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B7500 with a grille guard?

Whe I hear the term "rear seal" the first thought is the rear engine seal.

Congrats on the tractor. I've owned its smaller brother (1210) without a loader since around 1991. It was our only tractor for the first 10 or 11 years till our first Kubota. Moved up in size with Kubota a couple times but still have the Ford. Can't bring myself to part with it. It acts...

Spent $9K more than that at the end of 2018 for my 4240HSTC. 977 hours and looked like new but with no hoe.

Pretty sure this picture was stolen from the place I bought my L4240 from. Dealer location near Quakertown PA. EDIT TO ADD: Here's the website that the picture was copied from. The website is for BWS Equipment. I bought my L4240HSTC from them, and my BIL bought his L4740HSTC from them as...

I have no experience or input for the turbo. I can say that it's a lot easier to have a lack of HP or weight than it is to have an excess. My next to last tractor was an L3200. They wanted another $1,500 for an L3900. The L3200 was replacing a B7500 and the extra 11HP and 1,000# was...

I've been doing some cleanup and organizing that's been long overdue. It amounted to trimming dead lower branches of some pines I planted 34 years ago and removing lots of stuff that they grew over and concealed. This generated at least a dozen loads of biodegradable material that had to be...

Wifey's car (02 Olds Alero 60K miles and looks new) is in one side of the garage. My welding equipment and tools are in the other side. Built a shed large enough for the L4240. Smaller shed houses the Ford 1210. Trailblazer (08 and 272K miles and some rust) sits outside. Been thinking about...

Back in the dark ages I helped a bud with one like that. We ground the broken bolt flat, then drilled and tapped.

Not wanting a Tier 4 machine and not owning one makes sense. I didn't need to own a black car to know I didn't want one. No reason to buy one if the person didn't want one to start with. Plus it takes a while for people to forget the growing pains of the early Tier 4 tractors. There is even...

OH. Wiggle the steering wheel, put your right foot in, right foot out and spin clockwise three turns, blow you nose ( right nostril only), take two deep breaths and VOILA (wallah in Lancaster County) and it's off to the races 😁😁

Then from another board: https://www.orangetractortalks.com/forums/threads/dpf-regeneration.70885/

Bought a new L3200 in 2012 to get a tractor before final Tier 4. Bought current (used) L4240 to avoid DPF when we went a bit larger in 2019. I heard too much negative early on to be interested in the newer emission standards. Many report trouble-free operation now, but I'm still not sold on...

Expecting a flood?

We've had Natural Gas at the first house, LP and Electric here. Present WH is Electric, but will replace it with LP if it dies before I do. We have a 1,000 gallon LP tank and use only around 450-500 gallons for heating. Side note - A few weeks ago we left the house on a Tuesday and returned...

Main tractor (L4240HSTC) has a cab. Nice being warm in Winter and cool in Summer. Nice having glass between me and the bugs, dust and pollen. Other tractor (Ford 1210 HST) is open cab. Recently made a carryall for the 3-point so it gets used mostly as a Gator now to haul stuff around. Until...

Two here. Kubota with cab and Ford open station. Majority of hours spent mowing with snow removal sometimes: Kubota L4240HSTC - 528 hours since buying it used at the beginning of 2019, so ~ 100hours per year. Ford 1210 HST - around 30 hours per year. Usage has changed over the years: *Had...

Occasionally Millennial Farmer, Dig Dirt and something, Morgan's. these are on again, off again. Everything from Matt's Recovery, Fabrats, Casey Ladell, Merlin's Old School Garage, Diesel Creek

They describe themselves as a trusted digital dealer. Another source says they raised $5.5 M in seed money, operate in three states and sold more than 100 pieces of equipment (2023?). Sounds like a glorified matchmaker rather than a real dealer. I'd be careful.

Looks like the yoke is just a narrow flat strap in the picture. Not a very robust piece of that's the case.

I was assuming that everyone knew that O-rings are the sealing method where they are used. The sealant I mentioned was for threaded connections such as where a Pioneer male or female fitting is screwed onto a pipe.

Or maybe add some anti-rejection drugs to your fuel:)

I don't remember the name of it but when I did some fitting replacement the thread sealant was listed for hydraulic lines.

Where I worked we had an air line that ran to a dry sprinkler system in an unheated building. The air line was black steel. A few times we received a Low Air Pressure alarm on the sprinkler system because condensate had frozen in the pipe and blocked the air. Since this air was only a makeup...

I split a 2x2 with 1/4 wall with a saw and it spread a fair amount.

Sorry to hear about the blood loss. Hope your tetanus is current. Back when I was doing trench work we modified shovels by heating them and bending the sides up to form a scoop.

