tractor manuals for free

[kub0]

If modifying and distributing a pdf file is a concern, you should be worried. If I was so inclined I could take apart my manual, scan it into a pdf file that I could modify at will. It is common for many pdf files that are distributed by manufacturers to be protected from modification in their native format. If it can be printed, I can modify it.

 

[AxleHub]

If modifying and distributing a pdf file is a concern, you should be worried. If I was so inclined I could take apart my manual, scan it into a pdf file that I could modify at will. It is common for many pdf files that are distributed by manufacturers to be protected from modification in their native format. If it can be printed, I can modify it.

Modifying a pdf file is far less involved and much harder to detect than what you describe relating to your manual copying you describe. Copying paper is simple . . Making it look like an original manual is not.

 

[kub0]

I spent 30 years in the I business. Before I retired that was the way I made a living. It is possible to make it difficult to copy with the use of gray scale, background hatching, etc but I have never seen a manufacturer go to those lengths. They have to update the manuals too. I am not trying to get into a discussion about copying manuals. I am just expressing my opinion on charging for Operators Manuals.

 

[Jkott]

Lets say you were able to blindly acquire a pdf service manual and then you altered a couple key items in that manual deliberately and then passed it along to others who followed bad instructions. How would anyone know it was you and the company was not responsible ?

Isn't that all the more reason FOR a manufacturer to make their own copy of the manual downloadable from their website in a read only, signed copy of a PDF? To ensure its authentic and accurate? I mean this isn't the '80's. Every major corporation has had internet access and a department capable of making a signed PDF for at least the last 20 years.

But the OP is talking about user manual, not service manual. I can understand a reasonable charge for the proprietary labor to create a service manual (not to mention loss of labor charges for franchised dealers service departments)....there are costs to make a service manual that requires labor and the takedown and rebuild of machines to document everything.

I still say reasonable cost maintenance documentation is one **** of a selling point to any consumer product. I would certainly think twice about repeat buying a product I can't maintain or fix. I know people that have owned certain brands of vehicles that changed brands on their next vehicle because of parts availability, parts cost, and service documentation.

 

[crossy04]

looking for a parts manual for john deere l120

 

[tiktock]

I am the owner of a new Kubota BX1880 and I failed to negotiate a WSM as part of my purchase. I have had zero luck locating one online to DL and my dealer won't help yet. Has anyone found one? I found the WSM for the Bx1870 online but I would be a bit wary following it since I assume a number of things have changed with the BX1880.

 

[lkeatchie]

Looking for parts manual for a JD 48 loader I have on a 4020

 

[ch1ch2]

I have hundreds of *FREE* manuals downloaded directly from manufacturers. I don't recall ever having to pay for any of them.

I have made numerous purchase decisions based on free downloaded manuals. High on my priority list is good customer support and available user manuals is a big plus.

I can't imagine a tractor manufacturer trying to make a profit on manuals! More likely they are not up to the times or just perhaps the manuals are not that good and if read by a prospective buyer would not help sell the tractor or perhaps the competiton isn't there yet so they are taking their time.

Put me in the huh! or you've got to be kidding category

JMHO

Zeuspaul

Can't imagine a tractor manufacturer trying to make a profit on manuals?
Don't think about New Holland then. Nothing is free. I have had to give them hundreds of dollars for manuals.

 

[glenk]

I am the owner of a new Kubota BX1880 and I failed to negotiate a WSM as part of my purchase. I have had zero luck locating one online to DL and my dealer won't help yet. Has anyone found one? I found the WSM for the Bx1870 online but I would be a bit wary following it since I assume a number of things have changed with the BX1880.

This one looks real. We'll search more for a lower price.

 

[glenk]

Messicks, a great tractor parts source.