New L5740 arrived today

   / New L5740 arrived today #11  
Nice tractor, have one just like it.

Think about spreading your rear wheels to their widest setting, and do it before you weight or fill them. Wider set, filled and weighted turns the tractor into an entire different experience.
 
   / New L5740 arrived today
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View attachment 285792Railbender, good ideas, thanks.

I already have an almost new 4 foot Land Pride box blade for my smaller tractor which I was going to use on this, but clearly it isn't heavy enough to provide the counterbalance
I need. Nice ball hitch on yours! Yes, I think the top n tilt kit makes sense; might as well use those remotes, and I have a friend with a long mountain driveway that's all ditched, and I was wondering how to help him with that.
Adjusting those links manually isn't hard, just inconvenient, and I suppose the hydraulic kit offers more range.
I really need to do the math on my weight; one of my overriding issues is I want/need to pull this tractor, with implements, with my 9400 pound capacity Suburban, and I don't want to exceed 9000 pounds, or frankly get too close to that.
The tractor is 4200++, add the loader, the grapple is a beast, the ballast box with weights is another 1000 pounds, and the trailer is 3000. So....the real question is how much weight does filling the tires add? I immediately ordered the rear wheel weights when my first trip up the hill to the barn had my tires spinning in 2wd. I'm headed next back to the Long site to look up the weight of the grapple bucket, but it clearly is much heavier than a standard bucket.

All of this weight issue is because I do some charity mowing for my Quaker Meeting, where I have a couple of local farms where I mow their fields and they make a donation to the church. I don't get paid, other than fuel, and I'm quite happy with the arrangement. The farms are too far to drive the tractor to; I live in suburbia that was once farmland, and the local MB and Land Rover drivers are too impatient getting behind tractors on roads where it's hard to pass. Probably interrupts their texting...:thumbdown: And at least once a year I have a 200 mile trip to the NY Catskills to work on my friend's mountain cabin. I'm almost wondering if the smarter move is to rent a truck for the 3-4 times a year I need to move the tractor, and load up the Kubota with as much weight as possible. My local dealer will haul me around to the local farms on his rollback very reasonably, which is a wonderful convenience.
So I'm still thinking through what the smart/safe thing to do is here. If fully loading the weight box and adding rear weights doesn't give me the balance I need, then I don't think I have a choice but to fill the tires, which I have zero experience with. The farm I work on has its shares of slopes and hills too.

I will sure check the holddown screws in the remote bracket, thanks. An early pic of my storage area, much cleaned up and organized now. Owner's AC B in the back.
Drew
 

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   / New L5740 arrived today
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Think about spreading your rear wheels to their widest setting

does that require an adapter? The axle is flush with the wheel; I understand the concept of "wider track" but don't understand how to do it.
thanks
Drew
 
   / New L5740 arrived today #14  
I really don't think you can go wider, I had my dealer set mine as wide as they will go, center dish out and wheel bolted to the inside of the tabs; looks just like your, I think this is on page 68 or so in my manual.
 
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ordered two sets of rear wheel weights today, 103 pounds each, awful pricey at almost 600 bucks for two sets totaling 412 pounds.
Of course, at a $1.50 a pound or so, you can't even buy cornflakes for that...
 
   / New L5740 arrived today #16  
Nice tractor!

Man that grapple is huge! I can see why it's getting light in the rear. Seriously consider filling the rear tires and filling up that ballast box! Don't wanna dent up that pretty cab. :thumbsup:
 
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thanks. I had to laugh at the dent mention, we have a new RTV400 and it got its first little dent in the tailgate this past weekend, which my wife immediately saw. No honey, no idea...
actually, I don't want to dent my head rolling over, forget the cab...
I had no idea this grapple would be as large as it is, had a choice of standard or HD, as you might imagine, this is the HD one.
Dug in the dirt today, and had great fun. Learning how to pick up huge firewood rounds and place them down. Sort of tractor kindergarten, but never had a FEL before, and I'm trying to be less jerky.
Slow and easy on the controls. Drew
 
   / New L5740 arrived today #18  
Congratulations, that's a fine looking setup.
 

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