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We really like our JD. I say we as the wife gets almost as much seat time as I do, I travel for my job. All preferences aside all major brands produce a good tractor. Consider your needs and what dealer you feel comfortable with, after all you are going to be working with them for years. Find that tractor you like, try to get a loaner from them for a few days. Drive around look for someone using what you’re interested in, talk to them. After all you probably didn’t by your last car or truck with out doing some research. Plastic verse metal, cracked my hood major, took it to a body shop friend who not only fixed it but flamed it. Darned near gave me a heart attack. He did it for practice for a hotrod job he was doing. It’s green now, but does have pin stripe job on it, looks good as new. It’s a tractor, it works hard, it get dirty and scratched, but it also gets good maintenance to keep it going.. The last thing I can say is we didn’t do it soon enough, best investment ever!

Subcompact tractor choices
Massey Ferguson Tractors
Replies 13 Post by JD855inWI

Problems could be caused by circulating currents or ground loops. A hen house has a corrosive atmosphere which could attack grounding connections in conduits and panels. The neutral and the ground should only be bonded (tied together) at one point. Some municipalities this is in the meter socket others in the main circuit breaker panel. If the control room panel is sub-fed from a main panel, then the neutrals and the grounds must be separated in the sub-panel. The sub-panel would be fed with 4 wires from the main panel. Check for a bonding screw in the neutral bar, threaded through the bar into the metal panel frame. A more detailed explanation of the complete system and the type of problem would help.

Electrical Ground Question
Home Improvement
Replies 16 Post by JD855inWI

I run a 59" on my 855 no problem. Haven't been able to find enough snow to make it work hard yet. Works best when I travel just slow enough to keep the snow from spilling out over the sides.

755 Front Snow Blower
John Deere Tractors
Replies 5 Post by JD855inWI

Swap the quick couplers for the bucket to the loader arms and arms to the bucket connections and try it again. If the problem moves to the bucket, its the loade valve, if it stays with the loader arms its in the loader cylinders.

JD 790 LOADER PROBLEM
John Deere Tractors
Replies 4 Post by JD855inWI

Oh Man: now I guessing. I'm traveling again this week. When I get home next week I'll pull the manuals out and check the specs again. I do remember there was a hydralics package that was installed on the tractor for just the backhoe. The lines are much larger than the lines for the loader circuits. How do the neighbors like using the forklift setups?

Hydraulic circuits
Tractor Projects
Replies 10 Post by JD855inWI

I looked at what their site had to offer and they pretty much cover it. The electric PTO clutch mounting, as long as the crank is the same diameter that the big hurtle. If the clutch uses just a torque arm the mounting is easy. If the clutch is mounted to the block then the mounting distances are more critical as the brake may not release or engage fully if the distances are off. The adapter to mate the drive shaft to the flywheel will probably be different, unless they include an custom adapter. A local machine shop can turn your adapter or make a new one for under $50. The mounting holes pattern will probably be different, but it may be a simple as drilling new holes or maybe fabricating a new mount. The exhaust will probably require a little creativity if you use all of your original jd parts. Fuel system should be no problem. Electrically the Honda probably has a built in regulator rectifier. Your Onan probably used a remote mounted unit. One replaces the other just a little rewiring may be needed. Ignition switch, some engines need 12v to the ignition to run and others have a built in magneto, so they have to be grounded to run. The electrical drawings for the tractor and the information supplied with the engine will help you figure that out. Go For It. Re-powered a good tractor chassis will go a lot of years for a minimal investment. I've taken Bolens QTs built in the 70s, stripped them down to just frame and castings and repowered them during the rebuild. Satisfaction.

Johnd Deere 318 onan Motor Rebuild
Antique Tractors
Replies 6 Post by JD855inWI

Short Mag. Glad you made it back ok. Long flight, hope it wasn't coach. China is pretty safe. Last year in Philippines I couldn't go out without a driver and armed escort from the Peninsula, even to the mall. The damn terrorists, bomb in hand were pretty active then. Most Asian countries don't screw around with common thieves, they just disapear.

Greetings from Beijing
Just For Fun Off Topic
Replies 9 Post by JD855inWI

I use a strip from a cow mat, from the local Fleet Farm. It is a 1/2" thick belting like material, I use a wide stip and bolt it between the blade and the replacable edge. Lasts through the winter on a 300' driveway.

Soft edge for rear blade
Snowblowers / Snow Plows
Replies 15 Post by JD855inWI

How does the zapper work? You are using a electric fencer supply secondary? If getting contact is a problem, switch to an old furnace ignition transformer. Output is 8000 to 16000 volts, lots of voltage, but lower current. It may do the job. If not it’ll sure burn the hair off.
How about triggering a pneumatic cylinder and firing a bolt into the pipe. Live better eclectically!

Pack Rats
Just For Fun Off Topic
Replies 29 Post by JD855inWI

Alternates have a 3 phase ac output, running through a 6 diode full wave bridge and a regulator circuit to give you the DC output. You may have a weak diode in the bridge and when it gets hotter than normal it breaks down or stops conducting. If you take out one diode, the red light will come on, but the alternated will still put out about 75% rated output. The easies way to tell is pull the alternator and take it to a locale shop that has a test bench with an O-scope. They load it up and have an answer pretty fast. The bridge is replaceable in most units.

battery light gets red over 2000rpms
Kubota Tractors
Replies 7 Post by JD855inWI

In the evening when every body is home in the nest, pour in a ½ quart of Bo-Peep ammonia and about a ½ quart of bleach. As dry as its been here, you may have to mix them and then quickly pour them in together. When you see that blue smoke coming from the ground, fill the hole with dirt to drive the gas down in. If it comes out the second entrance fill it in too. I’ve used this on a number of ground nests, works every time. Don’t do this too close to the house, or well casing, if it kills bees, it’ll kill you too.

