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Good call, we have all the manufacturer data available here. For my configuration of F150 (crew cab, 6.5' bed = 157"wb, 3.31 gears = not max-tow) my conventional bumper tow is 11.2k but the 5th wheel tow rating is 10.1k, interesting. But for the 3.73 gears (max tow) the rating is the same at...

I also have 10 acres of all wooded land and always wanted a chipper. But I realized some years ago that I actually never want to own one. Mainly because I simply wouldn't use it, who has time for that? Even if you don't want to manage burn piles to get rid of all your slash - you can just...

Ok, one engine stall, we'll forgive ya. But 3 strikes? yer out. Just kidding but for the sake of your nice tractor, be careful! Slip clutch pressure, small bites, correct side of the stump, etc. All of the advice above is good. More simply, if you feel the tractor bogging down from a big...

Haha, ok sure. You gotta dig a narrow trench on flat ground, thats great. The videos I have seen are them tipping over when on any uneven terrain, and failing to lift heavy things because they simply aren't big enough. If you need a toy digger thats fine, but they simply don't excavate tree...

Good point. Tons of people are buying these new chinese 1-ton units and will likely quickly realize that they aren't very capable or practical to maintain.

Thats what I used to do, before I got comfortable taking the whole tree. It's still way, way more difficult without the majority of the tree mass helping lever the stump. I wonder if you guys considering this practice too dangerous have actually tried it? I find it a very controlled and...

Yes. But taking down the whole tree using a backhoe or excavator is by far the easiest way to get the stump out! The whole weight of the tree helps lever the stump along with it. If you chainsaw the tree down first, then its at least twice as difficult to get the stump out afterwards. I...

Awesome project and thanks for sharing! Would another option be to allow yourself to raise the grade of the new building by 12-18" to get the excavation done sooner? shouldn't be that awful to have a gentle ramp up into the building for your equipment storage, no?

For my 7.5' backhoe on my 5000 pound tractor (with front loader and backhoe on), I generally limit myself to felling 12" trees and smaller. The 15-20" diameter trees I have tried to fell have taken FOREVER, with many repositions of the machine to be able to find the right roots needing cut...

Backhoes for CUTs are definitely just a nice money grab for the manufacturers. Most people that buy them use them only a few times before they just sit forever after that. I only got one because I bought used, and it came in the package - so thankfully the original owner did all the money-pit...

I grew up swimming in ponds and lakes of PA (poconos). Definitely need a rinse off afterwards, haha.

My fam is heading up to Platte river (Michigan) in a couple weeks for our annual end-of-summer camping trip. It sucks there, no one else should consider going. It's absolutely awful up there, on a slimy inland lake. 🤪

Not really! Only if you dam a river. Of which there are several big reservoirs. But - no waves, no endless view, no sprawling sand dunes, no different birds and aquatic life. Theres just something special about ocean beaches (and the leeward side of the great lakes!).

Welcome to TBN! Congrats on the new machine. Are you yanking on the levers with the tractor turned off?!? Don't. Start the tractor, work the hydro pedals back and forth a bit, and all of a sudden the range selector should move just fine. I'm not sure its meant to just freely slam back and...

Dunno if I would readily agree there. Most of what I am grappling is uneven loads of sticks, brush and logs of varying diameter. I often wish my grapple was a bit wider to help control stuff from wanting to tip out to the sides of it when you are clamping down. But I do agree that the weight...

Haha good call. I hope this thread doesn't go dead with the OP abandoning us, but it could. I'm just a bit stunned that he said he repaired multiple broken wires somewhere in the harness, but then was wondering if it really needs a harness replacement, or how to continue diagnosing it.

Absolutely. Generally speaking, combustion converts volatile substances to less harmful ones that can float away in the air and diffuse down to infinitesimally small concentrations. Whereas if you spill a big batch of petroleum onto the ground, it can permanently ruin the groundwater once its...

Seconding the other suggestions that you need to degrease and powerwash the entire machine. Attempting to solve wiring issues on a filthy tractor is simply ridiculous, IMO. You also stated: So wait, how many broken wires did you find?!? You imply here that you found multiple wire issues...

So cool. Of course I had to hop on google maps and go see what it looks like now - oh just a giant lake! Must be really, really deep eh.

I absolutely love seeing the results of your elbow grease. Every good machine deserves a coat of wax periodically. Nice work! How come you don't let your neighbor or others hay your fields also? I can't understand mowing 7 acres or more just to look at short grass, when it could feed...

Completely agree. Spilling gas is FAR worse than letting a pittance of it evaporate out of the nozzle over time.

I bought a larger pack of similar nozzles and caps from amazon a while back. Behold the beautiful options available

Saw this, great news. Reducing gas can flow to a pathetic dribble helped nobody. So wait. They are only directing the manufacturers to specifically add vents again. So potentially increasing cost a little bit. And you still must have the spring loaded nozzle? ugh Glad I have all my old...

Yeah well said, pretty much my experience and thinking also. I think 3 of 10 trees need the stumps removed so i can lower the grade, then ill just grind the rest.