My first consideration is having the tractor I need (OK, want) and am not concerned about transporting it. I do drive it into town for snow removal at the church or handling mulch. That's under 2 miles and I drive there.

Only in the form of liquid in the rear tires in all of the last three tractors. Works well, and all have been used with RFM's for mowing the yard, snow removal and general loader work. I haven't run without it, so can't provide you with a before and after report.

I NEVER get near the PTO with the engine running. I do connect and disconnect non-PTO implements with the engine running, such as scraper blade, landscape rake, etc.

When I did the trailer I used a cheapie HF inline filter/dryer. My small DeWalt compressor developed a leak in the pressure switch, so when I replumbed the thing I added a little regulator for some outlets and an outlet before the regulator for full pressure. Not a big deal, but kinda handy.

Cheap approach would be an airless. Years ago I had good luck with a Wagner airless. The birdcage safety things on the tips were removed because they collected fine mist till it dripped. Different tips were available and I shot oil and latex. Latex enlarged the hole in the tip after a few...

A property in a town near me had an obviously manmade pond for many years. It briefly disappeared and then reappeared. I worked with a guy who lived near the property and he said the owner was tired of the pond and cut the bank and drained it. Then the DEP made him rebuild the pond because he...

It may be as meaningful as some of the sellers' claims:) The light cast by LED's is interesting. Been using them for several years and they appear different when viewed from inside the cab vs. from outside the cab. When inside looking out of the cab, they cast a nice bright light that...

It would be interesting to check the amperage and see if the bar is really 72W. The watts and lumens advertised by some sellers are questionable.

A landscape rake will work better in sand.

Looks like you have it under control:) A good flushing / refill and it'll run for a long time.

Can you unbolt and remove the blade? If you get access and clean it it wouldn't surprise me to find a weld or two(?) that let loose. From the pics it seems that you should be able to see a lot.

Welcome aboard! Removing the gear box isn't necessary for belt replacement. There are various things that need loosened for belt replacement though. Refer to the parts diagram in the link in my earlier post. To remove the gear box the easiest approach is probably loosening things up and...

Nice! And a big DUH from me - I've had a HF QH in the one shed for over 10 years and never used it. I'd need to do something a bit different at the bottom for standard QA pins since mine isn't a Juan Deere. Wish I'd have seen this before starting on mine.

One of my back burner projects is a 3PH attachment for the QA on the loader. The primary use will be for a landscape rake to pull junk out of a fence row. With a bit of care it doesn't scare me to pull it. I wouldn't attempt to push it though.

I wouldn't try it. A plow needs to be able to float (and NOT by using the FEL "float" position). It would be way too Rube Goldberg. If you want to have a front plow here are much better ways to do it.

My experience with 4 different diesel tractors here over the last 34 years with RFM's (not flails). I had a gasoline 2WD 14HP Cub 154 that did fine with a 5' belly mower. All below are 4WD with hydrostatic trans, filled rear tires and I mow without the FEL attached. HP listed is engine HP...

I made 10ga cord extensions with "clothes dryer" plugs and caps. Connected to our sources - both house and generator power - of 240VAC, the voltage at the far end is still over 230VAC at full load of 22A for the stick welder, 21A for the Miller 175A MIG and even less for the Hypertherm 30Air...

The only indoor welding I've done was when I ventured into the weld shop where I worked. I'm surprised they don't warn you about using a welder in the bath tub:) I always use an extension cord. Sometimes (plugged into the house) it's only a 25-ish footer and when I use my generator to run it...

Maybe a non-concern but I've wondered if having a super smooth ride might prevent the operator from realizing how much of a beating the equipment is being subjected to.

My 4240 has a suspension seat and it's fine. If you have back problems, maybe you'd be better off wit something with a softer ride.

Got mine online along with Stick-Kut at Amazon.

Worked as a laborer for a contractor who built A section of PA283 in Lancaster County when I was a kid.* On secondary roads that had to be redirected they used a thick bed 4" ballast and rolled it with a large vibratory roller. Then they dumped and spread screenings and worked them into the...

Back in '89 the excavating contractor I used when we built put down a foot or so of 3A Modified composed of everything that will pass through a 3" screen. It became almost like concrete. The only thing I didn't like was the dust in the dry season. Went with blacktop in the early 90's.

Crushed stone could be many different things. In this part of the Commonwealth we have a product we normally call 2A Modified. I'm not sure if this is just a local terminology or common in other locales. It's pretty much anything that passes through a 3/4" screen and includes everything from...

My training is in electrical and mechanical trades. I'm no machinist who can figure out the best RPM and bit for every application. There are other people on board here who can. Recently I've been using DeWalt TiN pilot point bits. Have used more black oxide previously. For most of the...

