Recent content by 91diesel

finally it's over, I have to say that before warmer weather softened it up, the best and most economical was driving my 3/4 ton dodge up and down the driveway with chains on the back. That scuffed the surface up pretty decently.

I ended up filling 3 5gal buckets and a pull sled with sand from a local place here (cost $0! they said they'd get me on something else. I self loaded with a shovel) This seems to be doing the trick enough for my daughter to get up in her FWD car. Studded and/or Winter tires are a must with just...

Anyone have any good idea for an implement to scratch up the surface of glaze ice? Every once in a while, and this year is one, we get a thaw/rain in December or January that leaves a couple inches of hockey grade ice on my very steep driveway. I'd like to score it up somehow (with my BX). I...

Right? I thought the same thing. Especially considering there are some of these small cylinders floating around.

Ok! got it put on and operating! Here's a couple pics, because of the 3 hour days here now, I'll have to wait until tomorrow to get a good 'overall' picture of my set up. I ended up getting a friend to straighten out the angles on the clevises a bit. He got the bottom clevis almost straight with...

In the meantime, I'd adjust your toplink. Even up here with pretty frozen ground, the difference in bite angle (driving backwards with a 3pt Hitch blower) makes a big difference if it 'digs' down towards and sometimes into the driveway surface, or 'floats' up on the snow a little. Most of the...

...... Here I am in -30*f Fairbanks, Alaska trying to picture a 'soft' snow covered driveway :LOL: . That is something that just doesn't happen here!

hmm most people (me included) would in general like to 'increase' down pressure on the 3 pt! I believe that the only down pressure on a 3pt hitch is the weight of the implement, so I don't know how you'd reduce that. I use my hydraulic top link (useful even on the snowblower!) to adjust the...

I have a press for bending pipe that I built a bumper with. I wonder if I can fab something up and use it as a press to do this with? or if it would bust the welds on it.

Thanks for the tips! will do. Fully retracted (and with my probable terrible measuring), the 'factory' mounting holes are 14" apart. So about 16" if the ram is at 2" out as you suggested. I'm thinking I won't get 13 1/4" pin to pin at 2" extension, but I'll see what I can get. Maybe 12" pin to...

Well ok, I'm just repeating what the salesman said it came from, not claiming any sort of expertise on kubota models. As far as not listening to his advice?? 'The problem' with tilt kits for a BX is them not being able to get short enough (as MtnViewRanch stated in his first response, that I...

It's going to be -25*f tomorrow........ so it'll be a day or two! and apparently this was part of a top and tilt kit for a LX 26 series?

Well I purchased it from them and will have it mounted soon. If I can get it slightly shorter than the non-adjustable lifting rod (Kubota's term for it), why would I have a problem with lift height? I'm pretty certain (because I mounted it and ran the hitch and side link through the full range...

I wonder too about putting the adjustable side link on the left side when I add the hydraulic side link. I could then make that side longer to make up for the hydraulic side not being able to go much past 'level'.

I'm pretty sure the local Kubota dealer is going to make me an offer I can't refuse. While helping a widow neighbor pick up a snowblower for her B3030 I asked them about ordering me the side link for my BX. Well the salesman had a side link from some 'top and tilt' kit (I think for a B series)...