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I was thinking of categorical answers like "TSC sells it around the back", "Always just go to your dealership", "Any truck stop but they call it X", et cetera. But if you know local sources, I live in northern Cecil County Maryland and do most of my shopping in Newark DE (Newcastle county) or...

OK, now I'll add my own (dumb? not so dumb?) question to the thread: how do you get red diesel? I have a few 5 gallon safety cans and drive them to the same filling station I buy car gasoline. I use one of those receiver hitch mounted platforms, so any drips don't get into the car, which is a...

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Hmm... ten "Good Post" awards, in a thread titled "What is the dumbest thing you have done with your equipment?"... I'm a bit hazy about this. Did I just win big or lose big?

I had a total transmission failure on my Kubota. Tractor would not move at all. I tried a bunch of things -- nothing. So I had the dealer trailer it away for repair. The range shifter was in neutral.

I believe you just did, sir. Well played.

Well, it's just fine to meet you, KilroyJC! Welcome to our little band! So, one of the first things you're gonna want to do here is to grow your own opinion about when to engage four wheel drive and when to leave it in two wheel drive. And the stronger the opinion, the better. It'll count for...

I have a TSC auger with the handle, and I have sometimes taken the handle off. The reason is that the angle of the dangle is vertical without the handle, but the handle tilts the whole thing. With my current tractor I can't really reach the handle from the seat. It's a little more complicated to...

It was 11 bags, 60 lbs each, so total 660 lbs, which maxes out my Forester's weight limit with me included. In November, the closest Lowes did that for me. I asked for help, and they put them all on a cart for me, and then transferred them all into my car onto the pallet. That many bags, they...

I bought "Titan Attachments 48-in Skid Steer Pallet Fork Frame Attachment, 48" Fork Blades, Rate 4,000 LB, Quick Tach Tractor" on Amazon a couple years ago and am very happy with them. I also bought a nice clean plastic pallet that just fits into my station wagon. It's perfectly handy to buy...

I like safety equipment generally, as I'm not foolproof. When my wheels are supposed to turn, or when I'm starting the engine, I'm in the seat with the seatbelt fastened and the ROPS up. But the seat switch on my NH WM25 is so sensitive, moves like reaching for the brake pedals connector or the...

I keep a happy moderate approach going and never have a hard time tossing things that can't be fixed or don't look like they'll be worth fixing. But Ms. SmallChange is a different story. One time I had to argue with her because she wanted to save a burnt out light bulb. I can see some of her...

Forgive my ignorance, but, how do you vary the hydraulic motor speed? Are you varying your engine speed? Am I right to think that hydraulic remotes and accessory hydraulic motors do not have any way to adjust speed unless you change the speed of the tractor engine?

I bought 48" and would do so again. I've idly toyed with the idea of buying a second pair in the shortest length and cutting them down, each one differently, for those times I want to pry or dig or lift something that only wants one stubby fork. An example would be lifting a felled tree trunk...

My two cents: Pay attention to how much you like working with the different dealers, as this is valuable Get a loader Geared, not HST (more economical and works better in many ways) Less fancy features, more weight

I do. And at the bottom it tees at a crisp 90 degree angle onto a narrow country road with 50+ mph traffic. One time I slid all the way out to the center of the road. Fortunately nobody was coming at that moment. I should mention, I was on foot.

I used the lawn spreader the other day. But the time before that, I did what you're suggesting. I put a 5 gallon bucket full of salt (which I really can barely lift because I'm old and have a bad back) in the bucket. I've done something like this for years. Before I had the FEL I had a couple...

[...] I never looked it up before, but you're right, I am overdoing it. I have a 250' driveway plus about 50' off to one side to access the barn, and I have a 30' by 30' parking and turn around area. I have 4000 square feet, including everything. Online references I found say I should spread 4.5...

Point well taken. However, the situation I sometimes find myself in is that I use the tractor to clear some of what's out there, especially if it's snow on top of ice. Then I want to treat the ice. I wouldn't mind having a more powerful way of doing this last step, given that I'm out there...

Yeah. Trouble around here is, we keep getting "wintry mix", or snow and then rain, or rain and then snow. I'm finally equipped to handle the kind of deep snow only that we used to get, and these days mostly we're getting something much harder to cut through. Years back, we got an 18" snow that...

Brine. Hmm. A few have mentioned it, and the more I think about it the more interesting the idea is. -It doesn't clump up and become unusable like salt does -It pours easily and doesn't require power to sling it around -It might be transferrable without any lifting (?) So, how do you use brine...

Yep. That's my driveway! Also I paved it summer before last, and I had these nice aggressive Aquiline chains for the rears (and filled rears and a ballast box) but now am afraid to use them on the beautiful paving, so I'm not chained up. We had some iced up wintry mix last winter and I did OK...

I often only want to spread 50 to 100 lbs of salt, and the most I've ever spread was 200 lbs. My driveway is 250' long and not very wide. The 3 pt spreaders I've seen look like they'd actually be a little difficult for doing this, as they're designed for several times more salt and look like...

Yeah, I saw that you said that, and it got me worried! I didn't think there's much in the way. I figured it'd be easy. If you have a loader, did you lift it way up so you didn't have to work around it? I guess I'd stand in between the grill and the loader bucket so I could do the job in the barn...

