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I can't seem to cross reference that HIFI T501 filter. It doesn't look like that brand is available in the US. I've been using NAPA hydraulic filters on my Cub Cadet lawn tractor for as long as I can remember without a problem. And I use 15w-40 HD motor oil in the transaxle despite CC warning...

Looks like the handlebar turning release cable is the one you have to worry about the most. I would get a piece of automotive fuel line, slit it lengthwise, and slip it on that cable to protect it. Fuel line can stand a lot of heat. Then try to get a little fiberglass insulation in there too...

That is a very nice design with the two way cutting action. And the electric motor option would be the way to go for me.

Looks like the plate sheared on the left side and the weld started to crack on the right Jens. Did you take the assembly off or did your neighbor weld it on the tractor?

That would probably work. And even better putting plastic over the fuel cap to completely seal the fuel from the atmosphere. Just being exposed to atmosphere gas is going to absorb moisture because the ethanol is hydroscopic, and evaporate off the most volatile compounds over time. Most of my...

My experience is that with any engine, OPE or auto, if they don't get regular use they're going to screw up. I don't know about the chemistry but the fuel goes bad one way or another. The only way I've found to avoid taking carbs apart and cleaning them out is to completely drain the fuel...

I would not pay even close for a stand alone unit. Because you're now going to have another engine to take care of. And store.

A 3" sapling isn't any sapling, that's a small tree. And that mower isn't going to bend a 3" tree over and cut it off.

I have not used one or heard any reports. I have thought about it though. I'm sure, like all BCS equipment, it's high quality. But after you add in the power cradle it's $3750. That's probably 2 or 3 times a stand alone unit. Seems like a lot.

For about 50% more you can get a BCS two wheel tractor and bush hog to go on it. Brush Mower - BCS America Then you have the two wheel tractor that will run any of the dozens of other implements from BCS. Very High quality. I have the bush hog and a sickle bar mower that will happily munch down...

Yea, I don't think any environmental regulations kicked in until the 1970's. The surface of rivers in industrial areas were known to catch fire. The dielectric oil back then used to contain PCB's. That's why all seafood today is contaminated with PCB's, mercury and dioxins.

My friend just bought an old glass factory in Philadelphia outside of center city. PECO came to hook up the power and gave him a Scott transformer that supplied 1200V 2-phase to his building. Inside the building were huge old 2-phase step down transformers. The transformers had boiler drains to...

That's a small trailer. Get a trailer swivel jack and mount it on the trailer. If the wheel isn't big enough to roll over your terrain mount a bigger pneumatic tire on the jack. Then make up a ball hitch to bolt to the tractor. So the trailer is now three wheeled and the tractor just pulls it...

You could have heated one, the other, or both red hot and turned it with a vice grip. Once it moves let it cool, put some penetrating oil on and it will spin out. By just heating the stud you risk it getting too soft and twisting off. Just polish the stainless after you're done. No problem...

Yes, linseed oil is excellent for both wood and metal. The boiled dries much faster. In my experience, petroleum products just wash off. Plant oils oxidize and eventually form a hard coating. Motor oils and the like are specifically made to not oxidize. They will never harden. Old paints were...

I would say that, depending on the price, you missed out. You can't mow fast with a sickle bar. It would end up pushing the material over instead of cutting it. Steering brakes are not necessary either. If you want it for a sickle bar, the 732 would be fine.

I have a 2009 2544. As far as I can tell, the only difference was the deck and the sticker they put on the tractor. Try it. You have nothing to lose compared to the price of new lawn tractors.

Fill-Rite https://www.fillrite.com/fort-wayne-products/hand-operated-pumps

"recently came back from being serviced" Check the level of the hydraulic fluid. If it's low the hydraulic clutch won't work properly. Look at where the clutch cable attaches at the machine. Visually verify that it's freely and completely engaging and disengaging that mechanism.

I have a 2009 CC 2544 with a 23hp command engine, shaft drive to transaxle, electric pto clutch. It has the automotive type starter. Had the occasional click and no crank last year. Took the starter apart, cleaned it out, put a little silicon grease on the Bendix and pinion, and it's been...

