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I've got an old Farmall M with front mounted post pounder (An old Shaver - hydraulic up, spring powered down). The old Farmall has seen better days and is a royal pain to drive due to the questionable steering and extremely grabby clutch. As a winter project I want to convert the post pounder...

Just thought I'd share my bit of fun from this past weekend. My tractor (JD 990) has always smoked a bit when cold, probably more than some others because it has no glow plugs, just an intake preheater. In the past month or two, however, it had gotten much worse. Even given that it's getting...

I'm starting to think about getting some sort of mower for my tractor (40Hp JD990) but I'm not sure what style. I don't have any clearing of land to do per se, but there could be saplings an inch or so diameter occasionally. Mostly it's just field grasses and clover that have grown up a couple...

I'm going to build a quick attach mechanism for my neighbor's mid-70's JD ag tractor so he doesn't have to fight with lining up 4 separate pins and wrestling with his bucket and bale forks all the time. I figure it makes the most sense to build a standard skid-steer type quick attach adapter...

I just came across something called the "motor oil bible". It's a long (170ish pages) document describing everything you ever wanted to know about motor oil - what all the acronyms mean, how oil is produced, what the additives do and how, the mechanisms of oil breakdown, why it IS legit to...

There has been much discussion here lately about synthetic oils (all of it interesting) and it reminded me of something I heard once. That is that synthetic oils probably shouldn't be used in applications with wet clutches or brakes (those where the friction plates are immersed in oil). The...

In the thread “What can you expect from a plasma cutter”, sassafraspete commented on wanting a welding trailer. His description was almost exactly what I happened to have built for myself a couple years ago. Here are some pictures of it …. First picture is of the front. You can see the red...

There have been a couple of threads lately where someone has considered the 990 alongside the fancy hydro machines when shopping for a new tractor. Since there will always be someone struggling with a similar decision and I just crossed the 50 hour/first service interval with mine, I thought I...

How cold is considered \"cold\" for a diesel truck? My mom has a '95 GMC turbo diesel pickup with a '98 engine in it (long story - bad turbo on the '95, ate it's own oil, blew up). We've had the glow plugs checked and they are supposedly OK, and it has a brand new injection pump and was all...

The first project I was going to build when I got my tractor was a rear blade. As many of you may have noticed, it didn't turn out that way. Finally I have completed it and for those who might be interested, here is the story .... First shot is of some of the raw materials. The blade...

A friend has a Muratori 3pt tiller, model MAS 165 that I might be able to get pretty cheap. I've never heard of that brand and was wondering if they are any good. It is about 60" wide (maybe 65" hence model 165?) and seems pretty heavy duty, although I have no experience with 3pt tillers to...

I've seen a couple of pictures of what I think is usually called a shrub bucket. A narrow, pointed sort of bucket good for digging out small trees and shrubs, or maybe trenching. I wanted one, and a friend needs some help digging out some echinacea roots soon, so I built one. The backing...

Lights, Lights, Lights. Never enough on a tractor it seems, so I added more. This is the source of their power. I attached a fused, heavy gauge wire to the main battery cable post on the starter (orange wire). From here on I ran all the wires in that black wire protector stuff so it looks...

As some have noted in other threads, some tractors don't come with toolboxes these days. The 990 is one of those cases. I was wandering around Canadian Tire (sort of a cross between an AutoZone or PartSource and Walmart for those who haven't heard of it) and a simple little red toolbox caught...

Every so often I need to move our trailers around, for mowing and so on, and it is always a hassle. There are 2 flat decks, a horse trailer, and a holiday trailer, none of which is too easy to move by hand. Following the lead of some other TBN'ers and some commercial units, I built a 3pt hitch...

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We had a good lightning storm a couple weeks back. I set up my camera on a tripod, set it to a long exposure (30 seconds), and kept snapping pictures hoping to get lucky. Out of about 200 shots, I got lucky on one. Turned out pretty neat.

I just noticed, after a bunchloader work a couple days ago, that the left mast of my 430 loader is quite loose. You can see it moving around maybe 3/8" at the top of the mast while the right one is solid. On closer examination I found that there is almost a 1/4" gap between the front of the...

Once, in another post, I said I might have pictures of my rear blade project "soon". Well, that hasn't happened yet but I did just finish building a toothbar. It took a bit of driving around and asking questions, but I finally found a local place that sells all sorts of ground engaging stuff...

So, there I was, puttering around in the yard on a day off and I said to myself: "Self, wouldn't it make a nice picture if all the tractors were lined up in a row?" My Self agreed and so we made it happen. From the front. Left to right are: My new JD 990 My 60ish year old Ford 9N with home...

I was planning on working on my rear blade project today, but ended up putting hooks on my bucket instead. Got some 3/8" grade 70 hooks on sale. They had a clevis end with pin for attaching to a chain, but I trimmed them down so they were flat on the back to weld to the bucket. This pic is...

IT\'S HERE, IT\'S HERE!!!! Finally, after almost exactly 3 months, my new toy has arrived! (and NO, I won't apologize for calling it a toy! ) First picture: Delivery truck coming down the road. Brad.

I've got a very heavy duty blade about 7' long that I am going to make a 3pt mount/frame for. I will be pulling it behind my soon-to-arrive John Deere 990 (~40hp, about 4000lb with loaded tires, etc.). My question is what size of tubing would be strong enough for the frame? I'm mainly...

Hi, I've been lurking for quite a while and I must say that TBN has become my favorite web site by far! Before I get to the real reason for my post, here's a bit about me: I'm 35 and live near Edmonton, Alberta Canada (the frozen far north to most of you ). Although I only moved to the...