Do any stump grinding yet? I have a stand of around 10 trees in the 8 to 12” diameter range that i want to take out soon…. Do i laboriously dig all the stumps out with my backhoe, or just saw them down and grind the stumps …? Existential quandaries, now that i have tools of all kinds.

You have just described the scenario in which keeping a running, 2nd tractor around is highly valuable. I wouldn't be trying to tow up to 2 tons when you already have a 1000-lb backhoe mounted. Buying a used mini-excavator to do your digging would be an even better plan, though. If you've...

Haha yep. We are definitely beating some summer boredom with chalk time lately. It's been hot and steamy most days but thankfully the biting bugs are not bad at all.

Not much new to report on the concrete pad. It got nailed by a young lady driving one of those heavy delivery vans for amazon that are made by rivian. She pulled a hard u-turn around my driveway island and didn't care one bit not to hit the concrete on her way. No issues noted though...

Yeah the slip clutch seems to be set on the high-torque side to begin with. One note of caution, Don. I had similar thinking to you, couldn't measure anything easily, figured why not try it first. Well, I did stall my tractor one time with a big cut into a hard stump. Not cool, as the whole...

Welcome to TBN and thanks for the super informative and helpful first post!

Don, since the PTO shaft and slip-clutch stay with the grinder, you only have to get it on once. As mentioned, you spread it out just a wee bit and it will go right on. I pushed mine on by hand after opening it up just a little bit. I don't think there are any warranty implications from a...

Don, no offense at all but if you read the thread a little closer you’d learn that some if not most of us have to pry open the slip-clutch end of the shaft juuuust a touch to get it to slide onto the grinder. A chisel, prybar, etc. I also filed the very ends of each spline/groove a touch to get...

Now that I have my quick hitch, hooking up my hog should be pretty rapid. My meadow is getting pretty thick! Of course, I currently have my backhoe on, which means spending at least 30-40 minutes to prepare a good spot to drop it first. And often it is stuck tight into the subframe mounts...

Fantastic. Keep goin!

Anyway back to more pleasant matters, haha. After excavating this area down to level for my concrete pad, I had way more removed spoils than originally expected. What would you swag this pile at, 7 or 8 yards maybe? I didn't really have an easy answer of what to do with it. This removed...

I do appreciate the reminder to be cautious. I don't plan to post anyones faces in my threads going forward. But nearly every person I know is voluntarily putting their own families close ups all over instagram and facebook every day (my wife and I do not engage). Online privacy is kind of a...

Indeed. I sited this garage to essentially straddle a ridge of high ground, so the ground slopes away on each ridge side of the building. I don't have gutters on it but that hasn't really proven to be an issue. Regarding pics that have people in them. If you or any AI tool can make a...

Yes, probably hard to see but i left 5 pieces of rebar sticking out of the first half around a foot long, that i tied into the rebar grid on the second half. Hopefully that is enough to resist the two slabs from frost heaving or settling differently over time. I think with my pure sand soils...

Then the project scope started to creep a bit. Ok so the concrete was all done, but I wanted a smooth transition to compacted gravel all around it. And we didn't want to park the trash and recycling bins on the basketball court, so I decided to carve them out a new home. Backfilled with my...

Next it was time for some finishing details. All of the cut control joints got vacuumed out and then we filled with foam backer rod, topped with sika-flex self-leveling concrete caulk. The old apron in front of my garage doors really should have been removed and replaced. It's not very flat...

About $155/yard for outdoor 4000psi/6-sack, plus environmental fees and tax comes to just over $170/yard in total, delivered. Edit: no idea on "finished" concrete as done by a crew, I didn't get any quotes for this project. My rough guess was it about doubles the cost. So am only into this...

Yeah, as long as you do it right! Having old busted up concrete can be pretty awful, and it sure isn't easy or fun to remove. So I make sure not to skip on compaction and rebar. Plus getting a slower cure is important. We set up a wifi-enabled sprinkler controller for this second half of the...

I hear you there. Concrete is aesthetically pleasing, so easy to clean, super sturdy for storage and any activities, etc. I can envision a future where I add additional outbuildings and have them all linked by concrete drives so I could shuttle stuff around with a little forklift, etc.

So then it was time for the second half of the pad. When laying this half out, I realized it would be a little closer to a driveway island than I was comfortable with. When we get any deliveries, guests or even lost folks who don't stop to check in, they come down and blast around this island...

Two saturdays ago! She's all done. Will keep updating

Well I figure I took enough pictures along the way that I might as well share this project I am just finishing up. Feel free to correct my techniques and methods however you want, keeping in mind that it's too late now, I think I did a fine job (first time doing flatwork!), and it's done now...

Ok those pics are helpful, definitely very steep and a narrow trail already. My intuition would be to excavate lightly on the outside edge of where you already have substantial trail width loss and build back up with boulders or gabion cages, etc. Then you'll be driving over top of this...

It'll work! You might be clutching quite a bit. On big stumps it takes a LOT of passes to finally get the whole thing done, so you'll have to find a rhythm : 3-pt up, back up over the stump, pick your line, drop pto, forward to grind, repeat.

Yeah thats much better, but still quite expensive. Hopefully doesn't chew through those expensive 22" tires too quickly (curb weight 8600 lbs!). Looks like the "standard range" is estimated at 283 miles but not official yet. Which means in deep winter weather, you're probably looking at ~200...