Looks like Lucas Extra Heavy Duty polyurea based is back on the shelves at Walmart. I just bought some a couple weeks ago. I use the Red 'n tacky lithium based for just about every zerk fitting except mower spindles and my disk harrow which sits outside. Auto and truck wheel bearings get...

I was driving on the freeway in NY. There was a tractor trailer with a dump body carrying stone in front of me with an untarped load. Stone was spilling out and one chipped my windshield. Almost immediately I saw a state police car parked in the medial strip. I pulled off the road, got out of my...

Greetings Delcho, I can't remember his name now but there was a guy on this forum years ago who was a BCS dealer. He posted a video of him chipping up some brush with his BCS chipper. It looked like the limiting factor was the horse power of the machine. It didn't look like the machine would...

Seems like it would work better if you took the cover off the front of the mower Jens. Looks like it's pushing the grass over. It's simply two small bush hogs. No lift on the blades.

This statement doesn't make any sense.

I don't know about hydraulic cylinders in particular. But I have used white lithium grease in automotive applications all my life. And I've lived in the salt sates of the northeast. It is the only wipe on/spray on coating that provides rust protection against salt. It doesn't wash off ever...

Joecoin, Do you have a link for the Aldo Biagioli cultivator? Where did you get it? I have about 2000 square foot garden and need some power cultivation. Nibbana

Jens, I do think that piece of metal I found was probably the corner of a gear tooth. Thinking about it, when I first got the tractor I didn't know how to properly engage the pto and would sometimes try to "feather" it in with the clutch. (Have since learned the correct way from Earthtools...

Jens, I changed the gear oil on my 739 last fall. I never did get an hour meter so don't know how many hours. But I think I remember changing it and the filter not too long after I bought the thing and thought it was probably time again. I had an empty filter box on the shelf that I kept for the...

I though about hiring it out and I thought about just renting a loader. If I could get it done in a week (40 meter hours) it would probably run about $1500 for a rental including delivery. That's for a mini backhoe or a small skidsteer. My experience with hiring anything out around here is not...

Greetings Tractor men. I have some areas in my yard where the ground has settled over the years and tree roots are coming up. It's gotten to the point where I can't mow over them with my CC lawn tractor. Some large roots sticking up maybe 3 inches or so. I have a nice property and nice...

For automotive, mining and construction the oil bath filters used to be the gold standard for dusty conditions. This was a half century ago. I'm sure things have changed. I had a 1967 International Scout that had an oil bath air filter.

Here's a thread I started on the subject. There's a picture of the engine cover I made. https://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/threads/bcs-snowblower-review.373951/

You're governor is freezing up. I had the exact same problem on my 739. It's below freezing but there's a lot of wet snow flying all over everything. The water lays on top of the engine between the tank and the air cleaner/muffler and freezes. That's right where the governor is. It freezes the...

A solenoid is just a high current switch. Sometimes will click if they start to get sticky but generally work or don't. A coil produces a magnetic field which forces them to bridge contacts to complete the circuit that engages the starter. The old ones, you could take them apart and look at...

The reason why I use it is because it's one of the fluids that BCS lists as acceptable. And the only one that was available nearby.

I'm not aware of any spec's available for that. CC is making a lot of money off this stuff and isn't about to help you with aftermarket options that are going to be a fraction of the price. I think I read on this board years ago that Hydrogear made the transaxles and said they spec'ed 5-40 or...

I've been using 15-40 motor oil in my 2544 transaxle for about 5 years now and it's working good. (Just to save money from having to use the expensive CC oil.) I use Traveller Universal Tractor Hydraulic/Transmission fluid in my BCS two wheel tractor. I'm thinking this would be good for the CC...

That's interesting Jens. I'm sure you're right that they aren't producing two different sets of products for different markets. The only things I made that required accurate measurements of the BCS equipment were a blank male quick hitch and the wheel accessories. It's really impossible for me...

Good post Jens. I could have sworn the hubs did not fit over the drums. I remember checking that. But your pictures don't lie and I've been wrong before. I agree though that in that position it would make the wheels too close and probably contact the controls. I fooled around with this before...

