Recent content by Chris11

Thanks everyone. I like the idea of simply using the bucket to push the tractor ahead, plus the idea of temporarily disabling the safety switch. Once it gets warmer I'll try them both to see which I like better. Chris

How does one dig a water line trench? Dig 6 feet or so with the seat facing backwards, get up, reposition the seat to forward facing, move the tractor 6 feet, get up, repositon the seat to the back again.....etc, etc. That doesn't seem reasonable. What am I missing? Thanks, Chris

This language must be metric.

Yep...at the time I had the rpm up at 3000. In the past I wondered if there was a problem with my pump since it didn't seem to do the work it should have at whatever rpm.

The one thing I didn't try was moving to the side. One side is against a cross fence, the front is against the load I was attempting to push and so I do have one side to attempt to snooze it over to. Tomorrow should be close to freezing in the morning...makes the ground hard for you Florida...

I tried it all I thought ....but thanks for the info that the first item takes all the pressure. I'll keep that in mind when I attempt the rescue tomorrow.

No pole, tree or anything else to attach something to. Im in the middle of a field....a really wet field.

Hello fellow Americans. My tractor is stuck up to the errr...everything underneath. Strangely the bucket won't lift the front end and the backhoe won't pull it out. I tried all three at once...holding down the reverse pedal, pushing back with the bucket and pulling with the hoe bucket. I...

You canajuns EH want so much to be Americans you can't help but involve yourselves in OUR politics. Try to fix your own country's outrageous taxation, stupidly high prices and disgusting lack of consumer goods.

Thanks for the replies. I'm amazed that hydraulics act like this....used I can understand, but new I thought wouldn't leakdown. Glad I checked with you knowledgable people before I took it for a "repair." I do now put blocks under it .... but that first time I took it off and it fell over I...

I've had my BX25 for just over one year now. Ever since brand new the downriggers have slowly lost pressure. In fact the first time I took off the backhoe I used the downriggers to hold it up .... the next day I found it had fallen over. Now one of the downriggers will slowly (over 24 hours)...

I wasn't being sarcastic or dismissing your reply. I appreciate it when people take the time to reply...and I appreciated your reply. Is it possible you're just too defensive and read agendas when there isn't one?

I've spent lotsa time on the phone with my local dealer and then a regional office, who put me onto someone else....you know how it goes with large corporations. I finally spoke to someone who apparently knew. He said they had a conference about what the manual said and what it should have...

Good point. It is still under warranty and would be worth the 40 mile drive and the extra money. Thanks for the URL. Your quoted page shows I must use CJ-4....and my manual says, and I quote..... * The CJ-4 engine oil is intended for DPF (Diesel Particulate Filter) type engines, and cannot...