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I second the "try to sell it" and then buy cheaper rebar (if that makes sense price wise where you are).

Tree branches also will render them inoperable. I was mulching brush, heard a funny noise, and saw what I thought at first was smoke coming from the mower. Stopped, quickly realized a branch had knocked the extinguisher off the ROPS and it met its demise!

Crappy Chinese tires have held up, but prone to getting thorns. Recently did some googling of my tractor, found an advertisement with one for sale, and in the photo it is possible to make out that the front tires are Hankook, as are the rears (on mine the rears are Hankook). Given that this...

Code is 124.654 Which is on page 70 of their catalog: https://media.comerindustries.com/production/2023/05/Gearboxes_compressed.pdf

My Goldoni has an LA490 motor. The rubber boot thing, under which is a fuel filter insert, leaks horribly. Anyone know a part number or even better name that rubber thing is called in Italian so I can find a spare part over here in Europe? Going to try another temporary fix...

My woodchipper has this Kohler motor. It became impossible to start- i.e. pulling the cord wouldn't turn it over. Somewhere I read this could be the decompressor on the exhaust valve not working, so I removed the spark plug, and sure enough, no problem turning the motor over. Last week I...

What kind of engine? I have a wood chipper with a Kohler engine. Suddenly became hard to start. Remove spark plug, abd it turns fine. Something has happened to the automatic decompressor mechanism. Maybe the same problem with yours. Haven't had time to take mine apart and see inside tho.

I think it has a lot to do with how they're raised. Most of my goats aren't friendly, but the one whose mom died last winter and we had down by the house with the kids is definitely friendly. She comes when called, and likes to be petted.

It arrived. Weight on nameplate is less than what is on the web. Maybe weight of shanks wasn't included? Would have to take it to the scale at the scrapyard to really see. Didn't do kuch with it today, aside from a bit of assembly and a little test.

I took the plunge and ordered yesterday (they got back in stock the 150cm model). Guess it will come sometime next week.

Living in rural Slovakia, I am most familiar with the situation we have here regarding land and inheritance. I just helped a friend in the village get in contact with his distant relatives. Although he is a historian, his pressing motivation is to get a hold of land that was basically "lost" to...

There aren't any other angles of it?

I'm looking at a Chinese box blade as well: RBB4FT 150 cm GEOGRASS leveller with basket Does this look like the sort of thing y'all run into? There aren't many options for box blades in Europe, it doesn't seem as well known. There is a public tractor path that runs in between our property. I...

(It is likely that your ancestors would have been Byzantine Catholics, but in the early 20th century in America married Byzantine Catholic priests were banned, and this lead to a schism and the formation of the Carpathian Orthodox Church in America. It wasn't till the past decade that finally...

I would think your maternal grandparents village was in Ukraine. There the Byzantine Catholic churches were not legal again until communism ended. In Czechoslovakia, the Byzantine Catholic church was made legal again in 1968 (many churches had been given to the Czechoslovak Orthodox Church, but...

I have a Goldoni like that. On mine, you take the handlebars off, the trailer has its own steering wheel, throttle, clutch pedal, and a stick attaches to control the gearbox. After a year, I went back to Italy to buy another used Goldoni, because swapping the handlebars and trailer takes about...

In-laws came again today, and tore down the rest of the walls, leaving just the back ones. Yesterday I took some of the old roof tiles to a castle being restored, where they want them both as roofing material, and broken tiles to make a brick dust that gets mixed with lime for a waterproof...

For a decade, we've lived here in rural Slovakia with an old set of stalls for pigs and chicken coop right behind our house. Although the moment we don't have pigs, any that I kept were up in the field, never in those stalls next to the house. Likewise, after a couple of years, chickens got...

It may be a breather hose-- mine has one also connected the transmission and apparently hydraulic fluid reservoir, though it is routed differently. Why it is designed that way, I don't know. The powertrain schematic in the repair manual is general for both, and also shows that sort of hosed...

Can you take a photo from the other side? I don't think mine has that pipe, however its late now. I'll look in the morning. I notice that in the owners manual, the diagram for the TS1910 seems to show it, whereas for the larger TS series, it isn't shown.

My ISEKI has a FEL made in house by the Polish company that imported it. Earlier, I started getting a leak from one of the hoses going to one cylinder after moving a lot of bales. I eventually got a replacement hose for it. Now, last week, i was pulling/pushing some big roots out of the ground...

Goto google or yandex, and put in there this URL: "site:http://products.jacobsen.com/img/manuals/" as well as keywords like "ISEKI&CO" "ISEKI" or your tractor model, e.g. "TS3510". I found the 188 page original TS series service manual, as well as parts diagram for TS1610 and TS1910 (this...

I drained the old oil that the importer put it, as it was 90 weight and the manual calls for 140 weight, and I feel like the gears are noisy. Out came 13 liters, capacity in the manual is listed as 16. I pumped in about 10 liters. Let it set awhile. Then I unscrewed the plug next to the...

I went to an oil store today to get 10w30 oil for my Iseki TS3510, as its been over a year since I've had it, and the hour meter is broke, but guessing I've used it for 100 hours, which is the oil change interval in the manual. The manual (from the 1980s) calls for 10w30. The guy at the store...

Anyone know where there's some table of how much power a shaft can transmit? I've got to make an adapter for my two wheel tractor's PTO to attach a different manufacturers accesories, one of which is a cutterbar mower. I've got the two toothed couplings, and I was about to weld some thick pipe...

