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I researched most of the different brands for about a month and looked at many on dealer sites. Lots of good dump trailers out there but finally decided on a 6x12 MaxxD. They made a few changes for 2018. The stake pockets are now not incorporated into the side wall but on the outside. The ramps...

My Mule has the half doors which I like but doesn't do much good keeping the cold air out. Anybody know where to get plastic windows for above the doors that would attach with Velcro? Thanks.

Anyone recommend a large screen, easy to install back up camera for a UTV (Kawasaki Mule Pro FX)? I can't find any good mirrors that would fit the Mule and have neck problems so thought a camera might be the answer. Thanks.

Brought Mule home yesterday. Have not had a chance to use it but starting next week will be spraying and exercising dogs. Is much bigger than my Mule 3010, seems to be about the size of a small Jeep!!

Does anyone use the retractable tie downs? Would be using to tie down an 1800 lb Kawasaki Mule. What is the best brand? Also could anyone give some advice on a good 6x12 utility trailer, should have am axle of about 5200 lbs with electric brakes. Thanks for any advice.

My Mule is 12 years old, have a possible buyer for it so I have started to shop for an upgrade and updated UTV. My first visit was to the JD dealership to look at the 825i. They had several in the lot, liked the features, received a price but was not offered to drive one. Power steering...

Bought it from Wallace in April of 2006, good deal, very good dealer. Only major problem was the injector pump going bad at around 900 hrs. Have used it for planting (pulls a 4 row no-till JD 7200), running a grain auger, spraying, mowing, disking, plowing (snow and dirt), lots of front end...

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I've looked at Kaufman, PJ, Appalachian, and Texas Pride to date. I will on different occasions be hauling a Mule, or a ZTR, or a tractor. (Right now a 45 hp but am thinking about moving up to a 65 hp.) My big problem is trying to decide on length of trailer, should I go with the 16 or 18 ft...

I haven't stopped to look at them yet but Hilly Ridge near Mt Pleasant Mills, Pa has Mahindra tractors sitting in front of their shop. These folks sold lawnmowers but I don't think they were affiliated with any tractor line until recently. I hope they are successful. We have the biggest Kioti...

Three weeks ago while picking rocks with the 45, for no apparent reason, the engine started to race out of control. I couldn't shut it down or control the speed. Eventually I got it back to the shed and was able to stall it out. Thinking it might be water in the fuel line?? I replaced it with a...

Bought this locally, is 63 inches wide, weighs 564 lbs. Have some big rocks to move and hope this will do the job.

A friend is JD shopping, he is looking at the 6125. Any opinions on them? Thanks

I've read the entire thread on pocket pistols listed below, how many folks have actually felt that they were in a situation where a pistol was essential to making it out of a tough spot? I am 64 yrs old, travel a good bit with my work, and up to this point in my life have never been in a...

My vinyl top and plastic windshield are about shot, I'm looking for a metal cab and Lexan winddshield or glass windshield. Any suggestions as to where I can buy one of good quality? Thanks.

Has anyone used them yet? They look effective but pricey, my dealer tells me that the folks who have them like them. He is going to loan me his for several days but was wondering if anybody has experience with them?

I needed a way to get more weight on my 14 ft cultipacker, this seemed the easiest way to do it. Barrels are held on with straps, each barrel had about 35 gal of water so that gave me 560 extra lbs. Worked well on about 15 acres.

Our farm needs drainage tile badly, at least eight, from runs of about 50 yards to 150 yards, all downhill. I see my choices as hiring an excavator to do the work, getting a backhoe for my 45 hp cab tractor, buying a min-excavator and doing the work with it. My neighbor does construction and he...

I'm thinking about getting one to remove oil from small engines, gear boxes, etc. Have looked at the Atlas and Astro Pneumatic models. The Astro has an 8 gallon pressurized tank and looks well built. If you have one or used one I would appreciate any input.

Busted my rear window glass a week or so ago, Wallace was in Hershey with the glass, I was about 60 miles away and was unable to pick it up. He and Amy drove the glass up to our place, 120 miles round trip is way above and beyond the call of duty. Customer service is alive and well with these folks.

My planter gave me lots of two and three seed drops this year, same plates and seed but not much uniformity. I've tried thinning by hand (back breaking work) and also used a highway pickup tool. The highway pickup grabber just doesn't have enough gripping power to get the corn out. Any...

Any of you folks have dogs that were born and raised on your place? CD was born on Easter day in our basement, got his name from the first letters of Chester (a distant cousin) and my FIL (Dean). He has spent his entire life here, he is six. Loves to hunt, find and point birds. He's a calm dog...

Wish I had some action shots but just to many things going on when you've got a tanker on the back of the tractor pumping poop out in a 30 ft arc. Hauled five loads this morning, the tanker I believe is 2500 gal. Was good stuff from older pigs:), really helps the corn and soybeans get off to a...

