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Tuck;
Yes, I have a better understanding of your situation now.
The only other suggestion I have would be to ask a Cub Cadet dealer to search this part as possibly being used in other models, or other brands. Companies sometimes find it easier or cheaper use a part or assembly that is common to several brands of equipment, I think that someone somewhere has what you need, but I'm just a bit in the dark on where to send you, maybe someone else here has an idea. Good luck.
Frank.

Case 1130 Hydro PTO problem
Case
Replies 10 Post by hardwood

Buying something new wnen choosing between different brands can get so confusing that youre not sure which brand offers what after a while. I used to get into this when trading cars and pickups till I finally settled on a brand I liked and a dealer I trusted and just sorta let them take it from there. This has worked well for me on autos and pickups and also with farm and garden equipment. I have been a Deere user for a long time basicly because of the dealership and also good results with the products. I'm not acquainted with the 3032E but have been pleased with my 4310/430 loader combination for ten years.
As KT said the dealership is your key to your good or bad tractor experience, if the Deere deal;ership is the one you are comfortable with then I'd go with the 3032E/305 Loader combination.
Most all brands offer a ballast box as an attachment for their loaders as Deere does for the 305. You do need some addional weight on the back for saftey and traction reasons, but I've always thought of the factory ballast box as a waste of money, it isn't good for anything else. My thought is taking the cost of the ballast box and putting that money toward a box blade does two things, it gives you the ballast on the rear plus a box blade is a very usefull attachment.
Frank.

Kubota vs Deere vs holland for 10 acre
Kubota Tractors
Replies 20 Post by hardwood

KT;
After the fact I now understand that my auger was at the bottom of the quality scale, there were many much better ones built, but I went for cheap, so that's what I got.
The hydraulic drives have the reversing feature, a blessing from above when roots or gravel rocks are involved. The "Thing", I'll call it that I had was shearpin city to say the least.
I do remember somewhere seeing an ad for an auger that had a very safe look about it. Somehow there was a sort of supporting frame that sat on the ground and the auger went straight up and down within the frame without anyone having to hand guide it.
Frank.

Post hole digging
Garden and Landscape
Replies 19 Post by hardwood

Crunch;
From one slowpoke to another we almsot sound like medical experiment twins.
After an accident four years ago left me following a walker around and taking enough "Legal" narcotic pain meds to kill a horse I'm still not up with the what ever the speed limit is plus maybe 25 mph above. 55 is fine with me, I'm not in a hurry to get to the cemetary.

Car Fuel Economy and the 55 MPH speed limit
Autos SUV Trucks
Replies 34 Post by hardwood

Ok, I forgot about the box blade for rear ballast, it is one of your best friends for ballast plus all the other things it will do. Mine is on 90% of the time.

Rear Weights
John Deere Tractors
Replies 14 Post by hardwood

HW;
I'm pretty sure you can price out a mid mount mower on the JD website.
I've got the mid PTO on my 4310 and always dreamed of a front mount snowblower, but it hasn't happened yet.
I don't really want to rain on your parade but I'm going to try to talk you out of the mid mount deck.
Reason 1- Mid mount decks are expensive, if you get the new Deere driveover automatic mount I'd guess you are going to top five grand. I've saw them but never saw them do the automatic mount thing.
Reason 2- Without the automatic mount thing they are a REAL pain to remove and remount. Not many other things can be done with the deck on the tractor that it isn't in the way somehow.
Reason 3- To cover the tractor tire width you need at least a 60 inch cut, that's just too wide unless your lawn is pool table flat.
My solution. You can as an example buy a Deere 345 mower with power steering, hydro drive, a 54 inch deck for 4000 for a real recent one or somewhat less for an early model.
I have two of them, both ten years old with aprox 600 hrs., and haven't spent much more than normal maintence on them.
A good friend of mine is the head of the lawn and garden dept. at a big Deere dealership. He tells me that he has lots of 345's thru the shop with well over 2000 hrs, never had an engine overhaul and still going strong.
Ok now, before someone hits on me I am not any part of a Deere dealership, own no Deere stock, just telling it like it is.
Happy Fourth of July.
Frank.

