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yea, our local JAX farm and ranch stores have a full line of the tekton stuff, including some of the cheaper china made things, but it seems like they are slowly being phased out for quality items. most of that stuff is not even on the tekton website anymore, like the drill press vice, some bit...

I purchased one of the big tekton canada made boxes and it is fantastic, especially for the price. way nicer than tool truck brands. same as a Rousseau box which is a Vidmar competitor, same style steel carriage and real ball bearings, not just balls in a track on a slide. when you buy from...

they are really diving in to try to be a full line reseller.

as a reminder: its 4 acres, it was a typo. its only a few posts in.

you can also check to see if any ATV tires are the same size, i put some ATV tires on my cub and they were fantastic. chinese ebay knockoffs similar to Carlisle HD Field Trax.

who sells that frame? i have the harrow.

i would think an echo battery pas and the power broom would be a better and more useful purchase. and if the electric cant handle it, then get a gas power head.

no way will the cheap asphalt stand up to the boats/travel lift. it will be terrible in short term and cost you 10x to fix later. go around and look at other yards? are they asphalt? leave it gravel. I think more gravel/road base, grading and compacting sounds like a good plan, though that...

I put a deposit down on a 2012 4720H / QA loader and 6 implements including 5 ft frontier brush mower, econo-plow 3 pt snow blower, bison 7ft blade, earth worx grader, auger and forks. I think I got a decent deal at 24500 in todays market, and its only about a mile from here as the crow flies...

i would think rubber would not work well, as it would provide too much friction on the surface. we Colorado people really know what its like to have 20 or 30 inches of extremely heavy snow over a nice light, wet gravel. I have broken more parts plowing heavy snow than doing dirt work. haha.

some places, the ground freezes and refreezes and it snows 30 inches and is 60 degrees the next day. we end up with lots of snow on top of wet ground in Colorado.

I use 4 in pvc at each end and one in the middle. seems to work pretty well. I am going to try a steel pipe with tabs welded on to bolt onto the edge though. The pvc lasts about a season, I have only cracked one of them in the cold.

Those are good things to do, but you have to watch out on lawn machines, you will have to get something pretty beefy to stand up to that extra traction and weight. a lot of the lawn category stuff is light duty.

I don't see why not, just replace the on off with the timer. Keep the low oil switch intact.

hook the ground wire to the chassis at each light, and the 2 wires, individually to the 2 other wires. we are not confused. electricity is not magic. my trailer is set up exactly like this. grounds run to the mounting bolt of the light with a star washer.

oh.... you should have 3 wires, a ground, a stop lamp and a signal lamp( constant on for brakes, and on/off flashing for turn signal. connecting the brake and signal lamp wires would probably make things act strangely with the led drivers in the tail lights. same as you have a left signal...

GM used to ship the +12 wire on the 7 blade disconnected at the fuse block, but the lights should still work properly with out the +12 power hooked up.

it sounds like the ground is being switched by turning on the headlights somehow. get out your meter and test the polarity of the voltage from the ground in the plug to the one of the other pins with that pin on ( lights or whatever) i'm thinking it was wired backwards. an incandescent lamp...

not to derail too much, but the cobram 40 looks like it would be awesome for a small property owner. low CG, tones of traction with the 4 equal size wheels, manurable.

hope the hydraulics hold! 😬

I was thinking lambo as well. haha. anyone watch Clarkson's farm? also, a lot of people here see Kubota as the top end of this segment of machines, and there are a lot of dealers out there that have helped them earn that reputation. seems like this is not one of those. a certain poster is...

It does look like that, but we passed a discount tire and plenty of repair shops in town. Person just kept trucking! It had a serious list and looked pretty unsafe to me. Could have left it at the home depot or Walmart lot and went to find a spring.

60 mph down a 2 lane. No worries. Cought a pic at the stop light. Giant 5th wheel camper.

haha. fixed for some of us. you must live in a favorable climate with rainfall more than once or twice a month. just checked and last measurable rain here was june 27. so its been more than a month.

check the PH. my neighbors well does this also. they can only use it on the lawn, and only on a wide fescue grass.

if the shaft size is the same, you could fit blades and a disk from a brush hog. sucks that its not built to do the job its advertised for. it looks like the blades on my old cub cadet garden tractor were about the same thickness.

pool liner and plastic sheeting is what i mean, never use it under something like pavers or rock or mulch. its terrible for the soil and can create problems with the stuff above depending on how much rain you get.

worked in a theater as the head rigger/ lighting/stage manager in college. lots of well known comedians Jeff Dunham, Gallagher, Wayne brady, John Oliver has a very funny bit about the upper peninsula and his show at the place I worked. lots of smaller bands like reel big fish, they might be...