Hornet help
Just For Fun Off Topic
Replies 30 Post by JD855inWI

ONEACE and TC owners: I see this came up again and have a suggestion that you may checkout. DC solenoids have a very high current inrush, until the plunger pulls inside of the coil, then the current drops off to almost nothing. A low battery or circuit with higher than normal resistance, will energize the coil on the starter and the current will go quite high, but not high enough to pull in the bendix. If the starter bendix is sluggish from dirt or rust the same thing will happen. If the key were held on trying to crank the engine, the fuse would probably blow in a couple of seconds. It depends on what type fuse was installed. A 10 amp time rated fuse will allow the current to rise greater than 10 amps for a short time (4 or 5 seconds), but will blow immediately on a short circuit. You can check the Buss fuse site for different type fuse ratings and see where the standard TC fuse fits in the time tables.
The standard fuse is probably not a delay type fuse. I used to work on P&H DC powered cranes and have seen this problem. I hope this helps you trace down the TC problem.

Most shop volt/ohm/amp meters have a 10 amp range, if someone has a tractor where this happens all the time the meter and an inline fuse could be clipped in to the fuse holder in place of the normal fuse and the circuit current could be monitored. A fuse blows because the internal element generates heat until it parts or melts, if a fuse has blown in a holder a number of times, the clips start to get weak and the point where the clip contacts the fuse generates additional heat which changes the fuses ratings. Fuse manufactures actually sell an insulated clamp to tighten the clips against the fuse to reduce the heating effect.

How many of you remember the GM fix for the GTO and Z28 Camero in the 60s? Insulating the starter and adding in a control relay to send power directly from the battery to the starter solenoid,

TC 33D Blowing Fuses
New Holland Tractors
Replies 47 Post by JD855inWI

It’s the trailer. Get out the battery charger and a spare trailer wiring connector. Hook the negative to the ground wire on the connector or the trailer and the plus to the lead that feeds the tail and marker lights. Watch the amp meter on the charger and then start shaken the heck out of the wiring harness on the trailer. When you see the needle jumping around, you are close to the problem. It’s probably a cracked or scuffed wire hitting the trailer frame on occasion. You could check the brake lights wiring the same way. Also compare the amps drawn on the meter to the fuse rating. Fuses are time rated when close to the amp rating, more current = less time. Dead short = no time.

Wiring help
Pickup Trucks and Trailers
Replies 14 Post by JD855inWI

The Citgo station in our area now has a pump labeled “high sulfur diesel fuel” “off road and farm only”. It is $0.50 gallon cheaper, with no road tax added. I started using it in my tractor, but notice more smoke at startup and under heavy load. Is there any long term draw back to using this type fuel?

HIGH SULFUR FUEL
Parts and Repair
Replies 15 Post by JD855inWI

Personally I would not do it. I had a farmer friend who had HI-powered utility feeders running to a distribution substation crossing his property. He had an 8” HO fluorescent lamp mounted parallel underneath the power lines and on damp nights that lamp would flash on and off. Damn scary. The power company came out and put filter circuits and grounds on every other post of his electric fences, because he could unplug the fencer and it kept on flashing from induced voltage. I wouldn’t want to expose my family to that, not knowing the long term effect.

Land w overhead High power lines
Home Improvement
Replies 14 Post by JD855inWI

1 Broke Arrow: I had sons at UW-O, UW-GB and UW Platteville all at the same time, hence the JD855. You can only supply only so much help. Suggest your son seek out financial assistance in the form of interest free student loans, no interest until he graduates. There are also an amazing amount of scholarships that go unclaimed, small amounts but they help. The campus should have a financial assistance office. He may have to forgo college until he can bankroll it, finding the loans and scholarships could be his way of working for his education. I wish him good luck.

Helping Your Kids -- Student Loans For College
Just For Fun Off Topic
Replies 5 Post by JD855inWI

Oh how true, same holds true for taking showers or brushing your teeth. Those bad bacteria can even enter through your eyes. I'm gotten sick after arriving home after having a United or Mexicana Air meal. The important thing, is don't be a vulnerable tourist. Stick with your friends or group. When it comes to shopping negotiate like you're trying to buy a new tractor. About 50% of asking is usually OK, especially if with a local merchant or artist. These people are really poor, about $2k per capita over age of 16yrs.

Plane Layovers
Just For Fun Off Topic
Replies 30 Post by JD855inWI

Anybody ever see a pre-luber. Hydo pump that runs off the back of starter, pumps oil to all the right places before kicking the bendix in and turning over the engine. Usually reserved for the big blocks or guys who love there stuff. I've one on my old Vette. No dry bearings or valve trains.

Block Heater Location
Kubota Tractors
Replies 32 Post by JD855inWI

Be sure to check the air cleaner also. I've had the radiator block off while tilling. Be careful with the pressure washer and stay straight on with the fins. I've managed to fold a few over when hitting them from the sides, but they did comb out with out breaking.

j d 955 overheating
John Deere Tractors
Replies 5 Post by JD855inWI

AV8R: With all those dealerships being bought up by one owner, it makes it hard to go else where. I now travel to Caroline in Shawano. That's is where my neighbor got his 4210 and gets great service, 40+ miles

Repair Problems - Is this usual
John Deere Tractors
Replies 22 Post by JD855inWI