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I need a good axe but I have no idea what to look for or who makes good ones. I do know that most of what I see in the home stores look cheap, both the heads and wooden handles. I have two of the Fiskars/Gerber camp axes and they are the best made, best balanced, sharpest most effectives axes...

I've got a 6 year old F-150 Supercrew. Because it has 4 doors the bed is very short. For years I've had a toolbox that sits down in the bed like this: Its been okay but its hard to get to from the side of the truck and because it sits on the bed itself you can't put long flat stuff in the...

I have a front tire that is constantly going flat. Its a tubeless ag tire (4wd). It has many tiny leaks around the bead. I think the problem is my fault. Several times I have neglected to notice that the air pressure was low and have driven the tire off the rim, filling the rim with dirt etc. To...

Whenever I have questions about anything I usually start here at TBN because there are lots of smart people here with a wide range of interests. But this time I may be stretching it a bit. In any case, it looks like I might have the opportunity to move into my grandmother's house. It was built...

I need something to help prepare my corn seedbed. I plow and then I disk but I'm still often left with lots of clods. The clods make it hard to push my hand planter along (its one of those Earthway type planters). This led to a lot of bouncing and fits and starts that in turn led to uneven seed...

I've posted a notice about the annual Richburg, SC tractor show for folks in SC or NC who like things like old tractors, barbecue and good music. Follow this link: http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/showthread.php?p=1685464#post1685464 Here is a thread with lots of pictures from last year's...

Why is it that if we want to grow something it is hard to grow despite our best efforts and if we don't want something to grow it grows well despite our best efforts to keep it from growing. I asked a farmer who is wise enough but is a man of few words. All he had to say was "sin"...... as in...

My dog has fleas. That might not sound unusual but he is seven years old and this is the first time he's ever had fleas because we've always used Frontline and it has worked incredibly well. There was one brief time when we used Advantage (?) and it did not work as well. But no problems with the...

The annual Richburg tractor show is this Saturday, June 13 at Lewisville High School just off I-77 a mile down highway 9 on the left. Very easy to find. The fire department is making and selling barbecue which is very good. Last year there was a band. The show starts at 9 am. Last year there was...

I've got a steep bank that is overgrown in small gum trees and briars. Too steep to bush hog. I've hand cut it several times and gums just come back thicker. Is now the time (i.e. right time of year) to try an herbicide?

I just need to blow off some steam....so horse lovers please forgive me, but I just hate horses so much right now I can hardly stand it. First, I get a call from my 30-something sister and she got thrown from her 'new' old horse earlier this week. Broke a rib and four vertebrae in her back...

I'm thinking about planting white clover in the majority of my few and small food plot areas. I might even overseed some of my grassy 'lawn-fields' around the cabin. I'm thinking about a mix of Patriot (good early yield) and Durana (last for years). I do not know when to plant them. Seems like...

Whenever there is a chainsaw discussion most folks usually chime in about how great Stihl chainsaws are and I usually point out how great my little 20 year old Homelite is, and how great it starts and all that. I also usually wonder why casual users would spend so much on a Stihl. Well, my...

I'm looking for a remote, self emptying rain gauge to get my B-I-L farmer for Christmas. As much as he depends on rain data, he still just has a cheap plastic gauge screwed to a fence post. It works fine, if someone remembers to empty it, etc etc. I've seen several types with a number of...

A while back my B-I-L told me there was an old plow in his junk pile. Sure enough, there was a modren (as in not one of the good old ones) plow like you might find at TSC. It was rusty but still functional. Both hitch pins were bent to heck indicating hard use in the past. Anyway, I've used...

I planted a food plot this spring with one of those commercial food plot mixes. It had sorghum, soy beans, sunflowers, millet, cow peas, etc etc. But, when it all came up there were several flowering vines that came up too. They spread all over the place and started making what look like...

What does a john boat have to do with owing and operating a tractor? It mostly has to do with operator negligence of course. Occasionally we see folks admitting to stupid things they did on their tractors. Today is my day for confession. I was mowing my roads this weekend. Went down the hill...

I just recently got satellite TV and there are at least three channels that show hunting shows pretty much 24/7. How do you hunters and non-hunters feel about these shows?

Rox, I hope you drop by this forum from time to time. From what I can tell from being here at TBN for a few years you seem to own and operate an olive farm in France and have won some awards for your oil. I have some questions about olive oil and I'm posting them here since olive oil is a...

I had a little area left over to plant a food plot after planting my other larger plots in cow peas and sunflowers. Just for the heck of it I planted a bag of Rack Master (or something like that.) All I did was disk the turf, fertilize and broadcast the stuff. I don't even remember what was in...