I could be wrong, but other than that snow plow edge I'd guess most stuff on the farm won't be too hard. Other that the hardened wear/working parts a lot of the steel used for framework or holding the hard parts should be softer.

I don't know you or exactly what you're drilling, so don't take this as an insult or attack. I worked construction and fabrication and know lots of people who needed some coaching when using drills. Number one issue was mashing the trigger all the way. Others were not enough pressure and no...

So, has anyone actually dug through the Imane Khalif gender controversy, to a level where they can explain the situation in words we can all understand? There's been so much speaking between the lines, and with limited time and only a passing interest, I haven't bothered to try to figure it out...

OK, to back away from political stuff, in no particular order: * Bad drivers - there ARE drivers who think they can drive just fine while on their cell phone. They can't. Also those who feel it's OK to scoot by two stopped lanes of traffic on the shoulder. Death wish bikers like the one we...

Here you go. They were still doing this for tobacco beds locally when I was a kid: https://www.lancasterfarming.com/country-life/family/the-steamer/article_8e5a94b6-270d-5a1b-a52c-6a8680559532.html

We had a purchasing agent who bought everything as cheap as possible. One day I saw a "new" stake body truck in front of the tool shop and went for a look. At 50 yards it looked surprisingly nice. The closer I got the worse it looked. The wood bed was in rough shape, and the new shiny paint...

This is what mine looks like. 4240HSTC. Saw some that were shaped more like a boomerang.

When I was shopping in 2002 I tried a BX and thought that pedal was absolute junk. At that time I already had the Ford 1210 and it has a single pedal. It worked just fine then and still does. Since then I'm on the third Kubota - B7500, L3200 & L4240. All have had treadles that worked just...

Here's the thread I was looking for: https://www.orangetractortalks.com/forums/threads/l3800-hst-pedal-adjustment.41898/

Here's s start. I did have a post somewhere with pics: https://www.orangetractortalks.com/forums/threads/l3200-wont-start-help.34707/#post-288984

Big 10-4. A few weeks ago I replaced a seal on the 3PH cylinder on my 1983-ish Ford 1210. Messick had it in stock. A few years ago I replaced some steering linkage on the 1210 and it was here in a few days. In today's world it could be that parts are scarce for a 20 year old tractor. One of...

Your remarks about tire sizes, high clearance, 2 more HP, using a grapple, etc give me the impression you should keep revisiting the full figure thread and possibly consider getting enough size and HP with the first tractor instead of incrementally as I have done.

Have a serious look at what you'll be doing and look ahead if you can. Balance your wants, needs and finances. All of these will change, or at least your perception will. I could have done almost everything with the first tractor bought used in 1990, The fifth tractor is the one I'm happy with.

Welcome aboard! Sounds like you want to avoid DPF with that list. If that is the case, are you sure of the size you'll need?

I've been thinking about buying another vehicle. I do have concerns about the newer engines. Hyped technologies today often become owner complaints and recalls tomorrow. I'm thinking about a new vehicle, so there would be some comfort with a warranty.

https://www.everlastgenerators.com/laser-welders

Without seeing it up close and measuring, my approach would be to find a bushing with an OD to go the whole way through the tail wheel socket with an ID that matches an assembly from High Grade. Then I'd weld the bushing in and tap it for a grease zerk. Adjustable height would be via spacers as...

As mentioned in the thread "Woods vs LandPride Finish Mower" I ordered a set of wheel assemblies for my Caroni RFM this past Saturday. The UPS truck dropped them off today. They came from High Grade Manufacturing. Very happy with them. Link below. At $52 each (The whole works - wheel, yoke...

In addition to the three Caroni RFM's, I've had three LandPride RFM's One 5' side discharge, one 6' rear discharge and one 6' rear discharge. My BIL* next door had a Woods (990RDX?) that is beefier than any of the LandPrides I've owned. His deck has larger hardware for the casters. Casters...

Sorry for not reading all 7 pages. From what I saw, the OP is just looking to mow grass and didn't pick up on how much. It could be worth considering something cheap. In 1983-ish I bought a used Ranch King ((MTD) and used it for about 7 years on our 1/2 acre lot. Then I sold it to our...

Reminds me of the speed strip kit for Ruger .22 pistols, made for those with no mechanical ability.

Backed away from the loader after disconnecting everything but the "flat four" plug for the linear actuator wiring for the QA. Fortunately it unplugged itself. No damage. Forgot to raise the stands for the loader and dug one into the ground. Slight re-bending required. Disconnected the RFM...

Had a lab/newfie mix that at around 16 years old got very slow. One Saturday we were cleaning up in the garage and he came in to lay on the cool concrete, then had trouble getting back up. I said we should prep for a one-way vet trip. On Monday Wifey called me at work and said he had...

