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Way back, a buddy had a junker Fiat from the early 70s. The cruse control looked just like a choke pull button/handle. Dangerous as heck, no connections to anything but the carb and certainly didn’t not regulate speed relative to load on the engine.

You think a pallet Jack would move the 108 gallon JDI tank? four wheels and steerable. Heck, back in the day we moved a car at work in the parking lot with one (and a couple 2x4s to extend the reach) when the employee couldn’t be located and the gas company needed to trench under it.

That low profile JDI looks to be just the unit for your set up. I’m thinking in my barn, where floor space is always premium, taller is better. I might put it on one of the units of plywood I have in there which are space hogs in their own right. So of course I stack all sorts of things on them...

Sounds like a person would have done well to get along with Miss June. 😄 My childhood included a party line and a rotary phone hanging on the kitchen wall with a 20 something foot long cord, all owned by Ma Bell. The neighbors would listen in to your call sometimes. I think I’d have rather it...

Nice, many times the best hole is the one already there. I did similar using the existing ROPS bolt holes for the storage bin on my L. I like that you’ve planned an easy way to remove the bin. I’m sure that will come in handy. Mine obstructs my rearward view for brush hogging (I do a bit of...

Dang! That’s pretty irritating. And you didn't even weaken due to the hood getting a beauty mark. I’d do what RWS suggested, if I were going to try to straighten the rod. Maybe several thin copper/brass (10, 20 thousands) shims in the half pipe to help spread the load onto the rod given it has...

Looks like that placement will work well. I expect you have a “no drill” (into the ROPS) fastening method figured out.

Thanks! That’s encouraging news. As to the pallet forks fitting, is it your specific installation orientation limiting how the pallet forks can be used? Or is the fuel tank itself not able to accept pallet forks in the groves under the tank if the long axis of the tank is perpendicular to the...

Nice. Good idea. I like the execution, simple but effective. Thanks for sharing it.

How do you like your Vevor 58 gallon fuel tank, accessories, handle, hoses etc? Do you know if you can get pallet forks under it in both the short and long directions? I had one of the JDI units in my Amazon wish list, but it’s pretty spendy (over a grand) and I see the Vevor is around $600...

31 acres. How long does that take? How many times would the battery mower have to be charged? At how long per charge (overnight)? Sounds like nearly a part time job mowing 31 acres with any kind of a finish mower. Maybe a couple mowers gets it done in a day? Or one mower on glass smooth turf...

Nice. Good to think about safety. I do. What I do to be sure an FEL can’t squash me is to remove it. Takes all of 4 minutes, maybe twice what it’d take to put in a cylinder lock out device. 2 “extra” minutes to 110% eliminate the hazard. I like the safety hazard control invented pyramid. But...

X10 on 7060 and pasture drag/harrow for manure. Unless you need a cab, then sort that out first.

Usefull cutting brakes? Indeed they could, with an operator that has no business on a tractor. More than likely, using a cutting brake unintentionally at speed on the road would put you in the ditch upside down in a second or two. Maybe even a short bumper ride along the way.

Very generally the load factor for skilled labor is about 3. So I’d be nice if the employee gets $50/hr if they bill out at $150/hr. That’s in the PNW, in the skilled labor and technical white collar end of things I’m aware of, YMMV.

lol. That one hit every branch on the way though the ugly tree. If in the exterior cosmetics are in that bad a shape, I’m thinking the rest of it might have had a rough life too.

Congratulations, you figured out a use for both of the extras my L came with as well. So I guess my L has the ice rink grading option too. I never have been impressed with the engineer that figured folks with an HST must have two right feet. At least the newer Bs and Ls have the brakes on the...

Wish you folks the best with it. As mentioned above, the rule (unwritten or otherwise) is if you borrow it and damage it you (the borrower) either fix it (or get it fixed) like new or replace it. In that paradigm, the borrower is doing all this leg work. Given they’ve been neighbors for 40...

Dr Frankenstein I presume? Good thing the appearance of the scar won’t matter. Looks like something my Dad would have done. Inventive.

I don’t know the part numbers, but within the last few months there was a thread hereon in which the manufacturer of the buttons and that manufacturer’s part numbers were discussed. I think it was for the Land Pride joy stick handle. Hopefully someone that saw this will recall the tread more...