I was planning on posting a picture of my finished, low cost, low end shed just to show it off. Well, I got to looking at my pictures and a few thoughts crossed my mind. Look at this first picture: Notice anything other than a fairly decent DIY shed?;) The first thing that jumped out at me...

I have planted sunflowers over the last two years and have had great success in getting them to come up. I planted primarily for the deer but sort of hoped I'd get some flowers for the doves. The reason I plant sunflowers for deer is that it is cheaper than just about any other summer food plot...

Here are a couple of pictures of my watershed dam after it was cleared a few days ago: You can see my truck in both images for scale. The steepness of the sides does not translate well in the pictures but it is steep enough that it is hard to walk up and down. There are bulldozer tracks...

My wife and I were pulling sweet corn out of my little corn patch when she felt this ear and said it felt kind of mushy and must have worms in it. She peeled back the husk and then threw it down on the ground when she saw what was inside. She's not afraid of a corn worm but this stuff grossed...

I'd been looking for a way to put some sort of hook on my loader bucket without the trouble of welding. I found these at Tractor Supply. Each ring is rated at 10,000 pounds. I used grade 8 bolts to mount it. Since I will not be lifting anything much over 1000 pounds I figure this should be...

I'm sort of toying with the idea of buying a planter to plant corn next year. The JD 71s seem very popular but it looks like they are no longer made and even used they fetch a pretty high price. There's an eBay dealer out of Amarillo that sells them for about $350 for a one row. I happened...

I have an opportunity to buy a 1970-ish Kubota L200. I've posted about this in the Kubota forums here at TBN and gotten a little info. There are some pics there if you are interested. http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/kubota-owning-operating/124515-kubota-l200-good-restore.html It is a 2...

I've mentioned before that I've been interested in getting one of the little old Kubota tractors like the L245 or the B7100 and restoring it to new condition just for kicks. As far as I know, restoring old Kubotas is not quite the popular thing like old JDs and Farmalls. Well, my wife was at...

This may not be the right forum for this but I think its probably okay. But today I went to a little local antique tractor in Richburg, South Carolina which is about halfway between where my house is and where my property and tractor are. The show hardly advertised at all and it was hard to find...

I know next to nothing about boats of any sort. My parents have had a 20" pontoon boat for several years and I know how to getting running and have a good time with it. But, the old Mercury on it was starting to have trouble and so they just bought a Yamaha 60 hp 4 stroke. Brand new. Looks funny...

My B-I-L was re-screening his very large back porch and commented that the stapler he was using was wearing his hand out. Since I'm planning on screening in the porch on my cabin I bought a pneumatic staple gun assuming it would be a big help for both of us. I had my wife pick it up and told her...

When I built my cabin a few years ago I put up aluminum gutters, the sectional kind you get at Lowes etc. I wish someone had told me beforehand but apprarently these things don't work and mine are no exception. The leak at every seam. Its terrible. What a waste of my time and money! In any...

Man its hot here! We're very familiar with hot weather down here. Temps in the high 90's are typical and low 100's aren't uncommon but that usually starts in late July or early August. Its been over 90 for several days already and the forecast for the next few days is in the high 90's and above...

If you get bored, go to YouTube and search 'tractor plowing' or even better 'tractor ploughing'. One thing you will notice is that Europeans seem very into plowing, or 'ploughing' in Britain. It seems like in the US plowing has gotten passe for large farms due to compaction and other issues? In...

We've seen dozens of pole barn and shed threads here at TBN, but here's my contribution which may well be the cheapest one we've seen so far. This is going to be a low budget deal. Dirt floor, open sides. Posts are 4x6's straight in the ground, no concrete. The roof coverage will be 36x24'. It...

I'm planning on starting on my 34x20 tractor shed this weekend. Got my post holes dug last weekend. Got a deal on the posts, they've been delivered. I've got this afternoon off from work, so its a good time to go ahead and get all the other lumber I need. That way, Saturday morning I can...

I'm starting my 3 bay tractor shed/barn this weekend. This is bare bones sort of thing with a metal shed roof, open sides, dirt floor and I'm trying to do it on the cheap. But, it looks like I might have a little extra cash in the budget and it sure would be nice to have concrete floors. I...

Okay folks, I finally got the scoop on this local tractor show. The date is Saturday June 21 starting at Lewisville High School which is in Richburg. It is just off I-77 on Hwy 9. It is sponsored by the Richburg Masonic Lodge and they sell BBQ plates for $7. There is no admission fee or entry...

Below is a picture of my homemade post hole digger. I've had the main parts for over 17 years and just finally got around to putting them together with the digging parts. It is not particularly reliable but I'm hoping it will get more so with age. It requires tons of maintenance and just like...

