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Oh, BTW. The females (with the stingers) are about 1.25" to 1.50" in length.

I did some white birch tree trimming on Sunday. Every couple of years I need to trim the overhanging branches and make it bearable to drive vehicles down my driveway and out to my shop/barn building, for loading tractors/ATVs/side by sides onto trailers. With all the hanging/drooping birch tree...

When you park that Ford F 450 for the winter, do so with the hood fully up. If it has an under hood illumination lamp, unplug/disable. Vehicles with cabin air filters can also benefit from heavy metal screen reinforcement in that location. Mice can/do chew through cabin air filters for getting...

I'm gaining experience with the new trail camera system. Note the blueberry bush in the right foreground in this picture. Light reflected (nighttime flash) from the blueberry bush is causing problems with nighttime pictures at that camera location. BTW, these cameras were purchased with the...

saintlou, Welcome to the Orange Tractor Forum!

This long Labor Day holiday weekend has kept me very busy. Saturday, I got all of my bush hogging done at the recreational property. We only do it once per year, typically on the Labor Day weekend. This allows bountiful grass growth for my deer herd before we get snow. It was mostly uneventful...

If that is the only cluster available, and the pin outs are identical, you have run out of options. There was a Kubota Technical Service Bulletin for replacing instrument clusters on older BX machines. There were three different part numbers. 1) BX 1860 & BX 1870 - all the 18 hp models. 2) BX...

Here is a pro tip for fixing an inoperative electric clothes dryer heating element. They always fail on a weekend when you can't buy replacement appliance parts. Take the nichrome heating element wire coil where it burned through, and using needle nose pliers, straighten each end until you have...

Before you go to the dealership and buy wheels/tires through the Sales Department, (Whole Goods) look at Amazon.com and compare pricing. I found R1 AG style there for less than the dealership Whole Foods pricing. Also with free Prime shipping.

I run a Mahindra 48" rotary brush cutter behind a 2011 BX 25. It is actually made by Kodiak Implements, and it's very heavy & quite durable. Yes, my BX 25 has more rated PTO horsepower than a BX 1880. Using the current Kubota website PTO horsepower numbers for a BX 23s and a BX 1880, it's 17.7...

I mentioned in the post above, the 6.5" of rain in under 5 hours back in June of this year. During the early morning hours of June 22, 2025 we had a very severe thunderstorm arrive on a path that was rather unusual. North/Northwest to South/Southeast. We rarely get weather from that direction...

I mowed today at the recreational property. It's pretty dry now. The shaded portions of turf are still green and growing, and required remowing for distribution of clippings. The rest of the almost two acres, I was just clipping off the tops of weeds. We really need some rain, but I would prefer...

In my BX2370 owners manual, the 50 hour check includes checking/torquing the lug nuts/studs. It also says, when new, check more frequently.

There are special taps for this application that "form" the threads back into position. They are called a "forming tap" or "repair tap" and may require an online purchase to get one. Any type of tap that "cuts" threads will just remove the flawed/displaced material and you will end up with a...

I use a Kubota BX 25 for winter snow removal. Unless we are talking 3 or 4 feet of snow all at once, I will almost always wait for the snow to quit falling before I go outside and clear the driveways. Sometimes, that is in the middle of the night. (no nearby neighbors that would complain) I use...

It's 98 degrees Fahrenheit outside today here in upstate NY, and way too hot for any outside tasks. Today, I activated/registered/updated firmware for my Cuddeback trail camera system. I purchased all the hardware components back in late March, 2025. The warranty period starts the day each...

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I had a Bayliner 17' bow rider boat. Long gone now. It had the marine version of the Ford Pinto 4 cylinder overhead cam engine. 2.3 Liter if I recall correctly. Marine duty is way more brutal on an engine than tractor usage. If I ran that 2.3 Liter wide open traveling on one of New York State...

I tried a Milwaukee battery powered high pressure grease gun yesterday. The stiff hinges on one door are noticeably better, but there is plenty of room for improvement. I was visiting a friend of mine several days ago, he's a retired DOT heavy equipment mechanic. He told me if the battery...

Back when I repaired cars/trucks professionally, speedometers were still cable driven. When the speedometer needle wiggled/jumped, you reached up under the dashboard and disconnected the speedometer cable from the back of the speedometer. Then with a pair of needle nose, you pulled the...