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If, somewhere on the planet, there is a Stick Welder Hall of Fame...... there should be a corresponding Stick Welder Hall of Shame ... I respectfully enter my name for the latter. Good wishes do not overcome no talent or no patience with stuff thinner than 1/8". Someday I am going to...

Got tired of the 1526 spitting black krap on startup all over my front blade .. Procured me a stainless 1-1/2" O.D. weld elbow, drilled thru/installed a 10-32 stainless bolt, and now have stainless exhaust tip deflectors on two of my Mahindri... LIFE IS GOOD...!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)

I have an old E70B. As a early summer project I am going to take the old 4' ditch bucket off and put on a 20" trench/stump digging bucket with a manual thumb. I have to rework the stick some, and plan on working on it if we get rainy days on and off. Moved stuff around in the back of the barn...

In the process of replacing my old 720P wireless cameras with a new 1080p HD system. Just hay wired with prelim brackets to hold the cameras. Cameras are on the pricey side, but the new versions also seem to have zero interference/noise on the pictures. Really a noticeably clearer picture...

Finally started to fix the leaking HSU in my 5035 steering. It has been leaking a little for years after yanking my arse on/off the tractor many, many times. It has an Eaton HSU and the seal kit it $103 at the dealer, and I am going to have him procure me one Monday from Texas. Or at least...

I sometimes have to turn my PTO on/off when blowing around my barn to keep the snow from just going onto the barn roof. The 2555 dash PTO button is a pain. I wanted to find something to add to my joystick, but was not happy with the options unless I wanted to spend big buckazoids for some type...

Blowing about 8" of the nicest snow this morning with my 2555 ..... the capture pictures are a little scrunched up sideways from one of my security cams.

Just finished putting a top rail on my E70B. I have put new steps going up top and added a few hand holds to the side of the cab, too. Maybe allow me to work up there and still get up off my knees in the future.

2555 cab has nice side mirrors, and I put a good panoramic mirror inside to help with the rear view. But somedays, during the blowing of snow, when the cab is not completely warmed up, etc... it is still hard to see backing up or if someone is coming down the drive/roadway. So put in a $60...

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Every time I cold start my 2555 she spits out black sooty water specks for a few minutes while the exhaust is warming up... It bothers me 'cuz it is pointed right at the spot I keep my yellar diesel cans, and they look like krap after a while. [ don't want to move them, either ] Procured a 2"...

Just had my yearly fill of my propane tank. Paid $ 1.509 per gallon, with my 9 cent old geezer discount and owning my tank. Johnson's Propane, Gaylord, Mi. Gets any cheaper, and I will start heating my barn with it. :)

For years I have been using an old trailer gate for a trail drag. But it was a little narrow, and decided to make a new one...keeping the old one for roughing in a new trail. The old one is mostly made with 2" 3/8" wall angle, with some thinner angle for the tread area. Brush/sticks/etc stuck...

Due to Engineer42 posting about his rear view mirror, and him planting a seed into my pea sized brain... I just finished putting mine in. So, blame him, not me... if you can't sleep at night. I bought the mirror on Ebay [ you can get them on Amazon, too. search for CHUPACABRA mirror ] and then...

Anyone have this kit installed yet..? I took my rubber chute off today and blocked the discharge with some plywood, and did not like it. Would still like to try this kit to keep stuff off my drive. Blocking the discharge with the plywood was a nasty experience, so I do not want to do it...

Here is how I store my blower for the summer [ I have a backup tractor with a 6' blade, so don't have a cow ]. Once you drop it flat onto the ground and get it all unhooked, back the tractor away, etc... I lift it off the floor using two floor jacks, you can do it with one, but it is easier...

On my 2555, there are two connectors going to the gauge module. One is a 12 pin, and the other is a 14 pin. On the 14 pin there are two rows of 7 pins, with a black wire on one end. On the other end from the black wire, there is a yellow wire with a brown trace [ Y/Br in wire diagrams ]...