I am building an open sided dirt floor tractor shed soon. It will be about 34' wide by 20' deep with three bays. It will have shed type roof. One bay will be probably be set up as a 'loafing' area/ stall for my daughter's horse to generate some goodwill from the female half of the family that...

I bought a new 7' Leinbach disk about 3 weeks ago. Works great. Very pleased with it. But, this weekend I noticed that two of the bearings (sealed flange bearings) ping when I rotate the axles by spinning the disks with them lifted off the ground. It is a pretty loud clicking pinging sound and...

Here is a picture of my daughter with her first turkey that she got yesterday morning (story to follow): My daughter is 14 and is not an avid hunter, but she has been a few times. My dad has taken her turkey hunting several times and the first time they went he called up 8 turkeys and she...

I went turkey hunting on my property yesterday morning in the rain and cold. Saw no turkeys but I found something else. These: For those who don't know, they are called morels and are a type of mushroom. They are considered a delicacy and are among the most expensive mushroom/fungi probably...

I'm getting ready to start my spring food plots. I've got all the equipment I need except a spreader. I'm planning on borrowing another fellow's spreader. I've seen it. Don't remember the brand. Its green, but not JD or Frontier. Looks like a generic cyclone spreader. All of my plots are small...

I'm sure there is some fatal flaw in this idea, and I know that I'm not the first or probably even the thousandth person to think about it, but why isn't anyone pursuing a diesel-electric car model based loosely on the concept of diesle-electric locomotives? In other words, it seems to me you...

I just got a new disk for doing my food plots. Here is a picture of it: It works great but apparently it came without a PTO shaft. I suppose it would work even better if it had a PTO shaft although I'm not sure how. I'm not even sure what you are supposed to hook the PTO shaft too but I'm...

The first thing I'll admit is that I'm no plumber. The second thing that I'll admit is that I often do my own plumbing. And with that out of the way let me share a strange plumbing problem......that I eventually solved. Let's see if you can. Now, to set this up, this problem involved the...

Here's the deal. I'd like to try my hand at planting some sweet corn. I have a plow and hope to have a disk soon. But I do not have, and will not be able to get a planter. I'm not talking about a 'field' of corn. I'm talking about maybe two or three rows, maybe about 100 feet long each. I know...

Hey folks. I haven't been here on the TBN boards in a while and its been even longer since I've gotten any seat time. Just wanted to pop in and let everyone know that I'm not dead (yet) because I know everyone has been worried sick about me!:D Seriously, flu season hit here in SC with a...

I have a ten acre pond on my property. Technically it is a 'watershed' built in the 1950s by the government to help control flooding. (We all call it 'the lake'.) It has a very large earthen dam at one end. There are two provisions for controlling water flow out of the lake. 1) On the north...

I had my '03 F-150 at the oil change place today and they mentioned that the serpentine belt had a nick in it. As you probably know, these places always find something that they want to fix. I asked them to mark it and told them I'd look at it. Sure enough there is a little (tiny) nick in the...

The porch on my log cabin is floored with 2x6 pressure treated boards spaced about nails width apart (like a deck). The cabin is 4+ years old and the porch floor is getting weathered looking. What should I treat it with? It is covered, obviously, by the porch roof but the porch is otherwise...

Here are some pictures I took last weekend on my B-I-L's ranch in South Carolina. I have a cabin on some property next to his farm so I'm down there with my family most weekends. My B-I-L has three daughters. The youngest and the oldest are two of his best farm hands.....well, outside of his...

My wife got me the new CD, "Raising Sand" by Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, yes, you read it right; heavy metal legend Robert Plant (of Led Zeppelin fame) and Blue Grass superstar Alison Krauss! I was a Led Zep fan in my youth. Never saw them play but have seen Robert Plant in concert twice. I...

I got my 16 year old son a bow for Christmas. He wants one just for target shooting and playing around. I got him an inexpensive recurve bow ($120) and it came in the mail today. When I ordered it the form asked if I wanted a left hand or right hand model. Well, my son is right handed so I...

We just had a recent thread about a girl falling into a well and it seems to me this is a very important safety issue. I was surprised at how many people said they had old open wells on their property. I mentioned mine also and I thought I'd share some pics of it and see if anyone else has any...

Over the last couple of months I've noticed a small Cessna flying past my land repeatedly. Each time he will make several passes over my cabin, four times yesterday. I've noticed this on 4 or 5 different occasions. I'm not worried or suspicious, just curious. I've flown with a friend of mine...

I'm sure for most people the connection between tractors and food is obvious. But, it is easy to forget especially on a site like this where probably most of us do not use our tractors in the production of food outside of small gardens or food plots for wildlife. The truth is, tractors came into...

I was at the SC State Fair yesterday. The livestock exhibits were great but otherwise there was not much to see on the Ag side of things. The only tractors they had there were Challengers (which I found surprising and disappointing). There was one monstrous articulated deal but the rest were...