Nah nah nah. Back up there with your backhoe, and scoop out a flat bottom hole in the native soil underneath this problem area, then you could drop in a cage and fill it up. If you get back down to the native soil on the trailside, it should have plenty of bearing capacity and stability.

Thats plenty for digging drainage ditches, waterbars, etc. Probably the way my brain would work to armor your eroding section is with some BIG rocks, boulders, concrete chunks, etc. Dig enough of a pocket into the downslope into native soils to retain them firmly, then pack it all up with...

Do you have an excavator or a backhoe you can use or borrow?

Seems maybe you are focusing on how to armor that area to handle big washouts, instead of preventing the washouts in the first place. Make sure no draining water can blast that area and then your modest repair jobs should hold up better. Ditches on the upslope side into culverts or armored...

They are using a 0W-40, actually. Yes probably synthetic. The specific brand of oil does not really matter so much as the viscosity grade. So any good synthetic 0w40 or 5w40 would work fine. make sure it is "dexos" compliant, should say on the jug. Dexos is GM's oil quality specification...

This is all handled by your local township (unless they defer to the county for permits and inspections). Stop into the local township office and be friendly with everyone and ask to talk to the local building/zoning official, they can invite you in for a meeting to answer all your questions...

Nope. Nothing special, ever, on any of my small engines. Zero carburator problems due to fuel in my entire adult life. You guys who fuss over fuel draining and winterizing small equipment just really confuse me, none of that is at all necessary. Our power went out for a couple hours on...

Yeah... no grass or old leaves, sticks, etc are allowed to stay on my nice gravel. It just turns to mud over time if you allow that. But I also don't really understand how some of you can have such issue with this. I dont get grass anywhere that we frequently drive on. Contrary to Paul's...

I just poured a 28x~15' pad last friday afternoon (north half of a basketball court in front of my pole-barn-garage). Unfortunately its a pretty long run from my hose spigots on the house for doing any car power-washing, but maybe I could make it work... Normally I power-wash on the gravel...

I only use mine for the free cash transfers from friends and family. The one-click checkout at certain sites (ebay, for example) is convenient, but also a bit sketchy

Jasper, some pics would help, especially if you had any during the installation. Wild guess: do you have clay soils? Sounds like you may have dug a bathtub. I would tend to align with the other comments about drainage around the area. I'm not sure your exact material choices are to blame so...

Yeah I save all my brake discs as ballast adders. Some implements are easy to add them to with a bit of threaded rod and nuts and washers. Loaded rear tires plus a heavy attachment is a very good setup already though.

Your 2022 Kioti has a strong loader, KL4030 with a 66" bucket yes? It should always be able to lift a full, heaping scoop of soil, no matter how wet. The thing is that lifting a heaped bucket while also trying to break the pile apart is harder. It's really a matter of technique. If your...

I guess it wasn't all wheel drive after all? Or maybe the passenger side rear tire is spinning that we cant see

THREAD DRIFT ALERT. No one really care about your amazon package delivery experiences, gents. Quick, somebody post a towing fail. Here's an idiot on the beach as a quick respite. https://www.facebook.com/reel/3955609844651672

Exactly. Kubota had the B3350 that also sucked, but just that one model.

It's hard to believe we are still discussing this topic as if DPF's are somehow a bad idea or unreliable technology. You guys. DPF's have been used on diesel engines since the mid 80's, and were widely adopted globally for trucks somewhere more like 20-25 years ago. The technology is not...

Well I guess all I had to do was complain in this thread and then all my tick problems would magically go away. Haven't seen one in weeks now, even after multiple days of working in the woods. We do always get a spring surge followed by a summer lull, then one final round of high activity in...

Resale value is a good point if you're into finishing a project and then moving on, but I'm with John. When I buy a tractor attachment, the intent is to periodically use it for the rest of my life. I could definitely have rented a grinder for a day for the amount of stumps I needed to do, and...

Haha yep. One or 2/3 stumps, ok, but "a number"? Might need some compensation for that. Pizza and beer at a minimum. Welcome to the mechmax team. I started this thread when it was priced at somewhere around $2000 and still looked like a bargain, but a year later when it hit $1400 is when i...

The Carlile Turf-masters on my Cub ZT2 mower show both "max 10 psi" and max 2.5bar (=36 psi) on the sidewall in directly conflicting markings. So stupid. I'm running ~12, pretty comfy.

I had to google that one a bit. Most hydro/transaxle fluids are more like 20w50, BUT, there's plenty of ~30W specs out there also, should be fine. You can run whatever tire pressure you dang well please. The ~10-15 psi range is definitely nice and cushy, and gives better traction. Just gotta...

Yeah, I mean I didn't mean to portray the free zt2 50" I got as a total turd or anything. It runs great and I have indeed noticed the increased mowing speed in open areas by being able to turn directly around and just fire off laps. But on yard edges and trails, etc.... not any faster than a...

I was getting pretty nervous that my firewood log-harvesting window had closed until fall, as I'm not really a fan of sweating into my eyes or getting attacked by deer flies and mosquitoes. But thankfully mother nature delivered me a nice cool memorial day weekend before the bugs have come out...

