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To those confusing DEF and "pre-emissions"... We've had "emissions" stuff for MANY decades. DEF has been around for less than two decades: not sure exact date Mercedes came up with it. My tractor is Tier IV but it doesn't use DEF. DEF isn't a requirement for anyone. DEF systems just make it...

Can't wait to break something so I can test this out! :LOL:

Makes me want to hug them! It's really hard (had one dog that would be impossible to describe how phenomenal she was- a legend if there ever was one). The only solution is to grow a bigger heart. I know that I've got to do this before the day comes that my current dog has to go (she's more of...

Yes, service IS a big thing. One can hope for a perfect machine but that's a bit rare. I had the rear diff on my NX5510 resealed (one side first and then the other a year or so later): close to 300 hrs on the second job? I am not a big fan of the customer service from my dealer but all things...

More from my "Dog on a Log" series... My 95 lb mutt on a big cottonwood that recently came crashing down*: few years back I'd measured it at 5 1/2' in diameter; well over 125' tall. * To answer the age-old question of whether a tree makes a sound when it falls in the woods and no one is...

Look for "Settings" (configuration- most times a gear-looking hot link thingy). Under such should be something pertaining to "Signature". Your post motivated me to disable this signature in/from my email app!

Most construction is pushed by big financial outfits and sold to big real estate management outfits (search "blackrock buying up houses" - it's not quite as bad as folks claim, but it's the trend). All kind of like the money that's being force-injected into the fracking sector. Keep enough...

Yes. There is different plastics and mixing plastics isn't going to come out well. I have a plastic welder (used a couple of times- once it worked as needed, another time it couldn't get it done) and it came with different types of plastic rod. I've used JB Plastic Weld for some ad-hoc stuff...

Depends on the type of steel in the rods whether one can just straighten them or not*. I busted a bucket tilt cylinder on my NX5510. Dealer was a pain in the behind to deal with at the time so I went to a great hydraulics shop and they built up a new rod. Cost was only SLIGHTLY less than a...

How were the GPs tested? (I generally do a simple ohm test and it's been reliable enough for me, but many folks swear that you have to actually apply a load to them to test.) If you pop off the connection on the GPs what happens when you go to start? It would be nice if you could trigger a...

Selective facts are also problematic when not put in context. Read Sir John Glubb's The Fate of Empires and get back to me to discuss how "socialism" (or any other "ism") is the reason why it'll all go to heck. NOTE: Glubb didn't understand the underlying issue (I do!), but he very clearly...

In theory it's "just all of us." I appreciate your comment because it actually explains the direction to take in order to try to fix things. We are pretty much set to see things as separate from ourselves and that provides for division, and those with power like to keep people divided. I...

Interesting crowd you run with... And, there's an interesting connection here to morbidity rates for COVID-19 victims. Diabetes is one of the key co-morbidities. Diabetes (type II) is the result of extensive lengths of time ingesting excessive amounts of sugars. Most alcholhol is stuffed...

See my above post. One of the tricks of the elites is to make the underlings believe that it's the poorer among them that are the cause of their ills.

Wall Street runs things now. Have to squeeze out profits for the money changers..s

I was concerned about grounding, but after testing I found out that I didn't have to worry. Enough of the fence hits ground and the ground here is amply conductive (over 100" of rain last year). I over-dug a ditch next to a fence line and didn't notice that I'd done so. I discovered after...

Fixed-knot woven wire is stronger than regular fixed knot: biggest selling point is that you can get by with half the number of line posts. My fence is topped with a hot wire. Nothing that crawls is going to climb over the fence: jumping, yes, but not crawling. Fence/woven wire is the ground...

Hills aren't kind to these things. They're pigs. I don't have real hills, only some slight inclines, and I can state that you're not going to traverse much over flat in anything other than low. Put a bunch of stuff in the bed (or tow a load) and you'll have an excuse to go slow (and you'll...

I'd gotten something akin to the jaw-style grubber and had one of the circlips fly off first thing. Mine was meant for grabbing logs (but could do the same as above grabber); I bought a proper skidding cable and never looked back. I have a pallet grabber what has fixed teeth (nothing to come...

Best description of a goat fence: "Needs to be able to hold water." I'd really like to have goats but they scare me: fencing has to keep out predators AND keep the goats IN.

You would be lucky to hit 30mph. I'm thinking that mine has only done maybe 24mph: just not worth the hassle to get more of something (speed) that I don't need. I only rarely drive mine (2013) on the street, and when I do I know that it's NOT a high speed machine (tires and handling make it...

And then there's battery maintenance. One has to become a vigilant overseer of the their "off grid" systems.

New tractor. NEVER experienced it before, nor did the thought ever occur to me. But, there it was. Small diameter nipple and hose out the bottom of the tank: mass required to block is small- amount of water maybe half a thimble, if even that? About 720 hrs and not a single engine issue...

Do folks have local co-ops? That's were I got my fencing: not a regular stocked item but it was from one of their suppliers in which case shipping costs were blended in with other stuff; I did get most of my posts from TSC (and bulk of various hardware from Kencove). Stuff will increasingly be...

Please put your location in your profile! Live a season at your new place before attempting any drastic changes. One would need to drill various holes in the area to see where the water table is. If you have a high water table and you have no way to drain to daylight then you have little hope...

