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I take two Flomax pills every evening and for me it seems to control the situation, reducing the need to pee to maybe two or three times during the night. I have been on Flomax for years and it would seem that my situation is stable. While I don not have a need for a procedure like Aquablation at present, I have been following your posts and I am glad to know that there is a next step medically if I ever need it.<br>
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Over the last four months I have had both knees replaced, the second knee just three weeks ago. They will not do two at once for a 75 year old. Considering the ages of those of us who like to fix up old tractors (I own several 9N, 2N and 8N Fords) we ought to have a knee and hip replacement thread on this website, too.

Aquablation for BPH Urinary Retention Review
Everything and Anything
Replies 10 Post by Paladin

Doc had me on Cialis and the insurance company nixed it. I’m on something called Flomax now and insurance is happy. I wish that I could say that it worked but it sure isn’t perfect.

I read somewhere that a cup of coffee hangs around in your system for six hours. I generally don’t touch the stuff after about noon. On the other hand, wife likes it really strong so we buy the beans and grind them fresh every couple of days. Probably not a good idea with BPH AKA benign prostate hyperplasia AKA peeing at night. I know that ours is strong because McD’s coffee tastes like colored water to me.

I have to try saw palmetto. Thanks to you guys for the tip.

How to deal with Nocturia -Nocturnal Urination
Everything and Anything
Replies 5 Post by Paladin

Actually, the Kubota maintenance manual gives you the choice between Super UDT or SAE 80-80 gear oil in the front axle. This really surprised me because I am used to running 80-90 in the the tranny/pto casing of the old Fords that I restore. It's a very different animal than hydraulic fluid and it can get downright thick in the winter. I probably will buy a third pail of Super UDT and use it for the front axle also, but I plan to take a hard look at whatever oil comes out of the front axle when I drain it.

L3010 400 Hour Service
Kubota Tractors
Replies 8 Post by Paladin

I have a 1600. I bought it from Wayne at Little Miami Trading (www.lmtcompany.com) near Cincinnati. He has blades in stock and he told me that the bearings are all standard sizes and I was pretty much on my own for anything else. I only use it to prepare the garden each spring with my 31 HP Kubota. It should last me forever.

Yanmar tiller parts
Yanmar Tractors
Replies 4 Post by Paladin

Thanks, Joel

I'm not totally new to this since I own a couple of Ford N tractors that I maintain myself (can't have too many tractors). I should be able to follow your advice with no problem. I'm just not used to dealing with an alternator with a built in voltage regulator such as the 'bota has. Plus, the 'bota has been trouble free until now. I'll try to track the gremlin down before I give up.

Bob in PA

L3010 won t charge the battery
Kubota Tractors
Replies 4 Post by Paladin

I am putting turfs on the L3010 that I bought used three years ago. I have ags and I can't live with the amount of damage that they do to the lawn. The situation gets worse with a weight box on the back and the FEL on the front. With ags, there is almost no time (except when the ground is frozen) that I am not chewing up the lawn. I could have bought R4's, but I reasoned "why go half way?".

Kubota B2920 - Turf Tires or R4
Kubota Tractors
Replies 23 Post by Paladin

I don't own a Hinomoto but I'd suggest that you take off the tractor a part that has been up under somewhere protected from the sun and go to a DuPont or PPG paint supply and have them shoot it on the color computer.

Hinomoto blue paint code
Hinomoto
Replies 2 Post by Paladin

Sometimes I am a sucker for bargains and last fall I bought a used Yan-Mar grey market rototiller. It's a big tiller, between 5 and 6 feet wide. It's also kind of neat because the instructions are all on decals on the tiller and all in Japanese. But, each instruction has a little diagram and you do not need to be a rocket scientist to figure out how to operate a rototiller.<br>
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If you have never mounted one, they are designed to mount up very close to the rear wheels. It's the shortest PTO shaft that I have ever cut to fit.<br>
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Now I understand how the Japanese use these compact tractors in Japan. I got rave reviews from my wife and daughter after I prepared the vegetable garden this year. No plowing and then renting a portable rototiller for $35.00 - this thing did it all and left a seed bed that just had to be raked smooth. I also just used it to till about 2 or 3 acres of bottomland that we cleared out last fall with a dozer. I almost got stuck a couple of times with the 'bota in 4WD and the tiller roaring but just letting up a bit on the tiller was all it took. I may just go back lightly with a York rake and then will ready for seed.<br>
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I am seeing some pretty attractive prices for new tillers on the web. If I had it to do over again I might go the whole 9 yards and buy a new one rather than the rather beat up and rusty one that I got. But, it still works fine.<br>
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Rototilling With An L-3010
Kubota Tractors
Replies 2 Post by Paladin

Well, I bought them at $1250 back in April. I told the guy to just let me know when my check cleared and I would be up there in my truck to get them. Actually, even that is changed because I got a bid on UShip to deliver them for what is only about $50 more than my gas cost to go get them, not to mention tolls. As it stands now, they will be delivered next Wednesday.

