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Thank you for your response. This one is from the '80s and (reportedly) everything "works" so I will assume it has been properly maintained, at least until I can look at it. The old Japanese tractors can also, apparently, give long service even if not maintained- when I pulled the valve cover...

Thank you for the response. "...sounds like you have experience hunting for Mitsubishi parts..." Yeah, really don't want to repeat that, BUT I just spent the budget having 510 feet of rock road pushed into the woods and now I gotta "pinch pennies" to buy a tractor for maintaining that road...

When I was doing truck frame repairs the primer I used was the cheapest rattle-cans I could find @ Wal-mart. I agree with the comments saying that if you are going to have the steel blasted, you need to get primer on it RIGHT THEN. Also, anything less than a near-white metal blast is a waste...

Already posted this to the Iseki forum but garnered no responses: Opinions on the parts availability situation for Bolens/Iseki? And also sources of paperwork (service manual, parts diagram) Going to be looking at what is supposed to be a Bolens 1704. Had a Mitsubishi tractor a while back...

Good evening: Opinions on the parts availability situation for Bolens/Iseki? And also sources of paperwork (service manual, parts diagram) Looking at what is supposed to be a Bolens 1704, although the information I have found says that this should be a hydrostat, while the tractor itself is a...

Since EVERYONE wants to know what tractors cost: New M7060 $30,313.00 http://www.pcbgov.com/home/showdocument?id=6698 No mention of options. Probably a cash sale. Kubota site says list price about $38,000.00 to start

unbelievable The Unexpected Explanation How "That Ford Truck" Ended Up In ISIS Hands | Zero Hedge

Was: $2.7m | Now: $46,000: Caterpillar D11N crawler tractor What An Industrial Depression Looks Like: Photos From An Australian Heavy-Machinery Auction | Zero Hedge

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Cedar County, Missouri, just had a vote and adopted the "local option" fence law. For a summary of Missouri's "regular" fence law, and the "local option" law, see Don't fence me in Now, in Cedar County (and 18 other Missouri counties) if your neighbor decides he wants a fence, YOU can be...

"..Not sure how that slipped past quality control...." Doesn"t surprise me: Photos of shackles on leaf springs of my truck: I paid a shop to replace these (originals rusted out) and did not notice until I had the bed off 2 years later that shackles were installed facing in different...

The beast: 1978 Sears "Vari-drive" 11 hp. Modified for brush-hogging; the lower 2 inches or so of the front skirt on the deck has been cut away, and a strip of 1/4" flat bar welded along what is left to restore any lost strength/ stiffness. Old single cylinder Briggs will burn 1/2 quart...

Next year I plan to buy a new pickup, what used to be referred to as a "half ton." I would like to be able to tow a fully-loaded 7,000 lb trailer, which means the truck would need to be rated to tow about 8,000 lbs or more, since the advertised trailer towing load always assumes an empty...

My (2) oilcans, and what I fill them with:

Posted this photo from Craigslist some time ago:

....April is "National Welding Month" April Is National Welding Month - Gases & Welding Blog | Welding & Gases Today

DETROIT (AP) If you live where salt is used to clear the roads of snow and ice, U.S. safety regulators have a message for you: Wash the underside of your car. The message came Wednesday from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which closed a five-year investigation into rusting...

You leave that tractor parked around here (St. Louis, A.K.A greater metropolitan Ferguson), and you can be sure someone will steal your tires & wheels !!

Done. For those that care, no welding to original frame- new pieces are bolted only. Welding on new pieces was done with 100 amps ( top setting on my old 240 volt AC welder) 3/32 6013 Note that the spring hangers are bolted through new pieces and into original frame rails- suspension does...

Cutting off the frame ends with angle grinder & cut-off wheel: Jacked-up the rear of the frame to remove weight from the leaf springs and unbolted the rearward spring hangers: The spring hangers had been replaced about 2 years ago (orignals had rusted paper-thin) so removing them was...

