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Whats a delta system?
Anyone strongly recomend a name? My back is not getting younger and I too was wrestling blades and plows around. Was thinking the same thing, "dam I need a quicky!)

3pt quick hitch
Operating and Attachments
Replies 5 Post by brokenarrow

Had a brain fart this week. I got some bear problems around my little house. Real cute and funny till you walk out behind one chasing him away right? Then about 5 min later I unhook my 3 point arms and the top link and see the bear cross infront of me. I pay no attention to it but keep its location in my corner of my eye, I drive away and turn around to hook up my plow. Thats when I see the front half of the power take off pushing gravel. On further inspect the joint looks to be fine but the yolk is busted. Anyone think I need to inspect the power take off before using it? Was planning to start her real slow although I was so teed that I decided to just finish my plowing and go home none the wiser (or madder)

Broke my yolk
Mowers Field and Finish
Replies 8 Post by brokenarrow

Fast forward to 2008------> Hi ya'll I just filled my tank at the lovely price of $2.27 per gallon. Im not chancing anything this year. Got burned bad last winter with the hard cold we had. I run down to 3% in late Feb. Didnt plow for most of that time and had to get it dug out to get a tgruck back in the woods! OOPS! I paid a premium and I will not gamble this year!~

Pre Pay LP prices
Home Improvement
Replies 22 Post by brokenarrow

I fixed up mine this last week. Last winter played heck on my drive and I used up alot of my stock pile. I am thinking about have a tandom or two come myself and build up my stock for future! It never spoils ya know!

Gravel Driveway Maintenance
Garden and Landscape
Replies 13 Post by brokenarrow

Frank
Keep the old truck AND buy the new one! Just get the new one with the 4.8 and in the 1500 model. Your fuel economy woint bee too far off the rest of the world (unless your in a smallish car). Hell yea! Keep em both! Someday you will be glad cause ya know there,,, we wont be making any trucks anymore when the fuel gets to 5 bucks a gallon!
You drive the big one and let momma drive the little one!

Time to trade pickups
Pickup Trucks and Trailers
Replies 14 Post by brokenarrow

WhooHoo!!
The latest and greatest! (Also the stupid boy in me)
I had enough so I decided to fix the damm problem. I had it narrowed down to the 02 sensers or the mass air flow senser. I actually figured it was the mass air flow but here is my story. Everything I read say's 02 senser's should be chganged at 100K, I know darn well that if I change the MAF and it cures my MPG problem along with the SES light, I will never change em SO, I decided to change all three at the same time! (Stupid) I know. Well I get half way down my dead end road and the SES light goes out! (This is looking good) I fill up 4 days ago. I drive 220 miles and use 12.56 gallons. Ahemm, that makes like 17.5mpg!!!! (Ahhh, the crowd goes nuts again) WhooHoo! I think I will keep my truck for another 190K miles!

So The bottom line here is that I changed the (2) two front 02 sensors and the MAF sensor. I had a SES light that coded lean air/fuel mix and I had milage per gallon drop from 17-19 down to 12-13mpg. My fix was to change the three items mentioned! Two hundred twenty bucks and I am back on track. Thanks to all who chimed in and gave my their opinions, I took my time and gave it alot of thought and waited for the weather and this alowed me to do the fix myself and save bucks! Thanks!!!

Chevy Truck bad mileage Engine Code P171
Pickup Trucks and Trailers
Replies 19 Post by brokenarrow

One of the mods should move this thread to the right area. I see no complaints about JD or Kubota in the price sections for their boards. This goes on too often in the New Holland Price area.<br>
Thank you

New Holland has you captured as you can t work on electronics withou
New Holland Tractors
Replies 13 Post by brokenarrow

Thanks EW for answering that question of Franks so masterferly LOL. I eliminated the check valve, lowered the sump pump (it was on house bricks) this allows the extra water from the pipe to be able to come back into the pit and not fill up more than before. In short, yes, it was water bouncing back into the flapper/ball on the chewck valve causing the noise.
Thanks. (PS. I stopped overe there after work today so this is the first time I could respond) Thank for the answers anyways ya all!!!!
EW. You got a TAN????

Check valve in sump pump
Home Improvement
Replies 11 Post by brokenarrow

Although it does sound high, Im sure it would outlast the China version on E-Bay? LOL.
Like ya always said, there are some things you can skimp on and others you should look to quality for. C-Mon,,, someone who can afford a LS180 surely can spring for a $1200 bar?

