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I've had two Woods backhoes. First was a 3PH BH7500 on a JD770. I thrashed around on my more than I liked, but never had any issues with it or the tractor. A few years back I bought a 3039R (cab) and I ended up finding a dealer leftover Woods BH80X with the subframe & 4PT mount. Because I have a...

Ordered April 10, got email confirmation soon after. On April 11, got a mail changing the shipping time from 15-18 days to 4-5 weeks. Got an email on May 20 that it had been shipped. later that day I got a call from Fed Ex Freight scheduling shipping for next week. Maybe I'll get to try it out soon.

when you say "pulling a plow" do you mean pulling an angled grader blade? In today's world, i think anything targeted as an inexpensive "garden tractor" is really only meant for a mower deck and pulling a cart full of potting soil and flowers. i have an "old school" john deere 318 in need of a...

I'm pretty sure you can accomplish the task without an engine drive welder. that's the same kind of opinion as someone who will try to tell you you need a 3500 cummins and a gooseneck to safely haul a BX around. That said, I probably wouldn't attempt this kind of task if i only had access to 110...

All of these 2' diameter pto grinders look like clones of each other, so I wonder if they don't all use the same teeth? Baumalight, Mech Maxx, Northern Tool, Woodland Mills, and probably more selling them by now. I know that that Mech Maxx advertises them at 12 for $130, 18 for $150, and 34 for...

Try leaving a root gap - 1/16-1/8" and see if it makes a difference. Also vary your distance between the gun and the work piece. Both of those should produce noticeable differences. about 30 years ago my first wire feeder was a 120v Century welder. With tight gaps I would sometimes produce cold...

They sell to a price point for sure. Griffin is a very common brand around here if you view the local trailer dealers offerings. They have a 5x10 7k dump in what I would call a homeowner class that was listed on a lot of dealer sites for $5200-5500 last year. Just over $5k is pretty inexpensive...

I used straight pins on my ballast box - the width just fits between the hitch arms, so there's no way it can slide off either way. i deigned the cage with a notch to suit the top link placement compared to the bottom pins. One of these days i'll empty out the blocks & paint it. Been saying that...

Ordered and got the confirmation email on the 10th. On the 11th i got a mail saying that due to exceptionally high demand the delivery time is estimated at 4-5 weeks. The website still shows "in stock" for both colors with a 15-18 day delivery. I guess time will tell if / when i will get it...

and another $50 today - $1499 now. but... around here you're lucky to find a used woodland mills for that price, and they are $2400 new - on sale right now for $2000 though. Baumalights are over 3k new.

Last (and only) time time i ever got away with that was the early 90's. junk yard let me pop off some u-bolts with my portable torches to get a truck axle out. Also got the ok to go in with a 1kw portable gen and a corded sawzall once back in the 90's too, before battery tools. had a family...

There's enough information in here already for me not to need to add anything much (probably some dis-information and certainly some opinion thrown in for good measure too) but i will add just one thing, though maybe the OP already has investigated this too: I also used to get by on flux core...

i'm sure that poor prep is the cause of a lot of the peeling powder coat issues, but i wonder how much flexing metal impacts it? i see a lot of issues with snowplows too. both of those seem to peel in sheets. i've been threatening to get a dump trailer, and as much as i hate the price, i'm...

as far as transferring bottles, i think the buyer would carry all the burden, even with "paperwork". seems like you are a conscientious seller, so i would have the potential buyer contact the place where he plans on swapping (or filling, if possible) bottles. around here, virtually all bottles...

if you're in a pinch, you can steal a couple of the ones show in Williy's post from under your kitchen sink

I think everyone's use and needs are different, so i suspect not everyone will have the same experience, depending on location, driving habits, loading capacity, and frequency of use. I replaced my steel trailer with aluminum a couple years ago, and time will tell how it goes. My trailer is a...

I just traded for a new truck, and i was able to recycle all the add-ons (floor liners, bed mat, bed cover, step tubes) since the truck is essentially the same, just a few years newer... The step tubes I bought were stainless, and after 5 years they have sandblasted the original matte textured...

I think T1-11 is the hands-down winner around here as the siding of choice for sheds and garages - even some houses. my grandfather's garage was built with it in the late 70's (i think) and it's still there - a little tender on the bottom now from lack of care & being too close to the ground...

I thought I had replied a while ago on this, but it must have been my imagination. Around here as a rule of thumb, I start with $1/lb for the cost of new rolled steel - as long as I'm buying it in the same size piece they get it delivered in. Fabricated items like tube will be higher. If they...

I bought a Husqvarna 51 with a 16" bar as my first saw after the ice storm of 98. Used it for everything until I borrowed a larger saw from a friend about 10 years later when I was bucking up 8 cord of tree length hardwood. About then I started doing the mental math on how much of my life I had...

what was that exactly that caused the damage? I'm not really involved with heavy equipment. was that a split rim coming apart?