Sometime ago I posted about my dillema as to which gear oils would work for my tractor and walk-behinds, as the market has changed since their manuals were written in the 1980s. I hadn't noticed the "fine print" in the Iseki manual for the TS series, and that being that the TS3510 is supposed to...

My neighbor got a round baler for his tractor (quite used, I have no idea the brand because there weren't any markings I could see today looking at it.) His problem is that he says his tractor hydraulics are strong enough to lift the gate on the back of the baler, but that's pushing them to...

Hi, I'm pretty sure it should be fine, right? The owners manual I have for my Iseki is from the 80s or 90s and states to use 10w30 oil for all season use. 5w30 for diesels is actually cheaper over here, and more available. Capacity is 6 liters. If anything, it should start better in winter...

I learned about the joys of leaving butter out in a covered butter dish here in Slovakia after 23 years of having to take butter out of the fridge an hour ahead to be able to spread it. Actually, I've survived all sorts of food handling practices that my mother is horrified by when she visits...

jbrumberg-- on the two wheel tractor I use for fighting brush, I converted the wheels to be tubeless (lots of black goop around the rims) and then filled them up with something from England called PuntureSafe. I think its a copy (they would say improvement) of ultraseal. That was last September...

RNG-- for the geese, can't you get some bird bangers? They launch with a blank pistol, or I think long ago I've seen adapters for .22 rifles. Here they are sold like fireworks-- bangers with a ton of flash powder for scaring away animals, but also all sorts of neat firework types. In the US, you...

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2stroke or PTO?

Up in the back field, having taken water to the animals. Doing a check of the electric fence to make sure deer didn't damage it. Tiger loves running around hunting field mice or perhaps rabbits. Not that he gets any... The Goldoni has its replacement metal seat after the old one broke off some...

Our dog, Tiger, was just barking, like, it seems, every other dog in the village. That called for a different handgun than my 9mm- the shoddy, Italian, .22 blank revolver. Hopefully the weak report from it got whatever deer are around moving away, otherwise I go back out with it and launch a...

For whatever reason, Aldi never moved in to Slovakia. Lidl is most common, I think. Its in the small town near us, so we shop there every week. In the city where my wife's parents live there are more options. One of which, Kaufland, is owned by the same German company as Lidl. Both of these have...

Very beautiful photos!

Gaudis church, Sagrada Familia would be worth seeing in Barcelona. I regret that on the day I was there it was closed, so I only got to see the outside. Recently I was surprised to learn that the whole construction of it has also been privately funded. The town of Tarragona has lots of Roman...

I like such snacks too, but I've noticed, at least over here, that MSG gets thrown into the mix. Recently I got a tin of organic wasabi powder. In fact, more like a small percentage of wasabi and remainder horseradish, but sharper tasting than the paste we had from Lidl. Speaking of which...

Way to avoid getting a civil lawsuit over injuries!

Kids, wife are all fine. Gloria started walking several weeks before her first birthday this month. I need to try with the dSLR to get a good sunset photo. The phone camera doesn't cut it.

We've had a few always growing in one spot of our yard. For a long while, there was also one coming up at the same isolated spot on our orchard as well, but either pigs dug it out, or getting grazed down by the goats and sheep did it in.

Wow. That's a pretty big prankster there playing ring-and-run. :-D

Other than birds, hedgehogs are the most common wild animal I see up close. Very frustrating to our dog with their defenses, and therefore at night can be frustrating to me if he finds one and starts barking his head off so I run out side in underwear, pistol in one hand, flashlight in the...

They just live outside. It rained not long ago, and if they go out in it to graze, it does rinse the dust off their coats.

There are some odd scratch marks and burned looking ends of the needles that makes me think it was damaged, though I don't get how. I should take it apart. All its doing now is filling that hole, only the oil and alternator lamps work.

I installed the TBN app, and this thread keeps coming up, so figure I ought to post something! Hope y'all have a happy easter. Been busy here fixing equipment and doing concreting around the house. Potatoes will be planted after Easter, as just yesterday I got the two wheel tractor back in...

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I've checked catalogs here in Europe (specifically FAIE in Austria, as well as some Slovak stores) and I can't find a blade with a 21mm hole that is 60x190mm (or anything close to these latter dimensions, as all I've found are disk mower blades 110mm long). The brush mower I have was made by...

Hi, One of my blades got bent unbelievably bad last year. Just hammered it back to being flat-ish, but I suspect stress will eventually cause drastic failure. I contacted Berta about replacements, and they claim you have to replace all four if one gets damaged. €170 + shipping. It seems kind...

Hi, On my alternator there is a screw terminal labelled "bat" -- obvious what that's for, and then a two pin connector, with the flat blades arranged like a T and labelled R and L. Just wondering what those outputs mean. I'm guessing that neither of them would allow for driving a tachometer...

Our first billy goat died this summer, while I was away actually, so his body was just left by an ant pile for nature to do its thing, and that pretty much left a clean skull, though a bit smelly. Unfortunately, wolves or wild/stray dogs got to our goats last month and killed a few, including...

No luck with the van. I managed to rig up a fitting on the test port from the fuel pump, which should be producing up to 8 bars, rigged in a gas engine compression gauge, and didn't get any pressure when starting the engine beyond what the electric pump in the fuel tank creates. The mechanic at...

