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2002 Duramax owner. Has started great for 160k miles. In November I changed the batteries and than a month later I changed the fuel filter. I was able to reach way down to change it so all was good.. A thousand miles later I parked the truck on a hill at home with the front on the up side...

Engineering guidelines for maintenance are established over all kinds of weather, conditions of use by owner, ambient temperature, and go by extremes we may run into. The best case scenario is to take what they advise and follow that because none of us has the money to test every extreme that...

I have had a RMD2584 for 11 years and it works fine and has maybe 500 hours on it right now. I am considering changing to gear case oil in it. I can't figure out how to empty the gear case as there is a dipstick hole on the top and a hole in the side for the level, but nothing on the bottom to...

We use totes set about 4-6 feet off the ground and hook up 1-1/2 inch sump pump hose to fill barrels or to run to plants. Not much pressure but a lot of flow.

I have 2 submersible pumps in a pond in a couple feet into the water. When I ran them to pump water into tanks for watering our garden I would just plug them into the 110 port on the generator and switch on the 17 amp circuit breaker and they take right off. It is a 3200 watt John Deere...

I run 2 submersible sump pumps at the same time, 1/3 HP each with my 3200 watt generator with no problems. I use them to fill tanks from a pond. 1/2 HP won't even slow it down even if starting under pressure.

Did you have any luck with your waterline? I am really curious as to the outcome.

I understood that water squirted into ear canal should be distilled water so infection has less of a chance to sprout. Just a thought.

The 4/12 roof had a lot of tree pollen and dust on it. I was washing it off and the areas that were clean and wet, walking was fine. When one side of the roof was clean I was walking to the other end at the peak level when I stepped on a dirty and wet spot. Down I went. It was a fairly slow...

I added a garage to our house and had a tall 10/12 pitch metal roof. I had 2x4s left to right every 2 feet so O had basically a ladder to walk up. I always worked from the side of the sheets I was working on so it worked out well. I did notice how fast a screw gun could slide down and hit the...

For the life of me I can't figure out why people put the TV over a fireplace. It seems to me the best height is about 3-4 foot off the floor. You can see it more comfortably from almost any sitting position in the room without straining the neck. Of course there needs to be room available.

Beer only after the job is done. I found out the hard way moving stuff up a floor.

Bifen-IT worked great for Carpenter Bees. My 40x60 barn and any wood product, treated wood included, around the house were a feast for those suckers. There were so many holes in the rafters and joists that it would have been impossible to tackle them individually. I read Carpenter Bees...

I bought some Bifen-IT for a carpenter bees problem we had, and it worked great and fast. Used 2-1/2ozs /gallon of water for bees. I tried it on about 50 fire ant mounds my from lawn had which was maybe an acre or two. I mixed approx 1-2 ozs Bifen-IT to 8 gallons of water in my water tank...

It may not even work. I had a GMC diesel that I plugged in at work during some cold Wisconsin cold snaps and the truck started hard quit often but always started anyway. After quit a few years I sold the truck and bought a 2002 GMC diesel and did the same thing only at home. After a couple...

Chop out a 12" square in the center, loosen up the gravel under it and make it a drain. I had to do something like that in a garage of mine and it worked, but I had crushed stone under it so drainage was okay.

Same thing happens to mine so I will be following.

I bought an X740 in 2010 give or take. Great tractor with 1100 hours on it so far. Had to change steering knuckles which is minor. Need to keep radiator and oil cooler fairly clean of grass or dust or tractor may overheat in hot weather in tall grass. Great machine for blowing snow or...

I never heard of a damaged wheel weight. All mine are 50# cast iron discs you could drop of a bridge and they won't be hurt. You may have plastic coated weights but a little touch up paint will help them look pretty again.

e-rigging.com is where I get my cable needs. I have a 50' 3/8 cable, a 100' 3'8 cable and a 100' 5/16" cable. All I do is tighten the ends around a thimble and clamp each end with three clamps minimum of appropriate size. I have no problem pulling trees with a gmc 4wd dually and have jerked...

I stumbled across a brand new one of these in my shelves I aquired from a garage clean out somewhere. I tried it out in problem areas and it works great. Scary looking though when running.

I don't know, but could it be heated with a small torch to loosen it enough that a long punch and pry method might work?

The shoes will never move the same speed because of different resistances in the cylinders. If one moves easier or first it is because there is more drag or resistance in the cylinder on the other shoe. They will balance out when hooked up, even though it takes a little maneuvering to get them...

