Recent content by Shawn T. W

  1. Shawn T. W

    New MX 4900 on the way - Cab features?

    Disclaimer - mine is 20 years old ... But ... For example my slide controls for three point draft height and cruise control are not really sealed ... I've only mowed with it a few hours now, and didn't notice any dust coming in there, but there is probably a 1/2" wide channel open that the...
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    GWT Quick Hitch

    They will slide around in there some side to side, but those bushings will also slide out ... Did it not come with "mushroom" bushings? https://www.boltonhooks.com/product/quick-hitch-bushing-set/
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    BX1880 brush hog performance

    Both my 4' & 5' Bush Hog brand rotary cutters didn't actually cut that wide, but the unit was that wide ... Subtract 4" for actual cutting width ... I have 3" wheel spacers on the back of mine, and it's 50" wide ... With the 44" of actual cut, and the need to overlap a little ... I need to put...
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    BX1880 brush hog performance

    For grass you will be fine with the 48" ... I at first got a 48" for my 19.6 PTO HP, (25HP tractor) It cut much more then grass! I then traded it for a 5' model with a recommendation of minimum 20 PTO HP ... And now cut grass with it, since I got the "pasture" tamed ... no problem!
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    personal protection in the heat, ticks, poison ivy?

    I'm not sure if they are deer or horse flies, but they are about an inch long! Spray them with the BifenIT, they take off, but fall in mid flight!!! The BifenIT takes care of wasps in my deck, and cockroaches in the crawlspace, and anyother insects too ... I spray down where my cats lay inside...
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    personal protection in the heat, ticks, poison ivy?

    I spray Bifen IT around the house for an insecticide, that's what the school used once a month after the students left for the day, once dry it's safe for kids and pets, even useable in the kitchen ... My plan for the permethrin was to spray my clothes, once dry, wear ... But was concerned...
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    Discovered something while mowing.

    Is your ground speed slower as well?
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    What did you do to or on your Kubota today?

    I wouldn't mind a little more ... Got .30" 2 nights ago ... First in over a month, my creek is dry now.
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    Cannot get grease to get into my LA535 Loader bucket pivot joint

    If you remove the zerk fitting and put that alone in your grease gun, can you pump grease though it? So from new those pins have never taken grease?
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    personal protection in the heat, ticks, poison ivy?

    Yup, that's me too! As a kid I'd just ride my bicycle 5' away from it in the roadside ditch, never touch it, and I'd get it! Other kids would laugh at me, as I would insist on riding on the other side of the road from where I knew it was! Even weeks after I get it from working on my place, and...
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    personal protection in the heat, ticks, poison ivy?

    Probably a quarter of my poison ivy problems are from my cats! I wear jeans, leather boots, either a T-shirt or long sleeve button up shirt if the sun is really hot, shower as soon as I come in, (usually once with dawn and then regular soap) and still get ticks and poison ivy! Just last week...
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    BX 23S PTO damage

    Yeah, 3pt up shortens shaft (or tries too!), down lengthens it...
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    Non-Dealer Source For 2502 Oil/Trans/Hyd Filters?

    Sure it does, but manufacturing cost is only part of the price ... I'm a truck driver, and I'm not going to deliver the load of filters for nothing, neither is the receiver going to unload and warehouse the filters for nothing ... Somebody has to pay for that building too, then they go on...
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    Finding a water leak in a buried line

    A BH 6"-8" trenching bucket is handy to have around ...
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    Current OEM canopy mfr?

    This has a couple of pictures here ... https://www.colemanequip.com/parts/details/KubotaParts/Kubota-Universal-Fiberglass-Tractor-Canopy/E1134/ they are a Kubota dealer.