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Curious to know what the problem is with the way the 290 fits the 3pt hitch ?? They are both fine winches. gg

Is it a Lucas CAV pump that is leaking ? And does it leak at the throttle and/or shut off shaft ?? see pic. If so, it is a pretty straight forward $10 -$20 fix. Replace a gasket and 4 O-rings, I have some links to online help I can give you if this is your problem. I did mine last summer. gg

No snow storm to deal with here yesterday. The day had a cold start at -15* but by noon it was a beautiful late winter day. I took this just before lunch. Headed to the mill after. gg

I'm a little late on this. They are handy. I hang mine on the winch right beside the cant hook ( peavey ). You can see the brown handle hanging down and the hook in the top peavey bracket. Always right there when I grab a choker. gg

Looks like you chipped that up just fine. I have never chipped cedar but have heard it's stringy bark can cause clogging problems. Do you use a special technique or just run it thru as it comes? Shakespear the barred owl inspected my work for about an hour today. I see him around quite a bit...

Good question Jim your mentor was right. The fir on my lot starts to get stump rot or butt rot after it reaches 50 or 60 years old. I am cutting this older stuff. On some trees I lose a foot or two of the bottom because of rot and some I loose over five feet. That one was actually pretty clean...

It was a cool day. -2*F this morning which is nice. A high of 12*F. No sun. Got into some better wood today. Actually for this site as good as it gets as far as fir goes. So I thought I better show it. Here's one about 18" at the butt with very little rot. Cut off about 20" with a 1" diameter...

It was such a nice day today I had to bring my camera along. 20 degrees at noon verses the 0 degree noons we have been getting was a real treat and good for the soul. First hitch I cut a group of three mangy trees right next to the trail. The first and smallest had it's branches entangled in the...

The tractor is having a tough workout in the woods but the skiing is great. More banks to push back today. You are right Thomas about these 5 and 6 inch non-storms that come every other day. gg

Headed out to push some banks back in a couple tight places and outside curves. gg

I put a similar base on my wood shed. I made a sill from 6X6 PT. Leveled it up on flat rocks then filled it with 3/4" stone. I was a little worried about the northern Vermont frost but it has been there 10 years and hasn't moved at all. Built in 2005 Last summer still straight as an arrow gg

I did that same job in my dozer - not bad at all. Look at these https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYz0dCQNiVc http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/massey-ferguson-classic-vintage/258591-mf-165-knocking-9.html This is my dozer The hardest part for me was getting the cutoff lined up with that...

Today I finished cutting in the fir stand I have been working on. This will be the 6th and last load. A small one. It will make about 2800 board feet total taken out of that little area. (Approximately 5.5 cord) I took this picture late last summer when I was planning my winter cutting...

After yesterdays rain all my nice packed skid trails were like wet concrete. Rather than go out in the woods and trash them I played in the shop. My seldom used tongs caught my eye and I started playing around. I made a toggle latch. Here it is open 24" Lift the cross bar and it releases...

It doesn't do much in straight gravel. But it traps sod and other light debris if you have that in the road. There is a stop pin at the bottom so I can use the tailgate as a blade to push sod piles off the road. If I hang the tailgate inside the pin by flipping it up and over it will hold gravel...

A couple thoughts I have on severely angled blades that will build a crown - If you angle the blades enough to build a crown that means you can only travel in one direction. It is often advantageous to be able to travel in both directions both for efficiency and material distribution. For...

Another load of wood headed to the mill. We have had 40" of snow so far but lots of rain too so there isn't much snow on the ground. When it is cold enough to freeze like this week the going in the woods is great. gg

Here are some pics from today's little operation. It went pretty smooth which doesn't always happen. I cut and limbed 8 fir trees. I fell them away from the trail so all the slash would be down the bank. As I cut them I trimmed the rot off the bottom of the butt, cut the top at about 6"...

Me too. And after a month of warm weather things started to freeze up again pretty good yesterday and last night. The going was good today. Had to pull some hemlock blow downs off the trail and back into the woods before I could get started. Happy New Year all gg

I have a clone of the Farmi block. It is heavy duty and would go with your big winch. It weighs 13 lbs. EDIT: Sheave is 5" in diameter.

Thanks for the comments Avgv and jimmy. I guess a lot depends on the site you are working. I am not afraid of tipping the tractor because I am careful to set up for a straight pull. I have snatch blocks with me all the time and use them often. What I am more afraid of is brutalizing my winch...

If your drive is 3/4 mile dirt and gravel you will most likely end up with more than one dirt implement before your done. Mine is a mile. I used a rear blade for 10 years of maintenance. It will do everything. Then I added a land plane grading scraper which was a fantastic addition but it is...

Looks like you get plenty of work keeping you trails open. Interesting bug pics Bilrog. We get bark beetles and pine sawyers here but they only seem to attack and kill trees that are already under stress from something else like drought or stump rot or logging damage. Then the beetles are the...

I think that there may be more people logging with a tractor than you think now a days. But I agree with you that the typical small to medium sized modern tractor would not survive long driving thru the chopins with out some serious armor being added. It is commom to see woods tractors with...

This is how I did my grapple open/close control. Added a OC single spool valve with Power Beyond in series with the Loader PB line. I made the grapple control lever so it can swing left and right with the loader dump/curl lever. I can operate all the grapple motions with one hand...