BTW - OP, put your location in your profile!

If you get water in your fuel you can get ice slugs that clog the fuel line: this can readily happen in temps that aren't as low as JWR suggests is necessary for gelling. I had that happen on my Kioti: stupid fuel cap was letting in rain water!

Need to inspect closely. WHERE did the gravel go? I cannot tell from the pictures (we're only able to do 2D here!).

Pretty much sounding like with Moss's glean showing the boats' weight to be about 34k lbs that that plus say 5k lbs for the trailer put the towed package at around that 38k lb mark. BUT, all is viewed as CGVW, and toss in say another 9k lbs for the truck and that CGVW is around 47k lbs! That...

Seems to be a bit thick with irony.

Beginner aliens, not yet well-versed in doing crop-circles? Dust devils (or a small water spout touching down)? Water rising/upwelling? (no clear channels/paths away though) Same area every year? Hard to tell from pictures, but is there excavated material to be found nearby? My birds...

And interesting that we claim that we have to have at least %3 "economic" growth. How fast can rats run?

So, $3,600 x 100 years... (yeah, mixing apples and gorillas!) :ROFLMAO:

Yeah, but you've likely paid out the difference in property taxes! :LOL: As the saying goes: Land, they ain't making any more of it. "Money," on the other hand...

The BIG Towing thread had a link to this article: https://www.rgj.com/story/news/2021/11/10/fatal-crash-caused-overweight-truck-towing-boat-kills-two-people/6378397001/ That article said the trailer was a FIVE axle one. Seems that in larger trailer like this the axles are rated for 7k lbs, so...

Are surge brakes "built in?" [just looking to learn something from this thread :)] I don't have a boat, therefore no boat trailer, but I have a 12k lb utility trailer with 4wheel elec brakes and I've had a 12k lb dump trailer that had surge brakes. No trailer with both (would seem like a good...

If fuel was just over $4/gal back in 2008 (looking at the graph that was given above) then one need only use the adjusted value of a dollar per inflation statistics to understand what that fuel-to-dollar ratio would be in today's dollar. This valuation holds for ANYTHING priced in dollars. Go...

Is that an anchor on the bow in the pic? Doesn't seem like a very big anchor; if it's right-sized then it would seem that the boat might not be all that big*. At any rate, NO TRAILER BRAKES is most certainly the secondary cause (first is driver fault [for, of course, not ensuring proper...

4kW isn't likely going to work. If you're really off-grid then you most likely have a well, or pumps that require electrical power. I have a 7.5kW generator that operates everything I have that is electrical- no cars, no cook stove or heating, so electrical loads are low (water heater and well...

The model has been slowly going toward distribution centers as retail outlets: think Costco/Sams etc. And many retail centers are moving toward being primarily on-line: grocery outlets provide grocery deliveries, though this is a tough market to make work (companies like Schwans is likely a...

One would have to adjust for inflation in order to truly compare apples to apples. That high of about (just above) $4 in 2008 is $5.14 in today's dollars: we have another 25% increase to go in order to match. Handy site to calc this stuff: Inflation Calculator | Find US Dollar's Value from...

Yeah, and there's THAT too. Sadly, not an uncommon thing in a lot of countries (just peer up into Canada to see some of the same, though at a smaller scale [well, they've always been a smaller population, so I suppose it could be proportional]). The fiction that we/US are the saviors of the...

Founders warned about meddling in the affairs of other countries. Apparently you wouldn't have been in agreement with them. BTW - I'm not hard of hearing. No need to shout. ;)

I am totally am GOOD with fusion. But...I was following fusion back in the early 80s. Almost 40 years ago! :( Big part of my attraction was that it had the potential to be used to recover base atomic elements from stuff- (this is the stuff that actually excites me)...

Many claim that there's newer nuclear and that it's "safe." I'd love for that to be true, but then I realize that human hubris knows no bounds and that nuclear isn't something that we can afford to be wrong on. I do know that there's a big push behind the scenes for nuclear power and that...

I heard this one pop from about 1/8 mile away (while inside my house with all kinds of storm sounds going on). I'd measured it several years ago at 5 1/2' dia. I believe it was at least 125' tall. The shards sticking up are about 30' tall. Cottonwood, so no value for anything. It was a...

WOW! Great to get more insights, though not great to hear about what is actually happening. I know that at one point Norway was garnering a fair amount of money from oil and that production has been in decline, in which case selling electricity is how they (the govt) is making up for that...

It would be interesting to put up a poll as to whether folks think this is a short-term problem or not. Would seem that we'd have to set some sort of time constraint since there is CERTAINTY that eventually the planet will no longer exist (guessing that when the sun dies that so too will the...

Follow me said the blind man to the deaf man! :D

Useful for other things than lifting heavy loads... 561250,669020

You can always "depend" on the US to ship you some really expensive stuff! (the ever-pro-trade US tried to kill the Norstream pipeline- such actions invariably helped increase costs) Nuclear will be your future. Take solace in knowing that Putin won't be in such an equation! ;)

I couldn't find any reference in Kubota's documentation about such a feature. The point about a feature such as this is that if the engine is seeing too heavy a load that would otherwise stall the engine it would ******/back off the load (not sure how; I used it only a little bit on my Kioti...