Mobil-1 5w30 will be just fine. Not sure what TomPlum was talking about with a special oil for air-cooled engines.... there's no difference between air cooled and water cooled in terms of oil needed, they run in the same general temperature range with the same general internal components...

I recently inherited a few-year-old ZT2 50" cub with 200 hours on it. I am very much not sold on it yet, coming from a well-used Deere GX335 riding mower. The cub does a nice job striping the main lawn cutting grass, but if you hit one weed, it leaves it standing. Traction is pretty poor...

Yeah, its only proven to fail up to 3% of the affected engines SO FAR. But GM should know what batches of crankshafts coming out of Mexico had these machining defects. Frankly, any engine that they bothered to include in the recall is suspect; if GM isn't confident in them than I wouldn't be...

Bummer about the scam site. Always stay vigilant when shopping online! I ground about, oh, 20 stumps this long mem day weekend. Unit performed like a champ. I had some black walnut stumps in my woods from when I got them logged for veneer way back in 2012. They were still hard as heck...

Thats good to hear. But even with 40 weight oil on my truck, I would be waiting for the ticking time bomb to eventually seize a main or rod bearing still.

Jesus christ. Is this whats its come to for those of us wishing to live in the woods? you have to actively sweep your lawn for disease infested parasites? UGH.

Another exhausted tick sufferer in Michigan here. The worst part is that 10 years ago we only had brown dog ticks. Now we have a ton of deer ticks. My poor 5-yr old daughter is on lyme protocol antibiotics currently. I had one half into my back a couple weeks ago and am currently weighing...

Good advice here! But seriously, working until you nearly have heat stroke is a good way to injure yourself. One mistake working around this kind of heavy machinery (even if the CK2510 is a pretty small tractor comparatively) can set you back months of rehab or affect the rest of your life...

Glad you are enjoying your personal inside joke. :P

And, so what? The OP has an even smaller machine than me, and the guy who said to never used a hydraulic top link for brush hogging has a small JD1070. Some times you bigger farm guys forget that most of us on this site are actually just homeowners.

I don't agree here, I frickin LOVE having my hydraulic top link installed for brush hogging. My woods 5' cutter has it's own flexible top link linkage. But the hydraulic top link on my tractor allows me to instantly pull the cutter way up to adjust to big dips or gullies, etc. And when...

The way that I buy affordable garden tractors is to buy used John Deere machines. Got a GT275 for $500. It was a little rough but fixed up nice. The 44" piranha deck was too narrow for my acreage, so I saved up a little and found a GX335 with 54" deck and bagger setup for $1800. Probably...

This is a great point. You think your agent is looking out only for your interests, but in reality what they want is their 3% commission with a sale closed ASAP so they can move on. So they scheme with the other agent.

Shucks. If you can come up 10 or 15k...., I would put a new offer in their face fairly soon.

Well you shouldn't ever have to run your generator overnight. All you need is a very basic amount of battery charge to keep a fridge and freezer going overnight. (assuming a woodstove for heat).

Not personally, but yes the police are involved. Doubt they will be able to track down this out-of-state scam artist with any real charges, but hopefully it at least scares this sketchy real-estate agent into doing better.

Be careful, Arly. Make SURE that the listing agent is dealing with the real owners. The 3 acre parcel I split off my land and sold to dear friends who live out of state and want to move to MI eventually, just got listed for sale randomly last week! A real piece of S%^& was imitating my...

The vast majority of C6, C7 and C8 owners apparently do. LS3, LS9, LT1, LT2, LT4, LT5, let's see, did I miss any 6.2L corvette engine variants? :) I really want an LS3 C6 manual. Probably another decade before I can buy a toy like that though, we'll see.

https://electrek.co/2025/03/31/tesla-cybertruck-split-half-crash-with-g-wagon/

Yes pickup trucks are very, very common as daily-drivers for many people in rural and even suburban areas of the united states. No restrictions on where you can go with them, although some city centers and parking structure sure aren't very fun to navigate. We like to drive full size...

That dude is wrong though, IMO. After an engine grenades, you can imagine up many different initiation points as the cause. When a rod bearing seizes and throws the rod through the block, the piston and wrist pin suffer a lot of damage. The rod goes all catty wampus (sp?) and the circlip...

Did you cut off the two tall longitudinal metal-tubing supports underneath? A pic from the bottom would be awesome if you have it, thanks.

No, it's not the oil's fault. But the 20W oil is making everything riskier, just a fact. OEMs are risking these kind of engine issues en masse just to try to save 0.1mpg across the fleet. Ultimately we can blame the EPA. Frankly, getting the dimensions (bearing diameters/widths), clearances...

Yeah I see consensus forming on crankshaft surface finish as the primary culprit here. What I don't understand is why the surface finish on such a critical component is not measured, verified and documented. Not saying you need to measure every single piece, but at least some pieces from a...

If you want a long x-country ski season... you're in the right spot with that one eh.

Wow that is some high elevation. 1800 ft at the top there? Within spitting distance of our state's highest point. Looks awesome.

Well I think you need to tell us the real story now, lol. Sounds like you are insinuating that GM made fake drawings and then accidentally used them with suppliers? Very hard to believe.

