Recent content by gmtinker

Ok, thanks. I've now ordered the 3-pt mount for my hydraulic auger. I'll deal with the loader bucket mount at some other time. I'm digging in sand here, so I won't need the extra ground pressure.

Hey Everyone, I have a question for those of you familiar with Kubota BX loaders. Is the pin diameter and location the same on the buckets on LA203 and LA243 loaders? I have heard that the LA243 has longer arms and brackets on the tractors, but wasn't sure about the bucket mounting points...

I like it! Very clean install. I think I'm going to do something similar next year, as I have the same blower. Won't have time before winter to do that with mine. I think I'll snitch Wildfire's idea for a deflector actuator as well. Using a surplus window motor is genius - cheap and easy to...

I don't think it's too overly heavy. My salesman and I took the chute off and loaded it into my Escape between the two of us, so it can't be that bad. I have a loader on my BX, so that helps counterweight the blower on the back as well. The only thing I found is that I had to shorten the...

Confucius say: "Get snowblower cheap in August - before snow flies and they get stupid pricy during the blizzard." I've heard Bing Crosby echo between my ears all day with, "Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow . . ." Seriously, last winter we had more snow here than in many years and I got...

Two words, Sir: You Rock. I love to see the stuff you come up with. Some day I want to see more of our awesome country, including Newfoundland; if your part of Canada can come up with some of the friendliest and kindest people I know, as well as craftsmen such as yourself, it'll be worth the...

Excellent choice in machinery. I'm almost unhealthily attached to my little orange tractor and I know you will be with yours. I agree with the comment of traction loss before powering out - it even runs a 50" reverse rotation tiller very well. And I completely agree about the rain - I still...

Yeah, Bruce, we're all infected with the same bug. I know it sounds cheesy, but I've become almost unhealthily attached to my little orange tractor. In fact, that piece of machinery and the toys for it are worth about twice as much as all 3 of my vehicles combined. It even got its own shed...

This is so cool . . . I've been wanting to do this to my tractor since I found out that you could put remotes on a BX. I compared putting my own together with fittings, valves, hose, etc. from Princess Auto to the cost of the Kubota kit and it came out about the same for what I was looking for...

What did you find? Let me guess - seat switch was misadjusted. I must commend you on your choice of equipment (maybe a bit biased . . .)

I would highly recommend a Land Pride tiller. I got the RTR0550 for my BX, and it does wonderful things with my soil. It's 50" across, so that would fall within your tractor manual-specified limits, and it's made in the U.S. so parts can be had years from now when you need them (not made in a...

Hmmm . . . you know, killerbee, I never thought about the brick aspect. Good point. Never had to deal with too much clay - we live on 300+ feet of sand here (old glacial moraine) and we could use more silt and clay to balance the sand, hence the organic matter (OM) and topsoil importation. I...

Hi Arvid I am not dealing with clay conditions in my garden (mostly organic matter, sand and some loam, now that I've worked it a few seasons), but I LOVE the job that my LP RTR0550 does with the soil. You have a few more PTO HP to play with, so you have a bit more grunt to make it through the...

Wow - women really are similar . . . my wife teases me about constantly surfing the daily "tractor porn" sites as well. I've been snooping around for something that will move a round bale, as my BX is a little small for that. I'm thinking orange or green - depends on what I can afford in my...

Thanks Skeets. I actually had gotten to think a magnetic-mounted light system may have been a better option, but your description makes me feel a bit better about my mounting method, as unorthodox as it seems to be. I only need them in the winter, so having a magnet assembly delaminate in the...