Only been a year and a half... Another sad thing is I will probably forget how by the next time I want to change something. Pretty complicated Kenwood radio, old eyes, little buttons, big old fingers [ have a hard enough time trying to remember how to turn it on and off as much as I use it ]...

I used to use a JD 420 with a 4.5' blade with 3/4" plywood wings [ snow pusher ] to prep my drive in the early winter and handle nuisance lake effect daily snow... Sold that and bought a 1526. Made 24" square wings out of 3/4" HPDE plastic. Bolted on with 10mm stainless round head bolts using...

Just finished changing over my fleet of Mahindri so I can hook up the trickle chargers without opening the hood all the time, or clamping the positive onto the starter lug on the 2555. Also get to use some of those cig lighter adapters that came with most of my Schumacher maintainers. First...

Mahindra to build Auburn Hills plant for all-terrain vehicles

Just got a circular from TSC and their UTF is on sale for $21.99 for a 5 gal pail... [ says save $13 ].. You get to keep the pail, too....!!!!!!!! Life is GOOD.... :)

I was not happy with the stock location of the operating lever down by my left heal on my newest Mahindra. So, I added an additional operating lever bolted onto the stock stuff. Lever is made out of a piece of bent steel I had laying around from a trailer wheeljack project I had done, a hunk...

Just getting done installing two amber LED 1400 lumen lights into the front of my 1526. The power comes from the wires by the flasher unit under the dash, then runs up to the front light area. The stock light assembly does not have any holes to install the lamps, but has two thin areas where...

Been making new roads out back in the woods... My 5035 @ 451 hours started making squealing noises once and awhile while I was out pushing over trees, rip'n and tear'n, and generally mistreating my tractor.... Did not see any fluids leaking or wheel wobbling... took it back to the barn...

I am putting up with the treadle forward/reverse contraption that is on the right floorboard of this tractor. Keep kind of catching the heal of my right shoe on the durn thing when I go to get off ..... Not a fan..... Could care less about the brakes being on the same side, just use them...

Finished putting 27W LED lights/rotary beacon on my 1526. Basically the same mod I did to my 5035 way back in 2011, so it went fairly fast... I like to have lots of things for folks to maybe see when I am out in the road in the winter storms...... I make new heavier stainless brackets to...

First picture is of a piece I had left over from adding a pipe to my 78" blower. Second is the new 2" schedule 80 pipe I have to cut to length [ comes in 9' lengths for about $95 at the local machine shop ] and widen out to fit.... Don't know if I will get to welding the tabs on and painting...

Bought a 1526 HST today with rear remote, added joystick, 72" front blade/undercarraige [ Bercomac, Ontario ], and loaded tires.... Spent the afternoon poking at it. Now getting ready to add a split pipe to the front blade, some LED lights & beacon to the ROPS.... Going to be my out in the...

My local dealer just got in a 2017 5035 PST to sell, do not know how or why... but here is the info ..... I though they were all gone..... TractorHouse.com | 217 MAHINDRA 535 For Sale

Sold my 1991 JD 420 HST garden tractor w/blade today and ordered a shinny new 1526 HST with front blade. Going to be shipped up from Chattanooga Assembly and maybe get it in two or three weeks. I am charging up my digital camera and will take pictures and maybe some of my Mahindri fleet after...

Mahindra Finance sent me a letter today and said that they would not be deducting that $515.97 each month that I had been paying to them, and that my Mahindra insurance was not longer in effect unless I wanted to pay them some each month to keep it active. Now I have to find something else to...

Howdy, new to this area of TBN. I have an old 1991 JD 420 20hp hydro [ about 1000 pounds empty ] that I put chains on the turf rear and 400 pounds of old AllisC suitcase weights on the rear to push snow with a 54" blade. [ I have two big tractors with snow blowers for the big snowfalls ] I was...

