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I’ve used those to line up 5/8” holes in receiver hitch implements (tractor, not on-road)—works great I’m sure you could get a 1” hole with one, but I’d worry about thinning the drawbar and making a weak spot. I tend to be (overly) cautious about drilling or welding stuff that can cause damage...

Bent up the dealer installed PTO shaft on the 3 pt cause it was cut too short I mowed my neighbors vineyard which got overgrown with 1” elm saplings and a bunch of brush. Medium duty 5’ brush hog was fine as long as I kept it in 1 st gear. Made 2 passes at different heights Did have trouble...

My Mahindra 26XL is from Mitsubishi in Japan

If it were mine, I wouldn’t drill it out. The metal is going to get pretty narrow and strength tends to fall off with sorta the cube of the thickness. Not sure about that particular bit of metal, but a lot of weight bearing stuff on tractors is high strength steel. Even if it wasn’t hardened to...

Man, am I glad you brought that up. Prolly saved me a mess. I haul a trailer with grapes in 1/2 ton bins on it in harvest season. The way the bins load onto it, you’re guaranteed to have quite a bit of tongue weight. UNLESS the picking crew loads the rear one full first. I tell them to load them...

I have a little Mahindra 26hp that’s narrow enough to get down my vineyard rows. Once a year I put 2000 lb of grapes on a trailer and haul a couple of loads to the fruit broker. Only 4 miles each way and I go slow—still usually need to have three fillings and a kidney replaced by the end of the...

Good point! I know the ag extension folks pretty well. Sent them an email offering up my plot for experiments. “All they can say is no”!

Good advice! On my first arc welding adventure, I was using a 1970’s vintage 220 amp AC box that my neighbor lent me and 7018 from Harbor Freight ‘cause I’d watched YouTube videos. Got a bead one start out of 20. And it doesn’t come off easy if you stick it Back to HF for 1/8” 6013 and 6011...

I was thinking they didnt need to roll, just plow(?). The absolutely brilliant part of this is the multiple adjustment directions & precision built into the dish mount. My contraption is a pain to adjust One of those dish mounts would be perfect for my summer finger weeder!

I “improved” my design by angling the hiller discs 20 degrees to the sky. Expanded my metalworking skills making new disc brackets out of 6” x 3/8 bar stock. $28 Harbor Fright carbide blade for steel cut it like butter. Put in 220v outlet for my $75 Amazon inverter stick welder and ran 1/8” 7018...

I appreciate the ideas! Gotta look into the terrace machine The idea of hilling grafted grapes it to keep the graft union warmer in the winter to prevent freeze damage. But if you leave the hills up over the summer, the top fruit bearing part of the vine (scion) will put out it’s own roots...

I knew I shouldn’t have thrown those away 🤣

I’m surrounded by opportunities :) I have the AC welder, a DC inverter stick welder, and an oxy-acetylene rig. Gave my MIG/argon welder to my son in law cause I didn’t use it much with all the other options. The AC welder will do 220 amps if I need it for really thick stuff, which my inverter...

Would be nice, particularly with balanced draft to make steering easier. But the row to row spacing isn’t consistent enough Rows are laid out pretty straight on 8’ centers, but vines have trunks +/- 6” to either side. They have a mind of their own after a few years of pruning out old wood Not...

This particular Lincoln 50 amp welder has a 20% duty cyle. The instructions below say to use 10 ga wire with a 50 amp breaker. I looked at section 630 of the NEC, and that’s allowed because of the arc welder duty cycle adjustment. Would be a disaster waiting to happen if an EV got plugged into...

Success! Or close enough. As you suggested, I tilled things up with the venerable Burch disc harrow & then used my contraption. Hills are about 12-14” high. The soil never really dried out enough so I have more clods than I’d like. But I’ll have a bigger time window next winter I’m still...

Good point! I looked up the specs on the 6-50 outlet (Leviton IIRC but might have been Hubble) and it was 75C. Other ones from Home Depot, Lowes, Amazon may not be 75C rating so you do have to check! Same with the breaker!

