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If your original (in the tractor) is NFG, then (imo) you are doing yourself a small disservice by putting another in parallel. It's just going to drag the voltage down, making the starter roll slower. You can use your voltmeter to watch this before you even touch the starter. If it's just a...

We're not all psychics here.

p.s.- if the battery in the tractor is utter cr@p (you can't know w/o a load test) and your little starter/jumper battery is good, all you're doing by putting them in parallel is loading down both batteries. (the good battery in essence is trying to charge the bad battery with not much left over...

Just a datapoint. My 23+ yr old TG1860 (700cc 3cyl diesel) wouldn't start on the hottest day of the year w/o glow plugs even when it was "relatively" new (@ 500hrs I got it). At 960 hrs, it's no better. In the spring, when it's cool, the first few starts of the year sometimes I have to glow...

Importing a vehicle to Canada can be a headache. I imported a small British car (Austin Mini (from Wales) in 2005 and it was bad then, but I understand it's worse now. Back in 2005 the car/truck/whatever had to be minimum of 15yrs old--no exceptions. As Jay mentioned, on new vehicles...

Valve stem @ 12 o'clock? (that's where the air pocket will be) Use an air gauge designed for liquid, just to be safe. Sorry-that's all I got.

This, right here.

Patched a tube and changed the oil in the TG1860

I ended up doing the "50hr service" at 70hrs. (oh, the shame!!!) My BIL, who's been a mechanic for 50+ yrs has a very similar sized different brand of orange tractor with approaching 200hrs on it and he's "starting to think" about doing all the fluids. Other than the few bits of white sealant I...

Y'all have changed my mind (& Thank you!) No holes in the forks.

Barely started on my bucket boompole project. Pipe is 2" (aprox) thickwalled aluminum around 20' long, slipped through a trailer hitch on my bucket. I am able to reach pretty high up with it. Even with no bracing or anything, I was able to pick up an empty pallet. Lotsa plans for this...

Thanks - it was a good idea ! (y)

I did as someone ( @thebicman I believe) suggested. Filled it full of epoxy, waited 24hrs, filed a rough edge/surface to the epoxy and used some good doublefaced tape and stuck er back down. Good to go!

My chute rotation is hydraulic (very fast--almost too fast!) Of course the snowblower unit itself is up/down is hydraulic and perfect. Deflector is electric and slower than hydraulic but IMO is nearly perfect. I can stop it where I like. I didn't want hydraulic deflection because I didn't...

Thanks MLF - I had not considered that. It's a small car, but on (slightly) uneven (dirt) ground and likely it'll have 1 or 2 flat tires. Brakes may be stuck as well. Maybe I would be better off with my bucket afterall, given I have a 2" receiver and other doodads to "hook to". My PF's are...

It's a mystery. There they were - gone!

I have a set of PFL1242 pallet forks on my BX,. How "hard" of steel are they if I wanted to poke a BIG hole near the end of one (or both) Occasionally I might like to put a trailer hitch ball in the end of one to move an empty utility trailer around my flat yard. Also, another project has...

I actually have need to make a shallow narrow trench this summer (~80' long x 6" x 6") and was trying to conjur up ideas to make a ripper of some sort, but ya know what--after the tree thing y'day, I might just see if it's possible to do with one fork. Might just be !

Not a grapple, but you can make yourself a (sorta) set of pallet forks for $0.00 by ratchet strapping two HD pipes under your bucket. I used the "2 pipes" method for months while the piggy bank grew large enough to afford real forks (which are much better, yes).

Transplanted a couple small fir trees using only the palette forks as diggers, yankers, holders, shovel. Barely had to get off the machine. Kinda cool. Had never tried this before. (anxious to try again!) Gotta love forks!