Michigan towns, or, how to talk Michiganian .... LARA - Pronunciation Guide - 'You Say it How in Michigan?' for Michigan Names and Places

Just got done adding a length of 2-1/2" I.D. [ woodworking dust collector hose ] hose to my air filter. I relocated the horn to the upper right. I also relented and went from a 12" holed radiator blocking foam board to a 7-1/4". The air filter was sucking in snow and getting the outer filter...

I had some left over Wally 1/4" sign foam board and made a quick cover/snow deflector for the battery. Whilst snow blowing the lake effect stuff, my battery was getting blasted with snow sucked into AC/hyd/intercooler/coolant radiators. Was finding icy blob on top of the battery at the end of...

I added a pipe over the cutting edge of my snow blower today. It has a good adjustable shoes, but anyone that blows or plows knows that you get into soft stuff sometimes. If I hit my gravel drive or roadway out front with that slanted hardened cutting edge it would be a bad thing. I bought a...

Next spring we will do stuff.... I promise.... [ sniff, sniff-sniff ] .......

Out in the barn and hear a really loud bang on the side of my barn [ like someone hitting it with a baseball bat ]. Look outside and a hawk is laying upside down, either knocked out, or moving his last few minutes left in this world. There is a dusty looking dent up on my barn about three...

Old decrepit guy with a cracked/broke rib working this morning....

I would like to take this time for my semi-annual ' I hate DST changes ' rant.... Still don't think it is worth the bother... End of rant....

I found a rock out on one of my trails several years ago. It is about 4" long and a magnet will stick to it. Has several spots on it where it looks like worn down iron... and one in particular that is rectangular in shape. I figure it is an old meteor that got ground/rounded in an old stream...

Had a tree lean over last big wind, pulled it down and hacked it into 108" [ 18" final split pieces ] chunks... have to get my arse busy filling up my wood rack out back in the woods. This will be for two years from now, if I am still kicking... The older logs are ones I cut down last Xmas...

Who does that, anyway... ????? Doesn't he have a life... ????? [ ready for the road.. :) ]

Finished mounting two amber 18 watt LED's up front to help with vehicle I.D. during inclement weather/blowing snow... Mounted the fronts on aluminum angle, and will be bending up some stainless mounts for the rears when I get around to it. The lights are super bright... almost blinding at...

Relocated the stock wiper/work lamp control up on the pillar, and added room for 5 ARB/Carling Jeep type rocker switches. Top switch turns on the dome lamp [ lazy, don't have to lean forward/reach up to turn on ] which now contain a bright LED COB light. Middle switch turns on both front and...

2 hunks of 3" long 1" by 3/8" American stainless steel, one with two 8mm bolt clearance holes 5CM apart... One eleven inch length of 1/2" stainless pipe.. A stainless 3 1/4" piece of 1 1/2" by 1/8" strap, with a clearance hole for light .... Mount for a Class 1 amber rotary beacon for my new...

I took off the five 8mm bolts [two each side, one at rear]. Figure the sunroof has to be open. But still can't lift the fiberglass top to expose the wiring. Putting in new lamps, strobes, rotating beacon, etc. Some thing still holding it down in place. HELP...!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)...

Drug my first load of dried sugar maple into the barn today with my 2555. Not quite a face cord and a half @ 18". Going to see how she handles a full two face cord tomorrow, maybe. My old JD 2240 would lift this much, but I had to put 400#'s of cast weight onto the front of it to keep the...

Made me a cart today so I can store my old blower and be able to yank it back out if my new 78" front blower goes down next winter.

Raised my seat up today. Decided to go 3" up and back one set of holes [ 1 3/4" back, using an unused set of holes ] using some home made oak blocks. Now the seat height is more like my 5035 HST, and still have lots of head room. Going back allows me to get the seat adjustment knob out of my...

If someone were to take the three round plastic ' staples ' out of the FEL bottom plastic boot, it would allow them to slide this thing up and off. That would expose the two 12mm bolts holding the FEL cable mechanism onto the metal bracket that hold it in place. If you remove these two longer...

