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Love to buy it. It is the toughest tractor I've ever owned. I had that very model for many years. My son now has it in Alaska. it has 3 times the hours or more. I now live in the lower 48. What do you want for it?

Sounds like a bad cable or connection to me. Remember the simplest answer is probably the correct one.

It's the cables! I've seen even new cables so this very thing. Have someone hold the key to try to stay it while you wiggle the cables. One is bad.

When it comes to hydraulics there is pressure and flow. In a static system all points within the system have the same pressure but when fluid is moving pressures may vary with volume and restrictions within the system such as load or. . . . If there is a restriction in the flow you would see...

Off road diesel is dyed red so that it shows up in the exhaust if you use it in an on road vehicle. The reason is the off road diesel has no road tax on it. Other than that it is usually the same as the on road stuff.

When building a trailer the tongue weight is critical for safe hauling. Car trailers and other tongue trailers should have 10% more of the load on the tongue. To accomplish this The wheels are moved back from the center of the deck by 10% of the length of the deck. So if you measure to the...

I have used both extensively and the two post always makes me wary when I'm under there. The four post is much safer. I'm sure you've seen the videos online where a car falls off the two post lift. That doesn't happen on a four post lift. Some don't bolt them down then they can be moved if need...

Have your battery cables checked. It is amazing how many times I have found bad battery cables causing these kinds of problems, even new ones.

They are color coded of course. Red for gas, Blue for water, yellow for diesel etc. Heaven forbid if they made a safety can that would actually work. Those safety cans make it impossible to fuel many vehicles. Safety cans make the insurance companies happy but don't work but they are safe in...

I generally leave that first couple inches of snow and drive it down then there is a surface to plow against and the driveway stays pretty much intact. Mine is gravel not pavement. without that your going to get some driveway without some skid on the bottom to keep the plow from removing the...

My first question is, are you getting oil pressure or just guessing. It sounds like there may not be any oil pressure then it won't run. Put a gauge on it while cranking. Possible oil pump failure!

Loaders and snow blowers have the same problem. They work much better after the ground is frozen. I generally leave that first couple inches of snow and drive it down so the rocks are covered and let the ground freeze then you can let it down and go without worrying about taking the driveway...

Sounds like a bad battery cable or grounding connection. A volt meter would tell you what voltage is in the battery. if it is around 12 volt the cables are definitely the issue. Grounding connections are the greatest culprit in situations like this but i've seen a few bad battery cables also...

When it is empty the startup current draw is low enough to get through your little cord. When the pressure is higher at restart the current draw is a lot more causing your issue. Not only are you using to light a cord, it is way to long for this application. The solution is more power at the...

Working tractors! Yes that's why you buy a tractor to get work done! A shiny new one is great until you run into an issue with the def or an electrical issue. The older tractor for the occasional use DIYer is the best bet. Since I do my own repairs I find the older tractor the most economical to...

Sounds like a bad connection or battery cable.

The three point implements are unlimited in their scope and size. At some point you will run into one that won't fit exactly. Get the one that works for now and deal with it when you run into the one that doesn't fit!

Sounds like fun, the 308 that is. I have converted a few in my day to air tanks, fuel tanks and yard art. propane will gasify if the temp is above -40F and the pressure is released. Open the valve and let off the pressure and unscrew the valve. Or knock it off with the big hammer. I have...

Too many variables. Weight is the greatest of them. The weight of the tractor and the location of that weight make a huge difference in the traction which then equates to pulling power. The more horsepower you have the more weight you need. You need the majority of the weight on the rear...

I would grind away some of the flange around the release button so that the pto shaft fits. It probably won't take much. Most of the pto shafts I've used don't have that protection around the release button. Another option is to put a new yolk on the pto shaft that uses a slide collar to lock it...

I've built all three and the weight capacity is the biggest difference. The gooseneck will always weigh more because of the hitch. The difference between the other two is really insignificant.