I'll be replacing the battery in my fairly new NH WM25 later this year. I think it most economical to replace car and tractor batteries every 3 years before they fail, so I never incur extra expense or other losses because the machine won't run, but that's just my opinion. I also think autumn is...

I got to use mine on deeper snow than ever before. Well, it's not very old, and last winter we hardly got any. Very nice indeed. And I went out with a bucket of warm water afterwards and rinsed off the parts that saw any salt. Maybe I'll keep that up!

Remember following a slow line of traffic downhill in the rain, with the engine holding you back and the windshield wipers furiously whipping back and forth? Then you get the chance to pass, so you floor it and pull into the oncoming lane -- and the wipers nearly come to a stop just when you...

Some diesels recirculate a variable amount of exhaust into the intake. The idea is to have less oxygen available for some conditions -- I think it reduces how much NOx pollution you get. When you need more power, more oxygen, it won't do this, or not as much. In any case, even if there's no...

I'm guessing you're in the hp range that will come this way anyhow, but if you're like me, you'll want it to have a high exhaust, not one that blows it down and forward. Seems clear enough to me that you build the latrine downstream of the mess, but somehow many small tractors didn't get this...

I have one, I think it's 5'. It has worked fine for me for 25 or so years. One thing I've done with it often is pulling snow out of the corners -- the tines cover enough of the area that the snow doesn't fall between them much.

Others seem to have better information. I just wanted to chime in and say my Kubota B6200, which was I think 16 horsepower, pulled a single shank CountyLine subsoiler through my very hard gravelly soil fairly well. I could also hook under old tree roots and often pull them up, though sometimes...

Right! Maybe much of the technology from cars has spread into the tractor industry. In cars, weight is expensive to move around. In tractors, we often -- usually I think -- add weights for traction. I've often thought tractors should make more use of huge castings and heavy plate or channel...

I can't speak from experience, as I've never had or used any of their products. But I can tell you that every time I see one of their commercials, I want to buy their stuff! Somebody here probably has experience. But in the absence of any good answers, I'd be tempted to go ahead.

knowledge is power then wisdom is torque? I dunno about that. I've never wisdomed the head off a screw.

Hmm, yeah, I don't know what that might be -- I guess I picture thinner pieces of metal that can ring a little bit, if there's a clinking sound. I'm afraid I'm not gonna do you much good....

I bet I could come up with a decent guess how many times...

Product idea: a top link that has a simple gear drive, so you can attach a crank handle like the jack handles that come with most cars. Maybe some sort of hanger bearing, too, that keeps the handle up in the air where you can reach it. No need for a hydraulic circuit to drive it. I'm thinking...

A slight tangent, but I always heard Messick's was the greatest tractor source in all the universe. But I had no idea where they were. A few weeks ago we did a road trip, and there they were!

Yes, this is definitely what I was asking about! Now, these are for cars, and say they're just for short distances at low speed, just for emergencies. I wonder why? Perhaps it's because they are held on by fabric straps, which they may have done because people tend to have expensive decorative...

I'm replying to myself, but to post a follow-up. It's not like I'm trying to get my attention. So, I actually have done all this now. I bought a nice clean plastic pallet. I think it was $147 and is rated for 4000 lbs. Other big things I've bought, such as the pallet forks themselves, arrived...

This isn't how I remember the 60's. I remember people thought plastic was cheap and junky. I wound up thinking perhaps the problem was that applications for plastic were so new, manufacturers hadn't figured out many of the things you have to do to make plastic articles durable. I do remember...

Perhaps part of the problem is that sometimes plastic enters a brand's new designs primarily as a cost reduction measure? I don't think I've heard of cases where the idea was to improve durability or function by introducing plastic.

Yeah, my old Kubota didn't have much plastic, but the grill in front of the engine was one piece plastic (the side panels were steel). Mine wasn't even cracked, it was just warped. Plastic gets kind of tired or something, and gradually changes shape under stress, so this grill wouldn't hold...

Yes, this is basically what I did!

I guess there are two more specific things I dislike about the plastic. One is that, rather than getting dented, it gets cracked, and the crack may be huge or may grow huge. It eventually may fall apart. The other thing I dislike about it is that they try to do so much with one molded part, so...

Good question! I've thought about this because we have a lot of autumn leaves that pile up in a cup-de-sac and I have to carry them pretty far. I've toyed with building a fairly light weight plywood trough that would wedge into the bucket and extend the bottom forward and the top up and forward...

Which brands have more metal, and which brands have more plastic? This question is inspired by the "What Did I Purchase?" thread. I like metal. Many of the plastic parts in tractors, especially newer ones, I'm picturing just a few years down the road, cracked and broken. It's one of the several...

I'm with you. I don't like plastic on tractors. I prioritize more metal and less plastic in buying. Unfortunately I don't buy often, don't have a lot of money to throw around, and don't have many different brand options that I'm aware of, so there don't seem to be many options for exercising...

