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Just acquired a S650G as part of a barter deal. Not running, wiring harness is a disaster, missing the distributor. Engine is loose and tractor is otherwise in decent condition, so I'm going to try to get it running. Couple of questions: 1. Is there a serial number list that I can cross to...

I'm pleasantly surprised myself. I've been down this road before (slow learner...) and usually lose my shirt.

Sorry, haven't been back to visit this thread for a while. I've sold everything usable except the dozer blade and the grille/hood/gas tank. Re: The Machinery Pete post. Asking price is one thing, actual selling price is something else entirely. I was (mostly) kidding about the wife, but it...

Pretty much sold out. All that's left is the sheet metal and the dozer blade and frame.

Nope, 2 cylinder gasser.

Good engine, sheet metal, gas tank, radiator which I think are also compatible with 420/430 wheel tractors. Many crawler-specific parts. Email me at pfoxyATyahooDOTcom for a list with prices and/or pictures. Offers considered on any purchase. Delivery possible within a 300 mile radius of...

Elderly friend of mine has a 420C that needs some transmission work and offered it to me at a VERY attractive price. I'm familiar with working on older tractors in general but never a crawler. According to him, it needs a bearing but other than that is ready to work. I have no reason to...

I posted a topic on the original version here. The right angle drive I used was VERY used when I got it and didn't like being run upside down, probably due to lube issues. In any event, it failed catastrophically. I decided to resurrect the project this Spring and got a 30 hp-rated brush hog...

Looking for a source for a 3/4 remanufactured Yanmar 3tna72uj3 engine for a JD 455. May also be known as a "long block". What I'd like to do is just drop the new engine in and swap manifolds/starter/water pump etc. off the old engine.

I'm rapidly getting fed up with problems related to HST transmissions and thinking about trading. A factory cab is a must, a gear shift transmission is a must, a non-DPF/Regen engine is highly desirable. Pretty brand flexible as long as there's dealer support and it isn't a Chinese orphan.

I'm gathering components to try my hand at TIG welding aluminum. I've been TIGing mild and stainless steel for a while so I'm not a complete newbie, but... So I ordered the appropriate 1/8 diameter 2% ceriated tungstens and collets, along with some Al TIG rod and new stainless steel wire...

I realize this forum is intended primarily for tractor-related implements and attachments. However, many/most of the projects here are built from steel and steel fabrication requires grinding so there IS a connection. :D I had to buy a piece of 25mm shaft (McMaster-Carr), four 3x3.25 load...

I've been planning to do this for a couple of years now. Between a gravel drive and town/state salted roads, I was getting quite a bit of surface rust on my Pronovost Puma 64 blower. I was hoping to take the impeller off but not really counting on it as they're usually corroded in place to the...

Neighbor has a 6530. Ran it low enough on transmission/hydraulic fluid that it shut down. Topped off the fluid and waited a couple hours for the level to settle and the air to work out, fired it up and the loader, 3 point hitch and PTO all work, but it won't move. Acts like the clutch is...

I have a dump trailer that I built using what I had laying around. It's okay, but it won't lift much because the cylinder is too small, it's direct lift and the geometry is less than optimal. I want to build my own scissors hoist and go with a shorter stroke but much larger diameter cylinder...

I did a short search and didn't see an applicable thread, so sorry if this has been asked a million times before... It's time to shell out for a couple of new tires for my ancient Pasquali tractor. Old tires are marked as 6.50-16. They're R1/Ag tires. I can find 6x16 or 7x16 fairly...

I've been wanting a way to trim ditches and under trees. Sicklebar and disc mowers are just stupid expensive and it doesn't make any sense to spend four or five grand on something you'll use for 2 hours twice a year, if that. They sell a commercial version of a 3 point hitch mounted string...

Seems like this picture was taken just a couple of months ago. The little guy on the tractor is my grandson and he just bought his first house and a new tractor to go with it. JD 3025E with a loader. Where the heck did the time go? Great-grandsons on Dad's new toy.

I've lost a couple of lenses on the upper flashers on my Kubota B2650HDSC. Mowing under trees and such they get rubbed on a lot. Blowing snow after the recent storm, a lot of the trees next to the drive had branches weighed down with snow and I finally broke one plumb off. Ordered a new one...

I have one driveway I keep cleared out that has that nasty crushed stone on it. I tried to keep the blower up high enough with the 3 point hitch to stay out of the stone but my success rate was...ummmmm...variable. The owners were a tad miffed with the amount of stone they had to rake out of...

