Recent content by nbryan

I'm getting fleeced then even as CAD/USD costs me in Canada, and mine is simple tube, dura-wrap is velcro?

That woven sleeve is f...ing expensive. $5-10/ft depending on size, how the hell can they charge that? Is it some weird material or something? I just about fell over when the stealership told me the bill for a 3ft piece, whoah. Any ideas out there for a cheaper but equally effective sleeve material?

While you're sleeving if you have any 8" or longer lengths of 1 1/2" hose sleeve and a couple zipties, I recommend you consider making connector-protectors like these I made a couple of years ago. First thought up and made for keeping clouds of snow around my snow blower hydraulics from melting...

Thanks, I think I get it now. The overall volume can increase because of the volume that the rod occupies lets the piston side expand. But I'm now guessing that if the rod is fully retracted when hoses connected that it's at max volume and will pressurize?

Your logic escapes me. When the rod extends (or contracts) with the hoses coupled together, it just moves fluid through the coupling to the other side of the cylinder. The pressure of that loop can still rise because it is STILL a closed loop, one now instead of 2. The warming and expanding...

I now have handy now a hammer, round-faced drift (sized to be a snug fit in fitting), and a rag, for when those connectors refuse to snap together. Increased temperatures after the removal from the tractor has had these things really tightly sprung sometimes. Wrapping the fitting with a rag as a...

Buttoned or closable with velcro (if possible) front vest pocket. It stays warm in winter, is close to body so vibration can be felt. Also used 3M Worktunes headset hearing muffs, and now have nice Bose earbuds that active cancel noise from machines etc.

Yup. I'll line up tasks ahead of starting the tractor, noting what's on the tractor at the moment, where the other ssqa implement is, and time constraints. Plus whatever the wife says.

Boxblade and loader bucket do nice moderate or less snowfall cleanups. The blade can move snowpiles off the lane and then push it up the banks in reverse. It's like having a 2-way loader with triple the snow hauling capacity. But the front blower is the cat's meow when real winter snows hit.

These blowers have a very effective set of shear bolts that have protected my very similar B2782B 63" blower for 7 winters now. Countless times something or other has jammed hard in one or the other auger blades or the blower and snapped another shear bolt. I've never suffered chain reduction...

It's Sun-used.

The visible vertical pipe encloses a slightly smaller pipe. The smaller pipe is welded to the bottom of the upper adjuster plate (not visible in photos), and can turn inside the outer pipe for angle adjustment. The blade-mounting bracket below has the inner smaller pipe passing through a hole...

It appears you'll need to cut off the blade mounting bracket at the weld with the rotating pipe. My only experience is with acetylene cutting torches, which I'd try and use to burn away the weld downward with a vertically held torch nozzle. Hopefully the pipe would survive the torching.

Get B/B50/LX with a loaderand any 3-point tools you'll need, like a box scraper, and don't bother with a belly mower for it. I use a rotary mower on my B2650 for general field maintenance, and got a basic riding mower for finer tuned yard mowing. For the cost and mount/unmount/ trouble of a MMM...

A crowned road with a little loose or insufficient toe-in adjustment will pull you to one side while driving. The hydrostatic powered steering "gives" a bit under constant turning pressure, so having its center point rotate through 120 degrees over that distance isn't surprising to me. Check for...