They must not have the internet, or they probably wouldn't try that.

This valve works for changing Schrader valves so should also work for draining fluid from tires through it. Be careful when draining fluid if the tire is jacked up off the floor. I have had a bead break loose from the hanging weight and draining process.

I take mine to the city dumps where they have a metal recycling and oil return area. Pull up and they take all the containers of oil, antifreeze, unwanted liquid etc you have and you never have to leave the truck. I tried to take oil to O'reillys and Napa and other places in times past, but...

I have 2 fairly heavy duty gas weed eaters. They worked okay until a couple years ago when I got fed up with trimming. My problem is I have some viny long weeds in deep ditches. The viny stuff gets wrapped around the shaft along with weeds and after un clogging the head a few times I just...

I would put a moving blanket over the window and then a thin piece of plywood over than. The plywood would dissipate a lot more shock than any blanket or bubble wrap would taker by itself.

A dealer might know if this model is interchangeable to each other. I would think they would help out.

I have the same thing with my X740 John Deere. The overflow reservoir seems to get lower over time and yet I could find no leak. The radiator is always full but the reservoir seems to leak over time. The only place I can figure leaking is maybe a tad leaks out a hose or maybe a little bit out...

I would make sure the wheels are sitting flat on the hub, then I would use blue LocTite 242 on every lug-bolt along with using a torque wrench. I have a 2010 3720 that had lug-bolts loosen up on me after just a few hours. Enough that the lug bolts were badly worn. I got all new lug-bolts...

I have the same thing for my 3720. I use either the bolt on hardened edge thing or I take that off and bolt on the heavy duty tooth bar. The bucket edge itself is so hefty duty I doubt I could ever wear the bolt on edge out or even bend it with my tractor. It takes a lot of pounding to get...

I bought a small 40cc Efco/Deere about 20 years ago and runs alright but I usually grab for my big Echo to get the job done faster. But, it seems fair.

BIFEN-IT is a termicide that works wonders for carpenter bees, ants and almost every other bug. Buy it from Do-it yourself pest control. Mix 2-3 ozs per gallon of water and use a tank sprayer to spray down all exposed wood, treated or otherwise. Spray all rafters, and wood products in the...

i GOT ROOM FOR 1 MORE PIECE. OOPS!

This is the way to lower body. I just need to grind a little and grab some 7018 rods.

I had a dozen people on ignore a few years ago but found I always over-rode the block to see their comment. Now I don't block anyone.

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Don't look overloaded on a newer 1 ton Ram, but something gave out.

JD belts or otherwise?

In my area people used to have a lot of copper but switched to CPVC. I bought a 25 year old house with CPVC and after 6 CPVC cracks or leaks every few months I finally ripped it all out and PEXd it. I am a happy camper except for the fact I started to use brass PEX fittings which may or may...

I used to be able to even parallel park a traiier. Lately I have been forgetting which way to turn the steering wheel. It sure takes a lot longer to get there now.

I burn about 4 full cords of wood per year and run the propane backup about one day a year to make sure it is working. I have about 10 acres of hardwood and have a couple friends with 80 acres of oak with plenty of mature dead ones so as long as I can run a saw, I am set.

I understand cleaning cables and posts and covering the whole connection with a coating of spray or dielectric liquid for that purpose. But, do I coat the post before I put the clamp on with a dielectric grease? Not sure. I have a GT that has to be redone every few months.

I drive a ext cab 8ft box dually which is getting long. Quite a few times my wife will bail out and guide me ahead or back because my depth perception lets the rear end hang out in the traffic.

I have a 3720 with L-M-H gears. I would cut a vast majority of the time in Mid range comfortably. L is to low and H seems to high. I would be concerned if either of those mentioned by the OP are only 2 speed.

If all is going well, 1620 hours is not many hours. Keep what you got.

I owned a house in the late 1990s and stored my old pallets (10 or so) and other junk a couple hundred feet off the highway. One day a truck pulls over and asks me if he could buy some pallets as his boss needed some. I told him these were spoken for but I could pick some up from work...

I have a 40x60' barn built 60+ years ago. The barn walls were white oak covered with white aluminum which is dented but holding up. The roof is made of corrugated old fashioned steel. 13 years ago the owner pained it light greenish. It started to rust in many patches and got very faded...

A good way to get keyed.

