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Depends on the size of the generator. I have 16 kW generator I used on my farm, it will start and then run three 3 hp motors and three 1 hp motors.

That is exactly what I did. I have the heavy loads (electric heat) connected to the grid power and a transfer switch to connect the rest to the grid if my batteries get low. $20,000 for an 11,000 pvw off grid system and I did the install myself. I did find out I am a little short on power so I...

I have an off grid solar system and a connection to the grid. If my batteries get too low I use a transfer switch to connect my home back to the grid. My heavy loads are on a separate circuit always connected to the grid.

Those little tabs just keep it from pulling off when back bladeing. The tooth bar does not just sit on top of the bucket cutting edge, each tooth shank has a slot under it that wedges under the bucket cutting edge. These are the same shanks that go on excavator buckets, you are not going to...

Amazon has many.

I once did one better. I would do weekend work for a large land owner, he also owned the local Kubtoa dealership. This was in northeast Florida. He had a five acre wooded lot that had been logged off and was going to replant it with pines. A log skidder had pulled a rolling forest chopper...

I owned a farm for 25 years but no longer have access to any of the equipment. On most tractors the drawbar is the lowest part. With big tractors you straddle two rows so that doesn't matter. As long as the circumfrance ratio remained the same changing tires would work. I do straddle the row...

I got my small tractor (JD 1023E) to work my garden. The R4's are so wide my rows have be too narrow. Also the tractor is too low, I can not cultivate the rows after the plants grow a bit. I wonder if anyone makes narrow rims for this tractor ( it is the same frame as the much more popular...

I can't lift a 5 gal can to fill my SCUT. I bought a 12 volt pump from Harbor Freight. I place it on the floorboard and suck from a can I sit on the ground. My neighbor recently sold the land ($5.25 million) where is farming operation was based and moved everything to the field next to my...

Solar farms are built on existing farm land because it is cheaper. My neighbor also owns farm land four miles down the road. He recently sold 400 acres to a utility for $13500 an acre. I ask him the same question. He said farm land is already cleared and leveled with access roads in place...

The difference is you can swing the front quickly when you steer the front tires.

Big advantage of the John Deere quick attach system. The bottom pins can not come out once the lynch pins are inserted. Plus even the weakest person can insert and flip the bail without leaning over once the loader boom is lifted.

As a farmer I had to pull out stuck vehicles often. My dad had a 20 ft long 1/2 inch logging chain, no danger breaking that with a 75 HP tractor. I remember when stretch ropes became popular. A farming magazine showed what could happen if a stretch rope was used with a short chain. It was a...

I am a green tractor guy, when I owned a farm we had 7 green tractors and one blue one. My neighbor has 7 big green tractors and two smaller orange ones. I think the fact that his wife's uncle owns the Kubota dealership might have something to do with those. I wanted to buy a CUT but all the...

Three years ago I saw an add for a Kubota B7100, $2500. It had a bad motor but it came with a full set of implements. Roto tiller, brush hog, disc harrow, box blade, angle blade, three point frame with 2" receiver hitch, and a boom pole. I bought it planning to overhaul the motor but wanted...

I have lived in the same place for 50 years. Four years ago I had 6 oak trees that were too close to my home and needed to be taken down, 24-36 inches at the base, who knew oak trees grew that fast. I live on 15 acres so they are my trees. Luckily I had access to a John Deere 510 backhoe. I...

Don't cheap out, I made that mistake. I knew what sized tractor I needed but got the (E)conamy model. For $2500 more I could have got the bette(R) model with an adjustable steering wheel, suspension seat, and power lift with depth set.

Basically it is a tube of plastic in the fill opening that looks like a screen. How do I know, because I yanked them out of the new gas cans I bought. Why, because you can't fill them at a gas pump, the nozzle keeps jumping off. The screen is too fine to allow more then a trickle of gas in...

So exactly how is the better service going to be delivered to his house? TV or Internet, they both require some sort of cable. I do not have access to cable of any sort, satellite service sucks.

My 1023e does not have 50 hrs on it yet but soon will. I will save this for when I try to grease it. I do have a hole saw and am not afraid to use it.

Any man with a home and wife will always have a job. I became disabled in 2009. With little money I had to do all the home repairs myself. It seems like I have done more work in the last 13 years then I did in the preceding 13. My wife got a good job so we do have some money so I got a John...

