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I have an 2022 F-250 Lariat with the all-aroubd cameras and the back up trailer add-on. I've driven all my years without ever jackknifing or hitting an object with the blindside trailer corners. I try to get a spotter when I can. That said, I did put the grid sticker on the tongue of my utility...

Buck up, Buttercup. Not really anything but a First World problem.

Really??

Probably rubber carb/fuel parts need replacing, but before you go there, always start your diagnosis with compression check. If that's good then proceed. The carb should either be rebuilt with a new diaphragm, or replaced (extreme, but carbs are cheap if you're ok with non-OEM). Change out fuel...

Oregon does emissions testing, but only in certain metro counties. So head for the hills and you're fine! I agree our huge costs of regulation and implementation of poorly designed emissions systems, attached to deadlines, is the equivalent of pissing on a forest fire, and feeling...

If you're taking time to spread crushed stone, and I'm assuming it's clean/washed stone, compact it, then ADD stone dust, you are simply trying to make "crusher run" topping. That twice the work, and twice the delivery and spreading costs. As you know, stone/crushed rock has 999 different names...

I call bull$hit on the EPA. Chicken Little just doesn't pan out in raw numbers of under 25hp diesel engines. This will bankrupt producers/manufacturers, and outstrip practical economy of consumers. Planned obsolescence of these diesel particulate emissions systems will create additional...

Yes, good post. I have an XR4140, so apparently has the LS engine and not the Shibauru engine. Some numbers are definitely different for me...depending on which site I look at (NAPA, Donaldson, CNH, LS, Messick's, etc.) Very confusing.

I live in E. Tennessee, so I did a Dealer Locator search. The nearest dealer? Huntingburg, Indiana, 246 miles from my zip code. I rest my case.

Simple observation. I'm not doing a scientific analysis. Just look at YouTube, online articles, forums, and Massey is one of the least mentioned of newer tractors. Sure, of older tractors MF has a grip, but something changed (AGCO) and presence of MF in general has plummeted....my observation...

Well, my question prompted some interesting comments. My initial intent was to address why Massey seems ghostly in the current CUT foray of Kubota, JD, Kioti, TYM, New Holland, former Branson, and a number of less known. Massey hardly makes their list. Yes, in the ag world, Massey has a little...

Greetings All! Just a general topic question: With all the tractor talk and newer brands, rebranding, emerging models and buyouts, where is Massey Ferguson in all this? I never see reviews, or comparisons including MF. Are they a "has been" brand now? Do they fail the current markets? Poor...

I did replace the linkage bolts...sure was bent, which is odd...why was it bent? Anyway, I figured new bolts would cure it, but only slightly improved movement...it's still a geometry issue. Aha!!! I decided to try and shim the lever AND spool linkage bolts with plain washers of varying...

Hi All! I have a circa 1998 Woods BH7500 3-point mount backhoe. I just had all the seals, O-rings, and spools changed out in the valve control block due to leaking and erratic flow in various cylinder movements. Great! The thing doesn't leak any longer. BUT... After reinstalling the block of...

I have a Stihl msa-120c. It's 12" picco chain, but it sure cuts some wood. Surprised the heck out of me and my wife, since it was just for pruning and small trees. Nope...it for whatever needed up to 8" trees.

In my case, with a box blade, a landscape rake, and even my brush hog, I use longer length of the top link more often. With a box blade, it doesn't take much shortening of the top link beyond level to get good engagement of the front facing blade. Any further inward tilt and the front blade...

Nope, no regrets whatsoever. My 2018 LS XR4140 is so easy to use with shuttle shift and 4x4 trans. It's just no big deal

Mix it with used motor oil. Who will know its origin? And it all goes in the same holding tank anyway, out of our sight. Probably shipped to China and they just dump it, just like your "recycled trash," plastics, paper....ends up on container ships in Seattle and Lond Beach, if it goes anywhere...

I have a 2018 XR4140 with the LS engine, not the Shibaura. But, yes, I'd love to see a sticky that cross references all the filters. It's been a bear finding published cross references, and my local NAPA was clueless.

For all the fabbing and cobbling together of implements, I'd just go rent a chain trencher and be done. 80' will go fast, and if you run into rock or some impediment, you have an easier time with a trenches to redirect and circumvent. On the tractor it takes some space, clearance, and turning...

My Woods 7500 three point backhoe has developed a slow leak/drip from what appears to be the lower spool relief valve on the second block from the left (looking at it from the back of the tractor. Are parts for these old control valves still available? Is it cost effective to rebuild? I did see...

It is painted as a lose-lose for all concerned. See Wranglerstar's recent YouTube video why you NEVER loan or let others use your heavy equipment. If this snowbird bought a tractor, then decided, "Hey, I'll have someone pay me for half of it while I'm away," he should buy rental property. The...

Also check the seat safety switch. Mine went wonky soon after buying the tractor. It seems like a weak link.

RUN!! This is Scam City 2023.

Look into Armstrong Ag, out of Brenham, TX. They have a few lines, from basic Cat 1, to some very stout Cat 2, and 3 models. I have a 72" Cat 1 with six manual rippers and this thing is more than capable with my LS 4140 XR.

2 years...Stihl msa120. Great saw for my wife to use, easy for limbing

All the tech specs aside, I got the 7.3L gas F-250 Lariat. Just do that....it's plenty and no thirstier than my 2003 Dodge 1500 4.7L. The 6.2L is fine, but you'll like the 10 speed trans and the extra torque. It's worth the money upgrade

I wouldn't touch the road with my tractor or a pocket knife. One pissed off county assessor, a disgruntled health and human services supervisor, even a complaining USPS driver, and all liability fingers get pointed at YOU!! Plus, what's your tractor's/your liability and damage coverage off...