I made mine out of all sorts of scrap / surplus metal i've had collected over the years. couple pieces of short 4" wide flange beams left over fro making low- headroom headers, the triangle from a dismantled 3PH grader blade, 2" square tube crosspiece from making a trailer axle, and a hacked up...

it tightens around the drawbar. the flat edge of the plate goes under your box, the angled up end goes under the drawbar, tightening the hex nuts will pull everything tight.

i had a JD770 & Woods BH7500 bought new in 1996 - both of the predecessors of what you have. I opted for 3PH mounting and went with the PTO pump both due to dealer recommendation and not really knowing a lot about it back then. Knowing what I know now and having it for around 25 years, i...

I have a Wallenstein BX42 with hydraulic feed - bought it around 20 years ago. Originally had it on a JD770 and it did fine chipping any solid larger wood with any size to it. I did have problems trying to run leafy and small diameter items through. if you ran a 3" item through it, it would chew...

anti-rattle hitch tightener? harbor freight sells them for $12. i've never used one, and have no idea if / how well it works.

so many variations by location. in my corner of the world, my trailers don't register for any specific weight, just number of axles. The tow vehicle carries that burden for both tow vehicle and trailer. i currently have a half ton / 1500 series, assume +/- 7k weight with me, fuel, gear, give or...

It gets fairly chilly here in the winter months, and out of the diesels I have owned: 2001 6.6, 2016 Colorado 2.8, and 2020 Silverado 3.0, I would say none of them (when properly running) ever required the block heater to start the engine. The 2001 had a time when only one glow plug was working...

can you elaborate on the fuel pump / dewalt battery conversion, or maybe provide a link?

It's so amazing for me to see "older" trailers from other parts of the country. Here, the deckover would be very rusted and pitted, while the livestock trailer would be rusted and very perforated. What a dream it would be to find used stuff in that condition here... not that i need or could even...

i'll jump on the bandwagon for the 16-18' 7k trailer too. the extra length always helps with making sure you can get the load centered where it fits best, and it's not noticeably different in size or weight than going with anything smaller. you will have the ability to haul a car or small truck...

After reading the you tube review up here in my neck of the woods from Tucker Carlson & the locals here, I have more respect for it than I used to, but I'm still not going to go out and buy one. In this review it seems like it's passing the tests to become a full on half ton replacement, which...

hold my beer while I try this... I've missed something I think? There's a 2nd floor above framed with 2x10's, and then trusses over the 2nd floor? And you're lifting from the trusses? To get it up high, tight under the 2nd floor for storage? I'm thinking I'm not seeing this right? Regardless...

I've had the 1st generation 3.0 in a truck since early 2020 and I really have enjoyed it. Heaviest I towed was bringing my tractor home on a bumper pull car hauler - about 7k combined for 120+ miles. Towed like a dream and had plenty of power to do lane changes and accelerations up hills and out...

I've got a 3039R with the HD bucket (removable cutting edge). The top plate on these buckets has a second layer of steel welded to the bottom lip - looks like the two plates are about 1" apart. If you look on Ebay or Amazon, these pre-made bolt on plates are all over the place for $30 for the...

pretty neat stuff... I read through a lot of the comments, and I'm amazed at how many people who act like industry professionals "would never touch a job like that". I will say with absolute honesty that I am NOT a professional, and I have been asked to do "less than professional" repairs before...

Straight line truck torque is addictive, but since I started driving in the 80's, I've owned a handful of 4 cylinder European imports of various brands - some turbo'd, some not, and for my mileage, every one of them could put its "fun" power to to the road far better than any truck I've owned. I...

He'd have had an LB7 - not sure that would have been a better choice. Some have had good success, many have had lots of repairs in that time.

Yup, similar here - we've got a fair selection of taxes and fees too. 5.5% sales tax on the sale price the first time you put a vehicle on the road, yearly registration fees also based on combined GVWR - truck, trailer, all cargo combined, starting at 6000 lbs, incrementally increasing. yearly...

a friend had one. they're not unibody. the made less that 10k with that configuration in the first half of the 2000's. was a fun thing, but frame rot eventually got to it and he moved it down the road.

also on the list of small run oddities would be the 8-lug 2500 avalanche with the 8.1

about 5 pages ago...

In some posts I feel like I can sense the contempt for people who don't "need" or "use" the vehicles (generally trucks) they own... Really, I suspect that hardly anyone who posts on this site "needs" anything they have. In my country, nobody holds a gun to your head and dictates that you will...

I'm interested in how it goes once you've chewed a few stumps up. I came across mechmaxx a few months ago too, but have been leery of spending that much on an unknown company. looks like you solved that first part of the equation. the shipping looks better than i would have expected. I also...