I had an older B6200 and the engine had a bit of a growling, rattling sound, like big parts hitting each other. But it sounded that way all 25 years I had it. I always imagined pistons slapping back and forth in the cylinders, with lots of clearance. It did start blowing a bit of white smoke...

Whatever the leak is, that's the first priority, like many others are saying. I don't know that tractor at all and can't really see any signs, so forgive my ignorance, but -- is there head gasket above that spot? That might be the most important question. But if there's no gasket anywhere near...

FWIW when I first looked at the picture, it reminded me very much of my Kubota B6200. But many differences, too. Yours looks more modern than mine did.

O my goodness me, yes, this is about the cleanest looking engine and generator I've seen. Mine is crammed together and much of it is hidden as if being able to service it would be an embarrassment to the maker. And it's streamlined on the outside, as if people are going to race it. In reality...

This isn't actually right. The lever arm trying to lift the front end is the vertical component of the vector from your driving tire's ground contact to the attachment point. Only if you could attach the load below ground level would pulling force pull your front end down. Of course, if you're...

I have a 10 KW generator on wheels. I had an electrician install an interlock and an outdoor male receptical specifically for a generator. All by the book. I've done some wiring, including industrially, but it's such a safety (and liability) issue, on this one I decided to make it official. It...

The tractor whose exhaust I don't like does have a DPF. I never see black clouds, but the exhaust is still irritating. Could be an issue for me just because I have chronic bronchitis.

I have a New Holland WM25 with loader that I like very much. The only thing I think is wrong with it is the exhaust is down low so I'm always breathing it in (I hope to adapt a vertical stack soon). Larger tractors in this line have a high exhaust from the factory. I chose this brand because the...

Not exactly what you asked, and maybe too late, so, sorry. But FWIW I put Aquiline MPC chains on a WM25 with R4 rears, no wheel spacers. It took some fiddling around to get the little D-shackles to lay flat enough not to scrape on the insides. Turns out, I could fix it by twisting the chain ends...

Wishing you all the best on your honeymoon!

This is a bit of a hijack, sorry, but your comment makes me curious. What can you tell me about Ag/Industrial? The reason I bought the NH tractor I did is that the NH local dealer was so good. They paid attention to me and tried to help me out finding something used elsewhere when it didn't...

C'mon, you know this one: ALL of them!!

You can check out fails on youtube. There are zillions, and they're most entertaining. Oh, wait, that was a typo, wasn't it?

It's been a long time since I heated with wood, but, doesn't pine also tend to pop a lot and throw sparks? In a closed wood stove I guess that's fine, but when you open it, or if you have a fireplace, seems a bit scary. A wood fire is only nice when the wood isn't part of your house.

If that's working out for you, you're lucky. I tried it once. Big mistake. The guy brought mine on a truck and started dropping them off one by one. Every dang time, the thing would leave this huge dent in the ground, like a giant tree branch spearing the dirt. No thanks! Oh, to answer one of...

Been meaning to post a build thread about the bay I sectioned off out in the barn to keep my tractor in. It's totally enclosed, paved floor, and lots of LED lights. I have an overhead chain hoist on an I-beam trolley, a fuel caddy, a concrete-filled ballast box, a few attachments hanging in...

I don't think it should be much of a problem generally. I think it'd create an imbalance of forces acting on the two lower links, but only along the horizontal dimension, along which everything is very strong and rigid, so that wouldn't matter. It could add some twisting stress on a wide...

But one very good choice. Looks like there is a full coverage absorbent cover spread over the seat.

Sadly, there aren't any holes through my rims, and no attachment points other than the lug bolts themselves, which I'm apprehensive about trying to exploit. I'd have to start drilling. Which I could, I suppose, but I'm not quite at that point just yet. If I happened to have holes already, I...

Seems like it'd be easier to put chains on tires if they were separate segments, and each one anchored to points on the rim. You'd only have to adjust one at a time, not try to shift everything around on the tire with part of it pinned down. Are there any like this?

I often buy from McMaster-Carr, for even quite small pieces. I've had, on rare occasion, the order arrive later on the same day I placed it! Online Metals also. If it's big enough that it's hard to lift, or if it needs a custom cut, I go to Online Metals first. Otherwise I go to McMaster-Carr...

Not to rain on your parade, here, but you asked for my feedback. The way I'm looking at this is that it's like the ordinary bucket level indicator, only prone to breakage, and it has a battery I'm supposed to maintain. You could improve it by wiring it to the tractor 12V, in which case it's...

Now, this is interesting. Repete describes an indicator for the angle of the bucket relative to gravity, and DL Meisen describes an indicator for the angle of the bucket relative to the wheelbase of the tractor. And there are reasons why one might want one or the other. Mostly, I've wanted an...

Hey, repete, can I beg you to explain what I'm looking at here? Is it just a label on a right angle bracket on the top of your bucket? How does that indicate bucket level? What happens differently between slight dump and slight curl positions?

Sorry, I don't have any help to offer. But I am watching this thread closely because I am missing the shield on my TSC auger shaft and haven't figured out yet how to replace it.

I got tired of having to keep an eye on wires on the floor so I don't trip on them and mess myself and/or my equipment up. Since I always back my tractor into its bay, I bought an extension cable and ran it out of the engine compartment through a hole near the bottom of the battery, zip tied it...

