Have a YTH22v46 and wanting to get a bagger - mainly used for leaf cleanup in the fall. Looks like most have switched to mesh bags but like our old craftsman hard bins (it's a much older machine and not keeping it. And have read that a lot of people like the solid bins. Found a hard bin...
Thinking some forks would be really handy for unloading occasional deliveries. Kubota L3600 loader load limit is something like 800 lbs as I recall and with forks out farther should probably limit to about 500 so 1000 lb forks should be good. Have hear the stabilizer bar is a good thing to...
Needing to put a small culvert under a drive and don't have a lot of depth to work with. I am going to try for 8" of cover. It's a private drive but for construction will have some concrete trucks on it. Any idea if PVC sch 40 or double wall HDPE is stronger? Any suggestions on bedding...
Located near St. Louis and needing to extend a spur off a gravel drive for a new detached garage/shop. Planning 10' wide and run is about 200'. Soil has a fair amount of clay. Current drive is CA6 which is common around here. Think it is basically 3/4 minus crushed limestone. Current drive...
Putting in a gravel road to a detached garage/shop and need to drain about 3000 sq ft that has a small swale currently. Don't have much depth although the slope is at least 2% I think. I did some quick calculations based on this table...
I ordered replacement spindles (not OEM) for my Husqvarna riding mower and the new spindles have a grease fitting on the top. Old ones didn't. This is a homeowner level machine. They look like sealed bearings so I am wondering about greasing. I suppose the inner seal may be missing but no...
Have a craftsman riding mower with Briggs engine 31P777-0348-E1. Parts book says head is 796026. When I got it the fins are about 1/2" longer on the exhaust side so the cooling shroud doesn't fit. What's the deal? I ran across several reviews that say its bigger. One person even trimmed the...
Helping a friend with some mowing with his tractor and a batwing mower. Was running ok. When I tried to start it up again the whole panel was dead - no lights, gauges, no clicks, nothing. I found a loose battery terminal and tightened it. Still nothing. They jumped the starter contactor and...
Model 917.273640
The transmission started what I will call slipping. It didn't start moving right away when moving the shift lever forward or reverse. No whining or other unusual noises. I had replaced the fluid on an earlier craftsman mower with good results so figured I would do the same...
I have two different gravel roads:
The main one from the house gets moderate use. About 600 feet long. No big base under it that I remember (should have at the time it was put in about 10 years ago...). There were a few soft spots but more gravel firmed them up. I have a bit of weeds and...
I am looking at driving a motor for a sickle bar that is rated at 4 gpm from my L3600. Rated flow for the tractor is 8 GPM. I have a Kubota loader and 1 factory valve in the back for 3 pt. tilt.
Basically have two questions:
How do I tap into the hydraulics to run the valves for lift...
Not sure it this should go under Kubota or Lawn care but anyway... I have about 3 acres of lawn near the house. Have mowed it with a 42" craftsman for quite a few years. Wife does much of it. Also have a back field of about the same size that I just brush hog a time or two a year and mow a...
I see a few small (about 48") brush hog mowers intended to be pulled with ATV on craigs list for around $200 - $400. Thinking this would be a good start for a boom mower. These are the type with swinging blades so hitting the occasional stump, etc wouldn't be a problem. Ones I am currently...
The snow is almost all gone now. Had a warm weekend of about 50 Sat and 60 today. Here are a couple views of the frame. The uprights fit snugly between a round tube at the top of the bucket and the bottom so the up and down movement is limited. The side frames are the width of the bucket so...
I have about a 600 ft gravel drive and a more than usual 10" snow. Usually don't get this much at one time and have done the needed very little snow removal with the FEL but it takes a lot of time and I end up with some gravel in the grass, etc.. With below zero temps I wanted to limit time...
I have a stump that was about a 30" elm. I tried to pull it over with some cable and blocks tied about 30 ft. up but it wouldn't budge so I cut it off and burned it. The tree had been dead about 5 years but still pretty solid. I still need to get the stump out. Wondering if this method would...
I need to put a small culvert (8 - 12 inches) under a single lane, private, gravel road. I have seen 12" minimum burial depth to top of culvert recommended a number of places for good protection from crushing. That would put the bottom of the inlet at 24" below the road. Due to several...
I have several sections of 1/2" cable I use to pull down trees, etc. I do a Molly Hogan (aka Flemish Eye) and put one cable clamp on the tail. Works great and if the clamp is checked for tightness from time to time they are almost as strong as the cable itself. My question is what to do about...
People seem to like pictures of projects so here are a few...
Taking down a few trees prior to making a ditch along road. I used some blocks and 1/2" cable with lots of height on attachment to the trees and still had some trouble getting them out. Tractor is Kubota L3600. Pulling them over...
I have read quite a bit about this and there seems to be lot's of different opinions... Looking for advice.
I have a gravel road to a back field that gets little use but I would like an all season road to it. The road has good drainage (actually will have shortly). It has 2" base rock and...
