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I think you're pushing the edge of capabilities power wise IMHO. I have the woodland mills 8" chipper and run it on a 55HP turbo with a nominal 44HP at the PTO. I can put 4-5" doug fir through it and it does decently well green, dry I need to turn the infeed speed down a bit. Dry hardwood...

My wallet hates you guys so much... We'll see what it looks like come next week.

I set mine real close to 20HP and it didn't slip at all with a 45HP pto tractor. I'd suggest loosening it until it just slips and then tighten it back up a half turn or so.

I used two kinda flattish cold chisels and it popped right on after I drove them in a bit.

Different tractor, same engine. The 574 has a somewhat more plush and larger cab. The 5520 is a touch shorter in length, and has a bit beefier axle design.

I mostly use lines as an "and also" safety if I'm near buildings or other stuff I REALLY don't want to hit and the tree is already a leaner. 99% is done with wedges even in that case. There's a lot of advantages to slow and easy when you're falling, moreso when you're not 100% sure.. Things...

Yikes! Glad you made it through that one at all! Grim as it was it sure could've been a lot worse. Some years ago we had had a slushy snow right before we got home from a long drive. The hot tires on the suv melted the snow .. then it refroze under them forming a slick ice sheet. The car...

Good deal! It's worth shopping around and I think your approach on doing the anon phone call was pretty smart. Hope you enjoy your new tractor as much as I have mine :)

+1 to SR1 being known for being pretty good. I was able to order my 50hr filters from Georgia Land Equipment LLC. with zero hassle. Steve Street at Mathis Trailers & Equipment Sales - New & Used Agriculture Sales, Service, and Parts with locations in Rome, GA and Leesburg, AL, near Lindale and...

I don't need one because I'm invested in a broad market that has outperformed inflation consistently over the long term for the past 100+ years and is based on actual companies making actual products that people can actually use. I started with a large negative and am now what I would...

Seems pretty obvious that the goal is to cash out the crypto holders (and producers..) who've been busy openly bribing the very people suggesting this thing and leave the taxpayers in the lurch. Anyone who thinks differently is either fooling themselves or just claims otherwise because they're...

Maybe some "ratings agencies" that are of the same caliber as the "tether auditors" lol. It's junk. While BTC might be a greater fools game and not strictly a ponzi, MSTR is definitionally a ponzi. He just diluted the shareholders .. again.. and would have to keep doing that repeatedly...

Yeah Coffee is great, he does a lot of good work in this space. I kind of think of safemoon as relatively small potatoes in this space. As big of a bunch of crooks as they are they're nothing compared to Tether or Microstrategy or.. They were "only" in for about $17B in (artificial inflated...

A pair of those also made it into our kitchen for pulling stuff out of the oven hah. Works really well.

Which is odd because BTC has been confiscated, restricted, and a lot of people have lost all of their coins to various forms of digital "decay"... And yet it can still be endlessly replicated and forked... Which of the various BTC forks are the TRUE bitcoin? Different people have different...

So.. when I was a kid I spent untold hours turning the d* rope machine for making horse hair ropes. We mostly used an 189? new-era cast iron rope machine which worked fairly well (except it was mounted to low on the block and you'd bark your knuckles all the time turning it). The new era...

I haven't ever seen it myself so looked up the messicks video on HST+. Interesting stuff

Latex paint is plastic. If you wrap wood in plastic it had better be plumb dry and stay that way otherwise it's going to do what wood does when it's wrapped in plastic. Traditional oil paints and lime washes will breath and dry out through the paint, by latex by and large doesn't.

Meanwhile Blackrock just dumped a bug chunk of their toxic assets^W^WBitcoin holdings.. and Microstrategies latest 10Q was a fun and amusing read (here's hoping for a good old fashioned margin call!)

Looking at online prices, that seems like more than a fair price for those especially installed. Yes you can add more later if need be, and it's not super hard to do but at the price you're quoted I'd probably bite the bullet and get as many as you think you'll ever want. If you get two or...