The first tool I go for is the big tub of elbow grease I keep near the tractor. And a 1/2" drive breaker bar I use as an applicator for the elbow grease. Generously. Lavishly, even. I do also have a cordless right angle grinder, which I find I use more often with a cutoff wheel than with any...

I certainly use mine! It's not the only sign of where the bucket angle is, but it's the clearest and most accurate. Why ignore that?

Is it my imagination, or is the Kubota glow indicator designed to double as a cigarette lighter? The hole diameter and the glowing coil placement just inside it look deliberate for that. (I'm referring to the B6200 one).

They might find out even sooner this way, if they're standing in a puddle.

Really? My Workmaster 25 service at 50 hours also requires hydraulic filter change. Per an earlier thread here, my inexperience with changing the filter meant the service also wound up requiring hydraulic fluid change, which was by far more expensive than the rest of the service. The dealer was...

The FEL is certainly a quick and easy way to lift the fronts. Which leads me to a product idea: a lever that mounts on the 3PT arms and extends under the rear end and forward. When you lift the 3PT, the front of the lever goes to the ground and then starts lifting the rears.

Yes, I do. I'm not sure and haven't actually tried any other plates. But it would have been pretty easy to make my plate better. The holes for the attachment pins appear to have been punched. They are a little cone shaped and measurably out of round. The travel of the lower pin subassemblies...

I have one. I'm a bit dissatisfied with it as the hole clearances are much too big, as well as the clearances between the lower hole subassemblies and the square tube they slide on. When I put my landscape rake on it, there's at least a foot of play in the rake height. Mine was less than $257...

I like the way you think. So: picture several of these laid end to end over some hoses or electrical cords that cross the floor. Is it heavy enough to walk on? And, especially, are there wear marks, scuff marks, on the upper corners, as foot traffic walking across a cord cover would cause?

It depends what you mean by "higher grade". If you consider the 400 series stainlesses, some of them especially strong and often used for knives, to be higher grade than the 300 series, well, some 400s are magnetic, while 316 isn't (304 isn't either unless you cold work it).

I use a FEL bucket with a urethane bolt on edge, and float it, on my paved driveway. Sometimes the front wheels rise up, but mostly it works. I've wondered about attaching a spring somehow to apply up force on the bucket, to reduce the tendency to rise up. It'd also be nice if the blade could...

I like this thread! I have a few attachments but only the auger uses the PTO. Otherwise, that beautiful PTO just sits there staring at me, offering to do an enormous amount of exhausting work if only I connect something to it! A rotary broom would be nice! I've wanted one for years. They're...

Funny to see this just now. I just filled one of those Bagster folding dumpsters with rotting fence panels and construction scrap, and approached it from the non-road side and picked it up by the handles with my pallet forks so I could tie the handles towards one another and be sure I satisfied...

What I love about the New Holland brand is that the dealer who sells it near me treated me like I mattered, even though I was trying to buy something small and used. The salesman soon figured out they didn't have what I said I wanted, so he went online and helped me find about four promising...

I grew up using a Farmall Cub, which I guess was once red, but it seems to me they're really a blend of faded red and patchy iron oxide brown. I mean, if I saw one that was actually red, it'd strike me as odd. I wish my blue NH was a nice golden yellow, sort of a double yellow line shade...

Well, yeah, but what people care about is the wear on those parts, and gears turning without load don't wear much. It's the engagement and the potential to load big torques on the gears that causes the wear people care about. Sure, let the gears spin without a load in 2WD. There's practically...

Even for a tractor that is built to handle drive train stress constantly, tight turns on a delicate surface will tear up the surface some in 4wd. Ag tires on a lawn, under conditions that might not have left any visible damage from just doing this once in 2wd, will make a big mess in 4wd.

Wait, wait, let me get this straight. You're in 2WD maneuvering in tight quarters, using the rear brakes, pedal unlocked, one wheel at a time to help the turns -- and it engages 4WD?

If you were wondering, since an LED draws much less current than an incandescent light for the same output, you are safe electrically dropping one in as a replacement, either at bulb level or the whole assembly. Within the warnings above, you're always good substituting things that draw less...

As to where the brakes are, why does that matter? When operating, where the braking effect occurs is what matters. On cars brakes have been built into wheel hubs (the rotors) and on subassemblies secured to the suspension (the calipers and pads). On bicycles brakes are often on wheel rims and...

You are right, it's easy to imagine the question given the variety of incarnations of multiple wheel drive! Cars are a weird reference. There are so many different schemes. I think "all wheel drive" most often refers to having a partial degree of coupling between front and rear, often a viscous...

The tractor I daydream of inventing, in this ever more electrical and electronic world, would control all the motions of all four wheels all the time. Not like a differential that LETS the wheels rotate according to their travel over the ground. No, full time intelligence and geometry...

Well, that certainly did it. But 1.5 miles at full speed, well, that's a lot of stress to build up. Still, I wouldn't have expected that to happen, so it's a good data point to notice.

Really? Yikes. Can you point me to one of these? Do you remember a detail I could search with?

