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I have a boot cracked wide open on one of the inner ball joints on my BX2380. I can find the part in Kubota's diagrams but guess what? Instead of being able to replace a $10 boot, the best that can be done is a complete ball joint replacement. Other than that it's replace the entire tie rod. Not...

Battery in my wife's motorcycle is 3-4 years old. I find that I generally don't get much more than that out of them. It's been kept on a quality tender all winter and still didn't want to start. Long story short as I can make it - it was nearly dry. Filled with distilled water and put on Pro...

Bobcat 709 backhoe for skid steer. Hydraulics hooked up and I ran it 10/23. The hoe is quick attach, but be aware you'll also need the correct kit to mount it properly. I have a set of Bobcat mounts, part #6718155 currently on my skid steer. They will attach the hoe to Bobcat models 773g...

Seems there's a pocket of locals engaging in the behavior that's finally attracting the attention they deserve. This article is from a local paper that just began requiring subscriptions. I think you can read one article before it requests that you buy the subscription. Oswego County has...

I've got a 2006 Pontiac Torrent for a bang around in ride for the higher fuel mileage and to save miles on my 2017 F250. I've been looking around for a set of used 17 inch wheels for the snow tires. Research online shows that my current wheels have a positive 46mm offset. I see on the local...

I've got a gallon can of Fluid Film that I mostly use to paint the underside of 2 riding mower decks after pressure washing every fall. I had some FF in a pump sprayer and cut it with denatured alcohol, as that was the only thing I saw hanging around the garage at the time. It worked somewhat...

I've got a 709 backhoe from the 90's, serial #270002588. Has a leaking cylinder in one of the vertical stabilizers. Someone has cut/welded/trashed one of the ends as well has messing a cap up so badly that a spanner or pipe wrench won't get it off to fix the seals. Trying to find a replacement...

Seriously considering making a play for this truck to turn into a water delivery truck. I chased down the local government that owned truck previous to the current seller and got a nice report on it. I've had a CDL for over 30 years and have driven a lot of trucks but never been a buyer...

I've got a hydraulic fluid leak in one of the vertical stabilizers on my 709 backhoe attachment. I need to drop it out to get the seal repaired. I've figured out the top end - remove lines, remove snap rings and drive out the pin. I removed the snap rings and started driving the pin out, just...

Changing engine oil/filter and noticed in the sight glass that the hydro fluid is low. I've got a jug of Traveller from Tractor supply. SKU #80638399 Traveller Universal Tractor Trans/Hydraulic Fluid, 2 gal. at Tractor Supply Co. Would this be satisfactory or should I shop for something a little...

I've got a line on a couple of Bobcat 709 backhoes for my 2008 S185. A friend is parts manager at the local Bobcat dealer. He says we're looking at over $700 for the mounting kit. Google search isn't finding me much without a part number. Anyone have a part number or a used set to sell?

I think I've narrowed it down to a Pequea T200 and a PJ T6. Both are 16' tilt with 4' stationary. Some comparisons: Axles - Both have 2 7k Dexter/16" tires Frame - Pequea has 7 inch channel main frame. PJ is 6" Suspension: Pequea slipper spring. PJ torsion. Both have 10 k drop leg jack. Deck...

I'm in the very preliminary stages of looking into a 607 backhoe attachment for my S185. 2008 model if that matters. If I decide to do it, the use likely won't be heavy duty. Probably some driveway or cottage road maintenance and some holes or trenches dug around my own home. My machine is...

I've got a 2005 JLG T-350 towable lift. Truck is a 2016 F250 with all factory trailer light plugs. Everything is good on the truck end. When I turn on either signal light, both signal lights and the 3rd brake light on the lift flash. The grounds on each tail light of the lift had seen better...

I've had a Class A CDL for over 30 years, but never had occasion to pull anything fifth wheel other than driving tractor trailers. Wife and I found a great deal on a 5th wheel camper and bought it. Now inexperience in researching issues with them is coming back to bite me. Bought a 1999 Jayco...

I've got a couple of 2 inch ratchet straps that were given to me. The ratchets are fine. The straps that feed into them have no hooks on the end. Is there a replacement hook available anywhere that does not require sewing to attach it to the end of the strap? Maybe something where you could feed...