Today was opening day of deer season in upstate SC. I had to work so I couldn't hunt this morning. But my 16 year old son and I went this afternoon. My Dad spent the night in the cabin last night and hunted this morning. He has very early Alzheimers. He still drives and hunts. Most people don't...

My brother-in-law is letting me use this plow: I do not know what size the bottoms are, maybe 16", but I don't know what you actually measure to determine the size. In any case, it has shear bolts in it but they are old and rusty and I've already bent the rear one. It is about ready to go...

A few weeks ago I posted about how my box blade was no longer working to 'till' for my little food plots. At that time my B-I-L had told me he had a 'plow' and I was thrilled to find a very rusty, beat up, but very beefy middlebuster in one of his many junk piles. Well I was back down at my...

Not long ago there was a thread talking about most of the tractor ads out there featuring shiny tractors (not a spec on the showroom clean tires even) with neatly dressed young sub-suburbanite 'men' (nancy boys) and women hauling potted plants around with their tiny little SCUTs on manicured...

I'll admit it. I'm one of those guys who likes a nice clean tractor. I usually rinse it off after really dusty or muddy work. I've had it for two years and it lives outdoors and even though it is showing signs of use and the elements, it still looks pretty good. In that two years, I've actually...

Hey guys, I need some expert help on a strange JD 5400. I'm not getting many responses in the JD forum so I thought I'd post here to see if I can get more eyes on it. Here is a link to the post: http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/jd-owning-operating/107828-info-asian-jd-5400-long.html Please...

I need some info on a tractor. A friend of my B-I-L just bought a tractor. It is now sitting in my B-I-L's barn lot along with a shiny new Howse heavy duty 7 foot rotary cutter, TuffLine disk and some sort of spring harrow cultivator. By all accounts he got a great deal on the tractor. It is a...

Okay, let's admit it, this place is a veritable cauldron of testosterone and chest thumping. Tractors, guns, trucks, tools, hunting, tractors, engines, plows, dirt, grease, blood, hydraulics, obnoxious bumper stickers, tractors, etc etc. As a group, we make Tim 'The Tool Man' Taylor look like...

I have a brush and tree problem. Two of them actually. The first is a steep slope leading down to my pond. I've cleared all the land between the pond and my cabin so that it is mowable and I can keep a nice view. But this slope is far too steep for any tractor. I'd say it is about 20 feet down...

What are the advantages of smooth vs notched disk blades? The Leinbach disk I'm looking at comes standard with all the disks notched. It seems like most of the disks I see have notched disks on the front and smooth on the back (or vice versa). Is there any reason to pay more to get all or half...

I'm slowly learning what most of you already know. But, it is through trial and error. Mostly error. This weekend I went down to my place to prepare my little food plots for the fall. I plant oats and I use my boxblade to scratch up the ground and then a homemade harrow to cover it all up. I've...

Did anyone hear or read the report that the poison oak and poison ivy crop was more lush this year due to global warming? I did not see the report but had several people mention it to me. They thought it was idiotic....which I did also. We had a good laugh and I didn't think about it for a...

I have a new fly rod and a reel. Both are new and nothing fancy. In fact, the reel is one of the autowind types which I'm assuming are not very popular. But, they were both given to me for free. I have fly fished before. For trout. In a mountain stream. No luck and it was years ago with my...

My B-I-L has a 4430: He overheard someone who seemed to know what he was talking about mention some type of inherent flaw in the 30 series engines. He's never had any trouble with his and he didn't hear any specifics. We're on vacation together and when I mentioned this web site he just...

There have been several snake threads here lately. Its amazing how interested we all are in snakes. Most any snake thread generates lots of posts and lots of snake stories with lots of snake haters and snake lovers. Well, I was looking through some photos and came up on this one. This was last...

I have a shallow muddy pond that is actually pretty good sized at 8 acres or so. It has had no care, gets full of pond weed and kind of stagnates in the the summer. But, I have a jon boat and have been doing some fishing lately. I used to pond fish a lot as a kid but haven't done any in years...

I noticed that the AC on my 2003 Ford F-150 SuperCrew 4x4 was not cooling as well as it should. It was still cooling, just not very well. It needed the tranny fluid flushed and changed so I asked them to take a look at the AC. The shop (at a Ford dealership) called and said something about the...

I was down at my cabin this weekend and my sister-in-law and her husband dropped by. They were both complaining that they were going to have to spend the afternoon bushhogging some pastures, which the both dislike, especially her. So I offered take her place and she took me up on it. It's not...

I know nothing about electricity, so I'm going to ask a stupid question. My family and I vaction in an old hotel in the western NC mountains. It is actually an old Victorian house converted into an inn. Nothing fancy at all. It has electricy and modern plumbing but that's all. No AC, no TV, no...