I think you set me and my hiller straight, so to speak I got out the ancient Burch disc. Which took a while due to all the stuff that was abandoned in front of it. There was also an incident involving an air wrench and an NC nut on an NF u bolt I was asking my little hiller to do the work of...

Funny you should mention a tiller… I have a 20yr old big Honda tiller. I used it in the summer to till a strip on either side of my vines so I only had to string trim 12” in the center. Was hoing to do just what you said. A pulley bearing wore out in the belt drive and Honda no longer makes the...

Thanks for the kind words and advice. It doesnt show well in my pics, but the 2” receiver is mounted on the 3 point so the front tool bar barely clears the 3 pt arm. Glad you brought it up—If I’m reading your thought right, I did have problems with sway side to side when I made my first run. I...

Thanks! I see where you’re coming from. I always thought “equipment” terminations applied to stuff like pumps, motors, etc. I took that into account when I had to upsize my wire to my irrigation pump due to high ambient temperature and the temperature rating of the terminals on the pump. So I...

Thanks. I have an older copy of the NEC. Be interested in the 60C citation

I was going by the Cerrowire chart. https://www.cerrowire.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Cerrowire_Ampacity_Chart_210405.pdf I’d use 6 ga in Romex, but if I’m reading the chart right, I could use 8ga 90C THHN in EMT up to 55 A. Wouldn’t run a continuous load like a Tesla charger off 8ga, though

Thanks for the 7018 AC tip. Harbor Fright said their 7018 was good for AC and DCEP. But they must have been thinking of more modern AC welders with higher OCV and maybe higher frequency(?). Looks like even Home Depot has 7018 AC rod so I’ll try some. I don’t plan to keep it in a rod oven—if...

I got a Hone brand “140 Amp” DC inverter arc welder at Amazon on a black Friday sale for $75. Planned to use it to tack stuff and do real welding on my neighbor’s ancient Forney. His welder outlet is outside and weather was awful, so I thought I’d try the Hone. It’s smaller than a toaster, so I...

I’m working on the same problem. I have 100 A service to the barn. I figure I will put in a 50A breaker and run 90C THHN (what Home Depot sells) in 3/4” EMT. IIRC 8 ga is ok for 50A on low duty cycle. I’m guessing that is cheaper than 6 ga Romex. Only question now is whether to run a neutral and...

You can decode the stamped numbers/letters on the tank with the help of google. Then step 1 is to take them to one or more welding gas shops and see if they will refill them. I had a small rogue tank and the welding shop recertified it for not much $$ Safety note—you can’t safely pull more than...

I had to braze on 1/2” captive nuts to 2 1/2” square steel tubing to make a tractor tool bar. I put anti-seize on a steel bolt and (like I understand what you’re doing), left it proud of the nut to locate it in the hole. As soon as I had it tacked in place, I backed it out till it was about 2...

I’ve gotten advice on some of the design elements & thought I’d show my sorta good enuf build I was trying to build a 3pt attachment that would let me hill up around my grape vines to cover the graft union for winter. I stole this design from Michigan State U Two hiller discs to toss up...

Followed my own advice on spot annealing & it actually worked…. Doesn’t happen all that often I had to drill new 1/2” bolt circle holes in a coulter disc (~1/4” thick) to fit a 4 x 4” trailer hub. No idea what steel the disc was made out of, but Ag Supply lists theirs as 1070-ish which...

I bought the trailer axle kit and found 14” flat coulter blade on eBay. I looked for trailer wheels on Craigslist, etc but didnt find anything cheap enough for my taste. I wasn’t sure what the offset (horizontal distance outside of rim to plane of bolt circle) on a trailer wheel, so I was...

I like the dually idea. Also discovered that you can buy weld in trailer spindles w/hubs. Decision comes down to matching the hub to either a car wheel or trailer wheel. These trailer hubs are 4 on 4 like a Blanton hub but I think the pilot diameter is bigger than any coulter blades I’ve seen...

I’ll check back after I see a tornado 🤣

Do you think this might work? Front wheel drive cars often have a hub assembly that bolts to the McPherson strut. Many cheep chinese knockoffs on ebay

Rotate is probably ok so it will roll over rocks?

