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I have planted that kind in the past but still go back to NK 199 myself! Thats what Libby uses. Its a commercial corn and yields over 6 tons per acre. Nice big ears too!

The rest of the onions picked up and the tatoes dug, over 2,000 pounds of tatoes total. Got a few wierd ones too. Had quite a few that were 2 1/2 to 3 pounds. Same with the onions. French fries now!

too far for me. IF it were closer I would take it in a heartbeat!

hot/dry here for 2 months nonstop. garden bout had it for this year. onions only got to 2 pounds each this year,---wanted 3 pounds since this is probably my last garden year. Potatoes struggling, looks like a lot of small ones out there. Early reds are about ready to dig and size varies a LOT...

no problem with wind turbines here! We have 2 on our farm and they dont bother me any! I enjoy them myself!

onions lookin good so far and tatoes coming up IF they dont get froze off!

last time they got serviced??? ---- well lets see, I think it was 2 years ago when I last used 2 of them and the other 6 not since the former owner used them! LOL!! One came on the service truck and I do use it a lot out in the field. I changed oil in it a couple times. Handy to have with me to...

We been hauling produce to the food bank every year. usually around 24,000 pounds per year. gets expensive since its a 25 mile trip one way! Getting hard to do now so dont know about this year. Nobody will come pick anything and a couple ladies will come IF I pick the stuff which I do so at...

got the onions planted--- took me 2 days and I am beat!! ended up with 4 1/2 rows again. same as last year. Good friday will be tater planting day here. Have 50 pound bag of Kennebec and 10 pounds of red norland to plant. Lookin like my last garden IF I make it thru this year. old body just...

Going to be a late start in the greenhouse this year here. still getting light snows, hail and rain here. Water still freezing on top of the catch tanks. onion plants are to come the week of the 24'th and more rain on the way. Been mowing the farm off and still have about 1/4'th of it left to...

I think the testing here is 10 years,--dont quote me on it! different brands/companies may have shorter term on theirs.

Dad bought med. sized tanks in 1960 and traded up the oxy. tank to the big boy a few years later for a few dollars and even tho I still have his title to them he passed away in 91 and I still exchange them at local dealer which has changed hands many times over the years and as long as the tanks...

bought another old Davis trencher to go with the other 3 that I have. This one also runs and is in good condition. Still have several thousand feet of field tile to put in the farm waterways. same auction I got a Craftsman 2.6 saw like new cept they left gas in it for several years and lines...

Waukashaw gas motor. 75A series ll for sure.

Yes, Michigan and from what I can tell it could be a 75 A series ll since its hard to make out the tag on it and too cold to mess with it in -7* with 35 mph winds! I bid a bit higher than I wanted to but it does have the 6 cylinder GAS motor in it and that makes it WAY more valuable to me! Been...

This is one of the items! The other 2 are a "new" truck to replace the f-350 7.3 diesel truck. --- 99 cheyy 3500 with air compressor, Goodall starter unit, and big generator on it plus a liftgate. Third thing from the same auction is another Davis 300 trencher and a new Craftsman chainsaw...

Neighbors bubcat rubber track one never worked,---totally useless for him so I figured its worth a try, course thats only 4" of snow so far and not the feet we used to get around here. I dont want any! Wasted over 30 years of my life driving township snowplows so snow is still a curse.

Didnt think it would work but it does, so far. Have 3 blades I am going to make up brackets for so I can use them on this unit. one is a vee , an atv mini state plow, and an old gravely straight blade that would move dirt too.

Libby's save seed from their crop every year. They gmo their seed every year, These were from 42 years ago when most everything was straight. I have over the years gotten them to the over 100 pound size and excellent quality still remaining so I continue to plant them. Best pie pumpkin around!

savin seeds and drying them. Started on the canners the other day and got a bunch of nice seeds out of this one. It was a 32 pounder.

They change a few parts around, give them a different number, a different paint color different motor brand, slap a different model tag decal on them , etc. But its the same unit probably made in the same factory with the same chimineese quality that they are famous for! --- ( the lack of it...

AGT's around here are $2,600 up now AND auction yards letting them go for that!! Market flooded now and buyers finding the diggers are NOT what they thought they were!!!

dug out door stop last night,---- also bent the left outer tooth AGAIN! Makes the third time it has bent! The doorstop is 5' long and 20" across the top of the concrete. Been in the ground 23 years and has now heaved up a couple inches and doors wont close and no more adjustment so I dug it out...