I use it going down my steep paved driveway if I'm carrying something big up front. And I have an 800 lb ballast box, plus filled rears. I figure it's worth a little extra wear to have the extra safety. Now, if I had a gage that told me what downforce my rear tires were experiencing....

Agreed. But, ANYTHING when going downhill out of control can lead to less than desirable results. We're making this too complicated. It's simple: 1: When you need 4WD, in low traction conditions especially with too much front weight and not enough rear, use it. 2: When you need 2WD, in high...

My NH has the exhaust in this location, and it is a little less tucked in, too. There's a picture here that illustrates it pretty well: https://www.kanequip.com/new-equipment/new-holland-ag/tractors-and-telehandlers/Workmaster-Compact-25-35-40-Series/Workmaster-25 I really dislike this. It's...

Can't we separate the need for weight from the need for power to some degree? If you want to throw heavy snow quickly, or road the tractor at decent speed on hills, you may need a huge amount of power but not much weight (in the latter case you might even need LESS weight). If you are trying to...

That is a very impressive picture, holding a tree up in the air. Yes, I DO need one of those. Living without one is somehow incomplete. Thanks!

Thinking about tractors and balancing, and the way front axles are usually pivoted to let the wheels follow the ground so the tractor itself is really on 3 points for the purpose of balance and tipping. And it occurred to me to wonder how are telehandlers suspended? I've only seen photos, and...

One thing nice about forks that a bucket isn't so good for: you can reach over an obstacle, and tilt them into dump position, and have a tool for pushing things on the far side of said obstacle. I was rearranging felled tree trunks this way just a few days ago. Now, I think I'd also like to buy...

I've had mine for about 30 years, and I think it came from Central Tractor when those were still a thing. I have 6" and 9" augers. The 9" can be hard to make bite in and it will sometimes spin with the tip pressing the ground, the teeth on the flutes never even touching the ground; I've even...

Not a week ago I was in Home Depot and saw tools of this type for the first time -- didn't know they existed. I dunno, I may not be able to resist....

I found them too, but they're the same size as the track. They'd need to be bigger to fit over the end of the track.

I joined the round track together by just aligning the ends before screwing through them into the wood. The ends of my track were flared to allow for a little misalignment, and I took a Dremel grinder to the inside to knock off some burrs. But I do wish I had done it differently. I wish I had...

Getting things on order for winter and specifying steel hex bolts for attaching my urethane bucket edge. Last year I bought fine thread stainless -- big mistake -- they went together fine and lasted the winter easily, but one seized up during removal and created a couple hours hard labor for me...

I like the way you think! I only have one tractor, and wanted to use it for the bags of concrete mix, so I could start the bag cutting and dumping process without doing any lifting myself, and only lifting perhaps half the bag weight to get the dumping to complete. But if I had two tractors...

Mine does not say much about this. It does say that when driving the tractor the "throttle lever" should be set for an engine speed above 1500 (though it's not a throttle). And it lists various RPMs such as min, max, and nominal in the table showing driving speeds for different gears. There's no...

Can you please say more about this? I've heard similar things but never understood why. I have a pretty new tier 4 with about 60 hours on it, and still haven't gone through a re-gen cycle. It works hard some times, but usually it has a light load. And I'm also unclear whether by "idle" most...

It's hard to beat having the manufacturer's own recommendations in front of you. My manual says to start the engine with the fuel control set midrange. It does not call out a wait time before beginning operations. For shutting down, it says to set the fuel control all the way down, then do...

My first experience in this department happened months ago when I did the 50 hour hydraulic filter change, not trying to change the fluid. I spun the filter off and fluid gushed forth into my oil change pan. I couldn't get the new filter started and put the old one back on when the pan...

I bought this item on Amazon two years ago: Titan Attachments Ballast Box for 3 Point Category 1 Tractor and Loader Hitches 4.4 out of 5 stars 111 ratings Currently unavailable. We don't know when or if this item will be back in stock. 800 lb. Capacity | Fits Standard 3 Point Category 1...

I bought what I think is the exact one you are talking about, the one that can double as a 3 prong bale spear. I ordered it from Amazon ( which was the most convenient way) and chose the 48" fork length. It is displayed on Amazon as "Titan Attachments 46-in Skid Steer Pallet Fork Frame...

Sorry, I don't get it, what's the problem? Trying to get forks under the attachment? Why not set the forks aside and get the skid mount connection to lift them? Or do I completely misunderstand? It's been known to happen...

Others have alluded to this a little bit, but to elaborate on a hazard that may not be obvious until it's too late: if you have too little load on the back wheels, and you're going down hill in 2WD, the back wheels can start to skid and you will go down the hill rapidly, because there are no...

Wow. I had contemplated putting my ladder on the ground but using the loader merely to lean it against, and rejected the idea as being too uncaring toward my heirs. Now I'm thinking I should put it in the bucket with guys to the canopy, and carry rocks to throw at the hydraulic controls.

String them together, with a good one in the middle, to throw over a high branch and cut down using two ropes?

I realized this is wrong. You can use various things to warm the engine before starting, either built in or sitting on the ground pointed at it. Just, not the glow plugs.