Our local dealer "launders" 100's of Chevy vehicles for the state and probably other fleets. When the Covid/chip baloney had inventories low, they got stuck with 4 or 5 bright red stripped Tahoes that were supposed to go to fire services somewhere. Although the SUV's were very humble there was...

Had a 2007 Tahoe company vehicle and when I turned it in it had well over 300,000 miles on it. Engine still sounded like a new one. Did have to replace the cats along the way.

Oops. Was 350A. Fixed in post

On a somewhat related application - I have a dual purpose set of jumpers made of 2/0 welding cable. A lot heavier than most standard jumpers, but they do handle the loads. First to power a winch and then as jumper cables. There's a 350A Anderson connector under the hood on both the tractor...

Maybe.

It would depend upon what the package is. If I were shopping and the package was a tractor with FEL, rear blade, RFM it would be much more appealing than a tractor with FEL, stump grinder, boom pole, logging winch and a grapple. Most of us don't have the exact same needs or desires. It may...

Our basement and crawlspace is all crushed stone, then plastic, then concrete. Did our radon system and levels are now fine. The finish on the concrete in the crawlspace is more of a broom finish. Been there a few times and it's OK with blue jeans but not shorts😁

New Information: Yesterday I helped a friend run a 100A service underground between two poles. One end tied into an existing box, but we added a PVC JB on the other end to connect it to an existing pipe that ran up the pole to a service head. For mounting our new box we made a flat spot on...

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I really like my Everlast 200STi. It's DC, light weight, 120/240. I often run it on a portable generator that was previously a light tower. Note the inverter welders want less than 6% THD if running on a generator.

Can you read whatever is cast into the hook? May help. I'm guessing they'd work better with 3/8".

Had a couple LandPrides that were nice - one 5' side discharge and a 6' rear discharge. My BIL has a 90" Woods that is impressive, but they're listed for close to $8K! I like Caroni RFM's. Have a rebuilt 5 footer that I made from one that I bought new in 1991 and a donor found on CL. Have...

Welcome aboard! Have no idea what the New Holland wiring is like. Maybe you'll get good info from another NH owner. Many of us simply add a circuit - wiring, fuse, switch (or switches for lights in different locations).

I started a project but life came along and it's been stalled. It'll be a QA frame that with adaptive mounting for 3-point stuff (rake will be first). I have a fence row that needs cleaned out. Mounting the rake to a bucket would be a cinch. Two pieces of angle bolted to the inside bottom of...

About a year and a half ago I helped #3 Son replace his porch deck (around 7' x 25') with PVC. The T&G material is a full 1" thick and the width of the finished top is 3-1/8". He bought it in 16' lengths and they were $75 each. We were very careful about measuring and cutting.

Much of our yard is crunchy to walk on. Some areas that get shade from the trees and fence rows still have some green left. There's about a 1 foot wide green strip along the road and a narrow strip along the sidewalk. My guess is that what teensy bit of rain we did get ran off the hard...

Guess I didn't pay enough attention to the details. Thought it was about small tractors. Wifey thinks the 4240 is a Garden Tractor

My L4240: 2,489 lbs lift (full at pin) 1129 kg 1,878 lbs lift (full at 500mm) 851 kg

When #3 Son was looking for a house he asked me to come along. After seeing several that had owner-performed work, I asked the realtor if he could find us a house that the owner didn't "improve". We had seen all sorts of things like a large deck with a couple support posts that didn't quite...

Two places near me had variations that made it seem like each step was built by a different crew without talking to each other. One was a set of concrete steps at a Catholic church parking lot and the other was access to the basement level range at a gun club. Both have been replaced.

We're kinda saying the same thing:) Half the resistance would indicate that only half the windings are still connected resulting in much less magnetic field. However, it looks the the OP found the air gap to be too large in Post #14.

Which is why I drive a Trailblazer with 268,000 miles on it. There's a 2002 Olds Alero in the garage with 50,000 miles on it in case something happens to the Chevy I can't fix. We bought a CD and set it aside for a new Tahoe three or four years ago. Not sure if it'll end up being a Tahoe or...

If you want quality bolt-on stuff, buy Ken's. My BIL bought some and they're top notch. If you're a DIYer I've been happy with the approach below on the three tractors they've been mounted on.

Let me just toss this out there. If a good clutch coil has twice the resistance as the OP's it is possible that part of the winding is shorted out. That would be like removing half the windings. That being the case, the clutch would pull with much less force than if it had the complete...

Poly pipe wouldn't scare me. PVC would. Many years ago our company did a project with an air testing spec. For anyone unfamiliar with Department of General Services projects, these inspectors are often self-appointed gods and most have no working experience in what they inspect. Common sense...