\ I wouldn't stress the broken wheel on the deck to much, ditto the chewed up discharge. It's likely that you'll want a new set of blades, squash washers (aka "spring plate" two per blade) and I'd probably replace the dust covers and bolts while I was at it. The anti-scalp wheels will break...

Copypasta summarization of the currently known tariffs: A 10% baseline tax on imports from all countries and higher tariff rates on dozens of nations that run trade surpluses with the United States 34% tax on imports from China (actually on top of the previous 20% so 54% total) 20% tax on...

+1 to this! And if they're not on skids.. I'd be looking at how to jack them up and put them on skids. Just go slow and have as many support spots as possible under it and it usually goes pretty smooth. Where you end up in trouble is getting in a hurry. Also +1 to using logs/posts as rollers...

There's some work being done. Some trees appear to be largely resistant, we're still figuring out why but it appears to have something to do with tannins.. so there's some seed stock hope from the (admittedly rare) survivors. And there are some significant projects to collect seed banks of the...

I actually tried an entirely alternative strategy to that a few years back. I was co-farming on a shared space and we were putting in a moderate sized corn patch (not huge, maybe a couple thousand square feet total - enough for sweet corn for 4 or 5 families and a nice batch of tamales). So...

This is what happens when you don't throw criminals like that in jail the first time they do it. How Microstrategy managed to survive his 2000 scamming and he somehow walked away with a slap on the wrist is as much a strong of indictment of our lax security laws as anything.

It actually also requires ribes (currant/gooseberry) as part of it's lifecycle for some reason. That's why black currant jelly isn't popular in the US whereas it was in England and was also popular early in our history. They banned them to help stop the rust. They're allowed in some parts of...

And worse it encodes it in a "code is law" system. I've been a programmer for 30+ years as my day job and I'm hear to tell y'all right now that the probability of there being latent bugs in even the most trivial seeming code approaches 100% given enough time Most blockchain implementations are...

I mean... I could post dozens of cases where people had their wallets hacked.. and not just hot wallets but cold wallets. Or worse the people who were kidnapped and tortured to force them to hand over their keys (being stupid and loud about having a large amount of "currency" mostly used by...

Just call 1-900-bitcoin[1] and you're good to go is what I heard... [1] Not a real number.

Did a decent yard cleanup in the apple orchard yesterday with the WC-88 which was the biggest project I've done with it so far. I cut everything above about 3" or so into smoker wood (love apple smoked bacon and sausage!), so mostly smaller stuff but the trees had been poorly treated for 8 or...

All to often hung out to dry... (and yes I know Changelly isn't the "best" exchange but coinbase and the rest pull the same games).

The beautiful part of that is that you never really know because it's dependent on current demand, how fast you want the transaction to complete, etc.. A relatively simple and unbiased explanation here: How Bitcoin Fees Work | River Learn - Bitcoin Basics Fees are quite a bit higher than...

price is suspiciously low somewhere between 35-50% low, beware of either scammers (most likely) or there's possibly something wrong.

Wow, that was an amazing deal. Nice find!

I've seen it done mostly in late summer. The guidance I've seen is you want there to be enough growth time for the graft to heal, but not enough for the bud to grow a lot. I'm kinda deciding how i want to deal with this mess still.. I'm not sure. I might just graft the scions onto a branch...

This is true in spades. I have some doug fir that was all planted at the same time in the early 90's as part of a replant operation. The ones on good soil without to much competition are maybe 12"-18" at breast height, some of the ones half shaded out are only 3-4" (yes those should have been...

Probably old fashioned but I prefer the hammer in lead insert anchors myself :). I find they distribute the load more evenly over the concrete than the bottom wedge type. Example: Bolt Depot - Woodscrew anchors, Lead, #6-#8 x 1"

I'm curious what you have for a can sealer, those were $$$$ when I last looked at them. Also curious what chamber vac you ended up with - I've been eyeballing the avid armour for a few years, I've been real happy with their bag sealer after killing a couple of the cheaper ones over the years...