I have to tune all of mine occasionally. Husq chainsaw and hedge cutter, and Echo trimmer. I tune them by ear. I don't recall ever having to tune that old Lawn Boy mower though. All I remember ever doing to it was cleaning the air cleaner and reoiling it.

What are people running as their gas/oil mixture ratio in small two stroke engines? When I was a kid back in the 1970's I used to mow a lot of neighborhood lawns. My dad bought me a Lawn Boy commercial mower. It was a 22" push mower with steel, ball bearing wheels and a cast aluminum deck. One...

I completely agree Jens. It doesn't make any sense whatsoever. Quite insane. !00mm or 4" would work equally well for me but they're not either. The number is 3 11/16 inches plus or minus a few tenths of a millimeter at most. I've made a number of accessories at that dimension and all fit...

This was dumping a whole tank of oil overnight. According to YT, it's a common problem with Husqvarna where the oil tube slips off. There's some good videos for the fix but for me this was a brand new saw. Dealer kept it for a long time and said he couldn't find a problem. But the saw never...

Thanks for the replies. Just to clarify a couple things. All chainsaws may or may not leak oil. None of them should be dumping a tank of oil overnight. I've had a number of saws and none of them leaked very much oil if any except that for new 445, which after spending a couple months at the...

I have a Husqvarna 445 X-TORQ with 16" and 20" bars. First day I brought it home and used it I left it in the shed overnight. The next morning there was a pool of oil under the saw. Happened a couple more times so I returned it to the dealer. He kept it about 2 months, returned it to me and said...

Thanks Jens, Yes. I was specifically thinking about the chains for soil working. I could easily fit the duals behind my plow but I don't think it would be any advantage over singles with the chains because the ground is frozen solid for snow moving and floatation isn't an issue. Sorry, I do...

That's really amazing Jens that you were able to get everything as narrow as 31". With my dual set the width I have is 34". And I'm using 2 sets of 5x10x20 tires. I intentionally left 1" space between the tires so that I could mount chains on both sets if I wanted to. I did the whole dual setup...

It looks like you have the factory wheel weights there too Jens. That's a nice set up. I don't think you could get any more traction than that. Unless you have the foam filled tires. With all my weights, I have 230lbs additional to my 739. I think the whole thing tips the scales at a little over...

BCS has spike wheels available now too. But, you're going to pay. $850 for the whole machine? You can't get a single BCS attachment for that.

This is exactly why I bought a BCS two wheel tractor.

That looks pretty awesome. Are these available now in the US? It seems like two wheel tractors are used more in the developing world for farming. BCS also has steel wheels available. I thought about that for gardening but would not want to run them over the lawn so would have to be continually...

Am I looking at an Ariens? What model? I'm thinking about getting one of these. I need a tracked snowblower because all my land is unpaved. They have 3 different models. 2 are fuel injected. How long have you had it? Any issues? I'm still running a 2003 TroyBilt stormtracker.

She doesn't have a smartphone. She doesn't want one. She has a trakphone for emergencies but that's it. She doesn't want to be connected to the internet all the time. Neither do I. I don't have any type of mobile phone at all and don't even know how to use one. The last dinosaur on the face of...

That was some good information. Especially about the GoPro. A lot of this doesn't mean anything to me though. I'm not a tech person and I don't know anything about photography or video. I have a Canon powershot A2300 which was less than $100 and takes pretty crappy photos but that's what I use...

Greetings, I want to get my wife a video camera as a gift. She likes to film the dogs, wildlife, outdoor activities, etc which she now does with her laptop. Have heard good things about both Sony and GoPro. Any recommendations? Thanks. Nibbana

Found a pair of used BCS 739 wheels on the used market and made up some wheel spacers. Was having some trouble getting stuck while pulling my disk harrow in the mud. The duals made the difference and I didn't get stuck but waited way too long to get the weeds chopped up. Mud was packed in the...

In New England, the only thing I'm aware of that would inhibit plant growth is black walnut husks. So probably not a problem. I did find a local source for bith reasonably priced chip and mulch hay on craigslist. Rodents will always be a problem and is why I'd prefer a good cultivator. My dogs...