No luck so far with the van. Which probably means its the "tandem pump" -- watch out, the VW Touareg, which I think is sold in the US, some of them had the same engine as mine. I wish VW had put somewhere a big Warnung! that letting the van run out of diesel is not only a pain in the a**, but...

All of that fit inside that shed? Wow!

RNG glad your home survived. David - you lived in Atlanta? That is where I am from (and go on "vacation" each year). There are different types of fibers. Thicker ones (sometimes even steel fibers are used) are replacing rebar, finer ones are preventing cracking. One of the big advantages of the...

Drew - I'm going to have to try waxing my tractor. Already washed it twice this year, which is more than the cars get. David - to save some of the work with the concrete slab, have you considered fiber reinforcement? I used plastic fibers last year and this year-- can't remember the brand, and...

Good morning! The extreme cold last night made me think of this thread-- -13ｰC, no snow, no ice, just hard, hard ground. I've been getting wood from the back of our land, lots of dead, mostly dry trees to thin out. Now heading out to take the Iseki up the hill to move some hay to the goats and...

I have an acquaintance in Japan, and he showed me how to get the Japanese manuals. They weren't that useful to me, just a few interesting details (but Google Translate App for the phone let me understand the Japanese, and he helped with a few words). Here are the instructions: ご利用条件｜井関農機株式会社...

While being frustrated trying to change the innertube today on the front tires, which are 7.00-16 chinese ones (e.g. not original), I was looking on tractordata.net and say that the Bolens G294 TractorData.com Bolens G294 tractor information which is the 4wd version of the TS2810 uses 12.4x24...

Dropping in to say "good morning" from Slovakia. My wife made some sort of "healthy cookies" from soaked nuts and stuff. With sugared jam on top, they are tasty. :-) Things have been real busy here. The Iseki has been a good deal of help though, and handles the hay bales just fine (if going...

There is always Shopsmith-- might be on the smaller side though for you. But can the Craftsman not be repaired?

Mowing was with two walk behind mowers-- a Goldoni Eco I got last year, but which is 30 years old, which cracked its drive mechanism half way through mowing the 5 acres, and a 5 year old Vari which near the end had the cutter knife bar crack in half. Not a good time with equipment! I borrowed...

If the manufacturer of a disc mower specifies it as requiring 40HP and my tractor has 35HP motor (not sure of actual PTO horsepower), how bad of a match is that going to be? Does it just mean going slower while cutting? Also, what is the expected lifespan of a disc mower? The seller of one...

I know Slime is available, both in the tube and tubeless variety, where in Slovakia at least, the tube variety is less expensive than tubeless. But I've read about some pink tire seal and other types, so I wonder if any members in the EU know of other brands that are available and possibly...

A little bit of good news. I put the two ducks in a dog cage in the garage last night. This morning I heard light quacking from a clump of weeds. One of the Indian Runner ducks, who had been escaping from the chicken pen, turns out went broody and has a nest there with 6 eggs. So as it stands...

Something got two of our indian runner ducks and the rouen duck, leaving us with just one runner duck and rouen mallard. I noticed earlier this week that the dog, when he runs away from me out in the field, was ending up later in the area were the chickens/ducks are penned up, so putting...

I've seen some like this growing in straw before-- I asked two different libertarians, and one believed they were psychedlic (European libertarians tend to be more in to this sort of "liberty" than many American ones). I was also wondering if they were edible or not, as they were growing in the...

5 "buddy seats" would fit the whole family, for now! Not sure where I'd use a 300HP tractor. I guess I'd have to hire myself out to my friend who just got a strip till planting machine. They've had to buy another tractor, 250HP, to use it. Whole different league-- 110K€ implement, lots of...

Same problem here-- wrong size trimmer line taken with me to the field for the gas string trimmer. Not that I would have gotten the fence done anyway, only about an hour of light left when I ran out of string. Cut down a lot of weed trees for the goats and sheep though-- mostly in the dogwood...

@RNG-- does the grass switch from nonflammable to flammable at 10? :-D That is another thing to factor in-- three posts around each tree to keep the goats from destroying it until big. Otherwise, I read Paulownia is used in agroforestry, presumably the leaves are edible. Rain until now...

Sort of like the thing I've seen here, just usually with a bunch of rods welded on the back to sort of sort out the potatoes from the soil. There are also two types that are PTO driven potato removers on the market here. One seems quite violent-- a wheel like thing that flings them out...

Interesting about the Chinese interest in Paulownia. When my friend told me how much his saplings cost, as he suggested I could buy some at the same time, I just figured I'll stick to native trees. Now rethinking that. I'd like to plant in the pasture, at least the part we own, shade trees for...

This should work. The first was probably too large, straight from the camera. The boy who is standing in the coat is my sister-in-laws son, as is the boy being held in her arms. (we've only got 4 kids, so far) @daugen potato plow = thing that digs out potatoes? What type do you use?

Gloria was baptized and confirmed yesterday, today first communion. Since Saturday was spent partying, Sunday is a no-work day, today I need to hit the ground running-- goats and sheep want to be moved, completely ate the grass, so I've been cutting down "weed-trees" for them to eat-- but...

Come to Europe then! ;-) It is possible to get 100% propane, but for cooking/heating ProBuGas is sold. In warm months the mix has a higher amount of butane, in cold months much more propane.