Welcome! Time to start the 2025 season thread. Post your gardens AND small acres here. Ideas, equipment, methods that work for you, varieties and whatever else you like! Thanks!!

NO gauge can fix stupid!! You have to use common sence and know you and your equipment. As already stated, try watching some gadget and you WILL get yourself into trouble!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You couldnt run fast enough to get me crammed into a mini with a cab on it!!--- no room what so ever, HOT as hell in summer too. fans and ac does NOT work in them from what I am told. I have a couple AGT L-12's, NO cabs and they will do serious work. I just finished putting in 2,000' of field...

will ryobi chainsaw filters fit?

I have 4 gas drills. 2 are Echo's the other 2 are sthils. never found a use for them yet.

Just tellin it like it was for me! LOL!! On the double gas tank problem,--- What kind of switching valve setup do they have?? sounds like the valves are not working to me.

guess I am lucky on my junk cc z-force 48 cause it only has 1 tank. When I got it I had to take the tank, lines/filter off and replace lines and filter which I put out in the open so I can see/reach it. Motor blew the heads so now its double junk. drive belt wont stay on if you run more than...

Put them in the shed last night to keep them out of the snow!

It wont do your job. You are looking at a 450 Deere or 892 which is an older model. 225 Cat MIGHT do the job. I am putting in field tile here in central Illinois where diggin is S'POSED to be easy with a AGT L-12 and at 4' your maxed out on depth. Only way to go deeper is to bench down.

pic. of the pallet of the attachments minus the "quick" hitch which I put on the newest L-12. Diggin on another tile line.---had to uncover the old clay tile and remove it then straddle the ditch and go deeper to be on grade for the new tile. Been runnin 4' deep with it and so far it digs fine...

I use one on an AGT L-12 without any trouble---- cant crowed it and it works fine. Damage depends on how good your hyd. system is! IF not very good then you cant damage machine.

I invested in the 9 piece package to use on my 2 L-12's Probably still more stuff out there that would be nice but this basic package covers the main stuff. Anybody else get one of these?

Clinton

Just bought the AGT 9 piece set of attachments for my 2 L-12's. no pix yet but got the so called quick tach put on. Interesting for sure! Grapple mounting looks like you have to strip the whole end off the boom to mount it and that was what I wanted the most so one of the 12's might just be...

The jerk will always be there in these! I have 2 L-12's and the L-12R is worse than the L-12. They are WAY underpowered on the track drive for sure and the tread design grips the ground like a magnet adding to the problem. Tread needs to be only a quarter of the height that they are in my...

$2,600 to $2,800 and up depending on model here Saturday.

never looked under either of mine. cant really get down under there. still workin on tile fixins and got rained out,---afraid winter is here. Great little backfiller,--- SO FAR! lol!

I had a belt drive one a long time ago. mounted on the side of the old tractor and ran from a short belt to the pulley. Heavy made and worked perfect. Factory made in the usa.

auction visits get expensive!

Thats why I wont buy OR run one with a cab!! Confined enough without one!!

Idler wheel has wobbled since day one out of the shipping container new! Anyway he now has a brother.

here is mine. been using it to backfill tile ditches at the farm and digging stuff out of the garden. 23 hp, BIG learning curve on how to ride a wild bull without falling off all the time.

444 wont pull a 12 foot disk under any condition!!! A 560 would but for serious use the 444 is out. You could use a 72" tiller IF you dont have rocks/roots/etc. I use a KK72" on my 504 and a 340 ih and it does fine Had it on a 404 and not near as good. the 444 would struggle even with an 8'...

When I get done with this tile fixin I will take it apart,-- UNLESS it get so bad the track wont stay on at all. I have pushed almost 300 feet of backfill dirt over the tile line and so far the track has stayed on. I dont have it as tight as it was when I got the digger last year,---- may have...

didnt take front wheel off yet ---- too much **** has to come apart and no time right now to do it. I left the track a little loose and so far if I turn careful its still on. I still need sharper edges on the bucket to cut the hard dirt thats like concrete.