This is what I have. Maybe you can see something you can make work. Comes off easy, 4 bolts each side and two hydraulic QDs. I didn't post earlier because the ATI grapple seemed to be above the price range you wanted to work with. gg

I love those chains. For me they are the difference between having a tractor that is useful in the winter and in the woods and having a tractor that stays in the garage. What I like best is that they are designed to give good traction with Ag tires. The traction comes from the two studded...

My grapple evolved over the years as I improved it. Started with this ATI bucket grapple with added teeth Then I adjusted the position of the hinge forward, added some curve to the tines, and added more teeth to the bucket edge Last spring I added a tooth bar. I don't think I can make it...

I have a loop on the end of the clutch rope. I run my thumb thru the top of the loop then grab the rope with a closed fist. That way the rope doesn't slip thru my gloves or mitts. I have to pull on the rope pretty good on a hard winch. In the video I was just holding the rope up so you could see...

If I was closer to you that would be good. You could always come here and pull a couple cord out for me while I make a movie of it. :) I agree that self release snatch blocks are way to expensive. Mine is a prototype test unit from a company that was going to manufacture them. They decided not...

I never miss an opportunity to show some pics :) And here are a couple little videos when I was learning to use my new self releasing snatch block on right angled winches like those above. Saves a lot of walking back and forth resetting the snatch block...

I put the chains on today. This type chain is supposed to be sloppy so it can walk around the tire. You are supposed to be able to fit your balled up fist between the side chain and the tire sidewall when they are right. But after 8 years mine were getting really to sloppy. I had to cut off 2...

Bungies are less elegant but work also :) gg

Did my pre winter road side mowing today. The snow banks settle a lot better and are easier to push back if they are not held up by a bunch of brush. The sickle bar is pretty useful for my roadside. Here are some photos, Some places are so thick I can't see the bar. Need to remember where the...

I bought a WR Long 5 footer from Everything Attachments this spring for $403 including shipping. So if the quality is as good as WR Long's and the tooth spacing is 10 inches or less on the one quoted you it doesn't seem out of line for a 6 footer. They are expensive but make a huge difference in...

Here is what I did. It is a 1-1/4" Reese Receiver - not heavy duty but good for a small trailer or my splitter. I also have a small vise on a reese hitch so I can hold my saw to sharpen or work on. Plus it works with all my 4 wheeler stuff which is also 1-1/4". I used two grade 8 3/8" bolts...

They both split wood. Like most tools there are pros and cons to the different styles. You learn to take advantage of what you have. I have a stand alone splitter. It works out well for me because I like to use the tractor and splitter at the same time. EDIT: Ignore the attached thumb...

We have an old drained out beaver pond bog area. It has a problem with invasive glossy buckthorn that I try to keep under control. I can't drive the tractor beyond the brook into the bog unless the ground is frozen. Yesterday afternoon I had my wheeler down there and was cutting buckthorn. When...

Here is one from Tuesday. We are on the back end of the color now up here. gg

Last week the power company trimmed the line along our road/drive. They chipped most of it but left anything that looked like firewood. Today I pulled what they left out onto the road, cut it into 9' lengths, loaded it on the one ton, and brought it home. I got two truck loads of easy wood...

Our colors were not the greatest this year but here is one and here is an old one I've put on before I am surprised you haven't gotten more. Certainly fall is a good time to do tractor work.

Nice clean job. I was under the (mistaken ?) impression you needed to use JIC fittings like these for hydraulic connections. What you did was much smaller and neater. Are those just standard compression fittings found in any hardware with plumbing supplies or something special for...

Another try gg Edit: I give up. This one I rotated with word first. If I had a photo program I would try that. Still no double post though. It looks like maybe ( and I am not at all sure ) if you end the post with some text instead of the photo being at the end the double post does not...

This is an experiment on portrait pics to see if I can get it right. The power company trimmed all week so I have a lot of small firewood that they left to get out of places like this. hopefully this is portrait EDIT: Hmmmm .......Back to the drawing board No double post though :confused3:

Just got 8.1 - Ugh On XP I could rotate a photo to portrait using the windows pic display rotate command and when I uploaded it to TBN it would be in portrait format like it should. When I do the same thing using 8.1 The picture is rotated to portrait on my computer display but if I upload the...

Hey cartod - A pond full of smallies would be great fun. Hope you can figure out how to do it. It certainly looks deep enough. Extended one of my woods tractor roads today. An exercise in pushing out old stumps and burying rocks and getting it flat enough for a fairly safe tractor skid trail...

A trip down the woods road and back for some firewood. Headed down. To a couple of mis-shapen yellow birch growing on a shoulder high rock. I want to cut some fir down here and they are in the way but will make good firewood. The smaller one is cut and winched to the tractor. This...

Thanks. The shed holds two years supply so I am 1 year ahead. At my age you never know what might happen. We only use 3.5 to 4 cord a year to heat our 1300 sq ft house. Here a couple pics showing how I built it. gg

Seemed like a good day to bring in some firewood before tonights rain. Just about 1/2 cord per load. gg

Well I found out I can get a new lever kit consisting of the two levers and the spring for $135 + S/H. The parts are not sold individually. I decided to try to fix the spring before I did that. Nothing to loose. I got out the torch and brazed a little bronze on the long leg where it was almost...

I did a Lucas CAV throttle and kill shaft seal repair today. When I got it all cleaned up I could see the linkage was really worn. Taking off the linkage Layer by Layer The short end of the spring was somehow lodged in a solid place but on reassembly I can't get it to catch anywhere. I...

