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My suggestion would be to call a professional - whoever is going to be installing the ATS before making the Lowboy purchase. Someone will need to get this 'system' to work and be code compliant. There's not a lot of detail in the Lowboy manual. As I noted earlier, sizing a genset that will...

Not an expert on the Lowboy sets, but I always figured them for more of a 'portable' set, not designed to be used with an Automatic Transfer Switch. (Not that it'd be impossible) Are you really wanting auto transfer upon mains failure?

There seem to be a fair number of grill guard threads here. I've not seen a design that extends down far enough to provide a degree of protection to the tie rod. Is there some down side to doing that? (Somehow, I managed to bend the tie rod on my old B7100 while doing some stupid thing in the...

I have a decent amount of experience with standby gensets. The only way to 'properly' size one is to balance cost/fuel consumption concerns against the loads you need to run. The GL11000 burns about 1.1 GPH at full load vs. the GL7000 at 0.7 GPH. At lighter loads, the consumption will drop...

Definitely! - You can't see it, but there's a 5' landscape rake on the 3PH...

According to the LA302 spec sheet: The stock LA302 bucket can lift 640 pounds to 1.5m. I pulled off the bucket at 120 pounds, So, 640+120 would be 760 pounds. But then I added back two 35 pounds forks, a 50 pound SSQA plate, and the two 20 pounds SSQA latch plates. So, the result is the FEL...

I kind of like the 'ramp' effect. It seems to be the principle behind the SSQA plate itself in the way the SSQA plates attach to the 'latch plates' on the tractor. I figured if it was good enough for that, it'd be fine for these light-duty forks. Anyway, I can calculate the stress on that...

Understood - That area bugs me a bit too. I up-sized the plate to 3/8 x 5" wide but, yeah, there's a lot of leverage trying to tear that weld apart. I'll look into it. I have some ability to draw it up and analyze it, and one of the MEs at work is pretty knowledgeable on this sort of analysis...

Made some progress - started off welding these 4x5x3/8" plates to the top of the fork 'tubes': Then I tacked the lower fork 'catch plate' onto the SSQA plate. This catch plate will hook onto the lower end of the forks and keep them from swinging out when I curl the FEL down. This was a...

Thanks - Yes - there'll be a cross bar near the bottom, hopefully serving several purposes - I'll explain as I build it...

Over here, I showed my SSQA conversion: https://www.orangetractortalks.com/forums/threads/quick-attach-ssqa-diy-fabrication-for-b7510-la302-fel-bucket.67335/ Now, if only I had forks for my tractor, I wouldn't need to do sketchy things :eek: like this: But wait, I have a welder and Mr. FedEx...

Yep - Agreed. And expanded metal provides lots of places to hook a bungee cord. I think that, plus the fact that you can (partly) see through it, makes expanded metal the better choice for an open-top tray. Maybe my second version will be that way...

Yeah - that's what I'm noticing. It makes it harder to accurately back up to an implement. Other than that I think it'll work out well. I may end up cutting the height down an inch or two before I paint this. Or maybe make it out of expanded/perforated metal. I like the open-top tray as...

Good to know! What do you suppose the crap was, and what'll keep more of it from lodging in the same place?

It's in the Operator's Manual for the loader:

I had a front snow blade for my B7100. I used to angle it as I went down my driveway. The side thrust would cause the back end of the tractor to get pushed out so I would apply braking to one wheel in order to keep the tractor going straight. Worked great! But, bad idea I now realize as it...

Exactly!

Let's say I have a 3PH implement (like a grader blade) attached and lowered to its full down position. Now I move the hydraulic lever back until it hits the stop (highlighted green above) and hold the lever there. What should the implement do? In my case, it raises SLOWLY to the max height...

If these are 'position control', why would Kubota, in my owner's manual have labels for SLOW UP and SLOW DOWN that point to these stops? Thanks for the snip from your brochure. Do you have anything from Kubota on how these stops are to be set? Maybe mine are set incorrectly - that's why I'd...