DigitalCowboy
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Having issues with the hydraulics on my 3535...
A bit of back story here, bought my tractor in winter of 2013 in WI. I used it to blow snow(among other things) and frequently would be starting it up in very cold weather... down as cold as 0F. It would have to idle for a very long time... maybe 10minutes or more before any of the hydraulics would work. Once I did get something to move, I was good... loader would move "stiffly" but a couple of cycles up and down and we'd be good to go. I kinda figured it was really cold and although it seemed like an excessive amount of time to warm up everything I didn't worry too much about it figuring that was just the nature of the tractor in that weather. What I'd usually do is just leave the 3pt hitch lever in the "raised" position and when the snowblower lifted up, I knew I was ready to go.
Well here we are, I've moved 300+miles south to west-central IL and the tractor came with me. I've had two incidents in the past month that are making me worry that I have a problem. First time it was around 30F out and I'd just brought home a trailer full of round bales to unload. Started up the tractor, much as in WI the hydraulics didn't move. I'm not timing this but I think it was a good 15minutes of idling before everything freed up which to me seems excessive. Finally with the loader moving I drove it down the driveway and over to where I had my truck(a good distance) and moved the loader up and down along the way to help things warm up more. I came up to my trailer, started to line up on a bale, tried to adjust my loader angle.....and nothing. Everything stuck again, nothing will move. Idled another 5min or so... still stuck. I had an idea and had my wife hold the loader control in the(not sure the term) curl up position while I lifted up on the bale spear as hard as I could.... felt almost as if something popped loose and it came right up. Hydraulics worked perfectly and I got my hay put up.
Then just today, I took a bale out to the horses. Again it's around 30 and I just let the tractor idle for a long time. Once stuff was working, I picked up the bale, took it out to the pasture, set it down.... no trouble. Then I drove around to the other side of the hay hut(we have a plastic feeder that covers the round bale from weather/slows the horses eating. it can be moved by hand but loaders are easier). I lowered my bale spear, put my spear under it, tried to lift it and...... dead. No hydraulics again. I had my wife come over, preparing to repeat the fix from last time but when I was showing her what to do, miraculously the loader started moving again and I was able to finish the job.
This stopping after things are warmed up problem is new and it's worrying me. Before once it was going, I was good. Should I try to contact a local dealer for repairs, attempt some DIY maintenance like change the hydraulic fluid/filter? Is this just common cold weather stuff and I shouldn't worry? Tractor only has about 85 hours on it...
A bit of back story here, bought my tractor in winter of 2013 in WI. I used it to blow snow(among other things) and frequently would be starting it up in very cold weather... down as cold as 0F. It would have to idle for a very long time... maybe 10minutes or more before any of the hydraulics would work. Once I did get something to move, I was good... loader would move "stiffly" but a couple of cycles up and down and we'd be good to go. I kinda figured it was really cold and although it seemed like an excessive amount of time to warm up everything I didn't worry too much about it figuring that was just the nature of the tractor in that weather. What I'd usually do is just leave the 3pt hitch lever in the "raised" position and when the snowblower lifted up, I knew I was ready to go.
Well here we are, I've moved 300+miles south to west-central IL and the tractor came with me. I've had two incidents in the past month that are making me worry that I have a problem. First time it was around 30F out and I'd just brought home a trailer full of round bales to unload. Started up the tractor, much as in WI the hydraulics didn't move. I'm not timing this but I think it was a good 15minutes of idling before everything freed up which to me seems excessive. Finally with the loader moving I drove it down the driveway and over to where I had my truck(a good distance) and moved the loader up and down along the way to help things warm up more. I came up to my trailer, started to line up on a bale, tried to adjust my loader angle.....and nothing. Everything stuck again, nothing will move. Idled another 5min or so... still stuck. I had an idea and had my wife hold the loader control in the(not sure the term) curl up position while I lifted up on the bale spear as hard as I could.... felt almost as if something popped loose and it came right up. Hydraulics worked perfectly and I got my hay put up.
Then just today, I took a bale out to the horses. Again it's around 30 and I just let the tractor idle for a long time. Once stuff was working, I picked up the bale, took it out to the pasture, set it down.... no trouble. Then I drove around to the other side of the hay hut(we have a plastic feeder that covers the round bale from weather/slows the horses eating. it can be moved by hand but loaders are easier). I lowered my bale spear, put my spear under it, tried to lift it and...... dead. No hydraulics again. I had my wife come over, preparing to repeat the fix from last time but when I was showing her what to do, miraculously the loader started moving again and I was able to finish the job.
This stopping after things are warmed up problem is new and it's worrying me. Before once it was going, I was good. Should I try to contact a local dealer for repairs, attempt some DIY maintenance like change the hydraulic fluid/filter? Is this just common cold weather stuff and I shouldn't worry? Tractor only has about 85 hours on it...
