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I don't have to move the material except just out of the way of the building activity for now. I will probably use the soil for fill and landscape around the barn once it is complete. I need something that would dig in maybe six inches and allow me to move the material away with my loader. Perhaps the dozer would be the way to go after all. My tractor will be sufficient to spread the gravel/sand fill mixture. Thanks for the ideas.

Land Preparation
Barns Pole Barns
Replies 25 Post by cutter

For Sale: 1998 John Deere 4100 Hydro with turf tires and the following attachments: 410 loader w/61” bucket, 60 inch belly mower, 47 front mount snow blower, 450 tiller, 5’ rear blade and quick attach pallet forks. 150 EZ hours, garage kept in excellent condition. Can deliver in New England. Will take the first serious CASH offer or trade for low hour 445 or 455 with in mint shape with similar attachments.

4 Sale - 4100 with all the toys
John Deere Tractors
Replies 5 Post by cjc2710

Why do they call all of them Bush Hogs? For the same reason my Mother calls all motorhomes Winnebagos. LOL Bush Hog is a brand name. It seems that the most common "generic" name is "rotary cutter"; however, they are better known in my part of the country as "brush hogs" or "shredders".

Which Rotary Cutter
Mowers Field and Finish
Replies 8 Post by Bird Senter

Jeff, if I wanted until Memorial Day to plant, everything would be burned up by the heat and sun before it got a chance to produce. Anything that isn't planted before Easter hasn't got a chance. I don't plan to plant anything after April 7 this year.

Buying old vs new
Kubota Tractors
Replies 19 Post by Bird Senter

Speaking of tractors on the highway for non-farm uses: when I was 14 I boarded at my uncle's dairy farm (3 hours from my home) for the summer and worked the fields with him. We cut hay on some leased land 10 miles away and I was used to making that trip over the backroads and a highway with his tractors. I also developed a crush on a 16 year-old girl in town who at least tolerated me like a cute little puppy (which I was). Come September I went back home, but I visited my uncle at Thanksgiving. I begged him to let me take a tractor to town to visit my "friend". He smiled wisely and asked if I was sure that was a good idea. Oh yeah, I was sure that it was. Off I went. I learned two important lessons that day: 1) a 14 year-old puppy on a Farmall 400 can't compete with a 17 year-old football star in a Camaro. In fact, looks foolish even trying. 2) driving an open tractor 20 miles (round-trip) in late November on the Canadian border of NY can get cold. Real cold. (My uncle still thinks it was funny.)

Operating tractor on roads
Tractor Projects
Replies 21 Post by JeffM

Thanks Jeff. I'll beat the rush and disagree with myself a little bit... I scarify with the bucket teeth because my land is narrow and twisty with lots of rocks. If you have a large areas to rip with compacted soil or clay with only medium stones, then you want some sort of towed implement. Like always, it depends on your land and soil as much as on the tractor.
I'm not arguing against the box scraper. It would be hard to do so anyway, since I've already confessed that I have one living on my 3pt! But my opinion is that the box scraper is an implement where you can get a lot of the use out of an inexpensive one.

Rollover vs Conventional Box Scraper
Operating and Attachments
Replies 30 Post by Roger L.

I want the best diesel fuel I can buy and don't use enough to care one way or another about the cost. I buy at the station where the local Mercedes dealer sends his customers. That dealer has already done the bulk of my research for me. In the winter I buy #1 with an additional winterizer and sulphur substitute (for lubrication) and in the summer buy #2 with more sulphur and less of the additives. As for dye; I'd rather pay the taxes. The mixing and testing is done by a local distributor who has a good reputation. I do filter it from the pump to my six gallon can and then again from the can to the tractor. Then decant it carefully and don't use the last 10% or so where the sludge collects.

Diesel Fuel
Parts and Repair
Replies 16 Post by Roger L.

