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My Goldoni has an LA490 motor. The rubber boot thing, under which is a fuel filter insert, leaks horribly. Anyone know a part number or even better name that rubber thing is called in Italian so I can find a spare part over here in Europe? Going to try another temporary fix...

My woodchipper has this Kohler motor. It became impossible to start- i.e. pulling the cord wouldn't turn it over. Somewhere I read this could be the decompressor on the exhaust valve not working, so I removed the spark plug, and sure enough, no problem turning the motor over. Last week I...

Living in rural Slovakia, I am most familiar with the situation we have here regarding land and inheritance. I just helped a friend in the village get in contact with his distant relatives. Although he is a historian, his pressing motivation is to get a hold of land that was basically "lost" to...

For a decade, we've lived here in rural Slovakia with an old set of stalls for pigs and chicken coop right behind our house. Although the moment we don't have pigs, any that I kept were up in the field, never in those stalls next to the house. Likewise, after a couple of years, chickens got...

My ISEKI has a FEL made in house by the Polish company that imported it. Earlier, I started getting a leak from one of the hoses going to one cylinder after moving a lot of bales. I eventually got a replacement hose for it. Now, last week, i was pulling/pushing some big roots out of the ground...

Goto google or yandex, and put in there this URL: "site:http://products.jacobsen.com/img/manuals/" as well as keywords like "ISEKI&CO" "ISEKI" or your tractor model, e.g. "TS3510". I found the 188 page original TS series service manual, as well as parts diagram for TS1610 and TS1910 (this...

I drained the old oil that the importer put it, as it was 90 weight and the manual calls for 140 weight, and I feel like the gears are noisy. Out came 13 liters, capacity in the manual is listed as 16. I pumped in about 10 liters. Let it set awhile. Then I unscrewed the plug next to the...

I went to an oil store today to get 10w30 oil for my Iseki TS3510, as its been over a year since I've had it, and the hour meter is broke, but guessing I've used it for 100 hours, which is the oil change interval in the manual. The manual (from the 1980s) calls for 10w30. The guy at the store...

Anyone know where there's some table of how much power a shaft can transmit? I've got to make an adapter for my two wheel tractor's PTO to attach a different manufacturers accesories, one of which is a cutterbar mower. I've got the two toothed couplings, and I was about to weld some thick pipe...

Sometime ago I posted about my dillema as to which gear oils would work for my tractor and walk-behinds, as the market has changed since their manuals were written in the 1980s. I hadn't noticed the "fine print" in the Iseki manual for the TS series, and that being that the TS3510 is supposed to...

My neighbor got a round baler for his tractor (quite used, I have no idea the brand because there weren't any markings I could see today looking at it.) His problem is that he says his tractor hydraulics are strong enough to lift the gate on the back of the baler, but that's pushing them to...

Hi, I'm pretty sure it should be fine, right? The owners manual I have for my Iseki is from the 80s or 90s and states to use 10w30 oil for all season use. 5w30 for diesels is actually cheaper over here, and more available. Capacity is 6 liters. If anything, it should start better in winter...

I've checked catalogs here in Europe (specifically FAIE in Austria, as well as some Slovak stores) and I can't find a blade with a 21mm hole that is 60x190mm (or anything close to these latter dimensions, as all I've found are disk mower blades 110mm long). The brush mower I have was made by...

Hi, One of my blades got bent unbelievably bad last year. Just hammered it back to being flat-ish, but I suspect stress will eventually cause drastic failure. I contacted Berta about replacements, and they claim you have to replace all four if one gets damaged. €170 + shipping. It seems kind...

Hi, On my alternator there is a screw terminal labelled "bat" -- obvious what that's for, and then a two pin connector, with the flat blades arranged like a T and labelled R and L. Just wondering what those outputs mean. I'm guessing that neither of them would allow for driving a tachometer...

Our first billy goat died this summer, while I was away actually, so his body was just left by an ant pile for nature to do its thing, and that pretty much left a clean skull, though a bit smelly. Unfortunately, wolves or wild/stray dogs got to our goats last month and killed a few, including...

While being frustrated trying to change the innertube today on the front tires, which are 7.00-16 chinese ones (e.g. not original), I was looking on tractordata.net and say that the Bolens G294 TractorData.com Bolens G294 tractor information which is the 4wd version of the TS2810 uses 12.4x24...

If the manufacturer of a disc mower specifies it as requiring 40HP and my tractor has 35HP motor (not sure of actual PTO horsepower), how bad of a match is that going to be? Does it just mean going slower while cutting? Also, what is the expected lifespan of a disc mower? The seller of one...

I know Slime is available, both in the tube and tubeless variety, where in Slovakia at least, the tube variety is less expensive than tubeless. But I've read about some pink tire seal and other types, so I wonder if any members in the EU know of other brands that are available and possibly...

Finally got the adapter made to use the YABE/Nibbi brush mower with my Goldoni. I fully anticipated that the direction of rotation might be opposite, which should just require flipping the swinging blades over. I did not realize it would have a overrunning clutch / freewheel mechanism in the...