Is there any possibility of an internal short popping up and causing this? I once popped off a radiator cap on a car and the contents blew straight into my face. It was luk warm! Never took that approach again!

And meanwhile thousands die in traffic accidents (irrespective of the energy source used to crash vehicles). It's good to understand all risks. I don't like over-stating for biased reasons (that's the job of marketing). Anyone have any numbers on house fires caused by automobiles? (At this...

Tesla's prices are going up. Yeah, same can be said for ICE vehicles. The takeaway, however, is that this is the opposite direction (on EVs) needed to get better market penetration. I've got cash to buy several Teslas but no way I would shell out $60k on a car (not when I've got zero payments...

Unlike the US? A LOT of the world would like to be free but the US won't allow that. US is an empire and ALL empires collapse. There will be another empire to follow and it too will collapse. Of course, this could all be avoided with nukes (US had once proposed nuking China; it had US...

I've managed to slightly bend/distort one of my forks. I do so much stuff I cannot recall how. They're rated for 3k lbs: my Kioti's loader is rated at 2,700 lbs- max load, with forks, is closer to about 2,300 lbs. 48" long. Sometimes the length can be a pain when working with pallets- tips...

My NX5510's loader is rated for 2,700 lbs. I've likely gotten about that max (with/including front implements): refer to my grappling adventures. A person doesn't want to be running any significant distance, AND over uneven surfaces is a bad idea as well. I've had to dump a 1,000 lb load...

I've been browsing looking for trouble (looking for an OM606) and have been seeing the current, insane prices. W123s are listed for $12k! I like the W124s. Not looking to replace my 2000 TDI with anything: recent 100k mile maintenance and I'm set for another 100k miles, which I'll likely...

Root Cause, thanks for that reminder as well. I'd thought about going that route also. Sometimes I just want to peel off one piece, but if it can all be done in one quick ON and then another quick ON action then I suppose that would be fine.

And professional/"properly educated" "economists" are to be trusted sources because why? (top-level US " economics professionals" have trashed many a South American country [refer to Milton Freedman / Chicago School of Economics and Chile et al]) I believe I've already demonstrated that our...

We have more independent truckers. Truckers that get paid by the haul. With backlogs at ports they have to sit for a long time, time which drastically cuts into their over-all trip times: COSTLY! The pandemic applied the brakes to spending, consumer and corporate. Factories had to scale...

LOL! (and you know why)

Just ordered the greens (I get stuff all mucked up, in which case it won't be long before one couldn't tell what color my boots were!). Maybe we can get together and do some Xmas caroling- Red and Green (or maybe the Red Green Show?) :LOL: Green will go better with my scenery:D Anyway... Many...

Is there any anti-stall function? My Kioti has such a feature. It's supposed to keep the engine from stalling out if there's too great of a demand/load. If the M7060 has anything like this it might be worth a try at enabling it. I will run about 1,200rpm when I engage any mower on my Kioti...

Thanks for the info on the boots! And with the discount there's little reason to not buy a pair! Seems like a big win if one is "going green!" ($85 cheaper than the red-colored ones- when I go out to cut wood I'm not thinking about whether the color of my clothing matches :LOL: and if one...

Lots of vehicles' heater cores are a biatch to replace. Had to do that in one of my VW TDIs: shop time is supposed to be 8hrs. That was for one car out of 5 of same I've owned, all with a lot of miles. Although it was the worst job imaginable I'd still never consider dumping the cars over...

Hard to resist spooling a turbo up! But, if one really has to make it "there" it's nice to know that one can do so via discipline (rather than pushing)! (my car has averaged 51.5 mpg over the course of 105k miles now- hard to refrain from slamming the turbo, but I mostly do so) Not sure what...

For my wife the correction would be #2: "Does it have diesel?" :D (at 700+ miles per tank there's a lot less filling up to be done on our cars)

I was aiming for a newer Duramax (LOTS of research- I'm NOT a brand-follower; I've got a 12v Cummins [it'll run until the end of time]; I've never owned a GM product*, but after going through all the issues with other manufacturers' trucks I was good to go with a Duramax). Changed my plans...

Drop a TDI motor into the Nissan and you'd have best of both worlds! I got charged up thinking about a Nissan Patrol with an OM606 in it because, well, I only do diesels! :LOL: I haven't seen any real increase in Jeeps around here. If anything it's Teslas. And always diesel pickups, which...

This thread reminds me that I need to purchase a new pair of chaps: have one cut, and they're really old and crusty now. It's stated that oil-stained chaps should also be replaced: read it somewhere but cannot recall where. I bought my first pair of chaps just after cutting a pair of pants...

Really looking forward to hearing how the tractor works for you!

I've cut a few trees that had some internal issues that ended up making me change my, um, plans! (<<< that's how you mispell "pants"!)

I've got a BH286 that I picked up severely used: had been used commercially. I've run the snot out of it and if something is breakable I'm able to break it. Tail wheel was compromised and I finished it off: had re-welded with extra gusseting and it's held up to all my abuse. The bars that are...

OP is asking a question that pushes into the "matter of life or death" category. A POINT to be seen is that one has to put things in context. Ignoring context and hoping that things turn out right won't get you "there."

Yup, junk wood. I've got so much debris that I'm thinking it'll be safer carting it away with an excavator (the trunk parts shown here are of lesser concern, though, of course, are going to see a chainsaw): there's stump/debris area nearby, so not much travel. I've got other work that I had on...