Here's my previous tractor, with a Kubota dozer blade. I bought it that way used. Very used. The dozer blade had a subframe bolted to the main tractor frame, and included an upright on the right for the control levers. It had a lift cylinder hanging from its own bracket bolted near the "bumper"...

The glow plugs don't warm the cylinders, they just heat up their own tiny coil, more like a big light bulb filament. The point is to get the fuel air mixture to ignite right where it's in contact with that tiny coil, so the flame front then propagates through the mixture. The cylinders...

OK, in my book, this wins some kind of award. I have a new hero.

Hey, Caustic, one glance at the photo you posted totally distracted me -- all I could think about was what a nice workspace you got there!

Forgive my ignorance, but those who are talking about "stalling out", what do you mean? Stalling the engine? Isn't that remedied by choosing a lower gear? Or do you mean losing traction?

Interesting. I've been trying to figure out what determines whether one or both motions is possible depending on how I move the control stick to a corner. It seems like it also depends on what order I enter the up/down versus curl/dump regions, and I did find a sweet spot, but not necessarily...

You could also just pass a heavy threaded rod through one of the other holes in the drawbar, and up through your top link. Note the top link hole can point vertically if you wish, as the ends are threaded. This is probably the cheapest option, and the only one you could get all the parts for at...

I've come to a tentative conclusion. I want to set up easy preferred access to two kinds of solvent, one for the tractor bay in the barn, and the other for the shop indoors (where I also do electronics, handle some laboratory equipment, and other odd stuff). In the shop I encounter a wider...

My ex father in law had a junk yard - excuse me, auto salvage yard - and a used parts business as well as an auto body shop. One time I visited him and he was scrubbing away at old parts in a wash tub of gasoline. This was indoors, and he was smoking a cigar at the time. I couldn't believe my...

I ordered two plunger cans, a one quart model and a two quart model. I plan to use the smaller one in my basement shop, where I'm likelier to use cutting oil and then want to paint something, and likelier to need to remove labels. I might put Goof-Off (whose MSDS says it contains 60 to 100...

I was thinking of getting one of those plunger cans, to make it more convenient and spill proof to get some solvent on a rag or paper towel. But what degreaser to use? I find myself using toluene pretty often, or Goof-Off (which I think has a lot of toluene in it). But I'll sometimes use 91%...

I think this is a very good question. Moreover, having a forum full of people who want to talk tractor seems like a great way to take great advantage of great experience beyond your own (expensive) education. I've only owned two tractors but even I can see some additional things to think...

I meant, how do their fuel consumptions compare? I don't think I've found that in the documents I've seen. Burning more fuel at the same (moderate) power would definitely be a disadvantage for higher HP engines in the same application, as several suggested. I just don't know if it actually...

Better mirrors! Big convex ones made for trucks or golf carts, mounted up under the roof or canopy. Some kind of small clamp to hold work gloves, keeping the cuffs closed so things with too many legs don't camp out inside. Small hanger for one shop rag/towel. Wheel chocks stored someplace...

In my original question I meant that, if you look at the sales literature or data sheet, there are many numbers to describe engine, frame, hydraulics, PTO, transmission, and on and on, arranged in a neat table. And if you look across models, every single number is exactly the same, except for...

Yeah, I was wondering this. And now you're going to find out why I will never have a career in marketing. I'm totally out of step with this one. I mean, I'm sure you're correct, but I think they're wrongheaded in their strategy. The highest HP tractor will hit all 3 HP requirements. Too much...

Just a thought, here -- if the camshaft is driven by a timing belt, running backwards means the tension is on the other throw of the belt, and if there is a tensioner, it is now on the high tension throw. So, if the tensioner was not sufficiently tight, it would shift, and throw off the timing...

Browsing the product line sold at my friendly nearby dealer, I notice that different models are in subgroups of about three that are exactly the same in every specification except horsepower. For example there are 92, 100 and 112 horsepower versions, whose weights and dimensions and engine...

Jeez, you must be mighty hungry.

Holding a workpiece up where you can get at it, and moving it around for the best angle! I did this with my bucket (before I had the forks) with a short set of pressure treated lumber stairs I was fixing for the front walk. I held them up where I could work on them easily to drive a bunch more...

It's bad to be sitting on the top exterior of a big heavy object without any ROPS or shelter when it starts to roll. But it'd probably be much worse to be TIED there by a seatbelt. Maybe there's no practical opportunity to execute a strategic leap to safety, but, even so, getting thrown off...

Ow! ow! ow! I put an 800# ballast on back, and wouldn't have hesitated to curl the loader working on a stump (though I haven't happened to do it yet). I don't want that to happen to my machine -- what tractor did this happen to, if I can ask?

I bought a Kubota B6200 about 25 years ago, when it was already kind of old and in rough shape and the hour meter (which only had digits to go up to 999) was said to be probably not on its first time around. It had a dozer blade on it which I used for snow removal on my gravel driveway. I also...

My current tractor has very low hours on it, and I haven't observed the cylinders drifting yet. A couple of times I've parked it (in the closed barn for safety) with the bucket up, and it looked the same a couple days later. I know, I should enjoy it while it lasts....

There is a thread about front differential locks here: https://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/threads/locking-front-differential.408281/ I haven't had the pleasure of driving anything with a locking front differential yet but it sounds like a nice option. Just curious -- for machines that hinge...

