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I've had my tractor since 2012 and never had any problem with the cooling system and the overflow bottle always showed between Low and Full. A couple of weeks ago, I noticed the coolant was below the "Low" line on my JD2320 and added some. Then, the next morning, it was back to the level shown...

Thanks again for all the suggestions. Just to close the loop here, it ended up being caused by a crack in the deck underneath the pulley tension bar. When I took the tension spring / swing arm assembly off the deck, I saw that the deck was cracked underneath. As a result, the deck was...

I have a 62" mid-mount mower on my Deere 2320 has been bullet-proof for the last few years. However, the original belt FINALLY broke after 7 years. I replaced the belt with an OEM belt, but now it's breaking belts every ~2 hours. Specifically, the belts appear to be wearing on the bottom of the...

Depends on the soil type and the expected load. If the ground is going to be damp, that means "heavy" so I would probably do every 6 feet, but maybe 8 at only 30" high. According to one of my books, a 4-foot-high, 15-foot-long wall could be holding back as much as 20 tons, so you do the math...

One of the worst things I've had happen is for the deadmen to rot or become loose from decay. That requires an ENTIRE redig and rebuild of the wall. You might want to consider making the deadmen out of pipe instead. If the wall rots, you can replace the pieces without having to dig up and...

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The Concept: I have a small workshop... well, it's actually not that small, but I have a lot of stuff. One of the problems has been where to store tools that I don't use all that often. Putting them on a shelf or under the workbench was OK, but it made it tough to justify pulling them out if...

I inherited some old Oneida Victor animal traps from my father (circa pre-1920 or so) and they were in pretty rough shape after sitting in a cardboard box in the garage for 30 years. I have several, and they aren't ever going to be used for trapping again, but they do have a LOT of sentimental...

My lawn is in bad shape. My plan is to core aerate and spread compost on about 2 acres of lawn this week, but was wondering the best way to spread the compost. Here's what I'm thinking... is this crazy? Aerate the lawn with a plug aerator Put the compost in piles around the yard with the...

I am BRAND NEW to using a powered sprayer on the tractor so could use a little advice. I just got a Northern Tool sprayer from my neighbor for my tractor... the Northstar 16 gallon. It's an ATV sprayer, but I've attached to my carry-all. NorthStar ATV Broadcast and Spot Sprayer — 16 Gallon...

Thanks everyone. Tried everything mentioned except for wdchyd's suggestion of using a gauge and flow meter (will have to get a quick-coupler for my pressure gauge to do that, so that probably won't happen until the weekend unfortunately.) The hydro fluid looks fine, and the filter screen is...

I've just noticed that this spring my 2013 Deere 2320's hydraulics seem weak. I noticed it first when I was moving some dirt, but just thought maybe the dirt was wet and heavier than it was last fall, so I ignored it. But today I went to move a pallet with my pallet forks that I put in the...

Yes, I balance them as well using one of these little things that I got on Amazon for like $3 a while back: When I took out the big nicks, they were a bit out of balance, so I ran them through the sharpening jig until they floated perfectly level on the balancer. Now, hopefully, if I do the...

Well, after trying to mow yesterday and getting less than an ideal cut, I remembered to check my blades and they were dull, dull, dull. Chipped, too. I THOUGHT that I'd sharpened them at the end of the fall season, but I guess I didn't. I had a lot of nicks to take out and wanted to make sure...

So, here's a "simple" question that I've been wondering about the last couple of days. What do you guys put in your oil can? When my father passed away, I got all of his old tools including some old oil cans and I've cleaned them up and plan on making them part of my tool kit. Usually, he...

Some of you may have seen this before, but it was new to me, so I thought I'd post the video. Now, after watching this, I'm thinking that I may need to get my son one of those helicopter/quadcopter/hexacopter drones so he can get some footage of our work on the homestead this spring. I...

Well, I FINALLY managed to get out and try out the chipper today. Overall, I have to give it an A, not an A+ yet, but that might be user error. It worked flawlessly on big limbs. Even with my puny 18 HP PTO, I was able to chip through 5 inch green wood by adjusting the hydraulic infeed...

