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    Built a quick attach front lifting plate this week

    I over bought on tractor a good bit just for the lifting capacity on the front end loader. Having since moved some pallets around and hitting the QT forks load lift limit at 24" out and wanting to dead lift more at times so I made up this lift plate. I snapped this picture today while unloading...
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    Wierd mystery out in my shop !!

    We just bought a new place out in the country with 5.5 acres and a nice pole barn garage shop and an older double wide trailer for a building site for a new home in the next year or two. Have owned it for 2 months and so far we have only cleaned the double wide for now and stored a few things in...
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    Wanting a new Plasma cutter for 1/4" ??

    I have mostly miller equipment and have used it with great success and dependability for many years but don't want to buy just because it is blue and there is the obvious premium in cost that seems to go along with it. Wanting to use mostly on 1/4" and smaller but occasionally maybe 3/8" I am...
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    Getting ready to fab up a rear mounted 3PH lever

    I drove through a Kioti dealer today to see how the 3 point hitch rear mounted activation lever was set up and it and the standard location lever were a maze of levers and linkages, actually kind of over engineered and complicated. Looked at mine when I got home and woah !! My kubota could not...
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    Anyone lost a child before their time.

    Happened monday, I am trying to sort through this whole process this week. He was a great son, Served 7 years, and ended as a 10th. Mountain Scout Sniper that was in Iraq and Afghanistan. Seen and done a lot in his short time.
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    L4600 Roof and Floor Mat ?? OEM

    Rubber floor mat option for L4600, also looking for a simple roof to shed snow and sleet a few times a year. while moving snow. I don't see these as options Kubota offers ?? Seems odd, I am going later today to ask my dealer, just curious as I'd rather look stupid here than there in person :D...
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    Need advice, on vintage orange tractor, not kubota

    Do any of you guys know what is proper fuel for a tractor like this, Tractor Data say they came with a distillate or gasoline engine. What is the diff other than compression, will either run on gas ?? is my real question. My grandpa farmed a lot of acres and paid for a large farm that left the...
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    Stainless King Kutter, Brush hog

    I sold my brush mower 15-20 years ago with my old Massey 1250 and as mentioned starting all over with a new property and a New kubota and all the new toys over the next couple of years. I am looking at the King Kutter with an all stainless 60" deck, I am thinking I could not put it indoors w/o...
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    New tractor, a bit disappointed in sticky range lever

    I just bought a new L4600 HST and I only have 0.4 hours :), since it arrived a couple of days ago, my only disappointment is that the range selector lever seems difficult to move from one range to the next, What it the trick ?? Is there a strategy, mine just won't go in low at times, I have to...
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    Help me understand the differences in these PTO specs.

    Below is a clip from the Kubota brochure for the L3200, L3800 and my new L4600. They use different terminology for describing the PTO's on each tractor and I am particularly interested if any of the three would of been advantageous for getting the 200 lb. flywheel soft started on the wood...
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    New L4600 @ 9:30 am in the morning, fun day

    L4600HST/FEL, Made the deal last Friday afternoon, but is being delivered in the morning. Felt like a kid waiting on Christmas the last few days. I had him rim guard it 80%, add in some QT pallet forks. First project is to unload some wood heating pellets off my trailer and build a ballast box...
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    Struggling to decide on a Chipper, 3 options ???

    Nice used Wallenstein BX62 within driving distance for $2500 + a long drive each way with an overnight, Gravity feed. "Made In Canada " and not China !! New WoodMaxx WM-8M Mechanical In-Feed, (more reviews all the time, all good) $2279. To my Door.........simple and possibly cheaper to...
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    L4600 HST, wood chipper with a 200lb. flywheel

    I'm confused so I have to ask, I am not used to seeing a rear PTO electrical switch to engage the pto or a clutch pedal on the left with a HST ?? so do I still engage at low rpm to help with the shock of the 200 lb. flywheel when I turn on the PTO and does the clutch pedal allow a feathered...