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The three Kubotas and the Ford all had different degrees of whine. The old Ford 1210 is probably the least offensive, followed by the L4240. The B7500 was worse and the L3200 was the noisiest. I could run it while wearing a ball cap and it was borderline intolerable. Wearing a brimmed hat made...

I know a guy who spent $2000 to trace his family tree. Then he spent another $5000 to keep it quiet.

First - I'm not a mechanic or an engineer Can the lack of a thermostat be causing the overheating? Doesn't the coolant need some dwell time in the radiator to have some heat extracted? Is the engine heating and boiling the coolant to the point it flashes to steam? If that happens the steam...

With RFM's at a comfortable pace it takes me 33 minutes with the 5' deck and 25 minutes with the 7-1/2' deck. That's doing neat alternating patterns. One time I did a speed run with the 7-1/2' deck and did our 3-1/2 acres in just a tad under 18 minute per acre. That was too fast and bordered...

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It was a disappointment that the overall project didn't work out, but I was glad our portion performed to their expectations.

When I went from a tractor with power steering to hydraulic steering it bothered me for at first. After some seat time it isn't an issue. I do have a suicide knob and use it a lot because of the frequent turns while mowing or using the loader/snowplow. While mowing longer stretches, I usually...

I had an old WWII (that's not World War Eleven in case you're in the House of Representatives) military jeep, a '67 CJ and a '95 YJ. If you could drive blindfolded, you wouldn't be able to tell much difference between the ''46 and the '67 except for top speed. Both would go anywhere and had a...

I ran a 5' rotary cutter on the B7500 years ago. It was a 21HP tractor with something like 16HP at the PTO and the weight was similar to the B2401. It was on the low end of power to run the cutter well. The tractor would not have handled the cutter without the loader. It was too light. My...

My first tractor was geared and the next four have been HST's. For me the HST's are easier to use. When very small movements are needed there's no substitute for an HST. You can move the tractor a fraction of an inch at a time with no clutch to ride. As others mentioned the HST does make...

I see it sold in 40# bags at stores or by cubic yards for any real quantity around here. Mulch is often sold by the bag in stores. At local greenhouses or garden centers (centres for you:) ) it is sold by the cubic yard some places or by the "scoop". I don't know how close they are with the...

This was one of those projects prior to my move into the home base to manage the shops. The last years I spent in the field were on projects that were smaller than the multi-million, often multi-year projects that were the main pursuit of the company. I enjoyed challenges and working on odd...

My Ford 1210 is similar to your Kubota. It handles a 5' Caroni RFM nicely. It did not handle a 5' LandPride. The weight of the deck makes a big difference.

In our shops we had good clean and dry air for plasma cutters. Certainly nothing like what we fabbed up for a pharmaceutical company to dry pills. That engineer rattled off something like "minus 50 degree C dewpoint, 0.05 micron filter.........".