You never know how it will turn out, until you do. I had my left total replacement March 10 2021. The doc whom I trust is fairly young and has done at least 2000 replacements and has great sucess with almost all of them, according to him and other doctors. I was doing well with therepy after...

My TV is always on mute and is always on closed caption. 10 years ago I bought a Sennhauser set of TV ears and I can have TV sound driven into my ears while my wife sits and quietly does her puzzles. Love it. If I do listen to straight TV everything seems muffled. For some reason even though...

On a JD 3720. had 2 wires pulled apart under the tractor from driving over some bushes. Twice. Look carefully underneath.

We had no late freeze this year and had a hundreds of apples and peaches on each of 10 trees. But the we had an influx of squirrels and the pretty much stripped them clean quickly. Trapping most of the squirrels but only ended up with a bucket of appes compared to 28 six gallon bukkets last year.

Just a wild guess but sounds about right to me. I am sure a little fudge factor is built in. I would get another estimite from a contractor in the area, then you will know for sure. Tubing and connectors probably $1000 and the rest being labor.

I had the opposite outcome. I flipped tires to widen them thereby making the stems inside. Pulling the boxblade full of dirt and brush some sticks ended up between the wheel and the frame and there goes my valve stem. I still need to be aware of brush on the outside but small sticks tend to...

Without actually seeing your slope I have only one idea. With your 425 and smallish deck, put fluid in the rear tires and also put 100# cast weights on each rear wheel. This will be very difficult to tip over. Possibly extend the wheels out by a couple inches on each side.

Are you sure it takes LoVis oil. I seem to recall older JDs using dexron 3. Nice tractor by the way. Edit. I meant to say Type F, not Dexron 3.

Just talking about returns with my boy and extremes people go to. He told me that some cases at Costco in TN people bring back Christmas trees right after Christmas because they claimed they didn't last as long as expected. They accepted them back willingly.

I got a dozen of these monsters but I thought they were the Tennessee state tree. Actually I want to chop all the branches off about ten-fifteen feet up. I can clip them with a pole saw so the trees would look like a lolipop. Then have them start over from a 8' stump.

I got complacent and never checked my lugnuts on my JD3720. At less than 50 hours I noticed a loose rear wheel. I needed to replace all the. lugnuts on that wheel and retap the holes. Not s problem as it was my fault for not checking. Then I decided to add spacers on the rears. I...

Many moons ago I filled out a lot to win assorted items. Not much anu more. One time while sorting mail my wife said I got a registered letter. I told her I got one a few weeks ago but I just threw it out. I had to go to the post office to get the letter. I won something. What I won was a...

Look at the Radiator Genie. Amazon,

I am a Deere guy and if I shop a Deere dealer and he gives me bad vibes I simply go to one of the other dozen Deere dealers within easy driving distance. Generally the dealers are willing and helpful.

Why not have a strong pallet on a couple saw horses against your splitter and hoist chunks up to the pallet with your FEL. Then roll the chunks to the splitter bed. or, if you have forks, load the pallet with chunks and place against the splitter in top of saw horses. Make the heigth level...

I would get a 125' 5/16" steel cable and anchor it way out in the direction you want it to fall. Some strong winch cables are lighter and equal in strength. Chain it as high to the tree as comfortable. Hook to a strong 4x4 and put a lot of tension to the tree after the notch is cut. It will...

Looking for a picture of the new seat, unless I missed it..

I bought a new 026 around 1998 and love it. But I got sick of waiting for it to chew through large oaks. I bought a new Echo 620p that can rip through the same log in 1/3 the time and much easier that the 026. I would never sell my 026 though because it is light and durable and a good runner.

The key must be ON, then depress the key inward for 10-20 seconds, then turn key immediately to start. That should run the intake heater.

Had a 82yo church friend with a good sense of humor insist this song be played at his funeral. He died about 6 months ago and after some deliberation among funeral planners his son said to play it. Everyone there really had a good laugh.

Tell him he can buy yours so you can buy a new one. Or, just say no.

Oil based paint is supposd to keep them at bay. I found tennis racketd hard on shoulders and to time consuming. I found Bifen-IT to work very good. 2-3 OZs/gallon of water sprayed on with a tank sprayer is a fairly cheap fix. Spray all wood in the spring and again in the fall. Do this for...

After watching people lick the knife or fingers then go and dish out other servings without cleaning, I go to very very few big pot luck Igatherings. Nothing is foolproof but I get sqeamish about that. Went to a big camper pot luck and dug into a bean salad of some sort and was very moldy...