Around here the saying is: "vinyl is final". It is ideally the easiest, cheapest, and most maintenance free siding option out there for the homeowner. Given all the money in the world, along with time to re-coat every few years, I prefer the appearance of a semi-transparent stained wood...

I think a new Fisher insta-act pump is like $1500+ - might be able to find a working used one for $250+. Probably easier and cheaper to buy a plow with a working one if i had wanted to go that route, but then i still need the hand-held controller and those are always $200 used, then tractor side...

Yeah, first plan will be to make sure all the donor parts function, but amazingly, the mount will likely be pretty simple. I've been creating .DXF files to support CNC plate burning machines since the 90's. Everything was preliminary measured and drawn up months ago. I'll just mock up the plow...

Let's just say my next plow will probably use the electric-hydraulic pump setup. For this one, the donor plow I am buying is very reasonably priced, partly because the pump is advertised as "broken". I wanted to go with a v-plow, but decent v-plows are much more pricey, and would be easier with...

I'm going to convert a light duty truck plow to my tractor (JD 3039R) and I want to make sure I understand how to hook up to the tractor's hydraulics. I am going to use a frame mount, and not loader arm mount - I will remove the loader for the winter season. The plow will be a Fisher Minute...

I've had a couple mailings come in over the last year or so from a company wanting to lease land for setting solar panels. I've passed them off until now because i'm really busy and just haven't had the time to think about it. the last package was a lot bigger, and i'm going to do some research...

Not sure that's entirely true up here. TONS, and I mean TONS of Toyota trucks got brand new frames under warranty up here due to rust. Back then I'd say they were regarded as the most rusty truck brand up here. Every state puts different stuff down and probably most use different stuff in...

i had an 06, for 10 years, and i believe it is one of the most bulletproof setups of that decade. The thing to put into perspective is that the motor is a replacement for the 350 WHEN YOU GET INTO THE 2500/3500 PLATFORM. do not mistake this motor with a big block. the 6.0 replaced the 5.7 and...

this is a double edged battle really... I bought a Husqvarna 562xp fairly early in its existence. the saw probably had been around for a year two max or so at the time. I tried my closest dealer and he would sell me pretty much any saw except that model. all of his sales were rung into an old...

Just to add an additional clarification for the OP if they aren't already familiar - many people toss out the term "mig" related to anything that uses a spool of wire. mig requires gas, hence the name "metal inert gas". some less expensive wire feed welders may not support mig, or could require...

I've worked in a bunch of states, and a couple extra countries too. I have often got the response: Maine? isn't it too cold in the winter? I always tell them: If it wasn't for the cold, we would never get you out-of-staters to leave after Labor Day, but now Covid hits and they're even staying...

Ok, so here's my question: what about a homemade trailer that has no GVWR... how does that play in? we don't declare any weight rating here if it is homemade, and there are tons of homemade trailers on the roads.

I work close enough to a Deere dealer that I can see the back of the building through the trees, but I rarely turn down the road that goes past the entrance. When I did last week, I noticed probably 2 dozen new compacts - probably 1 to 3 series in two neat rows, plus a few more scattered around...

I'm glad that last sentence is in there, otherwise I was going to ask to have it translated into english :D

a lot of it is learning to read the manual or ask the guy who set it up. i watched someone unsuccessfully try to start a new husqvarna just by thrashing on the pull cord. i then took it from him and pushed the choke/kill up to choke, then gently down until i felt the first slight click, and it...

Depending on your level of expectation, and level of skill, you can accomplish a lot with any welder. i'm by no means a professional, and even though i own a tig welder, i find very little use for it when building or repairing tractors or implements. in most cases tractors are function over...

I'm fully in agreement on that. with both of my last small diesels I believe that I can do better on efficiency with slight power up hill and coast downhill, as opposed to constant throttle. momentum is your friend.

Might be expensive, but for me, odds are it will be someone else's nickel. I do love this truck, but I don't get married to my vehicles. i have no illusions that i will drive this until the end of time. For me, it's likely to be somewhere in the 100k-ish range, especially considering this is...

Yup. I'm just planning ahead since they are officially discontinuing the 18v line and expect all new 18v batteries to gone my march 2022. I'll be watching for good deals on the 20v max batteries as my remaining 18v ones die out, since most of my old tools work. if/when tools die, i'll replace...

frankly, i'm not responsible enough for an electric vehicle. what do you do when you get up in the morning and realize you didn't plug it in the night before? i've forgot to fuel up before and had to grab 5 gallons from the shed before I left for work, or maybe i had just enough to make it to...

probably will end up doing that if it gets to it. i still have 7 working 18v batteries, but they won't last forever. for now i'll probably just use the remaining 18v batteries when i need the band saw. i got enough of my tools to prove they function on these to make it worthwhile to stick with...

my failed batteries are stamped 2009 & 2010, so I've got zero complaints on the quality and longevity. i have some functioning 2008 & 2009 still, and my newest is 2014, so they all have done fine by me.

so, i've tested most and came up with the surprise when i encountered a deliberate design feature prohibiting me from connecting the adapter to the band saw. I've googled and can't find an answer, so does anyone have any idea why this might be? the nominal battery voltage for these batteries is...

