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Re: NoJacketRequired's B7510 / Jodale-Perry Cab Project I delivered the tractor to my father on December 1st. The temperature was above freezing so the snow in his driveway was quite wet and sloppy. His first test drive put a big grin on his face. I've attached here a photo of my Dad running...

Re: NoJacketRequired's B7510 / Jodale-Perry Cab Project With the cab pretty much looked after it was time to turn my attention to the B2771 front-mounted snowblower. It came to me with manual (crank) chute rotation and manually controlled discharge chute deflection. Clearly this situation...

Re: NoJacketRequired's B7510 / Jodale-Perry Cab Project Since the raison d'etre for this tractor was to provide a comfortable, reliable platform to my father for winter snow removal, making sure the cab heater worked was of prime importance. The heater is contained in an overhead console in...

Re: NoJacketRequired's B7510 / Jodale-Perry Cab Project Next came the hydraulics. This turned out to be a FAR bigger job than anticipated, mostly as a result of me not thinking for myself but rather relying on bad advice from a vendor. The bare B7510 had no aux hydraulics at all. I purchased...

Re: NoJacketRequired's B7510 / Jodale-Perry Cab Project Thanks for the kind comments, Flip. I agree completely, this turned out to be a bigger project than I had thought it would be. Took me 8 weeks. But then again my work space isn't heated and I was shut down several days by temperatures...

Re: NoJacketRequired's B7510 / Jodale-Perry Cab Project Fortunately I have a neighbor who is pretty handy with a welder and the torch. I dropped off the cab at his place, drove the tractor over, and we went to work. When the B2771 front mount blower had been shipped to me it had come with a...

Re: NoJacketRequired's B7510 / Jodale-Perry Cab Project Now that I had decided the newest B7510 would become the Grandpa tractor I went on the search for a snowblower for it. Nothing but a front-mounted unit would do, for obvious reasons. I found a B2771 complete with the Quick Hitch. It had...

NoJacketRequired's B7510 / Jodale-Perry Cab Project Well folks I guess the time has come to write up a little story here and share my experiences in modifying and installing a cab on one of my B7510's. First the back story. In the fall of 2017 I purchased a bare B7510 on R1 ag tires. This...

Hmmm... I'm wondering if I should write anything in response as it will likely seem more like I'm boasting, or full of BS! :rolleyes: My first buck was an over-mature 8 pointer. He weighed 216lbs field dressed (still with head/hide/legs on). My last buck taken with a primitive muzzle loader...

My main concern is that I drill the hole close enough to the end that it's effective as a drain, but I don't want to risk hitting anything of value inside! :D

How big are your deer, CM? I'm getting the idea they must be a fair bit smaller than ours are here. We had been paying the local butcher shop to cut and double-wrap our venison for a number of years. This past September a tornado took out the little strip mall that housed our butcher shop, so...

You can also do some rough calibration of your torque wrenches yourself. Find some fixed weights and have them weighed on a calibrated scale (post office works well for this!). Clamp the drive end of the wrench in a vise. Use a loop or rope or similar to hang your weights from the handle end...

D2 - would you happen to have a picture of where that drain hole should be drilled? I've been having intermittent issues with the float position on my B7510 with the LA302 loader. Seems this summer things got dry enough that it's working again, kind of (won't stay in detent). Last winter I...

On the B7200 I had the cable was frozen up and the lever on the cylinder head was frozen up. It still started just fine through a very cold winter. Of course I made sure I had a good battery and I pre-heated the machine with a kerosene salamander heater. Oh, and 30 seconds of glow plug...

I'm interested, too. Particularly as a Canadian! (The bacon we eat is the same as yours, thin strips of smoke/salt cured pork, often with an intolerably-high fat content, but is sizzles and smells fantastic when cooking and those crispy strips sure taste good!) Skeets - what kind of smoker do...

Moisture in the hydraulic oil has been a perennial problem in my fleet of Massey 35/135's. I use them almost exclusively for snowblowing, so they were working hard but working in cold winter temperatures in the presence of lots of moisture. The oil would entrain moisture and would look more...

Wow... I'm really feeling spoiled with my box scrapers. I set the top link of the 3PTH to the correct length to control the amount of "bite" the blade takes, then just drop the blade and drag the snow forward into a windrow that I can then remove with the snowblower. Works a charm on gravel...

Good info to know. All of my fleet (B2410, pair of B7510's) have an electric fuel solenoid and no manual shutoff. Ain't it wonderful how a couple of digits in the model number makes all the difference in the world?!?!

Once again, NIW comes through with one of those little facts that makes all the difference. There's a ton of good info locked away in NIW's brain and I, for one, am very thankful that he shares it with us here in this forum.

If it was my neighbor selling this tractor I'd be all over it to get it at the right price. Had a B7200HSD - really good, solid little tractor. Don't worry about the dents and dings - instead, be happy that you've got good solid tin to hammer out flat (unlike the newer tractors). One thing to...