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We just purchased 11 acres - small horse farm with 4 board fencing. Need a compact tractor to mow 1 1/2 - 2 acres, some bush-hogging, dragging/grading round pen, out door arena, snow removal, etc. Looking at the Cub Cadet 5254 4wd with pull behind finishing mowere, box scraper, etc. Price quoted new with two implements is $10,000. Does this sound right and is this enough tractor?<br>
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Thanks!

Cub Cadet 5254 Tractor Review
Cub Cadet
Replies 16 Post by bluesky

Hello,

I own an acre that My home is on now... Need it for several things here, leveling, filling... I have a JD Lawn Tractor to cut with here... I do have another 10 acres in Southern Ohio that I will build on eventually... So Im looking in the
Mid Range of tractors... 25-35 HP???

Thanks...
Dan

Wanted Tracor w BH and FEL 4x4
Kubota Tractors
Replies 3 Post by hwdanny

Michael, I'll bet the corn is plentiful & cheap 500'ish miles north-east of you. I'd also bet you could easily find a long line of farmers more than willing to drive it down to you.

I guess it depends on the local price of wood pellets or bio-mass pellets.

A local company up here makes a stove that quite readily burns wood chips, it has a gravity feed hopper so chip size is rather moot. If you could find a good supply of ground up pallets or other scrap wood you could get a lot of heat for not much cost.

IF your EPA reg.'s allow it waste motor oil is another good choice, lots of small shops are willing to pay to get rid of it.

Best of luck.

radiant heat in floor tube stuff
Barns Pole Barns
Replies 13 Post by Murf

Definately sounds like a good deal. I definately pays to shop around even after you have made a decision in regards to brand.

TC40DA and Corriher
New Holland Tractors
Replies 6 Post by Peters

My neighbor recently did a lot of work with landscaping timbers and building new terraces next to his house.

He knew that I had a CUT and asked me several times about it. I think that he was fishing for me to help him. I probably would have, but he opposed an upgrade that I wanted to do to my house/property with the zoning commission and they wouldn't allow it with a disagreable neighbor. Perhaps it never occurred to him that his opposition might have ticked me off.

It was really hard on me to have to watch him move all those landscape timbers, that gravel and loose dirt with a wheel barrow and shovel. :-} It took him weeks to accomplish his work in the hot NM sun. I estimate that the same job could have been done with the CUT in two weekends.

Since then, I have moved to a new place where I could build with fewer restrictions and without permission from the neighbors. I was back there over the weekend and the gravel road to the houses has not been maintained and there are lots of places where drainage problems have cut ruts. I guess that the unneighborly "neighbors" did not realize what they were getting for free until I left.

my amazed neighbors
Kubota Tractors
Replies 8 Post by AC5ZO

No problem Michael, I reread your post and don't know what I was thinking. Just being an idiot I guess.

My aversion to a project like this is that I program for a living and I drive the tractor to get AWAY from programming. After 20 some odd years at the keyboard (and keypunch before that) it's a chore, whereas bush hogging the back 40 is FUN.

Robotic SubCompacts
Kubota Tractors
Replies 11 Post by kwschumm

Nearly all New England source mulch is tub ground/chipper ground indigenous species, it could be almost anything. The better yards amend the shredded/chipped stock with mild boric acid for insect control and add a dye for color. Playground mulch is dictated by the state for size of chip, material, and allowable percent of "other" material, it's usually dye free. Only mulch sold by species name, such as red cedar, cypress, pine, cocoa shell, hemlock, etc. can be sold if the content of "other" material is less than 10%. Pine needle mulch is ideal mulch, but if you worry about the ph, there is nothing wrong with mulching with aggregate, it won't alter your soil ph or produce artillery fungus (which can shoot its spores over twenty feet and cause damage to metal, plastic, and wood surfaces). Regardless of what you use, renew it every spring to eliminate fungus and dye fade. I thank you very mulch.

Mulch Of Choice
Garden and Landscape
Replies 43 Post by Abbeywoods

I am moving wet soil as we speak (taking a break). My 53 inch bucket, when filled, puts a bulge in my front turf tires and makes it clear that it is a LOAD.

For serious loader work on my 4100 (same critter as your 4110) I carried 1000-1100 pounds of ballast between the wheel weights and the three point hitch. The manual recommends even more than that. That machine had a 49" bucket.

The message in the picture is that the rear end is VERY light and take the ballast numbers seriously.

4110 HST
John Deere Tractors
Replies 56 Post by DRankin

Probably 1/3 to 1/2 of implement manufacturers make I-Match compatible implements. Just ask 'em when shopping! They sometimes charge a bit more. Those that aren't I-Match compatible can often be modified for $50 at a local welding shop.

By the way, it's a lot easier to read posts when you type in lower case. All upper case is considered to be "yelling".

I MATCH QUICK HITCH
John Deere Tractors
Replies 19 Post by kwschumm

Eric, it's funny you mention LPG-powered tractors. In the early 80's the Gov. was really pushing LPG-powered vehicles and diesels were not yet popular. There were big tax incentives to convert, including no sales tax on purchases of converted vehicles.

Several local farmers converted their older gas tractors, one in particular though, a pig farmer, had a really novel idea. He built an enclosure to hold the manure, then a vapour extraction / collection system, and finally a compressor which filled a storage tank. It collected the methane gas from the pig manure which he then used as fuel for his tractor.

The system worked fairly well, except, the tractor's exhaust smelled distinctly like that of the pigs themselves.... LOL.

Best of luck.