Nice looking woods there in VT

After lunch today I graded some of my DIY driveway made from a logging road.

I found a new use for my TnT and CarryAll. I'm staining the house and I have one gable end with a lot of slopping ground. Setting ladders up used to be a real pain. I would set up a system of blocks under one leg of the ladder to level it and then re do them on each move. I used the TnT to level...

My wr Long Tooth Bar has been great. I don't know the steel type but it is definately made to dig and pry. I spend a lot of time moving rocks out of my road and skid trails. Since I got the tooth bar it has been a lot easier. These is small compared to many I have moved.

Not much seat time here either lately. I have been doing a crude paint job, in sections, to my 13 year old dump body. I did use the tractor to remove the tailgate so I could use the truck while I painted it. I won't admit to how many times I have had to search a landing or the roadside for my...

I agree with jenkinsph. I would say anywhere you can use your blade you can use a land plane. But, if you have a lot of baseball size rock the land plane (or blade) will rip it up. Generally you don't want to rip up the structural road base. It should be covered with a road surface material. If...

Just got back from a visit to my daughter and family out in OR. We stopped at a logging museum featured at Collier State Park just north of klamath. Here is a high pressure steam tractor used out there for logging after the Civil War and before the advent of internal combustion engines in the...

Also, here is a pic of the mechanism. The parts you might loose are the pin and spring (5) on the tomb stone. The spring (5) is compressed under the head of the pin. If the left end of the main throttle spring comes unhooked from the pin as you wresle with it on the shaft end the little pin and...

The alternator on my dozer quit charging so I had to take it out and get it rebuilt. Turned out to be the internal Voltage Regulator. I didn't have much room to get a tool on the belt tensioner nor a helper to hold it. The only part of the belt that I could see or get at was at the alternator...

When I got done at the landing today I brought a load of wood home to put away The Yard Boss kept a relaxed eye on me from about 40 yards away gg

About all you can do is run like you did. I try to run through some high brush like small fir trees or saplings if there is no better cover. I have learned to carry a can of hornet & wasp spray in my tool box all the time. I can't count the number of ground nests I have stirred up. Yellow...

How are your Deer Flies this year ? We are loaded with them this year - especially on hot humid days like yesterday. My "Fly Hat" helps keep them out of my face when I don't have the hard hat and face shield on. It is OK to laugh - everyone else does.but it works :laughing:

I do the summer maintenence on my neighbor's driveway. She pays for the material but in exchange for my fuel and labor I get to use my truck and tractor to clean up behind her barn and take out a couple loads of horse manure for my wifes garden. My wife places a very high value on horse manure...

I think this is a great tool so I try to help out. The link with the pin is barely visable in the tool. You use the link to connect the two ends of your ice chains. With the two chain ends in the link you drive in the pin in against the tire to capture and connect the chain end links. The hard...

I originally used light duty 3/8" flat Cutting Edges (read cheap) on my LPGS. Here it is 4 years ago. After an awful lot of use the front edge has worn down to be almost flush with the skids and it no longer cuts well in packed gravel. The rear edge wore less. I decided to put on a pair of...

I run size 3 tanks on my torch set. Yesterday when I went in to trade my empty Acetylene tank for a full one they gave me what they called the "new style" size 3 at Air Gas. It has the valve recessed below a deep rim welded to the tank top and a vertical rather than horizontal fitting for the...

I agree with Steve. I use a rear blade to set or change the road contour/pitch/crown for drainage. The rear blade is great for moving material across the road when setting the road contours. Once the drainage contours are set with the rear blade the LPGS can be used for final leveling and...

I got a floppy mirror and for the life of me I can't figure out how to get it a part. I assume that I can tighten it up if I can get it apart. Hopefully that is the case. Any help will be appreciated as always. Thanks. gg

Mine is a Superior or First Choice made in Italy. Works well for me and has a hydraulic lift. I have always been able to get mail order parts from Sweet Farm Equipment. It has a 3 belt drive.

Worked on one of my wood piles. It was a field test for the adjustable stop linkage I put on the splitter. Here is the adjustable stop linkage. When the knife returns it strikes the lower bar and the splitter control lever is pushed forward by the linkge into the stop position. That...

My splitter opens to 26 1/2" on the auto-return. It wastes a lot of time if you cut your wood 16" or 18". I made this 3 piece adjustable stop. Bracket w/ bolt weld in for a shaft A paddle and a pusher bar. Holes in pusher allow for stove wood down to 12" Loose assembly Cylinder and...

I took your suggestion - Thank you very much !! I am just a backyard mechanic and this is what I came up with And this is how it works stopping with a 19" opening rather than the full 26 1/2" http://youtu.be/sSxqIm1Y7tk gg

I have a 22 ton (@3000 psi) splitter that opens to over 26". It has an automatic kickout return detent valve. I cut my wood 18". This morning I put a stop on the splitter to kickout the return detent at about 20". It appeared to be working great until I heard a snap after splitting 1/2 cord. The...

Today was Road Rock Day. I have about a half mile of road I have been taking rocks out of every spring for 15 years. Hard to believe there are any left. No big one this year. Today was the first time I used the tooth bar for this. It is a huge help with three major benifits over having just a...