Anybody know of an inexpensive Rezloh 1-pc toothbar
Loaders Back Hoes
Replies 17 Post by brokenarrow

Whats your take on the use and opertation in a semi residential area? I live in the county but my dead end road has 24 houses on it in a 3/4 mile length. I now have two neighbors with wood burning furnaces. I just came in from walking/playing wiuth the Lab for 15 min. and I smell horribly! I am not against em, I plan to have one again in two years or less when I move. BUT This will be in a rural setting. I can not believe how nasty they are when they are not yours!. Im telling you, I I was not moving soon, I really dont know what I would do! Almsot to the point of taking matters in my own hands. This ruins our quality of life to a level that is scary. I open the door to let the dog out and the whole living room smells for an hopur. NO, it dont smell like a nice hickory burning smell but more like a PUNKY garbage crap smell.<br>
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Nuff of my rant, I will be taking this up with the Village board at the next meeting. I figure even if they cant do anything about my problem, maybe they can eliminate some one eles in the future!<br>
Merry Christmas all!<br>
(PS) You all know this TEE'S me off to write this on Christmas!

residential wood furnace use
Home Improvement
Replies 20 Post by brokenarrow

Alexier
I live and die food plotting (Look at my pics 17 16. Buy a generic round up! glysophate of 41%. Use it for two reasons. It will kill the roots holding everything together and more importantly will start your process of a weed free plot which will allow your crop the best chance to get all the water a nutriant. Its a small price to pay for the reults. Infact, spray once, let it work and then plow/till. Prepaire your bed almost all the way to where you want it. Let the new weed seed germinate and spray again. Now your ready to distibute your seed and gently cover trying to disturb as little new soil underneath as possible while still getting good seed to soil contack (or the depth needed for larger seed).

Ploughing advice
Operating and Attachments
Replies 20 Post by brokenarrow

I have not heard of many electrical problems from New Holland, I just went over bought all the complaints on the posts here and have not found one. I also went over to my New Holland advisors (another think tank) they said, other problems but not a rash of electrical ones that would lay it up for a long time??? Three fuel tanks? Whats the problem with em? Is it the same problem? Give oneace a shout and see what he has heard (he seems to be the local pro on working on New Hollands) Three fuel tanks though, wow, that stinks, have you got that problem solved yet?

TN-75 reliability question
New Holland Tractors
Replies 12 Post by brokenarrow

nice site! There is a TC40 w/cab for 18k there (no other options) Although its a after cab, its still a good bug deflector.

New Holland TC 45DA with SuperSuite Cab fair price
New Holland Tractors
Replies 7 Post by brokenarrow

Moulder<br>
Infact, just the other day I had to drill out a bad rivet on one of our (New Holland/Case) Transmisions (Name plate/serial number tags) . Fact is that we do make most the parts here in the states and we manufacture the best BEST gears right here in Racine. We have the lowest rework/scrap of all out vendors when it comes to gears. England has come here to watch us. Italy has come here taking pics. They still can not match our quality on the same parts we manufacture. Graziano (makes some of our gears) they are good but not as good as ours. Of all the things we do well here in Wi, Gearing stands out the most.<br>
Lets see, we manufacture / machine our housings for just about all our tractors we make here (Racine) IN HOUSE. Our axels for the 4 wheel drives we make in Racine and send to Grand fork ND, the combine transmisions we make many many parts for and assemble the whole thing here in Racine. ( we make one of the best combines around) The center sections,clutch housings VALVES (bodys and assemblys) we do in house. I can go on and on but wont. Im sure its not too high though (percent of parts we manufacture in our rigs) since there are soo many parts in a tractor. What we do make here, we make very well. I am very dis-pleased (and so are the upper management folks) that we do not make out own castings anymore. Yes we use china crap castings now in some of our products. We are paying for it though with scrapped out piles very high (casting defects) Very hard to get changes made lick-idy-split, when they are over seas. My point is that NOT all our stuff is not made over sea. Fact is that most of our parts are made right here in USA. If not by us than by an ISO 9001 etc vendor. Its just not practical (LIKE ANN BRUSH SAID) to manufacture all your parts. Not cost effective and not in the core buisness profile to make tires, switches, fittings,hoses,wireing harnesses, windshields, gaurds ETC ETC. A company has to piuck and choose what it is that would best be made by in house folks and what would be best quality wise and cost effectiveness wise to be made outside.<br>
KUBOTA thier own engines? Thats great. If they specialize in that then more power to them! I ask you this though? Do they machine their own gears, tubing,valves,housings,lifters, seals,o-rings (a engine is only as good as its seals) etc etc for every part in the engine? I think not (although I could be wrong, I dont know) My point is that when you say they manufacture their OWN ENGINE, just how much of that ENGINE in made in house? <br>
Like ANN said, if a company makes a good product, buy it! Just cause a company dont machine all parts (or any parts) dont mean its inferior. In fact, if you take and buy all the very best manufacured parts out there and put together a product with them (assemble) then you have a very good product that would not have any other name on it but the company that took the parts and completed a part to sell.<br>
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I can tell you that we do not get MANY parts (Machined parts) from china ( I wish we had none! they are crap) We have already started pulling back some casting work from them and put it back in the states! One good thing about fuel prices rising I guess.<br>
My 2 cent worth and as you can tell (no spell check, I need to get to bed to go make some quality New Holland parts/tooling in the morning

