What DON'T You Like About Your New LS

[hks003]

Mine doesn't have telescoping 3 PTH arms, so hooking up heavy implements is a huge pain. Nowhere in my yard is level, and even with a couple of 4x4 posts to sit my bush hog on, it took me almost 30 minutes to hook it up yesterday. I've only unhooked/rehooked 3 or 4 times since I bought the tractor in January, so I'm still new at it, but it's a huge pain. The bush hog weighs too much to move more than half an inch or so to line the pins up. I usually am able to get one pin hooked up relatively quickly, but then the other side won't be lined up. And with little to no wiggle room, I usually wind up backing up and pulling forward to get squared up to be able to finish hooking it up. I'm seriously considering Pat's Quick Hitch to solve this problem. Other than that, I love my little G3038. It does all I need around my 4 acres from bush hogging, to piling up fallen limbs, leaves, and pine straw, to dragging larger limbs or small trees that I push over.

 

[Avenger]

Mine doesn't have telescoping 3 PTH arms, so hooking up heavy implements is a huge pain. Nowhere in my yard is level, and even with a couple of 4x4 posts to sit my bush hog on, it took me almost 30 minutes to hook it up yesterday. I've only unhooked/rehooked 3 or 4 times since I bought the tractor in January, so I'm still new at it, but it's a huge pain. The bush hog weighs too much to move more than half an inch or so to line the pins up. I usually am able to get one pin hooked up relatively quickly, but then the other side won't be lined up. And with little to no wiggle room, I usually wind up backing up and pulling forward to get squared up to be able to finish hooking it up. I'm seriously considering Pat's Quick Hitch to solve this problem. Other than that, I love my little G3038. It does all I need around my 4 acres from bush hogging, to piling up fallen limbs, leaves, and pine straw, to dragging larger limbs or small trees that I push over.

Thats what I was going to recommend when I started reading your post. You need a quick hitch.

Back home on the farm, we had older equipment that did not have quick hitches or extendable links. It made for hooking and unhooking very difficult for a 9yr old. Somehow though, I got it done. With practice and a large hammer, kicking, cursing, and crying, we all seemed to manage.

But now, life is better. With quick hitches (I do not have experience with one) or extendable links (I do have tons of experience), the hammer comes our rarely, minimal kicking, a bit of cursing still, but no more tears. Life is grand.

 

[Diggin It]

Not wild about the placement of the Turn Signal lever. I keep bumping it with my knee.

Also I can't figure out why when you turn it on for one direction (blinking), the other direction comes on Steady. [Left Blink, Right Steady or Right Blink, Left Steady]

 

[PJSprog]

Not wild about the placement of the Turn Signal lever. I keep bumping it with my knee.

Also I can't figure out why when you turn it on for one direction (blinking), the other direction comes on Steady. [Left Blink, Right Steady or Right Blink, Left Steady]

I believe I read somewhere that it helps to differentiate between regular flashers and the turn signal when on the road.

 

[Tymanthius]

Reading thru, here's my list:


Hydraulics open/close the grapple or curl, or raise/lower teh FEL - pick one, no combos.

No storage space!!

Unprotected parts - I've broken two tie rods so far that a simple bash plate would ahve protected. (2nd time I knew what I was risking but the time savings was worth it). However, it's also only a $45 part.

Anything attached by a pin from the factory likes to fall off. Seems if I replace the pins, that stops happening.

 

[Tymanthius]

Mine doesn't have telescoping 3 PTH arms, so hooking up heavy implements is a huge pain. Nowhere in my yard is level, and even with a couple of 4x4 posts to sit my bush hog on, it took me almost 30 minutes to hook it up yesterday. I've only unhooked/rehooked 3 or 4 times since I bought the tractor in January, so I'm still new at it, but it's a huge pain. The bush hog weighs too much to move more than half an inch or so to line the pins up. I usually am able to get one pin hooked up relatively quickly, but then the other side won't be lined up. And with little to no wiggle room, I usually wind up backing up and pulling forward to get squared up to be able to finish hooking it up. I'm seriously considering Pat's Quick Hitch to solve this problem. Other than that, I love my little G3038. It does all I need around my 4 acres from bush hogging, to piling up fallen limbs, leaves, and pine straw, to dragging larger limbs or small trees that I push over.

I have the pats quick hitch. Mine is just a little not 'straight' on one side, which means I ahve to kick things a bit more often. But enough of my implements are old (some older than me) that it's not worth trying to straighten it out.

I bought the 'spacer bar' for it too, but have never once used it.

But they do make hooking up SUPER easy. Bush hog on uneven ground or on blocks takes minutes.

 

[Cahaba Valley Farm]

customer service is a long gone commodity. Non existent in most of the world now. sad but true.....

It's still around if you're willing to pay for it. The business world is now treating it as a value-add commodity.

 

[rodneyn]

The only thing that irritates me on my 2012 g3033, is the lift height of the FEL. Not nearly high enough to reach the top shelves of the storage racks in my barn. I rigged up a boom to fit on the front forks, but that is just barely workable.

Mechanically, it has been flawless, since it was bought new.

MT225S with MMM one of best mowing decks I have used in past 30 years. The problem resides in the deck wheels. None of the wheels had bushings nor did the front swivel had bearings. 200 hours in the wheels literally fell of the deck.Even with grease zerks lubing plastic on steel. I have since redesigned using new plastic wheels with bronze inserts with cross holes to take grease. Added on captured bearings for swivel wheels. I understand taking costs out of products however making them cheap is not the answer. Other than that the tractor has been robust piece of equipment no dissatisfaction in LS tractors.

 

[Cycledude]

So far I’m very happy with my XR 4155 , only 190 hours so far but no real trouble its Mostly just a learning process. Sometimes I’m a slow learner but reading Tractor by net is often a big help in learning.

 

[Cahaba Valley Farm]

I understand taking costs out of products however making them cheap is not the answer.

That's always the challenge when you're value shopping. Trying to find a product that has good quality for a good price is the goal but is often hard to achieve. It takes a lot of work and time and evaluation and observation and yet they can still sneak stuff in on you like what you were talking about. What I have found is the corners often get cut with the things you can't see on the outside like the bearings. I often wonder what business some of the tractor manufacturers are in. Are they in the tractor business or the parts and service business