I used pine bark on the asparagus a number of years ago. It worked pretty good but is now depleted. Maybe I'll try wood chips this year.

I wrapped with 1/4 hardware cloth and left it on in the spring. Huge mistake. A bunch of grass clippings, leaves and organic debris got in there and started rotting the tree trunk. Killed one of my trees and damaged another. Now I make sure to get them off after the snow melts.

I don't have near enough free/cheap mulch do make a dent in my 30x60 garden. I don't collect grass clippings and I don't pile leaves. I did mulch my squash with hay a couple years. One year I didn't put enough down and it was ineffective. The other, I used a lot of hay and it was very, very...

How big is your garden and what are you mulching with? I put 4 foot wide weed barrier cloth down on each side of my squash a few years ago. 60 foot rows. It worked very good but I had to put heavy logs every 10 feet in order to keep the wind from blowing it away. And rats got under there to...

This is it. https://www.bcsamerica.com/product/v-cultivator It uses spring tines which I assume flex enough so the cultivator isn't going to steer the tractor. That's what I'm worried about. if I'm cultivating close next to crops, I don't want the tractor being pushed around by the cultivator.

Greetings, Does anybody have any experience with the BCS cultivator? I see that Earth Tools has one also but too big for my 739. The BCS is a spring tine type so hopefully not too hard to control but I'm a little worried that it doesn't have any guide wheels. Any ideas? The weeds are getting...

Thanks Jens. He says the measurement is 100mm. That's for a BCS 942 (?) which I'm not sure is the same or not. I went out and tried to accurately measure the weight hangers I made. It looks like I used 7/16 inch (11.1125 mm) holes and a bolt circle diameter of 3 11/16 inches (93.6625 mm). They...

Greetings Tractor Men, I want to make some wheel extensions for my BCS 739. I made some barbell weight hangers a long time ago but can't remember the wheel bolt circle diameter. I think I remember it being in one of my many manuals. Would take some searching. I could also do some measuring, but...

Here's a transport wheel I made for my 739 that is a lot nicer than just a stand because you can drive the tractor with it in the down position. It pivots up for when you don't need it. Had to remove the plastic BCS cover. Used half pieces of pipe to mate up to the BCS frame tubing. Clamped...

More often than not, and always if I'm near a building, I climb up as high as I can on a 24' extension ladder. Tie off with 2 90' ropes and tie them to 2 come alongs. Then take up the slack. Then I cut the notch and a heavy hinge. Then pull it over. Cut down 25 90' spruces that were very close...

I've owned a Pioneer, McCullock and Homelite in the past. Always greased the sprockets and never had a problem. I bought the Husq 445 new five or ten years ago. It came with a 16" bar with greaseable sprocket tip. I usually grease it every day. I was cutting up a tree in January and forgot to...

Greetings. I bought a new 20" Husq bar and chain for my 445 at Tractor Supply. Every other sprocket tip bar I've had for any chainsaw has had a small hole to lube the tip with grease. This new Husq bar doesn't have any hole. How do I lube this thing? Any ideas? Thanks. Nibbana

I don't have city water or sewer. When I first installed the sump pump it cycled a lot. I got a lower power pump and dug the sump about six inches deeper and that solved the cycling problem. Now, depending on how much water is in the ground, it can run for 5 or 10 minutes straight. It's only a...

Yea, after reading the reviews, it doesn't look like the third would be a good choice for sump pump application. Several people said it needed to be reset if the battery drained down and wouldn't work until reset even if the power came back on. Also lower power output and battery capacity...

Greetings. We live in an area that has frequent power outages. We have come to expect to lose power with just about any rain/wind event. Following the rain the sump pump is going to be cycling or I get water in the basement. I have a generator that runs the whole house but is a bit of effort to...

Sometimes the cables bind when changing handlebar directions. Move them back and forth as you change the direction. Examine the cables.

The BCS has a mount under the tiller hood for a transport wheel. EarthTools sells, and I made adjustable height wheels to fit that mount. It didn't work all that well for me. If I used it for cultivation, it would leave the wheel furrows and replant weeds. If I wanted to plant, it would be...