It's a good question, the 8800 has a 200lb flywheel vs the 120lb on the 8600 but doesn't go up a lot in HP requirements (the flywheels are all 24" but different thickness except the 9900 which is 26.5" diameter). I'm wondering if they did that so that it cuts less often to drop the load? They...

I haven't seen them, but the claim was they were basically eating down into the roots. I've saved .. or at least repaired a couple of yard trees some friends hit a bit to hard with the string trimmers with that technique and one cherry my moms dogs took out in her garden. It's a good trick...

I'm currently in the "weird pallet structures in the field" phase of the project since I could get them free and slap them up fast... I'm in the property growth phase so my ambitions have outstripped my supplies a bit in some regards... (basically second year on the property so I've had enough...

I couldn't figure out any actual reason for that either. Flywheel weight are similar, pto-flywheel ratios looked similar... There might well be a good reason, but I couldn't find it :) All of the woodland mills are Chinese imports BUT they are made to spec and final assembled in NA and they...

I'm on team game cam to try to figure out what the heck is going on at this point :) It'd be real interesting to see what's happening when those break! That was a substantial branch!

Most pines go through a fair bit of self pruning of the lower limbs as they get bigger and older. I wonder if that's what's happening here. Is it mostly lower branches that are breaking off? It's fairly common to prune them to 25' or so for forestry practice to minimize the amount of lower...

Interesting my 5520H has a console light that goes on when the brake goes down. I'm assuming it's probably the same ? or a very similar console. I'm like 90% sure it's just a simple contact switch because it's triggered by pressing the brake down most of the way. So worst case that wouldn't...

A trader thinks that the prices of eggs are going to increase, and so he contacts his broker and asks him to buy 1,000,000 egg futures at $1.70 Sure enough, a week later, the price of egg futures is $2.50, and the trader, happy to ride his winners, places an order for 3,000,000 more egg futures...

These "changes" have been "real soon now" since crypto started, wake me up when something is actually useful outside of the limited transaction rate crime and scam uses. Comparing it to the internet is a false analogy. There were early and obvious USEFUL uses of the internet (I mean email for...

Well they sure ain't putting that on any of the extant blockchains lol. Not on blockchain.. Because it doesn't scale. Also putting voting records on there is a terrible idea, PUBLIC ledger.. no thanks (and yes even the "less than public ones" have a lot of .. interesting.. features in that...

This is how my one grandpa ended up with the fingers being trimmed off straight across on one hand. He stuck his into an old school all metal fan and there wasn't anything left to save of the tips.. (plus it was a full days ride and then some to the nearest hospital). Certainly could've been a...

You might be well served to take a basic economics class that explains the value of a slightly inflationary currency and the problems with a deflationary one. You're still ignoring the actual problems of scalability and the fact that it's not actually backed by anything at all. You can say...

Openly fraudulent doesn't make it better lol. I can't even imagine the thought process that somehow justifies that response. A failure of regulatory agencies to prosecute open fraud.. doesn't mean it's smart to invest in it. The rest of your response there is predicated on "line go up" which...

This doesn't cover the entirety of the shenanigans going on with microstrategy... but it's a nice overview of the basics

Another thought would be to swap the hydraulic lines to the loader around and see if the problem follows the valve or stays with the bucket curl... just to triple check that side of the setup (I'm not sure why it wouldn't follow the valve based on your explanation .. but I've been surprised...

Yeah I think isolating it to either the valve or the joystick/cable side would be my next step just to rule the joystick/cable side 100% out. You might well be right and it's a problem with the valves, but narrowing the problem down first would help make sure. If there is some crud in the...

If your 3520 is like my 55 (mines newer but I think it should be about the same). The cables run from the joystick assembly on the fender down to the valve assembly. There are linkage couplers down on the valve assembly itself which are pretty easy to remove (just cotter pins) which would be a...