I use the ITS tactical ones. bought 3 pair years ago and 2 are still in the packaging.

it must have grown through the fabric. never use anything non-permeable on the soil. i would roundup it and call it a day i think. if you want to redo it, i would use new fabric, but whatever heavy duty stuff you find, i get mine from a landscape supply place and its way tougher than the...

project farm recently did a boot test. the keen workboots were highly rated. i may try a pair of their slip ons next time. i do like my current wolverines, and they were my favorite while working offshore in the oil industry. I did not know keen was making stuff in the USA. wolverine is...

yep. most of us learn the hard way that you should err on the side of more front weight.

ah. thanks. I suppose that makes loader work a bit easier, leaving it in the same gear and just changing directions.

Says 2013. Mfwd and shuttle shift. I have run gear and hydro stuff, but never a shuttle. What's the difference between shuttle and old-school gear?

we see lots of skid steer and even some 3 point stuff from somewhere foreign, brand new, in the monthly equipment auction here. I cant believe how much they sell for at auction. someone is making a killing importing them and selling them at auction, usually sight unseen. it looks like the hinge...

case 75c cab with flail, log splitter, 2 remotes, loader with bucket and rock bucket, 3rd function. 490 hrs 40k. anything bad about these? seems like a pretty decent deal. its a bit more tractor than i need, but after seeing 30hp cab tractors with just a loader and one remote and one bucket...

its pex with a higher pressure rating than what you can buy at the big box.

this is what my utility uses as well, and what we replaced copper with. the fittings are expensive, but beefy. ours is 1 in i think, and has a stainless insert in the pipe at each fitting.

Who knows. did the person who invented cooking know that it would spur the evolution of humans to have more time to think about things instead of finding food? that's really where the shift of the species started. the person who invented the radar led to the microwave. he or she did not...

my utility uses 250 psi pex. i would rather have less connections. a good supply house around you may even have longer rolls.

could be that, as you put force on the shaft changing length it slips? i would replace the slip clutch and check and grease the u joints.

yep. i have it on chrome/windows. realestate ad.

MMO because it sure helped the fuel mileage in our diesel and our gas trucks in a somewhat scientific study we did years ago on one 7.3L in a 20 ft box truck, one 366 gas GMC box truck and one newer Cummins 5.9 in a 24 ft box truck. It helped all, but helped the 7.3 the most. these trucks...

we found that using good alfalfa as mulch in the garden worked very well. i would not use field grass mowing's, no way.

Looks like Stanley bought a stake in mtd. These are slightly detuned cub cadet models. One step down In hydros and engines from the cub versions.

I would not hesitate to put it in conduit. if you use pvc pipe you can put a cleanout in the pipe and use that as your junction box. use some good connecters and splice. gotta do what you gotta do. it may not be code, but it will work great, keep the connection clean and "accessible" if...

they may be somewhat common, but they do look totally unsafe. Its around 2k lbs for a 4 place like that. so its CG height is probably no worse than a large slide in camper.

cant wait to see it finished. very clever.

I sure would not buy it. you could take the roof off, drill big holes in the floor and run piles, but it would probably cost less to demo the whole thing and move it back as far as possible.

wildfire, im sure you mean. we recently received the same kind of letter about it being added to our policy. we are right outside the city limits and not really under threat of wild fire here, it would have to burn thousands of homes before it made it all the way to our place.

i like a knobby all terrain style but it depends on the size weather they are available or not.

What size?

make sure you take them all for a spin and engage the PTO before you buy. haha. the dealer cub cadet stuff is still well built. i would be looking at that exmark and the simplicity. my dad has a 25 year old exmark and it runs great with the 23 kaw on it. i think he has about 1000 hrs on it...

to get an aprox. soil temp, just avg the high and low temps for the week. most things will not germinate until its 50 or 55 and some things wont until its 65 or 75 degrees. my wife picked a varity of amaranth that wont pop till 70 ish degrees. we are still around 60 for soil temps. Im not...

consider used, i see a couple clausings on Craigslist Michigan. i dont think any of the newer imports will be much different than what you have.

