Recent content by RBsingl

Shot on a very hot, humid, and hazy afternoon using a Canon 1DX III with EF 200-400 f4 with integrated 1.4X extender engaged. Rodger

Shortly after I bought my Deere 955 in 1995, I built little cradles in the barn for the rear blade and the tiller which were a pain to attach if just randomly removed. With the cradle, everything is where it should be and simply backing the tractor in makes it easy to hook them up as needed...

Electric fans first became popular because of FWD cars with their transverse mounted engines making the classic engine waterpump mounted fan setup impractical. As other noted, a large mechanical fan moves a lot of air and far more than the typical small electric fans. Electric fans have their...

My Kubota F2690 is 3 years old and still gets Kubota branded filters but I am using more and more stuff from Baldwin including recently switching my GM diesel pickup to Baldwin oil filters because of machining issues resulted in leaks with wherever AC Delco just shifted PF-2232 filter...

I use a Kubota F2690 with a 72" rear discharge deck and it is a huge improvement in so many ways over the 72" side discharge MMM on my Deere 955 compact utility. Discharging across the full width of the deck definitely helps in addition reducing the power needed to mow tall grass and I don't...

Well next you will probably get to work on some of their hateful CVT units 🤣 Maybe they have improved over the years but a colleague who got an early one said after a few years that it was the safest car he ever owned because most of the time it wouldn't leave the garage. I remember when...

I agree with Russell that you would be fine to start it up and finish your mowing and then have the dealer look at it. My standby generator is a 3.3L turbo diesel and it goes to 1,800 RPM and stays there as soon as it starts and in commercial service these gensets will provide several...

I haven't noticed this with my F2690 I purchased a couple of years ago but the yellow/tan dipstick is lousy for reading the level of this very clear fluid. The best way to see it is to get a light reflection from the fluid to show the level. It really needed holes in the dipstick to make the...

Thanks Greg! Rodger

That combined with the smoke sounds like injector knock to me from an injector that is just dumping fuel into the combustion chamber. I think you are massively overfueling one cylinder from a bad injector. Rodger

I have an old Deere 325 with 48" deck that gets about 20 minutes use when mowing because it goes in a few places where my F-2690 with its 72" deck won't fit. And that 20 minutes of operation is longer than it would take to trim where I use it but it is enough to keep the battery charged. So...

Greg, they can spray pretty much anything with both pesticides and herbicides. Helicopters allow for very precise patterns and they have become far more common with the growth of wind farms creating additional obstacles for traditional spray planes but there are some traditional crop spray...

Agree on the insurance but if no insurance, the electronics need special attention. Immediately disconnect the battery if that hasn't already been done and then anything that was under water needs to be flushed with copious amounts of distilled water. Electronic assemblies are very robust...

A couple of spray copters heading out to work in central IL this morning. Captured with Canon 1DX III and EF 200-400 f4 lens with integrated 1.4X extender. Rodger

Plugs are pretty easy to work with and you should be successful with it. My previous daily driver was a 2014 Cadillac ATS that came with low profile summer performance tires on 18" wheels and they were ZP (aka "run flat") tires. For winter use, I put on a set of 17" wheels with regular profile...