Previously, I had fabricated a lifting boom for the 3-point on the little Mitsubishi tractor: http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/build-yourself/333128-3-point-hitch-lifiting-boom.html I planned to use this to remove the bed from the Ranger. Yes, if you have one or two big guys to help you...

What really kinda pi__ me off is the big cut-outs in the flanges that I did not want, yet the pieces did not have a rounded cut-out on the bottom flange that I did need. The lower flanges of the frame rails on the truck have rounded clearance "bends" to allow the spare tire to fit in between...

In some respects I am lucky that it is a Ford Ranger. Since Rangers have a real bad reputation for frame rust, there are after market suppliers selling replacement pieces for the rears of the frame rails, which is usually where the worst of the rust damage is. I ordered a set of these pieces...

My tow vehicle is a 2002 Ford Ranger, 3.0 V6, auto, long bed. The book says it will tow about 4,000 lbs. I use it and a single axle utility trailer to haul a walk-behind brush mower, old sears garden tractor and a Mitsubishi 16 hp diesel tractor (not all at the same time). Max. load...

I have (2) of the 40 mm ammo boxes bolted to my utility trailer for storing chains & load binders. I put drain holes in the bottoms so they would not collect water. Just this past weekend, I pulled all the stuff out of the boxes to see if things were rusting, having sat untouched all winter...

Not an "appliance" but this is one of my old outboard motors: I got a bunch of them. Used to run them all the time, but don't have the time any more, so they all sit. Maybe after I retire...

Just a late 40's PO-15 I have about a dozen of 'em, including (2) WWII surplus "assault boat" versions. And at least a half dozen of the similar sized, but totally different, Evinrude Speeditwins. And a whole bunch of others. Used to be real heavy into antique outboards but not so much...

Yet another homemade ("shop fabricated") boom. Needed a boom for my old Mitsubishi: http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/mitsubishi-satoh/316342-mt160d.html Did not want to spend $129.99 plus sales tax on a new one; saw several used booms advertised @ about $50 to $75 but either sold too...

Title is self explanatory: Luxury Caboose Kirbyville - RailSwap.org EDITED TO ADD: Looks more 5th wheel than gooseneck, but that's what they call it.

I tow a 1400 lb tractor on a 1020 lb single-axle trailer, although that is infrequent. (NOTE: Tractor is hauled without the rotary cutter shown in the photo. I was just taking the whole unit to a truck scale for weighing on the day I took that photo) Most of the time the trailer is...

"....Chrysler says in documents posted Friday by U.S. safety regulators that the rear-axle pinion nut can come loose..." Chrysler to Recall About 257K Ram Pickup Trucks - ABC News http://www.ramtrucks.com/webselfservice/pdf/N08.pdf

Considering my luck, if I tried that she would probably be reading this:

Well, nothing happens quickly at my in-law's house. As of an hour ago, the equipment mentioned in the above post is in my possession. This is what I hauled home: A pair of tanks(Oxy/acet) and a little dolly for them. As I said in the original post, my deceased father-in-law owned these tank...

FIELDON, Ill. The driver of a John Deere combine has been charged in a fatal head-on crash with a van Sunday.... Combine driver charged in head-on crash in Jersey County : News

I remove the 42" deck from the 1978 Sears 11 hp garden tractor and clean it out and grease the spindles and sharpen the blades ever few times I use it, but it gets very rough use, more as a "brush hog' than a finish mower: The rest of the mower gets greased at the same time. This is the...

What is with people removing the front axle shafts on these Mitsubishis? Someone removed the left axle shaft on this one: http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/mitsubishi-satoh/315749-front-diff.html?highlight=YUM ...and now someone has removed the right shaft on yours. I guess if could be...

Not really doing anything wrong, just an interesting old photo:

'...You are very industrious and talented..." Well, if I had any brains, I would have realized when I bought the place that it was not going to forever look like a meadow, and that i would have to maintain it or it would go "thicket." Took me a few years to figure that one out...