We have been harvesting lettuce from the greenhouse for a couple weeks. We got several inches of snow and freezing temps last few nights. We had a bunny sleepover on Sat. Night, so we will see if sugar is pregnant is about a week. Got rid of or jerk rooster to make room for a maren rooster that...

does it get really hot in the shed? could be over pressuring in the heat.

how about a spring tooth rake? should pull up those bare spots, or a plug aerator, seed, then harrow to mix it all up. oh.. you are trying to get rid of all the Bermuda? good luck with out spraying and tilling.

i would put those on my 16' car hauler easy. one on the front, some wood in the center to get it off the fenders, i have some 4 ft. 4x6 laying around. and 2 straps each. your tractor should not have an issue picking up the empty tanks.

besides bailing hay and mowing, i'm struggling to think of implements used in a larger operation that are pto driven and not hydraulic/electric/ground driven. for implement drive, like a planter you need maybe 50 or 60 gpm at 2250 to 3k psi ... so like 75 hyd. hp?

100 hp is 74500 watts. by definition. do you really need 25% overhead? electric should be more efficient than that.

gas cars catch fire more often, they just do it usually when running down the road and not in a garage.

the cord reel on the tractor makes sense. seems like there are other solutoins though. for the reel, does the tractor have to reverse the same path to reel it up without damaging crops? this seems like a huge waste of time.

yes, but not a strong one. the insulation keeps the charge density down. we run 25000 feet of steel cable with a copper conductor down the center for servicing oil wells, wound up on a big steel drum. The drums can become weekly magnetic, but its never presented any issues. we run dc and ac...

what if you did an overhead cable system like the camera at an NFL game that hovers over the field. if the 2 cables are isolated, they could be the conductors. reels on each corner with some kind of automated tracking pull the diagonal's to the correct position over the tractor / implement...

its a bit crazy that they are so worried about tax revenue that you are not allowed to have unfinished space in a house.

esp with a walk out. i am curious as well. lots of places here do not have basements due to the rock, but 4 foot stem walls and crawl space. usually a center load wall, 2x4 16 oc wall with some cross bracing on a concrete footer.

I really like the atv tires I put on my gt, and plan on them on my new to me time cutter, but can't find them in your size. They are off brand but similar to the field Trax.

it all depends on the material. the recycled concrete i get around here is fantastic for my drive. i can run the ripper over it to rough it up and then drag it to bring up the larger stuff. after some driving over and a rain storm, i dont have to touch it untill the next spring after we are...

Canadian utilities crew. probably cheaper to take a boat from Toronto to thunder bay or could be going to one of many islands along the st. marys or the north shore. looks like they have pile drivers or maybe something to put in utility polls on the excavators, and the blue goes to a power pack...

500 lbs on a roller should be fine. i used my 1641 to pull a harrow, a cart full of stuff, aerator with a bunch of weight on it, even used the plow and harrow to spread gravel in my driveway. i would offer like 1500 and see what they say. its way more tractor than you can get for 2 grand...

i have been going to farm and estate auctions and have gotten some great implements either from them, or talking to the other people at the auction. brush hog 5 ft mower for 300 that looks almost new, jd80 blade for 200, a 7 shank ripper for a few hundred. you think they would at least power...

nice! that's a serious tractor. which transmission does it have? we need some pics!

nothing wrong with a 3206. shaft drive transmission, shaft drive deck I believe, hydraulic lift. that simplicity is all belt. i would take the cub over the simplicity. they get a bad wrap for there lower end stuff, but the higher end cubs have been solid machines for a long time. i just...

rights are not issued to us by the constitution, they were there all along, and we simply decided to write them down. they are natural and part of our being. trying to say that the government has issued them to us, and can take them away is a total misunderstanding of the whole history of the...

everything I have gotten used has had this kind of thing disabled.

there is a dealer for industrial/generators around as well. I am sure he is ok if you get to know him, I have been in looking for a few things and he really disapproves of my tractor purchase, and reminds me that there will never be any parts for it ever in the world WHEN I break it. haha...

i mean, if you can look at the item, and see the quality or lack of and you are happy with it, and are confident that you can fix it if it is broken, and expect no support, than i guess something from one of these manufactures would be ok. i certainly would not buy much with any major moving...

same around here, there is one dealer and he is an old crotchety guy that rebuilds other old tractors and sells them, along with some new and used implements. he has about 0 nice things to say about everything and wants nearly new prices for the rusty used implements.