His tiller usage was not a one off deal. He will need to till gardens etc. every year for the forseable future. That would be enough to goad him into getting his own tiller.

I especially would not lend a 2-cycle tool out and I would not put my 2-cycle gas in someone elses saw or whatever else. Be my luck I would get stuck with a rebuild job.

I have a 62" for 13 years with 3-4 hours per week for the last 10 years medium grass in Tennessee. All original except the belt. Repainted it for the fun of it 4 years ago and obviously new paint looks nice for one mowing. I would go for a 54" if not many hours on it.

Just tell him you are thinking of selling it for a high price. If he wants to buy it fine, but if not you can't loan it out necause a buyer just may show up and can't have it gone. A little underhanded but wth.

My mother was in a nursing home a few years ago and some workers seemed inept at best. After my sister, who is retired and lives 7 miles away found out, she got a job there as a care taker. It was possible to keep up with mothers care and take the management to task easier for shortcomings...

My X740 has a mower adjustment knob labeled 1-6. (One to six inches right?) After trying to adjust the deck heigth to a specific inch I found that scale was just a guide. The highest posible heigth id 3.5" actual with corrrelates to 6 on the scale. I know it is a different tractor but maybe...

They work fine provided it is filtered and you have a way to get it up high enough.

Bifen IT for the kill. Use backpack sprayer or tank sprayer and hose down all unpainted wood poducts in the spring and again in the fall. After one spraying the number really drops off. Once you break their returning tothe scene of the crime cycle you can slack off spraying, I sprayed...

I mow my largest chunk, 6 acres with a 7'RMM for 9 years now. Mostly flat and bumpy in 3 sections. Air ride seat hydro. Works great. I notice for years I woud cut AT 6,5 mph most of the time which seemed fast to me considering the bumps. Just cruising. I also noticed the last 2 years that...

Better than having the OP dissapear after the first post, IMHO

I had a car that kept blowing head gaskets and found out the head bolts were torqed down but there was debris in the holes so boltd weren't actually tight to the head. Just my thought.

Set on top. At the run-in station at the Deere factory, that's the way they do it.

Ralph, What's the lowest you will go?

Same thing happened with our cheapo gas supplier. I simply bought a used 500 gallon tank, painted it up nice. Cost $250 if I recall. I ran their 500 gallon tank to 10 to 20%. Picked up their tank with loader and moved it. Set my new/used tank in its place. Hooked up the original gas line...

It sure looks to me like it would be narrower if the wheels swapped sides. Keep thread direction the same but switch sides, The rim surfaces look flat so should bolt up nice. You wouls lose a little bit in stability from having a narrower tractor though, Plus the valve stems would be on the...

After looking at my rusty frame of my dooly for a few years I talked to a couple trusted body shop guys and a car restorer. They pointed me to OReillys for some rust restorer and some sort of rattle can spray that is very tough. Four years ago I had to get the box off so it was the perfect...

Going through the Dakotas I filled up my diesel next to a guy who had a service truck and 2-3 mechanics pulling lines and purging gas from his system. Terrible mess. I thought to myself, glad that wasn't me. Couple years later I bought a new GMC Dmax Dually and was pulling a 37' camper...

I tried that with my 25 gallon tractor sprayer. I had 3-4 acres peppered with mounds. I just drove around and saturated a 3 foot diameter over each mound. Just to make sure the queen at the botttom gets toasted I stick the wand in as far as it will go, up to 18" deep. Saturated the whole...

A heavy duty torque wrench for bolts and nuts the dealer skips over. Also Locktite 242 for lugnuts that seemingly loosen up out of the blue.

It is probably that high so if in a rollover, the head will be in a protected area below a line from the roll bar to the front of the hood. Just a guess.

From them video/ Whaaa! My tractor leaves marks in the driveway. What do I do?

I bought 3 for my JD X740 Yanmar 4-5 years ago from NAPA. No problems whatsoever. Aftermarket type.

Eleven years with 1000# hanging on rear. No problem. Never heard of a problem from anyone else on this forum with damaged rear axle because of spacers. Of course it may be someones luck that they have a bad axle and a dealer would decline a warranty. As with anything, you need to weigh the...

There is only one pressure.

Can you switch hoses around. I mean hook the lift cylinder hoses to the chute ports to see if it is the cylinder or something else. More than likely the cylinder is fine.