Went mowing again on Sunday. As per the plan, I did not take the tractor, but instead brought along the walk-behind brush mower in order to cut those areas unsafe or unwise to attempt with the tractor: As previously noted in the thread, I had left the rotary cutter on site and had been...

General Motors ordered dealers to stop selling the new Chevrolet Colorado and GMC Canyon GM halts sale of midsize trucks, issues 2 more recalls Another reason why I don't want to be the first one to buy a new model / new engine / new aluminum body / new anything. Regardless of brand.

Another industry where it would be "shackle" would be the marine industry. I spent a fair portion of my youth "laying barge rigging", as shown in this photo from a Coast Guard web site. This is how barges are tied together on rivers/intracoastal (unless the wimps are using winches instead of...

On the subject of "clevis," I use what are called "double clevis" connectors (sometimes called "twin clevis") at the tops of the home-brew limit chains on my rotary cutter:

Took the Mitsubishi tractor "brush hogging" again on saturday: 2nd time 'in the field' for the tractor. From the photos posted before, some may be under the impression that I am mowing mostly grass: ...but i am also mowing this: ...and this: While taking photos the left front...

I have the oil pressure gauge: And that is exactly what I am concerned about; something plugging up, either the pump pickup or maybe an oil gallery passage, if i do the "fast flush." Which is why I am wondering if I would be ahead to go through several short-interval oil changes instead...

Am posting my continuing expoits with an old Mitsubishi tractor here: http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/mitsubishi-satoh/316342-mt160d-15.html#post3901196 Removed the valve cover yesterday to adjust valve lash and found this: Lots of sludge. I am not going to dissasemble this engine...

Stayed at home this weekend. Mowed about 1.5 to 2 acres for the non-profit, but used the old Sears garden tractor. Decided to check valve lash on the Mitsubishi- it sounded a bit clattery. Valve cover off; Really really sludgy: Clearances were not bad all all. Tightened-up two...

Was looking to see if I had "before" & "after" photos. These two, while not exactly aligned, show pretty-much the same area:

Well, i am going to offer an opinion based on the 4 hrs of brush hogging experience that I now have. While a cutter as wide, or wider, than the tractor is probably the way to go if one has large open areas to mow, I don't think I would want that in my situation. I have numerous trees to cut...

Installed water temp & oil pressure gauges on my old Mitsubishi day before yesterday. Also have a voltage gauge but have not gotten around to setting that up.

Saturday I found time to install water temp. and oil pressure gauges on the Mitsubishi tractor: "Hot rodders" would not call this a "sanitary" installation. Considered trying to keep the warning lights but decided to simplify things and installed the senders in the "idiot" light sender...

Or, if you prefer to "be the big dog," then there is this: The trailer is for sale, by the way: http://marinasandtransport.com/listings/picture.pl?boat_id=30308&return=class_search.pl%3Fproperty0%3DHydraulic%20Trailers

I have seen all sorts of heavy scrap/junk bolted to the front's of tractors. This is what i bolted to the front of mine: a 38" long section of steel "I" beam that I found years ago when out boating: I am guessing it weighs about 75 to 80 lbs, and if that is not enough weight, other stuff...

Thanks for the kind comment. Nicest thing about this place; at the bottom of the hill, as mentioned, is government ground. About 200 feet accross the government ground is the shoreline of a 7,800 acre Corp of Engineers lake: Someday I might have a cabin/house on a raised foundation...

Did I mention that there are rocks? Rocks everywhere. i have spent countless hours "picking and piling" rocks, and so there are piles of rocks scattered around the property: Spent some time with the walk-behind trimming around the rock piles so that i don't accidently run over them with...

Mowing "the hill" with the walk-behind: I cut down many many many little trees in the re-clearing of this land (it had been bulldozed in 2002 or 2003, and then left untouched until late 2010, when I went to work on it. 2012 was the "peak" year: I spent 27 days (almost a full month)...

