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Hi everybody, My son started his first year in the FFA and instead of the typical first year chicken, turkey or rabbit he wants to raise a goat. I've got darn little experience with goats but I've been trying to read up so I can at least try to help when he has problems instead of having to run...

I bought a Bison SVH-1 Subsoiler the thing weighs 220lbs and is a monster compared to the King Kutter model. It has a 25" X 1.25" parabolic shank on it and in looking at the specs is designed for a minimum 40hp tractor. I'm using a 90hp M9000 to pull it. I got it home last night and rigged my...

Hi everyone, I'm in need of a deep subsoiler to break up my hardpack in preparation of fall planting so I've been looking at Heavy duty subsoilers. I briefly looked at the one TSC sells for $164. but I'm sure with my 90HP machine that I'd fold it up quickly. The best price I've found is on a...

We live in a 200 year old caretakers cabin which has a corrugated rust and galvanized metal roof needless to say the right thing to do would be to reroof it but $12,000 is about $11,500 outside of my budget so I need to repair it so it doesn't leak. So far I stopped at HD last night and picked...

I need to put in a 50 amp service box for my welder I'm running it like a main supply panel instead of a sub panel. I'm not an electrician by any stretch so I've got what probably is a stupid question which will probably get me the call a professional response but if I had the money for that I...

I had a thread going on a Lincoln AC/DC welder that I found on clearance at Home Depot its a K-1297 / 225-125 unit. I bought the machine this morning and now I'd like to find the best, most informative book that money can buy to help me learn how to weld. I'd also love any info on the best all...

Hi everybody, I know you get tired of answering the same questions but PLEASE comment on my find, I plan on buying it as soon as Home Depot opens in the morning barring any reason why not. Home Depot is having a 20% off sale and they have a Lincoln AC/DC 225-125 model number K1297 on sale that...

Hi folks I'm still working on my Hydraulic Top Link issue of current one being to short with PECS. I found a company with apparently a US presense that sells the top links made somewhere in the UK its called Bare-Co, here is their web site http://www.bare-co.com/files/hydraul2001/hy22.htm it...

I added PECS to my M9000 and love it, problem is my Hyd Top Link is to short now. If you have two choices lengthen your HTL by having a new cylinder made 6" longer with a 1-1/2" ram so its heavier duty then the current one which is a 15-3/4" cylinder with a 1-1/4" ram at a cost of $200 or Have a...

My PECS finally came in and I got it installed all of my implements fit fine and it works great but I don't have enough travel for my BB as I was warned about by Pat and ya'll. The Kubota manual for my M9000 says earthmoving top hole, plows and such middle hole and disc and such bottom hole...

Hi folks glad TBN is back I was going into withdrawal today while it was down, Thank You Muhammad! I have been communicating with Pat's company about his Easy Change but I'd really like to get some feedback from you guys out there who are using his cat 2 version, I'm assuming its just the same...

Hi Folks I'm sure the Mr. Funnel folks probably won't appreciate this post especially since they are a sponsor but I bought my Mr Funnel, Funnel its the high flow version when I bought my tractor November of 2004 and have only used it for filling my machine up with Diesel, no gas or any other...

Hi folks I've had a post on my well going that was popping the reset button the well folks made it out yesterday and informed me that my less then 4 year old 3hp Aeromotor well pump is dying. they had me keep resetting it yesterday and fill my storage tank as much as possible I got an extra...

Its Monday, I can tell because my day has already started without me, the well is pretty new (3 years old) with a 5hp motor in a 650 foot well a three thousand gallon concrete storage tank and a 10 hp booster pump that I had constructed to be bullet proof its not a good day. The pump will run...

Hi everybody Happy Memorial Day Weekend, Thanks to all you active and retired duty soldiers we still have a place to call home. I have a Tractor Tube question what size tractor tube makes the best for a single butt to ride the river in? Has to be available at TSC they are the only ones out here...

I know how everybody likes pictures so I thought I'd share my bucket hook mods with all the toys Steve

Hinged Box Blade to pin or not to pin? How\'d Udoit I've got a thread going about how happy I am with my Box Blade after I reversed my scarifiers to point up in the air and Kioti John brings up a good point. Of you guys that have a hinged back blade how many of you have one that will pin closed...

I\'m a slow learner but this box blade is a dream I've been using my box blade for ballast as much as anything else its a XB84 woods extreme duty 1000+ lb BB and once in a while dragging it to attempt to smooth out my ranch roads, there are over 10 miles of internal roads on our ranch so it...

