Against my better judgement I was able to borrow and edger thru a friend of a friend.
Ran for 5 minutes and now it won't start.
Fart.

 

Mean Jean, your truck will be fine for your needs as is; Upgrading is expensive and over kill for your needs.

I wish I could assist with the dog line. Let us know what you did and how it worked. Pictures would be great!

 

Oh, that isn't good.



Carberator? Has the gasoline gone bad?

 

Not sure what the problem is.
Do know I'd rather be doing a pile of other things, not fixing an edger.
Didn't manage to get around to the dog fence today, did manage to replace the cylinder head gasket on my tractor.
Will update and try and post pics.

 

What kind of tractor do you have?

I hear you. I hate it when something brakes down in the middle of a project. It's rather infuriating!

 

I bet it's a carb problem.

 

Its a kubota L1801. Just under 20hp. Front end loader.
Not a big machine but does the trick for 5 acres.

Not a carb problem. I pull on the pull fard and the shaft is free wheeling. Not in fact turning the engine over.
I think maybe its a shear pin. Takes about 7 bolts just to get to the guts of the machine. Still need to remove the carb and spark plug amongst other things.
Certainly not built with repair in mind.

My railway tie/lag bolt idea is not working.
Need a new solution.

Any ideas?

 

I collet tractor parafanlia. John Deere is what I aim for most but not because I think they make the best tractor. Kubota is one of the best IMHO. Great machines.

I'm surprised the rail road bolt didn't work. Sounds like you might have to tackle this with a pick ax. Any young men around needing a couple bucks?

How far does this line need to be burried?

Did you give your friend a call? He may have fixed this problem before on the edger.

 

Going back to your water tank. I think the other posters have good advice but to me it's your truck and you can use and abuse it however you want. It's not like you're going to kill anybody if you're crawling over grass at 3mph and your springs break. I've used my 91 bronco for lots of hard work that was way beyond what it was rated for. (I now have a working F-250 but I still work the bronco). This included towing full size trucks on an 18 foot flatbed trailer, towing a buttload of furniture and appliances with said trailer and in the bed of the bronco. And carrying over a ton of busted concrete in the bed (seriously, costs $50/ton to dump concrete where I live and that load was almost $60). I say give it a shot. Fill your tank 3/4 or until your springs look like they can't take much more and go water some trees. If you do break a spring or something inside that 8.8 rear lets go, just dump the water out, tow the truck to the garage with the tractor and fix it. But that's just the way I look at things, I'm not afraid to beat on trucks and use them hard. That's why I like Fords. (No Ford truck ever came with that pathetic 10 bolt corporate rearend, can't say the same for Chevy)

 

Since nobody else said it you should probably upgrade your tires. I doubt your tires will hold that much weight on a constant basis.

 

Dog fence first.
I'd imagine the rail tie idea would work if I mounted it better on the tractor.
I picked up a cable layer today and finished 95% of the job. I only have another 30 feet to go.
I've laid down almost 2000 feet.
Things were going alright then the wheels fell off. Machine jammed up with mud, ran out of wire, dogs freaked out.
I was also battling sundown.
If you decide to install dog fence I recommend the following:
-Rent a cable layer.
-keep the macines blades very clean.
-Buy 200 feet too much (wire)
-Ger a good helper.
-if you think you can install in 4 hours, plan for five and a half.

Watering trees.
I'm with 91bronco300
This isnt fine china I'm driving here. I think my truck will handle 1000 pounds comfortably.
I haven't put 20 days of hard work on her in the 12 years she's been mine.
I believe tire ratings are rated at highway speeds.
My neighbor is going to source for me a water tote. Probably 275 gallons.

Will advise

 

heh, speaking of flailing our trucks i rembember when my grandpa loaded my truck with a trailer and a bed full of firnature till the hitch scraped the ground.... i was pissed!

 

Did grandpa do any damage to your truck?

 

On the the subject of the water tank, even tho they are rated at 1/2 ton doesn't mean that they can't handle a heavier load of cargo. I just wouldn't want to drive very far or very fast with that heavy of a load. For example, I live on a farm and in the winter haul 1800 lb bails of hay to feed the cattle, which when you think about how I haul the hay is actually heavier on the suspension then 1800lbs (by bail spike). When doing this I rarely drive above 5mph.
So will it handle it? Sure. Do you have to adjust you driving method/style to do it? Absolutely!

Now on the subject of buried dog fence, I have one piece of advise. Do not forget and drive out of the area of the fence with your dog in the back *zap*, or if you do at least take the collar of first.

 

Ive put 3600 lbs of sand in a halfton truck and went across town. I have frequently laid over 1500lbs of crap in a halfton and gone freeeway speeds The truck I did the sand in had 3/4ton springs. Only some years and types of F150 can take the 3/4 springs otherwise you have to buy overloads.

For cripes sakes I threw 1400lbs of drywall and pulled a 5000lb trailer at 60 mph in my 64 with three of us in the cab. I had no trailer brakes and stopped fine on the manual drums.

Here is a very easy way to estamate what you can safely haul. go get the thing scaled with you sittting in it. should be about 4200lbs for a half ton LB. Subtract that from your GVWR.

My 96 SB is about 3900 lbs the GVWR is 6200 I weigh about 200.

6200-3900-200= a payload of 2100lbs. So my light duty half ton can easily haul that water. As that is what 250 gallons weighs. You can easily add another 25% reasonably safely. GVWR is based on your brakes not your springs so watch them. but there is no reason you couldent haul that across town. Around here most farmers put a 100 galon fuel tank, a toolbox full of tools, and then pull a loaded gooseneck with 10 cattle in it. Yes in a half ton pickup.

BTW-I used a tiling spade to install my dog fence. A hoe works great in hard dry ground and gravel. Just turn it on its side and use the corner. 2" is max I would go about 1" as any deeper and it may not work.