You're much braver than we are. We barely survived raising ONE pup!

Our dog gets treats every time she comes in the house (when we call or when she comes and is known to have been a "good girl"). She is to stay outside until we un-dawn gear and get ready for her onslaught- need to toss out the arresting gear- my arm! She can get all goofy and try to run around...

Unless you're changing viscosity for winter there's no reason to change it just because winter is coming. There ARE some diesel engines whose oil doesn't turn black. I won't even try to explain... A friend has a mid-2010s Duramax and he says his oil stays pretty clear-looking: he's like me...

I've experienced that sinking feeling! I once sank a 9k lb, rented, excavator. But, renting is still the best way to go if one cannot afford industrial-level equipment for use in nasty situations/environments. Such equipment is armored up: other than getting stuck, getting into brush isn't...

I ran a material dump trailer behind my NX5510 (55hp). Trailer weight 3k lbs (empty). It had surge brakes, so no worry about being pushed around: I could feel a bit of push, but if push came to shove the trailer's brakes should operate. I was operating in the higher end of load capacity, 10k...

I have places where I cannot get to in time before it's half way to the moon (this is probably about 7' tall; taken late last summer): 707523 I don't have any nice pictures of striping because I usually mow drunk, that or because I have a lot of tree to have to swerve around: I think it's the...

Ah, the Internet age! OP posted one day prior to your comment. Sometimes a person gets caught up in other things. I wouldn't think it a fair assessment for only one or two days absence. But, I think no matter what someone's intent and or lack of follow up it's a good idea to lay out what...

DISCLAIMER: I'm perhaps just above novice level. I'm 63 (only been cutting wood for the last 10 years- I can feel that it's more work now, but I still feel capable with what I do/have). EVERYTHING is a compromise. I won't try to assess what others do/have done, nor will I try to tell anyone...

Through all the storm sounds from Monday's big storm I heard this one huge CRACK. It was like thunder except the duration was too short for that. Pretty sure that this was the source of that sound: Not thinking that having my grapple on the tractor would help here.:LOL: This Cottonwood...

"laws of Economics are not going to change any more than the laws of Physics. " Why thank you for bringing up this subject [again]! The Laws of Physics says that we cannot have perpetual growth on a finite planet. A mathematical impossibility. The Big Brains (all the CEOs) love and push...

Tax write-offs?

And why AREN'T we talking about WHY the healthcare costs are so high? Instead we're trying to be thankful that they're high and that our overlords are "helping" pay the bills? (of course, they've got their hands in the everyone's pockets via helping jack up prices, but we ought not look at...

The delivery person ought to bow down to the MTV folks?:unsure:

The kings toss some crumbs, we should be thankful!

Zappa was actually learning. Wisdom isn't possible without learning.

That's a slight stretch according to: Dire Straits' “Money for Nothing” Lyrics Meaning - Song Meanings and Facts It was a appliance store deliveryman referring to folks getting money for no l[abor] work.

And marketing dollars is where in this equation? People THINK they're making decisions. They've been programmed to pull levers and buy this or that. I'll toss out a name: Edward Bernays.

Chump change compared to a lot of do-nothing board folks. But, yes, no one should be getting money for nothing (didn't Dire Straits warn us about this? oh, wait!).

Ha, ha! Market driven! All these f-ers sit on each other's boards and circle-jerk their packages. <- This is what is wrong. It's a BIG club and we ain't in it: yet many drool over the lot of 'em (sad).

The key part was "a bit." It's hard to get something in to pry it OPEN if you don't have a space to put a jack in. We don't know, well, I don't know, which direction it is being over-pressurized. Keeping it open "a bit" allows for EITHER opening or closing. I like to keep my options open...

Not idea what brand. I can see some Bush Hog (brand) traits in it. But it's kind of a pretty generic, old design. Looks like it's substantial metal! Suggestion: utilize a floating top link: example. Laminated tail wheel? Nothing special about tail wheels. With few exceptions, most parts...

If it's a hot fluid issue, and I think you're on to something here, then is it an issue of unhooking when the fluid is hot or? I'm just musing here: my brain cells are currently taking a nap- I'll leave this for others to ponder...

I try to keep the grapple opened up a bit when disconnecting. That allows me to, if needed, stuff a hydraulic or a screw jack between the jaws in case I have to force pressure in the OPEN line/circuit. I'm thinking that I'm doing less of this of late: likely similar to burning incense... It...

FYI - Here's a picture just off of Hwy 20 (Diablo Dam - wife and I, and the mutt, took a trip through here a couple years back and I snapped this pic): 717739

And one really needs to watch the road as it can be a LONG way DOWN if you f-up! $100k range, LOL. There are POV rigs and their cargo that are likely $500k combined running along my highway: mega, new diesel trucks pulling fancy, mamoth horse trailers with a stable full of horse (all likely...

Driving in a straight line I suppose, but pulling out from a dead stop and turning, on to a busy highway? The LAW says "hands-free." Not only is it stupid but it's illegal! I get it that inattentiveness is BAD, but it's hard to do anything about: other than force insurance to charge based on...