I just can't keep using the ags except in winter and the dryest part of the summer. I have about 8 acres in lawn and pasture and the ags just tear the heck out of it in our (wet) Pennsylvania spring and fall. I don't need the 'bota for plowing snow anyway because I collect Ford N's and I have an 8N with snow plow, chains and full wheel weights kept ready to go all winter. I have tried everything that I could think of with the 'bota to lighten it including unloading the rears and using a weight box for occasional heavy loader work, and dropping the bucket off when I do not need it (Great Bend loader, quick detach bucket). It still makes an awful mess of the lawn in spring and fall. Hopefully, the turfs will help with the problem and I can use the 'bota for Bushhogging with my 5 foot Bushhog "Squealer". Right now the Squealer is on a 60 year old Ford 2N, which believe it or not is easier on the pasture.

Used Turf Tires For L3010
Kubota Tractors
Replies 16 Post by Paladin

One thing that STP IS good for - it makes a darn fine case lubricant when you are reloading ammo. I've been using it for 40 years and not one stuck case - not a single one. I have had to extract stuck cases for friends and I always recommend STP to them.

But, . . . I don't put it in my truck or my Kubota L3010 or any of my restored Ford N's . . . I have never seen what value it brings to an engine that is in good shape to begin with

STP in Transmission
Kubota Tractors
Replies 13 Post by Paladin

The only problem with the shark bite fittings is that they are expensive. Make sure that they give you the little shark bite release tool so you can take the fitting off if you mess up.

With copper prices going through the roof you are going to see alot more PEX used.

Pex vs Copper replace Copper Pin holes
Home Improvement
Replies 17 Post by Paladin

I guess that I have the right to answer since I started this thread way back when.

The dollar is about as weak as it has ever been versus the yen and other foreign currencies. What this means is that Kubota gets less for every tractor sold in the USA than they did 6 months or a year ago. The price in yen in Japan is the same - a Japanese farmer is paying exactly the same price that he did before. The problem is that US dollars convert to less yen so Kubota now gets less for a US sold tractor than a Japanese one. And, they did nothing to bring this about.

The net result will be price increases for the US market. These price increases on new tractors tend to drag the prices of used tractors up, too. It always happens that way.

Blame the subprime mortgate mess. Every time the Fed cuts interest rates to give a shot to the economy, they weaken the dollar. If we still made our own steel and tractors here in the US it wouldn't matter. But we don't.

My own L3010 was one of the best investments that I ever made. It hasn't missed a beat and the bad advice that I received to avoid the Great Bend loader turned out to be just bad advice - period. I like the GB better than a 'bota loader because it has standard skid-steer quick detaches on the bucket and I have had zero problems with it.

Kubota Price L3010 Price Check one mo time
Kubota Tractors
Replies 18 Post by Paladin

I'm enjoying and learning from all the posts here, as usual. I think that I have made my decision and the tractor will go on for a while without rear hydraulics. I was able to pick up a 22 ton log splitter at Home Depot - a last season leftover - for $999.99 including a one year warranty.

Art White is right - why run a 31 HP tractor when an 8 HP log splitter will do the job? I also bought one of those three point "boat mover" adapters at Tractor Supply. I have wanted to use the tractor with a ball hitch to move the boat anyway and now I can also slap a 1 & 7/8 ball on it and use the Kubota to pull the log splitter into the woods. I usually fill the bucket of the loader with cordwood and then come out of the woods far enough to dump it into my F-250.

I wish all Kubota dealers were as honest and upfront as Art is. I will not patronize the dealer closest to me because they simply didn't want to be bothered to order a folding ROPS for me (I had to put a folding ROPS on to get the tractor into my 1790 stone barn). They were PO'ed that I bought a used tractor and not a new one from them. I now patronize a dealer 30 miles away and they give good service. They got me the ROPS with no problem.

