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- Sat Jun 01, 2024 6:43 am
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: Broke mower. Could use your opinion
- Replies: 11
- Views: 677
Re: Broke mower. Could use your opinion
I actually just used mine yesterday again... Thought I could used the hydraulic top link to float it, but sadly my hydraulics will not allow for that particular combination... So glad I fixed it up. The fields got away from me this season, and the flail couldn't handle the volume. The rotary just do...
- Thu May 30, 2024 4:51 am
- Forum: Lawn care, Farming, Gardening, Wood cutting
- Topic: Wood Chipper Improvements
- Replies: 7
- Views: 981
Re: Wood Chipper Improvements
Running through a deck would be nice, but just running through a blower does a pretty goot job on my leaves. My franken-vac is a 1971 EZ-Rake blower from my father's JD 140 setup, grafted on a big Trac-Vac trailer that lost it's motor and blower, pulled by the 444. I just blow all the leaves in pile...
- Thu May 30, 2024 4:30 am
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: Broke mower. Could use your opinion
- Replies: 11
- Views: 677
Re: Broke mower. Could use your opinion
Late to the party again... I tell ya, this work thing really gets in the way of my hobbies. I'm glad you're just going to replace it. There will be some sticker shock involved in a new one, but that's way better than the potentials from a bad shaft. Question on your mower setup. It appears the top l...
- Thu May 09, 2024 12:05 pm
- Forum: Attachments, Implements, Accessories
- Topic: Hydraulic post hole auger
- Replies: 6
- Views: 483
Re: Hydraulic post hole auger
That's a great looking pivot/ mount. I wish I had done something that nice when I did mine. I used the business end of a Little Beaver auger when I built it to make auger aquisition easy.
- Wed May 08, 2024 1:40 pm
- Forum: Lawn
- Topic: First cutting
- Replies: 6
- Views: 463
Re: First cutting
That's no fun... I'll be hitting round 3 tomorrow afternoon, and Friday morning hopefully. The Walker and it's new 56" deck have worked great (2 almost full tanks per mow). The MF135 is hooked up, greased, and fueled, but I discovvered the 6' Mott flail's belt had deteriorated, and it's a weird...
- Tue May 07, 2024 9:30 am
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: Anybody have experience with old Gensets?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2210
Re: Anybody have experience with old Gensets?
Oh, I get it... Dad was born in '33. He passed in '22. It took many months to clean out/up to the point I could even have the auction in PA, and estate sale in NJ. I'm still working on it now since I couldn't part with too much of it at the time. Plus, moving out to PA showed me just how much stuff ...
- Mon May 06, 2024 5:30 am
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: Anybody have experience with old Gensets?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2210
Re: Anybody have experience with old Gensets?
Before declaring victory, you might want to run them under a heavy load close to their rating. The drop light is inspiring, but a heavy load is where it's at. After that, sell 'em off, and buy the right motor for your tiller. (you could wait for a storm, and sell at a premium, but done is good more ...
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 6:19 am
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: I got hurt. (Sorry if this is a little graphic)
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1489
Re: I got hurt. (Sorry if this is a little graphic)
Been away... Sorry to hear your N bit you. That's some scary crap. Way back... Prior to my existance... My folks learned the hard way that you don't leave a tractor in gear when you park it... Somehow, a mouse chewed the right wires, in just the right way to cause a short on the start circuit of the...
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 6:03 am
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: Anybody have experience with old Gensets?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2210
Re: Anybody have experience with old Gensets?
Having spent the weekend working on a generator, I can say, your machines have much nicer access... I was a hundred bolts or so in to the sheet metal covers of an MEP-802a Military surplus diesel unit. I had a couple Winco gen sets such as you have here. They had those bomb-proof Briggs on them. No ...
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 6:20 am
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: Being impatient can still be fun!
- Replies: 4
- Views: 985
Re: Being impatient can still be fun!
I've only run the 8N plowing a couple times. However my father had it set, is how I ran it, because a) I had only read the book on the process, and how to set up the N, and b) there was no telling my father that he might not have done something right... He was the ultimate authority on everything, r...