I have an 8 acre pond. I'd like to improve it and make it better for fishing and general use. I have very little money to put towards it though. I'll describe the situation and see if any of you wise folk have any advice for me. The pond is probably fifty years old and was built on a creek in a...

I took my '03 F-150 in for an oil change and the Ford place told me my transmission fluid and steering fluid were 'brown' and I needed to have the tranny and steering system 'flushed'. He said it should have been done 20k miles ago. (Of course when I took it in 5k miles ago he said nothing about...

I went to remove the box blade from my Kubota L4400 this weekend when I noticed that the bolt holding the left lower lift arm stabilizer link had fallen out where it hooks to the tractor. That left the stabilizer link flopping there up against the rear tire. It had obviously been that way for...

I was at my wife's family reunion at one of the cousin's little cabins in the woods when I noticed this thing sitting along side his other more normal looking implements. I've never seen a ride-on, three point hitch rake. And I'm wondering if that is what it is at all. Do you think this thing...

I love Google Earth. Its just a toy for me but its lots of fun. I really like the measuring tools that allow you to trace a line or path and it will tell you the distance in any units you want. What would be even more useful is for that same tool to allow you to make a shape using the path tool...

Let me just start out by saying that this isn't against Ford in general. This is about a single design flaw on a discontinued model. But it seems like a major mechanical and ergonomic goof up, but I've never heard any reports or problems from anyone else. In any case, I have an '03 F-150...

Over the last year I've scraped up a few food plots on my poor, hilly soil using nothing but my boxblade. I've had a fair amount of success given the conditions. Got a fair stand of oats, wheat and cowpeas. They deer came to the oats last fall but they didn't seem to be crazy about it. They...

You guys might remember a recent post by me regarding the gear oil in my JD LX6 mower always being a milky color. I had assumed it was water. So, I flushed the gear box out. Pulled the top off of it and cleaned it all out with kerosene. Cleaned out the vent tube (ball vlave). Resealed it all...

It just dawned on me that I have never done anything about termite protection for my log cabin. It has been finsished (more or less) for several years. It has a full cinder block perimeter foundation with piers on the inside. It has a sheet metal barrier between the foundation and the sills and...

How many of us have jobs? How many of us work hard at our jobs either mentally or physically or both? And then how many of us spend all the work week waiting for the weekend so that we can finally sit back and........WORK? It took me a few years but I finally got my log cabin in the country...

I'm sure this has been discussed before, but I searched back over the last 4 months and didn't find much. But, I'd like a little info about what I might need as a diesel additive. I'm not talking about anything specific, and I may not need anything at all. So let me tell you my situation, which...

I've got a used JD LX-6 rotary cutter that I've had for over a year. It works perfectly and was in very good shape when I bought it. I bought it at a dealer and they said they had changed the gear oil and all that. Well, at the end of last summer and a lot of mowing I checked the gear oil and...

I keep finding these things all over my place, usually when digging or ripping with the box blade. Most of what I find is smaller peices, the three below are the largest ones I've found and appear to be whole. I'm assuming that they are old plow parts. But, I don't know exactly what they are or...

Photography is one of my hobbies. Doesn't mean I'm good at it but I have fun doing it. I have the good fortune of owning property next to a farm owned by my wife's sister and her husband. They have three daughters (my neices) and my daughter is the same age as their youngest and they spend a lot...

I've never had much use for the hand throttle. But this weekend I realized that the fields I frequently hunt turkeys in had not been mowed in a year. The farmer next door owns the fields and he usually bush hogs thm once a year. I asked him if he minded if I cut them. He wanted to know if I'd...

I'm looking to purchase a disc (6-7 foot) some time in the future. Ruled out JD and Landpride as too expensive. King Kutter makes two models. One is light duty and made of angle iron which looks too cheap and flimsy for my needs. Their heavy duty model looks okay, has box tubing frame. That was...

I've managed to scratch a few small food plots in the rocky, clay soil on my place. Largest is maybe 1/3 acre. Smaller ones are no more than strips through the woods. Planted oats in the fall with okay results for the type of low budget operation I have (tractor, box blade scarifiers, hand push...

I was at my local Kubota dealership picking up a couple of small items and took the time, as I usually do, to stroll through the lot and look at all the tractors. I have an L4400 that is pushing 2 years old and I love it. I know that the 'L' series are Kubota's economy line of tractors, but...

I've got a 30 year old bathtub faucet that is leaking. It is one of those deals with one knob that has hot and cold on it, some sort of scald guard deal. I know nothing about these things but I think they are washerless. Is there any way to repair or replace these (what are the odds I can find a...