Filling propane from big tank
Home Improvement
Replies 12 Post by Murf

As with any products, the Magnuson-Moss act comes into play. Also, very good info from Art White. <br>
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The Magnuson-Moss act protects the buyer from certain circumstances. If you have a new GM truck (for example) and change the oil yourself you don't have to use GM oil but you do have to use oil that meets (or exceeds) the specs set by GM for that truck.<br>
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I think it would be great to have an 8 foot box blade, sure could do twice the work of a 4-footer. But it's 120# over the rated capacity of my 3PH, something breaks, I'm liable for that because I'm too stupid. Warranty covers nothing. <br>
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I would think that any self-respecting backhoe manufacturer would know what the specs are for the particular machine they are designing the backhoe for.<br>
Any decent dealer will not sell you an attachment that will not work on your tractor.<br>
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Money is money, but in this litigation-driven society of ours, KNOW YOUR SPECS! Do the research! You can't put 20# of beans in a 5# box. <br>
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The BX23 is a great little combo. Designed as a a TLB, will run efficently as one as well. If not for the ground clearance I would have one. <br>
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good luck, have fun<br>
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-ao<br>

BX2230 OR BX23
Kubota Tractors
Replies 11 Post by agentorange

Deere has vent holes on the backside of the buckets now to prevent just such an occurrences.

Backhoe Bucket sizes
Loaders Back Hoes
Replies 28 Post by DRankin

The term "fence post" covers a lot of ground. I my case, the property is thirty years old and the "look" was established long before I bought it.

That said.... my fence posts are old railroad ties. I put 3 feet in the ground and have 5 feet above. They do require compaction to stay put especially in the sandy areas. I use a 18 pound steel tamping rod to set them.

After a few weeks, you can't pull they back up without digging all around them. If you space them every 20 feet and string your choice of wire between them, you will end up with a very economical way to fence large areas.

shaver post hole digger
Operating and Attachments
Replies 5 Post by DRankin

With the BX you get the works ready to go for the money you want to spend. For the larger B-s you will still be wishing for more. The BX takes a 60" deck just like the rest of the B's till you get to a 7800. So what is the advantage, some ground clearance which with a little caution can be overcome. Now the price of a hoe on a B-series will hold you back cost wise, the BX will allow you to work in the woods enough to offset the cost of the larger tractor with no loss of equipment options.

which Kubota to buy
Kubota Tractors
Replies 22 Post by Art White

I don't think I'd guess or experiment in this case. If you are in a hurry maybe one of the IT manuals would have a procedure and fast delivery time. Maybe if you ordered a shim kit from a dealer somebody would describe the specs and procedures. Hope you can read all of this or you register.<br>
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The shims for my Ford of similar size and age go under the solenoid but I believe other makes do go under the starter. My shims are fairly specific parts--rings around the entire mount surface with holes for the mounting bolts. The speced range for pinion clearance isn't very large.<br>
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I don't think you want to pick something that is under considerable torque when operated off its mounting surface and onto washers. Guessing and getting a very wrong clearance could break the starter or ring gear, which would become very expensive repairs. Misalignment of the pinion would add a bunch or wear to it and the ring gear.

jd 1050 starter problems
John Deere Tractors
Replies 26 Post by TomG

I don't know if it was said somewhere in this thread but using ROSPS without a seat belt may be less safe than using neither. Without a seat belt: If a person gets thrown from a tractor and it doesn't roll there's a good chance of being run over by an implement. If it's rolling, a person who does jump almost always jumps off the low side and then the ROSP comes down on top of them.

Tractor Stability on Hills
John Deere Tractors
Replies 37 Post by TomG

Havey, Is that price quote with a power beyond kit also. Where is yur dealer located in New York.

JOHN DEERE 48 BACKHOE PRICE QUOTE
John Deere Tractors
Replies 43 Post by reich4300

Harvey how did you hook the boom pole to the bucket?
Thanks

boom pole
Operating and Attachments
Replies 10 Post by drcjv.

I think that almost all loader valves have a float feature on the lift circuit. They are extremely useful--almost to the point of a necessity.

One of the early things you'll find when you start operating a tractor is that the loader goes up and down with the front wheels and opposite the rear wheels. If a loader is used to level uneven ground it's very difficult to 'ride' the lift control well enough to end up with a surface that's more level than the original--for inexperienced operators the surfaces often are less level. The bucket will gouge a divot when if the rear wheels go over a bump. They also will gouge at the bottom of a hill since the bucket gets to the hill before the front wheels. How do I know? It's because my used tractor had the valve with float connected to the bucket rather than lift when I got it. I made a few 'interesting' early jobs till I figured it out.

The same sort of thing applies to the 3ph but virtually none of them hold down-pressure. Implements float up and over rises and are held down only by their action and weight.

FEL quot float quot
Loaders Back Hoes
Replies 9 Post by TomG

That's a pretty good description and sounds like a good job. It'll likely help somebody else.

For 'do it yourself' hose routing there are a bunch of rules in basic manuals but it's likely safe to assume that a kit installed by the instructions will produce acceptable routings. There are torque specs for hydraulic fittings (I don't know if the specs are for lubed or dry threads) but if they don't leak without sealer then it's a pretty good sign they're OK. The main thing is not too tight. Over-tightened ones leak and then there's nothing to be done except resort to sealer.

For either tape or liquid sealer, it's only applied to the upper third of threads to avoid having sealer material extend into the oil flow. Seem like you found that it takes two wrenches per fitting and thin ones help. I think I've resorted to vice grips but using proper tools always is better. Areas where there are o-rings should be inspected for burs etc. and the rings lubed before installation. The instructions may have mentioned these ideas.

Power Beyond on 4310 installation hints
John Deere Tractors
Replies 3 Post by TomG