Hyrb
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I've got 14 hours on my tractor now and took it out to the retirement property to clear the fire breaks. Using the grapple and bus hog was a good days work. I need a little sage advice and wisdom though!
I imagine what I'm going through could be seen as new tractor user issues. In the Army we would have called it Operator Head Space and Timing when this type of screw-up happened...
After a day in the woods...

End result of picking up a Big oak tree - YES the tractor is on fairly level ground - You see when I first picked it up it didn't look that big... when 30 feet lifted up off the ground the front end kind of tweeked down on the right side. Didn't really notice it till I dropped the trunk off further into the woods and the bend down on the right was really visible

Thinking of a bigger hammer, I found a culvert and set the flat base of the grapple up on it and pushed it down to level the front. It did seem to help a lot but not wanting to really break something I backed off. Everything functions as normal, loader and grapple work fine, its just - kind of off..

Looking at the side of the loader frame nothing looks bent or out of place to my uneducated eye.

The other thing I found out is that even after setting up the bush hog and the stabilizers to limit side to side drift you can have issues... I assume I didn't tighten them down enough?

Since I didn't really like the configuration that came with the Kioti anyone got an idea and source where I can get two good replacements? YES I Lost BOTH stabilizers. Good ideas for replacements?
So far the tractor is running and working great. The operator, not so much.
I imagine what I'm going through could be seen as new tractor user issues. In the Army we would have called it Operator Head Space and Timing when this type of screw-up happened...
After a day in the woods...

End result of picking up a Big oak tree - YES the tractor is on fairly level ground - You see when I first picked it up it didn't look that big... when 30 feet lifted up off the ground the front end kind of tweeked down on the right side. Didn't really notice it till I dropped the trunk off further into the woods and the bend down on the right was really visible

Thinking of a bigger hammer, I found a culvert and set the flat base of the grapple up on it and pushed it down to level the front. It did seem to help a lot but not wanting to really break something I backed off. Everything functions as normal, loader and grapple work fine, its just - kind of off..

Looking at the side of the loader frame nothing looks bent or out of place to my uneducated eye.

The other thing I found out is that even after setting up the bush hog and the stabilizers to limit side to side drift you can have issues... I assume I didn't tighten them down enough?

Since I didn't really like the configuration that came with the Kioti anyone got an idea and source where I can get two good replacements? YES I Lost BOTH stabilizers. Good ideas for replacements?
So far the tractor is running and working great. The operator, not so much.
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