The recent discussion on kindling wood got me to thinking about fireplaces again. My home has gas logs and for the most part that suits me fine. A few years ago I built a simple 1000 sq ft log cabin on my property. I do not have the skills to build or install a fireplace and we did not have the...

Eddie, this guy is nowhere near as big as the one in your picture, but he was pretty stout for around here: He weighed 225 pounds, but get this, he had no right front leg! It was missing above the knee joint. It was perfectly healed and I couldn't tell if it was from an injury or congenital...

The reverse lights on my '03 F-150 are virtually useless. Does anyone make a brighter aftermarket reverse light that is a direct replacement?

Last Saturday I was at my B-I-L's farm. Some hunter friends of his had come by to fix a picnic venison lunch for he and his family because he lets them hunt on his farm. At the same time he and I were changing a rear tire on one of his larger JD tractors. We struggled a good bit getting the tire...

Just brainstorming here (talk about a tempest in a tea pot;) ) but I was wondering if anyone made, or knew how to make, some sort of water tank that would attach to the three point hitch for ballast. I realize that water only weighs 8 pounds per gallon, but something the size of a 55 gallon drum...

The advantage of an enclosed muffler, like the one on my L4400, seems obvious to me. But the bigger, nicer M series tractors have stacks. What is the advantage of a stack? Seems to me it would just get knocked off. I know that I'd have knocked mine off a long time ago. They also remind me of...

First the good news. I got a basin wrench as suggested (thanks guys) and my sink repair/install went just fine. No leaks and the kitchen cabinets in the cabin are now complete. Well, my wife wants them painted and I don't do paint. So they'll technically be finished when she paints them. Now...

I HATE plumbing. And apparently plumbing hates me too. I take care of the basic plumbing problems in my 30 year old suburban home and I even did all of the plumbing in the log cabin I built (one bath, one kitchen I used PEX tubing and love it!)) including the DWV system. Well, for the last two...

The first thing I did was to put regular automotive oil in my Kubota L4400 at the 50 hour service. Along about 80 hours I read on here that there are special motor oils for diesel. Who knew? The owners manual said it had to be CF, CD, CE, CF-4, CG-4 etc and like an idiot I just assumed all...

I know this is a frequent topic of discussion. I know the owner's manual says never to lift or support people in the bucket. I understand the risk is from hydraulic failure. And in general I don't use the bucket this way, but have, on occasion, done it; but very cautiously. I know that some...

I have a 2003 Ford F150 SuperCrew (4 door) 4wd with towing package and Triton V8. All my life I've driven manual Japanese 4wd trucks but in 2003 I needed a full size truck and this truck has served me well even though I still prefer small trucks. It is also going to have to continue to serve me...

So that's where baby Kubotas come from! http://www.tractorbynet.com/photos/showphoto.php/photo/3792/sort/1/size/big/cat/500/page/

Maybe it isn't so strange but I'm not sure what happened. I was mowing a few days ago with my L4400 and JD LX-6 mower. I was hot and tired and had to get off the tractor to limb up some pines along the road I was mowing. It was going to take a while so I turned the motor off but forgot to...

I built a log cabin from a kit about 3 years ago. I use my tractor to maintain and improve the property and roads around the cabin. It was much harder to build and more expensive than I expected but in the end it cost a lot less than having someone else build it and we've been enjoying the place...

I live in SC and I've cleared some small food plots for deer. My budget is small and my available implements include a box blade, a FEL and a rotary cutter. No plows, disks or harrows and I can't afford to get any of that this season. I've used the BB teeth to rip these plots up and I've turned...

I guess turnabout is fair play but my B-I-L cattle farmer has my little Kubota L4400. We spent the whole day last Saturday separating the cows from the calves (which now weigh about 600 pounds) so that the calves can be weaned and fed in a food lot. As you can imagine, neither the cows nor...

Here is a picture of a crack in the loader bucket on my L4400: http://www.tractorbynet.com/photos/showphoto.php/photo/3301/size/big/sort/1/cat/500 Here is a close-up: http://www.tractorbynet.com/photos/showphoto.php/photo/3302/sort/1/size/big/cat/500/page/ I think this will be easy to fix. I...

I need to add ballast to the rears of my Kubota L4400. I do not want to add tubes. We have abundant locust around here and tubes are always getting punctured. Freeze protection is a minor issue. I have the hose attachment and I ready to go but I'm very concerned about rust. I plan on adding...

This weekend I was mowing with my L4400 and JD LX6 rotary cutter. I mowed for about an hour and a half, raised the mower and drove back to my cabin. The drive is probably 1/2 mile with half of it unpaved field/woods road and the other half bumpy country blacktop. When I got back I began to...

