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Congrats! Probably the most important thing for someone completely new to tractors is to get used to where all the controls are and exactly what they do. After some seat time, you should be able to instinctively reach for any control without looking. While doing that, low and slow are the...

Just for a bit of clarification, here is the single remote I had put on my B2650. One "set" of remotes, or two hoses, in this case hooked up to the hydraulic top link for my box blade. The single lever in the cab that controls the up/down (or in this case, the in/out) of the cylinder hooked...

:D Lost a ewe this winter and things are thawed enough to bury her. Seeing as the old Woods hoe won't fit on my new Cabota, I had to borrow a buddy's Cat 416. In exchange, I get to figger out why the Cat ain't charging...

B2650 with cab and loader, one set of rear remotes, block heater, pallet forks came to $28,285

Observations after some seat time on my new Cab-ota: 1. My Woods 650 3PH backhoe is NOT going to fit without modification. It's got to be set back at least 6 inches for the seat to clear the cab, and the upper mounting point is a shade too wide to fit in the bracket on the tractor. I'm going...

Guy at the dealer said some engineers from Japan came by some years back when the B2650 Cab was in development, looking for suggestions. One was to make the cab 3" shorter so it would fit into a standard 7' garage door. They didn't take advantage of that idea for some reason. Fortunately...

Congrats! Must've been...ummmm..."interesting" between the ages of say 12 and 17, eh? :p I've got two daughters barely a year apart, it was touch-and-go there for a while if daughters or parents were going to survive that period. All turned out good in the end tho, and now I have...

I'll let ya know. Just lugged mine home today. Only had a couple of minutes to play with it, moved a little compost around. Feels pretty stable even with the higher CG from the cab. Roughly the same wheel base and tread width I had on my JD750 and I never felt unsafe on that as long as I...

Just bear in mind that on a single acting cylinder there has to be a way for the oil to escape when the cylinder rod is retracted. The most common application for that is on snowplow angle cylinders. When the plow is angled, the oil being pushed out of the retracting cylinder is re-routed to...

I'm assuming by "dual controls" you mean a single joystick that controls two functions. At it's simplest, all that really is is two valves controlled by one lever through multiple linkages. Fore-and-aft on the lever controls one valve, side-to-side controls the other. If so, there's no...

In this image, the power pack on the left represents the hydraulic pump and reservoir on your tractor. Pressurized oil from the pump goes to the valve. The valve selects whether pressure is applied to the extend or retract side of the cylinder. In either case, the opposite hose is used to...

This is a typical example of a rear remote connection. In this case, it's a dual remote to operate two double-acting cylinders and will have two levers in the cab (or near the seat) one to operate each pair of remotes. The hoses from the cylinder(s) plug into the connectors shown. They are...

One remote usually consists of one pair of connectors on the rear of the tractor into which you plug the hoses from the cylinder to be operated. Virtually all cylinders are "double acting" which means they apply hydraulic power both to extend and to retract the cylinder. The valve is a lever...

Dual remotes have (as far as I know) separate valves. A typical use would be a disk harrow with folding wings. One remote controls the wings, the other raises and lowers the disk. Two remotes run off one valve could be done but I can't picture a use right off the top of my head.

I bought a JD750 new in 1988, just sold it a couple of weeks ago, so 27 years. It had 2800 +/- on the meter plus an estimated 300 hours of use with a broken tach. (I finally fixed it by taking the bezel off and lubing the innards. JD was out of their mind on the price of a replacement)...

I looked at the Pronovost kit for my Puma blower and suffered the same sticker shock. Being A) a cheap esso bee, and B) having a fairly impressive junk pi....uh, I mean, inventory of spare parts, and C) an dedicated junkyard engineer, I decided to build my own. It involved an old 12V boat...

To the OP: I feel your pain. I've been waiting on mine for 3 weeks now and no end in sight. I'm less than thrilled with the stories I've been getting from the dealer, but don't have a lot of options at this point. As to implementitis: There really ought to be a telethon for those of us that...

I don't have it yet (hopefully by the end of this week!) but I had to make the same decision when I decided to replace my JD750. Price was an issue certainly, but the main thing was avoiding the Tier 4 technology so I went with the 2650. It actually has a bit more advertised power than my 750...

I scored a 275 gallon heating oil tank off Craigslist for $75 and put a Tuthill hand pump in it. It's setting on steel I beam foundation next to the barn I store the tractor in. Got the local off-road fuel guy to put a couple of hundred gallons in it when fuel was cheap ($2.25) and legally...

I use a 64" Pronovost rear mount on my gravel drive. The only problem is an early (or late) storm over mud. When the drive is soft like that, it's best to just leave it if possible. I do a driveway for another house that is crushed stone. That crap NEVER freezes. Best I can do is run the...