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I've had a Deka for 5 years and it's been great. Before that I made the mistake of getting an inexpensive one from Tractor Supply and it lasted a year. The original battery hold down on my 40c was missing so I made one up with a piece of angle iron and some threaded rod. The previous owner just had ...

I did some rummaging and found the old roller fairlead from my rock crawler winch (I switched to synthetic rope on that which uses a hawse fairlead, the rope is incredible for recovery winches). It will work great for the side rollers but It will need a more stout bottom. I don't have any old track ...

OK, thanks for the input. I was a little concerned about a wheel arch being cumbersome in the woods, but it seems like by far the best approach. I have an old trailer axle with some good sized wheels and a bunch of steel in the scrap pile, so I'm going to try to put one together. The hardest part wi...

I have a 40c that appears to have come from the factory or dealer with a Carco C-3 winch. I have not run across another one of these. I primarily use the crawler to skid firewood. It really works great, as it's small enough to get around my wood lot without making a huge mess. The one issue is that ...

Or you could be like one of the previous owners of my 40c and just torch a hole in both sides of the toolbox big enough to slip the starter through .

I am in the process of swapping out the beat up blade assembly on my 40c for a nice 62 blade. The blade I'm swapping in looks like it had very little use, and there is virtually no pin or bushing wear. There is probably 3/8" of play in the lower bushings, and 1/4"in the cylinder lift bushings of the...

My 4 roller 40c has two different final drive housings on it, one is heavily gusseted and one isn't. I would assume the one with the gussets is a later model 420 that was swapped in. In comparing the two the gusseted one looks much more stout.

Sounds like a great fit. The month-ish of mandatory vacation we are all getting came at an inconvenient time, but hopefully it will all be over soon enough and we can all get back to normal living. Maybe it will even make us all appreciate what we have a little more too.

Yes, avoid any grey market machine at all costs. I believe parts are somewhat better for the grey Hitachis vs. Grey market Kubotas and Cats are a nightmare from what I understand. They are often odd colors and have funky split booms as opposed to pivoting booms. My father had a grey market Hitachi E...

Be very careful if it's a grey market machine. Parts for those can sometimes be tricky to get as you can't get any parts from domestic dealers. My mini is fantastic for working around the yard, and general small digging jobs. I use it a lot to pick up and move things, and it's amazing how much it wi...

Thanks for posting that. While all equipment is dangerous, the old iron is far worse. My 06 Kubota mini ex has a FOPS cab and control locks where it automatically de-energizes all the hydraulics when you pull the lock level. My 40c obviously has none of that. The worst of the 40 is the winch. I have...

My good friend's dad was a union boiler operator in Jersey for several decades. He made six figures and retired in his 60s with a full pension. After sitting around for a bit he started operating again as a per diem operator and made pretty close to what he was making full time on top of his pension...

I'd suggest making sure you copyright it before releasing anything.

As long as it was somewhere warm:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lnPnUpe9jw

I have a Kubota 121 mini, which is about 9,000lbs. It's got a thumb, and I use a 4' piece of I beam for fine grading. It's a really nice size, as it's big enough to pop a few stumps (albeit slowly) but I can still move it with my one ton. Just can't expect it to do the work of a larger machine. I mo...