Happy April Fools Day! 37 degrees and bluebird skies here, on the way to the upper-50's. Was over 70 yesterday, but it rained (again). MAN, I wish it would dry up enough to be able to get the tractor out into the field. We have so many limbs and trees down from the rougher-than-usual...

Well, after lots of helpful advice from TBN, I pulled the trigger on a WoodMaxx TM-86H Chipper. I decided on this one instead of the other "value oriented" chippers due to the hydraulic infeed. With only 18 PTO HP on my 2320, I thought that the hydraulic feed would help with managing the...

The original Sea Foam Motor Treatment is what I've always used. Good in the gas tank or the oil case.

Not sure if anyone else here on TBN watches it, but I absolutely loved the show Top Gear -- best show on TV in my opinion, and my oldest boy and I looked forward to Tivo'ing it ever week, plus re-watching the reruns on a rainy Sunday afternoon. I understand why it's the #1 rated non-fiction...

I addition to our "regular" garden, this year my wife and I are going to try "square foot gardening" in the beds closer to the house. From what we've read, and from our neighbors' experience, it seems like you can get a pretty attractive yield out of a little bit of dirt this way. I'm not...

+1 to this: I had some bad oil stains on the floor of the garage of the house we recently bought. On the side where the shop is (no cars) I wanted to paint the floor. I let the concentrate sit on the stains for a while, then took a hard bristle brush to it with some HOT water right out of...

The tank on my hydraulic infeed chipper is below the pump. See pic... tank is black and pump is just above it:

Our soil around here is naturally acidic, but especially in a couple of areas where I cleared out some old pine scrub and brush to expand the yard. I know I need to put down lime, but was wondering when I should do it? BEFORE the grass starts growing this year, or after?

I busted a weld on my "real" snow plow and had to improvise when we got an extra, unexpected 8" of snow about a month ago. Good old Southern ingenuity kicked in and I made this -- ugly as sin, but it worked for getting my driveway and road cleared. 2x12 mounted to my landscape rake: Maybe I...

When I read your thread title, the first things that popped into my mind were: EDC: DRC: :) :) :) :) :)

For me, I'd have to say: Forks (mine are clamp on, but they're REALLY handy) Landscape rake (even turned it into a make-shift snowplow when my "real" plow broke one of the welds) Box Blade Everything else Here is my...

You hold it like this: And then you do this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuDqtof2SpQ And then your hands look like this... ...unless you do this.

I'm not a prepper by any stretch of the imagination -- my kids couldn't survive without FIOS and my wife and I couldn't make it without easy access to the local Costco -- but my wife and I were recently talking about where we'd like to ultimately settle down and IF we ever decided to call it...

Even though I can't get outside on the first day of spring due to the darn snow, I thought we needed a "spring project list" thread. Here's a starter list of mine, in no particular order: Make some gauge wheels for the landscape rake to make spring clean-up easier Build a new woodshed CLOSER...

First day of spring and we're back down in the thirties with snow flurries and a light dusting on the ground here in Northern Virginia.

If you check out the Family Handyman website, they have a section on sheds that include schematics, framing diagrams and materials lists. Shed Plans: Storage Shed Plans: The Family Handyman I'm thinking about using a slightly modified version of their 2011 model for my next shed project, but...

Thanks. I forgot about the nest boxes... here are a couple of pics. This was built as a single unit and attached with a few screws, so it can be easily removed if we convert from "coop" to "shed" in the future. I still have a row of shakes to put on above the boxes, so please ignore my...

The first major project of the spring is going to be to clear out a ~1 acre section of woods to the side of my house of all of the 2-4" saplings so that the big trees have a little more breathing space. When spring comes, you can't even see through the woods, and I'd like to thin it out. I...

I know there are other reviews of the WoodMaxx chipper family out there in the forums, but I was wondering if anyone had a specific insight as to how well the hydraulic infeed system works on the TM-86H Compact-Tractor chipper? From what I've read, this is supposed to be different / better from...