AH but times they are a changing! Check out the new bobcat telehandlers such as the t619, 74 HP and no DEF . The engine meets Tier 4 regulations without a diesel particulate filter (DPF) or selective catalyst reduction. That should eliminate a lot of down time and hassles. That DEF has become a...

As somebody said "good for what ails ya". It is a top lube. I use it in the gas and add a little to the oil also. It will free stuck rings also. My brother had an old Buick that was given to him and it smoked like crazy so he used it in there and a couple tanks of gas later and it didn't use oil...

Sounds like there must have been some previous off the chart stresses on the housing to weaken it then it just reached its fail point at that moment. People will hook a chain to the axle housing to pull the truck out of the mud a d give it a jerk. The housing gets a small Crack from the stress...

Isn't that amazing! Check the weight of calcium chloride and it comes up 11.86 lb/gal. It usually goes in an innertube. Not a problem unless you have a flat. Weight is always your friend for more traction. Dealers will be dealers. They have to make a profit too. Last time I had a flat fixed...

Get your building size down pat and send the outline size to a firm in your area that builds trusses and posts. They engineer it and give you a quote of the cost of the poles and trusses free of charge. Most buildings like this these days are made with laminated posts, 6X6 or 8X8. I do estimates...

Tractor time with Tim, sounds like a TV sitcom! I use my tractors to their max ability all the time. Thats why I have Kubotas. Even I don't break them. If it breaks doing that I will get rid of it and get another. I refuse to have my equipment work me.

Well the temp gauge needs water to indicate. That's a bit counterintuitive but unfortunately a fact. I have had a similar incident with a diesel pickup. When it cooled down the engine ceased up.The engine was toast after that. We assume because the vehicle is fairly new we can just get on and go...

The tractor is to small for this job. You need about double that weight.

My backhoe is an aftermarket by Bradco but it has a built in flow control to slow it down. If yours doesn't you could put one of these in line...

Ya! I have the same problem. With all the wind we get it seems like a weekly chore but I haven't found a good answer yet. I rented a lift last summer and got up in the trees and cut all the dead branches and some that were rubbing against the house and garage. I then found some that looked weak...

Gas weed eaters are great in the heavy stuff. I have both and really use the battery powered one mostly except the battery is dead 3/4 of the way through, oh well time for coffee anyway! I find the straight shaft Stihl has been the best gas powered one I've ever used.

Don't look back just drive!😀 No, it sounds like you should practice handling it in a parking lot somewhere for a bit before taking it home and loading your tractor up. An 18 or 20 foot car trailer works great for most compact tractors. Compact tractors are generally light enough that a car...

I tell ya I've built a lot of trailers and rebuilt a few. The road is a destructive force from hell! If you use the trailer the road will strip the coating off. There was a time when I thought powder coating was the ultimate solution but even that proved to be a less than solution. The powder...

Education is the cheapest thing you can buy(as my dad would say)! And truely it is, because it always pays back, however the equipment needed to do it right is not! You would need a welder, grinders, cutting equipment . . . etc., however much your new hobby demands. Oh, and a place to do that...

Well I've owned them both and I love the maneuverability of the skid steer but the disadvantages outweigh that. I work alone so the skid steer became a problem. You can't get out of the thing when you need to hook up something with the loader part way up was the biggest problem. Here the front...

So is that a field of study or a field of wheat that is considered racist? That woke stuff isn't needed in this forum please!

Very definitely sounds like a fuel issue. I've seen it to many times. In the winter I don't mess around any more. I use straight #1 starting in October. No more problems!

I had a similar issue with my Kubota and previousely a Bobcat. In both cases it was a bad battery cable. To find it on the bobcat I had a guy sit in the seat and turn on the key. The fuel solenoid would click when I moved the positive battery cable. The cables were new the year before so I would...

#2 diesel has paraffin in it, while that gives the fuel lubrication qualities and more BTUs, that coagulates in temps down around 0 F and colder. #1 diesel does not have the paraffin and is good to -50 F. This winter grade fuel, is it a blend or straight #1? The fuel filter is where the...