Fairy Ring. It's a grass fungus.

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It's wishful thinking, but the big box stores need to control the fraud by checking receipts against the merchandise returned. It's stupid business to let this kind of thing happen, but they don't care. They sell so much volume, and a few screwed and pissed off customers make zero blip on their...

@Gee Ray.... best post ever! "Mother Nature trumps Mother-in-Law." Every time!!!!

In no uncertain terms...hell no. I can't buy into the lie of "clean energy," or any other excuses used that we need to abandon the petroleum ship. The "carbon footprint" of battery technology, from materials acquisition, transportation, storing, labor, sales, and too- soon reclamation and...

Nope. It'll all work out!

My money is on a sheared bolt that holds the slip clutch end of the PTO shaft onto the input shaft of the gearbox. While the slip clutch is designed, and intended, to dissipate any shock energy to the clutch plates, sparing the gearbox, or and tractor parts upstream of the PTO shaft, it's...

I have a 16' ECHO gas pole pruner with a 12" bar, and it is a bear to handle at full length, especially if you're stretching for that last extra foot. But it is a brute chain saw for its size. I've used it for 8" limbs and it goes!

Anything dissolved in water will have some impact on freezing point depression. I'm not a chemist but there are ways to calculate the freezing point depression based on the molecular weight of the solute (sucrose), the solvent (water), and percent concentration dissolved. Lots of variables, but...

My Bush Hog BH-6 has been good, though I got their "economy" model. It has pretty thin sheet steel on the deck, and the rubber flap guard on the front has torn free from the bolts that hold it. Also, I have replaced both the bottom shaft and horizontal input shaft seals already...they leaked...

To circumcise or not circumcise, that is the question. German helmets or anteaters....such a quandary.

No one "borrows" ANYTHING of mine. Stuff always gets broken, maladjusted, torqued, dirty, and takes me pressing for a return! Nope. He gets to go shopping for a tiller now that he's king krap with a tractor.

Your slip clutch might well be adjusted too light. A 6 foot tiller in clay/loam, without a bunch of rocks, ought to be going to town and 48hp wouldn't even sniffle. Try tightening the six or eight nuts on the clutch spring plate a quarter turn at a time evenly all around. You'll get to the point...

Nice to see an LS Tractor represented. I love mine.

I have a Stihl MS120c. It's small, but great for limbing, and trimming, and will take down the occasional 4-8" tree. The bar is 12" with Picco chain, so it can't be rushed, but it has never not ripped into stuff with more gusto than I imagined. I'm happy. And, that battery life is surprising.

Really? This keeps you up at night? Move on. This isn't a battle to fight. I think I'll take a Xerox of this thread. Here's a Kleenex for you.

Keribi I am just now following this thread for where to get port relief valves at lower than OEM pricing. I have a older Woods BH7500 backhoe that I just acquired, and notice leaking from one of the same kind of relief valves, what Woods calls "shock relief valve." Prices for replacement range...

Great advice, All. I'm yet to dig into the hoses and connectors, but want to be armed for things ahead of time. Keep it coming! Cheers!

Hi All, Is there a way to tell if the hose connection to the lower section of the boom cylinder on my Woods BH7500 backhoe has the stock O-Ring Base (ORB) to JIC connector WITH the 3/32" (0.094") restrictor installed without having to take the hose and adapter off and looking down its barrel...

Hi All, I recently picked up a Woods BH7500 3 point hoe. It had only one previous owner, who left it outside it's whole life, and not used in the past 5-6 years. I know some of the hoses are more than sun checked and weathered, so replacements are on the list. No cylinders leak at all - yay...

Number one thing I have learned is SLOW DOWN your forward speed. Box blades and straight grader/scrapers are about going slow and giving yourself time to feather the three point lift arms. Not every grading job is about dropping the blade and dropping the clutch - it's very much an active event...

Hi All! I can't find info anywhere regarding... should my Pat's Easy Change hooks be used with a newly acquired, older Woods Groundbreaker backhoe? I'm thinking it'll be OK, but...the backhoe will be set further back 4" by this, and I don't want to overtorque the Pat's system, or put 4" more...

Because the names deserved for my tractor are more than the 7 words you're not supposed to say on TV!

Ditto /pine's comment. I'd liken the license as a cash grab by some agency in the State government, akin to the cash grab to have a boater's license, all obtainable online in Oregon. It's a joke. I'd question the actual training, since machine operation does differ in the equipment used, the...

Excellent advice! Thank you

Has anyone had experience, yea or nay, with Tooliom Chinesium welders? I just picked one up based on some decent recommendations from Amazon/YouTube. The crazy thing is, while it internally switches from its built-in 120V household plug's current to 240V once its plugged in, the adapter cord...

I bought an Armstrong Ag BRG-6, a 72" two cylinder grapple. It's a bit different than EA's, and I paid $1500. It's a beast. https://www.armstrongag.com/products/material-and-brush-handling/

Cut each tree and sapling with a saw. Then spray the cut stumps with a 25% Remedy (triclopyr 64% conc.) : 75% Diesel mix. That will put an end to resprouts. And you won't roll a tractor into the pond, or spend a ton on an implement.

I am searching for a gearbox output shaft seal for my 2018 Bush Hog BH6 Rotary Cutter. It appears the Rhino RH6 (don't know what years this one was made) keeps coming up as having the same gearbox/part number: 00786214. Then I look at photos of each cutter and they look identical. Was Bush Hog...