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Here in northern Indiana we haven't had much snow this winter. I think I've only used the blower on my 430 John Deere about 3 hours, and that includes cleaning out the neighbor's driveway too. That's about the same amount of time it took me to take off the mower deck, change the oil, put on...

I'm not sure what diameter those hoses are, but if they are around 3/4" to 1' in diameter, I would get some heat shrink tube for large battery cables like 2/0 or 3/0 and slide a piece over the skinned up area and shrink it down with a heat gun. The best type of shrink tube has an inner liner of...

I've been slowly working on the brush guard for my BX2230 this winter. It's been so d#$m cold and my shop doesn't heat very well, so I haven't made as much progress as I would have likes to by now. But I did get everything welded together and Monday night I worked cutting some metal screen...

Try Googling "Deep Dish Steering Wheel", you find lots of options.

In three words, practice, practice, practice. I have run backhoes and excavators many years ago, and only after a couple hundred hours was I able to get a consistent depth and/or gradient in a trench. But like other posters said, a transit or rotary laser and story pole is a must.

I have always used ALT +0176, but ALT+248 generates the same character. Whooa thunk I'd pick up that little bit of info on a Kubota tractor forum?

Has anyone put a tach on a 2230? I have been looking at the Tiny Tach. It has a transducer that clamps to an injector line to pick up pulses when the injector line is pressurized. https://www.tinytach.com/diesel-tinytach

That's my 1970 Nova SS project. I bought it a few years back, looked pretty solid. After about 5 years some rust started showing, and well, one thing led to another. I ended up having the entire floor, firewall, tail light panel, most of the trunk and both rear quarters replaced. Not much...

Until I can get a snow blower for my 2230, this is my old reliable '91 JD 430. Does a good job on whatever snow we get around here.

That sucker ought to handle it. You driving the blower with a PTO driven pump, or off the tractor's system?

Sorry, but you can't view the picture unless you have a shutterfly account. Just post it directly on this site, much easier.

That's exactly what I was thinking when I saw the picture of the rear of the trailer. It looks like it's only made of 2 X 2 structural angle and some C channel. I certainly wouldn't want to run a nearly 6,000 lb tractor up onto it.

That's one reason I have had a cap on every pickup I have owned. With darkly tinted glass you can't see what's inside, and a locking rear window and tailgate will deter all but the most determined thieves. I admit that depending on what you haul in your truck, a cap might not be the best...

After a little pause to work on other things, like #%&@#!** airbags on trailers and trailer light wiring that only develops shorts in hidden places in frigid, finger numbing temperatures, I finally got back to wi=ork on the brush guard. Getting the posts at rhe bottom parallel and flat in...

Actually I have a Hypertherm Powemax 1000 plasma cutter, I have only used it to cut plate and tubing so far, I haven't tried to gouge out welds with it yet. I might practice on some scrap to see how to do that. It scares me for using it on the bucket, because it will cut through 1/4" plate like...

The cutting edge on the bucket is worn pretty badly on my LA211. Apparently the previous owner used it a lot. Looking it over, it appears the top surface, inside the bucket is skip welded about 50% of the width of the bucket. The underside looks to be continuously welded from one side to the...

Yep, just lower it onto the stop and you're safe. Doesn't matter if the engine is off or not, just lower the loader until the end of the cylinder contacts the stop. I don't know if it would bend the stop if you put full pressure on it, but I doubt it given the small size of the cylinder.

Since I bought my BX2230 and having to do maintenance and repairs on it, I wanted to make a safety stop for the loader. So, Saturday after installing a new air bag on the rear axle of my Transcraft stepdeck, I decided it was time to make one up. For the tube, I used a 13.5" long piece of 1.5"...

The plug probably had a crack in the insulator that would open up when it got hot enough, and let the spark jump to the metal shell. You might take it apart to satisfy you (and my) curiosity.

Looks like a good start, Keep us posted on your progress. What size and wall thickness tubing did you use?