Last new vehicle we bought was an Olds Alero in 2002. Live in PA bought in DE, paid PA sales tax and had to get a PA inspection.

Resistor?

We once did a project where a weldor worked on some structural steel above a new tall vertical stainless steel tank. Not long after that there were signs of rust on the tank. They were more severe where it appeared the falling weld boogies hit the tank after they bounced off of adjacent...

I haven't needed a battery charger (with the exception of batteries for cordless tools) in my 74 years. Survival of the fittest thing. Any battery that can't survive on its own needs to go away. Unless there's an obvious reason like a malfunction that kept a load on a battery without the...

I saw a setup with an old drill press that I was going to copy. Not long after I retired I asked if the company had any "parts" type drill presses that still had the column and table. They said to stop and pick up a castoff they found out back somewhere. "Take the whole thing. We didn't...

I bought the cheaper version Vevor (MD40) a couple years ago and like it. Although it isn't something that gets used frequently, it's a very handy tool for a homeowner. At work we had a few Hougens and I think a DeWalt. My drill and cutters all came from Amazon and aren't anything special...

3-1/2 acres with buildings, trees, creek mowing with 7-1/2' RFM, L4240, liquid-filled rears, no loader when mowing: Has been done in a teensy bit less than one hour but that borders on abuse of the equipment (and me). Pattern was start on the outside edge of the property and then mow...

Large gathering of adults.

AHA! Never caught them in the act,, but found the pallet maternity ward.

Saw this scary scene when I was on my way home with Sweet Pea this afternoon. These pallets made their way from the fields to the suburbs. They teamed up and are starting to surround the place Sneaky things for sure!

It perhaps wasn't the best solution but it worked for me. Probably only about a third of what you need to remove. About ten years ago I finally got around to pouring a front sidewalk (built the house in 1989 but we always use a different entrance). I used a Mantis mini-tiller to grind up the...

Well, you sold the 3 point implement I use more than 90% of the time. As mentioned, we don't have a hint what work you have planned. Love to help spend your dollars but I'm at a loss.

Doesn't look like it should be $250 / pound:)

Not sure if this would be applicable in the case of a steering wheel. I had to remove wheels from a couple manlifts that were giving our tech a hard time. These were keyed (not splined) IIRC. Removed nuts and put some pulling tension on the wheel to take up what little slack there was. Then...

I never saw how tractors ship from Japan, but always assumed they'd be in containers. That would seem to give protection from salt spray wouldn't it?

Steel drum. Extra drawbar. Vertical pipes for rakes, shovels, etc. Lower horizontal "header" to swab out whatever falls into the vertical pipes. Milk case for smaller stuff. For occasional relocation a choker is dropped down a pipe and a crowbar or whatever is at hand is inserted into the...

We made a roller at work several years ago to compact millings. It sorta worked, but I rented a vibratory ride-on that worked much better. I brought it home one Spring to get rid of a bumpy section of yard. It wasn't worth the effort. Didn't do diddly. It was plenty heavy, but the PSI...

In our case, 0ne benefit of having the coating on the outside of the roof rather than the inside was stopping further degradation of the metal roof. Having the roof covered with a monolithic seal put the metal roof on the warm and dry side of the insulation. This was particularly attractive...

At work our weld shop had roof leaks even when it wasn't raining. It was difficult to tell whether the water was coming from actual leaks or condensation. The very gently sloped metal roof was about 30' high and around 20-ish years old. There was fiberglass batt insulation on the underside of...

I've had an Everlast 200STi for a couple years and really like it. It's an inverter 120/240V DC stick machine that is smooth and lightweight. It can do lighter stuff at 120V, and it's happy running off of the 120/240v generator (repurposed light tower). If you do run an inverter welder on a...

There's no one fits-all here. With the exception of along the creek, I do like chemical mowing..

Welcome aboard, Mike! I'm the same vintage as you. On my 5th tractor now. It's the first one with factory cab that has factory heat and A/C. Had a few open stations and built a nice heated cab for an L3200 around 2012. It was wonderful to have heat and with the the doors off / fan on in hot...

Based on actual time spent on my 3-1/2 acres of YARD (BIL next door has a real LAWN), Mowing takes me 18 minutes/acre at full boogie or 25 minutes/acre lollygagging* :) That's with the L4240 / 7-1/2' RFM / loaded rears / R4's / no loader or frame. *Lollygagging: Week one...

The power for my sprayer is via the 12V (aka cigarette lighter) outlet in the cab when using the Kubota. It has an inline switch on the wiring before exiting the cab that's used to switch power to the pump when the spray boom is used. When using the Ford, it uses a "flat two" trailer...

It's not just New Holland. My bud at work said the dealer wanted to charge him around $5 for a 3/8" (or perhaps a metric) fender washer.

