Recent content by Grandad4

The turnbuckles do two things, based on how you adjust them: 1. By tightening them, they are supposed to keep an implement from flopping from side to side. You can make them so tight the implement will be rigidly held, but it's usually better for there to be a little slack. 2. The turnbuckles...

I had a couple of those 600 lb rated carryalls. Inexpensive and very handy but would need reinforcing for anything heavier.

Carry-alls are great platforms for so many applications. Just a suggestion to check the rated carry capacity, which probably varies depending on the manufacturer, so you can factor that into your plans for modifying and using it.

Did you let out the clutch after pushing it in?

Switching that big deck on and off the tractor would be a chore. Hopefully locking it in the raised position will be all that's needed. Removing it is an option if the situation calls for it.

Getting that mid-PTO collar on was the worst part of the mower deck on my little BX tractor also. Can only say that it does get a little easier with practice. Nice looking L3010! I had its big brother (L4610) years ago. That series were all solid, reliable tractors. One tip for mowing...

No experience with this deck but the last photo appears to show an adjustment screw with jam nuts next to the slotted end of that rod. Wouldn't that be for adjusting the length?

Additional things to check on a BX2230: There is a fuse block just above the battery and near the instrument cluster. The wiring harness/fuse block feeds most everything on the BX. While you may have to stand on your head to see it, this should be checked for bad connections, fuses and wires...

Ken was referring to the small knob with a black triangular head beneath and in front of the large handle with the yellow plastic top in one of your previous pictures. You can loosen the black knob and slide it up the slot and re-tighten it so it will only allow the lever with the yellow handle...

What Ken said. Draft control is used by farmers when plowing the ground to keep the plowing depth even. Don't know of any other uses for it. Position control is used with many rear attachments to set the working height. I did that with my scraper blade, box blade, rotary tiller and rotary...

By the way, JBeech, welcome! There are some very knowledgeable Kubota experts here who know pretty much everything there is to know about the orange tractors. Then there are ordinary, average folks like me that may offer a helpful comment occasionally.

Took "which my L3010 doesn't have" to mean there is no loader, but yes - maybe it means he can't find the FEL float.

When you adjust the height of the 3 point hitch at the back of your L3010, the 3 point will drop down to the level you set with the control, but the attachment mounted on the 3 point arms is free to ride up or down as the tractor goes across uneven ground. It will not drop below the level set...

Maybe it's my own limited experience showing, but every side offset mower I have ever seen was mounted on a 50- 100 hp utility tractor, mostly, I guess, for hydraulic flow and the rear axle being heavy enough to take the side loads. Only the largest "compact tractors" might be suited for that...

As two other posts have noted, cleaning the rad fins with compressed air doesn't always get the job done. Dust can harden up on the fins and must be washed off. If the coolant was neglected there is a good chance nobody ever washed the radiator either. Easy and worthwhile maintenance item.