No they hacked the exchanges "cold" (lol) wallet (which isn't their ledger wallet - which actually wouldn't have been .. quite.. as bad). There are, of course, as you're admitting a lot of scams directly targeting the users as well but that wasn't specifically the problem in this case...

First world solutions to first world problems... I actually broke down and bought one of the Husqvarna Xenoah cans thanks to you * enablers. It is pretty nice, I have a lot of trail clearing I'm working on where it kind of makes sense to just walk them and do all of the cutting then come...

If by "hater" you mean "anti-scams" and "unsupportive of greater fools schemes" (which are a superset of the pyramid scheme) then.. sure I guess.. sign me up. Ah yes the famously reliable coinbase. The hotel california of crypto, you can check in but you can never leave (in fairness most of...

I didn't have time to get a picture.. but I was picking up some stuff from an auction sale today and there was another person who was hauling out a JD Gator. He was towing it out with a max 3500lb tow capacity SUV (so *maybe* just in spec) and worse had two of the 1000lb ratchet straps on it...

I used sawdust from the woodshop/sawmill for close in stuff. It's not going to do a long road but it works pretty well for the pathways. I find it actually a bit easier to clean up than sand (mostly dries up and blows away - I'm not where that matters) and it's at least as grippy. I had some...

Yeah yeah.. over 15 years of "we're still early and any day now we'll figure out how to make it actually useful" lol. Monero is the closest anyone has come, the it's great for money laundering and ransom money... I see the tether money printer has been going brrrrt again lately. Gotta keep...

Why stop there? Go ahead and take out a massive load, mortgage your house. Please do go all in.

I think it depends on what you're doing - the local utilities (at least the electric.. possibly the phone .. although it's 99% contracted work in either case.. not sure on the details as I've only watched from the road) have a large skid steer like unit that the clear under the power lines with...

I have a couple of Skids I made for this purpose which are basically "pallets" but instead of pallet layered construction it's just some 4x4's for the base (I usually use either 3 or 4..) with a deck lagged to the top of them. I have one of "truck bed bench seats" the previous owner of my place...

The other 280 acres to the north and 400 acres to the south of the original land claims my property is built on. Or I'd settle for decent fences around all of the existing fields.. man have posts and fence wire gotten expensive.

Kind of interesting.. We don't see many 25 series on this side of the pond... The self leveling loader is a pretty nice feature! And the euro-style 3 pt connectors are a nice bonus as well. I have to admit that dump trailer actually looked really useful hah. I don't know if I could've parted...

Yep! Make sure that thing slips, this is something you're technically supposed to do every so often anyway (yearly for most uses) although a lot of us don't when we ought to.. A good reminder. A short video on how:

Fair, although I thought it worth noting that the little oregon was less of a POS than I initially expected it to be hah. For joe small lot homeowner.. it's not really the worst of solutions. For serious work of any duration I haven't found the electrics to be worth much either. I got the...

I'd want to see some reeeeeaaally thorough auditing of that from a very well accredited third party before I touched it given how shady most of the crypto enterprises are.

"It's complicated.." https://reason.com/2025/02/03/el-salvador-walks-back-its-bitcoin-law/ Just waiting for all of the "no true scottsman" arguments around this one.

Yeah the dewalt 60v is WAY the heck heavier than my echo 501P or the little echo cs310-18, it's on par with my old husky 372xp. It is easier to start than the 372 though... but balance is really a lot worse... I've actually been super impressed with the cs310 so far although I only have...

Hah, I hope all of the crypto holders do exactly that.. Watching the margins get called will be truly glorious.

One gotcha I've run into with bars is making sure the oiler holes line up and sometimes the adjusters aren't entirely compatible either. For instance you have to buy a conversion kit to run Sugihara bars on Stihl saws and I've had to drill a couple of oregon bars for the oiler holes to line up...

