Recent content by madplanter

Spread antiskid on it and move on. The antiskid will help it melt by heating up in the sun and the grittiness of it will make it grip. Make sure you get the kind with some fines in it.

I assume if you could have fixed it yourself you would have; How much would it have cost you to learn to do it, buy the parts and tools and pay for your time? 500 seems pretty reasonable to me considering what it costs to keep a competent employee and not someone who half-a$$es stuff. the...

check and make sure its not pulling air into the fuel line/filter/etc somewhere. IE loose fitting.

This is exactly what I did, and it is a pita; Its pretty much impossible to remove the pin mounts without cutting holes in the bucket ( if you want to reuse the mounts, I used them on the ssqa). Its definitely doable, it turned out ok, I did it because I wanted to, but if you have a value on...

Yeah, I relocated two of the guide wheels to accommodate the spacers. Wasn't that hard, but you do need to be able to weld.

Understood, but the odds are you are going to lose them if you don't do something. If they loosen (and they will) they will fall off and then you'll be stuck looking everywhere you went (at best) or at worst they come around on the tire and crack your fender. (maybe unscrew the hooks and put...

ex hands down if your going to be digging for hours. I have a loader backhoe but I wouldn't want to dig a longer trench or anything with it; Spend all your time moving the tractor; Plus a full swivel when it comes to moving the spoil would be worth it.

brotek, bora, motorsports tech, anybody that sells tractor wheel spacers probably has ones for the front axle as well.

Its always been that way as far as I know; I always make sure it says "shipped from Amazon" before I'll buy it.

Those amazon/ebay ones look the same but pretty sure their qc sucks; I bought two backing plates one from pallet forks and one from amazon; The amazon one was cheaper but I had to cut some welds and change the angles because they weren't right.

I just did this with a cutting wheel and a stick machine and it didn't seem like that big a deal; You're right though, you do need to be able to weld.

not sure how hard your clay is.... But I tried a couple of holes with a pto post hole digger and then spent the money to rent a skid steer with a hydraulic post hole digger for the day. 3pt post hole diggers aren't that effective in less than optimal soil and hassle just wasn't worth it for me...

speaking from personal experience the 3rd time I switched out the loader bucket I'd had enough; I'd think it wouldn't be terribly difficult to buy a pair of forks that attach to a bucket and modify them to have sockets on the back for pins if you can't find anything else, assuming they would...

https://www.palletforks.com/skid-steers/pallet-forks-and-accessories/clamp-on-forks/medium-duty-clamp-on-pallet-forks-4000-lb-capacity/COFMD-GROUP.html or...

yeah, no problems with that. 3" tubing sticks up just enough that the loader mount just clears the nut on the pivot arm and everything pivots with plenty of clearance.