{"id":185,"date":"2018-03-06T09:24:05","date_gmt":"2018-03-06T14:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patellis.us\/?p=185"},"modified":"2018-10-03T22:53:18","modified_gmt":"2018-10-04T02:53:18","slug":"sometimes-it-just-dont-pay-to-save-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patellis.com\/index.php\/2018\/03\/06\/sometimes-it-just-dont-pay-to-save-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes it just doesn’t pay to try to save money…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m a geek, I own 5 acres, geese, chickens and a damn cow… So I have a tractor. It’s a small Kubota L2250 that looks like crap but runs just fine. This year I decided to replace the clutch(es), replace front end bushings, change hydraulic and oil\/filters etc.<\/p>\n

When I went to change the bushings on one of the front spindles I noticed bad wear from the bearing going bad so I decided to order a new spindle. Well, Kubota REALLY loves their stuff. $235.00! Ouch! More digging on the internet lead me to a tractor supply company in Kansas. They had one for $135.00. Hell yes!<\/p>\n

The part arrived 5 days later, fit perfectly… (you know where this is going, don’t you?)<\/p>\n

Well, after 2-3 hours of using the tractor, the spindle broke! Newton’s 1st law of motion worked as expected, tractor stopped, I didn’t. Ended up on the ground next to the front tire, which was also lying on the ground. Lucky for me I was only going about 2-3 MPH.<\/p>\n

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Contacted the company to inform them of the spindle’s demise and to see what options I had for replacement or refund. The response I received was not what I was expecting. I got a,
\n“Looks like you overloaded the tractor and there’s not much we can do”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Damn! This is SMALL tractor with a SMALL bucket. The other spindle is 25 years old! After 3-4 days of going back and forth they said they will refund my money. In the meantime I ordered the part of Kubota and have installed it. What a difference in the quality. So far, so good after 8 hours of running the tractor.<\/p>\n

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\n(left – Kubota, right – After market)<\/p>\n

Moral of the story, sometimes it doesn’t pay to be cheap. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m a geek, I own 5 acres, geese, chickens and a damn cow… So I have a tractor. It’s a small Kubota L2250 that looks like crap but runs just fine. This year I decided to replace the clutch(es), replace front end bushings, change hydraulic and oil\/filters etc. When I went to change the bushings … Continue reading “Sometimes it just doesn’t pay to try to save money…”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[21,22,24,23],"class_list":["post-185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-projects","tag-kubota","tag-l2250","tag-spindle","tag-tractor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patellis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patellis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patellis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patellis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patellis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.patellis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205,"href":"https:\/\/www.patellis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions\/205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patellis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patellis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patellis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}