Have air flowing before and while hooking the chuck up. Briefly let up to catch a quick reading. If correct, pull air valve off and then run air through air chuck to clean it out.

Check hydro fluid level according to manual. Use hy gard Lo Vis oil if low. Keep RPMs at least 1500. If under a load after warmed up, it may whine a little bit but not much. Are your brakes on? Are you in to high of a gear FOR THE JOB?

I find it interesting that the culprit in the video has a big motorhome in his garage at the 9;55 mark. probably needed some gas money from the pawn shop. I think the video star is blowing smoke when he says he is offering $250K as a reward for a 20K skidsteer. You never see that happen.

Sometimes you just need to screw the logistics and get what feels good. Cheap labor is fine too though.

Load test the battery. My 3720 was working along fine then it just died. It ended up being a short inside the battery...

Have a Mighy Mule that I used in our last house. Worked well enough to warrant keepng it, like new. The alarm was aggravating and drove the wife nuts. Plus, as often as it went off, disconnecting it was a pain. If I mowed the lawn I would set it off everytime I came close to it so it was...

Try actual shear bolts from a tractor dealer. Just an idea.

A little different from your experiance. I Had something happen before my Credit Card days. In Utah on 4 week vacation with family in my motorhome and a week to go seeing the sights. I checked my vacation cash and only had $86 left. I stopped at several banks to cash a personal check but...

What about Calcium Chloride? People claim leaks in CCL filled tires ruins grass. I use glysophate and it works just fine even 2 feet away from garden produce.

I didn't think the OP was concerned about a maximum load at idle? I'll throw 20 bags of concrete on the Land Pride deck to really test it tomorroe, okay. The front of the tractor woud probably come off the ground.

I fired mine up and at the lowest idle the 3 pt works just fine at 700 RPM. Both FEL and 7' finish mower.

I went to a RR in Florence AL, first one I went to. Must have had a dozen tractors and very nice ones and lots of 3pt stuff. The store was monsterous and had everything and almost anything I could want. My lasting impression was that, and that they only had one checker. Sure wasn't a...

Try NAPA. They got my JD studs easily.

We had 6 steps up to an entrance platform with a roof design sort of like yours. The platform was pitched away from the house, slightly. It was in Wisconsin and it was impossible to keep clear except with CCL and sand mixed. You can imagine what that did to nice carpeting in the house. After...

Calcium Chloride works fast but screws concrete up by popping up little divots. Might take a year or so but I have seen it on my driveway. Find a safe commercial ice melter for spreading on and put a throw rug down for wiping the feet.

I've owned 3 houses with basements and a furnace downstairs in finished basements. It was always to cold to stay in the basement for any length of time without supplemental heat ducts added or otherwise. My current house has a crawl space but if I would ever have a basement again I would...

Brush on "Ospho" rust neutralizer and throw some black paint on it after you deal with the source of the problem.

Give the grankids a dollar for every stump the chop out.

Jack the rear end up and you be stylin'

Parts search shows 3. The OP will have to confirm. https://partscatalog.deere.com/jdrc/navigation/equipment/67836/srch/GLOW%20PLUG

Great action pics. One thing that always scared me was time around a big belt operated threshing machine. My dad had an old Allis powering a 25' long belt by 6-8"wide turning the thresher. Scared me every time I walked near that thing.

I have a X740 and at 650 hours it had symptoms like the OPs 2720. It was 2 glow plugs. Easy to test.

In 1969 while leaving a race track, 2 lanes exiting, I was racing the guy next to me, stopping and going. I had a 61 chevy and I forget what he had. I was having fun racing until because of my terrible brakes I slammed into the back of a stopped jeep. We both got out and looked at the damage...

Facetious. I must have bought 15+ JDs over the years and sold them eventually and never figured I got a raw deal. Just countering the many JD haters.

I bought numerous Deeres since 1972 and never considered how much I was getting screwed. I have 2 left I will try to give away for the hauling.

I bought a 620P 60cc Echo over a Stihl 362 about 4 years ago. 3/8" chain. Both dealers are within 4 miles from home. I really ike the Stihl dealer and go in to chit chat now and then and the Echo dealer just wanted to sell the cheaper 60cc saws he had on the shelf instead to the more pro...

For fall protection, I wouldn't worry about in much as long as as you keep the tether snug. Not much momentum build up that way. At work we had a demonstration where 1/2-5/8"rope was over an A-frame structure and a 225# sand bad weight was dropped 6'. The rope snapped immediately.

