So how long did it take after you got your tractor

Jstpssng · Oct 26, 2005

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Today I did a great job on the lawn with the new snow plow rig that I just had to try out..... )</font>

So how much of that white sh-

ER, stuff did you guys get? We got about 2 inches here, which has since melted. Farther north they had 8 or more inches of wet, heavy stuff; power was out, trees are across the road...
It wouldn't have been so bad if it would've stopped raining sometime in the last 2 months, long enough to get ready for winter.

Jagmandave · Oct 26, 2005

So far, I haven't hit anything other than a couple of tree stumps, but then, there are no buildings on my proerty yet......the day's coming..........

I did bend the bottom lip of the FEL bucket trying to lift too big a rock tho........

odleefs · Oct 26, 2005

While demoing a Toolcat with Brushcat, I ran over one of the hydraulic hoses, cut it and pumped out 6 gallons of hydraulic fluid without realizing. /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif Lost all hydraulic fxns - no boom movt, no attachment fxn, no transmission fxn. /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif Got out, realized what happened /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif and replaced the hydraulic fluid. My dealer told me s"it happens" and replaced the hose. But I learned (at least I hope I did!) /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif
Steve

skipmarcy · Oct 27, 2005

About 10 days - I was loading my LN600 dump truck with creek gravel, had been for days being very careful, when I slipped the clutch a little too quick and mashed the plastic nose of my Mahindra into the bed rail. Cracked the nose in several places and shifted the hood back about 1/2" at the hinge. This is when I decided it was time to build a brushguard !!! I built a nice heavy one from some scrap I had laying around and it has worked great for almost 4 years now protecting that busted nose.

JimMorrissey · Oct 28, 2005

The Ford doesn't count cuz he hit you /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

rox · Oct 29, 2005

I can now contribute as I jsut drove the tractor for the first time. It was on my second trip taking firewood to the stack pile, I backed under the clothes line, and I caught the post that sticks iop n the middle of the clothes line with the 3PH cargo box. I felt something back there and turned around and there was the cargo box pushing that post sideways, and all my clothespins were being pushed down the clothesline, like box cars on a little choo-choo train, with the clothes line being the track.

It wasn't much, but it did make me realize that with the cargo box you have to allow for the extra width. It was after about 1 hour of seat time.

My husband came up about 10 minutes later to warn me about allowing for the cargo box while maneuvering, as he scraped a stone wall when he was learning. I let him know I just had my first lesson as I took out the clotheline post.

I can only imagine the damage I could do if I was driving the big Goldini tractor, Yikes! /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

JD3520 · Oct 29, 2005

I was telling a co-worker about this thread and he just laughed. Seems he took out a back porch pillar in the first hour of his first project after getting his new kubota. he was clearing a path for a walkway and hit it with his fel on a turn. luckily not "too much damage". i never could find out what "too much damage" actually is.

chuck

rpeter · Oct 31, 2005

Do not think you should be measuring in days and weeks but in hours on the engine.

I will jinx myself and say I am at 50 hours and have not run into anything yet.

However, I did manage to put a u-bend in the top-link on my 3-pt hitch in less than 10 hours. The bad part is I never really did figure out just exactly how I did it /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

Yalerider · Nov 4, 2005

A few weeks after purchase I was box blading and tree branch came up and bent my hydraulic filter bracket, ripping the hose loose. Lost 2 gallons of fluid.