Mid-mount mower
John Deere Tractors
Replies 9 Post by hardwood

I think that can be rather common for the 4xxx series. I've had the same thing while bush hogging tall grass or weeds.Since then I installed the optional frame support brace that goes from the front of the engine to the rear housing, that also protects lots of things on the belly of the tractor.
The frame support brace is available as a parts item from Deere that gives the engine, flywheel and transmission housings a bit of reserve strength when loaders, backhoes etc. are frequently used on the tractor. I personally haven't heard of a 4xxx series being broken in half from subframe mounted backhoe or a loader but anything can and probably has been broken. I don't remember the cost of the brace but it wasn't that bad for a pretty substantual piece of steel and installation was only an hour or so. I don't have a mid mount mower, but I think the brace would be in the way for the mower.

fault codes
John Deere Tractors
Replies 4 Post by hardwood

Murf;
Yup that sounds identical to mine. I don't know a brand or how long I've had it.
Even I could do what I described. Take it from a man that the first time I fired a revolver I wraped my left hand around the cylinder to steady the gun. Never did that again.

The clogged zerk in the axle pivot. If all else fails try to screw it out with a smaller wrench or last resort a vice grips. If it turns round and round with nothing happening then it is likely a drive in. I don't have a magic method for removing a drive in, but just hope it don't snap off level with the surface of the axle pivot. Been there done that, if you are a dentist then you'll do fine with a snapped off one.

Grease Gun
Parts and Repair
Replies 20 Post by hardwood

Dennis;
I'm now registered and can log onto Alexa. I haven't installed the toolbar yet. This may be like sticking your tounge on a pump handle, "You go first OK."
I'm sorta dragging my feet till I see Auer's review and hopefully some others from TP first, I might say something stupid.
Their user profile seems to match ours somewhat, but I'll just wait a bit OK.

Tractorpoint Needs Your Help with Alexa Rank
Website Operations Howto
Replies 9 Post by hardwood

I was just looking at the Gators on the Deere website, they are giving some hints about the new Gator coming in July.
a fifty HP. engine, 44 MPH. top speed. the front view they show looks like enough lights to land a 747.
It reminds me of the muscle car wars of the 60's. I think they kinda lost sight of what a Gator was meant to be in the first place, a farm work machine.

XUV performance chip
Utility Vehicles UTV/ATV
Replies 5 Post by hardwood

Auer;
I'm not aware of a small grinder for a 19 hp tractor, but I think if there were one you'd be there till Christmas till you got done.
Several yeas ago there was a fellow with a three point mounted grinder on a 100-120 hp International farm tractor came around looking for work. I had him do a couple stumps. I think this thing was a conversion to three point from a trailer mounted machine that he ran with the PTO. It had no curtians, shields, etc., so stuff flew all over but he had a couple kids with him who raked up every crumb. Never saw him again.

Tractor-Mounted Stump Grinders
Yanmar Tractors
Replies 11 Post by hardwood

EW;
"Telehandler",yes, I couldn't remember what they called them.
I don't think Deere wanted them use in consrruction where people worked from the platforms on them. That may be why they don't sell them anymore.

Faulty Bobtach
Articulated Tractors
Replies 12 Post by hardwood

Tim;
After re reading your post another comment I might make is that a 60 inch deck is pushing the size a bit unless you have a pool table flat lawn.
My experience has been that 54 is about as wide as practical for most lawns.
Frank.

Help needed on determining a good price on 2010 BX25
Kubota Tractors
Replies 4 Post by hardwood

My Father was one that went by the book with a new car or tractor so far as breakin was concerned. He didn't get anything new very often but when he did it was by the book only. He bought a new 54 Chevy that he wouldn't drive over fourty for a certain number of miles, then not over fifty for a while, etc. It of course had the old stovebolt six and it drank oil. Most likely because of what the JD tech said, the rings never seated.
Today nobody ever heard of a breakin period and cars just don't use oil anymore till they get 300K.