"Too much" - If you're talking the height of the grass being mowed, is a matter of trial and error plus your expectations. I've used (abused?) rear finish mowers to knock down some tall grass and weeds. It was a little more of a success story when not trying to cut it all at one time. A few...

Guessing that 11000+ hours is not the case. The L4240 sees around 100 hours/year and the Ford not nearly that. Homeowner here and don't do much work offsite. Could be the meter stopped working or was disconnected at one point?

Car washing here is regular (town-supplied) tap water. Wet vehicle, spray on 50/50 mix of water and car wash soap, go over the whole thing with a soft brush, rinse and chamois. Takes only minutes. No spots. Sometimes straight purple cleaner sprayed on tires & wheels and a stiffer brush.

I've never trusted a pump for fluid removal. Just have a hard time believing it removes as much fluid as removing the plugs. The drain pan I had wasn't going to be large enough for draining the L4240's SUDT2, so I bought a big mortar mixing pan at Home Depot. Pro's: Has greater capacity...

I have a Fluke that doesn't get used very much, a couple cheapies, miniature Radio Shack, etc. The favorite for the last few years has been a Southwire clamp-on 400A (AC & DC).

Very nice! Mounting the tank to the tractor is much more user-friendly than having wheels ono the tank to tow it. After jack knifing my tow behind spray tank and cracking the plastic tank, I built a sprayer using your approach. BTW - old guys have the gift of years of experience

I've been using the old original PITA stabilizers since 1991 on mine:) 'Bota style telescoping would be more fun. Most of the stuff I pull with it is light enough to manhandle and loosen/tighten only one side for on and off.

Another vote for turning while under a load as the cause.

Be sure to think it through before using a homebrew pressure vessel. I went with the refrigerant jug as a starting point because it was built for maybe 4X the pressure I could potentially apply to it. Still kinda winced when I charged it up:) I couldn't think of all the possible defects...

Sounds like something fun to play around with. I've tried some unorthodox methods while looking for viable solutions to stuff like this. One time I whipped up a tank (used an old refrigerant jug) with an air connection to pressurize it and a siphon tube connected to a hose to force the product...

If the area isn't huge, how about doing it with a stir, pour some and roll? https://www.amazon.com/Armor-Paint-Sealer-Roller-Kit/dp/B0CJ5VXTG4?source=ps-sl-shoppingads-lpcontext&ref_=fplfs&smid=A1ZAJT55ABV6SA&th=1

You shut down and avoided a worse outcome. That's good👍. I think the L3200 I had used a cable between the lever and arm for the PTO. Pretty sure it could be operated without running the engine. Try pushing the clutch and flipping the lever.

As far as I know, the B models are still available as new tractors. Not sure what you mean by "older". I had a B7500 from new in 2002 till I sold it in 2012. Had I not wanted to do more , the B7500 would have been able to serve many more years. I was looking at BX's when I bought the B7500...

Bought my L4240 used with 977 hours at the end of 2018. Put around 500 hours on it since then. Near the end of the Summer in 2021 I replaced the expansion valve. Other than that it's been fine. Here's what she blows on a normal Summer day. (Vent set to recirc)

Welcome aboard. Evaluate your current and as best you can - future needs. Choose carefully and buy your fifth tractor first instead of incrementally finding your tractors growing smaller as you become familiar with them.

Sounds odd. Could you post a pic of the 3PH arms?

I'd imagine bale spears would hold up well. That's what I used to build my brush forks and they're quite robust

Not able to picture it working as a tool to crown the road other than the first few feet to get it started. As soon as the SS reaches the slope that the blade creates you'd need to adjust the blade to be on the same plane as the SS. With the SS leaning, and the blade still tilted the blade...

Most BLI's get set to show the bucket position when lowered in the "let's scrape up the manure" position. I made one from some rod and mini Heim joints for the L3200 because it had nothing from the factory. You could come up with some crude system of marking it for other positions and develop...

I've had one rotary cutter that chewed into the ground if I didn't babysit the 3PH lever. Never had a flail. I have lots of hours with rear finish mowers. All have been equipped with 4 wheels. With the 3PH set to allow the deck to float, scalping is rare. I do have a place where a small...

I haven't read the whole story, but I would expect to have water enter the building under the walls unless the floor was higher than the exterior. The walls should sit on a "step" so the floor is higher than the apron on the outside. Caulking will fail. At the door, there should also be a...

If you want simplicity and good results, use Ken's Bolt-on Hooks. My BIL has some and they're very nice. If you want to DIY I'd suggest considering angle like I did. It's "bi-chainual". You can drop chains off the front or rear. Had this setup on the last 3 tractors and never a problem...