Were I to be buying a brush mower since getting the Iseki, I also would have gotten one to go on the 3pt hitch. I actually bought it last November or so-- someone listed it on the Czech classifieds for a real good price. Never used. Just getting the adapter made added a bit to the cost. I'm...

There would be a logic to that. Boiling point of butane is -1C. If the temperature is below that, no boiling, so no gas to burn. Plus, remember that as the butane or propane boils, this is taking heat from the container and the liquid, so it may be, say +5C outside, or even +10C, but as you use...

The brush mower is great! A couple of weeks ago I borrowed from a friend a brush cutter (weed-wacker with metal blades). That was pretty cool, but this beats it hands down for anything up to at least an inch diameter! But of course one tire has gotten some thorn and is now slowly deflating...

Happy Victory in Europe day (WWII)! Or as it is called here "Triumph over fascism day"; otherwise known as the holiday to plant potatoes on if you didn't get them planted last week on labor day! Last week I got the adapter made for my Goldoni to use the YABE mulching mower with it, just to find...

It works.

The gearbox is Comer brand L-25 A. I didn't get a chance to mow with it today, but just want to post the pictures of the conversion process-- might help someone in the future. Cover: Open gearbox: Closeups of freewheel mechanism: Spring positions: Ready to go back together (note the...

Finally got the adapter made to use the YABE/Nibbi brush mower with my Goldoni. I fully anticipated that the direction of rotation might be opposite, which should just require flipping the swinging blades over. I did not realize it would have a overrunning clutch / freewheel mechanism in the...

The front tire (Golden Rabbit brand from China) on my tractor got a flat as I drove it through a field where I'd just mowed some brush. At the time, I only saw some thorns stuck in the tire, which I thought was the cause. Yesterday, the tire shop repaired the tube, and now rolling the tire back...

Is there a larger tire that would fit on the rims for a 13x5.00-6? I've decided to get the tires foam filled on our walk behind equipment, as I'm sick of the punctures inflicted by the Prunus spinosa that grows here. The Vari with this size tire is painfully slow, and its occurred to me in the...

I'm a week away from the adapter I need being finished to get the Nibbi brand brush mower to fit on one of my Goldonis. Yesterday I went in to the field with all the Prunus spinosa (Blackthorn) which not only pierced again one of the mower's tires, but also took out the inner tube, through the...

Pretty much. Also I was glad to have finally pulled the stump out. Didn't get that on video, but the the wheels were digging some holes in pretty good before it came out, and two of the roots had been cut. I wasn't sure the stump was going to go!

Gosh, I would have expected the prices to have gone down, not up. I've seen now, even in Slovakia, but earlier in the US, lower-priced brands offering ~ 40V battery equipment as well for a lower price. At the time I got it, I think it was a package of saw, charger, and two batteries. There was a...

You might consider some of the LiIon battery powered tools. I got the Husqvarna battery chainsaw in 2012-- it has a 14 or 16" bar. Later my wife got the string trimmer that uses the same batteries. Actually, the string trimmer is strong enough to offer a metal blade option, which I should...

What time do you tend to wake up if your second cup of coffee is at 5am? :-)

Been busy, tired and a bit sick from the weather on Monday, that was decently warm, until I went on a bike ride with kids, which chilled me and got me a cold. Mother in law is here, gardening is being done, and my wife got a video of me lifting away a stump I'd pulled with the tractor with the...

It would be nice if there were something for all situations. I keep a can of pepper spray by the door in case some drunk would come in to the yard or something else where lethal force isn't warranted. But in town I'm weighed down enough by the CZ75 to not want to add more. I've seen a video...

That's just one of the goats. :-) We have an 8 year old billy goat. He has the impressive horns. Sadly, he got some injury to his nerves last year by deer brain worm. While a dose of copper sulfate killed the worms, it left him a bit less stable, so his primary duty of impregnating the goats...

Hmmm... unfortunately the garden is down by the house and the neighbor has a clear view on it, so the only seeds sown in the garden are vegetables. :-D Huge pile of branches from pruning and taking down some old plums was converted to chips yesterday, mostly by my father in law manning the...

The first experience I got of this "culture" was when my wife's aunt came walking over in just a bra and shorts-- in a way, coming from the US culture of modesty except on TV or at the pool, it was semi-shocking, not that the sagging boobs were so exciting. :-D But the reality of heat and no...

Cleverly, I put a bunch of plumbing fittings I'd need to fix the bathroom in a kleenex box on the windowsill in the bathroom last month. My wife just let me know that she uses empty kleenex boxes as trash cans and throws them away regularly. :-/

Jeans while working in the garden? Isn't it hot over there yet? Tendency here is to do garden work in underwear or (for the younger women) bikinis. We made a rapid transition from cold to hot weather here. Now I'm inside drinking coffee and translating some. Made the cabinet for the bathroom...

Today is woodworking day. I wish the Shopsmith table saw could handle the width of boards I had to cross cut for the bathroom sink cabinet. Instead, I used a Skil saw, albeit Makita brand. The disc sander on the shopsmith came in handy to straighten out the boards, as the cuts weren't quite...

I was just out there again, and maybe the valve does have power beyond. Stamped in to the cast iron body of the valve next to the hose coming from the pump is P, and next to the hose going out is a T, and next to that an N. I suppose the things on the side could also be for connecting hydraulic...