48 pallets for $22.50 (and yes I know I can get them technically free other places there was a significant convenience factor).. for storing out in my fields.. Actually for building temporary deer fences around orchard transplants..

In some of our "I really don't want to mow that" (for various reasons including laziness hah) spaces we've been looking at some of the lower growing meadow/clover/wildflower mixes. What works seems to be pretty climate specific and I don't have experience of any duration so can't make...

Sweet looking tractor! Congratulations.

Old Fred is definitely one of my personal hero's. Another person I wish I could've met in person and maybe had a spin on the old steam engine hah.

Calf size. For easy calving you'd generally breed a slightly lighter bull to a heavier cow. I remember our neighbor had Charolais cattle and everytime one of his bulls would get one of our herefords we were at best pulling the calf if we weren't cutting it apart to get it out in pieces (some...

That would push my pucker factor over the limit on most any tractor honestly. There are a number of things I like about the 2126 better, the front end lift capacity is a lot higher (which if you haven't use a tractor with pallet forks on it.. I can't begin to describe how useful that's been)...

I actually got a couple of 1/4" chains for longer chain work because having something lighter was looking real convenient after hoofing around some 3/8" for a few hah. 3/8" chains are indeed heavy as hell. I bought four 5/16 chokers under the theory I was unlikely to actually use the full...

I went with chain for two reasons First I could find them easier, so that was a big selling point :D Second, and if I'm wrong here please someone correct me, but I didn't see how you'd choke the cable chokers up short when you're using the winch to drag logs and the chain is easy to adjust...

Also here's an online manual for the 45A (I can't find it on the tajfun site.. and my winch didn't actually come with a hard copy.. but I'd already found the 35a manual at another site so no problem). https://www.br-equipment.com/sites/default/files/downloads/_egv45a_egv55a_egv65a_egv85a_en_0.pdf

Separate from the winch/tractor aspect is the general tree work, clearing, falling, chainsaw and axe work. I don't know how much experience you have there so take this as sort of the first round. If you don't have much it might well be worth while looking around for a local felling and...

Some good reasons why your average farm tractor is a problem in the woodlot here. I took some of this as prescriptive in regards to adding skid plates and guards where it was possible to do so, fire protection, first aid kit, radio. https://extension.psu.edu/tractors-in-the-woods The classic...

The other winches I looked at include: igland - which seems to be mostly? midwest.. Winches and Igland Winches where the two dealers I found (not exactly local and the igland find a dealer page didn't work for me other than showing one dealer in quebec... might have some luck calling the ID...

The other trick I've seen some folks do, that I think is a good idea, is to leave some limbs on the sides when you're skidding around sidehills to keep the logs from rolling and then finish trimming them once you get them to a landing. I think we're in a similar use case. I have about 20-25...

So I looked pretty hard at the MechMaxx/TMG winches recently but ended up pulling the trigger on the Tajfun (some of the other winches also look great, the tajfun was local so no shipping and I could go touch it which counted for a bit). I ended up with the 35A, I think you'd be better off with...

Bernie Madoff had similar gains, doesn't mean it was a good idea. I would say don't immanentize the eschaton..

Indeed... They have some very significant problems at the moment. Nabiullina had been doing a rather amazing job of holding it all together despite everything but now the Duma seems to maybe be turning against her (gotta have a scape goat I guess?) which is probably not a great sign. OTOH...

Simultaneously they're also banning it domestically: Russia Institutes Partial Ban on Crypto Mining to Control Energy Use, Tass Reports And have heavily cracked down on domestic usage previously. I wouldn't necessarily look to Russia as a leader in global fiscal responsibility either hah...

That's revisionist history though because "appreciating asset/store of value" was just a pivot after the whole "it's a payment system" thing didn't work out. It's still a solution in search of a problem (and the hodlers became invested in the idea of somehow line-go-up). The problem with it as...

