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  1. PapaJ

    Will not crank?

    First thing I'd check is the tightness of the battery cables, then the battery. If it turns out to be a starter, it's WAY cheaper to get it rebuilt. I had hundreds of them rebuilt when I was a diesel mechanic in the military for $40-$100 depending on the application.
  2. PapaJ

    Find it pretty amazing

    If I find a little excavator cheap enough, I'll start my collection. I could not justify the extra on my recent purchase. I guess 1 orange machine isn't a collection. I do have an orange push mower, but it's a Husqvarana, I reckon that one don't count.
  3. PapaJ

    Rear Blade

    It's easier for me to say nothing, and never attempt to grade anything for the rest of my life until some outsider mentions to my wife we should get a rear blade. It'll happen eventually. Plus, where I live now, I don't plant to stay. As soon as I have a year on the job, I'll be looking for a...
  4. PapaJ

    Need ideas for a project

    This is way beyond what I learned as a diesel mechanic in the Air Force, and I only have a 110v Mig Welder. This is an item I'd buy or commission a buddy to build with beer and pizza.
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    Need ideas for a project

    Re: Need ideas for a prjoject I already keep a trailer mover on my 3PH 99% of the time. May get a SSQA plate and make a trailer mover for the front. My welder hasn't been fired up in quite some time.
  6. PapaJ

    New BX2660 Grill guard

    What did this run you? I have the factory grille, but I would love to add a hitch to the front of my BX.
  7. PapaJ

    Rear Blade

    This was my exact response. What will happen is 6 months from now, neighbor or a friend of hers from the horse community will find out we have a tractor, and recommend to her that a blade is a great tool. The one down the street will be sold, and she'll want me to spent double the price or more...
  8. PapaJ

    Rear Blade

    Dude down the street has a 5 foot blade for $200. Wife says, "You have a bucket, a blade is a waste of money". Tractor is parked in the garage, now it has become a lawn mower. Sad.
  9. PapaJ

    Need ideas for a project

    I put a class V hitch on the diesel truck, so now I have the factory hitch with a 2 inch receiver sitting in my garage. I figure I should make something of it. Anybody build anything cool or useful from an old hitch? I already have a trailer mover, so don't need that. What ya got?
  10. PapaJ

    3PH while mowing

    I did see this solution previously. I don't have easy to remove pins on my 3ph arms, they are attached with key rings for some reason, and since I am high risk, I am not going to stores unless it's for food pretty much right now, so the chains are my fix for now, and since they are so easy to...
  11. PapaJ

    3PH while mowing

    ......in reference to my last post, if you are talking about my add on draw bar, and not the one Kubota calls a draw bar waaaaaaaaaaaaay down there near the ground, that would work, but I already cut a piece of chain to run through my add on draw bar's D-ring and hang off the ROPS, which is a...
  12. PapaJ

    3PH while mowing

    This would hold the 3PH down. I am trying to keep it up.
  13. PapaJ

    Canopy

    Canopy sold local. Will ride uncovered for awhile, maybe get a Femco if the sun ever comes out. So far this year, not so much with the whole sun thing. Was in the 40's this morning. 2020 can suck it.
  14. PapaJ

    3PH while mowing

    This is my solution. I am trying to stop the 3PH from going down when I drop a MMM deck, not a 3PT mower
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    Shopping Cart

    The shopping cart is the ultimate litmus test for whether a person is capable of self-governing. To return the shopping cart is an easy, convenient task, and one which we all recognize as the correct, appropriate thing to do. To return the shopping cart is objectively right. There are no...
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    3PH while mowing

    I'll be making a couple of chains with trailer safety hooks I can throw on while mowing. I only move my empty utility trailer and my pontoon trailer, to mow with. Other than that, I don't tow with the tractor, and if I did, it'd be a much smaller trailer like an ATV trailer to pick up manure out...
  17. PapaJ

    Newbie question

    I haven't fully decided, but since I just bought the Tractors, a 30K camper, and a new horse trailer for the wife, it'll have to wait a bit while I reconstitute my savings, which morphed into a down payment account apparently.
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    3PH while mowing

    The hitch that mounts on there, and there are a few options, keep the trailer way to close to the tractor for my liking. Just my personal preference, I won't use one to tow a big trailer or my boat. The problem with quick hitches is there is no "standard" size, even if you get a land pride QH...
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    3PH while mowing

    I use this one.
  20. PapaJ

    3PH while mowing

    I have something similar to this on the tractor, I don't know any other way possible to tow with the 3PH without one, but what you describe is not my problem. Mine is when I lower the mower deck, the 3PH lowers as well, and my hitch ball drags on the ground.