Bought a cheapie HF 2500 lb. winch yesterday for my motorcycle trailer. I used it to get the bikes up into the trailer yesterday because even though the batteries are up, the oil is pretty thick from sitting in an unheated garage and we've had single digit temps outside so I elected not to try...

Googling the number on back of this, all I seem to come up with are old auction results. And the only descriptions are "66 inch smooth grapple bucket". I can't seem to find a brand name. I have one that I want to sell, but I'm looking to see who makes them and what they sell for new so that I...

This summer I replaced all of the old 5/4 pressure treated decking on a 20 year old deck. The framework/joists were all in fine shape but the decking had some bad spots and the grain was raised pretty good plus had some old stain on them that wasn't too attractive so I replaced them all with...

OK, I have a Harbor Freight 68892 motorcycle lift table. The hydraulic cylinder will raise the table just fine, that is until you actually put a motorcycle on it. Someone on a Harley forum has shown that they've converted it to air over hydraulic, but their posts are a little bit light on...

I've got a Telsta A28D bucket on a 2001 Ford F450. The hydraulics are powered by one big battery. I've crossed the current battery to a NAPA 7271 FT, a 1425 (@ 0 degrees F) CCA battery. 440 minute reserve capacity. This would appear to me to be a starting battery for commercial applications...

Looking into prices on carports. After reading too many horror stories about delays, less than stellar work crews on your property, etc. I'm thinking I'd like one delivered and assemble and install myself. Possibly on a footer to hold it down or on Sonotube piers. Anyone have any experiences...

The bucket truck I just bought has one of these large batteries to run the hydraulics. Just looking for a little information for future reference. Is this thing a deep cycle? I ask because my battery charger has settings for 12 volt Regular and 12 volt Deep Cycle. I can also set it for 2 amps or...

Making a 6 hour drive to look at a 2001 F450 splicer body truck with bucket. It's a V10 gas job with auto trans. Might be a replacement for my 1997 F Super Duty 7.3 PSD flat bed bucket. It's got 153k on it, but hours shouldn't be an issue as bucket hydraulics work off a couple of deep cycle...

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In the process of installing a regular automotive rear view mirror in the cab of my Bobcat S185. Looking to install something on the lift arms so that I might better see the rear wheels when I'm backing up the ramps to load the machine onto my dump trailer. I like the look of these, I-C-Mor...

Looking for a Bobcat Toolcat with heat and auxiliary hydraulics. High flow not necessary, as my snow blower does not require it. I have a 2008 Bobcat S185 with 1345 hours to trade. Nice shape. Has heat/AC, power Bob Tach, deluxe instrument panel and brand new Predator over the tire rubber pad...

Have been considering over the tire tracks for my 2008 S185. Options are steel or rubber/camoplast. Steel is the lower priced option. I'd like the rubber but I'm not ready to spend $4-5k just yet. This is basically a home use machine. I do snow removal, some minor digging and I use it with a...

So I've sold my 2010 American Hauler 7x14 Night Hawk trailer. It was tall, 6'6" inside. The V on the front was pretty blunt, not a sharp angle at all. It dragged the mileage down to a little over 8 MPG on a Florida trip this winter. But part of that may have been the 5.0 in the F150 I had. I now...

Got a new F250 gasser 8 days ago. Yesterday I received an email from the dealer informing me of a service appointment this coming week. At 1 PM on a weekday. I replied to them that I did not schedule any service and that I would not be coming, as the dealer is an hour from the house. They...

I've got a '97 F Super Duty with 7.3 PSD. I think the batteries might be on the way out. I've had the truck for 3 years or so and they were in it when I bought it. Currently it's got 2 Interstate 850 CCAs. I looked for a couple replacements tonight when I was shopping for a spare tire & rim at...

Just got a 2014 F250, 6.2 gasser with 6 speed auto. On my previous F150, the display showed 123456 above the normal PRND. It would indicate which gear the truck was in. It did this all the time whether in tow/haul or not. It seemed like there was an option that I could select to have it do this...