I think more amusing is his comment that "if you're not buying at the top you're leaving money on the table".. Umm.. Who's table is he talking about there?

Heh... Opportunists will opportune.

You definitely want four wheel drive. Plus that makes loader work a lot easier. You're on point with the 25HP being slower for the flail/mower. I'd agree 35-55 is kind of your sweet spot for what you want to do. You could definitely get away with a 25HP machine, I can mow the 2 acre upper...

I looks like they took a walk behind and bolted on a seat... which probably removed the ability to have a cover over the battery because you need someplace to put your legs other than down hah. Kind of reminds me of the old John Deere 420 series and the Oliver Cletrac's from the 40's. Although...

Cramer is another 'do the opposite of what he says because he's already setup the table stakes in his favor and is dumping the bags" with a generous side helping of crazy fear mongering to keep the plebes fixed in their chairs. It's like Goldman in the day that was having their retail desk do...

This isn't strictly true, investor money is largely irrational. There are also semi-rational sections that go where it sees a potential for high returns (otherwise people would only buy blue chips which is clearly not the case). Investor money WILL flee from higher risk when things get dicy...

If you want a closer correlation look up the Wildcat banks from the mid 1800's. Very brief intro: Wildcat banking - Wikipedia Another favorite most folks in the west probably don't know of is the MMM scam MMM (Ponzi scheme company) - Wikipedia

Saylor is playing an elaborate shell game where he is trading stock shares of his otherwise mostly worthless company for dirty fiat and BTC. He's pocketing the fiat and using the BTC buys to pump the value of MSTR and BTC. The liquidity of BTC is low enough that a couple of whales can move the...

Moreso it's Tether dumping fake printed dollarooo like substances into the ecosystem to pump the value so the whales can dump on the chumps. How you can have over 100 billion in vaporware.. boggles my mind. I shoulda been a criminal. In before "tether is fully backed", if that's true why...

Some of the newer Massey's are TYM's as well btw although it looks like the 2850/2860M are Agco/iseki (japanese motor anyway). That does look like a really nicely spec'd tractor as well. The Rural King are also TYM's. I have some doubts buying rebranded remembering the Montana and other...

Yeah, I mean definitely compared to the newer grande L series.. In this case I was specifically looking at the motors and the Kukje engine is .. pretty dead simple for a modern motor.. at least comparatively. It's mechanically injected with no ECU at all. It does have a DPF but you can pith...

Not sure why the find a dealer didn't work - I went to Find a Dealer and punched in Buffalo New York in the search and got a bunch (a lot more than I have around me alas). I have a 2024 5520H which is the same as the 4820 excepting it has a turbo on the engine (add about $1500, a bit happier...

Also there can be a lot of unexpected trash along fence lines (kind of akin to the problem you're seeing around the chicken coop). Things like down wire, electric fence lines, old wood/metal posts, etc.. I found a dozen throwing horseshoes along one.. along with the stakes, some random rebar...

Compare the 3pt and loader functionality "feel" as well as the raw lift capacity. I went with a different Korean tractor for this size but I will say the Kubota FEL and 3pt was MUCH smoother and I could lift and dump at the same time with the nicer Kubota FEL. I believe most (all?) of the...

I think it's probably difficult to separate nervous stockpiling from increased optimism. I'm probably contributing to this in my small way. I've been pre-buying a lot of the construction material I think I'll need in the next year or two. I know a bunch of people doing the same.

If you haven't already, it might be worth installing a sand filter between the well and the house. It won't save your pump of course but it can cut back on the damage to the rest of the system a bit at the cost of emptying a filter every so often.

At a house I owned a couple decades ago when we bought it came with a Culligan contract that played out to month-month after about 6 months. The softener we were "renting" was by that point over 10yrs old and "crusty" in all senses of the term, and you had to buy their salt as well. I figured...

Cute.. Nice job avoiding the actual conversation.

