Recent content by Chad D.

With our compact tractors being pretty small (duh), I found it challenging to get the chains and binders where I wanted them. The bucket or rear implement seem to always be just a little in the way. A few years ago, I started using lasso tire straps and haven’t looked back. I found 12’...

You’ll be fine. May not be able to go quite as fast as a fella with 40hp on his PTO, but it’ll do the job for sure.

You’re limited to a 120W load on the OEM circuit back there, so I’d be leery of anything north of 7-8 amps. If that circuit is like the one on my B2650, it is turned on with the headlight switch, I think. I’d need to dig in to confirm, but I’m pretty sure that’s the way it was. My auxiliary...

20’ 10K flat bed for my B2650. I regularly put an implement, like my grader-scraper, at the front, then grab another item for the tractor and load up. With the grader, tractor, and box blade I have about a foot left and still put the ramps up. Loaded as described, my total combo is 7,600#...

Well, friends, I’ve done it again! This time, it was a heavy roller to help smooth out this field after I till it up and seed. I called a relative that does a lot of machine shop work and builds tons of pulleys for industrial companies. I just wanted to ask if he had a source for a piece of...

You’re not alone! That’s me most of the time. Prime example; I’m finally biting the bullet and having my pole barn replaced with a proper shop/ garage that I should have done a decade ago for about a third of the cost…

Not dirty, but maybe a touch guilty. The old guy paid $2100 for it a few years ago. Son listed it for $1800, but I had a budget that I was willing to part with. As nice as it is, the implement wasn’t worth more than $1200 to me. I didn’t expect them to accept it, but his mom was just glad to...

Not sure what I’m going to use it for, but had to jump on the deal. Not a ton of smaller discs hit the used market in my area, and they’re typically all angle iron units that are 95% roached out and missing hardware. No thanks… I found a 0-hour Land Pride DH-1560 less than 60 miles from home...

On a small framed tractor like a BX, it might be worth looking at a diverter valve if you’re only doing this for a box blade. You’re already short on space, so adding a new valve for rear remotes may be a challenge. Not cheap, but definitely recommend Fit Rite Hydraulics. @MtnViewRanch...

We ran my chipper behind the B2650 for 7 hours on Saturday. Filled two 7x14 dump trailers to the brim with chipped pine. I still giggle the whole time I’m using it.

I bought my top link cylinder from @MtnViewRanch and could not be happier. Looks like his lead times are listed at 10 weeks. Worth the wait… Do you have a float position on one of your remotes? If this is new to you, that means can you pull (or push) either of the levers and it pops past a...

I just drive one caster up on a car ramp.

Seems like the vertical dimension is what typically screws us that have QH-10 with the solid top hook.

A buddy has a 2920 that was a little wonky with the 3PH. We tracked it down to the linkage where it is supported by a little eye-bolt looking deal. The linkage rod should slide smoothly through the eye. His didn’t… Under seat, right side of rear end.

Would a Quick Hitch be easier for you to use than strapping or chaining up your 3PH? Might be a nice way to transport your cultivator where you need it, as well as easily drop it when you don’t want it.