This is the first splitter I have ever used. All my life it has been a 6 or 8 lb maul, hammer, and wedges. When I started looking for a splitter and saw they went from 12 to 37 ton, I had no clue what I needed. So when I got this one last spring I put a pressure gauge on it out of curiousity. To...

One of the nicer days we have had in a while. Made some firewood. Since I made the trailer hitch for the winch I can get everything out to the landing in one trip.

I went with the Kabota Remotes and the third party TnT kit on my L3010 which must be very similar to your L3200. The TnT kit was from Brian and went in with no problems. This is what he shipped This is the installed kit which I am very happy with and in hind sight wish I got it sooner gg

I have taken out more than my fair share of road rocks, all sizes, with my tractor. If your road freezes solid in winter and then you have a muddy season when the frost starts to come out; that is the absolute best time to get the rocks out. It seems they almost float out in the mud and water...

My woodshed has two sdes. Each holds a years worth of wood plus a little. I load the shed as I cut and split the wood without trying to think about which rows to put the big stuff or little stuff in. As I use the wood if I come to a section that has to much small wood for the current weather I...

Finally a good working day. The ground was firm and most of the old mealy snow was gone. We had two days in the seventies followed by a big storm that started as a warm rain and ended with with a couple inches of freash snow and 14 degree temperature. I restarted work on my junk pine thinning. I...

Look at where your 3pt lift arms are attached to the tractor. They will be attached below the axle center point of rotation. So even if the lift arms are raised to pick up a weight the tractor sees the weight it must pull at this low, below axle, attachment point. This is if you have no top link...

Q-Tips - :laughing: I have to stay right in front of the garage. It is the only dry place. Good thing I have some little jobs like the tooth bar to do. And this computer to waste time on. Where the grass is bare it is all standing water on top of the frozen ground. You sink in about 3 inches...

Spring is finally coming so I mounted the WR Long Tooth Bar I got last month. Used a 3/4" hole saw that had a 1/4" pilot. Marked and drilled a 1/4" hole from the inside then used the piloted hole saw from the outside.

Every spring I thin some of my junkiest pine and pile it for my neighbor to block up and take for his OWB to make summertime hot water. This morning when I came out it was 19 degrees. Everything was frozen solid like concrete so I thought it would be a good day to start Joe's wood pile. I...

Enjoying your photos. Heard about your weather in the national news. I am glad to see that all in all it looks like you made out ok considering. Hope you didn't get any more water last night. We used to risk early planting but not any more. Seems like up here if the early stuff makes it then it...

I mounted a guage like this photo. Mine is perminent. But all you need is a tee on the pressure line from the pump with a 1/4" port where you can attach the guage or a plug. Then you can use the guage as a test tool elsewhere. I removed the 3/4" elbow and replaced it with a tee. Then added...

Tractor is in limbo - Stuck between Winter and Spring. But a great time for maintenence and small projects. The only seat time lately is moving stuff into the garage to work on then back out again. On a great and beautiful day like today though I left the tractor in the garage and brought the...

I ued to carry my Cant Hook Like this It worked pretty good but wasn't that handy to get at some times in tight woods or when the tractor was in the barn against the wall. I was also afraid I would catch the hook on something. So yesterday while it was raining I made some brackets. I...

I have been watching for a fairly local used M series 4WD tractor for over a year. I found a M6800 w/ shuttle shift advertised about 3 hrs away. It has 2500 Hrs but looks pretty clean in the picture. I know it is a huge variable but in general what does 2500 hrs mean on a tractor like that. If...

I know what you guys mean. Here is a corner of my wife's vegtable garden last Wendsday and we have gotten about 10 more inches of snow since then. :eek:And it is snowing right now again. The deer fence is 5 feet to the top wire. But I am getting plenty of good seat time moving snow.

You are right - you are not gaining much there. You really need the chains to sit on top of the lugs like this H pattern chain set Your picture doesn't show enough to see what changes you could make. They could be to long allowing the two main circumference chains to zig zag between the lugs...

There is a set of stop pins the bottom of the gate hits against. The rear gate has three positions. I can have it up out of the way so material has clear passage. I can hang the gate behind the stops so it acts like a free drag but traps light material like sod. It also acts as a push blade in...

This is what works well for me on my 10 to 12 foot wide gravel road. 30 HP tractor and a 6 foot rear blade to set the drainage contours. But I use it very seldom now. I don't use the rear blade much because once the road contours are properly set I can keep them maintained with the LPGS. Mine...

I think the Henry Thoreau quote on this picture that my wife put up in our living/dining area says it all !!

OPPS - Slight correction needed. Sorry. gg

The switch is right under the grey cover plate where your PTO lever is. It is at the PTO engaged end. So if you do any "wiggling" do it with the lever in the engaged position. Maybe frozen ??? To get access to the switch remove the grey cover. There are 4 bolts behind the tire on the upper...

Not a single picture yet of anyone using a Farmi winch to get logs out. Thanks beenthere :) Here is are some more just for fun. I love all these wood pictures posted by everybody. These two go together Short video of some small wood and a self release snatch block to get it around...

You two guys with the broken bones - I feel for you. I know what it is like to be out of commition for a long time. Our wood shed holds a two years supply so I stay a year ahead on wood. That way if someting happens we can still stay warm the next winter.

This is interesting to think about. I have the same splitter. The max pressure I get from my motor/pump is 3000 psi. And with the 4" cylinder that makes about 19 tons of splitting force that I actually get. I mounted a pressure gauge so I could watch out of curiosity how much it really took to...