I would begin by changing the fuel filter and make sure a good supply of fuel is making it to the filter.

My roof is a 10/12 pitched metal roof so the rednecks can shoot in the air all they want around me, bullits will rickochey right off.

Is it a diesel truck, dmax

Some people claim dish soap makes the bead more slippery so the tire will seal to the rim better. I was at a tire shop and they used a black sealer so I bought a can of that to try in case there was a tiny leak somewhere. This tire seemed to have very slow leaks someplace I couldn't quite put...

I have a 3 series JD and was pulling a few logs up a fairly steep hill. To rehook the chain I had it in low range, FEL down and weight box down and brake firmly set, like always. This time while remounting the tractor, my lardbutt knocked the shifter into neutral. To start pulling again I...

Never heard of premature wear using spacers in over 12 years and I keep my ears open. I have a JD 3720 with 4" on each rear side and with hills it nicer. Fluid in the rears is a must and wheel weights help a lot. Caution is always a must on hillsides even with spacers and weights. If you...

Had Dish but was talked into Hughs net as the best thing around for only a couple bucks more. The installer couldn't even pull up a speed test, but was better than Dish and we had no other uptions as we live in the boonies. Six months ago Fiber came to town and I switched over immediately as...

Check the owners manual. Some models just rest the cap on the tube. Easy to forget over the years.

WE had a similar situation. Company was bought out so policy changed. We rented our tank at a few cents/gallon but that was changed to unless we used double our 500 gallons tanks capacity a year we would get dinged $1 per gallon for the gas we did not use. In other words if the usable gas per...

When cold, mine would hardly move until I ramp up RPM to above 1500. Until then it was very slow. Still does, at times at 1100 hours. Mine seemed to have gotten bad after my first transaxle oil change. One thing I noticed, when the dipstick showed 1/2" below full, it was actually 1.5 gallons...

Tenders are fine, but I found just disconnecting the batteries and leave them alone worked for me. When I came back from Florida to Wisconsin after 4-5 months everything started right up. It maybe didn't crank like a new car, but it only needed to start.

i had a wood tailgate for a trailer 2x10x6 feet hat was attacked by those little buggers. For a project I had going I needed some saw dust. (5 Gallons or so). I decided to plane down that board into dust. After taking a few passes 1/16" at a time I was amazed at the passages they left. Some...

Just curious, I have a JD tractor with the standard yellow seat and has some serious cracks in the plastic seat portion. If I got a new seat, would a fabric seat cover keep cracks from forming on the new one? I like your work op. Hope it works out for you.

After a summer or two of fighting them I found that painting the wood works and for EVERYTHING else I spray with a BIFEN IT concentrate mixed with water. A couple ozs/gallon works well. After spraying right way in the spring and again in the fall the Carpenter bees start finding someplace else...

I would get rid of the springs and weld a saddle for a 3.5" trailer house axle and use load range "G" tires. That stuff could be found cheap. Shoud be good for any load you are going to pull on it.

Recheck oil level. If mine is 1/2" low that is over a gallon low/ But is a 3720/

I bought an Echo 620p about 3 years ago. At the time, I was also looking at a Stihl 362. I was sold on the trouble free claim and the 5 yr warranty. It is a beast, in my view. In about 10-20 cords of bigger oak cutting I have absolutley no complaints. Good weight, soid build, easy low...

Another one on the connectim.g rod list. Some of you mentioned oil level. I am thinking that was my problem. Maybe I'll find out?

Long time ago I heard they are designed so when load is maxed out the axles will be straight and even with semi flatbeds the trailers will be flat when loaded down.

I thougtof making something that attaches to the sprayer to hold the handle in the on position while cranking the engine overwhile starting. Might make starting a mite easier.

If the rears need to come off to load them, I woud consider sticking spacers on.

I have an Excell washer with a 10 HP Briggs motor. the ony way I can start that is with water on and flowing freely with the pressure hose disconnected. I let it run to clear all the air out of hose and pump. While disconnected I start the washer and let it run for a minute or so. Then I shut...

Very good point. Would lose a friend that way.

I would sell the lead and fill the box with heavy rocks with concrete used to fill the voids. Pretty cheap if you have rocks. I mounted a chainsaw scabbard in the weight box before filling and works great for carrying my saw.