I like these a lot, but I shelled out about $50k for a Kioti NX5510HC and Polaris Brutus (a well-watered-down version of the Toolcat [Polaris and Bobcat had a technology exchange thing going on]). If the Toolcat could run a 7' flail (in heavy growth) and could lift 2,500# I'd be all over it...

My doors come off by popping a couple retaining clips on hinge pins and pulling the pins (and popping the stabilizers off). I've thought about this, but then why bother? If one gets pinned in then just pop open the rear glass and climb out. Five years and 715 hrs and I've never had to do this...

I suppose one could stretch it, but, no, in my mind "same" is not the same as "different" (or, if you will, "different" is not the same as "same"): From Definition of SAME Definition of same (Entry 1 of 3)...

You, you.. I'm going to reach over and slap you!:LOL: NOTE: I do have a grapple ;), it's just that I don't want to be swapping in on/off this time of the year. Rob ain't going to be able to do that which I did here (the situation is more complex, but trust me he couldn't- he'd like to think...

I am NOT on FB (and never will be [that or "Meta" (FFS!)). Would you provide some more data/info on what they're stating? I mean, it could be just a handful of folks repeating the same thing (it happens here and just about any place). And what does "failure" mean? Who diagnosed? I'd guess...

Add-on cost for my cab on my NX was a stupid $3k. Though $3k is a chunk of change, what I got for it was stupid to pass up. Not sure how long you've been exposed to land and activities, but, for me anyway, things just don't seem to always comply with my timing desires. Emergencies happen...

I was going to reply similarly. I mean, do people just run at some higher speed right into branches or what? There, in the distance, trees, I think I'll head over there and forget that I'm now running around in trees? I was just passing through a tight area in my cabbed tractor (made tighter...

Flies, mosquitoes, baking heat, cold, rain, blackberry canes whipping me in the face... When I'm in my cabbed tractor I have none of that. And I get plenty of time outside. I know office life very well (thankfully that's in my past, but I still have a "day job") and in no way would I ever...

Hey! You and Faxman should hang out together, he was the only other person on this site that I knew of that had a Toolcat (though I don't go around surveying for that sort of thing😁). They're really great machines.

The parking brakes on my B7800 are non-existent now and I suspect that they got that way from running with them on! No hills, only some mild slopes which, if I messed up, COULD result in an event which I wouldn't be talking highly of:LOL: Tooth bar is my parking brake! (and this too I...

I once saw a woman pulling on to Hwy 9 from a busy intersection (stop sign from her direction only), truck [newer diesel I think it was] pulling a medium-sized horse trailer and she had a cell phone in her left hand as she was cranking the steering wheel and pulling out on to that highway! How...

I'd like to have the grapple on my Kioti but I need pallet forks on it in order to shuttle crates of firewood up to my deck. Couple years back I did run down the road to clear a small tree that came down on the road; forks weren't the best tool for this but I managed.

I once used truck/car hoods as haulers, kidding loads: see my avatar. I would also turn the scarifiers around inside the box blade, raised up, and set a piece of plywood down on the scarifier tips and the forward-facing rear blade, which gave be a kind of box to stick stuff in. I'd have those...

I've never actually raised cattle (I spent years reading up about raising grass fed- circumstances never worked out). I DID, however, have cattle from the neighbor's (leased grazing, so someone else's cattle) come on to my property a couple of times after I first acquired my property. No...

Yeah, I run my fencer off of mains and the feed wire is a short hop from a [securable] shed I have. Also be sure to have backup power. I have a backup generator that can power all my mains-connected buildings and stuff. My fencer is dual power, 110v/12v, so IF I needed to run it off a battery...

Interesting, Tier IV compliance was required starting in 2014 from what I can find: that seems a lot earlier than I'd thought. I'm wondering if EGRs and EGR coolers were used to meet Tier IV [I would think that only interim Tier IV, but I dunno for sure]. What year is your V417? Does it use...

Just a bit of caution... You will need to train your cattle to the fence. Go to the section "Training cattle to electric fences" for methods: https://www.grass-fed-solutions.com/livestock-fencing.html A problem for you, however, is that the fence works both ways, that is there's the issue...

Exactly. Although maintenance is more costly (that's just a fact of life with larger machines, especially industrial-level ones), one is usually less likely going to break one: but that doesn't mean that it can't happen; my equipment rental guy told me that a guy twisted a boom on one of his...

Good info! I'd been meaning to comment on this. I'm a bit tardy... Regarding hot wires, they just plain work! I have tattle-tales on my single top hot wire. If I'm not seeing them blink I know I've got a problem somewhere: deer will mess up the wire or a part of a tree will crash down on...

But analyzing apples to oranges? As 4570man noted, they're really light. And then there's the issue of ice, which seems to be the real gotcha- I suspect that snowmobiles are not icemobiles (unless outfitted with studded tracks?).

I had some ruts left from a logging skidder that in one place I could almost get my B7800 stuck -high-sided- if I were to run across them perpendicularly. I've graded out the big, wicked ones! I was once out with my UTV fetching some firewood (dragging out some trunks) and managed to get the...

IF you rock or tip on those tracks then the PSI starts to increase dramatically! Roll such that you're pushing on a surface with the edge of a track and you're now seeing a LOT of PSI. A tractor, whose initial PSI is greater, will actually see less of an increase in PSI when rolling toward the...

