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I’m finally giving up juggling 5gal jugs and building a fuel storage and pump station. I’ll have both diesel and gasoline. I’m pretty much satisfied I have the 55gal steel barrels cleaned, any loose rust and debris removed and the pump, plumbing and filters properly installed. It’s the...

My 2019 B2601 has developed a slow, seeping hydraulic leek somewhere on the connector plate of the QuickTach FEL. These are four smooth-face connectors, collected on a single assembly and pressed together by an over center cam handle. I’ve tightened all the connecting nuts I could, and a couple...

Starting my third year with Bessie, my 2019 B2601. So far all is well, learned any number of little idiosyncrasies, got all kinds of useful after market implements, haven’t bent, broke or exploded anything. Overall, I’m still in love. But that seat! I’m a big guy and those little wimpy springs...

Here in Northern Idaho we are the beneficiaries of Pleistocene glaciation-soil filled with rocks sized from pea gravel to a Volkswagen. I’m looking for a “rock bucket” that can skim down say 4” - 6” and scoop up loose stones brought up by cutting paths, making foundation pads and other...

I want to lay in a store of diesel, at least 200 gallons. I’m looking at the big square metal storage/transfer tanks, but their weight plus fuel might make them too heavy for my B2601 FEL to lift down from the pick up bed after filling. Does anyone know how well the poly 55gal. drums would...

For the electrically able out there... I have an old chineesium generator I cleaned up, and it works great, but I want to use a 4-blade 30 amp cable wired to a thru-the-wall 6 plug outlet cluster. I’m confused by the note next to the panel outlet which reads 13A max. Is this a Chinese misprint...

LA435 QuickTach is coming off to install the K Connect snow blower. The hydraulic quickcoupler won’t come off. Pressure released, red button opened, lever up/forward as far as it will go....Im at the wail on it with a hammer stage, but will try intelligent inquiry to experienced, mature men...

Hi all, hope everyone had a great summer. I’m getting ready to pour a concrete slab to provide a level surface on which to disconnect, overwinter and easily reattach my QuickTach FEL. I stored it last winter on gravel and it sank in enough to make it practically impossible to reattach this...

It was time to take the snowblower off Bessy II and reattach the LA435 “Quick Tach” FEL. Everything was in readiness, I felt confident it was going to be as easy for me as it was for Neil from Messicks: “I won’t even have to get off the tractor seat!” :D The thing about leaving a heavy...

Hi all! This will be Bessy II’s first spring and I want to finally get to work establishing a pasture-ish area on my homestead. It won’t be to support grazing animals right away, just look better, more controlled and groomed, than a weedy fire danger “vacant lot.” I’m hoping your experiences...

Hi all! Ive started having issues recently with my B2601 throttle slipping off setting, especially at higher RPM. Ive seen the posts for correcting the problem on BX models - a simple, easy to reach fix after the inside grill is removed... Theres no removing the console cover on the B2601 and...

Hi All! The spring bug has bitten me (probably because the worst of our winter is just over the horizon…) and Im making plans for a garden. Top of the equipment list is a toothed bucket attachment to help me dig and level, as well as start pulling brush. Im looking at the much vaunted...

Between the Land Pride back blade to keep the margins open and a truck-mounted DR Redi-Plow Plus to push off what piddling amounts of snow weve had so far, Ive been able to keep our roads smooth as silk. Unfortunately when you get a warm rain and then a freeze, your smooth roads drive like...

“The man who picks up a cat by the tail will get ten times the information of the man who just reads about it.” –Mark Twain So, the reason shear bolts have a notch, then that smooth, unthreaded section below the head is, after they’ve sheared off, you can get the broken section out of the...

Hi everybody. Blister back again, with more questions about the obvious. This time, I’m having trouble disconnecting the single lever hydraulic coupler on my FEL. It’s the new FL 435 Swift-Tach on my 2019 B2601. They feature the smooth flat faced hydraulic quick connectors, not the old Pioneer...

It’s time to put the FEL away for the year and get my snow blower attached. Bessie II is a new B2601 and I purchased the BX2822 55” commercial snow blower and the LandPride RB 1572 6’ back blade. I’m going to get a 1-2 punch by pulling snow to the center of the roads then blowing the windrow...

When I’m making tight turns on Bessy II, both with the FEL under load and just maneuvering around the property, my steering wheel ends up catty wompus. With the front wheels pointing straight ahead, the large space between the steering wheel’s spokes sometimes lines up with the instrument...

Good morning all! Sorry, but I can’t ignore it any longer. Winter’s comin’, and this is my first one with a tractor. I need some advice from the polar bears in the group. Bessie II is my Kubota B2601. She’s kept in a closed but unheated barn, and we’ll be down into the teens and once in a...

I just finished watching GP Outdoors #193. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4suIgn-QZ4 Cliff has attached an Igland 2001 Skidding Winch to his B2601 and it would be great to have something like that this winter. We're on a fire road which nobody maintains except the residents, and we're...

I just did the 50 hour maintenance cycle on my 2019 B2601. I drained the factory crankcase oil and installed a new filter. Refilled with Zecol Max Pro Series 10W-30. Unfortunately, I was so locked on the oil's weight I missed the small notation "For Gasoline Engines" at the bottom of the label...