Since i decided it would not be prudent to haul both the tractor & rotary cutter together behind my truck, yesterday (Sunday) morning I drove the 210 miles to the land, hauling the cutter, the angle blade and also my walk-behind field & brush mower: Drug the cutter and the blade into the...

Waited until evening and then tried rolling the crankshaft over with a bright light on the pulley. Was finally able to find the group of (3) marks for timing the injectors: The TDC for #1 should be near the injector marks, per the diagram, lower left page above, but I am still having trouble...

The Swisher walk-behind brush mower, yesterday morning:

Photo of right-side of engine. Oil pressure sender in center, black-painted oil filter over on the left i have a set of mechanical gauges on the way. Would like to keep the idiot lights if not a big hassle. What are those (2) allen-head plugs, on either side of the sender unit, and can I...

I am attaching a page with an oil chart from the 373 operator's manual, which I assume is pretty much the same chart as Skylarkguy was quoting. Note that in addition to the gear oil already mentioned, one can also use certain hydraulic oils in the front axle. Since a reportedly...

Did not get a whole lot done on the tractor over the weekend. Temps both days in the upper 90's F. Took my father to breakfast Saturday morning. He had boats of one kind or another since I was born (which was a long time ago) so had breakfast at a marina so we could look at the boats: Deli...

To summarize my PTO shaft situation: I have a 16 hp trctor & a 42" rotary cutter. The input shaft on the cutter gearbox is splined just like the output shaft on the tractor PTO. The shaft that came with the used cutter was a big ole thing suitable for an 85 hp tractor, and it had no...

Are those cotter keys/hair pin clips strong enough to use on the lower lift pins? I have lynch pins/linch pins on the lower arms, and just yesterday I drilled-out the hole in the pin on the top link so i could switch from a cotter key to a lynch pin there.

Loaded up the tractor & rotary cutter and headed for the truck scales According to the scale, the loaded trailer weighs 2780 lbs. I had already weighed the empty trailer- 1020 lbs including a 3 ft gate, which I have removed, and excluding spare tire, which I have added. Does not include...

A bit of info on how ag dealers avoid buying/trading for, used tractors with outstanding liens. Would also be applicable to the private individual purchasing a used tractor from a non-dealer. http://www.naeda.com/files/ucc-summary.pdf What is important to note is that the lien would be...

Can I use a PTO shaft labled for use with tillers, on a rotary cutter? There will be a slip clutch, the rotary cutter ("brush hog") is only a 42" cut, and the tractor is 16 hp / 13.6 PTO hp. Thanks.

Ran into an issue with the PTO shaft when i went to shorten it to allow for the addition of a slip clutch: http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/attachments/319182-shorten-pto-shaft.html#post3859537 Hope to resolve that issue this week. In the mean time, actually tried to use the tractor for...

(5) or (6) chains, with lever-type "over-center" load binders: This is for a 1,400 lb tractor. By the way, I have noted that some government agencies prohibit the use of "lever type" load binders on their own vehicles.

I need to shorten a PTO shaft 6 inches. No big deal, I thought. I cut 6 inches off the one side, which was a solid square bar of steel. I then went to shorten the other side 6 inches and found this: The outer 6 inches is a welded-on sleeve with the inside shaped to engage the square...

No work on the tractor last night (Tuesday). Had to go vote, but as i got home before the wife did, I took the bathroom scale out to weigh the kubota model 342, 42" rotary cutter. 385 lbs, with PTO shaft, slip clutch & limit chains. The shaft will need to be shortened about 5 inches to...

Received the slip clutch on Monday I assume the "over-hanging" load will not be an issue with the gearbox bearings That's a nasty-looking chunk of steel to have spinning @ 9 rotations per second. Perhaps a guard could be cut out of a 5 gallon bucket The slip clutch adds about (5)...