The front tire (Golden Rabbit brand from China) on my tractor got a flat as I drove it through a field where I'd just mowed some brush. At the time, I only saw some thorns stuck in the tire, which I thought was the cause. Yesterday, the tire shop repaired the tube, and now rolling the tire back...

Is there a larger tire that would fit on the rims for a 13x5.00-6? I've decided to get the tires foam filled on our walk behind equipment, as I'm sick of the punctures inflicted by the Prunus spinosa that grows here. The Vari with this size tire is painfully slow, and its occurred to me in the...

I'm a week away from the adapter I need being finished to get the Nibbi brand brush mower to fit on one of my Goldonis. Yesterday I went in to the field with all the Prunus spinosa (Blackthorn) which not only pierced again one of the mower's tires, but also took out the inner tube, through the...

I got an Iseki TS35F -- like a TS3510F -- last month -- japanese import-- where the importer in Poland had added on their own, in house made, FEL. The power steering on the tractor seems to me a bit weak/dodgy, so in the post I made about the TS35F in the Iseki forum, I inquired if the FEL was...

I have an Iseki TS35F (essentually the same as TS3510) tractor as well as two Goldoni Special two wheel tractors, a Goldoni Eco two wheel tractor and Goldoni powered trailer that need oil for their gearboxes. The manual for the TS3510 states these oils: Esso Gear Oil GP90 Mobilube HD90 Shell...

I haven't gotten the tractor yet, I'm actually working with a dealer in used Japanese tractors and by the end of this week I'll have picked out one. All of the tractors get new FEL with third function, which has pretty primitive controls-- 3 levers, so its not some sort of solenoid valve that...

The wife is tired of me browsing the classified ads sites of 3 countries looking for tractors. So I'm inclined to buy from one of the two dealers in imported Japanese tractors I went to see last month who I feel is honest with decent prices. He has an Iseki 35 that I tried out. Its...

Last month I went to look at some Japanese tractors at two dealers on the other side of Slovakia. One of them had an Iseki 35. That's all that there was written on it in English that I could see. Later internet searching turned up a Japanese exporter having an identical tractor, and there was...

What is this? I just came across it on a Polish site where I'm looking for used tractors. Only 2500€. No model number written down.

I'm split between buying a Japanese import tractor (Iseki, Kubota or Yanmar) and a Belarus 320 or 321. The latter I was driving at a friend's yesterday, and it seems fine, despite having a non-synchro, non-hydroassist transmission. The Belarus uses a Lombardini 1603 diesel engine, and one of...

Hi, I've been looking for a small tractor for my farm over here (Slovakia). Actually, I have a thread going in the general buying forum about what would be needed for manipulating hay bales. [if you've read that thread, skip the next 3 paragraphs] Last week, I drove across Slovakia to look...

The main thing that comes to my mind as a deficiency is no front end loader. Which has gotten me in to the market for a 4 wheel tractor with one, after rolling hay bales up a ramp on to the bed of my Goldoni powered trailer last summer, as well as manually (with pitchfork) loading loose hay and...

Anyone know anything about this line of tractors? Other than the one I found for sale in Slovakia, I find some others for sale in Greece, and everything else is quite Japanese. :-) https://www.autobazar.eu/de/kubota-gl417-id10715392.html There are tech specs in the ad, which mostly agree with...

Hi, I'm in Slovakia. I know that larger bales exist, but for our field, the guy who comes and bales, his weigh no more than 700 pounds, and basically that's what is usually for sale as well if I have to buy from someone. Last summer I had half of our 5 acre hay field baled by him, and I...

I've seen some use of the concept, and I wonder if it would work on a small utility tractor with a front-end-loader to grab on to a bale spear for lifting round bales? I'm looking at one seller over here (SK) who has an Iseki 27HP with the 4-in-1 bucket on the FEL. Otherwise, I imagine that...

I found someone in the Czech republic selling a an Italian rotary mulcher, 70cm / 28inch wide, brand name YABE-- which I can't find any reference to, though they sent me the user's manual. It looks good to me, although I'll have to get some adapter made for my machine to attach it, but I have...

Our house has what is sort of a carport (they call it a shopka in Slovak, I guess like "workshop"). I'm converting it to a garage these next weeks, and I've got that time pressure that often helps me get stuff done, since I moved the hotwater heater out there while renovating the bathroom, so...

I have a suggestion, which would be to have under "related equipment" a "small engine" sub-forum. Because often the same small engine might be used on a roto-tiller of one brand, walk behind tractor of another and also power a pressure washer or generator, so to pool the questions that are...

I blew the head gasket on the Rotax 2-stroke motor of my Goldoni mower yesterday. It may have over-heated due to debris under the cover from the previous owner (which I should have done a thorough check after buying), or maybe just the nuts holding the head on were loose after 30 years. A new...

I just pulled the 2LA490 Intermotor (Lombardini) from my Goldoni. I've got to get the garden growing, so I'm going to order a replacement. The thing is that I see that for the Italian motor shafts-- they are all a 1:5 taper, just one type is called 23mm and with an internal thread on the end...