Had to be Loncin

I figure its just a bolt thru a bare bushing in there, --- have no idea yet but might try to take a quick look ! Track still off since I was mowing waterways yesterday and didnt have time to work on tile line. New machine with 24 hours should NOT have tracks jumping off! Only the right side...

diggin in the tile line still. right track keeps coming off. Been doing that since I got it new last year. front wheel is junk,---wobbles bad. Might just have to drag the digger around with a tractor til I get this job done. No time right now to screw with it. I bought the thing to use and NOT...

rod is stuck inside the cylinder. On my 154 you pull to lift push to lower. Sounds like your line is not hooked to the right port on the valve bank.

I have the L-12 and motor was junk from the factory. ( long story) anyway the bucket is a big problem now---- too many blunt places on it and the motor dont have half enough power to pull it. ---needs at least 20 or more. the teeth are square not sharp, bucket sides and front edge are square and...

small axle with a frame and hitch works. Dont take much to hold them up since the are so light. I haul mine in the dump trailer to where I need to dig at the farm. Here at home I just drive it! Way faster than loading/unloading it.

Believe what you want. I know what happened to cousins 560 and the IH dealer shop said that was the cause of the motor failure. Dead load and they cant hack it. Also saw a MM 705 blow up on a pto grain drier! Same deal dead load!

I didnt get one cause they will destroy a tractor motor runnin that kind of load!! Its a dead load and motor never gets a rest always runnin against the governor . mowing/plowing/etc. they vary the load and its not 24/7 same dead load. Cousin destroyed his 560 motor twice with his pto generator...

dug sweet taters with mine today. Ground is as hard as concrete and fork was out!

I looked at the other agt models and wouldnt take a truckload of them home if they gave them to me!! Cant check the oil and putting gas in them is a crock!! The l-12 has the tilt ass end so you can get to most of the motor under there. The h-12 and others only have seat tilt and I couldnt reach...

cant afford to put a bigger one in it right now BUT still eying one of my Kohler 20's out of an old sunstar. I know that would run it! Today I got another 40' of tile uncovered with it slow as molassas but its all I have and the tile has to be replaced so thats #1 right now.

Depressing to say the least. This motor was junk when I bought the digger new,---it was full of saltwater and crud when it came out of the shipping container from chimna and both valves were stuck open. Top of piston was full of burned crud on it as well. Factory stuck some junk test motor on it...

lack of motor power---kills that sucker dead in its tracks!!

My L-12 is nut on outside also. IF you used a spline shaft motor you would also have to buy a splined shaft sprocket to go with it!

workin on field lile with the L-12 and its VERY slow going! Ground hard and rubbery at tile depth and digger not suitable for this kind of work! Not enough power for sure! Need a 20 horse motor on it as min. I keep scratchin and thats all it is, cause I dont have a runnin hoe to do it with...

My L-12 came from chimna with one installed at the factory!

Reverse never worked from the factory very long on ANY of their tillers! I have and use 14 horses and only one of the newer ones has reverse! NONE of the older ones work and I took the disks out of most of them!--- dont need reverse anyway and yes the spring/plunger has to go down which most are...

Canners about ready for harvest. Cant beat these for pies! Libby uses these in their canned pumpkin.

I about live on all of mine and no cabs on any of them and do NOT want one!!!!!!

only saw a couple mantis here this year. we usually have dozens of them. Not many dragonflys either and they used to be in swarms over the garden here. Tomato worms this year so far have only been a few early. They could still come before frost. at least a couple roses made it.

take it off and patch it OR put a tube in it!!!! simple and problem solved!!

The only vines alive here now are my canner pumpkins! I wanted a couple to get seed from to freshen up my seed supply of them. No melons , squash, or other pumpkins this year at all.

Heavy fall dews here, --- I HATE that crap!!! Weather winding down for sure!

I had pink oxhearts last year and they did good here. I really liked them. Canned a lot of them too. Didnt have any this year, ended up with 1,500 donated tomato and pepper plants late in the season. Peppers are Giant Marconi and most of the tomatoes are Romas, which can and make juice just...

all cc blades are junk!! Soft as butter! my z-force 48 wont mow the yard one time without having to stop and grind blades again. Also the b&s intek 22 motor on the z's are junk! Blew the heads on mine and after research this is common thing on MOST new motors no matter what brand! Mine has 550...

our corn got only 4 feet tall,--VERY small ears and no taste whatsoever!! NOT a good garden year!

diggin out the failed broc. plants. now to haul them over to the compost pile. spuds only have 1 nice tater per plant, so wont be many of them this year!

dug out the 2 rows of broc. plants that didnt produce a crop this year.

