BrokeFarmerJohn
Veteran Member
- Joined
- Oct 7, 2016
- Messages
- 2,231
- Location
- Columbus Ohio
- Tractor
- 2017 Mahindra 5555, John Blue G-1000, Massey Ferguson 98, John Deere GP
JD is pushing the "composite" (plastic, call a spade a spade) angle as a feature for a while now. Supposedly the hood can stand up to more abuse without getting beat up. The clear solution is to not drop cr@p on your hood, but that seems to have escaped them somehow.
I can verify this lol, I dropped a square bale on my hood and it came out unscathed. Bale was up high, loader was at full reach, I was throwing bales on the forks from the loft and one jumped the backstop, was sure I was gonna smash the hood but it wasn't a direct hit either.
All in all the plastic doesn't bother me, deere made quality plastic that doesn't fade at least.