If you need me, I'll be on my tractor. Kubota L3902

[LBarr2002]

Burgundy has always complained that we don't have a back yard. In reality we gave 130 acres of back yard its just not utilized. Our house is set at the back of what we cleared with 100 yards to the road but just enough room to drive around the back. The kids have started to venture out more and want to explore and climb, etc.

Since we've had a few beautiful warm dry days, and my Jeep is with Jim and I didn't have anything better to do, we got started on utilizing the back yard more. There's a cool bent tree the kids wanted to be able to climb so I started clearing. There's an old fence line with a barbed wire top run. I cut it in a few places and grabbed it with the bucket and pulled fence and all the vines grown in it out.

Most of it looked like this.


After a few hours.



The view from the top.

 

[97TJGUZZY]

good times! I can't wait to come check it out!

 

[YJeeper]

Larry, does your PTO make noise? My neighbors have the same tractor and tried to borrow my roto tiller yesterday and the upon engaging the PTO with the tiller load on it it sounded like a box of rocks in a blender. I'm unfamiliar with hydrostatic and how the PTO works, but it does not sound right. An internet search says that the straight cut gears will make noise, but its hard for me to believe it would be that much. They had suprisingly never taken the backhoe off the back and used the PTO in 3 or so years.

 

[LBarr2002]

Larry, does your PTO make noise? My neighbors have the same tractor and tried to borrow my roto tiller yesterday and the upon engaging the PTO with the tiller load on it it sounded like a box of rocks in a blender. I'm unfamiliar with hydrostatic and how the PTO works, but it does not sound right. An internet search says that the straight cut gears will make noise, but its hard for me to believe it would be that much. They had suprisingly never taken the backhoe off the back and used the PTO in 3 or so years.

I have only used mine with the bush hog and I don't hear anything out of the ordinary.

 

[YJeeper]

10-4. I'll share this with you just in case it does start. Apparently you need to make sure the engagement cable is in proper adjustment at all times. Unfortunately it looks like there gonna have to split their tractor apart and do some work.

https://www.orangetractortalks.com/forums/threads/l2800hst-pto-engagement-noise.54713/

 

[LBarr2002]

10-4. I'll share this with you just in case it does start. Apparently you need to make sure the engagement cable is in proper adjustment at all times. Unfortunately it looks like there gonna have to split their tractor apart and do some work.

https://www.orangetractortalks.com/forums/threads/l2800hst-pto-engagement-noise.54713/

The 02 models (2502, 3302, 3902) have gone to an electronic, clutchless, pto engagement. There is just a switch now.

 

[YJeeper]

The 02 models (2502, 3302, 3902) have gone to an electronic, clutchless, pto engagement. There is just a switch now.

Huh, guess that solves that problem. Nevermind haha

 

[LBarr2002]

I did my first field work of the season yesterday. Over the years trees have fell along the property lines / fence lines and the "roads" have just been rerouted around them. With no traffic, some of the fencelines have grown up in vines and saplings as tall as the tractor. I bull dozed and bush hogged through several of those sections.

The golf cart mirror glue didn't hold up to the vibrations, but the lense landed in my lap and didn't break. Currently crazy gluing that back together.



This is what a Ryobi 40V battery pack looks like when it falls off the saw and goes through the mower. Lucky it wasn't dry because several of the cells were smoking.

 

[97TJGUZZY]

I did my first field work of the season yesterday. Over the years trees have fell along the property lines / fence lines and the "roads" have just been rerouted around them. With no traffic, some of the fencelines have grown up in vines and saplings as tall as the tractor. I bull dozed and bush hogged through several of those sections.

The golf cart mirror clue didn't hold up to the vibrations, but the lense landed in my lap and didn't break. Currently crazy gluing that back together.

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This is what a Ryobi 40V battery pack looks like when it falls off the saw and goes through the mower. Lucky it wasn't dry because several of the cells were smoking.

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holy crap thats wild!

 

[LBarr2002]

What a beautiful day for a few laps on the tractor. Gotta get these roads cleaned up for the kids to rip the RZR.

 

[97TJGUZZY]

What a beautiful day for a few laps on the tractor. Gotta get these roads cleaned up for the kids to rip the RZR.

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I hope I'm included in that "kids" statement!

 

[LBarr2002]

I hope I'm included in that "kids" statement!

I told DJ he needs to bring his over and get some traffic on the old roads.

 

[LBarr2002]

Huge step made in property access today. It was finally dry enough to work on the dam behind the house. We'll see how it holds up to the afternoon shower.

 

[97TJGUZZY]

hard to tell in the pics, is that 5' wide?

 

[LBarr2002]

hard to tell in the pics, is that 5' wide?

Basically, yes. Little wider in places but no narrower than the bucket all the way across.

 

[LBarr2002]

I need to compact it a little more, build it up more, then spread some fast grow seed to try to keep it in place.

 

[LBarr2002]

50 hour oil change (49.1 hrs) this morning. We need some rain to knock down the dust then I can get more work done.

 

[MountainGoat]

50 hour oil change (49.1 hrs) this morning. We need some rain to knock down the dust then I can get more work done.

Did you change your hydraulic filters at 50hrs? I changed my filters as advised by the dealer and was amazed at all the metal shavings on the magnets.

 

[LBarr2002]

Did you change your hydraulic filters at 50hrs? I changed my filters as advised by the dealer and was amazed at all the metal shavings on the magnets.

Not yet. I asked the dealer for everything I needed for 50 hr service and they gave me engine oil and filter and 1 hydraulic filter. Problem is, I don't know which one it is. I need to run back and pick up the other hydraulic filter and replace them both at the same time.

 

[MountainGoat]

I did both on mine at 50. Hooked up shop vac to hydraulic fill and only lost about 2 quarts of hydraulic oil