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Havent been around here in a while but when my tractor started acting up the first thing I did was search here. The symptoms matched exactly the folks who found rusted fuel level sending units. Stalling, sputtering and such. Seat switches check good with an ohm meter. I could see trash in the...

Here is a short video of my 8yr old on my BX23. She is good enough to pull up to a pile of debris and put the bucket down for me to rake it up. YouTube - Lost my tractor

I spent most of the weekend on my 23 running my 4 foot rotary cutter on some ground that had not been mowed since last August. I wasn't concerned with quality but it did pretty well if I overlapped a little. I snapped a cell phone pic, sorry it's not very clear but I think you can get the idea...

I recently checked the pressure on my little kubota and found it low. I shimmed it back to top spec and it made a pretty good difference. My neighbor has a JD4110 and he thinks his might be low and wants to check it. I told him I would ask on here. What should the pressure be at the loader...

Here is a quick paint drawing that I made to show the basic idea of something I have been thinking of building to get a bigger bite on loose light material. Your cardboard cutouts reminded me. You would only use one cylinder and use a connecting link to actuate the tip of the grapple. The...

Ok it was drizzling a little bit but I got it out at shot a couple pics with my cell phone. This is how I start, level ground and nothing under the backhoe. A little up pressure to get the tension off the latches. In this picture the lathces are as close as they ever get to the sheetmetal...

I would bet several owners in this picture would not agree with that statement:D A lot, if not most, have 6 cylinders.

Here is a pic of it running. Here is one of it just after I turned off the oil. It is made out of two cast 2 inch pipe caps. This make a very good heat chamber to get a good burn although it take a few minutes to get it up to temperature. As you can see it get red hot. This is after about...

One of my winter projects for the last few winters has been a waste oil burner. I started with a standard mother earth news type drip design scaled down but never really got a clean burn. Then I happened upon the Babington ball stetup and tried for a while with that and a vertical version...

I have about 230 hours on my BX23. A couple of weeks ago while doing some extensive fel/grapple work I noticed some clunking when I backed up and turned at the same time. It's not audible but more of a feel through the floorboards almost not noticeable. I kinda thought it was a stick stuck up...

Well if you read my thread called "One of those days" you know I was having some bad luck with the stock ag tires while running the rotary cutter. I went and ordered some R4s and they cam in yesterday so I went and picked them up this morning. I noticed right away they are heavier duty. They...

It started out very nice. Good weather and all. I thought I would trim some branches off Some trees to make it easier to mow under. About halfway through I decide to cut a sapling close to the ground and hit a rock. This is my last good chain because Lowes had the wrong chain in the box the...

I did that exact thing I used 4 standard nozzles on about a 7 foot boom. It is on a 25 gallon wand sprayer setup with a 2gpm pump. It used to maintain about 20 psi now it's lower, the cheap guage quit on me so I don't know exactly how low but it still gets good coverage. I think I would use a...

If anyone is still debating on whether to replace the seat on their BX. Let me be another one to say it's worth it. I had pretty much decided to just use what came on my BX23. I happened to be in the dealer for the first time since last summer to get some filters. I asked about the...

Here are a couple of test burners. The first one is about 4 inch diameter fed with the air compressor turned down really low The second one is 6 inch diameter but I cannot find the pictures of the test burn that I did with it but it worked about the same as the first one and I was able to vary...

This is how I spent my fall vacation the week before Thanksgiving. My parents were taking out the old above ground jet pump and well house and putting in a submersible pump. It was way overdue, you should have heard the noise that old pump made. Dad said he was going to just rent a trencher...

From what I understand. Ya gotta take the cylinder thingys off the bottom of the valve, theres where the problem is, the springs and balls and water inside there. Here is a picture

Aha!! I got some shots of the new sub sub sub compact tractor that kubota is coming out with. These were taken at the secret proving grounds, notice the high fences. It's actually at a farm market thats kinda grown into an attraction in southern Indiana. The local kubota dealer has a...

Yeah see angle of the plow to the frame is off (to me anyway). If you could tip the plow down in the front relative to the frame, judging by the pictures, it would give you about the amount of engagement you would get by moving the pins. Even if it's not bent it might be easier than moving...

100 dollars off Ok so I wanted one of these for a long time. I have been borrowing the neighbors but it is green (yech :):)) and I hate to borrow things. You never know when something is gonna break and you might have to spend almost as much as a new one to get it fixed. So I finally decide...

Here is the sprayer I put together. It was originally a 25 gallon spot sprayer for the back of an atv. I built the carrier and boom. I should have bought the one with the boom included, I ended up spending more money on it. The chemical I use,Trimec or Tramec or something like that, it is...

So I finally decided to build something. The rear signal mount was key in my design This is what I built Much better

This is really no way to carry a saw. Not to mention bar iol and gas and the funny little screwdriver socket wrench thingy.

We did this a few weeks ago but I have just gotten around to posting it. Proving that tracors of different backgrounds can work together towards a common goal. We had a couple of hedge stumps stumps on the property line. The short one had been cut for a couple of years and another that was cut...

Got my sprayer out last weekend so I thought I would post a few pics in case anyone else is interested in doing this. I Made an atv sprayer into a pull behind sprayer in a utility trailer to be pulled behind my lawnmower. Then I got my BX so I decided to build a 3ph carrier for it. Here is the...

Since I have installed the grapple I have noticed something and don't think it's quite right and wondered if I could get a little help. We (Jeff at american solutions actually) have devised a simple test. If a couple of people could do this test to see if it's my machine or the way it's suppose...

I don't know if I will get this whole thing done tonight but I figured I better get on it. Some people wan't to see more of the install process. I figured this forum was the best place to put an attachment install thread. I have some action pictures in another thread BX23 grapple I am...

I had dropped the backhoe out beside the garage while I had my 3ph sprayer attached. I decided to see exactly how long it takes to go from 3ph to backhoe(NOT hurrying that can get yo hurt). I have the upper pins for the liftarms drilled out slightly to accept those 1/8 finger smasher pins. It...

Well the dealer brought my BX23 saturday morning. I didn't waste any time getting it in the dirt. Boy do I have a lot to learn about operating a backhoe. here is a pic with my daughter on the seat and me behind her. You can see that I had to buy a kubota to go with her hair Bernie

I love my wife. And I even love my mother in-law> My wife just approved the purchase of the tractor. And since I will be using it mostly on my mother in-laws property she agreed to buy a rear blade and grapple. I am going to try the grapple from American Solutions...

Anyone have a grapple from these folks. A search from all the posts from the last year brought up a couple of mentions but thats about it. I am set to get a BX 23 and wan't to get a grapple to go with it. If not I might be the first person on here to review it. Just got the wife to approve the...