That's a bit different than what comes to my mind first. I tried singing to her the Latin "gloria in excelsis deo". My wife stopped me. Just as well that I didn't become a priest, despite years of trying at church in atlanta, I can not sing in Latin. :-D My wife finds the pain during delivery...

The hydraulic pump: Hydraulics leading in to transmission housing: Steering hydraulics: Control valves: How the control valves tap in, just after the pump:

No church today. We were getting ready when Jana noticed the stub of the umbilical cord had fallen off. She called her obgyn, who said to put betadine (iodine solution) on the wound. Took a while to find that in the mess of a medicine cabinet, and then late to go to church. I cut the cord too...

That seems like an altogether enlightened policy. My trailer is 750kg gross weight. Unbraked, so all there is to check is whether the wheels turn and the hitch latches. e.g. those things the user would right away notice anyway. I have my guesses as to the reasons for the strict enforcement of...

I got an Iseki TS35F -- like a TS3510F -- last month -- japanese import-- where the importer in Poland had added on their own, in house made, FEL. The power steering on the tractor seems to me a bit weak/dodgy, so in the post I made about the TS35F in the Iseki forum, I inquired if the FEL was...

You do cover the seeds, or do they sit on the top? I got a bunch of trays a couple of weeks ago to plant tomatoes-- red, orange, and yellow cherry "balcony" tomatoes. When visiting people here, it is customary to bring some sort of gift-- typically chocolate or alcohol. I figure a planter with...

Gloria was born at home. Our second child was accidentally born in the car, the third intentionally in the car, and the same we'd planned for her, by waiting for the water to break at home, then getting in the car and heading to the city, so in case something would be going wrong we could go to...

These are the wife approved photos: Monday I have to go get the technical control done on the trailer. Unfortunately, I thought it was later this year, and was "reminded" by receiving a notice in the mail the day before Gloria's delivery that I am being punished with a 165€ fine because it...

I think there is a subforum specifically for such photos, but today we just took snapshots, and I think my wife wouldn't want those imperfect photos posted. :-) Tomorrow we'll get a good photo of her.

Today at 00:10 CET my wife gave birth to our daughter Gloria. A bit different than previous births-- the last two we waited for the water to break to get in the car and head to the city. This time her water didn't break, or more, it did break coincidentally with the baby coming out. The upside...

Audis are pretty much just a "trim level" and different only in some branding and options from other VAG cars. Under the hood the parts are going to all be stamped with a VW-Audi-Seat-Skoda logo and swappable across cars with the same chasis. I wouldn't spend $200 on a cargo area cover. Our...

Christos voskrese! Happy Easter to everyone observing it today! Heading to church in a bit, then for the feast at the inlaws, then thankfully one of those indoor playground places is open, so we're meeting one of my wife's friends there. Her kids will hopefully happilly play with ours while we...

Is it still the case that Vermont has the least restrictions on gun ownership and carrying?

Good morning. Rain here again. Wednesday we levelled, spread grass seed and then rolled the kids play area, that had been a vegetable garden before, so was all uneven ground. Then, Wednesday night, I came down with a sudden, acute, middle-ear infection. I sufferred for most of the night--...

Behind the seat, on each side, are two holes from the factory with 10mm threads. I suspect the original seatbelt, if it had one, went there. I know the chair is a brand new replacement, so I imagine the seatbelt was torn up as well, and who in east-central europe cares about safety anyway? :-D...

Your family is in my prayers. May she rest in peace.

The domestic US oil industry has complained about the upcoming (or actual) steel tariffs-- much of the pipes and such they need aren't even made in the US at all. For probably some concerns over foreign policy the gold price in USD spiked Fri-Mon, and the exchange rate sunk in comparison to...

When I first met my wife-- on the streets of Paris at a march while I was studying in Metz with Georgia Tech-- I didn't have any romantic inclinations toward her. But that summer I worked for her small NGO, and one thing led to another... We married exactly a year from when we first kissed, a...

Good "morning"! I just drove the tractor up the hill (after attaching a seatbelt) and survived. ;-) A couple of years ago a big farmer friend helped me by going with his tractor to pick up 8 tons of lime. We put it in a pile in my field, and I got some of the liming done, and the rest left...

That sounds suspect to me. Every product in the Amazon universe has a unique description page with unique number. I think it is likely the other way around, that he either in error or intentionally hooked himself in to that listing. I've also seen some dodgy stuff with Amazon listings where...

I have an Iseki TS35F (essentually the same as TS3510) tractor as well as two Goldoni Special two wheel tractors, a Goldoni Eco two wheel tractor and Goldoni powered trailer that need oil for their gearboxes. The manual for the TS3510 states these oils: Esso Gear Oil GP90 Mobilube HD90 Shell...

This should help you:

Looked over the tractor again last night, particularly those labels that had been painted over. I noticed that the one on which I could see stamped numbers (so had to be metal) had loose, paper like edges. Or, in other words, masking tape. I guess it was Friday afternoon and whoever was...

It doesn't work for me that way. I just set up a tunnel to a US server, so I'm in the parts catalog. The White 2-35 is the closest match for sure, at least with the power steering gear. The screw I thought might be for adjusting it is precisely that on the parts list. Yes-- just pressure...

I can't keep up here now. Went to Michalovce yesterday and arrived at my friend who wrecks cars right as he was about to go somewhere-- perfect timing. He showed me to the nearest car, handed me a socket wrench, and a few minutes later I had the lap-belt. I felt altogether quite efficient...