All the components are supposed to hit the engine assembly line nice and clean already. Adding an active flushing/cleaning station to the assembly line is probably too expensive and logistically difficult, when it shouldn't ever be necessary in the first place. Flushing the engine later on...

No, there is not a new design, it is the exact same component design, just now with better surface finish on the crankshaft, and no debris left in the oiling passages. IE, basic quality control. GM does not produce and keep an inventory of thousands of old spare engines just in case. You may...

Sounds like some speed bumps would cut down the dust, haha. Dust control is part of why I like to have clean washed stone as my driveway surface. The fines are the dust. Washed stone isn't nearly as dusty when dry. But I am lucky, only my own house on my 1000' mile driveway. We just keep it...

You're right, you get the same version of engine as a replacement, BUT there's nothing new to do anyway. It's not an engine design flaw causing these issues, it's manufacturing defects, which are now solved. So if you get a new engine swapped in, you're good.

I don't know if tractor-supply is getting these SpeeCo's from some sort of clearance house or what, but it came with no paperwork and just some bubble wrap around oh, 80% of the unit. Forgot to take a pic before ripping it off. But the bottom on each side was unprotected and just covered in...

Just picked my SpeeCo up from tractor supply along with a couple longer CAT1 pins. Excited to get all my attachments configured.

Don! How about some pics of the new machine and how you set it up to run.

Dang, you held on for a while to be honest. I gave up 2 weeks ago here in Michigan. If it doesn't stay below ~40° from the evening through morning, a fire is harder to keep drafting in my house and easily overheats the house to near 80°.

Thanks for this image. I will need to reconfigure my old 7' rear scraper blade with something like this, probably.

Eh, up to that shop to decide their labor rates. Essentially by charging more for equipment bought elsewhere, they are telling those prospective customers that they are simply not interested in doing that work. Maybe they are fully busy as is with their own brands and customers work already...

Thanks for the tip. My dad's compact Deere 2210 currently does not engage the front wheels either, needs investigation.

My splitter does go vertical but I tried it once and vowed never again. Wrestling 200lb round into place just to shave off one piece of firewood at a time, then bend over to pick everything up... no thanks. I like to keep everything up at working height.

Oh for sure. It's just so much work to chainsaw through giant logs to make rounds, and you have to use heavy equipment or have a lift on your splitter just to chunk through it. It's a lot less efficient processing than just staying in the ~20" and under range, in my experience. My retired...

Well if that isn't the cutest little shed for a brush hog that I've ever seen, lol. Would probably be a pain to hook up inside that shed if not for the quick hitch eh? I still don't have a consistent storage solution for keeping my attachments out of the weather. It really takes a lot of roof...

Gosh that sounds like a whole lot of work just to get a firewood pole to your property. Why bother with such huge logs and rounds?

Thanks @dinoedwards for the timely thread. I am more interested than ever in getting myself set up with a quick hitch. But the idea of adding bushings to all my equipment sounded daunting. So then I found the good works tractor page and was intrigued by both the speeCo and their own quick...

That's a good point. It'll keep the rust dampened but then you may not have good conduction.

Oh and per earlier comments, I also had some difficulty getting the PTO shaft on. On the grinder side, I had to pry open the coupler a bit. On the tractor side, I had to file some burrs out of the shaft coupler before it would go onto my tractor. No big deal but worth knowing about before...

I was cutting my oak stump to at least 5" below grade and I could still drop my 3-pt further, doesn't seem like a limitation that will bother me. Oh and by the way, the extra carbide teeth I bought for my mechmaxx were inside the box with the unit. I have a feeling they will sit on my shelf...

Might as well add a post to this thread every now and then in case anyone reads all the way through. This 2019 Kioti CK3510 absolutely kicks butt. I'm at ~330 hours now and it has zero issues, solid as a rock. Some weeks she only gets an hour or two of run time, others 10+. Most routinely...

I love my Kioti CK3510, but honestly I would also love to trade it for a 2620 Cab with a turbo kit. I see more and more guys turning up the fuel screw on the 2610/2620s to gain power. Good for them, but I also see smoky exhaust that I would never want. But mostly I just want to hear a turbo...

Well I guess I should feel lucky that I scored the $1400 price and that mine arrived within a week! This thing kicks butt. Finally got rid of a 10-year old oak stump in my garage yard that was still hard as heck. I realized after that I forgot to take the pins out on the top that allow it to...

That is terrible. Sounds like your unit was very poorly assembled by the dealership. Missing bolts, poorly adjusted, hydraulic leaks, etc. Not cool. But I also have to say, reading through your list of issues, there is a lot of nit-picking : Noises you're not familiar with, some flop in the...

Ran 6 loads of gravel with my neighbor's 5x10 over the past week, zero issues. 2-yard loads of gravel are so meager, really sucks not to be hauling more - but would rather be safe than sorry and my landscape supply shop is just 5 miles away and only two intersections. It basically doesn't even...

Always fun to find presents on the loading dock. And to have an excuse to keep my forklift operator's license valid. Nice packaging, externally anyway. Hopefully my extra carbide teeth are in the box? hmmmm

I suspect R1s, R4 and turf are same cost (at the listed pricing), with R14 a bit extra. Sometimes a lot extra.