The dealer I bought my B2650 from loaded the rear tires as part of the deal. It's been sitting a while (mowing season over, blowing season hasn't begun yet...:laughing:) and when I used it today it felt like it was wallowing pretty badly. It improved some after the tires warmed up and "got...

That looks like something that would be just the ticket for my needs. Is that a commercial unit, or did you build it? Do you have some detail pictures of how the grapple is mounted, hinged and powered? Thanks.

I'm working a John Deere 455 with the Yanmar diesel. The poor thing has been abused and is worn very badly, but still runs if you can get it started (low compression I'm sure.) I've been nursing this thing along for a guy for years. Latest problem is that somehow or another, it got the fuel...

Did a search, didn't see any threads less than 4 years old. Anybody bought a Landpride FDR2572 or something close to it lately? I'm considering it, but need to know what to expect price-wise. Thanks.

Is there a sub-forum or other place appropriate to post Kudos for a particular dealer?

Toying with the idea of getting a bucket with manure tines on it for handling/turning compost. It would be used on the LA534 loader on my B2650 Something like the Woods MF6000 (60") looks ideal but NOBODY posts prices on this stuff and I'm just ornery enough that I won't jump through the...

Just ordered a full set of new teef for my ancient Howard HR-6 rotavator. Still, it was considerable cheaper than SWMBO's new teef! :eek::laughing:

I want to cut a section out of a motorcycle fender and then weld it back together at about 2/3rds the original length. The underside is no problem, but the "top" is chrome plated. I don't especially care if the chrome gets discolored from the heat as it will be painted anyway. Questions: 1...

I love everything about my new Kubota except for one thing: The treadle-type pedal for the hydro. I MUCH prefer the two pedal approach: One for forward, one for reverse. Using the toe-lift method on the front half is very uncomfortable for anything other than brief spells. Using the heel is...

Getting our first actual snow of the year today. 5-ish inches on the ground, posta snow until the wee hours. It's very fine snow as it's in the teens temperature-wise, took a long time to build up to anything. The Cabota is plugged into a wireless switched outlet. I hit the remote while...

When I ordered my 2650, I didn't think about blowing snow at oh-dark-thirty so didn't have them add the rear worklights. Based on how bright the front incandescents are (or rather, aren't...), that probably wasn't a bad thing. I did order the factory switch to put in the cutout on the dash...

1995 John Deere 455. Not running. Plastic all stove to pieces. Been used and abused and sits outside with no cover. Owner wants it fixed but I'm not getting tangled up in THAT briar patch. I know the guy, I'd never see the money for my labor and I wouldn't even consider buying the parts out...

I posted in another forum about the Jari sicklebar mower I bought. The keyway on the main driveshaft is all hogged out and the drive pulley won't stay on. Not a huge technical challenge for a machinist to weld up the keyway and cut a new one. Problem is, I don't have a mill to do it myself...

I'm toying with the idea of building a lawn-tractor mounted string trimmer. One thing I'm considering is powering it hydraulically. The trimmer head I'd use came off a DR-type trimmer that had a 6hp gas engine on it. What size motor (in either cubic inches or GPM, whichever is more...

I have a small drainage ditch that cuts right through my front lawn. It's a county/state drain and moving/modifying it is not an option. It's about 6-8 feet wide at the top and perhaps 3 feet deep. It looks like crap because it's full of weeds, cattails, multiflora rose and baby alders. At...

I did a search and most of the posts on this topic are 4+ years old, so I thought I'd start a new one. Wife and I put about 60 chickens a year in our freezer, but we're not getting any younger and the thought of standing out in the August heat and hand-plucking 5 dozen birds is just more than...

Don't see a poll feature here, but curious: How many folks insist on using OEM filters (oil, fuel, air, hydraulic, trans) on their tractors? Not limited to a specific brand, but if you have a JD do you buy JD filters at the dealer, or if a Kubota at the Kubota dealer, etc. I'm gonna let...

The sway bars for the lower arms on the 3 point hitch on my B2650 use a pin with a hairpin clip on the bottom for the adjustment. The hairpin is tough to see and hard to handle with my arthritic old hands so I put a keychain ring on them to make them easier to get hold of. I was a little...

