Hello, all. I'm a new member to this forum, I stumbled across it when looking for information on a starting solenoid, and spent the last hour reading posts. I don't know if this is the proper category for 'new member' posts, but this is probably where I will spend most of my time.
I live on approximately 10 fairly wooded acres in South Central Texas. I have a 10 year old L2600DT with about 1500 hours, a TAS ml180 loader, a box blade, tiller, an auger and a brush hog. This is my first tractor, although I have spent some time on a few rented Bobcats. I use my tractor a lot, considering it is just for personal homeowner use. I mow parks in our homeowner's association as a member of our fire department, completely fenced two of our ten acres with chain link fence, and spend time clearing the rest when I can. I can tell you I dearly love my tractor, the only regret is that I got a 'package deal' that included the TAS loader and in hindsight I would have insisted on a Kubota loader, for a number of reasons. In spite of this, I think I have an excellent dealer, actually 2 within the vicinity. My tractor has only been to the dealer one time with mechanical problems, and that was when I put some crappy gas in by mistake (smelled almost like diesel fuel) and I couldn't figure out why it was running really badly. I love my tractor so much that about 5 years ago I bought a G2160 lawn tractor as well for finish mowing.
I am not an operating expert, but I have learned a lot over the past 10 years, and in reading through some of the posts in this particular category, I wish I had joined some time ago so I could add some comments. In particular, using the bucket as a bulldozer, what you can do with a box blade, and perhaps one of the most entertaining, the tractor jumping into neutral a number of times and finally rolling over and totaling itself. And by the way, I don't have wings on my tractor, I have a number of motorcycles, including two Honda Goldwings, thus 'Wingerbill.
I'm looking forward to participating in this forum.
I live on approximately 10 fairly wooded acres in South Central Texas. I have a 10 year old L2600DT with about 1500 hours, a TAS ml180 loader, a box blade, tiller, an auger and a brush hog. This is my first tractor, although I have spent some time on a few rented Bobcats. I use my tractor a lot, considering it is just for personal homeowner use. I mow parks in our homeowner's association as a member of our fire department, completely fenced two of our ten acres with chain link fence, and spend time clearing the rest when I can. I can tell you I dearly love my tractor, the only regret is that I got a 'package deal' that included the TAS loader and in hindsight I would have insisted on a Kubota loader, for a number of reasons. In spite of this, I think I have an excellent dealer, actually 2 within the vicinity. My tractor has only been to the dealer one time with mechanical problems, and that was when I put some crappy gas in by mistake (smelled almost like diesel fuel) and I couldn't figure out why it was running really badly. I love my tractor so much that about 5 years ago I bought a G2160 lawn tractor as well for finish mowing.
I am not an operating expert, but I have learned a lot over the past 10 years, and in reading through some of the posts in this particular category, I wish I had joined some time ago so I could add some comments. In particular, using the bucket as a bulldozer, what you can do with a box blade, and perhaps one of the most entertaining, the tractor jumping into neutral a number of times and finally rolling over and totaling itself. And by the way, I don't have wings on my tractor, I have a number of motorcycles, including two Honda Goldwings, thus 'Wingerbill.
I'm looking forward to participating in this forum.
