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Hello,<br>
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I'm pretty happy with my recent JD4010 purchase except for an issue with the starting. The engine started fine shortly after purchase, but began to decline within weeks of having it home. The unit now has about 13 hr on it and I need to let the starter turn for about 7 - 10 sec. before it thinks about firing. Once it fires, it coughs white smoke for 15 - 30 sec. and finally smoothes out. Note that I am following the instructions of turning the key to the first "stop" position until hearing the little "click" inside before turning the key all the way to engage the starter. I used some diesel additive as recommended and am using recommended grade diesel in the engine.<br>
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I finally called the dealership and a tech there said that there is a problem with the glow plugs in these units, in that the first stop position on the ignition may(?) not warm the plugs: His 'workaround' was to put the transmission shifter into gear, turn the key all the way to start....hold this for 5 sec, then push the shifter to neutral which would let the starter spin. This actually works very well......which leaves me wondering why one has to do this when it is no where in the manual? Is this a defect in the design of the glow plug circuitry? Would this cause circuit or other problems down the road? It would be nice to take care of the issue while it is still under warrantee.<br>
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Thanks for any help....<br>
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-John

2005 JD4010 starting problem
John Deere Tractors
Replies 14 Post by jweiland

I thought this article offered an interesting take.

An Unnatural Disaster: A Hurricane Exposes the Man-Made Disaster of the Welfare State

by Robert Tracinski
Sep 02, 2005

by Robert Tracinski

It has taken four long days for state and federal officials to figure out how to deal with the disaster in New Orleans. I can't blame them, because it has also taken me four long days to figure out what is going on there. The reason is that the events there make no sense if you think that we are confronting a natural disaster.

If this is just a natural disaster, the response for public officials is obvious: you bring in food, water, and doctors; you send transportation to evacuate refugees to temporary shelters; you send engineers to stop the flooding and rebuild the city's infrastructure. For journalists, natural disasters also have a familiar pattern: the heroism of ordinary people pulling together to survive; the hard work and dedication of doctors, nurses, and rescue workers; the steps being taken to clean up and rebuild.

Public officials did not expect that the first thing they would have to do is to send thousands of armed troops in armored vehicle, as if they are suppressing an enemy insurgency. And journalists--myself included--did not expect that the story would not be about rain, wind, and flooding, but about rape, murder, and looting.

But this is not a natural disaster. It is a man-made disaster.

The man-made disaster is not an inadequate or incompetent response by federal relief agencies, and it was not directly caused by Hurricane Katrina. This is where just about every newspaper and television channel has gotten the story wrong.

The man-made disaster we are now witnessing in New Orleans did not happen over the past four days. It happened over the past four decades. Hurricane Katrina merely exposed it to public view.

The man-made disaster is the welfare state.

For the past few days, I have found the news from New Orleans to be confusing. People were not behaving as you would expect them to behave in an emergency--indeed, they were not behaving as they have behaved in other emergencies. That is what has shocked so many people: they have been saying that this is not what we expect from America. In fact, it is not even what we expect from a Third World country.

When confronted with a disaster, people usually rise to the occasion. They work together to rescue people in danger, and they spontaneously organize to keep order and solve problems. This is especially true in America. We are an enterprising people, used to relying on our own initiative rather than waiting around for the government to take care of us. I have seen this a hundred times, in small examples (a small town whose main traffic light had gone out, causing ordinary citizens to get out of their cars and serve as impromptu traffic cops, directing cars through the intersection) and large ones (the spontaneous response of New Yorkers to September 11).

So what explains the chaos in New Orleans?

To give you an idea of the magnitude of what is going on, here is a description from a Washington Times story:

"Storm victims are raped and beaten; fights erupt with flying fists, knives and guns; fires are breaking out; corpses litter the streets; and police and rescue helicopters are repeatedly fired on.

"The plea from Mayor C. Ray Nagin came even as National Guardsmen poured in to restore order and stop the looting, carjackings and gunfire....

"Last night, Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco said 300 Iraq-hardened Arkansas National Guard members were inside New Orleans with shoot-to-kill orders.

" 'These troops are...under my orders to restore order in the streets,' she said. 'They have M-16s, and they are locked and loaded. These troops know how to shoot and kill and they are more than willing to do so if necessary and I expect they will.' "

The reference to Iraq is eerie. The photo that accompanies this article shows National Guard troops, with rifles and armored vests, riding on an armored vehicle through trash-strewn streets lined by a rabble of squalid, listless people, one of whom appears to be yelling at them. It looks exactly like a scene from Sadr City in Baghdad.