Installing Rear Hydraulics on L3010
Kubota Tractors
Replies 12 Post by Paladin

The new ROPS has arrived - neatly packed the way the Japanese do it in a heavy cardboard crate which is in turn nailed to a custon sized pallet. I also got complete installation instructions and a new set of seat belts with high class retractor mechanisms.

I have spent a fair amount of time doing business in Japan and they have an expression there - "quality on the outside means quality on the inside". This thing was packed well enough to withstand anything! And, it was airfreighted from Japan (don't know why - it was not a rish order).

Next step is to put it on. Kubota recommends removing the rear wheels to gain access. I hope that I can get away without this step.

L3010 ROPS
Kubota Tractors
Replies 19 Post by Paladin

Ann: Actually, anecdotal evidence has its value. In this matter of materials selection you need to be especially attuned to the climate and soil conditions (and pests) in your area and their likely effect on the wood used in the project. Talk to local builders and homeowners who have attempted similar projects and form your own judgement.

No more anecdotal evidence - I promise. I will just say that my choice of materials might be very different for my primary home in a subdivision here in SE PA versus my summer home deep in the woods of NE PA. A distance of 100 miles, different soil conditions, about 8 deg F. average temperature difference and 1000 ft of additional elevation combine to make a world of difference in materials selection.

Storing Pressure treated Post
Home Improvement
Replies 25 Post by Paladin

I found my L3010 plus 3 implements by following the classifieds here and over on the other major tractor website. After some phone conversations negotiating price and peeling a 'nure sprader (which I definitely did not want) out of the package deal we struck a bargain. I flew down south to look at it for a $212 plane ticket. A check of the ytmag website located a trucker willing to haul it 800 miles at a buck a loaded mile. It is now a happy Pennsylvania tractor that lives in my 200 yr old barn.

The only problem - down south they fill the tires with WATER! That was a real hoot when the tires froze the first winter, but we got it fixed in short order.

You can get a good deal on a tractor over the internet, too, as well as e-bay.

Ebay listings
Kubota Tractors
Replies 10 Post by Paladin

The Farm Tracs are made by Lucky Goldstar in Korea. They are one of the largest, if not the largest, corporations in Korea so they aren't going away anytime soon. In other places in the world the tractors are sold as the "LG" (for Lucky Goldstar). If you look at the front of the tractor you are considering buying, you will see the "LG" crest.

I went through the exact same exercise that you did and wound up buying a used Kubota. With the LG, the weak link in the chain is the importer, Long Agribusiness. Nothing against the tractor, but Long has been through one bankruptcy already and now is majority owned by a company from India. I looked at Long, Kioti, Century/Branson, and you name it and finally decided on either a Kubota or JD because both have dealers and service available within 20 miles.

BTW, I found my tractor by following classifieds here and on the the other competing tractor website. Found a trucker over on the ytmag website to deliver it 800 miles at $1./mile It was an internet sale and everything worked out fine.

FarmTrac 300DTC
Other Tractor Brands
Replies 10 Post by Paladin

I needed to run a LONG new water line so I had a contractor friend do the digging with his L series GST with frame mounted 'hoe, while my L3010 HST handled backfilling the trench with screenings and then dirt.<br>
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We wound up driving each other's tractors for the final grading and I got a lot of complements about the ease of using the HST tranny. He wishes now that he had one on his 'bota.<br>
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I went directly from a Massey Ferguson stick shift to the HST, so this was my first expwerience with a GST. I have to admit that I'll stick with the HST for the rest of my tractor driving years. Once you use it you don't want to go back.

GST vs HST
Kubota Tractors
Replies 4 Post by Paladin

Eagle, you got a helluva good deal. The last time that I priced a 2035 with a factory loader on it it was up around $16,500. and that was last summer. The Great Bend loader is now manufactured by Bush Hog, who bought Great Bend out a couple of years back. You won't find a more reputable implement manufacturer than Bush Hog so parts (if you need any) should be no problem. I am not familiar with Southern as a brand name, although if it is a solidly built unit and if you take care of it and don't mow rocks it's pretty hard to screw up a rotary cutter.

Branson vs Century
Other Tractor Brands
Replies 39 Post by Paladin

Before I bought a Kubota I priced MF/Agco, although I was looking at much bigger tractors than you are.

For whatever reason, I found that the Agco dealers always had better prices on the same tractor as the MF dealers.

Massey Ferguson GC2300 sub-compact
Massey Ferguson Tractors
Replies 12 Post by Paladin