A busy weekend working on the tractor & realted items. Made up a set of limit chains for the cutter. Used some old rusty chain and fittings that I had on hand, but dressed things up a little with some gray spray paint (that I also had) so in the end I only needed to buy (4) cotter keys and a...

The road that the "Worksaver" blade will need to maintain:

Where the tractor will be used:

"...Yes, Lake of the Ozarks is extremely commercialized and packed with the shoreline covered with houses, cabins, and condos! I refuse to go on that lake on the weekend. We stayed at a campground just a bit below the dam last weekend and it was nice, but the lake is just too crowded. The CoE...

My father-in-law passed away about 4 years ago. He had in his garage an oxy/acet. torch set-up that he had not used for probably 10 years prior to his passing. He owned the tanks outright. It is all still sitting there. How safe is it to have this stuff laying around, considering how long it...

From CL Look closely at the bucket

It has a round sheet metal cover, with sheet metal "bell ends" over the universals, but nothing like the big end plastic covers: I hitched the cutter to the tractor for the first time yesterday, and getting the shaft coupled to the tractor with the PTO guard on the tractor, and the "A" frame...

I have a 42" rotary cutter which I will be running behind a 16 hp (13.6 PTO HP) tractor. The PTO shaft that came with the cutter has "pin-type' quick connects for standard spines on both ends, and the cutter has a splined input shaft. There was no shear pin/bolt anywhere in the driveline so I...

Working on the "Worksaver" blade (ironic or what?) The bent swivel plate; 1/4 inch steel when it should have been at least 3/8 inch The home-brew steel bender, utilizing my old Hi-Lift jack* x Plate more or less straight Fitting a piece of 1/4 inch by 2 inch flat bar to stiffen the...

Scalped my lawn

Got a lttle bit more done on the tractor today. Tightened-up all of the bolts that i had installed finger-tight in the 3 point linkages yesterday, and cut off the excess of each. Also tried to pack some grease into those ball joint thingies that take the pins of the impements. I use boat...

Not a good close-up, but this is the cutter. One can barely see the splined input shaft. Definetly no slip clutch or shear pin @ the cutter gearbox. And nothing on the driveshaft itelf. The guy was simply running it without any overload protection. But, I don't think it was run very...

This is a photo of just one end, but both ends of the shaft are identical: In fact, I am not sure which end is supposed to be the tractor end, and which end is the cutter end. The cutter gearbox has a splined input shaft identical to the PTO output shaft of the tractor. The cutter gear box...

A busy Saturday; took my elderly father out for a light breakfast and then mowed their lawn (small suburban lawn). Then meet the wife at the place where we do volunteer work, and spent 3.5 hours there. Then came home and worked on the tractor. As noted before, the tractor was missing the...

I know nothing of tractors, and have never operated a rotary cutter / brush hog / Bush Hog / schredder etc. The tractor i have purchased is an old Mitsubishi with "position control." As I understand it, the lever controling the hitch can be moved to any position within its arc of motion, and...

Kubota model B342 rotary cutter $500.00 Worksaver brand 5 foot (very) light-duty angle blade with issues $125.00 The blade came with the top link from the tractor (16hp Bolens), which the former owner had already sold. No "stump jumper" Was very surprised to find a 42" cutter. I...

Backed the tractor into the garage, put it up on jackstands & removed the right rear wheel: Photos shows the lower of the (2) bolts that secures the hydr. screen/filter: Upper bolt is covered by rear of running board: Cutting-away the rear of the running board with a cut-off wheel on 4...

A change in plans. The Mitsubishi is for sale. Located St. Louis, Missouri $900.00 After owning this thing a whole two days and crawling around it I have decided that it is a bigger project than i want to take on at the present. As mentioned above, it runs at least enough to get it onto...

Have been using a 1970's Sears 11 hp garden tractor with a 42 inch mower deck for "bush hogging" about 6 acres. Needed something bigger (obviously). Last night I drug home an old Mitsubishi MT160D. I know nothing about tractors. This thing seems to start up fairly easily. The crankcase oil...