Tiller between the rows also works. I mostly use a TB HORSE between the rows. I plant everything in 72" rows here, --- plants gotta have room to grow!

cultivator on tractor like they did 75 years ago.

took some cabbage and onions to the mission. Gave some to some of my Facebook friends and made 2 jars of kraut out of 2 heads.

Spread dirt yesterday with it and going to grab brush and small trees today that I cut away from the machine shed.

zucs are dieing, corn is tasseling at 4 feet, onions are done, potatoes dont have anything under them. Gonna be a lean year here. Food bank wont get anything from us this year from the looks of it. Do have some nice cabbage! Good thing we had the big crops last year cause we will use that for...

IF you have the useless Tech motor on it,---which I have an 8 hp on one of mine,--the load jet swells and you have to keep opening the load needle and choke the hell out of it,-- THEN fight the too much gas deal, so reset the needle to just right and good for maybe a half hour then same thing...

SKIDDER and never look back!!! Tractor loaders are USELESS!

pressure washer with detergent in it to start then clean water then air. NOT a good way but will get most of the crud out. I have used gas in a blowgun tank I have and it works BUT you still cant get everything out.

IF its a mid 60's---- its NOT a Holt!

WOODS is the way to go! I use a 315 here on the 656 and a C-80 on the 3-pt of the 2444 industrial and a 3-pt RM 59 on the 240. Had good luck with all of them.

unless your corn stalks are VERY thin a regular sickle wont cut them since its not made for that heavy cutting. That would be the first problem. You could devise a reel and tray to catch the cut stalks with no problem and then you would have to hand bunch and tie them. Ground speed would have to...

Not exactly my garden, but our farm is blooming. Kinda neat to see. There are several different native flowers and grasses planted in there and something is s'posed to be in bloom all summer long. A couple pix of the 137 acres of these daises. This is year 2 of the 10 year project. I planted a...

Sounds like in your case the coil just might be going out! Hey,--when it dies or you run a long time does the coil get hot? I mean HOT? usually they do that when they get bad. Also check the timing! It needs to be spot on. Not too fast or slow as that adds to the problem. Tune it by ear and when...

washer fluid has alki in it and will damage the tires and tubes over time. Weakens the rubber I was told! I dump everything out of the tires that are on the tractors I use cause I want them light, --- all that weight is useless to me since it just packs the ground down which is what I DONT want...

the old corn binders had only a couple knives to cut the stalks since you only take 1 row at a time. Then there is the catching tray then the string that has to hold the bundle together and a knotter like hay balers use to knot the strings, so short answer to your question would be no!

Kohler man here!! B & S quality has fallen thru the floor! Still have them here and use them but Kohler is a bit better in the long run. NONE of them are as good as they were years ago! All made in chimna now! SADLY! My z-force 48 has a 22 B & S on it ---- always something wrong with it. Hardest...

I grow my own sweet potato plants in the greenhouse. They are a long season crop, take a LOT of work and space so most people dont do them. You can start your own plants in pots or in a cold frame,--even just in the ground off to the side of the garden out of the way. Not hard to do. They are...

Cant find a starter assy. for one. Anybody know of one or got a junk one? Buddy wants his saw fixed and I cant find the parts to fix his starter. internals exploaded in it and he lost the parts.

To start with it wont pull a debarker!!!!!!!!!! I use a sthil ms 250 on mine and can kill it dead!!! These things take power PLUS weight! You do NOT want a light saw on them. The ms 250 is actually WAY too light but that was all I had at the time. It will skin a log as fast as you can walk with it.

I have that problem on all of my stihls! VERY poor design AND you have to be careful not to break off the tabs that the plastic cross shaft hinges on too when messin with them! They are hard to adjust but seam to do the job. Keep the area under there squeeky clean and some slick-um on the...

That should be the Continental F-226 motor. Parts for them getting hard to find. Dad had 2 of them way back when! The F-226 was used in dozens of different machines and were popular at that time. Check under other brands too for parts for them.

These 504's do get hot fast! Rad. is about half the size needed for this motor and I found vapor lock the biggest problem. BUT your puff of white smoke would be the bigger concern! Check the compression cause it sounds like an engine rebuild is getting close! ALSO make sure rad. fins are squeeky...