Choker Chain Grab Hook. Push it under the fallen log/tree, hook on to the choker chain, and then pull the choker chain under. A lot easier than pushing the pin end of the choker chain under and then trying to find it to grab it with your finger tips and pull it thru.

No oil truck here either. Like a lot of folks firewood is just a way of life.

Wood is split and drying before going into the shed. Tractor is grading.

Gary, it is pretty amazing how one thing leads to another and the state that "working" equipment can actually be in. My wife took this picture as I headed out to clean the snow out of a woods road this morning after yesterdays big storm.

I have a 5' Kubota Heavy Duty Round Bucket. The inside is not flat where the tooth bar brackets mount. On my first pre-purchase inquiry I asked for some dimensions so I could figure how a tooth bar would mount. They asked for some photos which I sent. I got this response: This is a very...

I am just getting my strength back after nine weeks of successful daily radiation treatments. So I have to start out with light work. I have some people that want some small diameter firewood for camp and since our view of the distant hills has become obstructed by some small trees it seems a...

This may be to simple to post here but what the heck, it might give someone an idea. I got tired of getting up close and personal to the butt end of a snowy log while I tried to push the pin end of a choker underneath and then grab it on the other side to pull it through. The pin always seems to...

Another thing you will want to think about is skidding a long hitch. Especially in winter with a small tractor like ours. When you have on a long hitch it acts as a rudder and makes it hard to turn. Before you start out make sure to flip the brake pedal lever so your steering brakes are ready to...

You will learn lots of stuff on your own as you go. Like most "tricks" you will find sometimes they work and sometimes they don't. You are right about being able to roll a log while winching by wrapping the chain and cable around it a couple times. I think that you will come to the conclusion...

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I am seriously considering putting an Iowa Farms toothbar on my bucket for digging and grapple work with logs and brush. I have a question though about it's use with stonewall sized rocks. I move a lot of them around fixing up my broken down walls. Will the tooth bar make these jobs any easier...

If you look around this site it is pretty universal that people like LPGS's for road maintenence ( and other things too ) Mikesen, Here is some sod I removed just so you can see. BTW - Welcome to TBN Starting out it looked like this Here is what happens. My tailgate collects the sod. If I...

Check these out. baler wood splitter gone bad - YouTube Hay baler wood splitter, John Deere 14T, split wood fast - YouTube

As I was backing the tractor out of the garage this morning I glanced down back and saw what I thought was a turkey caught up in my wife's blueberry frame netting. She leaves the netting on in winter to keep the deer from eating all the terminal bud and last years new growth. When I got down...

My glow plug relay would intermittantly chatter and when it did starting the tractor was harder. I thought I better take care of it before winter. I was told the problem was either the glow plug relay or the controler. I went with the relay first because it was cheaper. From the Messick's...

I need to replace 3 steel 3/8" ID hydraulic lines on my dozer. ( A slow leak turned into a big leak ). I have never worked with steel lines. I know they are not available as spare parts. Will I need to replace these with rubber lines or can steel lines be made up at a reasonable cost ? Who does...

I had a section of road that was getting pretty boney on the right side with the road base exposed on that edge. Just the normal migration of material to the outside of a bend and lots of snow plowing. There was plenty of material on the left side. I made a couple pass with the rear blade angled...

I made a 20 wide X 16 inch deep table for my splitter from some scraps of angle and flat stock I had. I wanted the table removable so I welded two mounting ears to the splitter and attached the table to them with two bolts. The top is just a piece of scrap 5/8" CDX plywood with a 16 gauge...

I found this video of a highly automated BMW plant facinating. So few workers and so clean. Way different than any plant I have spent time in over the years. Thought some of you would enjoy it. BMW F30 3-Series Factory Production Tour (1080p HD, 15:00) - YouTube

This spring I bought a Husky 22 Ton Splitter. I plan on pulling it with my wheeler. It had a broken hitch and a mangled kick stand. I put on a hitch and was going to make a new stand but when I was in TSC the other day I saw a 1 ton weld-on trailer jack for $25 and bought it. It even rotates up...

I wanted to put a 1/4 NPT Pressure gauge on a NPT swivel fitting to allow easy angle adjustment of the gauge but when I got the parts and looked at them I am not sure it will seal. The gauge stub is flat like a plug and it will sit on top of the cone in the female swivel. The gauge bottoms out...

If you have a long driveway to maintain then a Land Plane Grading Scraper with Top and Tilt will certainly help you do it. I graded today for the first time this year. It is so enjoyable to use this equipment. Some how I forget over the winter how easy it is to do a good a job.

I stupidly took the winch off my tractor and left it standing on soft ground. It tipped over and flattened the pto shaft under it. The action was like bending the shaft in order to pry it off w/o pushing the release pin. The release pin was jammed. I got it loose by knocking the shaft back in...

My 11 year old L3010 has started making a buzz noise, intermittantly but getting worse, when the glow plug light and relay switch off. The timing seems normal and the tractor starts fine in the cold. The buzz sounds like the relay chattering. It lasts for 1 to 2 seconds. Before I just change the...

I inherited an older Linde torch set. It came with a old 10 lb tube of 1/8" X 36" flux coated brazing rods that I am trying to identify. The rods are Harris. I can barely make out the label. I think it says ALLOY F C WHITE HEAT 712 *K 1 FB Does anyone know what this is ...

