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I’m of the mindset of the poster that mentioned an escalation in the lease payment. $2,500 today isn’t what it was 2 years ago, imagine what it may be in 25. I would expect it to at least grow at a rate that covers average inflation rates. The second option I would entertain is a lump sum where...

I’m not sure about grease, but as far as oil is concerned the new stuff is much better from a lubrication standpoint than the old stuff due to the additives that keep it from breaking down due to heat cycles.

I have that same lift in my shop for going on 8 years. I have the jack but it leaks on whatever is under it so I pulled it.

People used to buy trucks to use them as trucks, those days are gone. The fact of the matter is that if a dealer had a white two door, 3 speed manual, bench seat, plastic mats with an am radio is a special order nowadays and it would sit on the lot so long it becomes counterproductive from a...

I had a 66’ International Scout back in the early 90’s. Had a 4 cylinder that probably had 50hp, flat glass, zero heat and the turning radius of a freight train. All that being said it was a tank and in low range damn near impossible to stop.

I love my Woodmax WM-7600 that I have on my JD 790. Work great and suits my needs. I use it on my property to dig a pressure sewer line, install drainage pipes, clean along property lines, pull out old retaining wall and posts. It doesn’t get used like the loader or forks but is damn handy for...

Wood mulch/chips and tree branches and logs or anything like that you can stack up in the wet areas and 4x4 over. The branches and mulch and logs will get pounded into the mud but will provide support. This is a pretty common way to get around in soupy areas when you are trying to clear the land.

It also fits the 790, like I have. Can you post a picture of how it’s not fitting? Edit: Isn’t there some adjustability in the length of the legs that go from the back to front mounts? I’m not at my tractor but it seems the brackets are adjustable.

Feeling great that you can now buy that trailer you have been wanting for the last couple years. Realizing that you can’t afford the gas required to tow it…… Priceless

Looks great and good price too. Been wanting to take the plunge on doing this on my JD 790. Just bought the kit from amazon.

The seal that goes inside the gland before the oil seal that you press fit in is the high pressure. Its a bear to get in correctly and helps to drop in boiling water for a minute then bend it into a u shape (think of a sling where it doubled up) so that you can fit it into the hole of the gland...

Yes I agree with you, it’s filter fabric and is used the way in which you explained behind walls all the time to do exactly what you explained……when it was incorporated in the engineering of said wall. Although it protects from soil migration out the front, it also limits how quickly the...

You actually want those holes to have some drainage through the wall because if the water builds up behind it in major rain event, it creates a lot more load on the back of the wall than dry moist soil. The wall wall essentially becomes like the walls of an above ground swimming pool try to hold...

Yes I figured that but was getting awfully long winded in my first post. I agree with your suggestion. The grid needs to have a continuous attachment in order to take the load without failing/tearing itself apart when loaded. I would suggest two bolts per block to anchor the flat bar but...

No, do not do this. I will preface my comment to you by stating that I am an engineer and have have been a contractor in heavy civil construction for 25+ years building roads, bridges and complex civil works. I have years of experience with mechanically stabilized earth walls which includes geo...

I did the ones on my 790 loader 70 about six months ago. I watched as many you tube videos as I could find and then did all 4 cylinders on mine even though only 1 was leaking. There are a couple tricks if I remember right and the kits I had came with some different glands depending in the exact...

If you haven’t figured this out yet you need to put the positive of you VM on the wire that plugs into the side of the starter. This should be your lead from the switch. Put the negative lead of the VM to ground, when you turn the key you should see it register 12v, if not it is between the...

Can you post some pictures of the property? I can help but would like to see what your dealing with.

I have a 790 and a 5’ and 6’ box blade. It handles either one fine. The 6’ one is quite a bit beefier than the 5’ one. I will use the smaller one for fine grading but the larger one for tearing up the road to regrade it. FWIW My tractor has turf tires on it.

No, its all circuit board garbage that will short out if you look at them wrong. I have three large roll around chargers/boosters that I still use.

Definitely sounds frustrating but why don’t you just back it onto the trailer?

Create a drag. Take an old piece of chain link fence, or old 12-16’ gate or something that and make a drag. Weight it down with whatever you can find like large rocks and just drove around and around until everything is level. I regraded about 2 acres of my 3.5 acres about 15 years ago and...

My experience is that a 15 amp standard circuit breaker and a 15 amp GFCI circuit breaker is that the GFCI will trip under load before the standard circuit breaker will. They just seem to trip easier, and it is usually on motors starting.