HOW do you take the mag off the Kohler 662 motor in these 500 loaders??? Cant get a wrench under the mag or even see under there! Cant get bottom 2 screws out of the cap to look at the points either. anyway the mag is dead and gotta figure out something.

610 came with the Wisconsin VH4D motor ---- 30 hp. friend of mine has one and thats what it has.

careful what you try to pick up with that kind of forks!!! You will just bend them again!! WAY too soft to be much use! Get regular forklift forks and mount them on your frame and never look back!!

Hydraulic shop can fix them. new rods if needed. Had one of my Case 580's done cause it was bent. Replaced all the seals myself with kits from Case/IH dealer. You have to order the stuff and wait for it to come. As for whole cylinders, just measure size and go on the internet with needed size...

Had to break down and buy the electric clutch for the Z-force 48 mower! PLUS a bunch of switches up the line. Everything was toast for some reason. Should have just deep sixed the thing!

I bought a used Abbott Bros. 3-pt for an M and widened it 8 inches to fit my 560. It has 2 big cylinders on it and will lift a tank with no problem. Front end comes off the ground a lot! Be careful with them! The Abbott Bros hitch is built like a tank and indestructable! VERY heavy unit!

My cauliflower and brock. plants got leggy in the greenhouse and the cabbage got stunted in the trays for some reason. Transplanted 1 row 130 feet long of cabbage then ran out of cones to put over them so had to quit til I can get more tile to cut up. Cant plant anything here without the tile...

change the oil in a motor and while its hot go dump it on the trailer floors and mop it around!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have tilled grass under before,---- just chop it up good a few times and you will be fine!

well, I have dug burn pits, set trusses, graded the drive, carried brush limbs and logs, grubbed out small trees, lifted motors out of tractors. Now getting more ideas for attachment builds for it since I know about what it can do and what I can get by with doing.

Well,---- damn wind was trying to take the roof off my wood shop, ----- soooo not being able to go up a ladder in this wind, guess whos holding down the fort for a few days???? LOL!

I have a small package of buckwheat that I am going to try in a small area this year just to see what it will do.

a few things coming up here. cabbage, radishes, and broc. so far.

ran 6 of my 8 in December. Busy here now with the greenhouse so generators are getting run one at a time when I get a chance to start one. Gotta put a new shutoff under one of the tanks for sure and its ready again. IF we get the spring storms , ---- might need to use a couple of them! lol!

cant use any type of ground cover here since it harbors voles, mice , bugs, and disease and makes the ground stay cold , nasty and slimy

Plant rr corn!! lol! worms dont like it!

I go for and grow 2 pound onions! lol! Dont take as many to fill the freeze driers that way plus the big ones have better texture and flavor. Just my findings. Gotta do whatever works for you! my ground is dry so I have to keep things low. Never had an onion sunburn here yet!

for onions you GOTTA take dirt AWAY from them as the grow or they wont get very big.--- at least not here! They are a surface crop. For beets I never hill them either. The main thing with them is to get them spaced apart since they take up a lot of room in the row. 6" spacing for both onions and...

Its not all that tight. Right now I am fighting to keep it warn in there! I have an old hoghouse fan and a furnace fan that I can set in there if it comes to that later. I never hill beets! Planting them thin enough is always a problem. Never tried transplanting them from flats. LOTTA work but...

Starting seed boxes in the greenhouse now. Hope it works. Really need a small heater in there.

IF the dirt there is rich and you give them a LOT of water and fertilizer a half day of sun will work. You might try bush varieties to cut down on the vine problem OR cut the ends of the off vines when they get to the limit of your space. You will still have to keep the weeds out and cultivate...

my ramps are 8 footers. I back the New Holland L-781 up them all the time,---hold your breath and go for it! LOL!!

Did that with mine in the dump trailer, only I never got half way!! only just over center an dead. Used a comealong to pull ass end back down and all was fine! LOL!

The thread size is probably METRIC crap! See if anybody can find out! Thanks!!

no ELECTRIC carp allowed on my farm!!!!!! LOL!!

Wasnt aware of a tube. Where do you have to get them from?

Ya 20 3/4 is closer on this one too, --- hard to measure with tape measure in 45 mph wind but I checked again yesterday and they are 20 3/4 for sure.

Same here--- one old STANDARD gun --- use it on everything!!

I might have to do that too! Great idea!!

I want to replace the nasty needle zerks on my L-12 if possible-------- HATE them nasty needle things! lol!