You asked if we were on the right path and if the potential future alternative candidate would have been better. Neither is material at this point to the immediate discussion of whether we will have tariffs and what the effect will be on the US economy. So I'm going to decline to answer that...

Arizona is responsible for about 70% of current US copper production, so yeah it's still one of the five C's.

In 2022 the US exported $812M in refined copper and imported $6.16 Billion worth of which a bit over over 50% was from Chile (I have no idea how we'll treat Chile..). I think a more apropos statement is that the US had a very robust copper industry but it's very insufficient to meet current demand.

The discussion here is "what effect will tariffs have" not some hypothetical alternative future we won't see,

So what I'm getting is: They won't actually impose tariffs despite it being a core policy position because you can't believe anything the incoming admin says... (which.. I mean.. ok.. I do have some trouble strictly arguing with that, although I'm more inclined to believe actions than words and...

Steel for framing, screws, nails, and yes most copper is sourced overseas in one way or another (the big US copper mines have been mostly shut down for decades starting in the Reagan years and progressively closing from there). Most pipe is actually plastic now (I have.. opinions.. on that hah)...

I think that depends a bit on how independent the Fed can remain. The people behind the executive branch are seem largely in favor of a less independent Fed and lower interest rates (there's some fraction that are of the "end the fed" crowd but I'm not sure how much traction that will actually...

Not even a little (I last watched CNN during gulf war 1, I don't remember ever watching MSNBC, I don't watch Faux News or any of their ilk either). I DO however listen to what the people who are going to be doing things are in fact saying and take them at their word. It seems like people only...

Back to tariffs, I guess I'm a touch baffled that so many folks don't believe people are going to do exactly what they said they are going to do. The "10% on china" was "10% on top of the initial proposal of 60% increase across the board" which means 70% total if that lands (so 60% increases...

Also check your local state trailer registration rules. Where I'm at if you're over 8k registered weight you have to register BOTH the trailer AND the tow vehicle by weight, OR get a per-trip registration, OR be registered as a farm vehicle (with distance limitations on how far you can tow at...

I dunno.. 2-3' of water can be a hell of a lot of force. A lot depends on how fast it's moving though.. 6" of fast water does a lot more damage than 2' of slow... Whats the soil under it down lower? That is how deep does the sand go? I think my best shot would be to dig three holes 4-5' or...

Both are good of course if you have unlimited money.... There are more low cost implements for a tractor and it's a lot easier to find them used, and tractors are generally cheaper to run and fix as well. Skid steers have more hydraulic flow and pushing/lifting power so they can run some...

If you're in that situation it might be worth investing in some motor start surge capacitors. That'd smooth out the startup current (not as much as a 3 phase slow start... but it'd help..). It also reduces your power factor which can be helpful if you happen to be on one of the industrial...

I might also suggest this is more of a baseline of a set of questions to ask if you do have someone look over the tractor if you're not comfortable judging for yourself. I've often found asking some of the baseline questions gets you a LOT more useful information than just "is it good". You...

Point.. The fella I bought my Kubota from had some serious health issues and was downsizing as you say. I do think the "story" about why they're selling the tractor can be important either way which is probably a reasonable distinction to make. I also looked at a grand L4740 for my larger...

This isn't bad advice though. It's kind of a trade off. There are other brands that are cheaper and sometimes you can get a better deal going further away. BUT if you have a problem a local dealer who is good can also be super useful to have. The "is good" part is of course critical as a...

My yard tractor is a 2017 B2601, great little machine. A friend has a somewhat smaller BX with a backhoe which is also a nice machine. I wouldn't have a problem with either for the size of property you have (slight preference for the heavier B but the BX seriously outperformed my expectations...

+1 on figuring out where the leak actually is. Also check the torque on all of the bolts... I found some "finger tight" (or more accurately finger loose") bolts on the axle on my B2601 which was undoubtedly assisting the hydraulic seep on that side.

