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In my area you call the man with the big track hoe. He shows up digs a nice hole next to it and pushes it in the hole while I am gone getting the burn permit. By ten the fire is started and by evening I am pushing the dirt back into the hole with the skid loader. No one around here wants a...

I myself don't really care for either without brakes. If I only had those two to chose from it would be number two. Where I cut wood sounds like were you cut wood number one would be on its side the first load out of the woods.

Andreas You have been using T4 in your other tractor I would use it in the Kubota. On this farm I use both T4 and T6. Any thing I have a Kubota engine in on this farm I bought new and its had T6 in it since new. I have three semi trucks and a older JD 4440 and all they ever had in them is...

We I started farming in the late 70's most all of my equipment was pull type and about the only thing three point was a blade and a round bale carrier. Then in the 80's and 90's most of my equipment went three point. Then the 2000's came and equipment kept getting bigger went from a 8 row...

Pretty much all my implements I use on my MX6000 are Cat one. I changed the pins on the ones I could and the ones I couldn't with out cutting and welding news in I use bushings. I bought a new top link when the tractor was new, with Cat one both ends. The factory top link hangs in the shed.

Back in 1979 I bought a new left over 1978 CO 4070B with a 3406 A model cat in it with a 10 speed and spring ride on the back. Between myself and a few drivers mostly a uncle of mine we put over a million miles on that truck before selling it and I got out of fuel hauling. One of the best trucks...

In my part of the world we called them buzz saws or cord wood saws. I have cut hundreds of cords of hedge {Osage Orange } with them. I have had one that we staked down and ran a flat belt off a old G JD tractor and later had one mounted on the front of the old G. Had a couple three point...

I was around them some in the late 70's and early 80's on semi trucks and they didn't work very well always having lines broken and you still had to do the U-joints on the drive line. Have been around a few on some of the newer combines and they work pretty well on them but you still had to do...

Now you know the reason my batwing mower stays hooked up all summer until the last mowing after fall harvest is done. Then it gets a final clean up, greased a complete check over and unhooked in the shed. As I get older those CV shafts have gotten heavier and harder to hook up. I started mowing...

As I get older and glasses don't help I find myself turning on the tractor lights more when hooking up in the sheds. I have many cold storage sheds with no power.

If it was me and its running good and pulling good I would leave it alone. I have ran a lot of those Perkins 354 and 372 engines in Oliver, White tractors and Massey combines. They get some hours on them and they like to smoke at idle. Never had a issue finding a Massey combine out in the field...

I would second this. I have used this forum on and off for years for information for my old Cat track loader. Ten years ago I had a bearing go out in my torque convertor and the book and Cat dealer told me I had to pull the rear diff and trans to get the convertor out and a member on there...

Here's my take on this. You say you have 26 acres and not flat. If you can afford a MX4900 with backhoe get it. The others will probably do the job. You will like the bigger frame size tractor much more stable on the hills than the others. More loader and back hoe cap. What's not to like about...

I have used a fair amount of that Meguiar's wax cleaner over the years and then a guy I worked with, that went to tons of cars shows told me about M-Ron Glass wax cleaner. Its not cheap but it really does clean up a dull paint job. In my area the local Mack dealer is the only one that carry's...

Congratulations on the new to you tractor. I only use the brakes on my MX6000 for parking. Even on my big tractors I don't feel the need to spin the tractor around using the brakes. You are going to love that HST. I my self wouldn't have a mid sized tractor without HST. I just put sixty hours on...