I'm impressed by the response of your dealer. I would be looking at EA extreme I think. they do not mount the shanks in the tube, but a reinforced, welded plate bracket.

more competition is not a bad thing. the color reminds me of Allis Chalmers orange.

i have done this under a sidewalk, but it was only about 4 or 5 feet. it was still a bit of a pain, lots of rocks, just to pull the dsl and comcast lines under. how wide is your driveway?

we also love the LVP products. we have a few rooms done in metrofloor, and it has been great. no smell or anything. no wear with office chairs and lots of dog traffic. anyhow. with as many distributors as BSL has, I would not be worried about it. you could always call a few of them and...

hopefully this is the problem with my neighbors 7305 as well! thanks

get a load of compost, spread out in small piles as best you can with whatever implement you have and run a harrow over it at all different angles. do this for a few seasons in a row in the spring. my "harrow" is a strong pallet 6 ft x 3 ft with an old cattle panel under it with some pavers...

i use premix. its easy, i only use a gallon or 2 maybe per year. I also use ethanol free and it lasts quite a long time. hopped on the mower a week ago and fired right up with last seasons gas.

get a blade for steel for your circ saw.

we have the 4 ft tall premier and it seems well built. we will be using it for our turkeys this year. seems well built. easy to set up.

i bought a lot of work there, luckly a neighbor has a CC/yanmar with a backhoe i can borrow for the digging.

picked up 3 6 ft blue spruce, 3 6 foot Austrian pines, 3 boulders, and... a 5 foot brush hog. runs like a new one, looks like the blades have never been sharpened. for $300. around here, that is super cheap. the used ones usually look like they have been backed into a concrete wall repeatedly...

very happy with my Hobart handler 140. I got it when i did not have access to 240 volt, and i have been able to do everything i have wanted with it, even pushing the thickness quite a bit. if I pre heat 3/8 seems just fine with a good bevel and a couple passes. I have not had anything show...

Echo pas tiller works great.

sounds like a CTL is the way to go, and keep the 3910.

1960s split level and we were under renovations, all the trim was off of the whole upstairs, including rad covers, around the windows, etc. not that well insulated anyway.

3 heads on a mitsu hyperheat. we ran it when it was 20 below and it was still heating when our boiler could not keep up. about 2 years in and no issues. it was the only way we could really add AC to our house and its so nice in the summer.

Most of the smoke here today is from east troublesome. Thanks for your sons service.

A shot from my backyard a few nights ago.

I cant imagine a scenario where I would do a backsplash with tiles that don't come in sheets unless is big tiles like we did in the last place. 12x18 I think they were. looked great and installed quickly. these were bad enough with no 90 degree corners.

Looking to purchase a generator. we have lost power 2x in the last couple weeks and we are just getting into snow season. We are also considering buying some property in the mountains where the generator could be useful. we have hot water baseboard, and 2 fridges and a deep freeze. all our...

if i had a budget of 12k i would for sure be looking for hydro. are you set on new? there is a JD 855 with cab / loader for 12k on CL for example. i own a gear tractor and drive a hydro sometimes helping a friend. the hydro is soooo much easier. solis is not yanmar, they are sold as a...

ok. i finally caved and orderd ssqa forks and some ssqa adaptors for my tractor. my understanding is i need to weld on the pin brackets and a tube between the 2 pieces. a few questions though: is there a standard width between the ssqa bottom pins? my bucket and stuff is 4 ft wide. what...

ok crew, time for another seat and cup holder thread. anyone come up with a good insert if i drill a big hole in my fender? looks like plenty of clearance to the tires. could just use some steel pipe and weld it in also. what seat do you like? considering this one. Universal Compact...

Red kuri squash just sprouted, only waiting on the litchi tomatoes now. More seeds will be planted soon. Need to separate the other squashes. Do you separate your onions and shallots?