The result of a Floridian trying to drive in a northern NY state winter. Ticketed for failure to yield right of way and aggravated unlicensed operation. Came sliding down the street completely in my lane.

Not a lot of details, but here's the first I've heard of it: http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2014/01/ford-planning-v6-diesel-for-f-150-super-duty-stays-with-steel/

Spotted this on the local CL: Dump Truck - 71 Ford F350 Debating whether to go look it over and make an offer. Not all that serious about it at the moment. My uses would be fairly limited, maybe a load of gravel to touch up the driveway now and then or maybe to pull my 6x12 dump trailer with a...

I've got a 1997 Ford F Super Duty bucket truck. Same body style as all the '92 - '96 trucks. The other day I crunched the mirror into a utility pole while backing up to my trailer on a city street. With the big bracket it caved the door in pretty good also. I'm no body man and don't have time to...

OK, so it 's not a tractor question but I couldn't find any bucket truck specific forums. Besides, guys here own all kinds of equipment and have all kind of experiences. :thumbsup: Anyway, I have an Altec AT200A aerial lift. Hydraulics operated by an electric motor. Yesterday it quit working...

Been thinking about a small backhoe for my skid steer for some time now. Especially in the last week when I hired a friend to scrape out a 30x30 area and put down stone for a concrete pad I'll do next spring. Over the years there have been a few things that I've hired out or rented a mini ex...

Just browsing around at the moment, not ready to show up with cash or make a deal with anyone yet but have a question. Will a 907 backhoe work on my 2008 S185 (non high flow)? Here's what I saw on the local CL: Bobcat backhoe attachment Backhoe attachment Also checking out some lower priced...

I posted this question in the Bobcat forum, but that doesn't seem to get much traffic so here goes again: Recently had some excavation work done. Had some sod scraped out to put down stone for a future concrete pad and dug a short trench to bury an old fire pit. The soil here is pretty much...

Recently had some excavation work done. Had some sod scraped out to put down stone for a future concrete pad and dug a short trench to bury an old fire pit. The soil here is pretty much clay. I spread the chunky stuff around into some low spots on the property and back dragged it the best I...

Yesterday I had 3 100 pound LP gas cylinders refilled. Brought them home and attached the lines to 2 of them. 1 to the kitchen stove and another to the furnace. The third is spare. Today, wife and I could smell LP and hear hissing. The 2 tanks attached to lines appeared OK. The spare tank had...

Been having trouble lately with a rear tire on a Ferris IS500Z mower. Slimed it but it still keeps going down. Never cared for the traction anyway. Anyone have a source for a bar or chevron type tread in 20X10.00-10? Haven't found much on Google yet.

A couple of months ago I bought a 1999 GT235 in pretty nice shape. It had a beat up Pirahna 44 inch deck that someone had swapped blades on and made it a rear discharge. I bought a brand new 48C deck complete and installed it. It's been working fine but yesterday and again this morning it will...

Just bought a used GT 235 with a 44 inch Pirahna deck. The mulching blades have been replaced to make the deck a rear discharge. Someone's got a nice 54C deck advertised on the local Craigslist ( http://watertown.craigslist.org/grd/3929622703.html ) and I'm trying to find out if I can use it...

I've got a 2008 S185 with 1260 hours on it. Bought it last September and have only put 40 hours on it since then. It's worked perfectly fine. Yesterday I got an "extreme low oil pressure" warning and shut it down. I checked the oil. Full. A few minutes later it started just fine. There is no...

Getting ready to do some maintenance on my bucket truck. Altec recommends an ISO 22, con conductive hydraulic oil. Looking at NAPA and Tractor Supply's websites it doesn't appear that they carry anything like that. It looks like I'll need around 7 gallons. Been poking around online but not...

Not really a tractor related question, but it's about getting parts so what the heck. Just got a couple of bearings in the mail today for a Knudson EL 2002 elbow machine. I'm in the seamless gutter business. Anyway, they're Pacific Bearing Co. part # FLC12SE. I got them from the machine's...