The UPS man brought me a Self Release Snatch Block yesterday. I never had one before but I use regular snatch blocks all the time while running my winch. Mostly to avoid snags, avoid damaging good trees, and getting around stuff and corners in general while getting a log to the tractor. If you...

I have had my Fit Rite Hydraulics TnT system for about a year. It is a great tool and has really enhanced the capability of any of my dirt working impliments. It took me a while to get the knack of making fine adjustments on the fly but once I did I was able to a better job easier and faster...

I am considering bidding on a Kubota M6800 on auchon. This will be a first for me. What kind of experiences have you auchon buyers had ? You don't get much time. Can look/drive on Friday or early Saturday morning and auchon is on Saturday morning.

This M6800HD is up for action and I am looking for any comments you guys might have. I am looking for a deal on something to use in the woods so cosmetic is not important. The front wheel looks funny and there is wear showing. Any value opinions would be welcome. It is an hour away and I can see...

My one ton dump has an electric over hydraulic system to extend the telescopeing cylinder. It calls for dextron II hydraulic fluid. When it is cold like yesterday, 10*F, it is very slow. I have to keep the revs up and my eye on the battery voltage then raise the bed in shifts. Is there a...

Here are some small scale logging pictures of my site from this week. It is timber stand improvement work. I am cutting over mature balsam fir which has butt rot so that new growth can start in the sunny opening. Some times I loose quite a bit off the butt log. All the slash will protect the new...

I am getting my roads ready for winter. I have always used sappling sticks for plowing markers. It is kind of a pain cutting and sharpening them. I use about 100. I saw these and wonder if anyone has used them and how they stand up to plowing abuse. They might be worth it if they last. 72"...

I have a friend that built a rig to remove the 10% ethanol from gas by adding water. He does 5 gal at a time. Adds 2 qts water and then drains off 1 gal water/ethanol. He uses the straight gas in his outboard, chainsaw, mower, etc. We went fishing yesterday and the outboard ran great. My...

I have a Cummins 239 in my dozer. The fuel system it has a lift pump, a spin-on filter, and a Lucas CAV pressure pump. If the fuel tank is full the fuel level in the tank is above both pumps and filter. I have discovered that the pressure pump leaks a steady drip from around the throttle shaft...

:oI have to replace the 2nd and third tooth sections on my First Choice sickle bar. I have removed the blade bar and the tooth bar. The third tooth section will be easy - drill out the old rivets, replace the section and install a new section with new rivets. The second section is mounted in the...

There are some sickos in this world but even so for some reason I thought this was a little funny. It happened a little north of here. This was on msnbc news. "Vermont authorities say a man was arrested after driving a large farm tractor over several sheriffs' cruisers, crushing them. Five...

I needed something to move some Allan Blocks. I searched CarryAll and saw lots of very nice units made by the likes of JDGreenGrass, CompactTractorFan, GeneralLee, Folio, and many others. From the info given I decided to go with the $130 TSC CarryAll Frame which is rated for 1000 lbs. Mine is...

First rainy day in about 2 weeks. My buddy and I got caught up with some indoor chores. I let my buddy use the tractor. :):)

I was out in the woods with my pole saw doing some white pine trimming and I came across a clump of stuff I had never seen before. It was near an old cellar hole. I found out it was Poison Hemlock. I learned that it is not considered invasive here in VT but is becoming a big problem in the mid...

That looks pretty easy to change. Can you just rotate the shaft 90*, lift it out, then set it down in the other swivel the same way ? If you can I like it. Mine is a pain to offset. Five bolts, 2 above and 3 below. And a fair amount of grunting.

Has anyone ever put a tractor type logging winch on their dozer? Without really knowing how, or the draw backs, I think I would like to do this. The lift mechanism and hydraulics seem straight forward enough. It is hooking up to the pto I don't know about. Seems like the transmission pto would...

I have owned a small Dresser TD7G dozer for a short time. I am still learning my way around it. It has a 239 cu in air asperated 4 cylinder desiel. One of the daily maintenence items listed in the op manual is to open a petcock in the bottom of the fuel tank to clear water. This is not practical...

I don't know if it is just me or if others have this same problem? But after driving off pulling a hitch with my winch control rope dragging on the ground one to many times I decided I needed to change something. No matter how many times I told myself not to leave the control rope on the ground...

I have a 3 yard dump truck. It has an electric over hydraulic system with a telescoping cylinder to lift the body. The hydraulic tank has no drain plug and probably holds about a gallon. The system uses Dextron for fluid. In the maitenance section of the manual there is no mention of fluid...

I mounted my chains today and snaped a couple pictures for the benifit of anyone who is trying to find an easier way. This is not a novel or new approach. Many already use this well know method. It is almost to easy. I learned it here on TBN several years ago. Hope this might help someone else...

I have a small Dresser Dozer with a 4 cylinder IH or Cummins D240N motor (not sure when they changed over). It has no glow plugs and I have not had it long enough to know its cold weather quirks. It is the first deisel I have had w/o glow plugs. In the summer it starts in 2 or 3 seconds. This...

I have been managing to chage the ten gallons of oil in my tractor with a 5 gal bucket because there are multible drains on the tractor and if I start with the highest one I get about 4.5 gals. It is cumbersum and prone to spillage. I needed to change the transmission oil in my dozer, which is...