Steve\'s post of the year, smart folks please reply I've got a diesel tank mounted on its side on a stand for my tractor that if full holds 300 gallons, it is 45" up and down (from one side of the circle to the other), 50" long side to side and 143-1/2" or almost 12' around. Picture a very big...

I've got 2 wells on the ranch 1 is our drinking water well that is drilled to 650' and has a 4,000 gallon storage tank in reserve. We are very happy with it and the water other then being hard is very good. My irrigation well is much shallower probably 200' or so, it is the original well and do...

My 20 mile 110 volt fence charger around the garden has gone out its an old sears model thats lasted for 25 years so rather then try to fix it again I'm looking to replace it with one from TSC does anybody have any reccomendations or a favorite that has lasted well and does a good job of burning...

I wanted to list this in tractor projects but I figured the moderators would move it to here anyway. I have successfully gotten our food plots plowed, seeded, fertilized and disked in. Three hours after we finished it started raining and rained a gentle 3 inches of rain over 2 days time. Its now...

Well my tractor salesmans dad had already given away his spreader so I'm back in the market. My Kubota dealer stocks Fuerst but in our area I have easy access to other spreaders they all are the standard painted metal type funnels the spreaders I've seen for sale around here are Fuerst...

I own an M9000 with a LA1251 Loader and while moving around the ranch or even out on the road at almost max RPM and speed my cylinders bleed down and I have to recurl and lift up every 15 minutes or so, is this normal or should I have the Kubota folks do some warranty work? They don't fall fast...

A lot of you guys won't consider this a project but it'll be 3 years in the works and the only bad part of it is I won't be using the tractor to do it. He was born yesterday and is out of one of Two Eyed Jacks sons and he is positively beautiful and the first Appalousa marked son he's ever...

rural-ML-835610-ML- Posted in wrong forum. Not related to a tractor project.

My tractor salesman has found me a in new shape a used 11 bushel or so herd broadcast spreader new price $579 for $400. I'd like to use it to spread lime, fertilizer and food plot mixes with various size seeds some of them pretty small grains in most of the mixes. Will it do an acceptable job of...

I've got a $300 credit at Harbor Freight what should I buy? I'm not impressed with their Central Electric power tools but I'd like to get some sort of big ticket item that I wouldn't usually buy if I was coughing up the dough. How are their air tools or hydraulic stuff? I don't mind going over a...

I'm looking at purchasing a duraspin screw gun to screw in 3" stainless screws into treated 2 x 8's that I'm going to use as decking for our house. I know I hear your painful looks why 2 x 8's instead of plywood. I'm building the house by myself weekends and nights it will take forever to get it...

Hi folks, We actually got all our piers in the ground on Sunday and are ready to proceed on building our house. We're building it on the budget plan so its a little at a time until we have to get it dried in. Next step is to cut off all the piers level and there are 27 of them they are 6" x 6"...

I'm no longer a tractor newbie with over 200 hours on my machine but I keep seeing threads with folks talking about using their brakes for turning. I've got a M9000 that I use for a multitude of things including plowing and discing so it sounds like it would help me since many of my food plots...

I'm sorry to do this, I know double posting is frowned upon but at least I kept it in the same category so I'm not being sneaky just desperate for responses, I have a chance to pick up a 30' X 40' "A" frame type quonset style building at about half of retail from U.S. Building Systems tommorrow...

Does anyone have any experience with U.S. Building Systems they are located in Boone NC and ship arch type buildings worldwide. The price is right, less than $8,000 for a 30' x 40' "A" frame meaning its a quanset hut style building with straight sides and a mild peak roof. The price does not...

I realize that this question has been kicked around a lot but a year later It's wood cutting and splitting time again. I'm wondering of the folks that have either of the splitters have you had any problems with them and which do you think is better and why. The Northern one has the ability to be...

Hi folks, I'm building a club house/deer blind with my son this weekend and have aquired some 1/4" thick used Lexan for the windows. They are great big storefront sheets and I need to cut some very long runs like 4 foot long by 20" tall slider windows out of them. What would you use to cut it. I...

I've read many of the chain saw threads and lots of the folks sharpen their own saw blades. I've always bought 3 or 4 blades for my stihls and when they get dull drop them off to have them sharpened. They usually charge me $4 or $5 per chain to sharpen them but I just recently bought a new Stihl...

I don't know if this is proper but my tractor salesman/now a good friend as well called me today and wanted to know if I knew anyone looking for a great deal on a tractor with implements I'm not but I figured somebody on TBN might love to talk to this guy. He sold new in June of 2004 a L 3130...

