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Listen to ART...that shaft retaining pin is not locked. If is was there would be no way that shaft could slip off those splines. If that shaft retaining pin wasnt locked it even would slip off the rear PTO running ANY implement attached to it.

Kubota service
Kubota Tractors
Replies 10 Post by jeff r

Let's look at it the dollars and cents point of view. A 3 cylinder engine is way cheaper to build than a 4 cylinder engine. One less piston, one less connecting rod, one less set of valves,shorter crankcase, less machining on the crank journals and engine block/heads, LESS material to buy, 3 injector set rather than 4. A manufacturer puts LESS money in manufacturing costs with a 3 cylinder than a 4. Personally I think internal cumbustion engines should come with an even numbers of cylinders. With a 4 cylinder you have a cylinder firing every 90 degree turn of the crank not 120 degrees as with 3 cylinder. I challenge the "smoothness" theory with odd numder cylinders. How many 3 and 5 and 7 cylinder cars you see on the roads today???? Makes one wonder doesn't it????

4 cyl vs 3 cyl diesel
Kubota Tractors
Replies 22 Post by jeff r

I dont use a MM Mower. But I use a loader. I was able to put loader & blade brakets on for good. I have no idea about a mm mower.

Front Blade for JD 4400
John Deere Tractors
Replies 16 Post by Dana Trumpp

http://www.farmequipmentunlimited.com/wilson-tractor/

Above website shows a picture of the Curtis TMA150 tiller. Anybody have any experience with this?

I am awaiting delivery. I will pay $1150 in a package deal including a NH TC33D4, mower, box blade and front weights.

It looks tough. Real info is only in the owner's manual...#100 chain in oil bath, 6 tines per, 800 lbs gross, slip clutch, and Italian made.

Curtis TMA150
Operating and Attachments
Replies 2 Post by JustUs2

I recently bought a 40 loader and found one in Winterset, IA., one in Geneseo, IL., one in Lake City, FL, and one in West Plaines, MO. Prices ranged from $2,500 to $2,900. Also found a KwikWay loader in Elizabeth, IL. for $1,000

40 Loader for 445
John Deere Tractors
Replies 3 Post by Stan_McC

I have a JD 40 loader on my JD455. It is rated for 350 lbs of lift. This is what JD says is a safe weight without using ballast. I use a weight box with it and would like to know if anyone knows any tricks to up the capacity at all. I was told that JD removes your original hyd relief valve iand nstalls a 350 lb pressure relief valve when you have them install the bucket. I put my original valve back but it made no difference. Any ideas ?

JD 40 Loader
Loaders Back Hoes
Replies 3 Post by Don Munroe

I have a jhon deere 2040 would like to buy a plow was wondering what size the tractor could handle . New to this if someone could give me some info on this I would like that . If someone knows what model number plow I could use . Thank You Jim

plow sizefor JD 2040
John Deere Tractors
Replies 6 Post by jobjr66

Looking for early model dozer 21-41 Komatsu or similar size brand that has been well maintained. Please send photo and info. Thanks Wendall Blouin e-mail is wjblouin@cs.com

Komatsu PC 40-7
Other Tractor Brands
Replies 3 Post by Wendall Blouin

looking for a snow plow assembly (used) for a case444 copact tractor. Can anyone put me in the right direction?