I do a fair bit of small engine/yard & garden equipment repair. Feller dropped off an MTD log splitter. It has a Haldex 718-04127 two stage pump direct-coupled to the bottom of a vertical shaft Briggs and Scrapiron engine. There's oil dripping off the engine side of the pump mount. It's...

The little tool tray behind the seat A) isn't big enough, and B) does not give me a warm fuzzy feeling storing tools and pins and such next to all that glass. So: I mounted a mini-ammo can to the loader mount. There were three drilled and tapped holes in the loader mount that aren't being...

The "grille guard" that came with the loader on my new B2650 is a joke. It might help if something fell straight down off the loader, but not much, and any sticks/twigs/brush would go through it at will. I learned my lesson on that with my old JD, and it's an expensive lesson to learn. So I...

:D Lost a ewe this winter and things are thawed enough to bury her. Seeing as the old Woods hoe won't fit on my new Cabota, I had to borrow a buddy's Cat 416. In exchange, I get to figger out why the Cat ain't charging...

Picked it up at the dealer yesterday after waiting nearly 4 weeks for them to get one in. They couldn't arrange delivery until mid-to-late next week, but I was all done waiting, thank you, so I drove up and picked it up. Got some seat time today and discovered a few things: 1. My Woods 650...

I've got an email in to the dealer so I'll find out eventually, but thought someone here might have one and could tell me: What does the Kubota B2650 have for a winter starting aid? Glow plugs or something similar? Factory block heater? If not, has anybody installed a block heater on a 2650?

Had reason to be in The Big City today on other business and decided to stop by the Kubota dealer. He quoted me $27,200 on a B2650 with a cab and a loader. Less $300 rebate on the loader and either $500 on the tractor or 0/60 financing. Got me doing some SERIOUS head scratching...

What is the smallest Kubota model that you can get a factory cab on? I've been to the Kubota website and done the "build one" thing, but cabs don't seem to be an option until you get into the 50+ horsepower class, which is just about twice as much tractor as I'd be looking for. Just...

20-odd years ago, when my grandson was just a little shaver, I bought him a Tuff Trax tricycle in John Deere colors. He practically rode the wheels off that thing, and his little brother put many a mile on it after that. When they outgrew it, it wound up in one of my sheds, forgotten and...

Besides my own and my daughter's, I have one driveway I do for "pay". I'm not looking for others. We've gotten so darn much snow that the plow guys are running out of places to put it. The parking lot at the Post Office across the street gets a little smaller every storm and the postmistress...

I need to replace the water line from the house to the barn. I did the original with a chain trencher and got it down 16" or so. I drain it in the fall and lug water with buckets all winter. Hooked it up this spring and I have a blockage of some sort, either collapsed pipe or ice, not sure...

I started with an old 12V boat winch I scrounged out of a dumpster. The original design used a wire rope drive with several wraps around the winch drum and connected to the chute in the same manner as the original manual crank. In practice, it didn't work all that well as I couldn't figure a...

Little of both here. The rear blower IS a bit of a pain in the neck (arrrrrr, humor...) but the price/complexity of a front mount is way out of my reach, so I deal with it. Between drifting and the loving attention of the town plow, I have to knock back the banks at the head of my driveway 2-3...

A better idea is hydraulic power down on the PHD. More controllable, less work, not terribly difficult to fabricate.

+1 on the Pronovost. I have a Puma 64 that I bought used. It's a beast and the folks at Pronovost were very helpful when I was looking for an owner's manual and parts list. I don't use my plow much at all any more, unless we have a real booger of a winter and I need to push the banks back a...

:laughing: John Deere Model H, Series 1951

Firewood for NEXT winter. I try to stay a year ahead, might even get to 2 years the way winters have been lately. I built a subframe that pins on in place of the bucket. The subframe carries a manual angle snow plow or the forks you see. I also plumbed a hydraulic "thumb" on the forks to...

'nuff sed. :thumbsup:

I have an '88 JD 750 compact, bought it new. Being on the wrong side of 60, riding around mowing in the stock seat is giving my back fits. I'm considering going to an aftermarket suspension seat. I'm enough of a fabricator to make a mount that will work. Anybody done this? If so, what seat...

Hi, Sorta-new-guy here. I was a member years ago but forgot my login-password, so I re-registered. I have a 1988 JD 750 that I bought new with various attachments, details in another thread if anyone is interested. I've also built/modified several attachments, and I'm reasonably handy with a...