My Kioti has two oil drain holes, the one will not stay tight (with plug in), has a small leak and drips about a drop or two every ten seconds. I can only hand tighten, threads are stripped. Any suggestions on how I might seal this without taking the plug out. Just changed the oil and don't...

Had the equipment ready, the old 1066 was running smooth and the disc had been greased, I thought it was time to do some field work. I had worked about 20 min and looked back and saw one gang wasn't turning, 2 rocks were stuck between the discs. Drove back to the shed and spent the next 20...

Bought it last week, used it today, was just as advertised and then some. Know what it is?

Don't have any before pics but it was a rusted mess. I paid $175, hauled it home and have been doing some painting and parts replacement. The folks at Herd were very helpful and sent me the few parts I needed. I have a few things to do with it yet but it's just about ready to begin seeding for...

Finally the beans were picked. Didn't have many due to the wet spring and late planting. Young local guy did the picking, he does for many people in this area. Might have got 25 bu/acre and county average is 40 bu/acre. He had a 4 wheel drive IH and didn't get stuck but the fields were slick.

Had two hoses made up this morning, one 4.5 ft and the other 5 ft. Both were 1/2 inch two braid hoses and had the usual fittings on each end, bill was almost $100!! You could have knocked me over with a feather. Sometimes I get tired of being the low man on the food chain.:(

I'm farming on a relatively small scale but I still have to go throught the same motions as the 1,000 acre fellas. Yesterday I was getting ready to spread my second 300 lb load of wheat, I was on the side of the ridge, went about 10 yds and heard something crack. I immediately disengaged the...

I probably do this different than most people, first I disc the plowed ground, then with a spreader I broadcast the wheat, then I follow with a packer that presses the seed into the ground. Time consuming but the disc is 18 ft and the packer is 15 feet wide. I've posted a pic of the packer...

Stopped this morning to see how things were coming with the IH, the motor and head are expected back this week and then the rebuild will begin. One pic shows a pitted sleeve, another a cylinder in pretty rough shape, the tractor in half, and the last pic of me in tears. (just kidding)!! I will...

After only putting 40 hrs on the IH 1066 I found out today that it needs a major overhaul. It was using lots of antifreeze, started to heat up real bad with steam coming out of the blowby hole. It looks like I have a cavitation problem in one or more of the sleeves. It has the water cooler but...

Fairly sure it's not coons, just several big areas mowed down, stalks ripped off and the corn chewed off. Hopefully it's in the next county by now.:)

We sell sweet corn along a busy highway about 3 miles from our place and also take orders from a small newspaper ad. My wife and I pick early in the morning, usually about 500-600 ears, I then haul the corn to our location and begin meeting customers. We enjoy the work and I especially like...

Corn is coming along nice, some starting to tassle, and if I can keep the deer and coons away might have some to sell.:) The planter that I use might not be the fanciest but it does a good job of getting the seed in the ground. The liquid pig manure didn't hurt either. I had to spray...

After 20 yrs of being in the CRP my contract ran out last fall. For me it was time to do something else and it had nothing to do with the price of crops, I just wanted to get the ground back in shape again. Last fall I sprayed Roundup on the field, my neighbor hauled in pig manure this spring...

It was one of those days when everything seemed to go right, the ground was turning over nice, it had dried out well and it was a sunny day. I had tried to plow in this same field yesterday and the pig manure had made it as slick as greased lightning, I just couldn't get any traction.

This is a pic of my old IH 490 disc that I've been working on to get back in shape. We have been tightening up the gangs, putting grease to a lot of fittings and I've used a gallon of paint so far. It's an 18 footer with hydraulic wings. Could not get anyone to haul it until we got it down in...

I am clearing some fields of the cedar trees to get ready for plowing this spring. I had the pallet forks on so decided instead of messing with the grapple and bucket I would use the forks. The ground is very wet but made me worry less about all the multiflura rose I was driving on.

Here's a pic of my "new" IH 720 plow, it's a 4 btm 18 in. Is a semimount, has side hill hitch, and auto spring loaded resets. I'm hoping to use it to tame my jungle. This plow has a high clearance so should be good hopefully in the thick sod and old corn stalks.

With all the talks of chains, blowers, plows, snow and ice I thought I would post one of my favorite spring time pics. I was just starting to plant Silver King in one of the patches, the date was June 8 and I really got a nice crop of corn. :)

I am going this week to look at a A-C plow, 4btm. 18in, semimount, hyd reset and hyd sidehill. The owner says it's in good shape. I don't know anything about these plows, checked them out on Tractor House but they only had three for sale. Are they a good, well built, reliable plow? I am also...