Here is where the hydraulic system is tapped in to: This is the set of controls-- the far right hose is what connects to the pump output, and the far left hose continues on to the rest of the tractor's hydraulics: Two angles on the hydraulic "thing" attached to the steering "thing" with the...

I noticed a lot of cameras listed as being PTZ on particularly eBay would have somewhere down in the description that that the pan and tilt is "manual". e.g. you set that up when mounting the camera :-D

I found the manual today for the TS series, as I just got something like a TS3510. Here is a screenshot from the fluids page:

You can also check the model number of the engine. That will be on the lower right side, if you're facing the tractor. The table I have in the manual for TS**10 series shows: 2AA1 goes with TS1610 and TS1910 2AB1 goes with TS2210 and TS2510 3AA1 goes with TS2810 3AB1 goes with TS3510 The...

When Google searches just don't turn up what you're looking for, Yandex.ru is good to try. Found out some more information on the Iseki. I think in Russia no one cracks down on copyright violations, so turns out fermer.ru is a treasure trove of obscure PDFs. Like a Japanese one that lists all...

And the engine is branded ISEKI. Not sure why I remembered Isuzu. My mistake! I found the number of the engine lower down, 3AB1, which further confirms the close relationship to the earlier mentioned tractors.

Google Translate app for Android can take a photo of text to translate. Now I know what that warning sticker on the ROPS says: 1, Please drive with lobbs and cabin installed correctly. 2, Robbs and cabin, please do not remodel. 3, Please do not use those damaged. 4, When the tractor falls...

The paintwork is the work of Poles. The ROPS wasn't repainted though, and judging by that, it wasn't abused-- some scratches here and there, a bit faded color. I will have to go around with a spray can-- surprising to me is that the FEL, which is new, made in Poland by the importers, has some...

So if trying to pull something that might not "give", like say a stump, better to hook up to the front? Going outside to take a look at the front actually...

That is one thing I didn't hear about. I'll keep it in mind, but hopefully by next winter I'll have a concrete parking spot for it, or at least packed down gravel. On Thursday I'm going to town, and will get from the friend who breaks cars* a lap belt to install. *The British use this term to...

And now I have it at my house! Just arrived tonight. Actually different, equally unknown model number -- SF138 -- on the manufacturer sticker. Maybe it is a TYM model number? The castings of the transmission have TYM on them.

Yea, I was reading all the ways tractors can kill you. One thing I'll have to do is get a seatbelt for the tractor. Other thing I'll have to do is rearrange the rear wheels. Right now, its a nice, compact 146cm, and looks like flipping things around, it can widen out to 192cm. Anyway, I'm...

Went to a neighbor's hill for kids to sled. The green grass sticking up through the snow was an interesting thing to look at. Any minute now Jozef should be here with the tractor.

Good morning. A good bit of snowfall last night and still now. The tractor is on the way from Orava to us. I guess it will take about 5 hours. Praying that he doesn't get stopped by police. His trailer is rated for a total load of 2.7 tons, and the tractor is only 1.8 tons, but his truck...

That is true! We've typically had fewer sheep than goats-- shearing being one of the reasons. But when we slaughtered the last sheep we had in 2015, then cooked it, my wife realized that actually we needed more sheep!

So you have something in common already with the future father-in-law? ;-)

Good morning! Yesterday and today are cold. Snow yesterday. Neither the roads department nor the head of our shooting club look at forecasts, I guess. I was feeling a bit sick Saturday night, so I decided not to go to the competition. I got an email at 7am that it was cancelled due to...

The solar panel will have a higher voltage output than the battery. Likewise in a car-- battery outputs 12.6V, alternator around 14V.

Happy birthday to him! Many blessed years!

And Happy St. Patrick's Day! Not such a big thing for Slovaks, though at least for the Roman Catholic's its on the calendar. I'm not sure I want to tell my kids about the pinching those not wearing green tradition. They harass each other enough as is!

Cold is coming here as well for a week. Snow expected. Someone is coming to look at the Czech walk behind tractor. Looks like I need to clean the carb on the Honda GSV motor though, it quits at low RPMs. I hope the guy buys it, because I need a place to park the Iseki when it gets delivered...

Correct. Latency doesn't affect data rate. It affects voice-over-IP, so you talk and the other person hears you a second later, likewise also real time video games will be a problem, but streaming video won't be.

I've read that it varies from engine to engine, that for some reason in some engines valve guides or seats will wear, but there is an additional lubricating gizmo on the market that isn't very expensive that prevents that. The conversion should cost less than 1000€. I think there is a lot of...

From a security standpoint, it doesn't make any sense why to require a new password after 90 days of not using. In fact, if a password is already secure at the get go, the only reason to require changing it is if it is suspected that the encrypted password database could have been compromised...

Better than our prices. $5.47/gal for gasoline here, $4.81/gal for diesel. We need to get a van with the new kid coming. I was thinking diesel, especially since new restrictions in Germany are going to result in the used market being flooded with them, but as LPG is $2.42/gal, I've heard...

Good morning. Overcast, rain coming, mother-in-law came this morning. Smallest born child has been sick for several days. Something in his stomach. Periods of running, playing with the others, but then vomiting. Probably he got it from his cousin on the weekend who is also having something...

Happy birthday! Many more blessed years! And nice drawing style of your BIL...