case 444
Case
Replies 4 Post by mick bork

Did you attend school in England Tom? You mentioned brands that were not all that prevelent or well known around here, even in the 60's. I have driven an English Ford, Mini, Austin America, Morris Minor, MG 1100, MGB, MGC, MGBGT, Sprite, Midget, Jag XK as well as others I don't even remember, but my all time favorite was/is the Austin Healey 3000 that the dealer was kind enough to let me use to drive to school when I worked as his clean-up boy and car shuffler. One thing I think that can be said for the BMC family is that MOST of what they produced was presented as a driving machine, one that would handle the curves and perform reasonably well. But they did use different engines for different applications, much the same as the American manufacturers. The engine in the Sprite was the same as the one in the Midget, but they met the required specs for that model and certainly a 3000 engine was not used in the Austin America. I always felt the GM law suit was one of the first frovilous ones to hit the books. As long as it met the advertised specs, was made by GM and was made by the parent company, what difference did it make. It wasn't as though GM was using a de-tuned Belair v-8 in a GTO, if they had, the law suit would have been well deserved. When I stated you best get what is being advertised in a previous post, such as the 383 with the 440 heads, that is what I mean by meeting advertised specs. Not specfically that the block has to be punched, assembled and branded at these coordinates and none other. But if it is in a Buick, it probably should say "Buick" on it and not "Chevrolet", much the same as the BMC's family did. I think the safety and emission laws in the US are what helped put the company out of business. They tried to comply with the 5MPH bumpers, and those turned out to be the first of the ungainly looking models. At that point, BMC decided they could not or would not "ruin" their machines by trying to meet US requirements. That realistically, could have been the last nail in the coffin. Do you recall the "knock offs" being changed from the familiar spinner type to an oversized nut looking thing? That was because someone in the US was wearing a scarf long enough to be wound around the spinner while driving it and as a result, his heirs sued due to his death (by stupidity). I wonder whom they would have sued if he had simply run over the long scarf with the rear tire thereby yanking his head off?? Possibly the scarf manufacturer? Well, we no longer are allowed to have the spinner knock offs, but that is a whole diffent topic!

JD4210 vs Kuby 3010
John Deere Tractors
Replies 58 Post by cutter

I think there's a site called machinerylinks.com or something like that. The site is a subscription members-only site, but I've heard that anybody can get a small number of values by going through some hoops. I haven’t heard comments about how useful the results are, and I always take care if any hoops start requiring personal information from me.

The trouble with bluebook type values for specific tractor models are that there aren't enough sold in a region to establish reliable market value. Values for some models vary widely in different regions.

Kubota GF1800 blue book price
Kubota Tractors
Replies 3 Post by TomG

How much do you want I may be interested. Where are you.

How much for my B8200
Kubota Tractors
Replies 8 Post by daddy_cash

Pulling a 3ph plow creates tension on the lower links and compression on the top link. Doesn't make any difference which one a sensor is on, but granted push may be a different principal than pull.

With due respect to John, if I read his simple definitions first I probably would have come to the same misconception I held for awhile--that draft control maintains constant depth for given sensitivity settings. I don't think it actually does that, but it's a good enough working definition--especially for people like me who don't plow and don't have draft control. I've said that before. I also might start looking for a float control. But, some explanations that work for some people don't work for others so who knows. It's probably a mix of explanations that helps everybody.

If I summarized somebody's comments and presented them as a model elsewhere I'd probably ask their permission to do so.

3 PH Position control vs draft control
Operating and Attachments
Replies 28 Post by TomG

This is a little risky even if you are in a cage on a fork lift. I worked in a large plant and once a year we had to do inventory in acres of warehouse. Every employee was needed for about 2-3 days to complete.
The plant had built special cages to set on the fork trucks. Workmans compensation required that the cages be chained to the forks to prevent the fork operator dumping the cage. At a minimum this would be a good idea.
It might be cheaper to rent a picker though and safer depending on the height.
Peters

Pallet Forks Slip on
Loaders Back Hoes
Replies 15 Post by Peters

Jim, I also have a horse farm (wife runs it, I pay) with similar outside arena and JD4300 and once had too much sand. The best way to move the sand was with FEL. You said you thought it was too expensive, but my wife would be lost without hers. She uses it when cleaning stalls (just tosses manure in bucket, then can stack it really high), she uses it when stacking hay or moving hay to pasture, uses it to carry gravel to patch gravel road, uses it to move snow (we live in Iowa). The FEL is well worth the investment.

Removing sand from horse arena
Operating and Attachments
Replies 20 Post by Redmessage

Regarding gray market tractors: I used to think the term meant tractors that were brought into a country outside the manufacturer/dealer network and lack warranty coverage and in some cases may not be eligible for dealer service. However, these tractors may be identical to those sold by dealers in a country.

I've also heard the term applied to tractors from manufacturers that don't maintain dealer networks in a country. More recently, I've heard the term meaning something like low-hour tractors that are retired from service in other countries, factory reconditioned and sold as new.

I suppose the term can mean any of these things but knowing about gray market tractors would be good for anybody looking for private sales of used tractors. I suspect checking a serial number with a dealer would identify a gray-market tractor.

In a private sale it's also good to see if the seller can find his bill of sale. A tractor that turns out to be stolen goes back to the original owner with no compensation to subsequent purchasers no matter how many times it's been sold in good faith.

