Things I have learned.

Tdog · Aug 23, 2003

Figure out where to put a tool box on a Kubota BX22!

RonR · Aug 23, 2003

If you hook a load to your FEL via chain, hook it evenly to each side of the bucket.

PLUS if you are backing up with the chained load use only 2WD and disengage any differential lock. That way, if you start to tip, the instant the high side rear wheel comes off the ground, your progress will STOP. If you have diff lock on and/or 4WD engaged, the tractor will continue to move AND TIP. Ask me how I know this, DUH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Stay safe......

Ron

twabscs · Aug 23, 2003

#10) If your tractor won't fit in the barn with the ROPS up, make sure you always fold the ROPS before entering the barn. Also, make sure your enter the barn very slowly for those cases when you forget to fold the ROPs. Trust me, you'll only forget ONCE!

trailertrash · Aug 23, 2003

lost hitch pins can be found with a mower with new blades , pin is reusable. blade may or may not be depending on your skill with a grinder and hammer

Phred · Aug 24, 2003

As you can see from the responses these things happen to us all.

Just today I was cusing about #1. Hitch pin fell out of the jack stand on my disc mower while cutting. This is the little pin the holds up and out of the way the arm that supports the mower when its off the tractor. Luckly it did not break anything.

But that brings up #2. I have a collection of pins but you guessed it this one is a different size than most of the others I normally need and so I had to spend 30 min. searching for the right pin. Any other pin and I would have had three spare right there in the tractor tool box.......... /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif
I will be buying a couple of spares of this one tomorrow. Not worth 30 min of down time for a #$% ~$1 pin.

Fred

BenderKC · Aug 24, 2003

Twice and still learning. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

jwstewar · Aug 25, 2003

The price of the tractor is only half the cost of tractor. Every time I go to do a project it is "If I had a (fill in the blank attachment), I could do it so much easier and faster." Not that I have any attachments other than the KK bushhog, but that is my lesson. I'm trying to talk her in to letting me get a BB, rear blade, tiller, post hole digger.........see what I mean? /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Inspector507 · Aug 25, 2003

Jim,
If you ever need to borrow the above items for a project, let me know. The tiller I have may be too small to cover your tracks though.

Jerry

jwstewar · Aug 26, 2003

OK, thanks for the offer Jerry. Might have to take you up on it sometime. Espcially with the pole barn project. I'd certainly appreciate it.

chrisjbell · Aug 26, 2003

Do you deliver long distance /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif?

Inspector507 · Aug 26, 2003

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Jim drives past my house on his way home in the evening..... /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

chrisjbell · Aug 26, 2003

Ah, knew it was too good to be true... /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

jmc · Aug 27, 2003

Carry an extra shear pin for your bushhog and tools to change it. Mine gives out about once a year due to fatigue rather than hitting something in particular.

ipwanab · Aug 27, 2003

If you are like me, and wear your nastiest clothes to use your tractor, when you see that the day is going to be shot without additional fuel, be sure to go in the house and get your wallet before you go to the checkout at the gas station with no money. Those teenage girls behind the counter will not cut you any slack.

Inspector507 · Aug 27, 2003

Another thing I have learned........shut off the engine when you discover the radiator screen is all full of crap. If you slide the screen out with it running.......well SOMEONE mentioned to me that all that crap gets sucked into the radiator /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

dmftoy1 · Aug 28, 2003

Here's another one . . . . read the manual before operating your FEL for the first time . . .amazing how nicely the float setting works . . . . of course now I get to fill in the gouges from my "playing" last night. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Have a good one,
Dave

Dutchman · Aug 29, 2003

The green is slowly starting to fade from behind the ears here. I'll add:

When working with the FEL, try to remember if you have something attached to the back end. (Broke the welds on a landscaping rake wheel when I backed into an immovable object)

The bottom pin of the TPH will snap before the rear blade will. A corollary, just because you think there is nothing under the snow to snag your blade, doesn't mean it isn't there!

EagleEye · Sep 2, 2003

hahaha... I used to have to pick all that out of my Ford 8N radiator...what a laugh (LOL) /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

jpr62902 · Sep 3, 2003

If you have to fold the ROPS to get in the garage, you have to fold it to get out, too (learned that the second day, the hard way). /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

Inspector507 · Oct 12, 2003

I have also learned......
If your mowing with the MMM, remember that the 3ph arms are still back there. If you back up near the barn, the arms will poke 2 nice square holes in your siding. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif