I want one of those..Just have no use for one.

Jealous

My 1976 Kubota L260 w/ FEL

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It was being used here to roll out the fencing we ran to contain my goats. I have a 6ft blade attachment as well. Need to get a 7ft mowing deck for it.

I bought an LS MT125 with loader bucket and backhoe for tree clearing and cutting a driveway down/across a steep slope. That thing is a beast and will push over and dig out big trees easily. After the driveway is done, I’ll be using it to excavate a basement and foundation.

Handsome!

Got any pictures? I LOVE SEEING LIVE ACTION!

So, I ordered the edge tamers for the bucket. Seems like those could help prevent damage to the ground, Parking lot and the bucket itself.

Also ordered the LH step and some bolt on tie downs.

Ordered the bolt on hooks for the bucket, a seat cover, they get like 600 for a new seat!

Ordered the wife a Pink John Deere hat because she thinks my tractors sexy!

Don’t have any live action pics at the moment, but here is the tractor parked next to my kids’ JD.

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Welcome to the world of Deere. Your experience is entirely different than mine, but fire away.

I don’t know if it is available on one that size but they make self leveling pallet forks so you don’t get cock-eyed and tear shit up.

I don’t think I can bring myself to operate one without a cab. I’ve been trying to find one in the 35 HP range for moving snow and mowing but I can’t justify the cost.

My advice to you is read the maintenance portion of the manual and do it. It will save you headache and try to store it out of the sun if possible. It will hold its value better.

Oh and be sure to put dyed diesel in. Don’t be paying any road tax.

Box scraper is where it’s at for leveling.

Wow, they could use that picture in an ad. Beautiful!

Yeah, I think i read about a self leveling option which sounds great!

Goodworks tractor has a great video on a snow pusher. Wish I had seen that before I bought the Snow plow. Damn

Ive already spent a few hours reading the manuals (very good advice).

Any favorite flavors of Grease, oil, filters? Was just gonna get the Deere stuff out of an abundance of caution?

Building a shed for the tractor right now, its just to pretty to leave out in the elements.

Not sure where to buy the Ag diesel? Is it really that much cheaper?

Box scraper, hell yeah! I went from "what the hell is that for" to better add that to my list!

This is so much fun! What an amazing machine.

If you have a dedicated snow plow, I'd just eat the L and buy a pusher. My understanding those work great. Although I don't have any actual experience.

If you've never run snow with a front end loader the big thing you need to manage is keeping it out of gravel if your driveway is gravel. If it's paved, fire away, but if there is gravel it is better to leave a layer of snow. You'll end up with a pile of rocks when the snowdrift melts. Then mowing is troublesome etc. Again, from my understanding, pushers work well. There are a lot of YouTube videos on them. Watch them before you pull the trigger, but if I were starting from scratch it would be with a pusher.

Right, so doing the maintenance is far more important than the products used. Pins and low temp bearings are supposed to have the blue grease (I think Deere's is green - SD polyurea or something). I'm guessing you probably don't have any high temp applications. If you did it would take a different type of grease.

If you want the best type of grease, Deere's extreme duty synthetic is good stuff but it's $10 a tube. And frankly if you grease with the green stuff regularly and the white stuff once a year, you'd be better off with the green.

On our farm we use Mystik High Temp because we have some high temp applications and we're not going to screw up running 2 grease guns and squirt some cheap grease in a high temp zerk.

Largely it doesn't matter, as long as you do it. The pins in the loader are probably the biggest concern. Grease it more often than you think you should. Especially if you catch a bunch of rain or move snow with it. Keeping moisture out of the pivot pins is a critical function of grease. If it is creaking at all, grease that bitch.

Deere does have a pretty good electric grease gun. Buy it and a lock and lube tip for it and just do it.

Like cars, you don't want to overgrease your tie rod ends and blow out the boots. If it has a front suspension, do it, the loader, the mower and the 3 point a lot. The rest by the manual.

Oh and don't grease the threads on the 3 point adjustment arms. Deere still puts them on, and they never aren't dumb. If you adjust the links regularly (if you do buy a quick coupler), take them apart and spray them with slip plate and put them back together dry.

Noice. Just make sure you can get a cord out there to plug in the block heater. Your engine will thank you.

https://tax.colorado.gov/fuel-tax/dy...bstances%20Fee.

In Kansas it is exempt from Road Tax. So any off-road activity would be eligible for dyed diesel. Looks like Colorado wants it only tax exempt activities (which homeowners would probably not be included).

In Kansas, the only way you'll get tagged is if you put it in a pickup or truck and the DOT stops you. Then you're in deep shit, but if you can buy some for a tractor, there is no way anyone would know. My guess is you can roll into a rural station and look for dyed or non-tax diesel and load it up.[/QUOTE]

Enjoy it man, there is a lot you can do. As I said, your interaction is a lot different than mine, but that's not to say it can't be super enjoyable, so fire away.

I just looked up that model. I was expecting the next size larger frame, but that should be a good tractor for you.

The hydrostatic transmission will be incredibly handy for you, but don't pull that thing too hard. If you're digging or pushing hard (with good traction) don't just sit there and work the piss out of it. Run it, and let it rest a bit. Let the oil cool. Also keep the radiator/oil cooler clean so the oil can keep cool.

A couple things I'd look at if I were you are:

1. A ballast box. It's a weighted box you can put on the 3 point so the back wheels will stay on the ground if you go to lift something heavy with the 3 loader.

2. A grapple. It looks like they are available for that model of loader. They are pretty handy also.

3. Snow chains for the tires. Those ones won't dig. Might get a little dicey with snow.

4. It's open station, so hearing protection, friend :)

5. Lights. Add some more lights, those won't be particularly good if you need to work at night. My Deere dealer had some decent quality LED add on work lights.

Enjoy dude.

It was hay day on the homestead today... I feel like I could just take a day and do it myself but I don't have the tools yet. So my neighbors come by with their big boy tractors and get me sorted.

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Thanks Buehler! I wanted a BIG tractor but I only have two acres. It will go to my shop for winter so I can use it for my parking lot. Also, I have always wanted a fork lift for the shop, this way I get both. The smaller size actually made sense for me.

I am a stickler for maintenance so thanks again for that advice and the tips on what to grease more often.

Think Im going to go ahead and order the snow pusher, hopefully have it by fall that way. I have never wanted it to snow so badly!!

Tractor envy is REAL!