I am officially a wuss now with a winter cab'd tractor. Had my 2555 come in last week and they finally completed it/delivered it today. 2555 HST Cab, 55hp turbo 3 cylinder, mid-PTO kit, 2nd rear hyd, FEL, sub-frame undercarriage [ can be used for front blade/front broom/etc ], 78" Mahindra...

Thinking about trading in my old JD 2240 with 5600 hours and buying a 2555 with a front blower. Any 2555 guys that want to talk me out of it, or in to it, here is your big chance.... :)

Anyone have any experience with a 1/4" wall steel pipe [Schd 40], about 8" I.D. buried in a drive with only about 6 to 8" top cover??? I need a couple drainage pipes in my side hill driveway, but don't have enough depth to put a full size culvert with 12" of top cover. Don't really need to...

Slow day ..... :)

Howdy. My boy just bought a house and an old Toro ZTR came with it. It was running rough, so he bought a new 46" ZTR to get his lawn mowed. I drug the old one up north here to my place and found an old mouse nest on top of the right cylinder. Cleaned out the nest and cleaned up the motor...

I want to make a couple short sections of fence [ 25 to 45 feet ] with 8" treated posts and running a 2" pipe thru them. I have 2 3/8" [ 2" rigid conduit hole saw ] that I could use, but it only will go about 1 1/2" deep before you would have to clean it out... then try again. Which would be a...

Shiny new fuel pump, starter, and a fresh battery.

I put four 27 watt round LED lamps on my ROPS several years ago. I don't really use my tractor at night... but the bright LED's [ along with flashers and a rotating beacon ] make me feel safer when I work out by the road moving snow in the winter.... especially when the snow is blowing hard...

First major problem today... Tach [ runs off alternator ] started getting crazy at times whilst I was out working in a big cloud of snow. My strobe, LED lamps, flashers all agoing strong. Had to break out the wrenches today and adjust the fan belt. Rough day...... :) This was all cleared...

When anyone talks about weight vs hp, send them this link... Millars Tractor Spares - YouTube

I have a little electric splitter that I use in the winter to split kindling/etc without firing up the gas unit, or trying to crack my concrete by trying to split with a maul. I usually held the log in place while working the two levers with my foot, so I didn't have to been over and reach...

Here is a link to the current radar image to our area. Shows you how the wind blowing over the lakes picks up moisture from the unfrozen lake and dumps it on the cooler ground. If you are interested.... :) It basically never stops, just meanders over the area whenever it feels like it. One...

Just noticed that Zaremba Equipment just south of me, the Gaylord Case dealer, has picked up Mahindra. And another one in Grawn, SW of Traverse City... Things are looking up....!!! :)

I have an old Harbor Freight splitter [ most of my HF stuff was made in Taiwan years ago ] that I usually use vertically, big blocks. ] Today I junked up a tray so I could use it for smaller stuff horizontally. Held on by just one 3/8" bolt on the side.

Bought a 6" stainless convex trucker mirror on Ebay. Made a cheapo bracket from a 3/8" stainless rod with a couple stainless tabs welded on it.... Now, maybe, I can see those vehicles sneaking up on me as I motivate down the side of the road...

I had an old 3pt trip scoop that I used/bent up for years. Now that I have a tractor with a FEL and hoe, I took the 30" bucket off it and welded it to fit on my front forks. First had to unbend the bucket area... Going to rope or chain it on so it does not slide forward on the forks, at least...

Howdy, I just ordered six 5-6' Concolor Fir trees w/B&B 28" balls. I was wondering if anyone here has transported something like this. I have a 16' trailer w/16" sides, and the trip is about 80 miles. I was thinking either build a tempory plywood structure [only 4' high which means the tops...

My quest to insure Mahindra will never send me an Owner's Club hat continues.... today I am hacking into my START circuit... It came from the factory with a ' pedal neutral switch ' and the PTO relay not energized in series to keep you from cranking it. I cut the neutral switch out of the...