Here's the test platform: Dewalt DCA1820 adapter and DCB207 1.3ah battery and the tools: DC011 radio/charger - untested so far DC970 drill - seems to work fine with the test platform listed above. Dewalt states not to use premium batteries with this tool. assume that's the higher output...

I didn't want to bury this in the recent "cordless tools vs." post, so I'm creating this separately. I'm assuming I'm not the only person still limping along with this ni-cad dinosaur platform, so maybe any others out there can either help with my questions or learn a few details along the way...

if you try to stand on it and stay on it from a standing stop i suspect you might be disappointed because being a small diesel you could get yourself out of the power band and do little but make revs with no gain. however, if you come out of the gate reasonably and don't put it on the floor...

Assume this is based on what was on the lot? Mine is a 2020, LT, $53,120 sticker. i suspect once you get as far as a Denali you can't go without too many options. monroney lists Z71, All star edition, diesel, convenience package 2, and brake controller which is exactly the build i wanted. was...

it's pretty close in the pickup. I've had the 3.0 in a crew cab 4x4 short-shortbed for about 21-22 months now. i haven't taken many readings lately, but i kept up for the first 15-20 tanks, and in warm-ish weather I can produce consistent 30mpg for my daily commute of a little under 100 miles on...

it's never too late to learn new skills. i entered the work force a few years before the internet age and before the pc was a household appliance. everyone on here who is my age or older learned to use a pc well after they were in school. For some it may have been necessary for a job, but for a...

I can send you a PDF file of a template if you want, and if you can print a PDF. I can't guarantee it will print to scale, not knowing what you use for software to print PDF files, but if it measures just over 9" long, then it should be to scale. I wold think Acrobat reader would be the best to...

This is how we did it back when I was starting out... I first did it with pencil and paper, then eventually a computer, and finally a piece of 3d modeling software that would generate any pipe template configuration you could imagine. if you have any rudimentary drafting ability, or even want...

yeah i wondered about that, but when you look at the first picture and imagine the wall thickness of the gearbox, and the level at the bottom of the hole, there is nearly no oil in there and It doesn't seem like it will actually work its way to most of the gears. the original gasket was a...

Kind of welding related... it's for cutting the metal I weld into tractor implements, attachments, and parts... Bought two basket case band saws a couple years ago - they were real bad. motors apart, motors full of water, been outdoors for a few years, lots of missing and broken motor and saw...

Nice. I was going to do the loader frame mounted style too, but I recently saw where Fisher was making a tractor side mount for the John Deere 2xxx, 3xxx, and 4xxx series tractors. I like the frame mounted solution better. it is more compact, and you don't have to worry about chaining and...

I can't even imagine how I would react to being on a road and told I can't drive home on it. I'm guessing there must have been a good bunch of people who didn't agree and tried to make their way off the highway too? Clogging things up even more probably?

When the Ford Superduty came out I thought the cab looked tall compared to others of the era. may have just been style or windshield angle, but it looked tall. The I was working in Texas and passed one on the highway. There were 4 guys in it - all with big hats. It all made sense then :D

For me it's likely to always be green or orange, since both dealers are located less than 10 miles up the road, and they are both old-school designed dealerships where you can see a yard full of equipment (maybe not so much lately), a large service bay with lots of stuff in various states of...

This thread reminds me that I've had a set of those tools on my ebay watchlist for almost a year to fold the seals up to get them inside the gland when rebuilding cylinders... probably should buy them, cause if not i'm guaranteed to have a cylinder issue soon.

As I read that article, this was instantly going through my head... sorry Johnny... Don't take your guns to town, son. Leave your sword at home Bill...

I had a bh7500 (bought new in 1998) on a previous tractor. I never realized there were any restrictions built in, but mine was very jerky, especially trying to feather the boom out. Gravity is working against you.

You can go as far as you want with that one... The majority of people in here live a lifestyle that is at least relatively close to what they "want" and not what they "need". We really only "need" a little fresh air, water, food, and shelter. The means in which we choose to obtain those dictates...

I bought their JD style headboard for forks - I already had a set of the forks I got from the scrapyard. I put it off until I actually got the tractor and the price in spring of 2020 had then just gone up to about $275 if i remember correctly. Price is now $475. That same summer I bought a...

I would look at getting all of the hydraulics related items on with the tractor build - at the very least get a quote on what the cost would be to build it that way and then compare it to the kits to add it later. The few hydraulic add-ons I have done require removing of some stock plumbing and...