Check out the Bobcat Toolcat. Something like this (this one doesn't have a bed/box; that allows for the 3pt). You can outfit them with a ton of different attachments: they have a 6-way blade, though they note it's for loose materials...

Dave, I think that no matter what, consumption drops. I only advocate for less marketing hype (and more reasoning of what changes are proposed). And I'll state it again, if society is serious about these things then it can ONLY happen with actual leadership (people who set the example). If...

Keep soil conditions in mind! My water table is about 16" right now and it hasn't really hit the rainy part of the year! If I break through then it's all over with: I started sinking in with my NX5510, the rears, although on firm ground, were lifting and not able to drive the tractor out in...

Yeah, with 100hp (or there abouts), the V417 is a beast- industrial rated. Just wish they had a PTO! Hoping that Merlo's Ag machines would start influencing US markets: and smaller versions would be awesome! The boom reach and a cutter on the end is something that I'd really appreciate!

^^^ But, generators are too cool to only run once a year! :D

Yikes! Here's Why a Hydrogen Combustion Engine Will Never Be Popular - MotorBiscuit

I wish there was some metric on what it takes to obtain and pump the oxygen down into the wells. If that's easy and cheap to do then this is, IMO, the way to go for the heavy-lifting machines (trucks, ships, trains?): I have some reservation about POVs, but am open to learning about how they...

Xfaxman, if you had to decide on only one of your machines which would it be, the Toolcat or the V417? I see that new Toolcats are around $74k. Used, of course depends on condition etc., are about 1/2 that. I need to lift up around 2,500 lbs, so, for me, the Toolcat couldn't be a replacement...

Xfaxman, well, for sure that's a good thing: not all implements can be operated in a different direction (in Europe a lot of PTO implements are bi-directional). I never wanted a PTO-driven auger for fear of getting one stuck. I ran a skidsteer with an auger and there's now no way I'd go any...

Dave, I was just reciting historical facts. I'm in no way blaming anyone (other than those knowingly pushing lies). I had a take that was likely different than most on the outsourcing issue. Do/did we in the US really want to keep producing big screen TVs? And if China were to start doing so...

Crude is going to be what it'll be: note that it's not PRICE, but affordability- if you want me to explain this I will. I've got ZERO control over that. And, what are you going to do with the bulk of humanity which cannot, and never will, be able to afford PVs and such? I totally agree that...

Yes on the needing multiple implements. On the difficulty of finding them (used) it's hard to say as it depends on the area. I wanted a 6' RC for my NX5510 and it took quite a while before finding one. 7' box blade pretty much never available: I ended up buying a new one (had to be shipped)...

Xfaxman, I'd be all aboard with one of those IF it had a rear PTO (or hydraulic functions) to operate a mower. If money were no issue.. No "buddy" seat. Ultimate units: ConAgTech | Merlo Equipment Products | Northwest & Midwest U.S. If their smaller machines had a rear PTO then they could...

Like I mentioned previously, one has to actually know the ground that one is expecting to work/manipulate/maintain before knowing what tools one is going to be using. Although I didn't have the money for anything other than my B7800 I can look back and say that (except for not ballasting the...

Larry, yes, REDUCE is the key word. Back in the 70s, in the US that is, it was: REDUCE, Re-use and Recycle. Somewhere along the line REDUCE was dropped (when we became Consumer Nation [post 9/11 we were told to "go out shopping!" - pathetic to the max]). I continue to use wood from my...

If he/we don't know what size a "beginner size" is then it's kind of hard to up-size it a notch, no? (my "beginner car was something insane, power wise; my "expert size" has become a lot less so, far less power) Again, ground conditions matter a LOT. I get it that people have wide open spaces...

0w end of things is irrelevant for warmer temps. It's the 40w that matters for warmer temps. These folks do independent testing of oil (off of the shelf!): https://pqia.org/ No testing on 0w-40, but there are for other viscosities. Perhaps the difference is with the brands? And, oil changed...

Should have been able to use 0w-40 all year round as well. Perhaps the issue was cost? I am sure glad that I don't live anywhere where it drops to -20F!

Dave, the guy was actually working with/for a company (not sure how much; kind of moonlighting?). To not understand some basic loads speaks to people's naiveté- heads filled up with marketing hype.

Jac65 nails it. I've clipped a fence line with my NX5510, snagged a post with the grapple: narrow pathway with tree branches and I was lower to not snag branches. I was lucky in that I built an insanely strong fence; any other fence would have been ripped up: I felt the tractor start to strain...

Yes. But in this guy's case he was more urban! He'd had the house for many years. Was just pushing to be "greener." He did some work with some solar folks (though his full time profession was as an emergency room nurse, if memory serves me right). One needs to do one's work if one has any...

I didn't have the luxury of going with a bigger machine. Had just bought 40 acres and had all sorts of grandiose ideas: initially I thought that I didn't want a tractor- do things on a manual level- HA HA! I bought a used B7800 Kubota and had it before even moving on to the property. My...

IF alternator is ruled out (and it IS the driver of the tach) then that leaves: 1. Wiring - would have to check output at tach side connection point of wire/harness; 2. Tach - you said new dash; does this also mean new tach? (unproven equipment- possible DOA).

If you'd post your location then perhaps folks here who are in the same general area could give you better suggestions? Fastenal is a company around me that stocks a lot of industrial stuff. There are also bolt and screw businesses. Likely ANY tractor dealer ought to be able to point you...

