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I had an old WWII (that's not World War Eleven in case you're in the House of Representatives) military jeep, a '67 CJ and a '95 YJ. If you could drive blindfolded, you wouldn't be able to tell much difference between the ''46 and the '67 except for top speed. Both would go anywhere and had a...

I ran a 5' rotary cutter on the B7500 years ago. It was a 21HP tractor with something like 16HP at the PTO and the weight was similar to the B2401. It was on the low end of power to run the cutter well. The tractor would not have handled the cutter without the loader. It was too light. My...

My first tractor was geared and the next four have been HST's. For me the HST's are easier to use. When very small movements are needed there's no substitute for an HST. You can move the tractor a fraction of an inch at a time with no clutch to ride. As others mentioned the HST does make...

I see it sold in 40# bags at stores or by cubic yards for any real quantity around here. Mulch is often sold by the bag in stores. At local greenhouses or garden centers (centres for you:) ) it is sold by the cubic yard some places or by the "scoop". I don't know how close they are with the...

This was one of those projects prior to my move into the home base to manage the shops. The last years I spent in the field were on projects that were smaller than the multi-million, often multi-year projects that were the main pursuit of the company. I enjoyed challenges and working on odd...

My Ford 1210 is similar to your Kubota. It handles a 5' Caroni RFM nicely. It did not handle a 5' LandPride. The weight of the deck makes a big difference.

In our shops we had good clean and dry air for plasma cutters. Certainly nothing like what we fabbed up for a pharmaceutical company to dry pills. That engineer rattled off something like "minus 50 degree C dewpoint, 0.05 micron filter.........".

We don't need no steenking raingear:)

A 4-way bucket looks like it would be fun. From the replies above it sounds like it would bring limitations. Maybe the best of both worlds would be if the seller included a regular bucket so the 4-way could be used if you wanted to play.

Hey Skeets, thanks for wringing much of the moisture out of that storm before sending it to us:)

I've mentioned before that the seats on all three Kubotas (Kubotae?) I've had were uncomfortable as they came from the factory. They all felt like they were trying to dump me into the steering wheel. After raising the front mounts they were all acceptable. The seat in my L4240 is by far the...

The R4's on my L4240 are loaded and grooved. I have mowed in the rain and they worked fine. It pushes an 8' Fisher plow - usually without additional ballast. I have nothing that requires me to operate in mud. It can get a little snotty when the creek floods. I have been tempted to try some...

Mowed again. Local news tells us we're having a drought but mowing every 4 days or so isn't frequent enough.

My Ford wears R1's. It's the lightest tractor I've owned and it marks up the grass more than My L4240 that has R4's when the ground is soft.