I'm looking to build a 3 bay tractor shed for my tractor and implements. It needs to be simple and cheap. I plan on making it out of 6x6 posts. These will be put in the ground on top of some gravel. It will have a simple shed type galvanized roof. I'd like for it to be deep enough to pull the...

I have an L4400. Just changed the oil. But the dipstick on my tractor does not look like the dipstick in the manual and it has no 'full' or 'low' indicated on it. It has two bars which might be the full and low markings but it is so different from the one in the manual that I'm not sure. The...

I found a crack in my FEL bucket. I'd been doing some really heavy duty clearing with the FEL. I successfully cleared 2-3 acres of planted pines that varied in diameter from 2-6 inches, maybe an 8 incher or two. All were young and limber but many of the bigger ones didn't come out of the ground...

I have a Kubota L4400 (45hp). I use a boxblade and a rotary cutter (3pt hitch type) on it. I had a set of rear remotes installed by the dealer because I also have a pull type mower with a ram to adjust mow height. Well, this mower is old and needs work every time I need to use it so it mostly...

I'm not a farmer and have never used a plow. I am planning on planting some food plots in the near future but that is going to be a low budget affair for a while. But, I hear a lot of talk about implements that I have vague ideas about what they are and what they are for, but not specifically...

I just got a new box blade. Its a 6' Bush Hog SBX720. It appears to be built much like the comparable Woods, Landpride and Frontier boxes I looked at. About the same weight. The sides are 3/8 thick just like all the others. The mast is similar too. It is all welded, no bolts. I don't know if...

My L4400 is rapidly approaching the 50 hour mark and I plan on doing the 50 hour service myself and doing it by the book. I've heard the the parts and fluids alone are quite expensive. I am planning on using Kubota UDT. The manual says very specifically to use only UDT and the dealer siad using...

The deck on my new Kubota is getting all scratched up. Where my feet rest below the peddles is through the orange paint and close to bare metal. There are two small areas in other places that are already rusting and pain flaking. This is a weekend tractor and I run it very hard, but I want to...

After learning that I could use the FEL on my L4400 to grub pine trees in wet soil, I decided to clear the hillside in front of my cabin. It was covered in planted pines that obscured our view of the 10 acre pond below. I was surprised how effective this powerful little tractor was when the...

I've got a 2003 F150 SuperCrew 4x4 with towing package. it is going to need new tires soon and i'm looking for something bigger. But, before we start talking about Big Foot, etc, I do not want to modify the suspension at all. I could go for a 1-2" lift kit, but no one makes them. It currently...

What are the pros and cons of setting your rear tires to a wider width? I have a Kubota L4400 and you can get them significantly wider by flipping the inner rim around. My property is hilly and after reading a few of the roll-over posts I began wondering if I should do this. What will I lose in...

I've noticed that the front wheels on my L4400 4wd have a lot of positive camber. It seems like most tractors do, but I don't know why. It also does not appeat to be adjustable and seems to be set by the shape of the bevel gear. Can anyone explain why the extreme positive camber and if there is...

I'm a new tractor owner and have never owned a diesel anything. And while I don't have any intention of doing any engine work, I would like to understand some basic principles of how the engine works. As background, I have a fair understanding of gasoline engines and used to do some basic engine...

My tractor resides on my property which is about 45 minutes from my home. Until recently theft has not been a problem. It is the sort of place where you can leave your keys in your car and the back door unlocked, etc. But, last month my brother-in-law had 5 nice saddles, a compressor, a pressure...

I know it is a bad thing, I just don't know how bad. The house is 30 years old and as far as I know there have never been any septic tank problems. The yard, and drainfield, are red clay and it is now extremely dry and the ground is cracked and hard. The area over the septic tank is damp and...

Here are some pictures of my new Kubota L4400 and used (but freshly painted) JD LX6 cutter as well as my log cabin. It sits on 250 acres in northern South Carolina next to my brother-in-law's cattle ranch. I built the cabin myself. It was a kit from Southland Log Homes which is located nearby...

I hesitate to even bring this up because I don't want it to turn into a this-vs-that thread. I personally have no brand preference so that's not where I'm coming from. This is purely an observation, it might not even be accurate. But have you ever noticed that if you see a vehicle coming toward...

I looked under my used, but new to me, JD LX6 rotary cutter. Everything looks great except for the blade edges, which look terrible. I know they're not supposed to look like Ginsu knives but they a dull and dinged with some indentions. So I'd like to sharpen them. I have a big new file that I...

I got my L4400 in August and it has been great and exceeds all my expectations. Currently at 15 hours. However, I was mowing on some rough terrain a few days ago and noticed that the 3ph didn't raise the mower all the way up at times. I also thought I heard an unusual noise under my feet in the...

