Recent content by Dippybird

I have an l2900 with about 1000 hours on. I changed all the fluids and filters about 40 hours ago used the latest Kubota hydraulic fluid. The steering some times gets very hard to turn. It seems to happen during or just after the front end being elevated. So going up hill or if a go a little up...

Thank you all there are I lot of good points here. I have seen the hydraulic units and they seem great but they were a little more than I wanted to spend especially since I didn’t have remote connections. It certainly is difficult to quantify compare different soils and what I call rocky might...

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I am looking to purchase a 3pt post hole digger. I have about 40 post I have to replace. I usually look at used equipment so I wanted to get people opinions about the TSC countryline post hole digger. I have looked at some of the well used landpride models neer me and they seem to be about $1000...

My initial plan was the beat juice unfortunately I could not find someone near me that would sell it to me in a container. They would only fill the tire which I was worried would be a little unruly for me to handle once filled. According to the previous owner the tractor had had cacl in it for...

This is what my Kubota manual says. Not that i believe everything I read.

As a farmer I would think some of the fertilizers would be pretty rough on the rims and potentially the rest of the tractor. Is that a problem?

I am not sure what your question is. Nacl that they spread on the roads around here does add to the corrosive properties of water on iron. As does cacl. There is not any disputing that. Some of the spreaders have gone to plastic around here. I personally put cacl in an inner tube in my tire. It...

Very good point. You definitely want to keep the dry flakes in some sort of sealed container otherwise it will absorb moisture. They don’t use it a lot on roads in the northeast for melting ice because of the cost here. They usually use sodium chloride here just because it costs so much less...

I think you would find windshield washer fluid just a little more dangerous than cacl. But I agree with you, it wouldn’t keep me from using it. You should look up the health hazards of sand. My parents should be in jail for letting me play in the stuff.

I think windshield washer fluid may be a good compromise. It is not has heavy as others but you can buy it and do it yourself. Cheap and less corrosive. It is poisonus and I think it can actually cause you to go blind if you drink it unlike some other things people have told me would make me go...

I think you are spot on with the weight comments. If you don’t need the weight don’t add it. Again I am not an expert just observations I have made. There also are several ways to add weight. The loaded tires adds weight and the center of gravity is low. The weight itself doesn’t add any...

I do appreciate that rims rust but some of you pictures have rot everywhere not just where cacl would be. I am sure you are correct that not everyone needs filled tires. I am sure everyone will find things that work best for them. You are correct if I get a flat tire I will have salt water...

We use calcium chloride on our cement block walkways, parts of the driveways and even on the roof for ice damns some winters. Unfortunately around here it doesn’t prevent any weeds or grass from growing the following summer.