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At a minimum I would think daily rinsing, but there are so many crevices where salt water could get in, and crevice corrosion is a real problem. I was wondering if they have gone above and beyond in some clever way to reduce the problem. There are tractors rotting away on beaches in England...

I've never had a problem with any FEL attachments on four different Kubota tractors. However, I've never owned anything made by Titan Attachments. Off the top of my head these are the FEL implements I currently own without any issues. Kubota HD bucket - MX Kubota HD bucket - M EA grapple Land...

Whoa! What are they doing to mitigate corrosion?

Nice! I have a CAI SSQA boom pole but haven't used it yet. I bought it to raise steel trusses up in the air and will be using it this spring for sure. Using a backhoe to unload equipment is limited since you can't easily or safely pick up and move. Now an excavator is a whole different...

I'm in your camp. I've never owned a zero turn and likely never will. I cut with a rotary cutter, flail and this year also with a folding cutter. Small wheels and tires don't work well for me with the kind of cutting I do or the terrain I have to deal with. I don't have to worry about...

For sure ... and thanks! As I was driving up the edge of my property to my neighbors, I could see 40 or so elk on the hillside. They're about 1,000 yards from my house in this photo which was taken near the top of my place. If you look in the center of the bottom photo you can see the elk.

Later this afternoon I moved the land leveler to the M6060 and tried to improve the lower common driveway. My neighbors had a bunch of gravel dropped there too and it's soft and deep in places. It'll be a while before I can get it sorted out since we don't have a roller. Once we've had some...

My neighbors had $4k of gravel delivered over the past couple of days and had quite the mess outside their house with large piles of 3/4 crush. They asked me if I'd get the piles moved and leveled since they don't have any way to do that sort of work other than with shovels and a wheelbarrow...

A few years ago I made a post here about my experience using the MX6000 open station to move a very large boulder down my asphalt driveway. I should have dumped the bucket and the rock as I went into a full slide and starting fishtailing. Like you, I was in 2WD and hung on for dear life. Scary...

I think we have it figured out, but you might want to inform Kubota and/or Messicks about that. They show #170 as being a "tension pulley".

Thanks for the photo.

For the record that was the first thing I tried since it made the most sense. It's a 14mm bolt, and after loosening it I realized that there was no slot to allow the pulley to move inwards. Good suggestion though.

I had to chance to look more closely at the "tension pulley" and bracket and there's no provision to rotate it. The schematic above is missing a bolt, and the boss that @Matt Ellerbee mentioned is solid and not threaded. I took a look at the M6060 engine compartment and the unsupported belt...

The drawing does make it look like that's how it'd work, but I think there's another bolt that's not shown. There's a hole in the middle of the bracket that has a bolt (I think). I'm taking the MX, bucket and the EA land leveler over to my neighbor's house to spread gravel since a big truck...

The parts diagram on Messicks shows the pulley (# 170) being in contact with the A/C belt but I'm still not sure if there's a way to adjust the bracket to move the pulley closer to the belt. I'll have to look into that. By the way, #170 is described as a "tension pulley" so it needs to be in...

Thanks @Matt Ellerbee . That's very helpful.

I looked through my MX6000 open station photos but don't have a photo of the engine. I am still curious about the belts on an open station model though. I'll look through the WSM to see if it shows anything.

That's interesting. So if the belt gets really loose due to stretching or the adjustment being off and starts flapping around, the pulley would prevent it from getting way out of control?

Thanks for the quick response. So maybe it's an artifact from the open station MX models. They don't have the A/C option so there's obviously a different belt routing on those models. I'll look through the photos I took when I had the MX6000 open station and report back if I find something...

Before anyone suggests that the belt should go around the idler, it would seem unlikely given the shape of the pulley. The shape implies that the back side of the belt would contact the idler. If the belt were intended to go over the pulley, the pulley would be the V-groove variety ... I would...