Guess this is a long way from vibration, which would be a subject of interest to me but could get esoteric very quickly. The 'gray-market' subject may be more generally interesting.

M1500D Vibration 1500 RPM
Yanmar Tractors
Replies 5 Post by TomG

Thanks Art. My posts on hydraulics tend to be too long and I would have gotten tripped up anyway. The standard manifold on my Ford is combined with a diverter valve and send/return auxiliary system ports. So, from the factory my mid-80’s Ford is ready to go.

I have a set of in-line valves rather than a joy-stick myself, but the hydraulics are the same. I also have a third control valve section for rear hydraulics. Assuming that the valve assembly is a power-beyond type, there are send and return ports on the manifold that attach to IN and PB ports respectively on the valve assembly. The loader cylinder hoses are attached (usually with quick connects) to the control valve ports. It doesn't really make any difference which hoses go on which side of a control valve as long as both sides of a cylinder go the same valve. Reverse them and the cylinder just works the other way.

There are a couple of things that may not be quite straight-forward. First is to distinguish between the PB and TANK ports. Both are on the outlet section of the valve assembly. The PB line goes back to the manifold while the TANK goes to the sump. Normally there is a plug somewhere on the cases that can be removed to attach the TANK line. The 3ph won't work if they're reversed. If the valve assembly is for a loader, then one control valve probably has a float feature. Unless the assembly also has a valve with a regenerative feature for fast dump, the valve with float probably is longer. The valve with float normally is used for the lift cylinder.

Still too long eh? Darn Tom was off at our camp for a week. I must have missed this because the 'messages as posted' screen now seems to only contain one page so I can't scroll down to where I left off and start again.

Kubota Tractor John Deere Loader
Loaders Back Hoes
Replies 6 Post by TomG

I would fix the top like suggested in the other posts. I would take the time to reinforce it and add a hook or two. There are cutting edges available that you might want to add on to the bottom if that is getting tweaked a little. They would only cost about 40 dollars and would double the edge you have and you would not need to worry about bending it again if properly installed.

bucket repair or replace
Loaders Back Hoes
Replies 6 Post by Art White

Here are some comments about snow removal. I originally bought a 3ph blower because my Ford doesn't have mid-pto and I found that rear to front pto conversions are expensive. Front blowers also are more expensive than 3ph types.

I clear around 400' of drive plus parking space, which is quite a bit less than a 1/2 mile. You do have to turn around in the seat, and in light snows the blower will clear snow faster than I'm willing to drive in reverse. Never the less, driving in reverse doesn't bother me. Maybe I'd re-think the 3ph type if I had a 1/2-mile to do, but I doubt it. I alternate between loader and blower when clearing and I wouldn't want to go through winter without a loader or having to swap blower and loader frequently.

If the blower is going to be a 3ph type, then mid-pto may not be an important feature unless there might be a MMM in the future, and the JD may have other advantages. On the other hand, it sounds like the JD has a gear transmission that may not be an advantage.

My Ford has a 12 x 4 gear TX that provides a synchromesh reverse and three forward gears in each of four ranges. Even with four reverse speeds it's not uncommon to find that one reverse goes slower than I'd like and the next is a bit fast. I'm not sure I'd want to get by with fewer than four reverses. I'd say that if the JD has only two reverses I'd want to make sure that one of them is a good compromise speed.

As you probably know ground speed in tractors is selected mostly be gear rather than engine rpm, especially when using a pto implement. The issue of ground speed and reverse gears may be especially important to doing a 1/2-mile drive. Most times, you'd probably want to go as fast as the tractor still feels under control as long as the blower clears the snow. Synchromesh is an important feature, especially for loader work, but control of ground speed also is important to use a 3ph blower and a HST might have an advantage. Despite the tough choice, I’d put a lot of stock in trying each and seeing which tractor/dealer suits you the best.

JD 4100 v BX series
Operating and Attachments
Replies 38 Post by TomG

Graded the driveway. Noticed two things about the Boomer. The 4wd does make a difference. The hydraulic lift leveling box is not adjustable from the seat.

One Boomer vs a JD318 Hydro and a Ford 641 - My story and conclusion
New Holland Tractors
Replies 12 Post by cdcole