You can get a cheap slip clutch for about $50, or an expensive one for about $80. So given the cost of the whole setup I guess I wouldn't let that be a deciding factor. One bonus is that these tractors have a "live" pto that free wheels when you turn it off so while you do want to ease it on...

If you happen to wreck that one for some reason, try a 7500 series on the next round. The silicon seals on the 7500 are a LOT more comfortable IMHO and the price increase is relatively nominal. I went through a couple different masks for sanding woodturning projects (dust collection is .. not...

Yeah 100%. I added 2 rear remotes but definitely would have preferred 3 and one with float so I'm going to have to do some machinations to work around that. The pre-wired 3rd function is also definitely nicer. I opted for rops not cab so the rear 3pt control isn't "as big" of a deal. The...

My conclusion was that the 5520 was smaller dimensionally but weighed about the same so the material went somewhere.. and IMHO it showed in the axles and undercarriage. I might well regret my choice long term but that was my thought process. I wouldn't dispute that the trim on T574 was nicer...

Fraud, I've seen the same L4060 pictures on craigslist for a bunch of different places.

So looking at page 193/194 of the parts manual: https://tym.world/en-us/parts-and-support/available-downloads/?model=4820C The 2 oem valves just stack. It seems like there is "probably" enough room to stack another one on top (part #'s on page 194). You'd need a longer set of bolts for tying...

Yeah, no argument there. The things that sold me .. for my use case.. on the miniX were: - Longer reach on the boom (I have a lot of cleanup tasks where this will be hugely beneficial due to limited access). - a fair bit more digging power, not sure how much that actually matters to me...

Hehe, fair enough. It'll definitely be a project. For the record I opted for the extra 55hp mostly for running larger PTO stuff with a comfortable margin. Would I have been about as happy either way? probably.. But I'm also shopping for a used small excavator in the 7k lb range for similar...

Hire a guy with a decent sized excavator to come in and pull them. Price/effort/time/reward that'll win hands down IMHO.

Only if you're hot enough...

There's a few words like that floating around hah. It is useful to have the actual term of art for searching for the thing though. You'll also see: "Fire Barrier Paint" and "Fire retardant paint" but they're not exactly the same thing.. (a bit marketing.. but conveys the idea) Difference...

Consider caulking and using intumescent paint (yes it's not cheap, no it's not 100% fireproof, yes it does help).

I also see a some people bending Tym cylinders on the FB groups... But I knew this before buying one and already found an alternative source of cylinders that aren't ruinously expensive if I DO have a problem (it's mostly a few specific actions which can be a problem on other vendors as well...

If you look enough you can eventually get "lucky". I recently snagged an old Massey 7' in.. well.. I'll be honest it's not in super great shape but it is, I believe, very recoverable. But it was only $175 and it was less than 10 minutes drive away so it definitely followed me home. Most of...

For specifically tractor related issues that I know that have actually maimed and/or killed people the list is: 2 tractor rollovers causing death (one was mowing with a swather on a hillside, I was pretty young and can't 100% remember why the other happened. I know both took a while before...

Yeah, it works for some things pretty well... You need to apply it fairly frequently as it mostly stops working if it gets wet or blows off. If we're dealing with an infestation we'll apply it at least once a week preferably every 2-3 days. It also helps if you can use a puffer of some sort...

First run some water from a hose into the tank and observe if the level continues to rise. If the level stays constant your problem is between the house and the tank (standard "try to fix the clogged septic line" approaches here - the jetter unit noted below can be also useful for this if you...

Does one of those have float? Having float on one remote looks like it would be super useful for the flail to allow it to ground follow...

Holy smokes that was a 3000lb flail mower? https://ferrisrl.it/products/central-and-offset-mowers/serie-zhe/zhe-2500

The Branson 4815 is closer to the T474 than the 4820 is, the 4820 is more comparable to the T494 and the 5520 is closer to the T574. All have the same engine with the 5520 and T754 being the turbo version. The xx20 series and T5xx series are the heavier 6' wide chassis while the xx15 and...