I ordered a nice plastic pallet, the most common pallet size and 6000 pound capacity, to fit in my car. I also plan to use it as a work platform or scaffold, noting that unlike boards it can't slip sideways off the forks or tilt off because the tines pass inside it. I'll find a convenient spot...

I'm sure PILOON meant to say you should install a frontup camera system. They sell them to help you when you are fronting up.

I go back and forth pretty frequently. 2WD when there's no need for 4WD, and especially when maneuvering in tight quarters on flat dry ground. 4WD on pavement, IF I'm going down my driveway hill with a lot of weight in the loader, so the front wheels are coupled to the brakes -- I only had to...

I had a 60" rake on a 16 horsepower 4WD tractor with ag tires, and it seemed to pull it pretty well. When I would pull gravel up a steep hill, if it got pretty loaded, I'd start to lose traction. I think, worst case, going too wide will lower the speed you can work at, unless it's a traction...

Work lights, I betcha. Front, rear, side, wherever you want to string wires to, but they got them past all the windows for you. Put a voltmeter on them and see if they go live whenever you turn the headlights on.

Yes, the question about whether it's actual consumed wattage is a good one! I just finally ordered some small light bars, but it was actually a bit challenging to get this question clear on many of the products I was choosing between. The old incandescent bulbs were convenient to choose based on...

Perhaps there is an issue here translating between actual watts of electrical power and some sort of equivalent brightness comparing to incandescent bulbs, as huddlewalt mentioned. I kinda think an LED assembly that actually takes 350 watts of electrical power, or even more, will create all...

Very fun thread. Consider a physically small but heavy counterweight. I bought a ballast box, put some large steel scraps in the bottom, and then filled it with concrete. I poured self-leveling concrete as the last layer, and once it was cured and stable, I poured Flex-Seal rubber into it, so...

I always figured that if a tractor design allowed lots of heavy rain to do damage, they would have fixed the design quickly, so it's safe spraying things the way a hard driven rain would do it. But hard spraying with an upward component has no such guarantee, so that's the situation to be...

My tractor lives in a barn, and I sometimes pull it out just seconds after starting, because it gets smoky in there! But this means lifting the ballast box (if it's on) and the loader. I always wonder if this is any harder on it. Also -- do folks let the machine warm up at low or high engine...

I think we're all overlooking the big advantage of vertical exhausts on smallish, no-cab tractors. It's a great hand warmer in the wintertime while removing snow. And adjustable, too. The more heat you like, the lower you grab it.

Mmmm, I should have mentioned, I did tighten these with a wrench, but as you say, many people online have pointed out impact guns increase likelihood of galling. If I had combined fine stainless threads with an impact gun, maybe I would have galled every single one! I thought about using...

I generally really like keeping safety equipment intact, and using it. So far my record with this tractor is unbroken: every time I have started the engine and every time I have moved the tractor, I've had the seat belt fastened. The only time the engine runs with the seat belt unfastened is if...

I've blown them into big piles (with a big backpack blower) and pushed the piles with a dozer or bucket, and also filled the bucket (especially with wet matted leaves mixed in with a little gravel). I also have a County Line landscape rake and it does fine with leaves, though it tends to move...

You don't use that loader in pastures, do you?

I looked this up in my operating manual for a geared tractor. The instructions say always clutch, 1500 RPM minimum, no maximum given, and don't mention throttling down. The official engine speeds are 970 low idle, 2700 high idle, and 2500 rated.

This is essentially the same question but asked a different way: If you do not need engine power for more than X minutes you should shut it down, but for less than X minutes you should leave it running. What is X? And, should you leave the engine running at speed, or slow to the minimum engine...

I have a New Holland WM25 with forward exhaust. I breathe exhaust, yes, and I HATE it. I keep thinking I should build a vertical extension, like Sno said. My previous tractor, a little Kubota, had a vertical stack and I was perfectly happy with it. Yes, it could catch tree branches, but I have a...

I just removed the urethane lip on my bucket edge, which was held on by 5 half inch stainless bolts. One of these went from spinning freely to absolutely welded together as I unthreaded the nut, and had to be cut. How do I prevent this? They were fine thread nuts and bolts, which I now read is...

Yes! Very interesting! Thank you! This all started because I wanted pallet forks (adjustable forks though not hydraulically adjustable) for my NH Workmaster, and at a modest price. I wound up finding Titan forks that fit the bill for $635, through Amazon which streamlines everything. Part of...

What does it mean that skid mount attachments are sometimes advertised as "to fit John Deere" or "to fit Kubota" or other brands? I'm hoping skid mount is skid mount, and I can buy any skid mount attachment and expect it to fit (New Holland in my case, but it shouldn't matter). Sometimes...

Hi all, I hope this isn't too much of a tangent from tractors, but -- I just ordered a $180 Wen bandsaw for my shop and want to get some blades, and wondered what you would recommend. My usage is a light variety of work with aluminum, steel, plastic, and wood. Typically I'd be cutting out small...