The manual shows just one trans/differential drain plug, but there are actually three. They all have magnets, so you should pull and clean all three. The three plugs are painted red in the below picture [ you can barely see the middle one AND sorry about the weird angle ]. The red ' X ' is on...

... the spin on xmision filter for the 5035 HST [ probably same for 4035 ] is a Donaldson P176565. Just so ya know...... :)

If it is a sealed unit, just get you a new one. If you can take it apart, you will probably find some crud or rust keeping the 'armature' from fully seating when it is energized. That's usually what makes them hot. They draw a lot of current when they are trying to pull in and seat the...

Howdy, I worked on a neighbors B7300 HST last winter to straighten out some messed up wiring he had on the rear from when he tried to install a roof flasher. I got his roof flasher working and fixed it so his orange marker flasher would work, but stopped there without fixing his rear red tail...

.. Sorry, just cleaned it up and had to take more pictures .... :)

Is there any way you can make sure that all pop up ads on your site have 'opt out' timers on them..?? I was just presented with a Lexus video which had no 'Skip this Ad' button. I am out in the boonies with a 40-50K baud ISP connection, but our 'backbone' is real crowded up here in Northern...

Got most of my retaining wall project done. Still need to figure out what I want to do to the top, and if I want to 'chink' it with redwood chips. Started with a 4-6" deep trench and a row of larger rocks on the bottom, with the top layers leaning into the hill some. Backfilled and packed...

I dug this boulder up years ago, but was unable to move it on a sled because the ground was too tore up for traction after I finally wrestled it up out of the ground. Whole project was done with heavy nylon straps, wood cribbing, and chains, with a sled made out of part of an old fuel oil tank...

I was not too happy with the one 55w halogen lamp on the rear of my new tractor, it was mounted on the left rear fender and seem to line up with the one foot diameter discharge chute on my blower. So I ordered five LED 27watt work lamps [ EBAY, $238USD ] and mounted four towards the top of my...

OK, got me a new tractor. But, now, the old one is mostly on standby, using for running the chipper, and carryall duties when making wood in the fall. It is an old '81 JD2240 with a plastic 20 gallon tank. I use Power Service in all my diesels year round. Like to reduce the size of my tank...

Yup, only had my tractor out to clear snow once this winter, and that was only an 8 inch'r. So... I ordered a set of LED amber turn fixtures and mounted them on the back of the Mahindra pods on the ROPs. Got them from R & P Carriages in Seneca, IL. off EBAY. Their site is R and P Carriages...

I should have know that buying two and three quarter ton of new tractor and hitching up my big rear blower would have scared all that snow away.... I apologize, sorry for messing up your winter fun. :)

Shell Donax TD [ one of the approved oils for the 5035 HST ] is now called Shell SPIRAX S4 TXM... SHELL DONAX TD - Buy Online Now! SHELL DONAX TD Usually Ships Sam ... just in case you go into your local Wally to look for it....... [ don't have a cow ]

Howdy, this is my version of a 3pt ballast to use when using the loader. Looked at many different posts, ideas, etc... and decided to build it this way. There is no provision for a two inch receiver...I have other tractors to move stuff like that. But I did drill some holes in the 3pt angle...

Howdy, anybody with a Mahindra backhoe know what these brackets are for. I figure they have something to do with the 3pt on a backhoe equiped tractor. Maybe extensions for the anti-sway bars for clearance..?? Everything seems to clear the sub-frame fine the way it is now.... Thanks...

Howdy, just installed an 18" shutter mounted exhaust fan in my barn for getting rid of welding fumes. I got the fan from GlobalIndustrial.com - Material Handling Equipment|Workbenches|Furniture|Tools|Motors|HVAC .... after I ordered it I relized that I should have gone with the 16" so I...