I need to replace a 3/8" angle cylinder hose on my small dozer. The hose runs along the top of the blade arm and under the cylinder so it is somewhat protected. I can't find any markings on the old hose to tell me what it is. The dozer has a 2000 psi system. Is R2 hose the thing to use or...

I am considering buying a corded electric impact wrench for work on equipment with rusted nuts and bolts up to about 1/2" or 9/16". When I started reading the reviews available they were way to varied to make sense. Some said they couldn't even remove car lug nuts and some said strut and shock...

I have a new to me Dresser dozer that specifies API CC/CD SAE 10W oil for the hydraulic system. In a footnote it says the hydraulic oil must pass the TO-2 test. Can anyone tell me what the TO-2 test is ? Does this make it special oil or can I use any good quality API CC/CD SAE 10W oil ?? Thanks

I saw a post a while back which said when you change your front axle oil you should recheck the oil level after operating a while because air bubbles make it hard to fill the axle properly. Well, I did my front axle 200 hrs ago and today was doing an engine oil and filter change. I remembered...

I was cruising my woods and found this funny fir tree. You might get a chuckle out of it, I did.

I ordered a TnT kit from Fit Rite Hydraulics and installed it today. All went smooth and I can tell that I am going to like it. Brian, from Fit Rite Hydraulics, was great to do business with and was extremely helpful. The Top Cylinder was easy enough. I just ordered one that covered the range...

This splitter has been for sale by the side of the road since last fall. The price is coming down but is still to high. Started at $1500 now $950. I was thinking of making an offer much much lower but don't want to buy something that won't stand up. It has a 4"X24"X2" 3000 psi Prince cylinder...

I finally got my 3rd function valve project finished. Here is a link to the project thread http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/hydraulics/202187-finished-3rd-function-valve-project.html Now I can run the grapple with a lever right beside the loader lever and my 2 rear remotes are freed up for...

Back in March I started a 3rd Function Valve project. I made some parts and ordered fittings and hoses. This was shown in this thread http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/hydraulics/198367-photos-third-function-valve-project.html Then I stopped and waited for decent weather to finish. We finally...

This little guy came by last week. We were surprised to see him so early. I usually put the bird feeders in the first week of April and we don't see any bears until around the 15th. There is still plenty of snow and it was a cold day. He must have woke up hungry. Probably the first winter he...

I am getting ready to install Top and Tilt on my L3010 and have been thinking alot about how I will use it. One question that came to mind is; Are there some impliments where you would remove the TnT cylinders and go back to standard links, either for safty or to prevent damage to the TnT...

I wanted to install a new valve to control my grapple and get it off of the rear remotes so I can use them for TNT. I wanted the valve control to be near my FEL lever. Last Nov teg posted a very nice discription of a similar project he did. I stole alot of his ideas. THANKS teg. This is a link...

The lift cylinder on my Fisher snow plow always has a little fluid dribbling down the out side. Not enough to make blue drips in the snow or require adding fluid during the long plow season. But I keep looking at it and wondering if it is bad enough to warrent repair. The plow is 10 years old...

I bought a Prince MB Series valve a while back when I saw it come available at Surplus Center. I am going to use it like a 3rd function to control my grapple. I am now starting that project. My question is: Will I need to paint the valve to protect it from the elements or is it OK the way it is...

I am thinking about getting a small crawler to keep my woods roads open in the winter. I found a jd 2010 with a blade that is running and in my price range and am wondering what kind of work I can expect out of it. Any other advise would be appreciated as I don't know much about crawlers. The...

I have a Land Pride RBT1572 Rear Blade. While dragging a woods trail the other day the blade suddenly got all floppy. When I looked at it I could see that the large vertical cylinder that acts as a hinge pin for horizontal rotation had either dropped down out of the hole in the upper plate or...

While out in the woods I dislodged the valve stem on a 7.2 X 16 front ag tire. I reseated the valve stem and it appears undamaged. Now I have to inflate the sucker. The temperature is 10F and it is mighty stiff. The axle is blocked up so the tire is off the ground. I have a portable 8 gallon...

Welcome to TBN. Good report. It is nice to know those things go in the way they are supposed to. Thanks gg

I saw Santa test driving a tractor at Paul's Farm Service today.

It was another beautiful day for working in the woods today. Conditions are about perfect now with 5" of dry snow and temps in the teens. I took down a good maple that was uprooted and leaning about 30 degrees from vertical and headed 90 degrees away from my skid trail. It was hung up in other...

I was skidding out some firewood this morning with my L3010 Gear Transmission tractor and Farmi Winch. I got a small log I was winching hung up behind a very short stump and thought I should be able to get over it. I pumped the lanyard a couple times with medium pressure and it didn't come so I...

I was inspired by sodamo (THANKYOU) and his thread "Just Another 'Tool Box'" where he mounted a piece of bar stock across the fenders behind the seat to support a tool box. I stole his basic idea and made a shelf for my saw and stuff behind the seat. I used two pieces of 2X2X1/8 angle that I...

We had a half baked ice storm today so I figured it was a good time to get the chains on. For years I have been using a loop of light rope tied to the chains and hooked on the tread lugs to pull the chains up and around the tires by driving forward when mounting the chains. Without much trouble...

I have an older Bear-Cat 5" Chipper/Shreder model 554 thats works great chipping which is my main use. It is the same as the Woods unit. My wife wanted me to shred her pea vines. They were green. Huge mistake. It was like someone threw 5000 yds of fish line in there. It took a long time to...

