My (hopefully not ill advised) foray to the dark side...

[dserf101]

Thanks for the plug David, 284, the tires and wheels came off of a princeton fork lift, and i drilled new lug bolt holes to fit the kubota hubs, works great !
and yes the box blade is scratch built with some stuff laying around here.
David supplied the J.Deere lift arms, I just had to make the brackets to mount it to the b6000, it never came with them, just the tiller.
also here is a couple more pics of the beast and it's "Stuff".

the front r.r.iron is removable, two pins hold it in place.

this is the tiller that came with it, but rebuilt with new chain and bearings

this finish mower has had the tensioners reversed and a set of blades that turn the right way installed, to work with the counter rotating P.T.O.

and a rig to move trailers and such..:thumbsup:

 

[RobertBrown]

That's a "cute little fella" alright.........why don't you tell us what you give for your "little buddy"?

 

[sandman2234]

I think he mentioned somewhere that he might fix it up and put it up for resale. Telling everybody what he paid for it kind of gives some people a bad taste when they think that you're making money off them, dispite the fact that he is going to have to do a bunch of work and buy some parts. Heck, I would give him his money back plus the parts he has to buy just to take it off his hands....
David from jax

(Just kidding '284, cause I already have 3 tractors that I don't need...and ended up borrowing Dserf101's little playtoy to put in my garden!)

 

[RobertBrown]

I think he mentioned somewhere that he might fix it up and put it up for resale. Telling everybody what he paid for it kind of gives some people a bad taste when they think that you're making money off them, dispite the fact that he is going to have to do a bunch of work and buy some parts. Heck, I would give him his money back plus the parts he has to buy just to take it off his hands....
David from jax

(Just kidding '284, cause I already have 3 tractors that I don't need...and ended up borrowing Dserf101's little playtoy to put in my garden!)

Would you pick up the shipping from CA.?

 

[284 International]

Robert, I'm not sure which you were asking about, but I'd rather not say, at least on a public forum. This is more embarassing, but the pup "little fella" was more than the tractor "little fella." If you want, send me a PM.

Thanks for covering for me, sandman.

Dserf, can you tell us what size the wheels and tires are, and how you found the centers to re-drill them?

 

[284 International]

I got a little done on this thing, it's in the thread over in the Kubota owning/operating forum.

 

[dserf101]

Dserf, can you tell us what size the wheels and tires are, and how you found the centers to re-drill them?

31x13.50x15 rear and 6x12 front and it was all done by eye.

 

[sandman2234]

Redrilling bolt hole centers on a tractor is a little different than on a car/truck due to the speed of the turning wheel and tire. Since it travels so slowly, balance really doesn't come into the considerations on most tractors that top out at about ten miles per hour. That is also why we almost never see static/spin tire balance discussions on this board.
David from jax

 

[284 International]

Sandman, you're right about the balance of things being less important than on a car or, moreso, a motorcycle. But a little bit of error aligning the center on a hub is amplified over the 2 1/2 or 3 feet, or 4 feet, or whatever the diameter of the tire is, so that its more oblong than round. Whatever is added on one side is subtracted on the other, so its a bigger difference than being 1/16" off or whatever.

I got my spools for my duals done pretty close, but I had to use a compass, tape measure and a couple rulers to do it right. I don't have a good enough eye to do it freehand. There's no detectable wobble or bounce in them though!

I was trying to figure out a way to re-drill my wheels, but couldn't ever get them to a point where I trusted myself to perforate them, and do it accurately enough that I wouldn't have to hog out the holes oversize to make it fit.

 

[sandman2234]

Funny, I have a set of dual wheel adapters that I built for the Ford 1100 I used to have, which is about the same size as the B6000. (13hp). Maybe I need to drag them out and see if anybody is willing to make me a reasonable offer on them. I only used them for a little while, but 6wd is cool on a little subcompact.


David from jax