oliver28472
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Bill Rodgers can tell you what it is. He told me many moons ago and I can't remember. It is metric but has a different pitch and thread count. Same threads as a lug bolt.
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oliver28472
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Bill Rodgers can tell you what it is. He told me many moons ago and I can't remember. It is metric but has a different pitch and thread count. Same threads as a lug bolt. The sludge could have something to do with your oil pressure. You might want to pull the oil pump and check it out.
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Capricious
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I'd rather not bother him if I'm not buying the bolts from him. Since I have a sample I'll try the local fastener store sometime this week and see if they have the things. Threads in the empty holes appear to be OK.
Also "backed-off" on the idle limit screw on the governor, since the engine idles too fast when hot (1250 or so). It needs some throttle now to idle when cold but I need to try it out in the field to see if the hot idle is much slower.
Looking at some sludge-remover products to see if i can clean out some of the sludge @ the next oil change.
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Capricious
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M12, 1.25 pitch
The hardware store had M12's in (2) different threads, but they did not have that.
I was out driving a little while ago, and going right past a industrial supply place. They had the bolts.
techwrtr2
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One thing I learned with the Beaver is to keep a supply of the standard bolts on hand.
skylarkguy
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When I go to the junk yard I like to fill my pockets with bolts that people leave all over the floor pans of disassembled cars....especially if there is a minimum charge at the place. This insures that I have lots of bolts in my bolt bin...but never quite the right one:laughing:
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Capricious
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Took the Mitsubishi tractor "brush hogging" again on saturday:
2nd time 'in the field' for the tractor.
From the photos posted before, some may be under the impression that I am mowing mostly grass:
...but i am also mowing this:
...and this:
While taking photos the left front wheel rolled over something big. Hit the clutch and the brakes, looked down and saw this:
A large rock hidden in the brush. Here is a better view:
Lots of rocks to avoid. Haven't avoided all of them. My formerly smooth-sided cutter:
I keep raising the height but the rocks get bigger.
Adjusted the idle down to about 900 as it is suposed to be. Getting oil pressure of between 25 and 30 @ 900. Still getting 40 to 43 @ 1250 which is as slow as it
would idle last time. Temp never exceed 170 F.
Am done with the tractor work for this year. Still need to spend about a day with the walk-behind field & brush mower trimming-up areas, especially "The Hill."
Not going to take the tractor on the hill.
2nd time 'in the field' for the tractor.
From the photos posted before, some may be under the impression that I am mowing mostly grass:
...but i am also mowing this:
...and this:
While taking photos the left front wheel rolled over something big. Hit the clutch and the brakes, looked down and saw this:
A large rock hidden in the brush. Here is a better view:
Lots of rocks to avoid. Haven't avoided all of them. My formerly smooth-sided cutter:
I keep raising the height but the rocks get bigger.
Adjusted the idle down to about 900 as it is suposed to be. Getting oil pressure of between 25 and 30 @ 900. Still getting 40 to 43 @ 1250 which is as slow as it
would idle last time. Temp never exceed 170 F.
Am done with the tractor work for this year. Still need to spend about a day with the walk-behind field & brush mower trimming-up areas, especially "The Hill."
Not going to take the tractor on the hill.
oliver28472
Veteran Member
I have rocks here too. I tilled a dog lot at our church manse a couple weeks ago. I picked up somewhere around 350 pounds of rock yesterday. I also found the base of an old clothes line pole set in concrete.
techwrtr2
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Rocks, rocks, rocks! Let me tell you about rocks. My mowers have all kinds of dents from rocks I somehow missed. Even places where I hand picked the rocks away the year prior. If I didn't know better, I'd swear they were growing. I have a dusting of topsoil, rocks, and then hardpan. 
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Capricious
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Went mowing again on Sunday. As per the plan, I did not take the tractor, but instead brought along the walk-behind brush mower in order to cut those areas unsafe or unwise to attempt with the tractor:
As previously noted in the thread, I had left the rotary cutter on site and had been hauling just the tractor in order to limit the load on the truck. Since I am done using the rotary cutter for this year I intended to bring it home. On the previous visit to the site I had left the cutter hidden in the brush, so I now had to winch it out of the brush and onto the trailer. If this had been a 6 or 7 footer, or even a 5 footer, that would have been a real job, but it was no big deal to load a 370 lb, 42" cutter:
Finished up cutting "the hill." In additon to the walk-behind, also had to chainsaw a few small trees and ran the hand-held brush cutter a bit:
Then it was time to load-up for home. Also taking the angle blade home for the winter. The rock access road could use a little work, but for "political" reasons as long as it is passable I do not want to improve it at this time:
I won't need the tractor again until spring, so i might spend some time over the winter fixxing a few small issues with it.
