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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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...