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No, its the rear wheels. The heavier the load, the more violent the shaking. With a 400lb scraper on the 3-pt, the service writer said, "We thought we were seeing air under your rear tires." Its actually painful to your spine to get slammed if you are not sitting erect. The dealer finally got...

Mike! Let me be the first to say, "WELCOME TO ORANGE!!!!" And let me also be the first to say, "AY CARAMBA!!! Did somebody hold a gun to your head to make you buy that? (I know no one in Australia has guns anymore...) Or did it come with "the wife?" :D All kidding aside, if there is a way to...

Word is, a shed-load of US banks have derivatives linked to the price of oil. If it goes below $60, you are going to see a ton of bank failures. And don't count on the FDIC to cover everyone. Expect more consolidations. Remember 2008? Its coming back -and soon. And worse. This entire economy is...

Mine has 180 hours on it. It was fine when I got it with 126 hours but something has gone South on it since. I didn't use the 3pt for the first 6mos I had it, just the loader. The point is this: A 3-point hitch is the main working aspect of a tractor. They all come with 3-points, correct? A...

Survey of Orange Operators... Background: My L3800 has a known issue of chattering while lifting a load on the 3pt. Kubota knows about it. My dealer knows about it. Kubota is saying its normal. My dealer thinks its dorked up and took a video for Kubota which is almost comical. When lifting, the...

Somewhere on this forum, a guy has pictures of "training wheels" he welded up to support the two halves when he split his tractor. Made the job a heck of a lot easier, I am sure. Best of luck.

$1200? :eek: Any machine shop worth a hooey could make 'em for less than half that. At some point, the manufacturer looses the sale due to insane pricing.

Interesting... Did Deer manufacture these motors of did they contract them out to Yanmar or someone else? A lot gets lost in the process when you split manufacturing across factories or worse, continents. At least the drive train comes from Kubota. Though they may try, they cannot duck...

If I am missing something, I apologize... From your descriptions, you will want to grade horizontal to a slope and change the slope to stop/control erosion. A standard box will only frustrate you because the box is always matching the plane of the rear axles. You need an articulated box that...

RANT WARNING: For Owners Still Under Warranty: My 2012, still under warranty, Kubota L3800 has been at the dealer for almost two weeks. The 3pt is malfunctioning and Kubota knows it is an issue with this tractor. But they don't want to allocate resources to figure out what is going on or how it...

And the forecasts said this could be colder than last winter. Of course, some forecasts said the polar bears would all drown but that hasn't happened just like all the "killer hurricane" seasons that haven't happened. I think its God's way of showing us who is in charge. ;)

Sheepfarmer, Welcome to the Orange. I have had my tractor for about a year and only started playing with the 3pt recently. Just when I thought I knew what I was seeing, Wolfman threw me a curve. I played around with his comments and realized I was missing how these implements actually worked...

Hope it wasn't your daughter in the truck!!! Just curious, what did your hood run? They wanted $725 for an L3800 hood!!! I had mine beat out and bondoed by an auto body place for $350. The light assemblies were $125 apiece! When pulling out the damaged assemblies I turned one over, not...

wjason, I found my 126 hour L3800 HST with three implements on CraigsList. Before that, I found a scam tractor and the owner would not respond immediately. That is your first sign. Somebody wanting to sell responds immediately, or at least within a day. If you can arrange to see it and test...

Al, Been following along... Nothing helpful to add except one thread somewhere on this forum showed a guy who had welded up "training wheels" for both ends of his tractor so that splitting the machine was relatively easy on smooth concrete. Getting it back together would probably require a...

Plenty of great ideas... Here is one I tried and loved so much I bought two more: http://smile.amazon.com/Rat-Trap-Raticator-Infrared-Exterminates/dp/B009N8X6GA/ref=sr_1_sc_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1418028022&sr=8-1-spell&keywords=ratenator Kills rats when baited with a dog cookie. Works like a charm...

Chipper/shredders are cool. I call them "bio-mass generators." They explode tree parts so fast, you almost spend more time raking away the chute area than loading in waste. At least with the tractor, you could move ahead 2 feet and start over. Out here, a lot of the trees have nasty 2" thorns...

iddykstra, Thanks for those pictures! Could you put up a close up of the 3-pt with the stabilizers you have? They are building a new Tractor Supply less than 5 mi from my house. Supposed to be open early summer. A set of Pat's and some stabilizers will be among the first buys I make. Thanks...

Don't do this! Trailer is rated for 5000lb. My friend towed this trailer with his 350 Ford Diesel 85 miles to my house... with L3800, FEL, and a 800lb rototiller on the 3pt. He has a green tractor and kept telling me his was the same size. Not quite. I borrowed the trailer to take it in for...

Chicks dig grease...