The rotozip bit is a lot like an end mill, just meant for sheetrock or wood. So plunges in because its tipped like a drill, then you move it along the outline of the shape you need cut. There is a Dremel plunge route attachment that would make using it like a Rotozip simple. All told though...

FYI for others-- those RotoZip bits will work in Dremel-like highspeed rotary tools. I have some of them that I use occasionally for free hand cutting in plastic electrical boxes. Another "cool tool" is an oscillating tool. Perhaps more useful than a Rotozip. You can plunge cut in to...

My kids actually discuss a bit politics and economics with me. Though, I am sure after the first couple of minutes watching Carmen, they would much rather go to another episode of "Mia and Me", "Shaun the Sheep" or one of the many annoying anthropomorphic train cartoons. My son split enough...

Good afternoon from Slovakia, where it is actually warm, spring weather. :-) Kids are now being put to work with the Smart Splitter: This is actually a great illustration of the law of comparative advantage and social division of labor. I have an absolute advantage over my kids in just about...

Finally decided on that Iseki TS35F, which I looked at a month ago. The seller came down on the price some and is going to include a bale spear for the FEL in that price. Some careful comparison of different photos makes me certain that it is a Iseki TS3510 / White 2-35 with four wheel drive...

Good afternoon. Nice and sunny here for a while, relatively warm as well. Going to take the jump on the Iseki TS35F. Hope I can get the guy to throw in bale spears for the price he is asking. Now that its warming up, time to start working and stop shopping... 5 minutes is a great response...

I thought the UK was on 230V?

My neighbor has something like that, a bit smaller. It has a pipe coming out the top though-- he bottles what comes out and it will probably kill most bacteria.

Good morning! Waiting for the sun to come out from behind the clouds and for a delivery of foamed wheels to replace the ones on my handcart that are always getting flats. @jbrumberg there is definitely some erosion, but it isn't that bad. A couple of years ago I dumped many bags of cement...

jbrumberg-- near when we moved in we had drainage problems in the yard by the house. A friend from the US was staying with us for that winter and spring (he later married a Slovak friend of ours) and as "rent" he was helping me dig a french drain along the house to help with the water. There...

Rain. Looking forward to tomorrow and Friday, which is partly cloudy, no rain. Doubt I can get up the hill with the Goldoni, but when the suns out I can at least cut up fallen trees up there. Anyone else have pure clay soil that turns to mushy mud in the spring?

I need to go shopping with my son for a hatchet. The thing my wife bought-- well, it doesn't work for him for splitting, and it doesn't really work for me either! Too heavy for him, to short a handle for me, and can't return it, at least it was just 9€.

Reading the Amazon reviews for the Smart Splitter, I found it really interesting to read grown men who bought it for themselves because it is safer than using an axe or maul. And the US price for it is $150. I learned as a kid that you stand with your legs apart while splitting wood so if you...

Our chickens are out down by the house. The dog is outside all day as well. As long as I close them at night, we just occasionally lose one to a hawk. Usually they notice the hawk circling first, and if they make any sort of scared noise then the dog runs out to them. We do have a fence...

Despite the rain, I had to go out and set up and try this out. Should work for my kids, the oldest two anyway, to split the nice straight pieces of wood. Last week my wife got a splitting axe with a two foot handle and two pound head when she was getting a replacement handle at the hardware...

I haven't gotten the tractor yet, I'm actually working with a dealer in used Japanese tractors and by the end of this week I'll have picked out one. All of the tractors get new FEL with third function, which has pretty primitive controls-- 3 levers, so its not some sort of solenoid valve that...

+8°C and rain. Gotta go split wood nonetheless...

Access to green things makes the yolks darker (and I think increases the nutrient value). The systems of raising the chickens that get them out on fresh pasture is one way of doing this. We notice a difference in our eggs depending on whether the hens are confined to one area for a long time...

The wife is tired of me browsing the classified ads sites of 3 countries looking for tractors. So I'm inclined to buy from one of the two dealers in imported Japanese tractors I went to see last month who I feel is honest with decent prices. He has an Iseki 35 that I tried out. Its...

Good morning. Nice sunny, slightly above freezing day here. Just went walking with the dog out in the fields to think about how I'm going to do rotational grazing out there. The advanced forecast has shifted warmer for us. After yesterday's forecast night time low of 6°F it is not forecast...

"Note: This item is only available from third-party sellers" People bought the Costco model and are selling it through Amazon. Sort of like buying the Japanese model of tractor and selling it in the USA. ;-)

I guess there is no "Friendly Economics" subsection of the forum? I lost interest in US politics when the Ron Paul 2012 campaign hit a brick wall. Slovak politics was at first interesting, given all the different parties here, and the smaller country means my wife at least personally knows some...

Last month I went to look at some Japanese tractors at two dealers on the other side of Slovakia. One of them had an Iseki 35. That's all that there was written on it in English that I could see. Later internet searching turned up a Japanese exporter having an identical tractor, and there was...

Holubki! We give my mother-in-law our cabbage, and she prepares and freezes them for us. Here, a regular pot on the gas stove works well enough to heat them up. :-)

It is a problem with the loaders available for the compact tractors on the market here. I was talking yesterday to one dealer who gets from Polish importers, and he said they could fabricate a loader so that it would lift high enough. But this is also a thought I've had, to have some mechanism...

RNG-- why do they do that? We got a new stove a couple of years ago-- having a button with electric ignition is quite the upgrade, but it works without electricity as well. If the eyes get blown out or boiled over water extinguishes them, there is some sort of thermocouple device that cuts of...