I've decided to drive mine like I stole it...WOT running and WOT engage and disengage deck. Anything less than that would irratate the snot out of me.

I don't see how to justify an insurance claim caused by abuse. Be lucky they pounded it kind of straight. Possibly the dealer misspoke about having insurance covering it and is now trying to back out ungracefully. Possibly the bucket leveler rod can be shortened by the OP.

My X740 had the problem where it wouldn't go ahead far enough and had very limited movement, it seemed to me. I sprayed the track with a water hose but had little effect. What did work was to slam it forward and backward with my body on the seat forcefully up against the endstop. I thought I...

Personally I like a stand alone splitter so I can use the tractor for jockying logs around. For a very small amount I would consider an electric splitter. But I never tried using my electric splitter for anything substantial, like 18" oak. I don't recall if you use the wood for anything like...

As a kid I would call those types, "Forts"

How tall are they and are you spraying weed killer? Just curious. I need to spray a dozen or so so am following.

I use wire good nuts all the time. It may take a little more time but I twist the ends together using two pliars then snip the ends off to the shortest wire. Then crank the wire nut on. Seems to work for me.

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I would cut from one end. I think the teeth will still look symetrical. as if the stone pile would care. It was a good deal for a toothbar like that.

That would be an accident waiting to happen...to the tractor hood.

I gotta go and "drop the kids off in the pool."

We moved from WI to remote TN 8 years ago. What was most memorable to me was the first church service we visited/attended. I swear I coud not understand a word anyone said for the whoe hour. Everyone sounded like they had lazy tongue. Now my hearing is getting worse which doesn't help...

IMHO jacking on a axle where the u-clamps are connected won't hurt anything. My concern is jacking on the tube in between clamps could bend the tube and cause all kinds of problems with tire alignment.

Running a 16K 28' GN trailer from WI to TN 6 times while moving I noticed a yellow 2" winch strap beside the road on the 3rd trip. I was going to stop and pick it up because I was missing my winch strap on the 3nd trip and figured it had to be mine. I cruised past it at least 4 times noticing...

I have plenty of machinery laying around that if I was concerned about it paying for itself I would go nutty and not own anything. Not concerned about how I could capitalize on my investments so I don't lose momey. If it does break I will just order a new one from my friend Bezos or my local...

I was building a house 40+ years ago and I needed a big dump truck load of gravel for cement. He asked if he could drive and turn around in my hay field. I gave him the go ahead. I had maybe 6" ruts where he drove and didn't think to much about it. When the house was done I decided I wanted...

Was the roof contractors given permission or the go ahead to drive on his lawn and septic? If he was he may be off the hook. Anyone with common sense would have stopped as soon as it started to rut up.

Maybe take ot out and put it upside down and dump maybe a 1/4 cup of oil into the suction and let it run into the vanes of the pump. Turn the crank while upside down to circulate the oii and reinstall.

I just gutted my 25yo house of CPVC. Sick of fixing leaks yearly. Went to PEX for ease of working with and durability. In the OPs case I would run 1" PEX with no underground joints if possibly. Try to bury in sand.

I really don't understand how anyone can let 8,9 and 10 year olders run around with 22s by themselves. I barely trust kids with pellet guns when they hit 16 and even then I am very wary around them.

I saw a pheasant about a minimum 1/4 mile away in the middle of a disked and dragged open field. I aimed up with my open sight 22 rifle and fire a round at it. I was about a hundred feet short and off to the side. I corrected a bit and took a shot. Darned if I didn't hit that bird. I was not...

My guess is they knew what they were shooting at and missed a couple times and kept on untill something happend not realizing the terrible consequenses of it. The farmer probably didn't know he was targeted until he felt it

I would check with a dealer. The reason is maybe the factory switched in the middle of a run to greaseless. Happened to me. Owners manual says to grease but no zerks to be found, past a certain serial number.

My wife sees a rabbit in her fenced in garden, it's goodby rabbit, We have a 100 acre woods they can hop around in, if the make it past the buckshot.

Ospho is good stuff. Beware though; make sure you have old clothes on. Ospho is like water and it is easy you splash it on good clothes and in a few months you will start seeing white sploches all over them.

Are the RPMs 2000+ when this happens. What gear (low-medium-high) are you in when this happens.

STx I hope your dad continues to improve. On my redo the surgeon told me that if I could acheive a 90 degree range of motion I would be lucky. He said because of my age and stiffness of tendons etc. A couple months after the redo it still is not comfortable but am still diligent in modest...