Do the hydraulic hoses for the blade connect in the same location as the
FEL (right side tractor) and do you use the joy stick to control the blade
Thanks
Bob

jd4100 front blade
John Deere Tractors
Replies 4 Post by Bob Cambray

Yes, the B7500 has only a high and low range... To tell you the truth you couldn't hardly feel the "jerk" in low range, but it was pretty significant in high range. The only way you really felt it in low range was if you were pulling a load. It was also more pronouced when the ambient temp got down around 20 or 30 degrees. I am sure Kubota is aware of this little glitch... if you dig deep enough you'll find info about it like I did... I wonder if someday they will offer a new set of valves that will actually be able to do what the original ones were intended to do. I doubt it... I don't think it is a common enough problem, nor is it damaging to the tractor in any way.

Horsepower of B7500
Kubota Tractors
Replies 10 Post by Duane Pearl

Hi Randy, I found the same holes in my 790 4 wd they apear to be a vent hole for the brakes, I checked the tech manual and it doesn't show or talk about them. I did notice in the parts manual page 50-26 that there is a oil seal on both sides part #CH19718 . If this seal went bad it would leak oil into the brake shoes and drum which could cause your brakes to slip and damage the shoes and score the drum.It would seem to me that these holes should be vented. My right hole on mine appears to have had something like grease comming from it at 1 time but does not seem to be leaking any oil . I hope this helps you .

Jim

Question for a JD 790 Owner
John Deere Tractors
Replies 4 Post by Jim Reichard

Jchambers, I have a 4100 and initially was also looking for a disk. They do make them in sizes that would work for the 4100. BUT, from my research I found out that these smaller, lighter discs are not all that functional and require repeated passes to work. I bought a 52" rototiller instead. This is the answer -it just tears through hard ground like nothing. I normally use a 14" one bottom moldboard plow first, then rototill. As to the aftermarket mower. I assume you're referring to a mid-mount. Woods makes mid-mounts to fit most tractors, but they are not any cheaper than the JD brand, so I don't see any advantage to them. The only way to save money on a mower is to go to a 3 point mower. Those are about 1/3 cheaper than a mid-mount.

4100 and ground engaging devices
John Deere Tractors
Replies 18 Post by Jim Youtz

I am pretty sure you are right about the pumps tomg. The pump for the power steering and the lift arms is located on the engine itself, while the pump for the hydrostatic trans. is in the tranny. Proof is in the fact that you can press the clutch in, and still have your power steering and 3pt hitch, but try and move the tractor and your gonna say right where you are. I also think that the FEL runs off the same pump as the steering and 3pt. I would double check for a screen somewhere on the transmission... I don't know alot about your model of tractor, but my guess is that there is one there somewhere.

B6100 HYDROSTATIC
Kubota Tractors
Replies 3 Post by Duane Pearl

Todd, I have not had any difficulty what-so-ever using any implements on my tractor with regard to the lack of position control on the 3 pt hitch. Like Bird said, it's not that the implement is all the way up or all the way down, it's just that there is no corresponding lever position for each position of the lift arms... there is one lever position for picking them up, one for putting them down, and one position between the two that holds the arms at whatever height you desire. And to deal with the implement moving up or down to quickly when trying to set your height, remember that there is a knob under the seat which opens and closes a valve so that you can control the speed of descent. You can slow the fall of the heaviest of implements to a point where you could be waiting all day for it to get to the bottom... or you can drop your implement like a bad habit and send it crashing into the ground. Personally, regarding position control, I can take it or leave it. I have used tractors with it, and without it, and it's pretty much just a matter of getting used to whatever your using. And just for your information, I got the 272 loader, 54" mid mount mower deck, industrial treads, and calcium in the rear tires (which I think was free), for $13,000 even... plus tax of course. From what I have been told I got one heck of a deal... I think it was because at the time I had a John Deere ordered, and the Kubota people wanted my business... THEY GOT IT!! Feel free to ask if you have any more questions.