Just had to replace a wiper blade on a 2008 S185. The standard blade from an automotive application wouldn't work because the pin on the wiper arm is too short to go completely through the attachment point. The blade would wiggle back and forth until it pulled off of the wiper arm. I wound up...

While driving my bucket truck for the final run of the season to circulate the fuel additives, the little red battery lamp was on & off intermittently. Got home and sure enough, all 4 battery terminals loose. They'd all seen better days and wouldn't take another tightening. Truck is a '97 F...

I have a surge brake coupler on a JLG T-350 tow behind boom lift that looks very similar to this: The lift is being used by one of my guys, so I can't scoot outside to look for a brand name or model number at the moment. This thing has been nothing but trouble since I bought the lift a couple...

Looking for some new mirror glass to stick on top of my current passenger side mirror to get rid of the "fun house" effect. I'd rather have a straight up mirror like the driver side for backing trailers up. So far, anything that I've found seems to be convex like is currently on the truck...

Recently traded my Kubota B3030 in for cash, a new Erskine snow blower for my Bobcat S185 and a new CAM Superline dump trailer. Just got word and a pic from the dealer last night that my stuff is on the lot and ready to go. As soon as the new tag arrives from Maine Trailer Registrations I'll be...

I've got my Kubota B3030 HSCC for sale. I have an interested party, but he's got a BH77 that neither of us knows will work on the tractor or not. Maybe Ductape or someone experienced with these models can give an idea of what will go on the cabbed model? He tried to contact a dealer, but they're...

I'm in the earliest of the preliminary stages of thinking about a couple of Bobcat S185's that are for sale locally. Links to both Bobcats can be seen in my post under the Bobcat construction equipment forum. If (and that's a large if) I decided to buy one I'd most likely put my 2009 B3030 HSDCC...

Not being very familiar with Bobcat pricing, especially for used I thought I'd ask opinions on this unit for sale locally: 2005 Bobcat Skid Steer I know that there are probably many variables, such as how hard the hours were, etc. Thanks for any insights.

I needed a boom pole to load 300+ pound rolls of aluminum seamless gutter coil onto the machine located in an enclosed trailer. At first the simple 3 point model from TSC worked OK. But I had to back up and be just about touching the side of the trailer. So I welded a bracket onto the bucket so...

I've got a Kubota B3030 with LA403 loader and Washburn universal SSQA pinned to it. Currently, I've got an old set of Wifo forks, but these things are pretty darned heavy and use up a lot of my limited lifting capacity. Any suggestions for a lightweight set that won't break the bank for the...

I own a 1997 F Super Duty with 7.3 Powerstroke diesel. Pretty low mileage, just over 65k. In a previous life I believe it was a Bell Atlantic truck. It's equipped with an Altec AT 200 A boom/bucket. It probably came equipped with a utility toolbox but that's been replace by a custom made flat...

Started up the '97 F Super Duty 7.3 Powerstroke today to head to a job. For almost 4 miles the "water in fuel" light was on. The truck ran as normal. After a few miles the light began to fade gradually and then just went out. Anything that would cause this other than the obvious water in the...

Anyone know where to find a diagram of the factory box mounted on the rearmost frame crossmember? The guy who sold me the truck cobbled in a 7 pin connector and trailer brake controller for me. The brake controller has wires run from it to the rear of the trailer by hand instead of plugging into...

I've got a white enclosed trailer for my seamless gutter business. Is there any good products to get dark streaks off of the white finish? They're mostly from water that runs down below the roof mounted ladder racks down the sides and down either side of the rear ramp door. Regular car washing...

Should be an easy one for someone out there. I'm in the process of getting a '97 F450 with 7.3 Powerstroke and Altec AT200 Boom/bucket. I've been a Ford guy for years so I know that 150 = 1/2 ton, 250 = 3/4 ton, etc. So does a 450 work out to be 1 1/4, 1 1/2 or how does that go? Was just curious...

Bought one of these last summer. Great machine for what I do. I removed the batteries (4 six volt) from the machine to keep them on a battery tender in the garage all winter. Now I can't remember which cables go where. There are two long leads on each side of the machine from inside. Both...

