New Satoh S370D owner

Freakingstang · Nov 26, 2011

Found this little Gem while cruising craigslist. Seems like a low hour unit (no hour meter). It does have the CCW PTO, but someone put an adapter on it for the correct 6 spline shaft. I got a 54" finish mower with it. I'm going to restore her up nice and make a front snow/dozer blade for it and hope to find a small loader to put on it. It runs great and everything works as it should. I have changed all the fluids so far. The transmission has some water in it, and i'm guessing it was because the cap was off and it sat outside. It just just had a plastic plug in it. I drained it, flushed with ATF and diesel fuel, put clean ATF in it and ran it some more and drained again. Up in the air what kind of fluid to put back in it. tag says SAE #80, but I plan on putting a Kubota front blade on it off of my other tractor. any thoughts?

skylarkguy · Nov 27, 2011

That's a really nice looking machine. Hardly faded at all. Congrats!

techwrtr2 · Dec 10, 2011

Come buy my Woods RM42 and you can take careful pictures & measurements of the loader on mine.

That does look like a clean Beaver. Lots prettier than mine is to be certain. But mine has been beaten and abused over the 30+ years we've owned it.

Freakingstang · Dec 19, 2011

techwrtr2 said:
Come buy my Woods RM42 and you can take careful pictures & measurements of the loader on mine.

That does look like a clean Beaver. Lots prettier than mine is to be certain. But mine has been beaten and abused over the 30+ years we've owned it.

I'd love to... I just picked up a 42" wide bucket FEL setup off of an old economy tractor. I did a little trading and got the complete setup with full hydraulics, Hyd tank, Hyd pump, lines and a hay fork setup. I'm going to have to length the arms a little bit. I've got next to nothing in this setup. I'm looking forward to playing with it in the next two weeks with the down time at work. It doesn't look like the subframe mount will be too hard to fabricate and I have 90% of the material.. Wish me luck.

duwem · Dec 23, 2011

that loader looks very twinky...I think you will just tear it apart on your mitsubishi...

I would take the hydraulics, maybe the bucket (even that looks thin) and plan on making a new set of arms, subframe and grill guard.

I have a loader on my 332 garden tractor that looks like it would bend that one into a pretzel. With 4wd and more weight you will have even more tractor power than my 2wd garden tractor.

I bet the tractor hydraulic pump would be sufficient to run the loader. I think that is how the ones that were sold for these tractors were run.

Here is a decent loader on a tractor like yours, could as him if it runs off the tractor hydraulic pump and if thats sufficient:

http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/showthread.php?p=2634647#post2634647

techwrtr2 · Dec 23, 2011

duwem said:
that loader looks very twinky...I think you will just tear it apart on your mitsubishi...

I would take the hydraulics, maybe the bucket (even that looks thin) and plan on making a new set of arms, subframe and grill guard.

I have a loader on my 332 garden tractor that looks like it would bend that one into a pretzel. With 4wd and more weight you will have even more tractor power than my 2wd garden tractor.

I bet the tractor hydraulic pump would be sufficient to run the loader. I think that is how the ones that were sold for these tractors were run.

Here is a decent loader on a tractor like yours, could as him if it runs off the tractor hydraulic pump and if thats sufficient:

Mitsu Beaver III 480? - TractorByNet.com

Blackhawk is the brand loader we have on ours, and it is much beefier than that. Here are some pictures I took for somebody interested in my exhaust and others taken for somebody here interested in the loader.

Another angle showing it whole, grapple attached and doing some work.

duwem · Dec 23, 2011

What size rear tires are those? They look wider than others I have seen.

Freakingstang · Dec 25, 2011

duwem said:
that loader looks very twinky...I think you will just tear it apart on your mitsubishi...

I would take the hydraulics, maybe the bucket (even that looks thin) and plan on making a new set of arms, subframe and grill guard.

I have a loader on my 332 garden tractor that looks like it would bend that one into a pretzel. With 4wd and more weight you will have even more tractor power than my 2wd garden tractor.

I bet the tractor hydraulic pump would be sufficient to run the loader. I think that is how the ones that were sold for these tractors were run.

Here is a decent loader on a tractor like yours, could as him if it runs off the tractor hydraulic pump and if thats sufficient:

Mitsu Beaver III 480? - TractorByNet.com