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Yep. And with a vacuum extractor you can complete the oil change without ever getting under the vehicle. The Toyota and VW cartridge housings with a drain feature really do reduce the mess, when properly used.

I sorta have my eye on the Frostbite.

Love it. Do what makes you happy. At my house the temperatures range from -30°C to +35°C, but I don't have to do tractor work when it's too hot :-)

I used a similar adapter to relocate the filter on my MR-2 race car since I was changing the oil after every track day, and I also put an oil temp sensor in that sandwich block. My oil temp readings were getting crazy high, so I installed a big oil cooler - still didn't solve the problem. It...

Interesting. I took a TIG 101 course at General Air (best $50 I've ever spent) and the instructor there was pretty strong on the whole "don't contaminate your tungsten with iron filings" practices. I have all of $25 into my home-built sharpening rig, I couldn't bring myself to buy an...

Ahhh, the ol' T-without-the-IG welding. BTDT, though more often as M-without-the-IG. I don't think I even have a tungsten that big! I *do* spend an awful lot of time grinding tungstens, though, as I'm still very early on the TIG learning journey. Enough that I built a dedicated tungsten...

IME box section always closes up when you cut it. I guess there are residual stresses from the roll-forming/welding process.

Ah ok. My hand crank had a janky worm drive I didn't want to re-use because the worn is sheet metal - looks more like an Archimedes screw than a worm gear. Backlash like whoa.

Hi @Thunder chicken is that home-built or from a vendor?

I'm more interested in that bevel gear that drives the chute rotation - where did you get that? I had a custom straight gear cut from plastic that's working on mine, but I know it's the weak link.

I split my wood by hand with a maul for two reasons: 1) I kinda like the exercise. Doing 2-3 cords/year it's manageable. 2) the 65yo woman across the road still splits her firewood by hand. If I have to buy a powered splitter before she does I may as well just toss my Man Card into the fire box...

@Runs With Scissors I Bet you, like me, had to glue that screw into the dowel. Having the screw head on the brittle magnet is a flaw of those cheap magnets (I have the same), and the screw kept backing out on me.

My other handy tool: I solidly established that I can't eyeball 16" lengths worth a hoot, so I stick on the saw bar and walk down the limbed tree and mark off the 16" sections. Pop off the gauge and either put it in my pocket or stick it on the tractor. Cut the log at every 5th mark (or 4th if...

"Summer mode" on my LX3310 is pallet forks on the front, wood chipper on the back, and 3" rear wheel spacers. ("Winter mode" is bucket on the front, blower on the back, wheel spacers off.) I fell the trees in the forest, cut them into 80" lengths, and chip the slash. I use the forks to move the...

like GrizBota, I carry a firex not because I'm worried about the tractor catching fire. I carry it because I'm mostly using the tractor out in the very-fire-prone forest, cutting and chipping for fire mitigation. I'm 100x more likely to spark a fire with my chainsaw, so I want the extinguisher...

Interesting. Mine have never yet made any move toward accidental release, rather the opposite - they sometimes self-close when I'm going between implements, making the new implement not seat correctly.

IMO the impact is not friendly to most drill bits and is more likely to chip the cutting edge. But if it works, it works, and yay not getting beat up by the power tools.

Well... a friend has one of these: I guess it doesn't qualify because the truck bed is replaced with an excavator? And a friend of a friend brought his forklift-and-boom-crane variant to help fetch my lathe out of first friend's truck:

Update: my dealer finally sent a tech out to perform the recall on my LX3310 today (after 3 reschedules...). The Kubota fix is swapping out 2 springs: a lighter spring on the steering column, and a heavier spring on the release pedal. Took the tech 15-20 minutes to complete (far less time than...

two rivnuts hold the bracket to the ROPS, one in a factory hole and one new hole.