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If I did not look so stupid I would have left it on in the first place LOL

Fleas
Just For Fun Off Topic
Replies 7 Post by oneace

Well at least you make sense

Problem Poster
Everything and Anything
Replies 70 Post by oneace

Pics 1 and 2 are of a TC55da with a SIMS Dakota cab

New Pics TC55 with cab
New Holland Tractors
Replies 3 Post by oneace

I pulled a few good pictures out. Ones of me standing near the pivot on the top link. Looks to be about 34" How doea this sound?
Come on now, someone here must be able to walk out to the garage and measure that bad boy! I would do it for you! LOL

Spec info needed
Tractor Projects
Replies 2 Post by brokenarrow

For all that stuff it is not really a bad price. If I was in the market again I would pay that for all those implements and the tractor loader.

Read this
Tractor Projects
Replies 2 Post by oneace

Sprinkle SEVEN dust in and around the hole. They carry it in with them and it will kill the nest in a day or two. Get a bag at your local flower shop/garden center. It is a powder.

Hornet help
Just For Fun Off Topic
Replies 30 Post by alvanko

Art,
See pic 8. I figured out my lack of power problem. I needed to apply more elbow grease to the BH pins.
A neighbor story...After just completing a grading session I am admiring my work. My 79 year old putts up on a horseless carriage he has just made in his garage. He gets kinda serious. He says he has something to tell me and asks me to sit down.
He says, "I been watching you grade over there for 2 months now. I tell you what I gonna do. I going to get a dozen chickens and put some feed over there. With all that scratching they'll work faster than you do." ;)
Try to enjoy what's left of the summer talk to you soon.

Len.

Calling Art White
Just For Fun Off Topic
Replies 5 Post by shinefeak

If the brake shoes are worn and need replaced be prepared for sticker shock.
The shoes cost somewhere around $60 per shoe x 4 shoes.

brake repairs for 850 jd 1984
John Deere Tractors
Replies 4 Post by DK35vince

Good question about the quiet shop vacs. I was thinking of going that route if they the suction is about the same.

Shop vacs
Shop Tools
Replies 14 Post by dkheckmanl

thanks again for the info when i get time i will loosen the loader of and see if the brackets will fit under the masts i have taken some photos of it today but as i am a brand new member and not a premium one i can,t post them on the web site but i will try what you said cheers (terry)

st30 loader
Kubota Tractors
Replies 14 Post by tezst30

OUCH THAT DART IN THE FOREHEAD HURTS!

I manage a sand and gravel facility, 2 asphalt facilities and deliver a broad variety of materials.

All of our loads are scaled. If the scale is down in Homer the yardage method is used and our loader guys are good, those loads are always in the customers favor and spot checked once or twice a day at one of our other 6 scale locations. I have 3 65+' scales at the Polkville location and 1 in the Homer location. The main office and terminal also have one each.

Customers are always calling in asking us to compute their needs and when it comes out short they expect us to truck the rest for free. I always make some assumptions that their grade or finished grade might be off. I will not give a calculation I will give an estimate using 2" + or- on the grade. I've been out to lots of jobs and grades are not even close.

Why is it if you have a truck that carries 22 ton customers are unwilling to buy the 2 extra ton and have some extra. 2 ton of any type of material is lost in the size of the area that will take 20 tons. Many contractors are cheap trying to cut corners and blame someone else when it's short.

That said: we mostly deal with larger contractors that quote very close and figure in the overages on dirt work and when you deliver the 2360 tons of item 4 they know exactly where it will be used. They also have no problem ordering a extra 30 ton load even if they think they only need 20-23 tons.

My dumps weigh over 70,000+ carring 21-23 tons loaded our trailers are 107,000 carring 31-34 tons homeowners and many contractors have NO IDEA how much weight that is. Most people have no clue that a contractor with good help can move a ton of material in 8 wheelbarrows, some less. As far as heaping up over the sides that is a invation for the DOT boys to stop you. Most trucks are designed to maximize the load below the sides. Our gravel weights just over 1.68 tons per yard lime stone suppliers are a little less. Do the math. 17'L X 52"H X 76"W Thats our smallest dump.

Trucks are expensive, good drivers to drive them are expensive. When a driver tells you the ground looks soft it probably is, they are not backing in. When they ask 6 times about leach fields and old tanks to include old fuel tanks they are serious. When you try to put a tractor trailer in a drive way designed for cars and not tear up the road out front or crush a culvert it probably won't work. The worst case is the homeowner who has no idea of what is buried in the yard. Once I have seen a concrete truck sitting in a old septic tank almost on its side. Homeowners falt? Or stupid truckdriver? Homeowner or contractor is going to pay for towing and damage to truck.

But contractors and homeowners find it easiest to blame it on the supplier and trucking rather than their lack of knowledge.

I've had a homeowner accuse a driver of delivering part of the load to someone else in route to the job, because the pile looked small.

