Articles for tag: Mowers, Mowing, Tractors

Karla News

Adjusting the Mower Deck on Your Garden Tractor

Occasionally you will need to make small adjustments to the height of your mower deck. This usually happens when grass cutting settings fall outside the range of motion that is allowed by the deck height lever within its factory settings. There are a number of places to start looking when choosing to adjust the deck ...

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Lawn and Garden Tractors: A Buyer’s Guide

Here is an overview of 12 different riding lawn mowers and lawn and garden tractors. Advantages and disadvantages of each model are noted, including price. There are two major categories of lawn and garden tractors. Riding lawn mowers are good for mowing lawns, hauling (with optional wagon), and for raking leaves, which is known as ...

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Five Fun Family Attractions in Quad Cities

For those who may not know already, the Quad Cities is a metropolitan area that includes the Iowa cities of Davenport and Bettendorf and the Illinois cities of Rock Island and Moline. If you and your family plan to be in the Quad Cities area, you might be interested in visiting one or more of ...

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Tractor Review: Branson Tractors 2400h Subcompact Tractor

Branson Tractors is a relatively new brand in the U.S. agricultural market, making its début in 1998. Its parent company, Kukje Machinery, is based out of South Korea and boasts 42 years of agricultural manufacturing history. Kukje Machinery has strategic agreements with both John Deere as a distributor/builder and with Cummins to design and produce ...

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The Ford 8N – America’s “Classic” Tractor

Living in a rural area, and renting our fields to a local farmer, we see a lot of different tractors. The most common, of course, are the truly enormous combines, harvesters, and so on. Considering that one could easily spend $100,000 plus on one of these massive machines, they are are hardly something to be ...

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Great Gifts for Farmers

Farmers are often seen as something of an enigma. Gifts can be personal and relevant to the life of a farmer even from those not in “farm country.” Take notes on what the farmer has. Farming is a diverse industry – dairy cattle, beef cattle, goats, horses, sheep, crops. While most farmers will have promotional ...