We owned 4 3020's, a 4440, and two 4250's. All great and had over 10,000 hrs each when we had to sell them. All but the 1971 3020 my dad bought new, my brother still has it. Needs a new fuel tank, oil seal on engine and PTO clutch repaired.

Pumps it just fine. I had to dump the oil out of my JD 510 backhoe to clean the sump strainer. It takes 15 gal. I have a difficult time lifting those 5 gal buckets onto the platform. I just stuck the suction hose into the bucket of oil and turned it on. I have a HF diesel pump.

Comfort is worth a lot. Drive different ones for an hour or so. I borrowed my neighbors L4300 to spread a load of lime-rock on my drive way. I found it uncomfortable to drive and hated the treadle control pedal. I bought a John Deere 1023E, a dream to drive and has all the lift and power I need.

Buy a cat 2 bolt on pin, put it on one side. Take the stabilizer off on that side and kick the arm onto the pin and hook the othe side up with the through pin. Adjust the stableizers to center the mower. All my cat 2 farm implements used bolt on pins and in 25 years using 70 hp tractors I...

Ahahaha, deep breath, Ahahahaha. Dream on. Triple that. And no you can not buy used, everyone knows what they have, no low ballers.

How many weeks do you have to mow grass in Michigan? I live in Florida and it takes an hour or more to mow my lawn. This year I mowed at least once in every month except January. I have lived at the same place for 50 years. Two years years ago I bought my third mower, a John Deere riding...

I have a JD 1023E which is basically the same as the 1025R. In low range the wheels will spin, if you have a hard pull or are trying to load the FEL bucket slip it into low range.

How is the drawbar attached to the tractor? On my JD 3020 the drawbar had several holes in the attachment end. You could lift the hold in pin and pull it out another foot. The long part goes under the tractor.

You measure the tread width from center to center of the tires. I farmed with 70 hp tractors and we used 40 inch rows so the tires were set to 80 inches. You could set yours to double what size row you want.

He just built new home on 60 acres and family members own adjacent land. Probably an inheritance, he can get whatever he wants. I vote JD, I have owned them for fifty years. Still have the 1971 3020 my dad bought new. I just bought a JD 1023E. I would say unless the OP wants to play in the...

Or you have an older John Deere (3020 or simular) ) that uses John Deere's proprietary bevelved end fittings that use a locking lever to hold them in. Those will leak unless you use Teflon tape. I farmed for over 25 years with those tractors and replaced dozens of the fittings. Any time I...

That is an old turn plow, I spent many hours on one in my youth (I am 69). Almost ever farmer in my area (Hastings, Florida) has one of those in their junk yard. Newer ones are bigger, three point hitch mounted and require a 100 hp or more tractor to pull. Here in north Florida we farm on 60 ft...

I farmed for 25 years so I have much experience pulling things with tractors. I now also watch tow truck shows on the Weather Channel. On the last one an operator had to recover a 45,000 lb excavator from a peat bog. He rigged three pulleys, one to a tree and two to the excavator. He ran his...

All my John Deeres had over 10,000 hours on them, not a minutes trouble with the hydraulic pump. Probably because Deere put a fine mesh screen on the suction pump located in the transmission. My 81 model 510 backhoe lost hydraulic pressure two yeas ago. The screen is removed by removing a plug...

All I know is if we got hyfraulic hoses made up and put John Deere threaded plug in fittings on without tape they would leak. I got out of farming 25 years ago, things may be different now. Many implements we had used galvanized water pipe for runs to the cylinders. Never had one burst.

Farmed for 25 years. I found out that, at least for me, only Teflon tape would seal NPT hydraulic hose fittings. Any thing else leaked.

I would like to do that but do not know how. How do I get my tractor listed under my avatar and how do I get all the tractors and implements listed at the end of my comments?

I would guess a week or less. 16ft Groundsmaster® 5900 Series Mower 16 ft (4.88m) Cutting Width; up to 20.8 acres/hr (8.4 hectares/hr) 700/20=35 hours

Works just fine. I had a front 3 point hitch I bolted to my 120 hp four wheel drive JD 4250. I ran one hose to it. The lift cylinders rod end ports had a fitting with an air filter in it. Raising the lift forced air out and filtered air would be sucked back in when I lowered the lift. This also...