Per the Governor's Highway Safety Association - just pulled this out of my backside in a 5 second Google - Alcohol impairment by the driver and/or pedestrian was reported in nearly half of traffic crashes that resulted in a pedestrian fatality. I won't dispute that the odds of death increase...

https://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/attachments/img_0976-jpg.652799/ I bought my tractor used - I had assumed the mirrors were part of the cab package and that they were on all of them. Having a cab tractor for the first time with 20+ years of open station before that an the cab is a slight...

I'm a guilty party on that one. :) The truck I had about 6 years ago was a 3/4 ton crew of the pre-backup camera vintage. many of us at work would park in a designated parking area perpendicular to the access road in to work, and it was barely deep enough for long trucks. To make sure that I was...

Probably a good deal, especially in current times. In April 2020 I bought my 2017 3039R as a consignment off a dealer's lot in Vermont for $26,700 and got them to deliver it across the borders for me for an extra $200 to avoid any quarantine issues with my employer. it had 208 hours and had an...

In my opinion many seem to have a need to pin blame on something intangible, or at least someone else in order to divert blame. The cars are too big. Cell phones cause accidents. Guns kill people. The bartender never should have served that many drinks. Cancer is the tobacco company's fault...

Hi, I'm rural America, have we met?

So frequently I am on the phone on my way home - in-car bluetooth. Most evenings it's 15 minutes up to the full hour of the drive. I'm looking straight ahead at the road and talking to the air the whole time. Many times I have been a passenger, or been directly behind drivers who have not been...

Over 20 years ago where I used to work, one or two members of upper management were avid road bike riders, and then many of the others decided to follow suit to keep with the "in" crowd. They would do one or two rides a week after work - I guess they did 50 or 60 miles each time, so it was more...

it's for certain a cool project - I read a bunch on it a decade or so ago and there's a guy who published a how-to book with it spelled right out for a specific engine and vehicle type, and I believe that was a Dodge Dakota with a 318. What I remember was that you ended up netting about 1/2 the...

I've heard stories from family members who way in the past had customers call in a panic because they did a tune up on their car and they had 3 speeds reverse, one forward. course, in those cases they had accidentally put the plug wires on incorrectly. can't confirm, but i assume it's true. i...

490 lb per cubic foot for steel. that equates to a little under 41 lb for a piece of steel 12" x 12" x 1" thick.

Seems like a lot of people on here dislike Rimguard. Totally disregarding any discussion of whether ballast is needed or not, what are the downsides of Rimguard? The only thing I see is the potential for staining a surface if you puncture a tire. it' supposed to be relatively freeze proof and...

So many questions unanswered so I Googled... Who owns the boat? - still don't know. Is it the truck owners? Who owns the truck? - couple from Florida Who owns the trailer? - someone else from Florida Apparently I'm sheltered here, because I wonder how hard it is for someone with no drivers...

https://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/attachments/img_1332-jpg.681101/ For general use my tractor doesn't need a counterweight. It has loaded tires - Rimguard I believe - bought the tractor used... As noted, extra weight is deeper ruts and i suppose extra wear, though with the low hours I put on...

Mine is a home built collapsible roll-around. Half of the bottom crossmember is fixed and braced, and the other half slides inside of the first side when stored, and has a 3/4 height pin-on diagonal brace to stabilize that side. When collapsed it sits flush against the wall and straddles my...

OK, I think I get this now... what you're saying is that i plumb it to the SA cylinder so that when i push the loader control forward (which is normally forcing a loader down) i would actually be lifting the plow. then to lower it, i push further forward into float and gravity and a spring do...

Simple question first: Anyone used / using a modern truck v-plow on their tractor via the tractor's hydraulics? Long backstory: i just came across an advertisement picture for a fisher v-plow on the front of a John Deere tractor. Not sure how long they have been selling this setup, but i hadn't...

As some on here have likely found, if you are constantly in search of the holy grail of the perfect used tool deal, you'll likely spend all your time on the computer (or phone) looking, and none of it learning to use the tools. I'd rather have any machine than no machine. I started with a used...

Anyone out there got one they can shoot a picture of and / or maybe take a measurement of for me? My father now has my old 770 and the original seat is getting - unserviceable - may be the best term for it... I was going to see if I could pick him up one for Christmas, but I wanted to see what...

Finally, the unobtanium fittings arrived this past Monday and I got the grapple in the garage tonight to get everything hooked up. I am a little concerned at the small hex diameter of the adapter vs. the sealing washer, but I'll have to wait to the weekend to see daylight and test it out.

For those times when I need to work inside the trailer when it's not hooked to a running vehicle I want to set up an auxiliary battery to power the dome lights. The trailer has two dome lights now and I may add two more. I'm not looking to run these non-stop, but for an hour or two here or there...

When I bought my grapple it came with 1/2 male ag couplers, but my 3rd function has 1/4 male and female couplers at the loader end. In order to use it immediately when I got it, the only local solution I could come up with was to get a female ag coupler then bush that down to 1/4" and then a...