Regretably, Sitrex has a web site but does not list a Chisel Plow in their products listings. Hay King on the other hand does under HayKing.com the one I'm looking at is a 7 shank vs the Sitrex 9 shank, the Sitrex is unique in that its built out of nut and bolts type construction with 2 great...

I have a well weighted Hay King Disc Harrow that I have been using to disc up the food plots but I'd like to get in even deeper and turn the soil a bit more. I have seen s tines, clamps and bolt on points at tractor supply has anybody ever done this or for some reason do you see any reason why...

I\"m ready to weight my disc how much is safe I have mounted two 40# propane tanks on my disc getting ready for fall planting the disc is an 8' Hay King Harrow disc it is very well made and has I think 21" serated disc, last time I planted in the spring it was kinda slow going and multiple...

I have started planting food plots at the ranch and my neighbors tell me that if I terrace my fields against the slope of the land I can retain water in them better. I'm have a M9000, a hvy BB, a 3pt disc and the tractor has a loader. Do I have what it takes or is it time to go shopping. I...

I got my repaired loader/curl cylinder back today and just looking for any helpful tips on reinstalling it. For instance will I be able to pull out the cylinder shaft to line it up by hand, its dry right now, once I get it reinstalled do I need to bleed the air out of it someway or will the hyd...

I can't believe it but I hurt my baby today I was smoothing a roadway and went to dump the bucket on a 1251A loader mounted on a M9000 the ram is probably 1-1/4" thick and it sheared when it was almost fully extended before I got it shut down I probably dumped a couple of gallons of Hyd fluid...

We are in the process of building our house and I'm wondering if anyone has a lot or any experience good or bad with Ridgid Power Tools. They are sold at Home Depot and recently began offering a Lifetime Service Warranty that covers everything that wears out except blades and sand paper it does...

Well I stuck my 12\" auger on the first 12hole ever Thanks everyone on TBN for all the valueable information that can be found on the site you saved me again. I was drilling into solid rock for my hunters new outhouse hole and I drilled 36" down with my hydraulic Beltec then stopped unpinned it...

I put in numerous food plots this year with my new tractor and disc and the plots are all doing pretty well. For my next plantings and my honeys garden I'd like to get deeper as all I could manage without weights on the disc was about 6" or so on average although in really fertile soil it pulled...

I have a Bell Tec Hydraulic Auger and I need a larger bit all I have currently is a 2" puff drill for putting in T post. What size is best for all around wood/metal pipe fence post holes. Also I need to use it to drill 48, 2' deep holes in mostly solid rock to sink piers for my new house I...

Sorry folks I've tried sending him a PM and just thought this might catch his eye if he doesn't do PM's or doesn't post often but reads them. I'm looking for a heavy duty 3pt subsoiler and Allen has one pictured in a thread that looks like what I need if they make one for cat class II's because...

I\'m looking for a Hvy duty 3pt Class II subsoiler Has anyone in the US seen or know where I can get a well made subsoiler I'd like it to be CatII and heavy enough to not have to worry about trenching through some pretty rocky ground and pulling water pipe and conduit behind a 90HP 4wd tractor...

I own a custom built rock crawler with a CJ7 as the body all else is custom, frame, drive shafts, difs, trany etc. I use it on the ranch to haul heavy stuff around and toodle around the ranch in. It has a 327 under the hood that I fuel injected last year and I still can't get it to idle around...

I have to ask this and I'm sure I'll get plenty of eye rolls but I've got hundreds of huge brush piles on the ranch that I'm slowly making into more manageable burn size piles. Once in a while when I push into the pile and close the grapple I take what is obviously to biga bite and when I go to...

I'm still in the I need more light mode and I'm wondering it would be so much easier to mount lights in the grill guard and just run a relay and switch back to the dash. Is there a drastic difference in light output (flood ability) mounted on top of the rops or should I take the easy way out and...

I'm trying to post multiple small file size photos into a post and don't know what program to use to combine them so that they all go in together and are still acceptable to the TBN server steve

I went out and played like a farmer last Sunday in the rain with my brand new 8' lift disk harrow it got very muddy as a matter of fact you can't see the 20" front set of disc it is one solid roll of dried mud now. I need to use it this weekend to do it for real and I'm wondering should I try to...

I need this to be explained very simple so a city boy gone country can do it right. I have a 90HP tractor and a 3-pt 8' disc harrow. Do I just start at one end and go around and around or should I spend the time to have nice straight rows and go back and forth or? These plantings won't be...

Found the mother lode of new parts for old JD\'s I went to pickup my new disk and some seed this morning its raining so the disk is still on the trailer. I have to tell anyone looking for old John Deere parts for tractors or implements that I found the place. It is a tractor and implement...