Yeah. The rugged made 22-ton states a 10 seconds cycle time, highly appealing for me. The thing is, when your ram hits a tough piece of wood, it slows way down and cycle time becomes much longer. Kinda hard to account for that.

That's good, sorry to doubt you at all. Bummer about the suspension bits though.

Zombie threads are the best though. This one is chock full of good advice, keep it rolling! Does a basic skid-steer flail mower actually shred woody bushes and saplings well enough for a land-clearing biz?

Unfortunately so. A 6x12 should have 14k axles under it, in my opinion. My neighbors 5x10 dual axle is a 10k rated trailer, and it weighs ~3k lbs itself and can hold 3 yards. 3 yards of wet gravel is easily 9k+ lbs of load. So I limit myself to 2.5 yd purchases when borrowing it.

I am SO very much on the fence to buy this sucker. Definitely seems like the best deal out there by far. My current MTD 6-hp splitter has a low beam height, no lift, slow cycle time, no 4-way wedge, etc. Works ok when you have helpers but is atrociously slow when working solo.

HOLY S%^&, thats some criminal trailer design right there. A 6x12 dump trailer can easily be loaded with DOUBLE that much weight. To the OP, if you really bought a 6k rated 6x12 dump trailer without realizing it, well first of all I am sorry. but second of all, c'mon.

Got a shipment notice today that shows it actually started moving in California yesterday. Next day shipment from California and projected arrival in one week flat. Pretty rad. Like others in here, it will probably take me some weeks to get it uncrated, set up and try it out. Need to repair...

One of the most recent reviews on their page says they got a partial refund by reaching back out to mechmaxx after the sale started. Which is pretty nice since they really have no obligation to do such.

Wow! Good lookin' out, thanks for sharing the news. Hmmmm, is it time to commit? If not now, when would I ever. Edit: I did it, joining the club soon. Got the extra pack of replacement carbide teeth, but not the rear camera or outdoor cover.

Hmmm. I am wondering what a big PTO-drive rototiller would do. If you could get the glass onto the surface, could you rake it up by hand?

No offense intended, but I'm not sure you've actually driven a day-cab with a DD13 or DD15 engine anytime in the last 15 years? The fact that you have to clarify 4-stroke instead of 2-stroke implies that your experience is from many decades ago. They are absolute powerhouses. I dyno test them...

All the laboratory technicians working for auto suppliers in our area are making $80-120k now. Not a car dealership, no, but its comparable work in many ways. No specific formal education required, just have to prove your competency at wrenching, diagnostic/programming, and solid decision...

This whole conversation seems pretty crazy to me. The only part right about Kamala's slogan "we're not going back" is perhaps for well proven emissions control solutions. Diesel particulate filters and their periodic required regenerations works perfectly fine as an effective technical...

Yes the Tesla supercharger stations do appear reliable and effective, BUT, there's still not nearly enough of them available, if you consider the legislative goals to 10x the number of EVs on the road (not happening, but still their goal). In popular spots like California, or Norway, at busy...

I bought a brush grubber when I got my overgrown land. Used it about 2 or 3 times, then never again. It was very effective at gripping a sapling and yanking it out, but its awful for work for one person. Heck even with two people, the person on the ground fighting through brush to affix the...

I use my rear scraper blade for this. Maximum angle, and tilted aggressively down and forward using the top link. Some does spill to the outside, but very little.

I mean, you can always let it surface rust a little and just take a flapper wheel on your angle grinder to it once or twice a year to clean it up. A damp rag of WD40 should hold it off for a while tho. But some of you guys sound like you keep yours slathered in oily carcinogens, lol.

Kioti 2610/2620 w/ turbo would really be a sweet spot for a TON of CUT buyers, I think.

read the post.... : 14-17.5 rear tires/wheels from a late model 2032R/2038R 25x8.5R14 front wheels/tires from a 3 series (Or swap the 23x8.5R14’s from the 2 series to the 25x8.5R14 tires) I agree, that looks really awesome. When I was a kid I would always grab a 955 brochure from the deere...

I will say that GM vastly improved their cylinder deactivation strategy with their new DFM (dynamic fuel management). Instead of the same 4 cylinders turning off with the old AFM, the new DFM strategy continuously cycles through all 8 cylinder of the engine in as many as 17 different patterns...

The range chips to disable AFM work very well. No issues. A couple of my coworkers routinely trade up through GMC/Chevy 5.3L 1500s and always buy the range chip to disable AFM/DFM. If it were my truck..... I'd be doing an aftermarket ECU tune that increased HP and responsiveness as well...

The point of the dual fuel injectors (port and direct) on the 2nd gen EcoBoost design is to specifically avoid carbon build up on the intake valves (the port fuel injection washes them with gas). Each cylinder explodes gasoline at >1500° 50+ times per second, so there really shouldn't be any...

Again, just my opinion, but at 1600 rpm of just driving around on flat ground carrying firewood, you're not working the engine much, and the exhaust/turbo shouldn't be all that hot to begin with. In such cases I tend to idle for just 10-20 seconds and then shut down, no harm at all in that...