It cost me $126. to fill up my tractor this week with offroad diesel. It uses about 6--8 gal an hour to operate so it will cost me over $20 an hour just for fuel. I am a small operator and am wondering what these prices are going to do with the folks who have four or five big farm tractors? If...

Got the IH 1066 home today, sat it beside the Kioti and there is a bit of difference.:) 38 pto hp vs. 140, 6500 lbs vs. 12,500 lbs, 1 yr vs. 34 yrs, and so on. The IH runs smooth and quiet, the left front tire has a bit of a wobble, other than that it seems to work great but will know for sure...

We all know that people come and go on this site but Bob was a big time poster (7500) and had been quite active up to May and hasn't posted since. I enjoyed reading most of his thoughts and opinions, anyone know what happened to him? Hope he is in good health and maybe just taking a break from...

I'm thinking about buying a used utility tractor (2wd), that could pull a 4 bottom plow. Looking at anything in the mid 80's to low 1990's. Could care less about color or brand, just so it has a reputation for reliability and low maintenance. I've looked at the International 1086's and 1066's...

Unfortunately there was news in the local paper of a 75 year old man dying in a tractor accident. He was pulling a tree when the tractor flipped over on him. Seems like about once a month there is a report of someone being seriously hurt or killed in a tractor accident and it's not always people...

I built this pen about four years ago and just wasn't getting enough use out of it where it was located so decided to move it to the end of the farm, about 1/3 of a mile. The toughest part was taking it through the woods and quite a bit of the ground I had to converse was sloped. I managed to...

I have a 110 gal sprayer with 30 ft booms, was spraying Roundup today on some weedy fields and know I am overlapping with the spray. I try to watch close where I'm going but you almost need another set of eyes to watch the sprayer controls and the booms. Anybody have any good ideas so I don't...

Could a sweet corn grower answer a question for me? How long can you keep corn once it's been picked? I'm talking about corn with the husk on. I sold out quick this morning and the corn was sold within two hours of having picked it but was wondering if I can keep it overnight if it's in a cool...

This is about 300 ears of Silver King sweet corn from one of my patches. I thought the deer and coons were going to eat it all but they left the ole farmer some.

I took this photo from our dock in southern Ontario.

I llive in what is referred to around here as a "hollow". We are completely surrounded by woods on all four borders and the only fields are mine. I have planted three big sweet corn patches and some of it is waist high or better. It draws the deer like a magnet. In the one patch I have a 24 hr...

I bought this sprayer during the winter from a sweet corn grower who used it 3 seasons and wanted something bigger. It has electric controls that fit inside my cab and controls the spray from all three booms and also the pressure. The booms are manual and although the hydraulic booms are great I...

I bought the 71 last spring and it's in good shape, it's missing a fertilizer box but thanks to Farmwithjunk I now have a parts manual and know what to order. One of the things I've learned about using the 71 is seed bed prep is critical. It's a great planter and does what it's supposed to do...

I have two right now and I just got done using one of them, it's a spike tooth harrow. The only good I can see that it does is level the ground some but the negative is that it drags up an unbeliveable amount of stones. The other attachment that I really can't see much use for is the 7 tine...

This morning I was mowing along in 4th gear, enjoying the day and the scenery, and all of a sudden it felt like the bottom of the tractor had fallen out. I had dropped in a groundhog hole with my front tire and then hit it with the rear tire. Fortunately there was no harm done but I wonder how...

I've used this tractor for about everything that is associated with farming (in a small scale), land clearing, and mowing. The disc that I am pulling is a 10 ft transport disc with a big steel I beam for weight. I wasn't sure if I could pull it but the 45 did a good job. The disc had sat at my...

Ground is about perfect for plowing here in central Pa. This field was in the CRP program and hasn't been turned over for 20 + years. I'm using a 2 bt plow and the 45 can pull it in 2 wd. Did have some problems with the good ole Howse plow, the coulter fell apart and is buried somewhere in the...

About seven years ago I had a ridge bulldozed to clear some Douglas Fir. I decided recently to put the 7 or 8 piles of old trees into just two big piles so I could burn them on a rainy day. I had seen rabbits around the piles but never any turkey although we have many turkey on our farm. While...

My Mule gets used about every day so this morning I decided to change the oil and filter. It's not an easy machine to work on, to remove the drain plug there is a small hole in the skid plate that the socket just barely fits through and the filter is a real bugger to get off. I worked for about...

I sure could use some help with ideas on how to get rid of the bumblebees that will soon invade my dog kennels. Every summer when it warms up there are bumblebees everywhere through the kennels. Two years ago we almost lost a setter to bumblebee stings, his face swelled up but fortunately I was...

I wasn't quite sure what forum to put this: My friend has a mid 90's White tractor, Model 262, 4 wd, 60 hp. and he is trying to find someplace that sells the three dimensional lettering for the side of his tractor. I guess the old letters got knocked off somehow so if anyone has any suggestions...