Big ones get picked up and tossed in the brush pile. Anything around 1" or smaller eventually goes away via the RFM.

Took plow off last week and did a little mowing where the grass was getting tall. Pretty Much a non-winter here. Checked LP tank and it still has over 40% on the gauge. May have gone through Winter on about 400 gallons.

WOW!! Did a quick search and suffered sticker shock. I'd be asking questions at the shop, or looking for tire prints on the pieces.

10-4. I don't even move my tractor with the doors hanging open. The rear quarters and the rear window itself can be opened with less chance of damage. The rear quarters don't provide any meaningful ventilation and I don't trust the rear window flapping around. The doors aren't easily...

Specs for reinforced concrete provide minimum embedment depth from the surface to address spalling caused by rust-jacking.

A little late to the game, but we poured literally hundreds of bases for site lighting poles where I worked. Poles were anywhere from 12 to 40 feet tall (except for football fields) and IIRC, all the anchor bolts supplied by the pole manufacturers were genuine hot dip galvanized. They weren't...

Laughed when I read this. Brought back some memories. It's been a while since the mulberries attacked me along the fencerow.

Way back in '73 I picked up an M&W Little Red Wagon and towed it back to the farm that my FIL bought from a seller about 50 miles away. Part of the trip was on a 4-lane highway. I had a 3/4 ton 1972 Dodge Power Wagon and it was white knuckles all the way. It was the first time I'd ever towed...

I see that the Power Adjust rim is available for them if the other parts aren't too corroded to reuse. Just Google MF Rear Wheels and you'll see a number of them. I'd wonder if the other side may be in a similar condition.

I HAVE NO REAL INFO, but guessing they may not have springs for one of two reasons: 1 At one time I bought a small trailer here in PA and without springs it didn't require license plates. Not sure how it is now - or in other areas. 2 Perhaps a concern about leaning a top-heavy trailer in...

Think it was 1/4". That tractor was sold about 4 years ago and the attachments went along with it. To hold it on, there were tabs you can see in the bucket, and there were chains around the back. The chains were tensioned with bolts (allthread) through the upper lip of the bucket.

I made something that sounds like yours on my last tractor. It was fashioned after the commercially available Ratchet Rake. There is an assortment of tooth bars with forward-facing teeth on the market.

Fully understand.

The only thing that I'm thinking of is the non-factory cab - unless it has heat and A/C. If you can get the doors off easily, heat would be enough for creature comfort. I ran a DIY cab with heat only and it would have been OK. I had an opportunity to go with a factory cab, and am really glad...

Well, if used oil is better than new I have a great deal for you. Next time I change my oil, I'll sell it to you for what I paid for it if you cover shipping. You get better "enhanced" oil at the original "not as good oil" price. Deal?

On another board, someone posted they were conceived in the back of a Jeep, so they identify as part Cherokee.

The company I worked for faced so many government-imposed hurdles it's a wonder we stayed in business. As years passed it became worse and worse. The restrictive edicts that were to help certain groups of people usually did not. The true result was a few "minority persons" getting rich and...

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One good indicator of soil that's a bit wet to rototill is when it resembles a spinning brown log😬

Around here I call them a nuisance. An occasional pass through isn't bad, but it seems like too many people with nowhere else to ride either feel the need to do 60MPH on the roads or them take to the nearest field and just go back and forth or around and around in circles...

I've posted pics and info before. Been using LED's since around 2012 and never any failures. Had four on the last tractor and eight on this one. All except for the two side-facing lights on this tractor, all were Maxxima MWL42 floods. ADDED: Couple notes from previous posts - Unless your...

Don't need one. I'm best served with a simple add-on wear edge. On the few occasions when I needed to loosen up some hard-packed dirt, I put the subsoiler on and gave 'er a few rips. When I had the first loader-equipped tractor, it seemed like a great idea to have a tooth bar, so I made one...

Ground down, screws all clocked to horizontal :)

All in an effort to reciprocate:)

More drift: Back when, our corporate offices marked the gender of the bathrooms with male and female cord ends glued to the doors.

Yup. In a few more pages it'll be about gay marriage and which way a 120v receptacle should be mounted:)

Never had a debit card. Currently have Discover and CITI. Had Mastercard. Never got stung with any of them. We did have a few disputes and came out just fine.

One of the Caroni decks I worked on had a leak. Replacing bearings and seals wasn't difficult. There's a REAL hardware/farm store about half an hour away that carries all sorts of parts. Many of the pieces used in implements aren't proprietary. https://paulbhardware.com/

We have a few acres, but no projects like you have planned. I can't add much to what has already been said. When we built, I had a subcontractor do all the excavation. Never had anything that needed excavated since so never considered having a backhoe (either as an attachment or as a separate...

