New member from Lithuania

[ArtMech]

Hi people in the Tractorbynet,

Since I've bought a tractor from US market zone (last year), I have decided to join Your community. I'm going to be interested to share some possible issues if they'll occur, if You don't mind Thanks to this site I've already got much useful info on the number of different technical subjects. In some cases I may share my own experience if it'll be needed. For the moment I'm using 2 Kubotas - L2202 and M9000. These are quite reliable and strong machines for their price. In cases of small tech incidents it's easy to fix them without a dealer service, which in my case is located in more then 120 km. I have about 15 acres of my own land including 2 1/2 of forest and about 80 acres of shared land with the relatives. My country of origin is Lithuania, Central Europe.

Get blessed everyone

 

[jinman]

:welcome: I'm sure you will soon have many winter pictures to show. We have members here from all over the world. TBN is truly international in scope even though most members are from the USA. How near to the Lithuanian coast are you?

 

[yooper1]

Hello and welcome to TBN

 

[ArtMech]

Thanks a lot for welcoming, jinman,

We're fine here waiting for winter
Yes TBN is probably the best among all the others. I see You're from Texas. I've bought M9000 from a trader in Longview, East from Dallas. Is that far from You?

 

[ArtMech]

Hello and welcome to TBN

Coool!!! You're nice guys!

 

[LBrown59]

Welcome to TBN

 

[magicheater]

Welcome! I see you have the loader bucket on the 3PT. Interesting, on both machines too. What would be the primary use for that, for you that is. You must have a heck of a top cylinder to get that to dump! Do you have any other 3PT implements? Do you do any organic farming?

 

[Johndeere3720]

:welcome: to TBN! :thumbsup: glad to have you aboard! :thumbsup:

 

[ragkar]

Welcome to TBN

 

[ArtMech]

Thanks a lot, fellows, for welcoming!! You all are so friendly ...

Answer to magicheater:
Yes, these are the 3ph buckets on both tractors. In fact I'm going to sell L tractor. Just my wife likes it and tries not to allow me to sell. She drives and now uses that bucket for flower gardens bringing the plants, bushes, dung and whatever in it.
But last year I had been working in a forest with that bucket. It helped me to get out about 50 m3 of wood from the forest. The trees were cut in about 1,5 m long according to the width of that bucket to be able to load them inside. I found a good idea to clean a forest from rotten trees using this unit and saving good trees from being damaged because of mobility of L tractor and good productivity of a bucket in the narrow spaces between the trees.
I might say there are plenty of other ways or demands to use 3ph bucket in the farm's everyday life including organic farming (I'm not doing that), carrying ground, stones, snow, vegetables, fruits in small quantities.
In my opinion each farm tractor should be equippet with a simplified 3ph bucket. Simplified means WITHOUT TOP CYLINDER COUPLING. Indeed you may use a cylinder, and probably I will add it on a M tractor (I have a single remote valve on it). But only then, when the future will show the needs. The attachment design (my own) of both buckets is different. To dump a L tractor bucket you need to get out of a tractor and to remove a fixing finger of a top link. On a M machine - you stay in a seat while dumping. I may send some more pcts later if You are still interested. The design idea is very simple - to over tip (if correct in Engl.) a bucket you need to make top link moving downwards while the 2 lower points of rods are moving upwards in a lifting mode. Most inportant is to find a 3rd point location on a bucket for the top link connection so to prevent it from being touched by the PTO shaft.
I also have rear dozer blade, rotary tiller, drum mower, trailer.. I'm also rebuilding my grandfather's plough (about 100 years old) which I'll prepare to be attached to a tractor.

Sorry for my weak English

One more pct attached