I have posted some of my resent small time logging operation on "Todays Seat Time" and it was suggested that it might be appropriate to make it into a thread of its own. So I collected the posts together for this thread. Started my fall logging today. Have some fir to cut. Quite a few are...

I have a grapple on my bucket which I control from a rear remote valve. There are two 1/4" hydraulic hoses about 14' long running from the RR QDs to a set of QDs mounted on the FEL near the grapple. I am going to add a new valve mounted near the FEL valve to control the grapple and use the...

My L3010 has a 7 GPM hydraulic capability. If I was going to choose between a 8 GPM max or 20 GPM max single spool dual acting valve to control my grapple would one be better choice than the other? Independent of size and cost. Thanks.

When mounting your tractor how many of you run the shift lever up your pants leg when wearing shorts or get it caught on your saw chaps strap ? :laughing: Or is it just me ?

Resurfaced a 500' stretch of my mile long road today. Took 10 trips to the Pike crusher plant, which luckily is only 4 miles away, with my Dodge Ram 3500 dump to get 36.5 ton of 3/4" "Sta-mat". I tailgate spread each load then rough graded the whole thing with my Planer/Box-Drag. Next I did a...

I was looking at a thread by dstig1 on his PTO and winch and became interested in calculating what my Farmi Winch and L3010 could do. Are these numbers reasonable ?? L3010 PTO = 25 hp @ 540 RPM (engine @ 2700RPM) Kubota Spec Torque at PTO shaft = ( 25 hp X 5250) / 540 RPM = 243 ft-lbs I...

I went to change my Hydraulic filter today and noticed that the magnetic ring on the new filter was broken. About a 1" section was broke away from the ring. There were numerous small pieces like sawdust at the two breaks. It was suggested to me that I could remove the broken magnet and replace...

I finally got the chance to try out my grader. It is 60" wide and 54" long. The blades are square to the sides and 24" appart. It weighs 550 lbs. or 110 lbs per foot of width. I set it up with a slack chain for the top link and let it set all the way down on the road. This way it will follow...

I have been looking at top link cylinders and see that some have a check valve on them. I just cant seem to figure out what a check valve would do. I could understand a pressure releif valve but not a check valve. I assume it is a double acting cylinder operated off of a set of remotes. Can some...

Two men were cuttng down a large white pine on a farm in Monroe, NH. One, who was 62 years old, was operating a large farm tractor. He was pushing on the tree with the tractor to help direct its fall. When the tree went down it became entangled with the tractor, flipping it over. The operator...

We finally had a good day and I was able to finish my back yard mechanic steel cutting for a grader/planer project. I have wanted one of these for a couple years. I used my grapple for a vice to hold the steel plate and cut it with a sawz_all. I clamped two pieces of light angle back to back...

Hi All, I am building a road grader. It is a low (as possible) budget project. I am not a machinist but have a lot of patience. I have almost finished cutting all the steel pieces and will need to drill four 7/8" and two 3/4" holes in 3/8" material for the lift arms and top link pins. It looks...

I have been nursing a slow leak on my left front tire all winter. It was finally warm enough to take a hard look last week and I found some wood debris between the rim and tire bead - looked harmless but decided to get it out. It turned out to be a piece about 4" long jammed in there. The leak...

Has anyone tried putting a tooth bar on their rear blade to make a ripper of sorts. I would like to try it but am not sure if it will take the abuse. I would like to rip sod and small roots and scarify my packed road? gordy

Its almost time to change the Hydraulic Filter on my Kubota L3010 again. If Im really quick and not to spastic I can do it without losing much more than a quart of fluid but sometimes more and always messy. I keep thinking there must be a way to do it without losing oil. Ive thought about trying...

I received this e-mail from a friend. The film is 11 minutes long and shows a "Snow Tractor" invented by Henery Ford. If you havent seen this be fore it is worth watching. Subject: FW: Snow tractor 1926 Snow Tractor - rare original video of an invention by Henry Ford that never went...

My son wants to put in about 100 feet of drainage at the base of his concrete foundation on a 50 year old house. The footings are down 7 or 8 feet. He thinks that if we rent a back hoe or small excavator we will be all set. I told him I thought it would be very difficult trying to dig a ditch...

Is there any easy or best way to remove crab grass from a gravel driveway and turn around area? The stuff is so tough my rear blade wont shave it off. I have not tried a rake but can borrow one if thats the way to go. Thanks for the help

Does anybody known of a 3pt spreader made for sand that will go on a 30 hp Kabota. Ive found some that will spread salt but none for just sand. Thanks.

I bought a pair of Tellefsdal Super Ice Chains (made in Norway) for my L3010 a couple years ago and love them. I lost a connecting link that goes on the tread part of the chain that Tellefsdal calls a T-COUPLER. When I called my dealer for a replacement he told me that he has had T-Couplers on...

I have a Kubota L3010 Manual Transmission and need to change the hydraulic fluid. (500 Hrs). It holds about 10 gallons. I dont know what to expect when I remove the plug(s). I'm thinking of trying to use three 5 galllon buckets. Will I have time to change buckets without spilling to much on the...

I got a sicklebar mower about four years ago which I use mostly for road side mowing. The machine hangs off of a yoke or squareish inverted "U" which mounts to the 3PH. One lift arm on each side at the bottom of the inverted "U" and the top link at the center of the top of the "U". There is also...