GaryRo
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Eric, think i might buy a tractor like yours. Was wondering your likes and/or dislikes since you now have a few hundred hours on yours.
Thanks, Gary
Thanks, Gary
My NX6010
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I continued using the box blade to grade where a driveway will go.
Found out that my aging iPhone doesn't do reverse videos very well.
I think I'm going to look into adding defroster grids to the rear and side windows.
Clear View Defroster Order Guide
Found out that my aging iPhone doesn't do reverse videos very well.
I think I'm going to look into adding defroster grids to the rear and side windows.
Clear View Defroster Order Guide
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Gary, I purchased the Kioti because of the cab layout and because it was 22k less than the John Deere 4066R, 15K less than the Kubota L6060, and 8K less than Massey's MF1758. And yet very comparable in final capabilities. The discount to the primary CUT brands allows me a huge modification budget. You can read about the modifications in the first 36 pages and counting of this very thread.
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Today I broke one of the box blade's scarifiers.
I also got more of the driveway smoothed out.
I also got more of the driveway smoothed out.
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oldpilgrim
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Eric, please don't go to Egypt and visit the pyramids. I kind like them the way they are and you have a habit of breaking things. 
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Eric, please don't go to Egypt and visit the pyramids. I kind like them the way they are and you have a habit of breaking things.
:laughing: That's funny:laughing:
In all seriousness, I have been following this thread just to see what breaks next. The road looks good though Eric. It seems like the worst might be behind you now.
Everything Attachments might need to look at using a broader contact surface to better support the scarifiers under load. It seems like they might have slightly under-built that part of their extreme boxblade. The good news for them is that now they know where they can send their stuff for some "extreme" testing.
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A lot of old plows ,50's, and cultivators had trip shanks to prevent breakage, so Eric not abuse but lack of engineering. Enjoying the thread. Now if the Kioti's were as simple as the old Allis WD/WD 45's a trip lever could be attached to the hand clutch and flip it out of gear when an obstacle was hit. .
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I think I'm with Roger's theory on this -- the shank being more brittle from the cold. That, combined with an impact from a stump or buried rock. But I'm also wondering if there was a freak metallurgical fault that caused it to shear where it did.
Not sure how EA could have provided more support to the shank at that spot and still have the full range of vertical shank adjustment. The design already looks pretty substantial to me.
Eric, I'm curious what gear range you were in when cutting in your drive with the shanks down? If anything but low, looks like you sorted out whatever it was that was sapping your power awhile back.
Not sure how EA could have provided more support to the shank at that spot and still have the full range of vertical shank adjustment. The design already looks pretty substantial to me.
Eric, I'm curious what gear range you were in when cutting in your drive with the shanks down? If anything but low, looks like you sorted out whatever it was that was sapping your power awhile back.