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Satoh Beaver III Model S373D

I worked the tractor hard yesterday. I removed a large raised bed garden that was surrounded by old non treated cross ties, Once I cot the fence out from around it I used the dozer and pushed the cross ties into the yard. Using the boom pole and a chain I moved the cross ties to my utility trailer and off loaded them. After taking the ties to the burn pile, I put the finishing mower on the back and pushed all of the dirt out of the old garden around the yard. I must have put 5 hours on it yesterday. She worked like a champ!
 
The little tractor is working hard this summer, put over 3 hours on it yesterday mowing, handles the heat just fine even at 100 degrees. She really sips fuel, I am impressed how little it uses at 2000 RPM running the mower.

I am looking for a tiller now and need to have a cylinder repaired for the plow.
 
Really worked her today. We have been getting critters in our garden and yard and I think it is because my SIL's field was way overgrown. So I set the finish mower very high and start cutting, weeds are over the hood. I push through the acre plus in 1st chopping weeds, straining the machine and occasionally having to stop and let the revs increase.

After about 2 hours I am almost done, look down and see the temp light on. I cut the deck off, and rev her to circulate water and I cleaned the radiator screen off of junk. I cooled her down some more and took her to the house to rest. I sprayed the radiator with water and after a few minutes we were back in the field, finished the job.

I also cut the grass i my back field. After everything was done I brought her back to the house, washed her off, filled her up and then drove it to the shed. I ran her for 3.5 hours today. Great job little Satoh!
 
Looks like a common filter. Is that a relative to the ford? They started their partnership in the early 70s.
 
Looks identical to the filter in my ditch witch (Deutz 3 cylinder diesel). I took my filter out and cleaned it and it's been fine, but then again, I'm not cutting weeds and stirring up dust.
 
Finally got around to adding/replacing the headlamps. I used 3.5" foglamps from Amazon. I was able to use a hood support behind the plastic nose piece and mount the headlight brackets into those. I then connected the lights in parallel, connecting the ground wire to the body ground bolt, ran the hot wire to a push pull switch on the dash. I found a hot unused connector near the voltage regulator and plugged the power wire into it. All wiring was run next to the existing harness and cable tied to it. The original harness and light connectors is secured under the hood (uncut) because some how it feeds back directly to the alternator.


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