Position control and draft control are two different things. Larger tractors have sensor inside the tractor on either the top link or lower arms. If the draft (how hard the the implement is to pull) increases beyond the set amount on the draft control the tractor will lift the implement a bit...

Bought two months ago, JD 1023E, $18200. They want $20700 for a 1025R.

Small tractors are big in Europe because small farms are big in Europe:). Many Americans have lawns almost as big as many European farms. Big, flat lawns require a different type of tractor than a small, hilly farm. I am a retired potato farmer, just last week I watched a YouTube video of...

I borrowed my neighbor's small Kubota to spread a load of lime rock on my driveway. It took about 2 hours and I my leg was worn out. I am 70 years old and 6' tall, keeping my foot up on the treadle was very tiring. I just bought a JD 1023E, I can keep my heel propped on the platform and just...

I bought a used John Deere 510 backhoe. The 20,000 lb piece of equipment had tumbled off a transport. There was asphalt in the top of the dipper arm. The ROPS was only shoved about a foot to the left. I was working on a farm and looked across the field and saw four tires sticking up in the air...

An auto body air saw works great for those small places die grinders can't reach.

Best seat switch story ever. I worked at a produce packing plant as assistant plant manager. We got a lot of busted pallets and dirty cardboard and had a three sided concrete block burn structure on the far side of the parking lot to get rid of them. We had a tall, skinny black man named Bubba...

Advantage of living in Florida, all you need is water. The tires in my 1971 JD 3020 havn't been off in 35 years, no rust that I can see.

It probably didn't snap back, the rear tire ran over the root and flipped it back up. Happened to me, I wasn't hurt but the front glass on the Cat 928 wheel loader with a root rake I was driving got shattered. The Cat owner was not pleased.

When I farmed we had a Long 3 pt backhoe we mounted on a 75 hp JD 3020. We later got a larger Kelly backhoe, the tractor had no trouble with either one.

On our farm we had a 1981 JD 510 backhoe, we bought it used in 1987. I would spend several weeks cleanng drainage ditches each year. I would grease it once a week except for the bucket fittings, thoses I did each day. I quit farming in 1995 but kept it for use around my home. Pins are still as...

I put Slime tire sealer in mine. Put some of that in it and spin it around some to distribute it. Then try and add air. Do the other side while you are at it.

Hugs and kisses to FPL, Florida Power and Light, they take tree trimming seriously. Mostly they use Asplundt Tree Services for the main line trimming but even the small contractors they use for the trees on private property do a good job.

Does not run at all, just revs enough to disengage starter.

I have a Westinghouse 9500 watt duel fuel generator. A year ago when it was new I put about a gallon of gas in it and ran it for an hour and then shut off the fuel so it ran out the carburetor. Every few months I would run it for a few minutes. A few months ago I needed it for a power outage. I...

I loved my smaller John Deere tractors (3020), the platform slopes up at the clutch and brakes and you can brace your feet.

My rural area has a Kubota dealership 10 miles away and a John Deere dealership and another Kubota dealership in a small town 10 miles in another direction. Two years ago a Mahindra dealership opened near me. I never went in, I have a Kubota, and a few months ago it closed. I imagine sales...

Take some baling wire (or electric fence wire) and fasten the flip bale to the pin. I had to do that when chopping down cover crop on my farm. I use the ones with the spring circle

That is fine for your little garden but would be virtually impossible for a commercial grower. The field in front of my home has grown successive potato crops for the last 100 years. Last year was the farmers largest yield yet. With potato prices down this year and corn prices near record highs...

Sandy soils have little organic matter and nitigen and potash just leach out with any rainfall. The soil just holds the plant up.

Retired commercial Florida potato grower. Your soil looks like the northeast Florida soil I have. Potatoes like lots of fertilizer, 300 lb acre N, 100 lb acre P, 300 lb acre K. Do the math for your size garden (one acre=43560 sq ft). Put down two thirds of fertilizer at or soon after planting...

Filling the tires lowers the center of aggravate, widens the stance for better control on cross slopes, and takes weight off the rear bearings. I even filled the front tires on my farm tractors. Plus if you get a puncture water goes out slower then air giving you more time to make back to the...