I ordered a 8 foot 3 point disc harrow for my tractor it should be in tommorrow I wondered if anyone can give me a quick tutorial on its use. ie How fast should I move, How deep, what angle to set the disc and for what reason, can I run it at a certain depth or is it just drop it and go and it...

I have gone and looked at numerous used disc harrows the last couple of weeks and all of them that are affordable also need to be completely overhauled by the time you replace all the disc and bearings on a used one you could buy a new one with all the pretty paint intact for a day or two. What...

I'm looking at buying a 3pt disc harrow and heavy duty new ones to use with a 90hp tractor are over $1,000 so I'm considering buying a used one in that the disc at least are in good shape on and then if the bearings go out just replace them with sealed ones if possible. I found a pretty nice 8'...

I have done a lot of research on a good for all implement for planting food plots around the ranch and I'm having trouble figuring out what is best. I really thought a chain harrow with a lift frame would be best and now looking at the price of an 8' chain harrrow with lift for around a $1,000...

I just talked to a dealer from http://www.ezhitch.biz/ez_lift_boom and he sounds like he's got a good product I wondered if anyone has bought anything from them and were you happy with it. My idea is since I need a chain harrow I buy this and not buy a frame for the harrow and just attach a pipe...

I went and looked at a chain harrow at TSC last week as all the rain is killing my roads. I'm going to have crushed gravel delivered as soon as it dries up a bit and would like my roads to look nice I'm considering whether to buy the TSC one or just pull some chainlink fence with logs wired to...

I hate to ask this because it isn't looked on to highly in our part of the world anymore. We bought a ranch in 1999 and this year sold our house in town to live there. The ranch has been inspected by the county and they are aware of our cesspool which is grandfathered in because it has always...

Shipping seems to be the largest deterent from ordering one from very far away but the only one that TSC sells is painted and its $258. I'd really prefer galvanized if I could find it but in the many searches I've done the best ones seem to be from a company in PA which makes shipping almost as...

I'm sorry to have to ask what some will see as an ignorant questions but I need a large volume of hay and so now I've got a Tractor to handle it I'm going out tommorrow morning to get a round bale. 1. How can you tell by looking or poking around in it how fresh the hay is and if its any good or...

Actually I bought 2 Asses but that didn't sound near as funny. The one on the left is mine she's a 9 yr old mare mule and the one on the right is my wife's he's a 10 yr old gelding mule. We need help naming them. We tried all the traditional names on them and nothing seems to fit they are a...

Has anyone experienced their new maint free battery particularly Kubota's boiling out acid (a lot, enough to run all the way down and cover the lefthand side axle completely). The dealer checked the electrical system at start up, at higher rpms and over a couple of hours and it never exceeded...

I started my day this morning by calling the local law enforcement and inquiring about driving my tractor down the frontage road their response have fun and be careful. I needed my 50 hour service and a little warrany stuff done (my battery is leaking acid) It took about 1-1/2 hours to drive...

My operators manual says the best way to avoid condensation problems in your tractor tank is to refill it everytime you are finished using it. I have only had my tractor since November and I'm having a fairly major problem with water in my tractor tank. How many of you TBN'rs refill your tank...

I've dumped my water seperator filter 3 days in a row I talked to the Kubota folks to confirm and they said put one of the additives in the tractor to break it up. Would Power Service for diesel be the best thing to use or what would you suggest? Steve

I have almost 50 hours on my tractor now and noticed the red float in the water seperator was almost even with the white line so I got out the book and studied up on removing the seperator and dumping the water out. I turned off the inline valve unscrewed the seperator and dumped out the...

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I've read bunches of post over the past couple of months and now have almost 50 hours on the tractor but I'm still fighting the box blade war. I have graded the road coming to the ranch for a mile or so with very good success it is a crushed limestone county road that I was tired of waiting for...

I'm really embarrassed to ask this because I paid very good attention at the training sesson but the sales guy only showed me the new ones on the bucket end that move back and forth in brackets and you just push them in and hold onto the back and out they come. The ones on the remotes are the...

Finally got a picture of my new \"Tool\" This is the dirt pile that I've been working on originally it was a thousand or so yards 4 days later I about got it moved to the lake dam site.

I went to TSC to get a shackle for my new 1/2" chain and they don't stock a 5/8 screw type shackle nor does anybody else around here. Can I take a pin type shackle and use a 3/4" grade 5 bolt threw it with a lock nut and have the same thing or is a grade 5 bolt not as stong as a pin. The reason...