What explains bands of thugs using a natural disaster as an excuse for an orgy of looting, armed robbery, and rape? What causes unruly mobs to storm the very buses that have arrived to evacuate them, causing the drivers to drive away, frightened for their lives? What causes people to attack the doctors trying to treat patients at the Super Dome?

Why are people responding to natural destruction by causing further destruction? Why are they attacking the people who are trying to help them?

My wife, Sherri, figured it out first, and she figured it out on a sense-of-life level. While watching the coverage last night on Fox News Channel, she told me that she was getting a familiar feeling. She studied architecture at the Illinois Institute of Chicago, which is located in the South Side of Chicago just blocks away from the Robert Taylor Homes, one of the largest high-rise public housing projects in America. "The projects," as they were known, were infamous for uncontrollable crime and irremediable squalor. (They have since, mercifully, been demolished.)

What Sherri was getting from last night's television coverage was a whiff of the sense of life of "the projects." Then the "crawl"--the informational phrases flashed at the bottom of the screen on most news channels--gave some vital statistics to confirm this sense: 75% of the residents of New Orleans had already evacuated before the hurricane, and of the 300,000 or so who remained, a large number were from the city's public housing projects. Jack Wakeland then gave me an additional, crucial fact: early reports from CNN and Fox indicated that the city had no plan for evacuating all of the prisoners in the city's jails--so they just let many of them loose. There is no doubt a significant overlap between these two populations--that is, a large number of people in the jails used to live in the housing projects, and vice versa.

There were many decent, innocent people trapped in New Orleans when the deluge hit--but they were trapped alongside large numbers of people from two groups: criminals--and wards of the welfare state, people selected, over decades, for their lack of initiative and self-induced helplessness. The welfare wards were a mass of sheep--on whom the incompetent administration of New Orleans unleashed a pack of wolves.

All of this is related, incidentally, to the apparent incompetence of the city government, which failed to plan for a total evacuation of the city, despite the knowledge that this might be necessary. But in a city corrupted by the welfare state, the job of city officials is to ensure the flow of handouts to welfare recipients and patronage to political supporters--not to ensure a lawful, orderly evacuation in case of emergency.

No one has really reported this story, as far as I can tell. In fact, some are already actively distorting it, blaming President Bush, for example, for failing to personally ensure that the Mayor of New Orleans had drafted an adequate evacuation plan. The worst example is an execrable piece from the Toronto Globe and Mail, by a supercilious Canadian who blames the chaos on American "individualism." But the truth is precisely the opposite: the chaos was caused by a system that was the exact opposite of individualism.

What Hurricane Katrina exposed was the psychological consequences of the welfare state. What we consider "normal" behavior in an emergency is behavior that is normal for people who have values and take the responsibility to pursue and protect them. People with values respond to a disaster by fighting against it and doing whatever it takes to overcome the difficulties they face. They don't sit around and complain that the government hasn't taken care of them. They don't use the chaos of a disaster as an opportunity to prey on their fellow men.

But what about criminals and welfare parasites? Do they worry about saving their houses and property? They don't, because they don't own anything. Do they worry about what is going to happen to their businesses or how they are going to make a living? They never worried about those things before. Do they worry about crime and looting? But living off of stolen wealth is a way of life for them.

The welfare state--and the brutish, uncivilized mentality it sustains and encourages--is the man-made disaster that explains the moral ugliness that has swamped New Orleans. And that is the story that no one is reporting.

Source: TIA Daily -- September 2, 2005

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Parts and Repair
Replies 36 Post by kwschumm

jdavis,
I have a Mahindra 2810 gear drive with fel and backhoe. I am a retired heavy equipment operator so I know a thing or two about machines. I think that pound for pound this is as good as I have run. It is 3065 .lbs. The 2615 is a good machine but in my opinion the 2810 is better for loader work. The 10 series is built in South Korea. Maybe you should compare the two. You can do that on the Mahindra web-site. Good luck.
mrpoppy

Mahindra Tractor Question
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Replies 15 Post by mrpoppy

ringtail - you'll love having that light pointed out back. Not just so you can what your implement is doing, but so you can easily hookup that implement you forgot to attach yesterday when it was light outside.

Rear work light
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Replies 7 Post by Iowafun

I have a friend who wants to sell me a e204 for $1,000. What is the parts availability and the MF equivilant?<br>
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Thanks!

e204
Hinomoto
Replies 1 Post by Roger

In reality, it won't work, at ALL......

Two main factors will rear their ugly heads.

