Fresh Battery for the Fergie

Seems that all I have to do now is replace all of the batteries which have come down with a bad case of sulfation (sp?) over the winter. I can probably get by with replacing the ones on the tractor, golf cart, generator and lawn mower, as well as the two already done on the boats.

Is this why they say April is the cruelest month?

Way back when I got nine years out of a six volt starting battery on my boat. The latest twelve was brand new last June, though the guy cheerfully replaced it with another from the same truckload.
What has changed?

So it was useful in getting the other one unstuck.

After that much work with the Fergie, as usual, I had to do two things: first, put out the fire on the sole of my right boot, and next, add gas. It certainly steers a lot more easily since I got the loader off it and onto the 35, though, and its brakes are very good.

But if I leave that new battery connected it will be drained by the next day, and I have to turn the gas off every time I leave it, lest it all run out. The Fergie's still inconvenient, just not impossible now.

What would I have to do to prevent the gas leak without shutting it off at the tank?

I'm not quite sure I know what you mean by a control box. Maybe that's why the battery goes dead...

So if the carburetor is adjusted properly it should not leak. I thought everyone just gave up on these things and shut the fuel off as a matter of course.

Oh yeah, and now the MF 35 has taken to dripping diesel around the filter. I think it has learned a bad habit from the other one. The guy who installed my loader changed the filters. Any chance it has worked loose? I'd rather not have to shut this one off at the tank: it takes an eternity to screw the stopcock in.

And now a female coyote is annoyed at me for parking the MF in the back barn, under which she has her den. She comes out, stands on the rail fence and glares at me until I leave with the tractor.

I may be able to get some good pictures of coyote pups this summer.