Yes, I should have said that those wheels replant weeds if you're cultivating. Just like the roller. I have a quick connect hitch on there that I think gives a little more space. And I have the wheels set at the widest setting. You could fit something in a tighter setup but you'd have to use...

I think that is 10 gauge steel cmyoug2. About 0.135 plus a thick coat of tractor supply tractor and implement oil based enamel. It's very heavy steel. I'm sure it will outlast me. It doesn't take many big heavy rocks for this to really pay off. I could never have even attempted to move that load...

Here are two tiller depth accessories I made for my tiller. They are made to be used separately. The first picture shows the depth roller I made. I copied the idea from BCS and Earth Tools. The roller is a piece of plastic pipe. I removed the rubber tire and cut down some heavy aluminum caster...

I tried to copy some of the designs I saw in the forum here. Worked out very well and does carry a heavy load. The latch mechanism uses a stainless steel exhaust spring off my, now deceased, 1996 Geo Metro. I tried to balance the load about 60% behind the dump pivot to keep the weight on the...

That was really interesting otsegony. Makes me feel a little better about how much money I've spent on BCS products. Maybe not so much after all. And at least you're getting some very high quality product.

If you don't have experience with a dealer who has proven their knowledge, skills and ability to set up BCS equipment, my advice would be to instruct your dealer to keep the equipment in it original factory shipping container and do not remove it. Take delivery in the original shipping box and...

Does anybody know how far apart dual wheels should be? I want to mount dual wheels on my BCS two wheel tractor. It has very small 5 X 10 X 20 inch high Ag tires. BCS has a video on the setup and it looks like the tires are one or two centimeters apart at the closest point. They sell wheel...

Thanks Jens. After reading what you wrote I wish I had done the same thing and stepped up to bigger wheels in the beginning. They would probably buy me enough extra traction, clearance and flotation to get me through those difficult times in the spring when it's a little bit too muddy to pull...

No. But I just changed the oil in my 739 and think I have it a little overfilled. The fluid is so thin and clear that I find it impossible to see the level. Even touching it to a piece of paper is not very helpful because the fluid is so thin. How overfilled was yours?

It looks like you're running duals there Jens. I'd like to fit duals on my 739 because I have a little trouble running my disk harrow in the spring when the soil is muddy. I usually put manure down and plow it under as soon as I can in the spring. Then I have to disk it down to a relatively flat...

I can't imagine what it would take to break those shoulder bolts but I guess anything's possible. When I first bought mine years ago I replaced the rear rubber flap with a steel cover. Makes me feel a lot better after reading a few of these horror stories. Mower is standing upright with pto...

Wondering if anybody knows the answer to this. I am going to replace a toilet and want to get an American Standard Champion 4. They come in one piece and two piece models. I would like to get the one piece but was told by a plumber that (years ago) they didn't like the one piece toilets because...

I have a 28" troy bilt storm tracker snow blower with a 9.5hp tecumseh engine. It is 15 years old. I maintain it perfectly and treat all my 93 octane gas in OPE with Star Tron. Yearly oil changes with M1 5w-30. During recent use it has been dying under load. I completely disassembled the carb...

Went out to plow with the 739 this afternoon. It was 10 F. Had to pull the starter about 6-8 times to get the tractor started. Hadn't run it in about a month. Once running it seemed like it just never warmed up. Tended to stall when it came off idle from not being warm. If I ran it at higher...

Here's my super simple curved coupler. You can use it for any attachment that you want to pull from behind and ride on. Here's a disk harrow. And a wagon.

Here's a snow guard I made up to cover the motor. Made out of an old aluminum road sign I found laying down in the woods. Hope it works. It's not at all unusual for us to get 20-30 inches in a storm here. And I have a 400 foot driveway to clear so I'm out for a few hours at least. Had to do some...

Got a 28 inch blower for my BCS 739. I've used it twice. Here's my take. The Good: This thing really throws the snow a long way. Probably at least 3 times as far as my Troy-Bilt. The package is very powerful too. It will handle heavy roadside piles. It's also pretty cheap for a snowblower. And...