As previously noted in the thread, I had left the rotary cutter on site and had been hauling just the tractor in order to limit the load on the truck. Since I am done using the rotary cutter for this year I intended to bring it home. On the previous visit to the site I had left the cutter hidden in the brush, so I now had to winch it out of the brush and onto the trailer. If this had been a 6 or 7 footer, or even a 5 footer, that would have been a real job, but it was no big deal to load a 370 lb, 42" cutter:
Finished up cutting "the hill." In additon to the walk-behind, also had to chainsaw a few small trees and ran the hand-held brush cutter a bit:
Then it was time to load-up for home. Also taking the angle blade home for the winter. The rock access road could use a little work, but for "political" reasons as long as it is passable I do not want to improve it at this time:
I won't need the tractor again until spring, so i might spend some time over the winter fixxing a few small issues with it.
Let me know if you want to sell that Mt160D, I need the body parts !:laughing:
It now has many new dents,1 head light missing, and the grill is completely destroyed from tree limbs. It's been a rough summer for my poor tractor but it did clear 4 acres of brush and down timber from land that has been let go for many many years.
All the brown dirt was brush,poison ivy and monkey vines 4-6 inches thick at the beginning of summer.
It now has many new dents,1 head light missing, and the grill is completely destroyed from tree limbs. It's been a rough summer for my poor tractor but it did clear 4 acres of brush and down timber from land that has been let go for many many years.
All the brown dirt was brush,poison ivy and monkey vines 4-6 inches thick at the beginning of summer.
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Capricious
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"..Let me know if you want to sell that Mt160D..."
I very much would have sold it at the time I made that post; As is always the case, some other tractors (appearing to be better maintained) suddenly became available right after I bought this one- a nice 2WD Mt180 (hydro with 60" belly mower) a couple of decent Kubota 7100's with 4WD, a really nice 2WD Yanmar (can't remember the model now, but it weighed 1500 lbs, which was my upper limit, and it came with a 4 foot cutter and an angle blade)
and another one or two.
I still think that this thing is going to bite me on the rear at some point, due to it's history of neglect and abuse, but now that I have put the work and some money into it, and it appears to be running Ok at the moment, I am going to keep it.
Also noticed that there are very few of these sorts of tractors advertised for sale lately. Don't know if this is a seasonal thing or what.
I very much would have sold it at the time I made that post; As is always the case, some other tractors (appearing to be better maintained) suddenly became available right after I bought this one- a nice 2WD Mt180 (hydro with 60" belly mower) a couple of decent Kubota 7100's with 4WD, a really nice 2WD Yanmar (can't remember the model now, but it weighed 1500 lbs, which was my upper limit, and it came with a 4 foot cutter and an angle blade)
and another one or two.
I still think that this thing is going to bite me on the rear at some point, due to it's history of neglect and abuse, but now that I have put the work and some money into it, and it appears to be running Ok at the moment, I am going to keep it.
Also noticed that there are very few of these sorts of tractors advertised for sale lately. Don't know if this is a seasonal thing or what.
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Capricious
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"...All the brown dirt was brush,poison ivy and monkey vines 4-6 inches thick at the beginning of summer..."
Been there, doing that.
How are you disposing of all the debris? Looks like a chipper way over to the right.
Been there, doing that.
How are you disposing of all the debris? Looks like a chipper way over to the right.
Your correct ! That is my 100 HP woodchuck "chuck n duck" which we use to chip every thing to
8 inch round down to 1 inch, anything smaller gets burned and buried.
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Capricious
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I am guessing that your place there lies just behind a subdivision of much smaller lots, and that you are going to leave that line of trees/brush that blocks the view of the other houses?
Looks like a nice place.
I could use that big chipper.
Actually there is only 1 small 1/2 acre property with a house that has grandfathered past the minimum 2 acre ordinance.The rest is road frontage, 4 acres to the right, 18 acre to the rear, church on 9 acres to the left.
We pushed everything to the property lines to make kinda a natural fence to give our 3 year old springer spaniel a boundary so to speak, it's working she stays on the property with no shock coller or wireless fence.
Thank you for the kind words, yes the property is nice but a lot of work.We would like to plant some fruit trees to encourage the deer to continue to visit the property regularly.
That chipped might be for sale when I'm done with it!!
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Capricious
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I think you mentioned the honeysuckle before. This was in the local news last night:
Invasive plant spreads through Mo., Ill.
techwrtr2
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That's the plant! Kill it! Kill it dead!
It appears to prefer places with more sunlight, shaded spots may sprout but not thrive. Pulling it out of the ground seems the surest bet though chopping it down with the bush hog works as well. I've done both.
It appears to prefer places with more sunlight, shaded spots may sprout but not thrive. Pulling it out of the ground seems the surest bet though chopping it down with the bush hog works as well. I've done both.
priscilla101110
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I’ve got the same tractor that my Dad bought used in 1980-82 . Other than lil maintenance and TLC it’s a great running tractor . It’s even sat up for 6-8 yrs in between uses but ,just had it serviced an all the fluids checked . hopefully get the new ignition switch changed tomorrow then I’ll be back to good running order. So you still got and even if you put 5-600 bucks in overall you’ll more than get your $$ use out of it
