain't going anywhere anyhow, so I'll never own one anyway. Besides, I only have 4500 and 6500 hours on the machines so they are just broken in. Kubota's VTE engines will go at least 50K...

I believe the DK has or had a Perkins diesel engine.

I have the echo straight shaft with the bicycle handlebars and the over the shoulder harness. I bought the one with the metal drive shaft, not the spring wound one. it replaced a Stihl FS66 straight shaft I've had for decades. Quite happy with it and I usually have the scratcher blade on it...

There will never be an emissions compliant tractor on this farm so long as I own it. I want nothing to do with them. Waste of diesel fuel in my view and waste of urea if they have urea injection. Urea is good fertilizer, not good emissions compliant additive. In fact, I buy and use outdared...

Nice thing about my 02 M9 cab tractor is it has the 2 speed flip shaft PTO option so I can flip the shaft from a 6 spline 540 to a 21 spline 1000 rpm variant and run the engine at an indicated 540 with a 21-6 spline adapter on the stub and that puts the engine at 1500 rpm so it's loafing along...

I repaired a couple mis welded backhoe's and loaders for my dealer during the covid debacle. Seems as though the folks in Georgia were a bit sloppy when jigging up weldments. Mostly crooked pin bosses. Seems to have vanished as of late. Must be the employees have gotten more adept at setting...