I am a JD fan, but that would really tie my undies in a knot. Luckily in 45 years I never had a problem like that while owning many low hour JD garden tractors etc. Must have been one made overseas on Monday. Edit; I did have cylinder seals on my 3720 at 400 hours and on a X740 a steering...

Agree with rngrrymd. For starters I would replace the battery. Any buyer will/may think there is a problem with the charging system. It looks like a handy tractor to have.

Once I had problems with spiders and carpenter bees all over the old 40x60 barn. I sprayed everything from shelving to walls and ceilings joists and basically anything made out of wood with Bifen IT. 2 oz per gallon of water in a tank sprayer. I can do the barn using about 25-30 gallons of...

I have a JD Garden Tractor that used a 18x8.50x8 front tubeless tire. It has two old plugs that are slightly leaking. I need to add air every other day. I bought a new tube on Amazon and came in today but the size I ordered was correct but I received a 18x8.50x9.50R8 with TR13 valve (...

That is interesting and might come in handy at times. Why are some outlets mounted with ground on top, even though most I see are on the bottom?

I have a JD and within 4 years the FEL bucket started drooping as soon as the hand was off the joy stick. It would uncurl down all the way in 10 seconds and was impossible to carry anything in the bucket. Had to put new seals in the cylinders even though maybe one was bad.

Is the needle in the red overheating area? If not they would probably say close enough, instead of why. What were you doing to think it is overheating?

It seems to me that the space although not needed for a majority of the cuts, gives an opportunity for a longer chunk to be put in and split. 95% of mine split at that point.

We had a union shop where it was difficult to fire anyone without very ample cause. We hired a dozen or so and one big slob employee just had a big mouth. Giving everyone around him a hard time about how he was always mistreated even though he was great. I was only a pipefitter and fairly easy...

A FEL mast can't be that flimsy that it can't take a couple 5/16" holes. Go for it or get a stronger tractor.

Kinda looks like my 40x60 barn roof. Mine is 6/12 pitch so it is doable as far as walking on it. I did get a harness and lanyard so I don;t get a runaway for near the edges. I was worried about wind getting uner the edges so I put pole shed caps on the edges. I pressure washed it then came...

I had a 420 that had a sheared roll pin in the linkage where it hooked to the transmission. It had just enough friction left where it would work sometimes but other times not. lt worked when gently moved.

I had nightmares' using eicheapo batteries ruining equipment by leaking acid quicker than normal. DURACELLs only for me now.

Google says; Where are John Deere tractors manufactured at? Where are John Deere tractors built? John Deere has kept its roots in the United States. The world headquarters is in Moline, Illinois, USA. The company continues to make tractors of various different types at factories in four US...

Personally, I would buy a new 40hp cut with a heavy duty FEL and cart it away. Way to many unknowns with fixing a mess like that, But that's just me.

I wrecked two nice cars as a 17-18 yo. Dad fixed em' up for me. He took his front end loader, dug two big holes and buried them in the back lawn. Good to get $300 and forget it,

I had a 80 corolla wagon my boy turned into a convertible for the fun of it. Boys will be boys. Another boy had mid 80s Mustang. Both were basically junk. The junk / auto salvage yard was 2 miles away. In 1995 they told me beat up cars would bring $35 or so. I towed the Corolla down to...

Nice looking project. What did you use to bubble up the old paint.

Have a 45 HP Deere with turbo, Never a problem in 10 years to date. Some people (non-Deere) people whine about plastic, but again in 10 years for me, no problems. Looks like new. I work in a woods and make wood every year but with anything, I am careful. I would be careful with a tin...

You should have asked a dealer, unless you did. I didn't read that in the posts. If not you should have offered half of what he was asking. Sometimes it's a bear to sell attachments for only specific tractors.

I have a round 150 gallon tank gravity system set on a 6' high platform that I used for 10 years without trouble. The only stinker was to lift it off empty and it back on the platform full using tractor forks. I hate to drop tanks and to get a tractor with more capacity doesn't seem logical...

I am talking Amish style cabinets made of 3/4" plywood and 100# full extension drawer slides. But that may be pricey with the cost of wood now.

Mr. Locktite is a friend of mine. A few drops on lug-nuts helped me because mine loosened up considerably in 40 hours but have not since then for 1000 hours. Of course I still glance down lug-nuts before every hard job.