At work we had good luck with a local upholstery shop rebuilding our forklift seats when they deteriorated like that. Not sure what's around you, but we're only a few miles from Manheim Auto Auction and there are a bunch of recon facilities around.

The owner of the first construction company I worked for had a brother with a position at Sears. He said that regardless of what any prices were marked down to for big sales or discontinued stuff, they were twice what Sears paid for the item.

Keep the plow blade as close to the tractor as possible and suspend the blade with chain so it can float independently of the loader frame.

I never noticed the DeWalts I've used to exhibit any "bucking bronco" behavior. Maybe that was something came from guys with the lady hands at the torque test channel?

At work we had scales on two of our forklifts. It was necessitated because we had many utility trailers that were used to ship small loads to jobsites. We did that when we became aware some of the shop people had no idea of the weight they were loading on them. I don't recall the brand, but...

The seats on all three Kubota tractors I've had felt like they wanted to dump me into the steering wheel. On the current tractor, I did a very simple modification to eliminate that. The front two factory bolts were discarded and replaced with longer ones. These have extra nuts to make it...

Based on my experience I'd say tractor with implements listed above. CAVEAT: My driveway has been paved for 30 years, is only 0.0568182 miles long and I've never operated a SS :)

One thought. It looks like the picture is of the hole circled in the attached pic. If so, it also looks like some stresses may be applied at the arrow as things move around a bit. That short joist running perpendicular to the other joists to carry the last section of floor may act like a...

Being in the electrical / mechanical field, there have been quite a few oddball things along the way. From installing heat lamps in a doghouse earlier in my career to orchestrating a pipe test (MFL) on several miles of old steam pipe before reusing it years after being taken out of service...

Our company bought a flatbed scissors truck (ex- airport ) and it was a useful piece to have. The bed could raise up flat, or could raise the front so it dumped. One application was as a mobile platform for working in turnpike tunnels. Since it was diesel it was OK there.

Another was a tubular knitting machine back in the early 70's. I was the kid who got sent on oddball service calls. Manual was in Chinese IIRC. Fortunately the schematic wasn't quite so "foreign" looking. A local company had several and they made material for tee-shirts. The machine would stop...

Built a three-circuit liquid cooler for use while testing AWACS "tube" years back. They needed to regulate three different flow rates of RO/DI(?) water. Been a while 🥴

Our long time accountant once told us that a third generation business in his experience is rare.

Pretty much the same with us. We built a decent place back in '90 on about 2-1/4 acres when the kids were young. With our savings and the sale of the old house, we had no debt when we were done. The lot is at one end of a 4-lot piece of the FIL's farm and one BIL is on the other end. We like...

Wish you were nearby. This would be an interesting project. I'm not familiar with that implement and would love to see it in person. It appears the coped plates on the square tube only contact the round tube like a guide and were never welded to it? Both the round and square tubes look bent...

There's no permanent winch on anything here. Both are made to slip in a receiver and plug into the tractor or Trailblazer when it's time to use them. I've had permanent mounts on several 4X4's since back in the 70's. The only permanently mounted winch on a tractor was the 3500# HF that I've...

Buy your fifth tractor first so you don't have to buy more than one :)

Yup. The company I retired from had all the trades, but we were heavy on electrical and mechanical. All trades have both Einsteins and Gomer Pyles:)

A tinknocker bud told me this story years ago and insists this is true: Two guys he was working with on a project were on a scaffold installing a run of duct. For some reason they couldn't reach what they needed to so they slid one plank outside of the scaffold frame for #1 tinknocker to stand...

What tacticalturnip said. You indicate the tractor isn't doing as well as you hoped at something. It would be helpful to know what it's coming up short on now plus what else you may have planned for it. Many here are tickled with their 25HP (or less) machines on much more acreage. Some want...

No first hand info form me, but I've seen positive reports from LS owners. Back around 2008 the company I worked for bought a Montana (green LS) and it had some issues that were resolved. One thing we ran into was a long wait for a replacement instrument panel. One of our guys didn't...

Pretty much what others have said. Add some structure and don't figure on extended use of a 12V winch. My smaller HF 3500# and larger Warn XD9000i Multi-Mount both slide into a 2" receiver. There's a receiver tube on the loader bucket and another on a structure below the grille guard. I...

I use an anti-oxidant paste (Penetrox, No-Alox, etc) on battery connections and it works fine.

No biggie, but handy: Magswitch welding magnets can be turned on and off like magic. They are pretty strong, and can be turned on after getting them into place. That's a nice feature. Also, when turned off, any metal filings / weld boogies drop off. I keep a piece of paracord on one so it...

Good idea! That should work. And since I've only used the top holes, I could experiment with the lower ones and not mess the original mounting up.