New here-like to share nine months of stupidity??

[rdln]

My step is bent, will take it off someday, never use it.

will have to remember that log thing for future reference and the 3PH removal.

Welcome.

 

[sherpa]

Take some pictures of the road you are building.
Be careful hooking things to the loader arms. You may bend them or damage a cylinder.
Sherpa

 

[RalphVa]

So far, the only battle scars are to one of the double doors going to the basement where I park the JD. I've since learned to not try maneuvering inside the doors. I go outside and "do" another shot at backing in if I think it isn't going in right.

Forgot to raise the cutter once, too. Drug it over the portal underneath those double doors. No damage there. Ripped out a drain hose from my rain tank that lies on the ground before I realized that the cutter was down.

Ralph

 

[Henro]

<font color="blue"> will have to remember that log thing for future reference </font>

Steve,

Be very careful if you tie ANYTHING to your rear wheels.

The reasons being if you try to move forward, and the wheels don't turn, the tractor can rotate around the rear axle in back-flip mode. Not a good thing.

When trying to move in reverse, as in the example above, this may not be an issue, since the tendency would be for the front of the tractor to be pushed down.

Be very careful and think twice before tying anything to your rear wheels.

 

[btolle]

One thing I learned years ago on an 8N is that a come-along works much better if you have someone tightening it while you keep the wheels turning. While they seem to be only sppinning they are providing some amount of force. Trying to pull it out with just the come-along usually doesn't work on a bad 'stuck'.

I used to bury the 8N down to the axles regularly. Fortunately it was in the woods so there was always a big tree to hook up to. With the 8N I would get the come-along hooked up and take a pretty good pull on it then put the tractor in low range and first gear and let it idle. The wheels would be spinning when I got off and started pulling some more. Once it moved a little it would get traction and slowly crawl out of the mudhole, slow enough that I could get back on the tractor and stop it.

As someone else had pointed out already, never use the loader arms to pull the tractor, you can easily bend them or a hydraulic cylinder or both.

Part of the FEL mounting is a round bar (pipe) across the front of the tractor about 2" or 2 1/2" in diameter that is part of the loader frame and is bolted securely to the tractor frame. This is a much safer pull point that the loader itself. I would hook (or tie) to the bar close to the bracket that mounts to the tractor frame rather than in the center to lessen the chance of bending the bar.

BTW, has anyone tried using an old piece of carpet and letting the spinning wheels pull it under the tractor to get unstuck?

Bill Tolle

 

[Todd_C]

Welcome aboard. Nice tractor. It's funny you mention that your dog barks at your tractor. My dog seems to know when something is going to go bad. My dog follows me around my property all day but the minute I start doing something questionable he lays down on the front porch. My work vehicle slid off the driveway last year in a sleet storm. The back end was sticking up in the air. The car just happened to find a nice pile of fresh fill dirt where a large bull pine used to be. It sounds funny but I now watch my dog and if he goes to the porch I re-think my plan. Dam* dog is smarter than me. : /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

 

[penokee]

Dogs have that 6th scents(?) /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif Knocked myself out in the wood a couple of years back (stupid move) and when I came to my trusty buddy OTTO (yellow lab) was licking my face. Didn't make my head feel better, but showed her concern. Woodchuckie's experience more or less prove that "what can go wrong will" /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
penokee

 

[ronbo3]

Great post--I enjoyed reading it since I am also a new owner of a Kubota L2800. Fortunately for me, I spent a few months reading stuff on this site before I got my tractor and I was able to avoid a few rookie mistakes. One I didn't avoid was that in my struggles with hooking/unhooking the 3pt, I used to disconnect the turnbuckles on the lower links. One day I forgot to re-connect them, and before too long, one of my turnbuckles just fell off somewhere. I had to make an embarrassing stop at the dealer to order another. On the bright side, everyone at the local Kubota dealer knows me now!!
I saw this on the 'Net the other day---
"Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from making bad decisions..........!!!!!

 

[lmiller]

About dogs barking at tractor... when we were looking at different dealers our pup, a rescued Australian Cattle Dog, was her usual sleepy self at the JD dealer, the New Holland dealer, the Cub Cadet dealer, even though my wife & I were test driving around their lots.
But when I fired up that orange one she went nuts, started barking and running around. /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

When the Kubota was delivered (doggy knows best/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif) she went nutso again. Now she doesn't get cars, wanders onto roads, walks in front of me when I'm parking my truck...but when I start the tractor she backs off to a safe distance and watches. When I'm working in the woods she is always just in sight, circling around.

I'll be watching for that sit on the porch warning thing.

Lou