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When I used to park outside below freezing, I had the block heater run to a smart plug. Get up, tell Alexa or Siri to turn it on for an hour. Breakfast and a thermos of coffee prepared, off we go.

Looking at your parts diagram, you will replace the "cutting edge" with a custom pipe/flange. The flange is 3/16". Remove the cutting edge and take it to a fabrication shop so they can pattern it and go from there. The stock shoes look iffy.

Now that I'm ready for winter again, I'm posting a picture of my L4479 front blower. First mod was to replace the pathetic shoes with ones that are three times larger. Second is to remove the plow blade edge and replace with a 2" heavy pipe/flange. I have a bunch of gravel road work and find...

You can cut some pool noodles and stuff them under the seat.

Works too and a bit easier. I preferred to have a choice.

You can install a bypass rocker switch in an open slot if you have one. Common practice for things like running generators when you have a fixed seat vs. the tilt up. Did one on my L5460 when I put an air ride seat in.

Things are pretty much annual patterns. Road grade/scrape April and September. Brush Hog May and July. Anything loader (bucket, fork, auger, grapple) needs to be done April through September as the loader gets dropped for the snow blower. In winter, a cargo deck goes on the 3-pt for fuel if...

I just hook into the lower pivot (a little lube on the surface). When leveling, the pivot needs to be about halfway to allow mower flexing in the pasture. There's a number of Youtube videos showing this. An example is at 1:45 of this video

My battery went bad on my 865R Gator. Accessibility is a real pain. I went with an Optima yellow top hoping to prolong having to do that job again. The varied LiFePo options out there are not cost effective. Overall battery life on my L5460 and Gator is longer due to indoor storage in the...

Dealers frequently have new seats that were pulled to install air rides. Since they've already been paid for, you should be able to get them for a discount.

I've been using the standard beet juice. No worries if Elkzilla pokes a hole in the tire.

I just finished swapping everything out on my L5460. H4 headlamps and H3s for the work lights. Autozone stuff (Osram) worked fine for signal. I did toss the top flashers for a heavy duty LED. BTW, the H4 dust cover interferes with the LED so an exacto knife took care of that. High output...

Gravel always wins at some point. However, when floating the blower, it will tend to sink less into stuff and hopefully bridge over the small divots. We'll see.

The stock skids on the Kubota blower have trouble with gravel roads and self destructed. I upgraded to an ARMORskids set which is much more heavy duty, 2 feet long, and much thicker steel. Should be much less likely to sink in.

I had a JD 1025R with a blower on front. A few winters ago in -14 degree, I could do about 20 minutes and had to come in to warm up. Repeat and it took longer to warm up. The new set up has be doing in 45 minutes what used to take me 2+ hours. The blower is heavy and the skids need to be...