A question for those with knowledge and experience: Could you use a hydraulic power pack like the ones used on automotive lifts in conjunction with a hydraulic cylinder to power an h-frame shop press? S/A pack & cylinder with spring return, or D/A pack and cylinder for power both ways? I see a...

I was about to start on the plans for my plow but when I pulled the blade I had I realized it was not in the shape I thought it was when I set it out back a few years ago. I'm starting the search for a suitable donor blade (read between the lines: I'm cheap and want to find a blade as close to...

I just did mine this week. Well, I’ll call it 90% done. I’m not going to paint it until spring. I want to make sure I don’t have the urge to make any modifications or additions after I paint it. It holds 30 4x8x16 blocks and is quick hitch compatible. I had 18 blocks on hand and most of the...

I've been planning on converting a Fisher snow plow for use on my tractor. I have a 6.5 foot from a Jeep that a friend gave me when I had my JD770. I never got around to it, and always ended up just using the bucket, but now that I have my new(er) tractor, I'm going to try to move forward on the...

I'm going to set up a loader mounted snow plow for winter - got the donor parts from an older Fisher 6.5 foot that's been sitting around for a while now. I'm wondering about the hydraulics though... I was going to set this up on my last tractor and make something similar to the Deere 366 front...

Probably many of you who care already know this, but I just came across it, so I figured I'd share: If you are planning on making your own loader mounted attachment and don't want to make / bend / form the top hooks for the quick attach, they aren't that expensive straight from John Deere. I...

Anyone got an aluminum frame trailer that they have used with a weight distribution hitch? I'm eventually going to need a trailer bigger than 7k once I get the subframe for the backhoe on my new tractor. I have a limited tow capacity per manufacturer rating (9300 lb) so I wanted to go with an...

Just used a quick hitch for the first time and it does seem to be a lot easier so I’m going to convert everything I can whether it was intended to work with that hitch or not. I got this from a family member who got it on a 2R Deere but went to a cab tractor and that NH tractor has telescoping...

Still not sure whether I should post this here or the Hydraulics forum... I mainly want to know opinions on designing with a single double acting cylinder vs two single acting cylinders, relief or bypass valves, etc. The fab portion of the plow isn't too much of a concern, but if you have a nice...

I’m trying to find out what the names/ models/types of fittings I have in my new to me 3039R tractor so that I can more easily source them either retail or online. I’m hoping those of you who may be familiar with them know what they are. I have a rear 3rd SCV that is plumbed to the front and...

Picked up a pair of forks at the scrapyard nearly a decade ago for $30, and finally got a tractor with a quick attach and enough lift capacity to make use of them, so I bought a frame and the forks won't fit - they are really close but too tight to slide across the frame. Looks like the frame...

After about two years of on and off looking and comparing the pros and cons of both new and used, I bought a tractor to replace / upgrade my old JD 770 with model 70 loader and Woods BH7500 backhoe. It was a bit of an ordeal to do while still complying with the travel restriction wishes of both...

Who can help me with some questions about rear hydraulics on a 3039R? This will likely require pictures and really small words so that even I can understand. So here's my history on the subject... My old tractor - a 770 had power beyond added to run the feed for a chipper. I got the dealer to...

first tow home, and sitting beside the 770 until i clean it up and put it up for sale... And I downloaded the app, and we're not getting along well when it comes to posting pictures from my phone, as you can tell.

first big storm

So, I broke down and bought a new truck last month. I had been internet shopping and pricing on & off for the last year or so, since I had heard about this engine. A little over a month ago I was internet browsing and the Chevy site had an NADA link right on the truck build page, so I looked my...

So, the new Colorado is probably 6" narrower than my previous full size, and what was difficult before becomes impossible now - trying to see behind an 8'5" wide enclosed trailer when driving down the road. A couple months ago I did a little searching and found some extendable towing mirrors...

I've got about 2 weeks and 1k miles now, so I figured I'd post my observations and opinions to date - for anyone who might be interested. Also, I figure the trolls are probably getting hungry and need a new post to chew on, and this small diesel should be plenty tasty to the number crunchers...

So, how many of you are seeing pumps in your area where you can insert green, foldable dead presidents and get fuel? In the last month I've been to two places with them, and I have to say I love the convenience. I will admit that I live in a rural area and there's not a lot of newly upgraded...

I'm sure this has been asked and explained plenty, but I'm not familiar with all of the proper hydraulic terms and i'm betting that is why I can't find the answer I want. What I'm doing is adapting a snow plow to use on the front of my tractor. I intend to use the loader controls to operate it...

Please stop topping off your brake fluid. Unless you have to replace a leaky line, there's no need to add more fluid. When the level goes down it's not being used up or magically evaporating - it's just displacing the worn down brake pads and rotors. The level will come back up to full when you...