The health thing actually came up in the new episode of Roadkill last week where Finnegan has some of the chlorinated brake cleaner and they were looking to clean up the back of a block that rusted through freeze plug they were going to fox with JB weld on the fly. He mentioned the the CBC if...

Having a handle bar so that you can control the angle of the auger while you plunge it into the ground. I got mine from TSC and it has this and it works well. I was told from a co-worker that has one that does not have the handle bar that it is a PITA not being able to control the angle of the...

I picked one up this weekend after returning the Central Machinery one. It blows the doors off the CM unit as far as user friendliness and overall operability. Belts are a snap to change if you do sharpening whereas the CM unit makes you take half the machine apart, the Bauer it just slips off...

Unrelated to your question but newegg sells tractor tires? I thought they were a tech store.

Price/cost is dependent on how many stumps per acre and how big the stumps are. Just like any estimate or cost, what they charge you is a function of work required to perform the work. Factors that affect clearing cost are: Size of trees Subsurface conditions (wet or dry) Density of trees Can...

I honestly don’t remember. I think I just installed what came in the kit which I think was 2 or 3 of the blanks. I never tested the pressure. I basically installed what I had read online that other folks were installing.

I installed it within the first year I had the tractor. I don’t feel like I have come close to hurting anything but like everything you do with your tractor you need to factor in good judgement so that you don’t break anything.

The 790 is a solid machine. I have had one for about 5 years now. I installed the shim pack to boost the hydraulic pressure and it will lift as much as I can offset with ballast in the back. The tractor is a workhorse and many will say it is one of the most bulletproof green tractors ever made.

Alot of good advice being given previously. As a manager at a large heavy civil GC in florida for the last 20 some years I been involved with subcontractors and clearing of thousands of acres of land. Clipping and removing the good wood is always the cheapest route for the subcontractor or the...

To me it looks almost perfect. Throw a little paint on it your worried about it. I have the same style in my 790. Check your battery tray to make sure it is good because they are notorious for rusting out.

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If you can your best bet is to fill in the depression so the water drains and does not stand. A pond needs to big and to stay relatively full of water to be able support an ecosystem that will keep the water from becoming stagnate, at least down here where I am at in the south. When i moved to...

I’m like a lot of the posters in this thread where I will fix almost everything and refuse to pay someone for something I can do and then I know it was done right. Over they years I have spent more than I needed to on repairing things because I misdiagnosed it or I broke something else while...

Somewhere there is a horrible joke in this thread title.

If you haven't found the solution, check to make sure you are getting a good ground by attaching using a direct wire from the truck to the trailer frame to troubleshoot. My experience is that trailers have been sitting for while or that are rarely used sometimes do not want to ground through...

It’s the tractor equivalent of drifting.

A quick google search showed baileyhydraulics.com and I’m guessing if you give them the required dimensions they probably have suitable cylinders for a fraction of the price the dealer quoted.

I know some in here don’t like the clamp on ones but I have had a set for about three years now and I love them. 1.) Are they somewhat of a PITA to attach, yes at first until you figure out how to grab them quickly. Tilt bucket way forward so can see the cutting edge. Lay the edge on the forks...

Manning's roughness coefficient is better for HDPE than concrete but the gains are made the longer the run of pipe gets. On a short run such as what is being considered it would negligible and the cross sectional area of the pipe being attached will control the amount of flow. That being said...

I think very highly of the Woodmaxx attachments. I have their medium sized 3PTBH and it is incredibly well built. All of what they sell, regardless if it was designed and built in house or if they are selling a rebranded item, seems to be of very high quality.

Those walls require the soil or rock ballast behind them with force on the back of the blocks to keep them in place in locked together. If that is removed the wall will fall over backwards, which is what you see there. Major rainfall clearly washed out the dirt behind the wall and that is what...

I agree also that is a cute little hoe, but it’s closer to glorified shovel than it is to a real backhoe. That being said it will save your back on little projects. If it was mine I would cut some 3/8”plate roughly 8 inches long and cut it to the rounded profile of the boom and fillet weld it...

Good info. I followed the links and got all the info I needed. I have ordered everything I meed to refurb it and make it into an AC/DC machine with 20’ leads.

Thats pretty neat info, thanks!

I need to get plugs for the heat leads and I don’t know what style/type it uses. Can anyone help? Thanks in advance. Also any advice anyone can give about it would be awesome.