It's currently snowing. Kitchen greenhouse will get planted this weekend

anyone have a larger Chinese saw? looking at the holzforma 388 $240 with 28 bar and chain. looking for something to do some chainsaw milling and not spend a ton. also, will a ms261 handle a 24 in bar? or better to go used? anyone have something in that size range for sale i have a 251...

We think it's a pallet of siding or something. Brother in law witnessed it.

I took some silver polish to the old ones and they came out pretty good! I'll check out Larsen, thanks. I'll do some more digging for an led bulb. I could buy a kit and use the bases from these bulbs and solder in LEDs as well.

This headlight housing must have been used on other things, looking to replace. Would love to put in a nice 4 in round led light If you know of one that is not a back up light? I think i could use the rubber grommet style. Or a source to replace these? From my allis 5020.

finally wore out my slim grip rigid 4.5 grinder. I really liked the trigger setup and grip on this, but do not see any like it now. thinking about getting a made in Germany metabo. any other recs? seems like in the 100ish dollar price point, you can get about any of them. I am a fairly...

The arms on my 5020 are about 22 inches long. My 3 point is about half way up when I attach an implement. Is there a source for these with some different length options? One adjustable by crank and one not as a set? When up all the way the bottom of my jd80 back blade is only about 8...

Quick and dirty debris rake. Works a charm. Cost me about 3 dollars in bolts and a bit of flux core wire. Made of a window grate I had in the pile, and a stick of 3/8 x 3.5 plate from the stack of stuff in the garage.

I am new to trailering a gear tractor. I have plenty of experience strapping things down and traveling long / rough roads in the outback and in the states with time in the oilfields, but do you put the tractor in neutral or leave it in 1st gear when on the trailer? I did not see an answer in...

She has 497 documented hours. It's been worked but everything functions pretty well . The right front leakes oil at the knuckle. Other than that there are no other leaks that are worth talking about. It has power steering from a kit that someone built for them 20 years ago. It workes well...

My first real tractor. :cool2: Allis Chalmers 5020 AKA Hinomoto e23 or Massy Furguson 210 or Simplicity 9523. mfwd with new rear tires, balasted, original loader, everything works well and well maintained. new alternator, nothing but a few small drips. should be delivered next week after the...

I have a low budget of about 5k. i found a yanmar 1500d 650 hrs per the ad, who actually knows, bush hog loader, back blade and single bottom plow. i also found a kubota l185dt with loader and back blade, engine rebuilt 100 hrs ago, not sure to what extent. i have one acre that is a bit of...

just put a stand on the end, and an extension that flips down from the top side. this way there is support in the middle and you can easily fold it up before you lift the gate. the support take torqe off the hinge also. the support only needs to be maybe 4 to 6 inches to get you where you want.

I have an acre and currently run a cub 1641 that i really like. I have a 150 ft. gravel drive, a good amount of trees and a lot of projects as the property was not taken care of for a very long time before we acquired it last spring. I am limiting myself to one machine. Land is nearly flat...

longmont, colorado. my backyard is all mud and I would like to get it planted. i seeded half of it and have to get sprinklers going tonight, it has been wet the past week. eventually some of it will be lawn and a lot will be rocks and other landscaping. I really need something to germanate to...

spray the fence lines. 12 to 24 of rock around your buildings that you can mow over the edge. seal your posts and gates to prevent rot. buy good equipment you can rely on. Henry keeps the coyotes away from the chickens. 26 in collar, 130 lbs

My county is giving me a hard time and requiring a bunch of BS for moving a shed in to my property over 120 sq feet. the permit will cost as much as the shed! i am now looking at the lower cost but smaller option of a lifetime plastic shed of 8 x 15. anyone have one? i would plan to build a...

Looking at attachment capable trimmers. plan on the hedge trimmer, string trimmer to start, maybe a blower, sweeper, edger in the future. Which system do you have or recommend? I have done a bit of research and have come down to echo pas or shindaiwa multi tool? pricing looks to be very...

Hello. I have gotten some good advise reading here and thought I may be able to contribute as well. I just picket up a very well maintained Cub Cadet 1641 with 46 deck, snow blower, triple bagger and snow blade. We recently moved onto an acre that is a bit out of control from lack of...