I knew someone who was setting his home up to be PV-only supplied- "off-grid." He had to give up his Nissan Leaf. He'd had a Prius before his Leaf (and likely, didn't follow up on his story, returned to a Prius). I partially laugh at such folks, not because I like to see such "failures," but...

I think that NOW is the time that we ought to be ditching marketing hype and be honest with ourselves. This has nothing to do with EVs. We have to, unless someone can PROVE how we can have infinite growth, come to grips with the underlying driver that our growth model is starting to crumble...

And also consider that dams have a limited lifespan (I seem to recall 150 years or so as being the average): many of the larger dams in NA are heading into the later years of their lifecycle. And on top is the ever-lurking GROWTH issue. Not only is the issue about replacing existing but also...

^^^ I'm beginning to think that your dog is part goat!😆

Curious, just what kind of span and loads are you looking to handle? Might be something else that could fit the bill (like a shipping container)?

ArlyA's pictures made me think that we need to start a thread: Dogs On Logs! Kisha can never pass up climbing on things.

Is the outlet OK? I once almost had a fire start due to a dryer connection. My dryer. In a rental house. As I always do, I look to prove/disprove that it's my issue. I tore my dryer apart and tested everything. No issues found. Turned out that the contacts in the outlet (standard 220v...

Mine both came with names: Kubota and Kioti. Only two tractors and they're significantly different such that I can't get confused as to which is which. My cars, on the other hand, have names: my wife and I had identical cars; so identical that one day she was unable to start "her" car- she was...

Biomass is a disaster. It pretty much goes along well with this entire thread: mostly marketing hype.

Took me less than 1/2hr to become reasonably proficient using an excavator: not a one-off, in which case that learning experience has paid out over many years now (several projects). Heck, even my dog picked it up pretty quickly: 581169 I would agree that a bulldozer is a different beast: and...

Might be the shaft bearings/bushings going bad. Remove the belt and spin the pulley. If stiff or gravely-feeling then that's a sign that it could be the bearings/bushings. NOTE: Running with really tight belt tension can prematurely wear the bearings/bushings. Might also be that there's...

17 years is a good run! How great to have run together for so long!

Excavator. Period! Rental cost for a day* is going to be a lot cheaper than if you break something on your own, non-commercial-grade equipment. Dig out roots from attack side and then just lower the blade and, with the bucket pressing up on the trunk, push the tree over. 9k unit, pretty...

Could you clarify what you mean when you say that you can "hand turn the connector" but not "counter-clockwise?" Are you saying that the gearbox turns, albeit stiffly, clockwise? Pull the belt cover off and check for obstructions. New mower... Factory for my flail wasn't real keen on...

Someone mentioned that a cabbed tractor is nice when you mow hornets nests. Insects in general! Mosquitoes and horse flies. I'd also have to battle blackberry canes. Though I did the "stupid" and busted a door on my Kioti (over 600 hrs before doing so) I have no regrets. Cabbed tractor has...

There's a basic thing to life and that's that it generally has no understanding that things are finite. Grow until there's a die-off. Go forth and multiply. Corruption and sin is in our minds. We are OF nature, and nature is deceptive (for survival). No blame for self-preservation, it's...

Roy, you've got it all wrong. NO humans will be driving anything (well, the rich always manage to build-in an exception). Everything will be controlled. It'll be like being on an amusement park ride. We cannot trust people to drive yet we trust them to build systems that can "protect us."...

PETROL-ELECTRIC HYBRIDS. Battery-powered vehicles- could they also be including golf carts? Maybe the backlog has something to do with the COVID-19 induced supply-chain backlog? Take warmth in knowing that Tesla is investing in really meaningful things: SpaceX Launching Satellite to Display...

Read The Myth of the Machine (two book series) by Lewis Mumford. History as precursor to the future... (last publication date was 1970- brilliant thinker and historian)

"Truly safe" for what, profits or for human lives? Cameras will have to be positioned inside your garage to capture the start to finish of your voyage. It's for YOUR safety, don't ya know! Technology always comes with nefarious uses. One "oopsie" and most of humanity can be wiped out in a...

Good luck selling into the Chinese market. China Total Vehicle Sales | 2021 Data | 2022 Forecast | 1997-2020 Historical As I've stated previously, the US market is essentially flooded. Even IF forced consumerism (via legislation) that don't mean that people can still afford a change in their...

Sadly, some of the things we haven't been able to change are due to self-protection of/by the System (and ruling oligarchy). But, I agree that it makes sense to start thinking about Plan B. Draconian measures are going to come whether we want them or not: if not imposed from/through others...

I get it that some/man/most are wanting to maximize their profits, but, as they say, unless you can demonstrate in a court of law it's just conjecture. I'm as cynical as they come, but I don't allow that mindset to overwhelm all other cranial functions. I am the ONLY person allowed to work on...

You can provide access to information AND be kept from changing things that ought not be changed. I see no problem with this: VCDS, which is an aftermarket diagnostic tool for VAG (Volkswagon Automative Group), allows you to check lots of things, adjust some, and disallows modifications to...