I'm thinking that at least a few of you probably have built working gasifiers, and in the process you must have done plenty of research first. I've been looking at building one for a few years now in an on-again, off-again kind of approach, but i think i really a going to do it now. the one last...

so i'm sitting at the chiropractor's office waiting for the ball & chain to get a tune up and i found a copy of popular science to skim through. on page 14 of the march 2013 issue there's an article about the mazda 6 and the new diesel offered in the 2014 model, available in late 2013. i'm no...

I know there are some electricians out there, so I'm hoping someone can help me with this: we all know you can attach multiple receptacles to a single 120V circuit, providing the breaker and wire are sized to satisfy the sum of everything attached. This would be like having a drop light plugged...

i'm curious - how many of you have a wood stove, or other heating appliance in the garage? along with a #2 oil burning furnace, i have two wood burning appliances in my house - living room fireplace insert and basement wood stove, but in my garage i burn k1 in a direct vent heater. i recently...

Does anyone here own or have at least used the Miller 625 X-Treme plasma cutter? I've been in an on-again off-again search to buy a plasma cutter for the last couple years. It's going to happen soon, because my oxy/acetelene contracts run out not too far after the turn of the year, and for what...

Would you mind doing me a favor and taking a couple measurements on your trailer? I'm talking about stuff in the 7k-10k weight range 2-axle trailers of course, but what I am looking for are two numbers: the dimension from the coupler to the front of the deck and the dimension from the front of...

on the duramax engines there is a hand pump built into the fuel filter housing to pump up and bleed the system after filter changes. the beveled edge seal rings on mine started getting bad a couple years ago and it was nearly impossible to pump up the system. this is a non-serviceable part from...

does anyone have opinions or experience on these? there's one for sale on craigslist in my area listed at $500. from what i can see that model appears to be 10+ years old but from the pictures the unit seems to be in good shape. i know that technology in torches and consumables has been one of...

i'm wondering what sort of loads you can expect to haul with a tractor and still be reasonably safe. this isn't something i've ever really had a need to consider before, but i have a situation where i am considering building a small dump trailer that can be towed behind my tractor (a jd 770)...

i'm tired of the bench vise heat and bend approach, so i'm going to build a simple press brake to use in my shop press. i've looked at a bunch of pictures that people have made, and my only question is the die angle. i've seen a lot of pictures where people have used two round rods as a lower...

I'm trying to figure out what my PTO speed is when the tractor's engine is running at near idle. My main question is whether PTO speed is linear with the engine speed. If my tractor (JD 770) is rated for 540 PTO RPM at 2600 engine RPM, can I assume that with the engine at near idle (800-1000...

This isn't a true built-it-yourself, but since every piece of it needs to be reworked to some extent, it's pretty much like building it from scratch. Last fall I dragged this battered cement mixer home - it was scheduled for a date with the scrapyard if I hadn't intervened: For additional...

i grabbed stuff to do the oil & fuel filter change in my 6.0 gas & 6.6 diesel today. i hit walmart for the oil - $93 for 10 quarts rotella t6 & 6 quarts mobil1 - since they are generally the cheapest, barring sale prices at other places. since it is nearly just across the road from walmart, i...

anyone got one, or got some stories about them? there's one near me on craigslist for about 1/2 the cost of a new hypertherm 45. spec wise it seems to be a just slightly lower power machine. i'm wondering how consumable life is, along with quality of cut compared to the 45? i may see if it's...

i went to buy an extension cord today, and the local electrical supplier can't get the female cord plugs - only receptacles that require a metal box. i went to the local welding shop and they were out of stock on pre-made cords and will be at least a week plus before they get more. anyone know...

a little off from welding specifically, but since this forum includes general metalworking: i know there's a few of you from this area who read here, so i figured i'd post this. i stopped in the bargain room at lakeview lumber in china today and they had two displays of irwin/hanson cobalt...

anyone seen anywhere that sells this? everything now is a multi-grade 80w-90 or synthetic 75w-90. i just want a straight 80 for the transmission/final drive in an old car i'm buying. i only need a couple of quarts. i've seen some motorcycle/atv documentation that mentions 80 weight oil. i...

specifically looking for a plug reference for a 1957(?) john deere 420c

for those of you up here in the far northeast who know what mardens is, here's a deal i came across today: i was in waterville and had a few minutes to kill between other appointments. they had a handful of stuff in there with valley national gases tags on them. i saw some auto-darkening miller...

A little bit of a side track for the tractor forums, but I know many of you dabble in all forms of rural living, so I'm hoping someone can help. I'm looking for anyone who has a Ripsaw. If you are within driving distance, that would be even better, so I could see it work. For those of you who...

i've got a ton dump with a 12v power pack driving the hydraulic cylinder for the lift on the body. i have only owned this for a few years, and i mostly use it for plowing in the winter. i put the body up to let the snow drain out of it, and realized it was pretty slow going up and down. first...

