[ckupq]

Anyone have a good place to get hoses from at a decent price? They Koyoker (or however you spell it) lines have started failing on my loader. I need to keep a couple saved up for when they fail. I have been getting them from Family farm and home but they're kinda pricey there.

 

[XXXJ]

Anyone have a good place to get hoses from at a decent price? They Koyoker (or however you spell it) lines have started failing on my loader. I need to keep a couple saved up for when they fail. I have been getting them from Family farm and home but they're kinda pricey there.

In my search for an oddball fitting on a hydraulic line, two places in my neck of the woods came close.
NAPA in Ludington (makes hydraulic hoses in house) and lutke hydraulics in manton.

 

[jeepfreak81]

Anyone have a good place to get hoses from at a decent price? They Koyoker (or however you spell it) lines have started failing on my loader. I need to keep a couple saved up for when they fail. I have been getting them from Family farm and home but they're kinda pricey there.

I just use NAPA or O'reilly's. NAPA uses good quality hose, I'm not sure what O'reillys usues as I only got my fittings put on there last time because NAPA's press was broken. Not all O'reillys does it though.

It wasn't freaking cheap though I know that, it was like $200 for the two hoses I needed, one was 5 or 6' long.

 

[roll-bar Bob]

These guys have hooked me up a few times, when I was in a pinch, nothing about lines are cheep when it comes to replacing them.

ParkerStores | MCE

ParkerStore is your go-to source for hose, fitting, instrumentation, hydraulic, pneumatic, and filtration products and services.

mceautomation.com

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[XXXJ]

Tractor Porn
I have a couple hundred +/- root beer trees that are growing between the trees I want to keep. I believe they are called sassafras, when you cut or burn them they smell like root beer, hence “root beer trees”.
Some are six inch in diameter or better, so they can be a challenge to pull with a choker and a chain.

Well, they make a tool for that, aptly named a “tree puller”, that just happened to be on sale.
There are better, more robust designs that come with a steeper price tag as well.
This one fit my budget and still jerks them off like a cheerleader on Friday night.

 

[SHARPMACHINE]

Looks like a great tool to have!!!

 

[roll-bar Bob]

Tractor Porn
I have a couple hundred +/- root beer trees that are growing between the trees I want to keep. I believe they are called sassafras, when you cut or burn them they smell like root beer, hence “root beer trees”.
Some are six inch in diameter or better, so they can be a challenge to pull with a choker and a chain.

Well, they make a tool for that, aptly named a “tree puller”, that just happened to be on sale.
There are better, more robust designs that come with a steeper price tag as well.
This one fit my budget and still jerks them off like a cheerleader on Friday night.
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I picked up the budget version of one of those last year, it can make short work of those stubborn trees. In the early spring when the ground is still soft you will be amazed with what you can pluck.

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[XXXJ]

thats awesome! A serious root ball you got going on!
So far I am limited only by the weight of my machine. I am getting all the small ones out of the way so I have rooms to move, then I plan on adding a box blade for rear ballast and start lifting the bigger ones.
I didn’t realize how deep forty years of leaves was. There might be more than the belly mower can digest.

I picked up the budget version of one of those last year, it can make short work of those stubborn trees. In the early spring when the ground is still soft you will be amazed with what you can pluck.

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[SHARPMACHINE]

I am getting closer to adding a quick hitch to my fathers tractor.

Been kinda planning on the harbor freight one, but saw these and wondered if any of you have any experience with them?

Amazon.com: Pat's Premium 3-Point Quick Change Hitch - Category 1, 20,000-Lb. Lift Capacity : Automotive

Amazon.com: MotoAlliance Impact Implements CAT-1 Quick Hitch with Heavy Duty Detent Pins : Patio, Lawn & Garden

 

[jeepfreak81]

I am getting closer to adding a quick hitch to my fathers tractor.

Been kinda planning on the harbor freight one, but saw these and wondered if any of you have any experience with them?

Amazon.com: Pat's Premium 3-Point Quick Change Hitch - Category 1, 20,000-Lb. Lift Capacity : Automotive

Amazon.com: MotoAlliance Impact Implements CAT-1 Quick Hitch with Heavy Duty Detent Pins : Patio, Lawn & Garden

Just be mindful if your attachments will work with a quick hitch or not. Most of mine won't.

The Pat's Easy Change I think gives the most versatility

 

[XXXJ]

I am getting closer to adding a quick hitch to my fathers tractor.

Been kinda planning on the harbor freight one, but saw these and wondered if any of you have any experience with them?

Amazon.com: Pat's Premium 3-Point Quick Change Hitch - Category 1, 20,000-Lb. Lift Capacity : Automotive

Amazon.com: MotoAlliance Impact Implements CAT-1 Quick Hitch with Heavy Duty Detent Pins : Patio, Lawn & Garden

I have the Speeco E Hitch (made in USA).
It takes cat 1 pins, which everything I have uses.
I can change implements on the three point without leaving the seat.

The only thing it has not fit was a Tartar cherry picker thing. C’est la vie!

It worked good enough I bought another one for my new machine.
Amazon had the best deal with free shipping.