My wife and I live in the "boonies" and can't get any high speed I-Net connection except satellite. I have spent part of the afternoon reading reviews about the major internet satellite companies and most of what is being said is not good. Poor customer service and support, speeds not nearly as...

I was watching the National Geographic channel yesterday and saw a very well done ad for Mahindra. I was fast forwarding through the commercials and the word Mahindra caught my eye, I backed up and ran it normal speed. I played it back twice so my wife could see it but her only reaction was...

It's been an extremely mild winter to date but the cold is here and the snow will soon follow. The chains are on, I don't use a blade anymore, just the FEL, so let it snow.

I am thinking ahead to spring and am going to need a sprayer. I've looked at and priced Crop Care made by Paul Zimmerman Inc, and the Hardi and Demco rear mount sprayers. I've decided on the 110 gallon with the middle grade roller pump and a 20 foot three section foldable boom. If anyone has...

Things have been slow on this forum, thought I would mention that it's good to see Kioti join the gang and advertise on this site. I'm not sure that I've seen a big ad at the top like they have now? Right now I'm headed over two mountains to visit our local Kioti dealer, who knows, I just might...

We have, within six miles of our house, a MF dealer, A JD dealer, and a Case dealer. Every now and then I take a drive and stop and look at the compacts. My first stop was at the MF dealership, they had a cab 1547 sitting on the lot. The door was open so I took a look and I liked what I saw...

The sales literature and Kioti's web site have the 45 listed as having front PTO??? Where is it at?

I haven't been a member of this site for quite a year yet but I've learned a lot from some real knowledgable people. Sometimes you have to sort through what makes sense and what doesn't but overall it's been a good experience. I also met my tractor dealer here, made some friends, and enjoyed...

A while back Wallace posted a pic of a 65 laying on its side beside somebody's house. Lately I have been mowing some steep hills with my cab 45 and that has me wondering if a cab tractor is more prone or less to rollovers than a non-cab tractor. Any thoughts, facts, or opinions would be appreciated.

I have started to clean up brush piles of pine trees that were originally planted as Christmas trees but then got to big. They were bulldozed down and piled up with lots of dirt in the piles. I wanted to clean up the brush and the dirt, I am using an add on tooth bar and a add on grapple. So far...

I'm no engineer but the people who designed the off/on for the 451 loaders aren't either. We (my wife and I) spent over an hour trying to take it off, she on one side, I on the other, working those darn pins until the stars alligned and very reluctantly they came loose. Yesterday I decided to...

It Doesn\'t Pay to Borrow Your Neighbors Implements I should say attempt to borrow. I thought I could get along without a disc this year, wrong! My neighbor said I could use his 10 footer, raised and lowered by a hydraulic cylinder and on tires. It's been sitting out in his buffalo farm pasture...

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I am in the process of getting this critter hooked up. It is made solid, the base plate is angle iron, the arms are quite sturdy and he uses a steel plate to protect the cylinder. I learned that putting the arm onto the base plate is not a one man job. The local Ferguson dealer is making up the...

Rick Wallace delivered the 45 today, tomorrow hope to put it to work.

I can't afford the grapple bucket so have been looking at the three mentioned grapples, the Arm seems to be the best built but doesn't have teeth on the arms. If you are using any of these or have another one that works great I would appreciate your comments. Thanks.

Many years ago I started with a Farmall H, then there was the Ferguson TO 30, next a JD 870, and now a Kioti DK45S. I decided after all these years without a cab I should have one, now I can do my field work and snow plowing out of the elements. I also am getting the 451 loader. I would like to...

Ebay has gotten its share of bad publicity lately in the large equipment section, and rightly so, there are intelligent scammers out there ready to steal your money. I gave a lot of thought about listing my tractor on ebay before I did it but knew of not many other ways to target such a large...

I have narrowed my search in a tractor purchase down to a JD 990 (about 3200 lbs without a FEL and filled tires), a Kubota L 4400 (about 3200 lbs) and a Kioti DK 35 or 40 (weight 3600 and 3800 lbs). The horsepower for the JD is 40, the Kubota is 45, and the Kiotis are 35 and 40. The tractor...

I have read lots of posts on the DK45 but can't find any mention of the 40. Would like to hear comments from anyone that has one and also wondering about a ballpark figure on the 40 with a loader? The closest dealer I can find is 38 miles away (I live in central Pa) so that might also be a...

I have an 870, mfwd, turf tires, do you think I can pull a 3 pt hitch, two bottom, 12 inch plow, with coulter kit and depth gauge? I am also interested in using a 7 shank, 5 ft. field cultivator, any problems using it? My soil is somewhat flinty and these would be used for wildlife food plots...