Forst and foremost, you will have to drive through the snow with the tractor before the roller gets to it. This will leave hard-packed ruts where the wheels were, as the winter goes on it will only get rougher with each snow fall.

Secondly, unless a roller is really large in diameter, it will just push snow up in front of it until the load becomes too great and the tractor begins to lose traction.

Best of luck.

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Replies 10 Post by Murf

Thanks Beagle, I'm still learning how to use all the neat tools my 2210 has. I'll try the rake at an angle when my soil dires out after yesterday's rain.

Berland

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Replies 3 Post by bmeyer

Just looking at this a little closer if the stabilizer had the bolts removed on the front and a pin set up put in you would have to remove that one, the lower link quick clip(I'd leave the cotter pin out) and the top pin on the drop link and pull them that way. Estimated time probably about 60 seconds per side. The rear hydraulics might do you well but the hoe might need larger lines to really perform to it's best but you should be okay. I'm not totally familiar with the system on the unit you are looking at.

subframe vs 3 point
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Replies 29 Post by Art White

Does anyone know which brand oil filter I can use off the shelf for a Century 2028.

Century 2028
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Replies 10 Post by realman21502

Thanks for the input about loader compacity. I got a wood furnace in (2100 lbs.) big green just about could lift it(3 out of 4 legs). Now I'm looking for a set of pallet forks used perferable. I can fabricate to fit. I can make just forks work too. Anything out there? Thanks.<br>

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Replies 3 Post by barcombr

YOu will need a way to raise and lower and more then likely angle! You could go electric and maybe need a larger alternator and have a less reliable system or just buy the valve assembly and be able to use the factory system with down pressure if needed as well as angling.

snow blades
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Replies 3 Post by Art White

Do a google search for raised vegetable garden. You will get more hits than you can handle. Here is one.

raised vegetable gardens
Parts and Repair
Replies 22 Post by BillBass

Sad. Very sad.

It is like people playing with guns. Familiarity breeds contempt. I can't imagine the anguish that grandfather is going through.

Why Oh Why
Parts and Repair
Replies 4 Post by DRankin

I never seen any of those in pictures.<br>
I justed ordered one of Bo Dozer. The BG5 for my JD 460 loader. MFG By Borgford<br>
When get it I will Post pictues.

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Replies 7 Post by bmocad

The Bushog 286 is a medium duty rotary cutter. If you got one for $500 is decent shape; ya done good! Below is the specs. link for this cutter. Hope this is the info. you were looking for.

Anyone with a Bushhog 286 cutter
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Replies 2 Post by Chief

I did a little research.

By the time you get the metal, have it rolled at shop rate and punched for assembly and a new cutting edge fabricated and punched, the bucks start to add up.

My dealer got me a 6 foot blade off the parts list from Gearmore for $275 and it was fairly easy to drill and mount some angle iron brackets.

Snow removal with back blade
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Replies 20 Post by DRankin

I have over a quarter million on a reconditioned '85 turbo diesel coupe, and I'm askin' $10K. Mileage about 24/31. 4dr sedans are far far more common though, so $4K isn't unrealistic. It's got the 6cyl, I'd prefer the 5 myself. But there's one real high ticket repair item that you want to be real sure of; whether or not it's got the pneumatic suspension. If no, it's probably a good buy. If yes, definitely have it inspected.<br>
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//greg//

Mercedes Diesels
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Replies 9 Post by greg_g

Hey Tom:
Yes, the fluid gets a lot of air bubbles in it, but it doesn't get very hot.

Ron

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I suppose it depends upon your particular uses and applications, but for about $750 more, you could get the 4010 4WD. Yes it is only 18 hp, but it is a much more capable machine in terms of work tasks it can tackle. That is not to say that the 2210 or 2305 are not good machines. On the contrary; they do have their niche in the market and are hard working machines, especially if compact size is a priority.

Buy the new 2305 over the 2210
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Replies 5 Post by Chief

I have a John Deere 160 lawn tractor (c.1987) that I am having a problem with. I set the height of the blades using the height adjusment lever and lower the deck to start cutting. Any time I go over a bump, the deck drops down to the lowest level and I end up scalping the lawn. I noticed that the spring for the height adjustment lever is either disconnected or broken, but I can't figure out where the two ends should be connected to. The manual shows me the spring but not the connecting points. Does anyone have a picture of this sub-assembly or know where I can find one? I emailed the J.D. web site and they told me to contact my local dealer. Not exactly what I was hoping for. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

160 Lawn Tractor c 1987
John Deere Tractors
Replies 1 Post by LarryK57