Want to cut a shallow ditch along a road and thinking I could do it with my FEL. (Kubota 3600) Ground slopes up from the road on one side . Road itself is practically level. I am thinking if I cut out at the start (should be easy as it is more level there) and run the tractor with one wheel...
I have about a 20 year old craftsman mower that has started leaking gas out the air filter. Haven't done much but change oil and sharpen blade up to this point - has been very reliable but I can't get this leak to stop. Figured a new needle and seat would fix it but put them in and it still...
Have been getting very short life out of belts. Don't think it is the belts themselves. They seem to be going off the pulleys and getting torn up - not sure which happens first. I have replaced a few noisy bearings but don't think that is the real problem. I am hesitant to put it together to...
I have a few acres of grass that I put in a conservation plan (less taxes). The plan just calls for elimination of invasive plants (like tree of heaven). I haven't mowed it yet this year except for a path near the edge. Had some turkeys nesting in it earlier in the year and deer, etc...
I recently picked up 150' of 1/2" cable on CL for working in the woods - pulling stumps, logs, etc. Cut it into a long and a short section and put eyes in the end (molly hogan and a cable clamp). Used it with two blocks on some stumps and the 3X pull did the trick - 2x with one block wasn't...
I ran across an old sewer bucket machine cheap and am wondering if this might make a decent logging winch for small to medium logs. I haven't been able to find out much about them in the way of specs but here is a bit of what I know:
On small 2 wheel trailer. About 300 ft of 1/2" cable. I...
I found what I thought was a good deal on a 4" x 24" cylinder for a log splitter. But the rod is 1.5" Have heard of a few problems bending the rod but not sure how likely this is to be a problem. Should I be worried about this and go for 2"? Planned to run this at 2250 PSI from tractor...
I have a log splitter, or at least parts of one that I want to fix up. My plan was to run it off the tractor hydraulics - about 8 GPM. I split about 5 cords a year and figured it wouldn't be that much time on the tractor.
The existing push plate is 1/2" plate and pretty bent up. And the...
I have a Kubota L3600 with Ag tires. Wife complains about the tires on the lawn but have resisted changing them. I try to avoid running it on the grass right around the house when the ground is soft.
I use the tractor for brush hogging, a little pulling of small stumps and some FEL work...
I have a few tractor paths in the woods. Am considering putting some chips (can get lots delivered for free from power company right of way clearing) down to keep the weeds down. Some of them are on fairly steep hills but no concentrated water running across. Is this a good idea or will the...
I have a 5" cylinder on a log splitter that I planned to run from my tractor (about 8 gpm as I remember). I am thinking I would be better off going to a 3.5" or 4". I don't have to be able to split EVERYTHING. If I have to toss a really tough one aside now and then I think that would be...
I picked up an old log splitter - need to add a valve and planned to run it off tractor hydraulics. It shows signs of leaks around the rod end. I used an air compressor to cycle the cylinder and didn't see/hear any leaks (but the pressure was only up to about 100 PSI tops) but heard some...
I would like to add a cross blade to the end of my splitter wedge as I have quite a lot of big wood to split. The cross blade seems like a really good way to go as I will be using tongs and a lift. I figure I should put the leading edge of the cross blade an inch or two forward of the vertical...
I have several projects that a winch would be useful for. Pulling logs up steep hills and such. With the pulls being long I think hydraulic is the way to go. I ran across someone with several used 8000 lb hyd. winches. One supposedly has a new(er?) motor. What sort of things should I be...
I have a very small seasonal (Usually flows until August depending on the weather) creek on my property. I am hoping to use this for irrigation of a garden and plants around the house. Couple of issues. The creek is about 80 ft below the house. Pipe/Wiring run will be about 300 ft. One...
I have some steep hills that are wooded. Too steep for the tractor and prone to erosion. I have a number of 12" diameter and under dead trees, some a bit bigger that I want to use for firewood. How to get them up to the top without tearing up the hillsides, the tractor or both? Then I saw an...
Had my tractor out in the morning and started it several times. No problem. Went to start it later and just got a very brief noise. Sounded sort of like a bad connection arcing. Now nothing on the instrument panel - no lights, no clicking, nothing. Checked shift levers, etc but I don't...
After reading a number of posts here I thought a chain harrow would work well on a lawn improvement project. I have a couple acres that we had cut and filled to level and hydroseeded last fall. We were very disappointed with the hydroseeder - despite his talk the coverage was not even. He...
I am in the middle of some serious land regrading of about two acres. I had a scraper come in and cut down a hill and fill in a low spot on the other side of our driveway. The soil is some very heavy clay and some silty soil called "loess" (Mississippi River bluffs). We don't have great top...
Went to the Sears store with the belt number for the drive wheels for my riding mower ( Belt #161588). Was told they couldn't look up a cross based on that number and that I needed the tractor model number. Went back and was given a different number. It was too short to work properly. They...
I have a Kubota L3600 with low hours I got recently. A friend has offered to loan me a log splitter he has with his small JD tractor that runs off the tractor hydraulics. I have lots of wood to split but am a bit hesitant because his splitter hasn't been used for a year or two, might have crud...