Concrete and asphalt are batched in state certified facilities. Our asphalt plants are rechecked every 90 days. There is no short loading or the computer driven delivery ticket would reflect it. It is usually a bad quote based on a bad grade or the inability of a homeowner or contractor to hold a fine finish grade on the project.

Bottom line I can not believe someone would continue to do business with a poor supplier that keeps poor help unless he is just out to do a job as cheap as possible to increase his profit.

BTW for your yard I would never recommend 6" of screened topsoil unless it was screened with lots of small stone and sand.

Moisture in the soil has to do with light and fluffly or heavy and clumpy it all depends on the season and moisture also raw material.

Always remember a ton of dirt and a ton of chicken feathers weighs the same.

topsoil with wood chips in it -- a big deal
Garden and Landscape
Replies 17 Post by harvey

BioDiesel is NOT waste veggy oil.
it is made from many organic oils, including, if you are careful, used Donkin Donut Oil. But it is NOT veggy oil!

Running biodiesel in a B7800
Kubota Tractors
Replies 14 Post by tsterkel

Smallfields
Now your thinking! get that rotary mower for about 700 and use a push mower on your little 3/4 acre lawn (or buy a used $200 rider). IMO The rotary cutter if kept up nice will give you a very nice cut on the 5+ acres. Nice enough to be proud of but maybe not nice enough to call your back yard lawn. Then all you have to do is cut your little 3/4 acre lawn area. Again IMO The 32hp tractor may not be your best option in wet weather for cutting your lawn anyway?
Good luck and let us know what you decide?

compare finish mowers Bush Hog New Holland
Mowers Field and Finish
Replies 20 Post by brokenarrow

Interesting idea with the kit! I can think of any number of injection pumps amd hydraulic pumps that have the same problems and don't offer a kit.

B6200 3pt hydraulic pump seal leakage
Kubota Tractors
Replies 6 Post by Art White

I am trying to swap out one of the swivel (it sheared off). What is the trick to getting that wire keeper out? I sure wish they had put a C clip in that part instead...

D.

Jinma chipper review
Operating and Attachments
Replies 44 Post by ddivinia

The 6400 series uses a pressure, flow, compensated hydraulic system (PFC). There is a power beyond block that can be added to the right hand side of the hydraulic valve stack on the rear of the tractor. If you are using an independent valve that came with the loader, you have to be sure it is a PFC valve. The John Deere loader valve may be the best way to go. It comes with a console mounted joystick control lever, but I am sure it is kind of pricey. The 3ph very well could be an electrical problem. Have you checked all the fuses? You could have a bad stepper motor also. They have been known to get water in them and ruin them. Sensors, wiring, and switches could also be bad. There is a screwdriver slot in the top of the stepper motor that allows you to manually activate the valve. If the hitch works like that, it confirms an electrical problem.

John Deere 6400
John Deere Tractors
Replies 2 Post by jdgreen

You need to watch for the teeth and the claws.

Sorry I have not worked on a gator before but could not resist. It reminds me of the joke.

An Army Ranger was on holiday in the depths of Louisiana, where he tried to buy some Alligator shoes. However he was not prepared to pay the high prices, and after having failed to haggle the vendor down to a reasonable price level, ended up shouting "I don't give two hoots for your shoes, man, I'll go and kill my own croc!" To which the shopkeeper replied, "by all means, just watch out for the two Marines who were doing the same!"

So the man went out into the Bayou, and after a while saw two men with spears, standing still in the water. "They must be the two Marines," he thought.

Just at that point he noticed an alligator moving in the water towards one of them. The Marine stood completely passive, even as the gator came ever closer. Just as the beast was about to swallow the lad, the Marine struck home with his spear and wrestled the gator up onto the beach,
where several already lay.

Together the two Marines threw the gator onto its back, where-upon one exclaimed "Darnn! This one doesn't have any shoes either!"

Replacing Brake Shoes
Utility Vehicles UTV/ATV
Replies 2 Post by Peters

Believe me, the burlap did not kill those trees. If it was natural and it did not decompose, there is a big problem with the soil, no water or no oxygen. The roots would have gone right through the burlap and into the soil and only after the restriction seriously choked the roots would it have possibly died. That is not easy for non rotted burlap to do in the short term. There are accepted nursery standards for planting from the American Nursery Association and they would not have people planting things in burlap if it killed them. I despise burlap in my Garden center because it won't last from March to September without rotting off and making me have to rewrap it. I now only do B&B for christmas trees in the fall with treated burlap , and I blow out any remaining in the Spring real quick.

Can t Ever Sell It
Just For Fun Off Topic
Replies 15 Post by denwood

What do you mean by "Looking to pick up a b2100 to flip, it has tiller / bucket."

Buy and resell?

FEL is short for
Parts and Repair
Replies 6 Post by earthwrks

Any opinions on a good quality shop vac. I went the big box route and bought a contractor series from Lowes. It sucks pretty good but one of the wheels keeps falling off and the intake hose kinks easily. I am about ready to dt

Shop vacs
Website Operations Howto
Replies 1 Post by dkheckmanl