Someone went and wacked off 8" of my drawbar and drilled a big hole in the end.... And extended the Position Control lever about 6" with a piece of plastic pipe... and look, he did the same thing to one of them thar JD's years ago.... CALL THE MAHINDRA POLICE..!!!!

Just started converting my blower from crank rotate to a Superwinch LT2000 rotate. Went to electric so I can still use it on both tractors. The LT2000 is an ATV kit which has a handlebar mounted toggle switch AND remote reversing contactor...which I will locate both next to the seat on the...

Made me a cart for my backhoe... Gonna take it outside and paint it tomorrow, weather permitting. Made out of 3" and 4" 1/4" wall square tube. Probably overbuilt, but that's the way I always do stuff... Should make a law keeping us old retired electricans from being able to own a...

Dig around stump, see that you bit off more than you can lift...dig hole and bury sucker... Five hours of quality seat time..... :)

Put my forks on my 5035 and moved my 500 gallon propane tank with 300 gallons of propane in it yesterday. Set my forks out the widest they would go and used two USA made double thick 1" straps. The 5035 is a monster..... Today, formed in the new pad...

Here is EXACTLY what they look like....... kind of a cross between a Bradco 485 and a 509...with the swing cylinders at the bottom... suprised to see the thumb stuff welded on the stick... might be of use someday.... :) Got a severe duty 18" bucket on it, too....

Jumped into my truck and drove 168 miles roundtrip to the nearest dealer sourth of me in Michigan and kind of got a price on a 5035 HST with backhoe and 18" bucket. He never showed me any figures, but said that it would come to around $37,500 plus tax [including delivery]. I forgot to add the...

Does anyone know who makes the PST for the 5035. I notice that this is the only PST in the lineup, so either this is Mahindra's first try at a PST or they are sourcing it from someone else. I am leaning towards either a PST or HST 5035....but leary of jumping in until I hear some good stuff...

Howdy... Anyone have any experience with the 5035 HST yet?

I should be out clearing the WHOLE 2" of snow on the drive, working on my tractors, or doing some cleaning in the barn [ needs it ]... but these durn critters keep following me around, getting underfoot, and begging for food....

Howdy, has any of you pulled the doors off your factory cab in the summer? And if so, how much of a job was it [heavy]? And how rigid was the cab without the doors? I am contemplating getting a new tractor in a few years, and looking at my options.

Hi, I have a JD 2240 3 cyl 51pto hp with about 5600 hours. Uses no oil, and no blowby out the vent tube. Starts easily on only one battery, fires on two cyl's a few times when started cold, then purrs like a kitten. When hot, I get some black smoke at idle, and when you gun it. Seems to have...

Just welded up a new way to haul firewood around my property. The box's inside dimensions are 5.5' W, 4.75' H, 3' D. Going to line the bottom with treated 2 by 8's, and back and side with 1/2 plywood. It will allow me to carry a little more than one and a half face cord at a time, and will...

I was just looking up some stuff on the CVT and run into a .pdf file from England. The CVT does not have a mid PTO as of now, but what was interesting is that they will be offering an 'Economy PTO' in the fall of 09. The engine speed with this option is around 1800 @540 and not wound up to...

This is what I am asking the better half for Christmas this year....

Anyone know if the supersteer axle is compatible with the front quick connect blower setup? Most of the pictures online show SS tractors with a bolt on front blade, and not with the front quick connect setup that is shown with the blowers/quick connect front blades/brushes. The quick connect...

Howdy, Some of the confusion over whether Jinma makes such and such chipper, or Jinma makes or doesn't make an 8", or a Jinma looks like this but not this...could be caused from multiple machinery companies in China making basically the identical chipper, or at least off of the same basic...

I have an old Massey Ferguson Model 39 8' disk. I was going to get rid of it, and I was wondering if $350 was in the ballpark of what it was worth? I moved it up north when I retired and will probably never use it here, 'cuz my property is all woods. What'cha think? Thanks for your time and...