I've seen references to Top-n-Tilts but really don't know what it is. I'm assuming its a hydraulic ram in place of your top link. Is that all it is? If so, I'm wondering if I can make one myslef. I already have a rear remote. Can I just install a ram in the top link position and hook it to the...

What is a reasonable price on a well used, basic, 5' Howse box blade with a missing tooth? I'm thinking around $200. Am I off base?

I've got a new L4400 and I need to get tools for it. Does it have metric or SAE hardware? I'm assuming its metric but my tractor stays down on my property and not here at home, so I can't go out and check. I've got a standard metric box wrench set and 1/2" socket set, but they only go up to...

I have a Kubota L4400 4wd (45hp) with Ag tires. I would like to plant oats, clover, wheat, etc in small plots for deer and turkey. I have some small areas, all less than an acre that are cleared (no stumps or rocks) but haven't been plowed in decades. South Carolina peidmont. It is mostly clay...

Anyone know whats involved with adding a work light to the L4400? I think Kubota may have it as an option. Wondering how hard it is to install myself? Also, I've noticed that with an FEL the front headlights are not effective unless the bucket is high enough (which can block you view) or very...

I have purchased a used JD LX6 rotary cutter. I also have a very old JD 7' heavy duty pull-type mower (if you've followed my exploits with this mower it turns out that the problem is the slipper clutch). The manual in the LX6 suggests that aslipper that has been sitting for a while could be...

I'm planning on getting a rotary cutter soon. See some of my local research in this thread: http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/showflat.php/Cat/0/Board/implement/Number/719244/page/0/view/collapsed/sb/5/o//fpart/1 There is a like new but used JD LX6 with chains and slipper clutch for around...

I'm shopping for a standard to medium duty 6' rotary cutter. I'm looking at the more affordable options. The problem is, is that it is very hard to get an idea of what costs what. I know I can get on the phone and call regional dealers but I'd like to save a little time by knowing what's in the...

My L4400 is new and you check the tranny/hydraulic fluid in a little window on the back of the tractor. At first glance there was nothing to see in the widnow and it scared me for a second. So, I opened the filler cap and stuck a long, clean grass stalk down in there. Well, there is plenty of...

I've been using an old 'loaner' rotary cutter that my brother-in-law has but doesn't use. Its a 7' heavy duty JD pull-type and it worked great last weekend. Never hit anything big, never scalped or anything. Today when I hooked it up I checked the oil in the gearbox as my in-law recommended...

I have an opportunity to get a (used) dirt scoop real cheap. I don't have any real need for one (as far as I know) but I'm not sure I'm clear on how they work. There is also a boom pole in the package. I have a Kubota 4400 4wd with FEL. So I have a couple of questions. 1) Does the dirt scoop do...

1) I'd like to get water in my rear tires (L4400) to help balance the FEL a little. Is this something I can do myself? What are the drawbacks to having water in the tires? 2) My property is plagued with locust trees. (Actually, they are a mixed blessing, when they are dropping pods the deer...

Got my tractor on Friday! I'm very pleased and I've already done a ton of work with it. Once I've spent some more time on it I'll write a complete review. The review will have to be from a relative newbie perspective; I've driven large, off-road fork lifts (Lull type of thing) but that's a...

A while back I posted about pull-type vs 3pt rotary cutters. It got a bit out of hand so I don't want to revist the issue. But I did want to post my recent experience. First, my tractor is a brand new Kubota L4400 4wd. It is a geared model and has 45 hp. The mower is an ancient,rusty, very...

I've just 'ordered' my L4400 with FEL and rear remote hydraulic hook-up. I got the remote added because I have access to a tag-along rotary mower with a ram for height adjustment. The mower belongs to an in-law but is there for me to use when I want. Well, after I ordered the remote my...

I'm probably going to be getting a Kubota L4400 soon. I don't have a shed for it. And after the tractor I don't have much (any) money left over for a shed. But I understand it is best to keep them under something, for resale value if nothing else. Any advice or general plans for a small shed...

I'm in the market for a 6' standard or medium duty rotary cutter for a 45 hp, 4wd compact tractor. I'll be mowing primarily brush and grass in small fields and grassy roads. My brother-in-law is a farmer who lives on the property next door to mine. He has big tractors and big rotary cutters for...

I'm looking at the King Kutter 6' rotary mower. I'm on a tight budget. I'm looking at the tag along model with two rear wheels and a screw jack for height adjustment. I'll replace the screw jack with a small hydraulic ram for on-the-fly cutting height changes. My brother-in-law, who is a farmer...

I'm looking to buy a new tractor soon. So far the Kubota L4400 is the strongest contender and fits my budget and needs. However, I've searched these forums and all over the internet and there just isn't a lot of buzz, good or bad, about this tractor. I realize it is a new model, very basic and...