No way, thats not allowable as a default. When you need to turn the engine off, you need to be able to turn it OFF NOW. Say you had a hydraulic system leak, a coolant leak, oil, etc. Or you pull into your garage with no fresh air. I could probably think of a hundred reasons why I want...

Yeah, different combinations of burner settings on my Whirpool induction cooktop can produce some very strange robotic squelching noises. Not very loud, or annoying, but its weird. One burner at a time, nothing remarkable, but get three of them on different settings, and it could be the...

He... crushed a round cylinder tank to flat by using an excavator? And then drove across it as a bridge? Or was the tank then just a culvert pipe? That is about the most red-neck thing I have ever heard, lol.

Hey I recognize that footing! :) Such a fun project. I pretty much just used what I had around, spare CMU blocks, 3 course high on each side. Has held up very well so far. I only had 3 telephone poles, really wish I had 4 or 5 underneath my decking. But thankfully my decking is...

Lol, "knobs to turn" is a figure of speech meaning "what variables did they have available to adjust". Sorry, engineering speak I guess. Updating the software to "make it run better", resulting in increased temperatures in the exhaust, can really only be done by adjusting the timing and/or...

Guess which connecting rod below is from the big tough 6.2L, and which one is from the cute little 3.5L EcoBoost, haha Every engine ever sold to the public has had to pass durability testing of a similar severity: hundreds of hours spent sustained at peak-power, full-load conditions. The...

Thats good for your DPF regeneration, but what did they change to accomplish this temperature change? The only knobs they would have to turn to affect DPF/exhaust temperatures is from diesel injection and combustion in-cylinder for your engine. Not sure how carefully you track your tractor's...

Think someone already replied to you but just for further info: You hold the gas pedal to the floor and crank the engine, it wont start until you lift the gas pedal. Its meant to build fuel pressure after you do any fuel-system maintenance, all Fords and Mazdas can do this. Not sure how much...

Ok Ok ok. Don't turn this into a d!ck swinging truck competition thread, haha. True, a '97 7.3 will last forever. But thats about the only good thing I can say about it. :ROFLMAO:

Nah, almost none of that is true for the 2nd gen 3.5L EcoBoosts engines built from 2017 onward - except for the Cam phasers. My 2019 3.5L is at 70k miles now (bought used at 54k miles) with zero cam phaser noise on the original units. I intentionally do a "flood start" to build oil pressure...

A one-ton mini ex in the rocks and boulders of central maine? Don't do it. You need a minimum 3 ton mini ex or ideally 5+. You'll want something that can pull an 18" or 24" wide bucket with power.

You only heat what is more or less directly against the flat cooktop. So you can heat up a wok if it has a big flat area on bottom and enough mass to carry it up. But yeah, no big fireball to torch the whole sides of it.

Oh, don't get me wrong, I do not support energy choice mandates in any way. I should have left that sentence out of my post, haha. Only point was that most people do not think about or understand their indoor air quality situations at all. High VOC paints, cheap furniture and carpets...

Our whirpool induction range / double-oven unit from 2015 is still going strong, no issues. Absolutely love it. Fun to show people who've never seen one how you can boil an inch of cold water in a pan in about 2 minutes flat. Has never built up any crud that required scrubbing in all 9 years...

No generator that you can hook up? My 6500 watt Generac easily runs our well pump. Yeah it kicks hard when it starts up, but never stalls or trips. Our house is all electric too. My biggest gripe is that our fancy heat-pump water heater doesnt like the square wave power out of my...

Wow, Don! nice work. So wait, did you buy a processor? I thought you were renting one periodically.

Whats your method for slitting the sched40 pipe to slide it on the plow edge?

Having the proper stability and loader lifting capacity is the primary reason I upgraded tractors from my old Cub Cadet (now my neighbor buddy's machine) to my Kioti CK3510. It easily lifts a full IBC tote bin of green split wood up to 6 feet in the air. Will tip forward without any ballast on...

https://midweststeelcarports.com/free-standing-metal-lean-to/ Doesn't necessarily have to hook onto the shipping container, right? There's free-standing options - "lean-to metal carport"

They generally do hold up "ok" for stacking. But after 5-6 years of use, they are getting a little bent out of shape - primarily because I cut all the fronts out of them for easy unloading. And also due to my occasionally careless operation with the forks, doh. I am often moving full crates...

Well no, not planning to burn anything split fresh. Since we only need to burn about 2-3 full cords per year, I may just squeak by on the ~1.5-2 year old split wood already on hand, very nice and dry (mostly cherry and ash). And since a lot of what I was just splitting now is long-dead ash...

Well the unseasonably warm fall weather continues. Hard to complain about t-shirt weather in November, but also, the ground is turning to dust. Thankfully a nice soaking rain today, but it wont be enough. Had to keep the kiddos engaged to press forward on firewood production this weekend...

Since I asked for the house pics, I'll help get back on track also. Set up a new log-splitting arena for this season, more room to work and shuffle bins, and doesn't block anything in front of my garage like I used to. And finally got my some help from father-in-law and my kid. Aiming to...

Wow! Can we see a pic or two, or do you have a thread on your historic house? Because my house is small (1650 sq ft) and super tight, we actually kind of like medium-BTU firewood. A few hearty sticks of solid oak when it's not frigid outside, and our living room temperatures can soar into the...

