Recent content by nbryan

I actually tried that. One swamp-bush branch catching that and it was gone. Really. Don't depend on that piece of hooked rubber holding, one bit. My bolted on steel angle iron laughs at the bushes. An it's easier to engage than frozen stiff rubber bungee cords fighting my old messed up rotator...

... I installed safety brackets on my levers to hold them in place. . This is my solution. Scrabbled for free from my varied and deep parts (junk pile(s). I twisted the ssqa frame when a branch lifted a lever while backing up, and the forks frame caught a stump. No more.

I'm that 68 year old retired carpenter with bad lumbar, knees and shoulders, so do find it often painful setting ssqa lock levers. But I'm also on side with d2cat, and strongly agree with the use-it-or-lose-it system of maintaining my mobility with age. And not trying to make a buck anymore, so...

You must enjoy getting of and on your tractor twice for every ssqa implement change.

With an auto trans the torque is put under load in drive. No torque in HST, and I run it in N, not D. A buddy in my teens blew an auto tranny in his 1965 Galaxy 500 during winter warmup by applying park brake then leaving it in drive until warmed. So I wouldn't try that.

B2782B in action. Lower cylinder hose sprang a leak last cleanup so just installed the replacement hose. I should test the new one so the blower won't strand me when the next storm hits.

Has anyone here tried warming their HST fluid after a cold start by placing the transmission into Neutral gear then holding down the hst pedal in F and/or R? Asking this well versed community because someone here might know way more about any possible damage risk to the tranny this may cause...

My B2650 has pretty much the same HP as a B7610, but almost double the total hydraulic flow. They're both HST units too. So likely why this doesn't affect me nearly as much. I cover all but about a 4" square area of my rad in the winter, and that also slows the cooling for the hydraulic cooling...

R4's here for my 8th winter, so I know pretty well by now how my particular rig handles for traction in widely varying snow blowing conditions. They slip sideways fairly easily in a certain near freezing conditions so I just slow it down and maybe stay off the driveway shoulders until things...

Well drillers have huge heavy rigs with rock penetrating tips that have no problem grinding through whatever is encountered. Another type of portable drilling rig are the granite hole drill rigs used around here in Canadian shield country, for blasting at mine sites, and for installing steel...

The throttle lever controls the engine's RPM, thus the top moving speed of selected speed range. HSD pedal controls tractor speed.

I take my 60" Woods M5-4 "bush hog" rotary mower at least once a year into the bush/forest logging trail loop we cleared 5 years ago. Having the forks on the front while mowing are handy for clearing the inevitable dead-fall in the mature forest. That ancient mower can handle pretty severe abuse...

I beg to differ on the "essential" part, as my experience, with pto driven hole diggers anyway, is the tractor's movement front/back adjusts the digger's vertical alignment. All that's needed for up/down motion with the loader boom, and a small adjustment with the tractor front/back position for...

Your post got me looking for one for my B2650HSD, and looks like the SA20 model hydraulic diggers have options for Quick Attach loader mount units, with hoses that connect to the loader bucket valve outlets. I.e. no need for a 3rd function and much greater height adjustment ability than 3-point...

I'd have my BH77 backhoe hooked up and be on that job with it first. Operator experience finesse is required to cut and shape shallow trenches off to the side like that. Before reading your couldn't straddle the excavation area my first thought was to use a moldboard plow, then shape with a...