I'm planning on hooking up a chain to my drawbar and pulling large trees with my 90hp M9000. What size chain are ya'll using I sure don't want the chain to break and go zinging past my head very often. I asked the dealer and he said get something I can handle easy but 3/8" doesn't seem very...

The Kubota service mgr said if it was him he would use the wires under the rear fenders to hookup some lights to mount on my ROPS. I plan on two forward and one back. I've looked at the post about the magnetic lights using the welding magnet but TSC sells a Flood magnetic made by blazer they are...

I finally have started using the new tractor and I've got a question. I know you guys swear by the tilt meters and all but my sales guy told me that he uses the clinch method and that way he has his eyes on his work at all times which seems to make sense to me. When he starts eating the vinyl...

Somewhere in the post someone started a thread on doing something to your dipstick so that you can see the hydro fluid. I have looked and done searches for an hour and I can't find it does anyone know what the thread title was or have any recommendations all I can see is the oil on the bottom of...

I\'m not a Farmer but do ya\'ll think this\'ll work I'd like to plant some winter rye, oats or something for my deer herd and jackasses to munch on. My boxblade has those ripper teeth on it I'm thinking I could turn it so just they are contacting and plow up the area and then seed it and then...

I've got the old long lever variety with a ruuber hose and so to grease the tractor each zerk I have to stop, grab the hose, push it on, reposition hands without pulling the hose off and pump. My question is I've seen at TSC a regular size grease gun (not the small one) with a pistol grip...

I've looked at some of the sites on electric houses vs propane and depending on who is sponsoring the sites it seems to sway the pro's and con's. It seems it would be cheaper to use propane for central heat, cooking and hot water and electric for the rest although its hard to tell just how much...

My Kubota M9000 finally arrived and it was delivered with the Auger on, it is a Beltec hydraulic down pressure unit so I took it off after much fumbling around and hooked up the 84" gannon/woods box blade the hydraulics for the auger after a little grinding fit the box blade toplink bracket and...

Well I got it today coordinating the delivery took a while and we didn't get everything hauled to the ranch. The Shredder, Loader Bucket and Box Blade wouldn't fit happily on a 24' gooseneck along with the Tractor, Grapple and Auger so on Friday AM they will bring out the rest. We got here about...

I really, really need to hear any thoughts on this tonight as tommorrow morning I need to stop by the dealership and look it over and if there is anything I've forgotten or doesn't seem in order it would be the best time to bring it up because I'd really like to have it delivered tommorrow...

I've posted twice and so far ya'll have scared me off both. The first was using RR ties for piers and the second was using sonotube. The RR ties because you couldn't cut well, they might have termites and they rot from inside out quickly stood on end. And the sonotube requires as much as 22,000...

I got a 300 gallon tank full of diesel for my tractor that still hasn't been delivered. My question is there a single product I can dump in it to keep it fresh and free of algae, geling and any other problems. If so how much should I use and where can I get it.

I was looking at the flexpoint hitch on this sites home page has anyone ordered one and are they any good/ heavy duty enough to hook a 36' or so trailer to and not worry about folding it up. They seem a little pricey are they worth it or could I have a welding shop fab one better and cheaper.

My road is 500 or so foot long, curvy and hilly with a few wet weather springs thrown in for fun. I have two options a 12,000 lb capacity dump truck that can chain his gate and drive to give me a preliminary spread of base the length of the road or a 25,000 lb capacity belly dump that has to...

I posted a prior post about using RR Ties and the majority of the folks here seem to think BAD Idea. OK numerous folks indicated that they had used sonotube for piers so my questions are fairly simple. My first thought was to stake out the house mark all the holes start from one end and go back...

I don't recall posting to the rural living site I'm usually found lurking and learning on the tractor section. I have a chance to buy unused 7" x 7" x 9' creosoted railroad ties at $10. each. Can I use these in a pier and beam house as the piers buried 3' to 4' feet in the ground or will the rot...

Thought I'd update any who care about my adventures. I ordered a Kubota M9000 with a 1251a Loader, a rhino 72 tw shredder, a woods 84" extreme duty box blade, a Beltec Hydraulic down pressure rock auger, a H&H "V" type toothbar and a BTR grapple rake. All of this was done in mid September...

I posted a question on attachments essentially asking which is the better steel to use for a grapple bucket and got no responses as of yet. I've really got to have a decision on this tonight so that when I go meet with the dealer in the AM I know what to tell him to do. He ordered a FCC grapple...

I am a complete Novice to tractors and my M9000 will be delivered hopefully next week. My question is I will have a hydraulic top link on my BelTec that I hope to be able to use with all my 3pt attachments after reading the top and tilt threads I am wondering can I tilt the blade with the screw...