Jix, you have a very interesting life and family history!!!
You should start a thread on your tractor. At first it might seem like a lot to upload pics, but reading the comments from others makes it all worthwhile. I couldn't even imagine what life would be like if I hadn't of done that with so many of my projects. The things you never even thought of, but others see right off are priceless. I've totally redone projects, abandoned them and changed directions on them because of what others have brought up. It makes me rethink what I'm doing and how I can make it better. I would be lost without everyone here and their advice!!!
Eddie
Thanks Eddie. The saga of my tractor is continuing, with little to report as of mid Jan 2015. I have been to the shop where the work is being done..slowly.. Larry is a mainstay, for NB power equipment repairs. That is his bread and butter, but work on my tractor, which is comprehensive, is delayed by heavy demands on Larry from Hydro.
He has taken a lot of pictures, but I Have none of those pictures yet.
Larry is a perfectionist, he is taking great pains on my behalf, for free, and has exceeded my expectations greatly.
What I have seen of my tractor is so far above what I asked for that it boggles my mind. Larry has put in several hundred hours on his own initiati9ve to get everything perfect and his work exceeds even the best factory cab examples. The Cab is now completely fabricated and it is much larger than I thought was possible. Larry removed the KUBOTA stock fenders entirely and the fenders are now a part of the cab. He has upgraded the electrical system with a 20-amp. alternator, a coolant circulator pump to drive heat into the custom cab heater. The cb has 7 foot wide opening removeable doors on eaqh side Electronic rearview cameras, a rear view mirror out of the drivers station from a school bus, Beacon flashers and warning/lights, 3 floodlights, a lowered entry platform to accommodate my disability, a re-worked easy entry adjustable seat, openable gas-strut rear window, rubber gaskets all-around, neoprene cab liner, switch console over the front windshield, reworked all shift levers, clutch pedal, diff lock pedal, foot accelerator, reworked clutch, and complete replacement and repositioning of all of the hydraulic controls, installed an ammeter, a coolant temp guage, master kill and electric circuit fuse panel, dome light, interior certified ROPS bar, and a full cab linermade of foam neoprene rubber.
Custom rear tire chains, custom blower chute controls, windshield wipers front and back, removeable front trailer hitch with hydraulic litt/lower and a reworked heavy duty grading blade with hydraulic down pressure and swing control. H has replaced all fluids and filters and all hydraulic lines. Honestly, If there was anything else it would be too much. He haws guaranted that it will cost me no more than 4000, else I would be bankrupted. Larry is not a backyard mechanic either. His Factory is easily worth 10 million dollars and he has 7 journeymen peop[le in full employment. His hobby is restoring antique cars. Presently he has 5 cars in process, worth millions, I would guess.
I think that he sees my tractor as a one-off work of art and he said that it will be finished when it can be improved no further. Perhaps my tractor will become a KUBOTA high water mark
One more thing, Larry reworked the exaust system from a horizontal to a vertical discharge (to make room for the new alternator... and oh yes, he reworked the glowplug circuits. A full KUBOTA paint job was also done on the whole tractor. It is an unbelievable transformation, so far I reaaly like it...now if Larry would just get it done so I could blow my darn snow I would be ecstatic. (buy the way, Larry has hired a big MF FEL to clear my driveway for me while I am waiting. At his own expense!!!
Eddie, Larry is your kind of people and certainly mine, too
I have re-read your honeymoon safari thread quite a few times, it gives me such joy that you and Karen seem so nicely matched. I gather that Karen is a medical professional. She sure is attractive and very intelligent, so my Congratulations to both of you. Nice things should happen to nice people
I cannot wait to hear how the
ursus americansus safari goes. Some of those black bears live right next this property, but I have seen only the females and cubs, not the big males. I give them lots of space when I encounter one, just to be safe. I do not go armed for bear, normally. they control the big carpenter ants in the deadfalls very nicely, so they are welcome wild neighbors. My dogs do not run wild either, to bother the critters in the woods hereabouts
JIX