I have the 5' box blade from Tractor Supply on the back of my 2320 and it works fine: BUT, I have more HP (25 HP) than you are talking about with your 425 (only 20HP, I think?), so I would probably look for a 4' blade if possible based on my usage. I've found that mine works perfectly well...

Here's one that I use every season... it was my great-grandfather's corn husker.

I'm not trying to push anything here -- and I'm not affiliated with this in ANY way -- but I wanted to pass along what I think is a great concept for special needs kids. It's very rare for me to endorse something and ask for contributions, but I think this is worthy of post here on TBN. This...

The proof is in the pudding as they say... this fox tried to get into the coop for weeks after we built it, but now he's just given up. When I see him on his morning walk-abouts, he just walks right past the coop and the chickens don't even squawk anymore. It's like the Chicken Palace has a...

The last step was to add some gravel around the perimeter and seal up any potential "critter cracks" where the foxes could get in. By the time we were done, I think it turned out looking pretty darn close to our original idea. Original Inspiration: Our final Chicken Palace: So far...

After a painful, un-fun day of installing the wire mesh the run was finished and I added drainage pipes, landscape fabric and sand. We added a few roosts and the chickens went in permanently. If happy chickens was the goal, then I think this was a 100% success. Our favorite girl never...

Building the run was a little bit more tricky. Since I wanted to be able to convert this back to a shed at some point in the future, I wanted to build the run as a "stand alone" structure that I could remove without leaving holes in the shed. After some more time in Sketchup, I came up with an...

Once the outside was stained, and the shutters and windows and doors were installed, I turned my attention to the inside. I knew that I didn't want "ugly framing material" for the interior, and that I would need something that was attractive and still cost effective. I ended upon deciding on...

The next weekend I spent the morning building the doors and shutters in the garage, and then hauled them down to the coop with the tractor. Although I like the look of naturally-aged cedar shakes, letting them go to grey wouldn't match the rest of the house or outbuildings, so I ended up...

Once the sides were finished, including the egg box and the supporting studs/nailing joists, I started putting up the shake siding. I thought about using vinyl or even the pre-built shake panels, but I found a great deal on individual cedar shakes online and figured that an 8x4 building...

I spent the following week figuring out the final placement for the windows, doors and egg boxes. Since we wanted to be able to convert this to a "shed" if the whole chicken-thing didn't work out for us, I didn't want to lock myself into a layout or framing situation that I couldn't modify, so...

We were expecting some rain, and I knew I wouldn't be able to work on it until the following weekend, so the stick-frame was built relatively quickly. I roughed in the stick framing and then pre-built the rafters in the garage and lifted them into place with the front-end loader. We weren't...

I wanted to make the coop movable in case we ever decided to relocate it, so instead of a foundation we decided to use 4x4s on top of concrete pavers, leaving enough room where I could get the pallet forks under it to lift up the coop in case I wanted to put rollers or skids underneath it. I...

It took a while to figure out just where we wanted to put the coop. After a few different design ideas, we realized that the perfect spot would be right smack-dab inthe middle of an existing herb garden, so the first thing I had to do was clear out the area and flatten the ground. The box...

Since spring doesn't seem like it wants to show up here in Northern Virginia, I thought I'd post about last spring's first big project -- building the Chicken Palace. It all started with a family trip to Tractor Supply during Chick Days... before I knew what happened, we had added to our brood...

I'm looking at getting a new PTO-driven wood chipper (probably one of the Wood Maxx chippers) and I got to thinking about the PTO HP of my Deere 2320. On a lot of the TractorData.com pages, there is a "Claimed" versus "Tested" rating for the PTO, and frequently the tested figure is higher...

Wow... I thought I was being clever when I fabbed-up a 2x4 support for my FEL. REALLY helped with cleaning out the gutters on the house. Hard to do as a one-man show, but I used this from my son's playset to get up and down and work the levers. Probably not OSHA approved now that I think...

OK, so I'm a little late to this "registration" thing... but I've been an active lurker on the site for far too long. Without a doubt, this has been the BEST site out on the interwebs for guys like me... great advice, nice people, and an incredibly broad spectrum of topics. So, I thought I'd...