There are a lot of old apple orchards in our village, that got abandoned sometime after the velvet revolution. Most of the trees are still growing, and there has been some occasional clearing by various "farmers" who lease the land to cash in on subsidies. A lot of the orchard land is actually...

So, as per my other thread , I've realized that it isn't looking like an easy fix for the Lombardini Intermotor 2LA490 gas motor on my Goldoni Special 128, which is in the same league as the Grillo 131 or BCS 750. The Lombardini distributor part's department here in Slovakia had not heard of...

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When I got it there was grease (blueish) visible in the transmission when the fill screw is removed. The instructions are vague/poor translation as to what's supposed to go in there. It is a one-man with a 50cc motor. Produkte - ZIPPER Maschinen GmbH I figure after several hundred holes dug...

I just got another Goldoni Special from Italy, this one with reversible handle-bars and a gasoline engine. Just now at dusk I've unloaded it from my van and fired it up, and I noticed quite often a blue flame, about 6 inches long, poking out of the exhaust. When I went to stop the engine, I...

I got to the point last summer where I'm sick of the Czech Vari system I have for mowing. It has a 120cm single action sickle bar, which is fine, the bar/teeth are German ESM. But the tractor itself crawls along-- it has only one speed, and that speed is slow enough that someone who has to...

I have a 4 foot wide hay rake for my walk behind tractor. It uses those cheap 2 ply pneumatic tires with tubes (8 inch diameter) like you would see on hand trucks. We have lots of wild roses and some bushes with strong, long thorns here, and it seems like every tire gets thorns in it. I...

How do they turn? Are both wheels connected solidly through the axle, or is there a half-locking / free-wheeling device like on the rear hub of a bicycle? My Czech mower is just too slow, so, I need another walk-behind, because my Goldoni doesn't have reversible handle-bars, so it can't be...

Does anyone know if there has been studies of the risks / effects on operator health of using a 4 stroke engine versus a well tuned 2 stroke running a modern 2-stroke oil mix? I ask because I'm going to Austria to buy a 6 foot drop spreader for lime, and I'm thinking about picking up a walk...

Hi, I have a Czech two wheel tractor that uses the GSV190 engine. It has a four speed transmission. The GSV190 has a centrifugal clutch on it, which means that shifting is done by bringing the engine down to idle speed, changing the gear, and then accelerating the engine up to a high enough...

What is the "ideal" spacing for these tires when using the double rotary plow? The one Berta manual I found online talks about using 5.00-10 tires, but I have what I have on my tractor. I'm just now really plowing, whereas before I was making raised beds and swales, so I'd like to get it...

What kind of spreaders will actually spread it? Is it only those pre-1950 drop spreaders (6-12 foot wide wagons pulled originally behind tractors like this one: Kastendungerstreuer zu verkaufen! in Bayern - Offenberg | eBay Kleinanzeigen )? Because here in Slovakia, where I can find a lot of...

A couple of months ago I got to appreciate the load hauling capacity of the powered trailer when we filled it with gravel and took it up to the field to be used for filling around fence posts. I suspect that at least the maximum capacity 750kg of rock was in there, if not even more. :) The...

While looking for some further technical info for my problems, I came across this old Berta Franco advertisement: Their first version was like the American Gravely system, at least in being mounted in the front.

I had a month of fruitless attempts to get in contact with the Berta company in Italy -- including my wife's cousin in Italy speaking with someone there in Italian who said they would respond to my email "tomorrow", but apparently "tomorrow" in Italian means something different than English...

Motor running (youtube video) Does this sound normal? The noise changes when I'm driving it and it is under load, but there is definitely this sort of noise that sounds like hitting. I assume if it were really some mechanical problem (like badly adjusted valves?) that it would quickly stop...

Anyone here actually used biodiesel or even straight vegetable oil in a walk behind tractor with a Lombardini engine? I found some things on Lombardini's website saying not to use more than B20 for some models of their engines, but nothing is written at all about the fuel for the LDA 510 / 3LD...

I just made the trip to Italy. I bought a Goldoni 140 with a Lombardini LDA 510 engine and a powered wheel trailer from one seller in Italy and the dual Berta rotary plow from someone else. From the photos, I thought that the rotary plow would fit the Goldoni, but in person I see that I will...

Someone in czech republic has a BCS 705 for sale including the PTO trailer. Malotraktor Kultivátor BCS 705 VT-88 ACME 480 cc 15-HP 4x4 - Strakonice, prodám (1000€ / $1100) It looks all newly painted- i assume its in working order but i haven't called yet. Does anyone know whether this older...

In my post in the introduction forum, I mentioned the equipment I have now (Czech made Vari two wheel tractor system, 6.5HP Honda gas engine). I thought I would be able to use the moldboard plow on it to dig an 8" ditch to put water line in, maybe somehow making the ditch two passes wide then...

I'm an American living in a small rural village with my Slovak wife. For the first few years here, I have been stubbornly not getting any tractor, partly because all I could afford would be some quite old tractor, and while I like playing mechanic sometimes on the car I would be afraid I...