Any Thoughts on Kubota B7500
Kubota Tractors
Replies 7 Post by Duane Pearl

Dave,

The most common way of adding rear ballast to the tires is as you described it. I suppose some folks to put in tubes, especially if they are worried about puncturing a tire, since it supposedly makes it a little easier to repair the hole.

Having said that, let me give you some other thoughts:

I have a JD 4100Hydro with R4 tires w/Ballast, no tubes. I use it for EVERYTHING, from mowing to loading, and hopefully will be putting a backhoe on this year (either a Kelly or a JD, if their's is for real). The ballast does help significantly with the ride, but I STILL need a rear ballast (weight) box for safe loader use, ESPECIALLY when using the pallet forks. According to JD's operator manual, I need approx 780 lbs in addition to rear tire ballast. I now have a ballast box (3PT hitch mounted), and I'll be removing the tire ballast this year, because the extra weight does compact soil when mowing. My point is, try to determine if you're gonna have to get a ballast box anyway, and if you are, you may want to forgo the rear tire ballast. It's a lot easier to take off a 3PT implement than to suck ballast out of the tires !!!

I hope that helps - at least confuses on a higher plane !

Dave Wells

Valve for filling tires
Parts and Repair
Replies 12 Post by Dave Wells

David, I am not sure what you mean by quicktach plates? I have fabricated my own quick tach implements. What I do is take a pipe, 1 1/4" ID, cut it in half(half circle) and weld it to my implement so it cradels the round rod at the top of the loader arm quicktach and then reinforce with an extra piece of 1/4" plate over top just like on the buckets. Easy to do and works well. I made a set of forks like this and have had no problems with it even when having enough weight to make the back of the tractor "uncomfortably light". Am making a loader mounted snow plow right now the same way. I found that you can buy the bottom pins to weld on from JD, but they cost $10 a piece. I prefer to go to Tractor Supply and buy thier bolt on pins for $2.00. They are pretty close in diameter.

Curtis plow
Snowblowers / Snow Plows
Replies 8 Post by Craig Dashner

Here's the New Holland Credit interest
0% for 12 months
6.9% from 24 to 48 months
7.9% for 60 months

12 months same as cash!!!
I'm really going for this tc35d!!

tc33d or tc35d Are the differences worth it
New Holland Tractors
Replies 17 Post by gary mason

Good to hear from you again, Nuke. I always looked forward to your perspectives. It was like you were on the other side of the world!

Pakistan tractor consignment reaches Iraq
Massey Ferguson Tractors
Replies 6 Post by JeffM

I just purchased an L295DT kubota.I was in the market for about 8 monthes and finaly settled on this unit. A year ago I built a house on five acres that has some pasture and alot of 1"-2" sapplings with brush. So far it has met or exceeded my performance expectations. This unit is 4wd and has a loader on it as well as the ROPS that the dealer installed for me.I also pull a 60" rotary cutter a scraper blade or a rake behind it. Today, at very low speed, I mowed down several 1.5"+ cottonwood sapling as well as tons of brush all under the mower at once! Kind of hard on the mower but that is what I bought it for.

L2950 - any other owners out there
Kubota Tractors
Replies 3 Post by bob burnside

Although I did not mention it earlier, the cheapest solution for a portable tank is from an expired propane or refrigerant tank. All of my portable tanks but one are of this nature, in fact we have several which are expired 100# tanks, about 30 gal. equivalent. Remove the old valve (POL type) BLOW AIR THROUGh to remove any remaining propane, screw in the new valve (from any supply house or jobber, and away you go. I have even seen them with nothing more than a female quick disconnect screwed straight in, no valve at all. Cost, about $20.... value when you need it.... 'nuff said. Best of luck.

Fixing Flats
Parts and Repair
Replies 16 Post by Murf

Heres a picture of what I rigged up for a ballast box, that will also come in handy on other projects.

I would suggest whenever doing loader work having some sort of rear ballast,

Good Luck.

Paint Colour
John Deere Tractors
Replies 3 Post by paul hart