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    L2850 - Prepping for Brush Hogging

    I have an L2850 and a Woods 5' Dixie Cutter brush hog I've been working on to get ready to start cutting my farm with. The farm is not flat, plenty of hills and banks which I know I need to mow up & down as much as possible vs across. That said, I want to make the tractor as safe and stable as...
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    Use or toss?

    Love all the stories of 'McGyvering' to get home :) With regard to the boy, I was being gracious when I said he was trying to help. He was actually just being nosy about what was in the envelope not addressed to him. Nonetheless, I was not too hard on him :)
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    Use or toss?

    Thanks. I'll give it a shot.
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    Use or toss?

    After months of stop and go progress getting my Woods Dixie Cutter back together from changing out the lower bearing, I was finally ready to reassemble and realized there was no gasket between the front shaft bolt on plate and the gear box. I ordered one about a week ago and it finally came...
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    Best replacement seat for L2850

    I have an '88 L2850 and the seat skin is cracked showing the foam in several places and the metal seat bottom/frame is very rusty. If the bottom were in tact I'd have it reupholstered but it's shot. What have some of you done or bought that you like?
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    Replacing bottom seal and bearings - Woods M5 Dixie Cutter

    The bar came off much easier than expected. Any suggestions on techniques or maybe links to tool/puller to get this sleeve (#4) up out of the hole and off of the shaft? I'm thinking it would need a tall, slender puller of some type. There seems to be a groove in the sleeve toward the bottom...
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    B20 Rear Tire Ballast

    Following!
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    Replacing bottom seal and bearings - Woods M5 Dixie Cutter

    Woods replied with the owners manual ... pretty helpful. Since I'm not in a rush, I may tackle the job myself. Worst case, I could always take the gear box / vertical shaft to a shop if I run into bearing installation issue. The shimming step seems pretty straightforward, the part I'm most...
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    Replacing bottom seal and bearings - Woods M5 Dixie Cutter

    I picked up a used M5 Dixie Cutter today for $540. It has a steady drip out the bottom seal as I've seen others describe. It also has some shaft play so I was planning to replace the bearing along with the output seal. From other forum posts and youtube, it seems like the blade bar can be a...
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    Can't keep my subsoiler at depth

    Weights were my first thought, but then none of the videos I watched seemed to have any extra weight addded to the 3pt or implement and they were all going into the soil to full depth and staying there. I think I had my top link tightened most of the way in, but I'll check that and give it a...
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    Can't keep my subsoiler at depth

    I'm trying to use a subsoiler and cannot get it to go down and stay down. I even hand dug a hole, dropped it in there and after about 20', it's come up to the top of the ground. I'm novice tractor owner and like many, was suprised to discover 3 pt hitches only have gravity fall and no...
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    Ballast for L2850

    I just picked up an '88 L2850 in great condition with < 400 hrs on it. I grew up on a farm (more of a hobby farm than a working farm) and around tractors (dad had an old Ford 8n and later some mid size JD diesels with front end loaders). I remember the ford had wheel weights and fluid in the...