Well, ----- I struggled for an hour, ( by my self), and finally got the track back on with 2 six foot pry bars so I could get on with the day! NOT something I will do again either! I was tempted to try getting the grease pressure out but wasnt aware of how to do it. The first video shows the...

What I did yesterday was have the right hand track jump off! ---- How the hell do you put them back on???? L-12 has that STUPID grease tension tightner on it instead of the good old wrench manual type. Tracks were tight and I check them every time I get on it so I know they are o.k. ( I NEVER...

Ya, -- left motor is the leaker!

Between the bosses behind the bolts is 20 1/2 to 20 3/4 as near as I can measure on mine. I tried to make a yellow line to show the points to measure from. This is same on the front side as the back.

Will do! Ya it started out being a nightmare but after a lot of work I am getting the feel of it. Still gotta fix the teeth so they quit bending every time I dig with it. I still like the L-12 WAY better than the H-12, qsr-12, etc as you cant get to anything on them! On the L-12 the hood raises...

Probably 20 hours total. hour meter showed 4 hours when it came out of the shipping container and I left the damn switch on for several hours shows 35 now but I know its 15 too high!

My L-12 has marks all over it AND one wheel motor has started leaking around a fitting, so something was NOT put on right. It wont tighten any more and I am not about to mess with it unless it starts really spraying. I think the fine chimineese cross threaded the fitting,--- probably looked...

I had to junk the thumb on mine cause it was always in the way! Never found a use for it anyway! IF ya gotta have one make sure its hyd. and NOT solid. Dont get stuck with a used unit!!!! Just go buy a new one to start with. 20 hours of abuse and these things are JUNK so dont fall for it! I...

the chimineese dont want to spend any time on quality OR make anything standard! It's just NOT their way!!!

check that the blades turn by hand with motor turned off. Then check electric clutch IF it has one, (these can lock up). Make sure nothing is getting in a bind. sounds like something hitting somewhere.

LP here,--- ditched the damn electric junk 15 years ago! -- I can fine tune the gas to run my pressure canner and never could on the electric junk. ---- PLUS its a hotter heat!

Didnt get any pix but I used the digger to set logs on the bandsawmill yesterday. It handles MOST of the logs I saw. Its faster than using a skidloader, plus smaller and easier to get around with. I can set them instead of dumping logs on the mill. They do tend to roll off the loader forks.

My L-12 dont freewheel OR speed up going down hill, (wish it did!) Anyway none I looked at will freewheel, IF they do/did, you got a major problem.!

used mine to set rafters on the greenhouse,--course had to cheat and bolt an angle iron to the side of the bucket! lol! I just used the tooth holes and drilled the angle iron the same hole size. Bolted it on with the tooth bolts. I HAD to take the teeth off to get the bucket to dump dirt anyway...

My neighbor gets the rr sweetcorn seed and plants his side of the river then drives over and plants my plot. We found the kind he gets to be WAY better than regular kinds. Not all rr sweet corn varieties are good. Not sure what he gets but in the past we found Wyffles corn to be the best on the...

I use what works for me! Everybody has their own opinions.

herbicides target only certain weeds! Gotta get the right stuff for gardens as NOT just anything will work!

Pre- emerge does NOT prevent veggies from sprouting! I spray half dose after I till and lightly incorporate it in then plant. I have used Me-Too for all the years its been out. It can be applied a couple weeks before you plant but dont till more than 2" deep before you plant or you mess up the...

grab the 4" angle grinder and get rid of that crap between the cutters!!! Thats the first thing I do when I run into one of these stupid design chains!

take plugs out, dump a bit of gas in the cylinders, put plugs back in and start it! It gotta be primed to get it to start suckin gas on its own. Got 420's here the same way.

ALL diesels and automatic transmissions are JUNK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

all plastic does is harbor bugs/worms under it and the ground gets/stays slimy cause air/light cant get under it! -- Its the WORST stuff on planet earth for gardens! It kills the soil! ONLY way to keep weeds out is a good pre-emerge herbicide early and a LOT of hand weeding during growing...

The greenhouse I am building will have twin wall 1/4" thick sheets that are 6' x 12' and I will cut them so I have 6' with a 1' bottom board giving 7' ground to truss height. 12' wide and 24' long. I bought a bunch of leftover stuff from a commercial greenhouse that sold out and thats what they...