I think you post images on photobucket, no? I can never see any of your pics (work firewall blocks them). I was wrong about any oak species being below black walnut though, I retract that one.

I have a limited amount of oaks on my property here in southern michigan, they are very robust and beautiful trees so I would never dare cut one down on purpose for firewood. The Walnuts on the other hand.... abundant and detrimental to my garden/planting areas (juglone poison). The obscene...

They're pretty tough buggers. Don't let the rest of it rot before the firewood value goes to nil, though!

Huh? Black walnut is terrific firewood. Most firewood BTU charts show it above 20 MBTU/cord, better than ash, cherry, most maples (edit: NOT any OAKS, retracted) I burn a lot of black walnut, as I have a large grove behind my house that keeps trying to encroach into the yard and garden areas...

Absolutely - Put the third 4x4 atop the other two, centered over both of them. You just need to make your lumber stack into somewhat of a pyramid. But also, if you have a 6.5' bed, 8' 4x4s will fit diagonally and allow you close the tailgate, no strap needed. Just have to stack them atop each...

OP said it stalled whenever he tried to flow any hydraulic oil (load the engine). Not a good sign.

The main reason my OCD forces me to stack the wood in two rows in my IBC totes is: 1) critters. In a haphazard pile, they have so much protected nooks and crannies to build a stellar little nest. With two even rows, there is a 4-5" air gap down the middle between them that isn't so safe for...

I would plan on your service and any potential warranty work being done by the dealer you bought the machine from. Get the local dealer to price match the far away dealer as best you can. Asking another dealer to cover everything for you is possible, but a little rude. I did it myself, but...

Circa 2014 in Michigan: had a surveyor divide my 19 acre lot into 3 new, irregular shaped lots through thick forest/brush. Cost $3200, surveyor was kind of mad he didn't ask for more to do the job.

I have no problem with my tractor staying under the metal carport, except lately some critter (red squirrel?) keep packing the engine bay with oak leaves. Cleaned it out for the third time the other day, now I have to keep the hood popped open when parked, pretty annoying. Anything parked...

Yeah this is how it used to feel in southern Michigan, too. We'd often have continuous frozen roads and accumulating snowpack from ~ new years until March. So everyone had to know how to navigate slippery roads daily. But more recent winters? Any snow we get just melts within a week. People...

A coworker of mine borrowed our family's 4x8 utility trailer to move houses. Put a lightweight couch in it and hit the freeway, no straps. He said he watched in the mirror as it levitated up, started windmilling in the air behind him, landed on its feet on the pavement at 70 mph, and did a...

Perhaps your fence design is a bit, uh, over complicated. :)

Heck I would pay $1500 just to hear the noise of the turbo spooling when you cold start the machine, or lay into a pile (add load). I love turbos. While you are quoting a small increase in peak power (14% or 7 hp or whatever), keep in mind that the peak torque increase may be even greater, and...

The chicken wire to the cattle panels? Yeah I used zip ties. Probably some of them are cooked by now, but between weeds/vines/corrosion, its all staying in place just fine. You can buy more substantial quality of plastic zip ties, or even metal ones too. Good selection online with better...

I bought a sack of little mending plates, IE the thin metal strip of zinc plated or galavanized (better) with 2 or 4 holes in them already. Put over any section of wire in the cattle panel, and 1-1/2" deck screws to fasten.

Sounds like a pretty good plan to me. You're definitely over-designing it, but if that's how you like to do things, right on. My 2 cents: Ditch the framing nailer idea and just use outdoor/deck screws, everywhere. This way it is all removable/adjustable if you need to make any tweaks. Also...

Nah not really. Did you fully unbox and assemble it? Sounds like a fun project for a couple evenings in the shop to me.

They look pretty dang similar to me. Sounds like you have no direct evidence yourself, but wish us all to accept your assertions anyway. I mean cripes, they are probably made with the same tooling, in the same factory in China.

Dang, pretty excited to hear your feedback when you start grindin'. Can we get some teaser pics in the meantime? :P

^ haha, looks like a pretty boisterous time We had a cool daytime visitor in the yard recently. I hear these guys a lot at night, but very hard to spot them. Looked like nearly 2 feet tall, large bird!

Next time (hopefully never) find the corresponding connector for the hydraulic circuit on the loader (where you would unplug to remove the loader), unplug, and you can stop the leak completely. I had a branch snap over my bucket once in the woods, blew a bucket curl hose right off the fitting...

The Lowes website is so horrible, that I simply do not shop at their stores, ever. It is truly amazing to me that in the year 2024, Lowes cannot figure out how to let you search for products that are actually physically present in their stores in a functional, efficient manner.

I don't think it offers any good flavors. But yeah you can see the squiggly trails of the emerald ash borer beetle on the trunk of the tree under the bark that fell off.

Yeah, definitely looks like Ash to me. Great firewood!

Same, I thought for sure it would be a tangled brush hog picture, haha.

Wretched stuff indeed. My neighbor decided to use it around the 8' posts to secure his garden. All it does is cut up the deer who jump through it anyway, sad.