There are a lot of aftermarket PTO belts out there on ebay for a lot less than the $38 + shipping for the OEM from partstree. Pix, K-Force, A&I products, Stens, Rotary, etc. Does anybody have any experience with these? Are they worth buying or should I stick with OEM? Thanks.

I've been meaning to post this easy fix for what I consider to be an annoyance. On my 2008 2544 the Operator Presence Switch in the seat will shut off the PTO and kill the engine if the operator leaves the seat. The operator can leave the seat without killing the engine by simply setting the...

Jens, I finally got around to changing my gearbox lube/hydraulic oil. It looks just about the same as yours did. You use yours for mowing I assume, so more horsepower than what I usually am doing power wise. But still, entirely comparable. I remember changing oil on my Honda 450 back in the 70's...

Here's a light duty forklift I made for my two wheel tractor. This thing is really useful. http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/2-wheeled-tractors/351926-bcs-forklift.html

Here's a light duty forklift I made to go on the front of my BCS walk behind tractor. I specifically made this to go under a truck or trailer. And to lift narrow objects. But the wheels could be set all the way back like a conventional forklift. The design could be easily modified for other...

I finally got to try it out in the first snow of this unbelievably mild winter (so far). About six inches. It performed way better than I even hoped for. This thing really pushed some snow and was almost unstoppable. I rolled three passes to the same side adding more and more snow each pass, and...

I have an 11 year old Kenmore dishwasher (looks like it's made by Whirlpool) that cost $300 when new. The pump seal leaked and the motor bearing and shaft rotted. Otherwise the dishwasher looks in pretty good shape. I can get a new motor and pump assembly delivered for $160. A new dishwasher...

I have a set of old O/A regulators. My uncle gave them to me 45 years ago. He probably was either given them or had them for a long time before that. He said they were "Victor Gaugeless Regulators". They had no pressure gages but were engraved with a scale on the regulator body and had a...

Here's a snow plow rig I built up for my BCS 739. We get a lot of snow here in New England. I stopped counting at 115 inches last winter. I'm sure a walk behind tractor isn't going to plow 30 inches of snow, or 10 inches of heavy icy crust. But there are plenty of times we get 3,4, or 6 inches...

Greetings TBN welders. I am thinking about purchasing a new MIG. I want to try to keep it under $1500. Or there about. I usually weld steel 1/4 or less and would specifically want this for doing lighter stuff. I have a Lincoln 175 TIG and other arc welders for heavy steel. That said, it would...

I don't have a super great camera. So if you can't see what's going on, just go to Walmart or a bicycle shop and look at a bicycle brake. Or a motorcycle brake for that matter. It's very simple. It's just a cable pulling on the brake arm. If you just look at one, it will become transparent. Then...

Here is a very simple tool I made to separate the implements from my BCS tractor with the quick hitch. Although the BCS videos and website make it look very simple, I have found it to be almost impossible without using this tool. I don't usually have much trouble connecting the implements and...

Here's a disk harrow I rigged up for my BCS. I put in a new garden and needed something to level out the soil and cut up heavy chunks of sod. It's built off the small Brinly-Hardy disk harrow with eight disks. I originally just mounted a piece of pipe like Earth Tools to fit to my curved...

Here's a flatbed utility trailer I made for my BCS 739. Procured just about everything except some hardware and the lumber from John's Scrap Yard. Most of the load bearing structure is 1 inch schedule 80 (thick walled) steel pipe. It looks like the wheels are off the front of a cub cadet garden...

I found a Century 50A plasma cutter for sale locally. I haven't gone to see it yet but the seller says it is almost new. Asking $500. From web search, the company is out of business, bought out by Lincoln over a decade ago. A couple web sites seem to have parts. If it breaks, I'd probably be...

Here's a pullin' rig I made for my mule. Consists of a pull hook on the pto, 75lbs of weight on each wheel, and a transport wheel to support the motor end of the tractor. I used it to pull some heavy railroad ties out of the ground that had been soaking there for fifty years of so. This thing...

Greetings BCS Folks, I have a BCS 739 with a 26 inch tiller which I use to till 3000-4000 square feet of garden. I made a tiller depth adjustment wheel which works great for cultivating and working the plant material into the soil. But if there are high weeds or garden debris, the tiller turns...