Just did my 50 hour first maintenance on a new tractor (New Holland WM25 with manual gearbox). This tractor has a common sump for the transmission oil and the hydraulic fluid, so it's just one fluid. Maintenance schedule calls for the suction filter on the transmission/hydraulic oil to be...

This was last winter's only snow removal experience with the new tractor.

I bought Aquiline MPC chains to help with snow removal especially considering I get ice buildup on my driveway. This was with a gravel driveway. But then I got the unexpected opportunity to pave the driveway in asphalt, so I now have beautiful 6 month old asphalt. I think I would probably have...

When I first insert the key and turn it to on, there's an immediate rapid ticking sound coming from near the fuel filter. I'm guessing that's a fuel pump? And the glow plugs start heating in preparation for starting. But is it OK to leave the tractor in this state for a few minutes, so I can...

Enough with the lifting and pouring 2 gallon cans through a big funnel. I need something easier on my back. I have a 7.4 gallon tank whose fill port is chest high, above the 3 pt. I think a hand-crank pump on a small tank would be perfectly convenient and reasonable, except for one question...

I just got to wondering -- are there any three point hitches that can be driven downward, as opposed to just allowed to fall? Using my ripper and my auger, I often wish I could force them down. In the case of the auger I'll hang weight on the boom sometimes. Positive downward force would be a...

I'm looking for some kind of guides for the bottom of a smallish loader bucket blade to keep it from digging into the gravel of my driveway when removing snow. I haven't tried the new loader yet for this -- it hasn't snowed yet. Any suggested sources? or other suggestions? Thank you!

There's a gas station with diesel 1.6 miles from the house and it's a beautiful clear day, great visibility, not a busy traffic time. So I decided to give roading a try. It felt very unnerving and I would up turning around just up the road. The biggest surprise was that I can't go up a hill in...

I think I need chains this winter for safety's sake, but I'm almost afraid to ask. Just spent hours looking at threads here on the subject and it seems very complicated and potentially expensive. The only goal is to handle ice and hard packed snow while clearing my driveway, part of which is...

Just installed a fiberglass canopy on my NH tractor. It went well and I'm happy -- but still there are some directions I wish were included, which I'm posting here in case they're useful to somebody else. The dealer who sold me my tractor 4 months ago just sold me this canopy for it. It's made...

I just bought a canopy yesterday afternoon, from the dealer who sold me my NH tractor 3 months ago. It's sturdy and nice, but not NH brand. It's supposed to bolt onto the ROPS with U bolts. But I'm looking at mounting it, and it obviously can't fit the ROPS because on one side there is a bracket...

I have a pole barn with roof trusses and want to attach an I beam up to the bottoms of the trusses to run my hoist and trolley across the trusses (that is, I beam perpendicular to trusses and parallel with roof ridge). The purpose is to make it easy to lift and move 3 point and skidder mount...

I bought an adapter plate that mounts on the skidder FEL and accepts 3 point implements. For instance, I could put my 3 pt landscape rake on the FEL and rake in front of me while backing up. Trouble is, even though the specifications say it is for Cat 1, the holes are sized for Cat 2. They are...

I bought a perfectly nice little 1 ton chain hoist from HF for only $59 and am very pleased with it. The plan is to use it in the barn to help changing implements. I used it on a 340 lb weight yesterday and could hardly believe how easy and precise it was. But the hand chain is quite long. It...

I'm thinking of getting one. Main goal is staying dry while moving snow around during the storm. But I also have a very bad neck and want multiple mirrors, and I imagine a FOPS would give a nice variety of good mounting points. There is a FOPS available from my tractor maker (NH) that is...

My new tractor has an electric clutch for the PTO. This seems a little weird to me, for running an auger (which is the only attachment I have that is driven). I wouldn't have chosen this feature, though the whole machine is nice. On the old machine, you hit the clutch pedal to stop the auger...

There are a number of references around, including threads here, that explain that breakout force or rollback force is the maximum force a loader can exert at the lip of the bucket by curling with it against the ground, as opposed to the smaller lifting force exerted by the loader arms with the...

In looking around for a ballast box I'm discovering at least 2 mysterious difficulties: 1) Ballast boxes that are "for" a particular brand of tractor. What's the difference between third party boxes for John Deere and boxes for Kubota, when your tractor isn't either of these? They make it sound...

Here are a few features on my new tractor that I haven't found in the manual. I'm not sure what they're for, or else have other questions. Can anybody help? It's a New Holland Workmaster 25, manual transmission with loader. I'm posting a picture of each item. 1) Small bracket welded onto the...

I was just looking yesterday at how to reach the oil fill on my new tractor, which has a loader (I've never had one with a loader before). It is quite a reach to get in there, as the loader arm is in the way and the side of the raised hood is fairly low too. How do you get in there? Maybe I can...

I just got this tractor and overall I love it, wonderful machine. But I don't like how much exhaust I'm breathing, as it has a low front exhaust. I'm thinking of modifying it to a vertical stack. I've looked around for a kit for this particular tractor or for examples of other people's mods...

How do you manage attachments when they're not on the tractor? Especially, how do you move them around and get them in a convenient position to connect them? I have an auger that is way too heavy to move by myself. I have a cable suspending it from my barn roof trusses, and I only have to back...