Just purchased a QA 8295 from Washburn for a Kubota B3030 with LA403 loader. It's sitting on my garage floor uninstalled at this point until I can get the bucket to a welder to remove the factory pin on brackets and attach the QA plate. The Washburn crew was good to deal with and will make the...

In the midst of adding a Washburn SSQA to an LA 403 loader on a B3030. Will also be buying a set of QA pallet forks. Would shimming the hydraulics to slightly increase the pressure help to offset some of the capacity lost by the SSQA with bucket or forks being out front of the lift arms more...

I know that there have been several threads on this subject, I've even posted on a few. But this is a new thread for my particular issue. Selling a set of Payne's forks because I've never really been happy with them. Had my eye on the pallet/brush forks on BXpanded, but Harry got back to me and...

Began a brake pad job on this machine today. Pulled rear caliper, very easy. I found that the pads have pins that look like they are pushed or driven through one side of the caliper, on through holes in the brake pads and then to the other side of caliper. My question is how to remove the brake...

Just picked up one of these to haul a tow behind boom lift around job sites. It starts up right away with the pull starter, but the electric starter is shot. Trying to come up with an OEM part # so that I might find a replacement. So far I come up with 3083760. Can anyone verify the accuracy...

Purchased a Troy Bilt Mustang zero turn at local Lowe's in mid may. About 2 weeks ago was mowing the yard and the blades quit turning. To make the long story short, the bolt that holds the electric blade clutch to the crank snapped off and the clutch was dangling by the wires. I figured I could...

Been looking at Genie TX 34/20 tow behind lifts. Got an offer online from Buffalo Forklift LLC. Has anyone dealt with this person? The unit is in Illinois where the warehouse is supposed to be located. The Buffalo address (suburb of Williamsville) is a business HQ address. He says a wire...

Just heard from friend down the street today who wants to sell a Woods BH750 backhoe to me. I believe it's a mid 80's model. He had it on back of an older Ford tractor that was smaller than my Kubota B3030 HSDCC when he got it. It's now on a Kubota, possibly an L3400, I can't remember exactly...

Been checking out an ATI Tach All Universal Skid Steer Quick Attach Hitch along with a Construction Attachments 60 inch bucket to convert the pin on bucket for an LA403 loader on a Kubota B3030. Looking at the items on (Temporarily blocked due to reports of company closure) I'm thinking I'd almost rather get the bucket for...

Here is the situation: Around 2 1/2 years ago I was presented with an opportunity to buy a Liberty Industries (made in China) TW04 (made 11/2001) 3PH hoe attachment. Model No. 77. At the time I offered $1500. Offer shot down. Today, was called and offered same machine. Keep in mind that said...

I asked this question once before about a B3030, but here goes again: My rear PTO shaft will not turn freely so that I can line up the splines when I'm trying to attach an implement shaft. I was told to move the selector lever from rear to mid PTO and the rear shaft would be free to turn. I...

I notice when hooking up an implement on my B3030 that the PTO output shaft on the tractor does not freely spin like on my old JD 790. Normally not an issue, but there have been times in the past where I had to rotate the shaft on the tractor if for some reason I couldn't spin the shaft on the...

Just bought This transfer pump from Northern Tool. Looking for a small length of hose (approximately 6') to attach to it for fueling a Kubota B3030 cab out of a 5 gallon can. Obviously I need something that will stand up to diesel without breaking down, but 14' seems to be the standard length...

I know this has been touched upon elsewhere but I couldn't seem to find it. Been thinking about rigging up a cheap electric winch to rotate the chute on a Buhler Farm King 60" blower on back of a Kubota B3030 cab. Been thinking about using This winch and fabricating some type of mount to put it...

Found and purchased a nice set of amber/red LED lollipops on ebay. Am just now installing them on a new B3030 HSDCC. I noticed that each side has a little two prong female pigtail hanging unused up there at the lollipop mounting bracket at top of cab. Are these wires run to any cab switches or...

Have a JD 790 compact that I've owned new since 2004. Last year went with a 60 inch Buhler snow blower and am now sick of being a snowman at the end of the job. Trying to find a decent cab for this tractor but not having much luck. Sims seems to be the only option and kinda pricey for the amount...