You'll need to use a proxy to appear that you're accessing the site from the US. e.g. https://hide.me/en/proxy (make sure to select to use United States in the dropdown) Then enter this address http://www.agcopartsbooks.com/PartsBooksN/login.aspx It should look like this, then click "Visit...

Snowy morning today. It didn't seem like a big deal yesterday, but I slipped on the ice-- running while holding the youngest trying to slide in my shoes. I managed to land in a way that he wasn't hurt at all, he just laughed, but the fall hurt a lot at the time, and last night the muscles...

What is this? I just came across it on a Polish site where I'm looking for used tractors. Only 2500€. No model number written down.

RNG-- you could indeed pay for a second drop, sign an agreement with those people letting you put a post on their property with the antenna and the hardware in a locked box for some nominal fee... Ultimately, we're all dependent on third parties! From the time that the FreeDSL provider went...

An upside of the rural village layout in Europe is that at least for WISPs it pays to build the link. Our top speed is 12Mbps down / 1Mbps up, but it sure beats the satellite internet I suffered with working on a farm in TN ages ago. RNG, would the WISP not be willing to add infrastructure if...

RNG, are there no alternatives where you are? WISPs? (Wireless Internet Service Providers) How far away are your neighbors, and how far is the nearest point with fiber optic internet? You could possibly set up a WISP in your area.

Kyle, as everyone else has said, your daughter has a great drawing. Cold here still. The public water supply pipe going to our house is still frozen. Cold without snow to insulate the ground is the problem. I'm just glad I got the bathroom hooked in to the well last fall as well as the...

Well, there are always dirt / gravel roads as an option. The very existence of the subsidized government road networks has certainly retarded the development of flying cars and other unimagined alternative modes of transport. If anyone is looking for a bit of bedtime reading, I would suggest...

There is at least one Slovexit movement. Unfortunately it isn't exactly a "let's leave the EU and institute a policy of unilateral free trade" type movement, but rather "let's leave the EU and be self-sufficient again like we were under Communist rule". Which they weren't actually, but let's...

Goats are great, as long as they never get access to anything you don't want destroyed. Especially if they have horns. They somehow know that despite in the field tons of volunteer saplings, that the sapling fruit tree you just bought for 20€ is the one they should scrape off all the bark from...

I guess I shouldn't be trying to read Russian. I only partially understood what they wrote. There was a dealer in Slovakia, and now they've quit, and according to a new EU regulation they can't sell tractors directly in to the EU. Or in other words, Brussels constantly works to screw...

Noon time coffee. Quick reply from the Belarus tractor company. Unfortunately (for me) they have a dealer in Slovakia since the start of this year, so I'll have to go through the dealer if I want one of their tractors. And if he doesn't have those models, then I should try the guy in Hungary...

I'm kind of curious how far the water from the pressure tank will go-- everything but the kitchen sink is on the well water. I need someone else to help me with turning the pump back on, so I can watch that the pressure gauge at the tank is increasing and they can cut it back off right away if...

I also broke the sliced-in-half plastic jug I have been using as a trough for the Vietnamese pigs for years. It was quite durable though, holding up to beating out ice in below freezing weather. At least I have a lot of plastic 10 liter jugs in reserve from all the antifreeze and distilled...

I'm split between buying a Japanese import tractor (Iseki, Kubota or Yanmar) and a Belarus 320 or 321. The latter I was driving at a friend's yesterday, and it seems fine, despite having a non-synchro, non-hydroassist transmission. The Belarus uses a Lombardini 1603 diesel engine, and one of...

Good morning! Got up to get water out of the sink for coffee, and nothing came. -12C, no snow on the ground, so pipes from the public water supply froze. Water from the shower, which comes from our well, worked. But standing there thinking a bit, the well line is buried next to the public...

Good morning! 11 below freezing when I got up. Mother in law had already fed the chickens, ducks, and given the goats we're keeping by the house water. So I took the youngest over to the old house to take the goats and sheep water, and finally let the two new sheep out of the barn. Hopefully...

No first hand experience, but a bit of research shows that it is a Chinese company producing them, that used to produce some Honda generator sets as well, until Honda got upset that they were selling a copy of the generator for less. Often, as they say, you get what you pay for. That being...

LS mt125 owner -- good luck getting that figured out. I guess one question would be-- if the fence is pretty new, how would they gain from making you put it back up? I'm reading the book "12 Rules for Life" by Jordan Peterson, and he does point out that some of us can have pretty naive views...

Eric, good to know that the newer ones are of a higher quality. I find that the 320 / 321 are kind of funny looking with their wheel sizes. Rear is 95 cm diameter, front is 70cm, almost equal size. But I'm not really sure how much its going to matter. I just hope my friend gets back to me...

Good luck, hope no-one else gets it. We had in January two weeks of some virus or flu going around all of our kids and us.

It would probably go up that. I've driven it up plenty slopes, sometimes carrying gravel, sometimes a couple of 60 liter jugs of water for the goats, sometimes my father in law :-). Behind our house there is a steep, at least 30° at certain points slope, and the only way I can get it up is if...

It is a Czech Vari system two wheel tractor. Well, actually, that ad is for the ride on trailer part. Really cool system, really ideal for people who don't have many hills like us. Big downside is that powered attachments are driven by a transmission that creeps along, which I looked through...