The radiators are made out of glass reinforced HDPE and I have tried many techniques and glues to repair them to no avail. Even 3m radiator glue (I forget the exact number on the epoxy I used but it was for radiators specifically) doesn't hold very long, maybe a year. I wish there was a better...

Good quality tools and the proper experience and/or training make the job so much easier and you get better quality results. Get your lengths right and go to the big box stores to get it done, combine your trips maybe. You may want to just rent the tools. Unless you are going to be doing lots of...

Torque my friends! Torque is still better in a diesel verses gas engines. In a tractor torque gives you that extra pulling power your tractor needs. Diesel being less volatile, burns slower, and just naturally makes more torque in each cylinder. Granted if you add superchargers and...

She's a big hoe but digs well. I have a Bradco hoe I mount on my Kubota with a subframe/threepoint mount I made. The three point makes it easier to put on and off. It works well but it's not like digging with the commercial case 530 tractor with the dedicated hoe. Mass is everything when trying...

I've seen them at auction in the neighborhood of 15 - 18,000 with low hours. By that token I personally would fix it. But then I do my own repair work. I had that very thing happen on an old Case 530 backhoe back in the 80's. I found a used case in a boneyard and changed it out. That was a job...

I have orange and my brother has green. We push them to their limits+ and they keep on going. He's had some minor issues with his green one but no big deal. Parts were available. I've not had any real issues with my orange ones (after 18 years with one). They are great tools when you need to get...

In North Pole AK they will be out walking arpound when it's -20. Just keep the water thawed and food available and they are fine.

No. It's the price we pay for the advancement of greed. We pay extra for these options when we buy the car then we are supposed to pay continually for their use? Ain't happening.

Ethanol has 76,000 btu/gal while regular non-ethanol gas has 100,000 btu/gal so you get less power out of the gas with the ethanol. When I use the gas with 10% ethanol I see mileage reduction of about 7 - 8% - to be expected. It takes more throttle to get the same horsepower out of the engine.

My son had a Dixie Chopper 54" cut and a Dixie Chopper 60" cut. It seemed the 54" cut always looked ragged. The 60" cut mower always looked great. Never could figure out why. They are the same manufacfturer and same spindles etc.. It must be blade speed. In redesigning and building an 88" cut...

It sounds like the search for a part is easier than a search for an attachment. I've gone to Kubota looking for parts and they did a nationwide search. I've never tried to search for an entire attachment. Maybe different parrameters or maybe just that dealer.

It sounds like water in the fuel! It also sounds like the water was induced into the fuel system with the fresh fuel. When you run into things like this, it was running fine then I added fuel because it was low now it won't run, always look at what you did last to find the culprit. A water...

Diesel by nature is Hygroscopic so there can be up to 7% entrained water. This is generally not a problem to injection systems. The problems begin with rust from ferrous metal storage systems. Rust is a narrow long sliver shaped granule that can sometimes shoot right through the fuel filters...

Go for the weighted wheels. They will have the same air pressure but the added weight will reduce bounce that will affect your back directly. Weight fluid is heavier than water by the way!

I had the same problem with my box blade. The pins are soft and stretcch. I got some long 7/8" grade 8 bolts and cut the head off, tapered the ends with a grinder and drilled a hole in that end then put a nut on each side of the frame. Never was a problem again.

Well I had an older Chevy with a hydromechanical fuel injection system do the very same thing. It would start and idle fine but no acceleration. It turned out to be the advance mechanism in the fuel injection pump had broken. A fuel injection pump rebuild fixed it. I have never worked on a...

Lift capacity rating is at the pins that attach the bucket or forks on the front. The farther the load moves forward of that point the less you can lift. Its simply a matter of leverage.

Is there a drive gear on the pump? They generally use a fuel filter not a sediment bowl. The seal is in behind there.You should be able to get a used loader to put on there. those are great old tractors. They don't have the DEF and elecrical issues of the new ones.

I had a Bobcat 773 skid steer.Thought it would be the cats meow for doing things around my place. It turns out that it isn't. The slightest up hill climb with nothing in the bucket it wants to sit on it's tail. If i'm trying to move things around, being alone, it is ny on impossible to get out...