Don’t suppose your barn is in Colorado?

Exactly. Is the linkage above the blade for a spring or for height adjustment?

90% of the agriculture around here is peach orchard and grapes. So there isnt much cultivator stuff in the scrap yards. I did find a free 1970’s Burch disc harrow that I rebuilt to cultivate the row middles. Sad about the chemicals. Around here just about everything is Roundup resistant and...

Great idea! I have some old rims lying around. Maybe even a wheelbarrow rim with a Grade 8 bolt as an axle. When I tried it out today it skewed pretty badly. I’m thinking that I’d need a couple hundred pound counterweight over the rim/coulter to drive it into the soil. I have about 150 lb of 2”...

The vines/trellis are on nominal 8 foot centers, but they aren't laser straight and vines don't always behave well. So in the tight spots could be 7’. I keep a center 5’ strip of native vegetation (aka weeds) that I mow with my 5’ rotary cutter. I till the rest so vines dont have to compete...

Palisade, CO about 250 miles west of Denver. Lots of growers here. I grow Cabernet Sauvignon grapes. I have about 1/2 mile of vine row. Not enough vines to make money, but plenty of work to keep me amused. I get a 1 1/2 to 2 tons of grapes if the winter doesn’t kill em. High desert here, so we...

I’ll post a build thread (if it works) but I’m building a 3 point toolbar hiller to mound up soil around my vineyard rows to protect vines from winter injury. I have most of it built, but I’m stumped on this bit There are dual hillers on the right side of the tractor because the rows arent...

I’m building a tractor tool bar and need to drill a bunch of 1/2” holes in 2 1/2” square tubing x 3/16” wall. Been using my Harbor Freight (bag over head) hoping they’ll wear out so I can buy a cobalt bit. So far the HF are holding up nicely. My father always used dark pipe tapping oil with a...

Almost the same problem on my Max 26. 2019 with 250 hours. No chattering relays or dimming lights, but key to start position would click solenoid but not turn. Battery positive terminal was badly corroded. I cleaned everything in the starter power circuit (grounds and 12v) and that fixed it. I’m...

I have an oxy acetylene torch and I try to use it for everything except making coffee. If the hole got blue work hardened, could you just anneal it? Not sure a MAPP torch would get thick stuff hot enuf, though

That’s what I did when I rebuilt an ancient disc harrow. I tried using the plates made for leaf springs, but they bent when I tightened the grade 8 - 1/2” bolts. 3/8 plate was just fine. If it’s on a highway trailer, I’d try to find one from an online supplier of trailer leaf springs. I did...

I got a 16’ piece of 5’ wide cattle panel and bent the last foot of it around a piece of railroad rail. Added a chain to the front and dragged it behind the tractor 3 point. Found out I didnt need all 16 feet, so I cut it down to 6 feet so I could turn it at the end of the row. Being able to...

Good idea. I also made one by lag screwing a crossmember to the top of a 4x4 post. Post was out of the way and Lag screw was loose enough to let the mailbox swing out of the way. In my neck of the woods, mailboxes get installed on the county right of way instead of on your property. If somebody...

I bought a similar Chinese/Amazon special for my iPhone when I really, really needed to retrieve something. Paid for itself, but next time I wanted to use it, the app wouldn’t work and the vendor had disappeared. I still like the phone screen idea, but would buy a brand that I was kinda sure...

Thanks. I’ve looked at a number of vine hoes & haven’t found one in the right price range. (DIY for almost free) My vineyard is big enough to be a whole lot of work and small enough to not bring in a whole lot of $ I had talked to Tilmor who makes this: Which would require a tractor like you...

Forgot to add that I’d run the loader arms on float

I’m designing a finger weeder attachment for a 2”toolbar to weed my vineyard rows. 26 hp Mahindra The fingers and the spyder in front of them get up close and personal with the vines, so need to steer it well. It’s nice to have some vertical play so when you hit a rock…. 3pt is obvious choice...