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Read articles →This video centers on installing and using a sponsored hydraulic top link from Friday Parts alongside a Victory Trim 56 ditch bank mower on a John Deere 3038E, filmed at a friend's overgrown Louisiana property. It covers unboxing the top link, BSP fitting connections, bleeding air from the hydraulic line, and real mowing of brush, vines, and soft ground. Best for compact tractor owners curious about hydraulic top links or ditch mowers in action.
A homesteading lifestyle channel run by owner-operators new to farm life, though this video includes a sponsored product segment for Friday Parts, which shapes part of its content.
The hoses use BSP, British Parallel Pipe, fittings. They can seal with an O-ring or a metal-on-metal compression fitting, similar to JIC fittings used in the US.
Driving through the vines and pulling them with the mower works better than cutting at an angle, since it pulls the vines down from the trees and removes them on the next pass.
The nut pushes the bolt up, drawing the piece together, rather than turning the bolt itself. The lock nut is tightened back down afterward to secure it.