Playing Nice
Parts and Repair
Replies 5 Post by hardwood

I've had a Deere 48 hoe for my 4310 tractor for several years. It does have a subframe as part of the hoe that says on the tractor. It has been a good little hoe so far, easy to mount, nothing broken or bent so far. The little hoes will do an amazing amount of work but they aren't meant for the really big stuff, you need to hire the guy with the big hoe for that. Deere offers an additional optional subframe to help the engine/flywheel housing and the front half of the transmission to better stand the stresses they get from a hoe or any other attachment including a front loader. I put one on the 4310 just as a added support member for the tractor. It was rather inexpensive and easy to install. I haven't personally heard of a Deere being broken in half with a properly mounted subframe hoe, but anything can be and probably has been broken. I think the optional subframe would be in the way for a mid mount mower, I'm not sure tho.

Woods 9000 sub-frame backhoe
Loaders Back Hoes
Replies 15 Post by hardwood

Purple;
Being the AMT's were the earliest Gators that I'm aware of Deere may not have had the LoVis HyGard then, but it seems that since then the LoVis is pretty much recommended for anything in the Compact tractors/Lawn Mowers/Gators.
I don't have a manual and I'd sure check further first.

tranny fluid
Utility Vehicles UTV/ATV
Replies 3 Post by hardwood

Auer;
The only job I ever had where I actually drew a paycheck was the summer of 1960 just out of high school. I got a job in a quarry and was given the "Position" of being the greasermans assistant, guess who got the most greasy.
Some of the machines had a grease fittings unlike I've ever saw since. The end of the fitting where we're used to seeing a nipple was flat, about a half inch in diamater with a small hole in the center with a spring loaded ball in the hole to keep the dirt out. The corresponding other half of the fitting was on the hose of the gun, it slipped over the flat and had a flange that locked under the edge of the fitting, it coulkdn't come off till you pushed it away from you to take it off. This may be a common thing to big machines, I don't know, but never saw one like it again.

RC72-27B Grease nipple size
Kubota Tractors
Replies 23 Post by hardwood

Any elevator or coop where you see sprayers sitting around will have it. Dish soap may work in a small quanity situation, but not so well in 1000 gal sprayer tanks. It was pushed real hard by a big time piramid sales company once with their organic stuff, the name started with an A, you fill in the rest, Ok. Like foam city, then you had to buy a foam breaker to kill the bubbles. That idea came and went with a flash. Get the real stuff at the Coop. I don't remember what it cost, but pretty cheap I think.

tractor stalls after 1 hour
Mitsubishi
Replies 51 Post by hardwood

EW;
That's a good idea, maybe I'll tell him how much I enjoy his window rattling sound and enough diesel smoke to rival a hot rod tractor pull tractor. That little Cummins must be a tough little oil burner, so far.

7 3 Diesel F250 03 - Weird noise sounds like engine is revving
Pickup Trucks and Trailers
Replies 11 Post by hardwood

Quite a few things that will give clues to the actual hours on the tractor. Does the tractor look like it always sat out in the weather, the paint faded a bit, rubber mouldings etc. look weathered or cracked. At 500 hrs the tires shouldn't show much wear yet, do they look worn, mismatched or replaced? Control levers, steering wheel, clutch and brake pedal wear, like the accelerator pedal in a car that is claimed to have 85,000 but the rubber is worn off the gas and brake pedals. The wear in a drawbar hole, three point arms, etc. Lots of ways to detect 500 from 5000 hrs. Many things can happen to a seat, the dog chewed it up, etc. but a new seat at 500 hrs. does raise a bit of suspicion.
I won't even guess on the value of the tractor, but do look before you leap.

TC33 price
New Holland Tractors
Replies 7 Post by hardwood