You've obviously not used a Kubota.They are great, blades are cheap and they are very reliable. Nothing lasts forever though.

I don't know what you are going to be cutting but I have a plasma cutter and use the little Eastwood metal cutting saw the most. The plasma cutter requires a lot of air and the consumables are expensive. It is great for shape cutting however.

That tractor's hydraulics system has 13.7 Gallons/Minute flow.I couldn't find the pressure and flow specs specifically for that backhoe however. It will take a WPA23 pump at 2400 rpm to create that kind of flow and pressure. You are going to need about 28 horsepower to do that. The hydraulic...

I would always use water. It is easy to fill and when done I just drain it on the lawn or wherever. Then you can move the roller around easily when not in use which is most of the time.

I'm curios why it burst when it was not being used? That says it is being presurized and you need to simply cap it off or replace it.

You want something that will get it done fast, get a zero turn with at least a 60" deck. For the long haul durability a Kubota diesel can't be beat. That would be my choice.

So! Some of our Jeeps are made in Italy! To me that's worse.

Been down this road. He'll hit a rock or something and sheer a pin or worse then your tiller will be no good and your the bad guy. He didn't have the integrity to pay you as agreed. He wouldn't get any help from me. He showed his true colors.

It sounds like the fuel system got some air in there when the tractor was on it's side. The fuel pickup was probably out of the fuel in the tank. If it turned over an ran a bit it is not hydro locked. That grey fluid mentioned sounds like you lost some weight fluid from your rear wheels.

Plaztec quality through and through! I put a new shaft on mine since I lost the front half while not in use and it looked exactly like that when I first used it.

It sounds like a fuel issue. It doesn't sound like it was cold out so fuel gelling would not be the problem. I would start by replacing the fuel filter. It could be bacteria in the fuel. Drain some raw fuel (before the filter) into a clear glass jar and see if there are any cloudy blobs in it...

Steel price has gone through the roof. I just finished an 18' car trailer and back in December when I checked on 1/8" diamond plate for the decking they wanted $13.39/sq ft thats $2.17/lb. At 135 sq ft thats $1800 just for the deck material. I found some 1/8" diamond plate for the fenders...

I did some land clearing in Alaska for a guy who was going to raise crops on it. When we got the trees done he had a hydraulic excavator come in and bury all the slash and stumps piles we had made. A little spendy but done now. This worked great for his schedule and then he went over it a few...

Fluid in the rear wheels,wheel weights and use a boxblade or counterweight in back should get the job done.

Not good! Gas preignites in a diesel engine from the high compression.You can add up to about 10% gas for winter use but any more can quickly ruin the engine. You may get such things as bent rods and blown pistons, not a recommended thing to do.

There is always some play in the hydraulic system when there is no pressure. That looks normal to me. What I see is a week loader mount design. That large round tube that bolts the loader to the tractor frame probably torqued a little and a very little twist in it and your loader is no longer...

I had a similar problem with a car that was given to me because no one could get it to start including the dealer. It turned out to be an open 10 gauge wire between the ignition switch and the fuse block. A jumper with scotchlocks fixed the problem. I finally sold it after putting 185000 miles...

I had a similar problem with a car that was given to me because no one could get it to start including the dealer. It turned out to be an open 10 gauge wire between the ignition switch and the fuse block. A jumper with scotchlocks fixed the problem. I finally sold it after putting 185000 miles...

A generator has to be run at a very specific rpm. Frequency will be to high or too low if not. There is nothing that will kill electronics faster than bad frequency. 60 hz or death for most electronics and electronic controls here in the USA. Generators generally have very good speed controls to...

Diesel fuel does not go bad like gas can. I have used diesel fuel that is 30+ years old without issue. However - Kerosene based fuels like diesel and jet fuels (wide cut fuels that include Kerosene) can be up to 7% entrained water. This gives bacteria the opportunity to grow and multiply in your...