I use a KK 72" for first 2 passes in the spring then after planting I use Horse's and Tuffys to cultivate with Have 14 Horses now. Plus 6 other various sizes/brands.

I just want the tractor to run my 72" 3 - pt. tiller with. Get rid of every pound possible to run light and not pack the ground. The loader and the top and whatever else I can take off goes! Loader will sell , top and front frame around the grille might, if not I can always bury it.

I tried every parts yard and every dealer on the internet and there are NO reverse idler shafts left on planet earth cause the 310's ate all of them a long time ago! LOL !! This was a design flaw and Case went ahead with it anyway and it will never hold! The 2 tiny roller bearings inside the...

Just bought this one for junk but going to try to get it running first. Its got major problems,---been sitting for 10 years or more out in the weeds. The loader is a 2050-A and is in good condition but I dont do tractor loaders, ( useless to me since I only use skidders here), so the loader will...

I have 2 580ck's both 1968 one direct drive the other is fluid drive. Great machines!

I have my 310-G TOTALLY apart to put a reverse idler shaft in it. NO shafts left on planet earth and 310's ate them for lunch! SO now I gotta make a substitute shaft somehow. In answer to your question yes the shifter comes out the side BUT to do much on the transmission you have to totally...

Around 20 hours on mine and I only set the tracks when I got it running and didnt touch them since. They are holding for now but its only a matter of time til they start leaking grease and tracks fall off.

They get water and dirt in them and rust shut making them useless!

Ya, that be Moose! ALL earlier crawlers had manual spring tensioners on them. Later they went to the grease crap that never worked!

I would like to find spare tracks for $100!! lol! I have been over some nasty stuff with mine and they are fine so far. On the track subject, I dont care for the grease type tightners! I will down the road convert them to rod/spring/nut manual tensioners. Have the hyd. ones on my IH 250-c...

best value (my opinion) is the L-12 after using mine quite a bit and looking the other models over.

Seat belt???? no got one !!! LOL!! Seriously, --- Also you have to watch which model you end up with! L-12 is the best, cause the back raises up and you can get to the gas tank, check oil, pull the recoil to start motor, remove motor, ( I had to), and in general reach most stuff in there. H-12...

On my L-12, you cant back up the ramps!---- hyd. dies! -- GOTTA drive up with boom WAY out front! Course I am hauling mine on a high profile dump trailer! LOL! --- just gotta idle the motor as slow as possible to keep from killing it and brace your elbows solid on your knees and carefully work...

I was going to bolt on a blade extension but didnt like the overlap. Mine is the L-12 and I cant get fittings to install my variable flow control to slow the hyd. down so it dont throw you off the seat every time you touch a lever. Mine has the fan/oil cooler setup too. I found out the hyd. will...

No, I am just going to make the one on it 2 or 3 times as thick. I dont use it that much and most of the time its in the junkpile! Damn thing is in the way when digging. Also have decided to weld a 6" high extension to the blade. It will never hit anything the way I use the digger.

put my mini to bed for the winter today! Gotta make some teeth for it this winter, rebuild the thingy that sticks down in front of the bucket in the way, AND install my adjustable flow control in the hyd. system! Other than that I am satisfied with it,--- oh and rewire the damn hour meter so...

Tomatoes here are WEEDS! LOL! They take over everything! Have not planted any plants for 10 years! We just transplant volunteer plants to a row and till/hoe out the rest! We have several kinds and all do well for us. As for greenhouse,--cant answer that one, (yet)! Plan on building a small one...

WELCOME !! Time to do a garden thread for 2024! Post what you would like to do this year. Varieties, equipment, garden size , etc. and yes pots, barrels, and raised beds qualify as gardens here.

Sposed to have been a NEW machine, BUT motor was junk when I got it,---had been used for something BEFORE it got put on the digger,--intake valve was burned full of crap and stuck open, carb was rusted shut, etc. ----meter showed 4 hours on it, course I left the master on and now shows 33! lol...

Ya its the L- 12. Bent both outer teeth about 45 degrees down from where they s'posed to be. Dont do any good to straighten them,---they wont hold. I am not pulling that hard on them either,---engine at fast idle is all I run the motor.

dug out some honeysuckle bushes and bent another outer tooth! Damn teeth are junk on these things!