Since everyone loves a new welder cart build, I figured I may as well put mine up. In my shop floor space is always at a premium, so whenever I build something it has to be as small as possible but still do what I need. Because of this, I wasn't going to find a commercially made cart that would...

So, I dragged these axles home a while ago figuring that I might eventually build a trailer larger than the 16' deck one I already have. I used mobile home axles on my first equipment trailer 10+ years ago, so I'm familiar with this style of hub and wheel setup, but I've never seen anything...

like the title says, i'm in need of at least one new fuel line for my truck. i haven't checked with a dealer yet since it's the weekend, but i figured a few of you might know of some aftermarket companies to look at too. a friend recommended classictube.com, but they don't have an application...

i'm not sure what these are called exactly, but i'm trying to find a hydraulic cylinder similar to the type on many of the over-the-counter log splitters, such as the ones sold by home depot. rather than being pinned at each end, they have a mounting flange at one end only. i'm looking for one...

i stopped at the grocery store on the way home today and saw this: i've seen people use pieces of wood for a makeshift bumper before, but this is the first one i've seen where the owner took pride in his work.

for years i've been meaning to do some work to the bucket on my jd770, but i never seem to get around to doing it. last sunday morning i finally took the plunge and got to it. part of the reason i never put any hooks on it was that the bucket does not have a strong enough top edge to make a...

i'm almost afraid to ask, since any topic i get into that involves welding current and/or safety always seems to draw too many opinions and not enough fact. but here goes anyways: does anyone here own and/or use a miller econotig? i'm specifically interested in what the specifics are for the...

i've looked at two stage splitter pumps and they generally give you a "gas engine" size that is recommended to operate them. is this directly proportional to using an electric motor with one, or is there a difference in what will work? also, are there any electric motor frame types that will...

this is kind of an observation / poll question here. i see a lot of questions about welding in here and an awful lot of the replies are from people who want to stick weld anything 1/4" and over. i've used a stick welder a lot over the years on small projects here and there, but i do not do it...

i just brought home a used rf-30 mill/drill a couple days ago, and now i'm almost ready to get back to making things. i say almost, because as is the way with many of my purchases, some parts and assembly is often required. hopefully the $2.50 key and a $1.25 spring will be the only parts i need...

ok, as usual i end up spending half a century analyzing things before i actually get around to buying them (good thing i have a couple of old welders on hand to do things while i waffle on my decisions). i've been pretty content with the plan to get a miller 211 welder, but since mark from...

i'm planning on building a trailer pretty much the same as your average 5x10 trailer with a 5'x4' expanded metal fold down ramp. i'm just wondering how everyone's ramps are working out as far as bending, and what size/type of material is it? i haven't looked at any commercially made trailers...

i'm picking up a used gator hpx tomorrow, and i'm thinking that it's time to build a better mousetrap, so to speak. i've been around gators for years, and i find that many people have those wire latches get sprung, fall off, or damaged in some other way. has anyone upgraded the latch to...

i was in bangor today & went by this place where they do a lot of auctions - can't think of the name of the place, but it's near the jd & kubota dealers, not too far from the industrial park. they were displaying stuff from thibodeau construction, and the actual auction is next weekend. the...

ok, i've been using stick and wire feed welders for 20+ years, but i've never had any training or kept up on technology. i've been pretty close to buying a new machine, but it's a lot more of a complex decision than it was a few years ago, and i don't want to shoot myself in the foot (or...

am i the only one perplexed by these? i'll confess i'm not a trained welder. i've had zero training other than hands on. in the last 20+ years since i struck my first arc i've welded many things - all with structural success and many with cosmetic success :D my experience is almost 20 years as...

i've got a 1998 jd770 with a woods 7500 backhoe on it. the hoe has it's own seat, but it's always in the way. even with the hoe seat in it's lowest position it hits the back of the tractor seat, and often keeps it from contacting the seat safety switch, stalling me out when i'm trying to...

after seeing countrybumpkin's quick-attach thread it makes perfect sense for me to do the same thing for my bucket and a pair of forks i have around. i'm also going to suggest that a few family members convert their equipment too, so we can share snow buckets, snow plows, buckets, forks, etc...

I've had this since the Ice Storm of 98. I bought it from my uncle to power a 4KW belt driven generator head. it worked ok in a pinch back then - we were out of power for 2 weeks - but it's a little overkill, and as-is, the pulley sizes were mis-matched so that it had to run full bore to keep...

Specifically I'm talking about an ironworker. I've seen & used them years back when working at a large fabricator, but until recently I never realized they made them in a moderately affordable home shop package. I always assumed they were all in the 5-figure price range. I've been around steel...

I have been building and repairing trailers, implements, and whatever else has been needed off & on for the last 15 or so years. I used to work for a large fabricator and was able to buy some stock sizes at their cost - $0.17-$0.27/LB. When I needed smaller and more specialized shapes, I got...