 

[bbaXJ]

Pat's or similar is the way to go if you have a lot of implements of varying width or borrow other peoples' attachments. If you have a set amount of attachments and have the skill and initiative to modify them all to the same width like I did, then the the 1-piece QH is way faster and more convenient. They both have their pros and cons, just need to weigh that list for your own uses and equipment.

I bought the HF QH as an experiment. I had to buy a longer top hook for it for ~$40 but aside from that it's been great. I did have to buy the bushing adapters too which aren't cheap. The Speeco E-hitch shown above is a great turnkey option to eliminate both the issues noted on the HF unit, but I'm probably still $120-150 cheaper than it was. Mine still isn't as heavy duty as the Speeco, but I don't see my machine hurting the cheapo unit anyway, and I've definitely tested it.

 

[roll-bar Bob]

tree puller:
I found it to work best if I pinch, it pull up with the loader, and in low gear rock forward and back, it loads the front axle and walks the root ball right out.

As for the HF quick hitch, I have one wasted more time trying to make it work for all my miscellaneous misfit implements, only to throw it in the weeds, and go back to hooking things up old school. Especially given, most of my shit uses the PTO and that quick hitch was just one more thing I needed to reach through to connect to the PTO.


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[whiterhino]

My only concern is if I go to a quick hitch, is my driveshaft long enough on my flail mower.

 

[XXXJ]

My only concern is if I go to a quick hitch, is my driveshaft long enough on my flail mower.

I don’t power anything off my three point yet, up for consideration are a snowblower, a wood chipper, a brush hog or a splitter. If I do, lessons learned from modifying off road vehicles, I will take a whole bite of the apple and have a proper driveshaft made.
When considering the chipper and splitter, I lean towards stand alone equipment.

I understand they make a short extension that goes on the PTO shaft.
Me thinks that if that is a wee bit long at the wrong point of articulation it could cost me more than the cost of a properly sized drive shaft

 

[roll-bar Bob]

yep been there done that

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[jeepfreak81]

My only concern is if I go to a quick hitch, is my driveshaft long enough on my flail mower.

If not I am pretty sure the shafts are somewhat generic and cut the slip to fit, I know I have seen them at TSC in the past

 

[wave_crusher]

I am getting closer to adding a quick hitch to my fathers tractor.

Been kinda planning on the harbor freight one, but saw these and wondered if any of you have any experience with them?

Amazon.com: Pat's Premium 3-Point Quick Change Hitch - Category 1, 20,000-Lb. Lift Capacity : Automotive

Amazon.com: MotoAlliance Impact Implements CAT-1 Quick Hitch with Heavy Duty Detent Pins : Patio, Lawn & Garden

Had the Harbor Freight quick hitch for a long time. I finally bent the shit out of it using the brush hog to back over brush; definitely not what it was meant for and not how you're probably supposed to used to use it, but it held up very well and was super happy with it. At the time I only paid $100 for the HF quick hitch too.

I don't bother with a quick hitch anymore, i've found that with the implements I have all range in manufacturer and age, that the 3pts are all different sizes and none of them actually "fit" the quick hitch. It was actually taking just as long or longer in some cases to hook them up to the quick hitch than just the 3pt bars themselves.

A quick hitch would work exactly as it's supposed to if the manufacturer of the QH and the implements were all the same, and same relative age as well.

A Pats Easy Change is supposed to be the best of both worlds as it's just the bottom two bars are the quick attach style, but for the cost of those little things, I didn't even bother. Especially now that I have a new, smaller size tractor it's even easier to adjust 3pt height to finagle implements on.

 

[wave_crusher]

I am getting closer to adding a quick hitch to my fathers tractor.

Been kinda planning on the harbor freight one, but saw these and wondered if any of you have any experience with them?

Amazon.com: Pat's Premium 3-Point Quick Change Hitch - Category 1, 20,000-Lb. Lift Capacity : Automotive

Amazon.com: MotoAlliance Impact Implements CAT-1 Quick Hitch with Heavy Duty Detent Pins : Patio, Lawn & Garden

Had the Harbor Freight quick hitch for a long time. I finally bent the shit out of it using the brush hog to back over brush; definitely not what it was meant for and not how you're probably supposed to used to use it, but it held up very well and was super happy with it. At the time I only paid $100 for the HF quick hitch too.

I don't bother with a quick hitch anymore, i've found that with the implements I have all range in manufacturer and age, that the 3pts are all different sizes and none of them actually "fit" the quick hitch. It was actually taking just as long or longer in some cases to hook them up to the quick hitch than just the 3pt bars themselves.

A quick hitch would work exactly as it's supposed to if the manufacturer of the QH and the implements were all the same, and same relative age as well.

A Pats Easy Change is supposed to be the best of both worlds as it's just the bottom two bars are the quick attach style, but for the cost of those little things, I didn't even bother. Especially now that I have a new, smaller size tractor it's even easier to adjust 3pt height to finagle implements on.

 

[wave_crusher]

My only concern is if I go to a quick hitch, is my driveshaft long enough on my flail mower.

Only issue I had with length of the shaft was with our old Kubota, we needed a PTO extension to run the brush hog; but with the same shaft and same brush hog on the new kubota, it fit just fine all the way up or down.

The PTO extension we had was perfectly fine strength fine, never had an issue with it.