^^^ TOTALLY! I've got totally manual setups (my generator, my 12v cummins, my B7800) and I've got computerized stuff. Everything I have works and continues to work just as I need. My car has an ECM and it's 21 years old: can it go bad? Yes. Need I be worrying about that? NO. (ECM has...

Not many 3pts worse than my B7800's! Turnbuckle. I'd tried Pat's and found that it didn't gain me much, not enough to deal with the extra extension and the fact that they liked to twist a bit. Quick hitch wouldn't work for all my implements: and it shoves the implement out further, which can...

I've got an hydraulic top link on my Kioti. I just lift up the tail wheel and back in. The front part of the deck is still lowered. This will eject material into the ground at the front, or send it off into the wild blue yonder if ejecting out the rear side: I'm WAY out where no one is...

Check on the left side (as seated on the tractor) of the firewall, down a bit. My B7800's is there; small black plastic cover.

If you're killing RCs then don't even consider a flail! I've got both. I was lucky that I didn't kill my (7') flail when it sucked up a chunk of cedar root and locked everything up solid (first time I'd ever had the Kioti's engine stop dead). RCs will clip, bump, jump and toss things. Flails...

Loaders and such go by yards because of physical capacity of buckets. Actual weights can vary due to moisture and or fines and the like. Some might actually provide a weight, but when you buy it's usually in yards. As folks have noted, materials have a fairly known weight per unit and such...

If you keep the stumpjumper castle nut loose enough then BOTH Blades (and the stump jumper) will eject and you won't have that horrible imbalance! Well, ahem, someone mentioned that to me. BTW - A stump jumper plus blades ejecting from a 6' RC doesn't travel as far as one might think (though...

"THE union," like there's one monolithic one? Further, "not protecting workers" (unless there's a documented judgement, all is but conjecture) is preferred? The notion of a union is to protect workers from management/owner abuses. So, anti-union means that you're more supportive of lazy...

It's arguable, as is most anything, but I'd counter that corporations and govt did most of the work to drive production overseas: I won't go into all the details on the overall geopolitical reasoning, but it was pretty much baked into the cake. Consumers are more or less just part of the...

I don't know... "hobby" means you can set it aside whenever you want. My animals wouldn't accept me putting them in the closet! I have a place where I do some hobby things (things that look pretty random and such), but it ain't a hobby farm. Anyone can walk away from anything. The financial...

Speaking of, just ran across this "fitting" (in more ways than one) article: How Farming Saved My Body Image

Yeah, OK... It's pretty much a guaranteed race to the bottom. It's all like the game of Monopoly where it can only come down to a total concentration of something within one entity/player: it's something like only 6 entities control all of US media (and most are laden with CIA/NSA current or...

Yes. There's insurance and what not to consider as well: assembly lines can be, and usually are, big risks to humans operating them. I have no answers. I just know what the equation is currently outputting and it's not real conducive to regular humans. I also know that, just as one cannot...

Who is doing the fighting?

^^^ Experienced this firsthand. Perpetual growth through profits ain't gonna happen. There WILL be an end. Greed has become a driving force rather than a simple, survival tactic.

How long to operate GPs depends on what the manufacturer says! My cars (VW TDIs), truck (12v Cummins) and Kioti automatically controls how long the GPs (or in the case of the Cummins, heater grid) is energized to full. I know that in my VWs the GPs will continue to glow post ignition to help...

Make sure that T6 spec's to VW's oils spec for that engine (BEW?). VW's pump duse engines are really particular/sensitive about oil. I run Motorcraft HD diesel oil in all my diesels: 1990's vintage through my 2016 Kioti. It's CJ-4 oil, which my newest diesel -Kioti- is OK with. I used to run...

Tip: next time ask before you buy! (just sayin') It's got spark plugs. I don't approve :ROFLMAO: (yeah, I'm a diesel snob and I have no shame)

Messing with people with such a lack of ethics won't do anything. When I get such calls at work I just set the receiver aside. Tie up the line for as long as possible. Fortunately my private numbers don't get dialed much at all.

I know that there are single ripper shank attachments for excavators. I've cut roots with a sawzall once. It was in a fence post hole and I'd hit a root and didn't want to shift the hole. Other than that I rent an excavator to deal with anything "stump." The forces needed to be exerted are...

She won't always beat me. She's 3 1/2 now. LOTS of training for this beast! She'd lag and not come when called and I'd have to chase her down: often when I'm horribly pressed for time! Fortunately, between training and aging, she's become awesome. Our neighbors regularly remark at how much...

^^^ ljjhouser, that pretty much sums up my view of things. I'm just the current caretaker. Hoping to pass something "better" along to someone else (whether I'm involved in that transaction or not doesn't matter to me- I KNOW what I've done, and that pretty much is all that counts to/for me)...

Was it Twain who said that golf was a good walk gone bad?

Yes, but... One knows what one expenses (<- verb). That is, the THING that one is paying out for. Having more things to expense is/was my point. Other than this, yes, there's little control over much of anything.

I spent some time in manufacturing (world-leading company) and we'd upgrade and automate with the introduction of a new product line.

Larry, there ARE four-door full-sized pickups! (overwhelming number of 1 ton ones have 8' beds) But, I agree, what's the point of a truck unless it has an actual/usable bed. I was thinking of a four-door in order to facilitate my dog: I, my wife and out 90+lb dog in a day cab truck is a bit...

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