Okay how do you think I'm going to make out with this one while checking my tractor over getting ready to give it to my brother well I should say he purchased it but not quite yet, I'm giving him a little time to get his financing together ;-), while checking bolts and greasing I discovered a disturbing sight on each side of the tractor in the same spot there are alarming cracks developing one heads down the main connecting weld point and the other is across a gusset where it is welded the steel actually ripped now I swear they weren't there only two weeks ago but apparently they're rusting so they could've been there for a month she does get a little wet she lives outdoors most of time. the tractor is just over two years and three weeks it figures I wonder if new Holland will warranty this? They've help me in the past as you know but I'm not quite sure what they would do with this I can honestly tell you I've worked the tractor but never abused it rocking fields hay bale lifting and the occasional load of dirt for the gopher holes, it always seemed to me to be a weak design but I am not an engineer. Tomorrow I will go see my dealer and see what he has to say, I'm curious to hear how me people go out and check their loader towers and find these cracks. If they don't warranty this I really think I will no longer consider new Holland as a contender for my money two years is not much to get out of a loader before you have to replace the structure that holds it to your tractor I'm not really mad I'm sort of disheartened all the other things were just mechanical this is a structural design that needs to be addressed hopefully they've solved it and are aware of it will see tomorrow I forgot to mention I have 615 hours on the tractor take care
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