New Holland Connection with Shibaura
Shibaura
Replies 30 Post by brokenarrow

Earthwrks
YES, but like everything now a day, I need to fight and claw to find a dealer that has the best offer. Last time I had a 3500K difference on apples and apples.
I like Arts thinking, I never thought of that. It would be easier to trade up than down.
jbob81, so why is the ground clearance an issue? Have you got hung up already?
I dont know what kind of financing (if any) you had on you last tractor but if you can wait till there is a lower rate, maybe you could buy more tractor at almost a wash? What ever you end up with, IMO, just make sure what you get is what you will need. Jbob, I wish I would of not bought 2 impliments (that I use rarely) and would of got a top/tilt in place. I do know though that these guys here that you are talking to had saved me thousands in mistakes on my initial purchase. I would of cheaped out and bought a TC33 (nothing against it but I have 160 acres and have a use for more power and bigger frame. They talked me into a larger tractor. I would of cheaped out and never!!! bought a loadr! BIG MISTAKE! Everyone told me I was crazy. They were right. Talk to the guys here and tell em what ALL your uses are now, (and) in the future. See if they can help with an idea that you may not of thought of. Its free and fun information and who knows, they just might light a light bulb on somethin you didnt think of?

Art Has Case IH implimented a commitment to their brand exclusively from dealers yet? I thought I heard rumblings a year ago about that? The New Holland dealer out by me used to sell Kubota and New Holland, now all I see is New Kubots's there. I wonder why?

Trading A New Holland for Kubota
Kubota Tractors
Replies 13 Post by brokenarrow

Murf
That is exactly how I made my post digger holder. 2x4 and casters with a ply wood floor. Its at an angle. Just roll up to tractor and hooker her up.

Post hole digger parking stand design
Operating and Attachments
Replies 28 Post by brokenarrow

Thanks Joel
I will do that. Next week my wife has a surgery and I am taking her out to the cabin for 5 days to recover (away from any of her usual house work that she can never seem to NOT DO) While she is laying around eating bon-bons and watching Jenny, I will be hunting the "RUT" and also working on the other property. Before I post those pics I will take next week, I should clarify this area a bit more. I call it my "pond" because it is going to be just that. Right now it is a 1/2 acre of tag alders that holds about a foot of water most all year. It is a horse shoe shaped ridge that drops as deep as I mentioned. My future house is going at the top of this area and I am clearing the brush and small trees that I dont want arouind the whole area which is about 2 acres. The rest of the 15 acres I will leave wild. I never plan to have this area grass to mow. But, I do plan on having it cleaned out and a park like look. I have a good start on it and its starting to take shape but a good brush mowing of this area would make short work or what looks to be a very long teedious job.
I will post a few pics right after we get back near the end of this month.
Thanks again every one

Brush cutter used on a hill
Mowers Field and Finish
Replies 26 Post by brokenarrow

For what ever reason, that chain in question, lol, wont fit back on the sprocket, it came loose after heavy use this weekend and it does not seat anymore. I was in a hurry, pressed for time against the weather and a long road trip so I put on the new chain. I dont even want to look closer at it for I feel I think I know what happened. It went into the scrap bin this afternoon anfdd for a lousy 22 bucks, I baought a new replacement! Now I dont ever need to look at, or think about that fiasco!

Chainsaw sharpening woe s
Shop Tools
Replies 11 Post by brokenarrow

I just picked the first tick off the dog since late spring (June 28th). The bugger was actually infected on her belly, never seen a tick bite look like this so I actually washed it off! Never did that before on a dog. Ill take a hundred tick bites over one mskeeter bite, yep, bring on winter.
Aheeem, MR. EARTHWKS, you gettin soft boy??? Gettin used to those warm cushy days down in the stanchville area?
CMon now boy, you better get back north before your skin loses that toughness to it. I hear that if you stay there long enough you actually begin to like it there? Is that true? Or is it those mushrooms your eating?
Time to let the south go and come back to gods country!
(Bring that New holland skid steer too, I have a use for it since I dont own one yet, HEE HEE)

Getting ready for Snow
Just For Fun Off Topic
Replies 23 Post by brokenarrow

Billy, now that looks like fun to me!
MURF
LOL, I like that picture alot more if I am looking up at you from my tree stand nad NOT if I was you looking down at me. My feet start shaking if I get too much higher than the top branches on a tree LOL>
Hell you should see me cleaning out my gutters on the second floor roof! (America's most funny vidio winner for sure)
Nice pic though but I will pass on the offer to take your next wing pic

The view from up here
Just For Fun Off Topic
Replies 16 Post by brokenarrow