Pulled the finishing mower offa one of the kubotas, to move a hay wagon up to the barn, to work on, this winter. Wanted to extend the drawbar, to hook to the wagon. Hadda hammer out the locking pin, not a good omen. Mid PTO, on this lil tractor is in front of the drawbar, so the old sledge hammer moving technique is out... OK, plan b, take the 2 front bolts outta the bracket, eoll around to see what's involved, there... 4 bolts, behind the sway links on the lower pivot, of the 3pt hitch, take them off. Nothing drops off, cause the hinge pin fot the lower 3 pt hitch hasta be slid out to one side, fer alla the stuff to drop off. All this is being held up, by a 10 mm set screw, just under the rear PTO. Its tigh, from 20 years of rust, can't get an impact on it straight, cause of the protruding PTO shaft! Anyway, finally got it moving, using the unscrew, oil, tighten, repeat method. Got that last turn and the set bolt kinda comes out crooked! End was 'shroomed out, and boogered up the threads, on the way out, GRRR! Got mad, put it all t'gether, 'cept the boogered up set bolt, moved the g-d wagon the lousy 200 yards it need to be moved, called it a day. (actually was only on this mission for about 1-1/2hrs, but that was after 3-1/2 hrs mowing, earlier) . Went over to the t&d cabinet, in this shop, and what I thought was a metric set, wasn't, GRRRR, again. Walked up to another building, another t&d set, this WAS metric, walked back down, GRRR, again, no 10 mmx 1.25 tap in this one, GRRR, again, I quit! T'morry I got one more set to look at, then its off to the hardware store!
Some days you're the windshield, I guess!
Some days you're the windshield, I guess!
Use mine all the time to fix bolts I bugger up.