Ya, the old IH 250-c dont sway under load for sure! My friend that hauled it home got scaled by DOT on the way home and it weighed in at 60,000 pounds. Our permit was only for 92,000 and his semi was 36,000 so we were over a bit BUT they did let us go since we were only going 7 miles with it! (...

stay away from lectric crap! LOL!

Mount it on a 3-pt. platform and junk the trailer! Would make it much handier!

pto shaft is SUPER easy to bend if you get it in a bind. Run mower level and go slow, should be ok. Dont crowd things!!

gonna buy a couple for parts machines soon! Price drops another $100 and deal is on!

Dont want longer arms! ---that would defeat the purpose. Gotta have the blade taller to hold more dirt to hold the digger from sliding in the hole. I am NOT bulldozing with it! A 6" plate on top of the blade is just right and NO it wont hit anything! I NEVER turn more than 90* with it

The blade is out front and drove into the ground when diggin so shouldnt hit,---gotta check. Mine pushes dirt over the blade when I try to dig. got blade stuck almost full cyl. stroke in the ground and still drags me off in the hole. Backfill, grading loading on the truck, going to dig areas...

After taking the motor apart and cleaning everything out, ground the valves, cleaned the burned crap out of the ports in the head, drained the gas out of the crankcase and out of the tank, got the crud out of the carb, --finally got it runnin, THEN bent one of the outer teeth diggin horseradish...

Nothing has gone over mine since I put it up 10 years ago.

Yes I do a 4.5 acre garden. Donate all but a small amount to the Midwest Food Bank.

I just bought a Lifan 7,000 watt generator AND the motor looks exactly like the one in the L-12. I think they just make one motor at the factory and stick whatever name on them that you want.--- including the ones hf sells, so IF its chimineese, it came from the same factory. Just my .002!

YA!! Its the B&S clone! or fake or whatever you want to call it! chimineese built copy! --- seams to be a good motor now that I took it apart and went thru it puttin **** where it was s'posed to be and a good clean out of everything. Cant put parts in right if your eyes are not straight! lol...

I am waitin til they get down to 2,500,---then I will buy a couple more for parts machines. --- Cant build one for that!

The first things I had to do was get rid of that pos iron hanging in front of the bucket,---it went in the junkpile,---- next was to take them bottom blobs off iron off the bucket before it would even attempt to dig. bucket filled but wouldnt dump at all till I took them off. next thing is the...

my L-12 was 4,000 auction buy,--the rest went for 5,800 to 6,200. everybody knew sumpin about mine that I didnt. Still doin modifications to the POS since I own it. Contacted everybody about it and the motor and they all act dumb and say your problem! Gotta put flow controls in the hyd. system...

This is how I put my 60' x 120' shed up. Moose Building Shed by sonny reese, on Flickr

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Jermoos seamed to be in Madison, Wisc. at the time.

Moving is NOT an option plus south gets bad weather too nowdays! lol!

exactly my point! They are TOYS! For REAL work ya gotta go big! and I only use blowers here. Snow drifts here get deep,-- like 6 feet or more and the full length of my half mile drive! Bring that cub and clean that out for me! LOL!

Anybody ever hear of them??? The other tag is worn off so I cant see what it has on it. It has a 3-pt of sorts on it, 6' single auger with thrower paddles in the center, no second stage on it. Will get a couple pics next time I am out there.

I despise snow and winter!!!!

my 4.5 acre garden is fenced with standard woven wire,---had to do that to keep coyotes out,--- they destroyed the sweetcorn one year. deer dont jump the fence, too lazy I guess. ---got lucky on that.

you will find it useless in snow! a inch or two works BUT for REAL snow it gotta be a blower! Got cubs here so I know how useless they are.! lol!

Dont remember seeing that in there,---been 5 years since I was in it. This one dont have power steering either. The guy I bought it from said when he saw the tractor wouldnt steer, he knew it was an expensive fix and wasnt going to mess with it. I used it for a year, mostly just to lift stuff...

SCAM!!!!!!!!!! Just like the $99. Sthil 880 chainsaw ads!

Turf tires are a joke!!!! NO traction at all AND they have the same carcuss as bar tread tires do! Go with bar design that has bars close together OR long bar short bar and never look back. I use long bar short bar on every tractor I put new tires on.

It could be rewound at a motor repair shop most likely BUT the cost would be more than a new grinder. I have a nice old 9 inch jobber and thats what I ran into so its under the bench in the junk