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  1. CGMKCM

    A really bad day

    A little background. A family member loaned his Kubota 3800 to his neighbor. I don't know how the damage occurred or what the neighbor was doing with the tractor. Neighbor had borrowed the tractor several times over the last 4 years without any problems and lets my family member use his skid...
  2. CGMKCM

    FWIW steering line failure.

    A few weeks ago I was tilling a garden at PTO rated RPMs. Came to the end of the row turned steering hard to the right to start a new row and what I thought was smoke poured out from under the deck of my tractor. I dropped rpm's to idle and shut down PTO. I then limped tractor 200 yds to home...
  3. CGMKCM

    Lane Shark or Hardee Brush Tiger users

    I have a couple miles of trails through the woods that need to have trees uplimbed or pruned a couple of times per year. I also have 12 acres of fields that are tree lined and the trees need to have the same. I am thinking about buying one of the two products listed in the title. I have watched...
  4. CGMKCM

    Reminder to check torque on wheel lug bolts, nuts.

    A rear wheel off of my RTV 1100X-c was destroyed yesterday. Both wheel studs backed out and then the wheel bolts loosened up. In the picture the studs were at the 2 and 8 O-clock positions. I last torqued the wheel in April to 80lbft. 75 hours of use since torqued. I chased the threads on wheel...
  5. CGMKCM

    Quick attach carnage

    I was using my forks to move some small logs around to my wood splitter log pile. I had to push some branches etc. out of the way to get to the logs. Somehow the right side of the forks disconnected from the quick attach plate. This then placed all of the weight and leverage on the left side of...
  6. CGMKCM

    Loader sub frame bolts.

    Just wanted to pass on some info. I have had my tractor 1 year and have 120 operating hours. I did not receive the operators manual for the loader when I purchased the tractor and I was unaware about the requirement to re-torque all fasteners on the sub frame. I just finished and found several...
  7. CGMKCM

    Loader/3rd function problem

    Had a big storm roll through a few days ago that dropped five trees in a big clump, blocking one of my trails. I had the grapple mounted and everything was working great. On the last log I had a problem crop up. I was closing the grapple on a log that was very large on one end and about 1/2...
  8. CGMKCM

    Grammer air ride seat

    I purchased a l 4760 with loader October 2020. I upgraded the seat from the factory suspension seat to the air ride seat option. The air ride seat is a Grammer model 75G/531. The seat has a safety switch built into the seat that shuts down the engine if the pto is engaged and the operator leaves...