New to me...JD 1250 been sitting...

[Egon]

Did the fellow you bought it from give any indication of why it was parked?

 

[50acres]

Egon-yes, he bought 196 acres of land up in northern maine (presque isle) and about 80 acres of it was/is field. he bought it to keep the fields mowed but since it was just vacation land he rarely went up there, it turned out he hired a local farmer that took care of it for free, i guess he used his tractor and kept the hay from it for his cows.
the tractor ran when he parked it, then after a winter of sitting the battery was dead and he didn't try starting it....i guess one thing left to another and it ended up sitting ever since, its too bad really cause i bet it was one heck of a tractor when it was running nice, also couldn't have been that old when he parked it....its sad to see a nice tractor left abandoned.

ScottAR-wow! thanks for the detailed info, are those part numbers for the filters the ones for a 1250? maybe i can just order off that site, thankyou.

Irwin-thanks for the advice and i'll give it a shot...


I have a boat trailer winch laying around thats rated for 2000 lbs, im thinking i might just bolt it to my friends trailer to winch it on, i know the tractor weighs a whole lot more than that, but since i'm just pulling it horizontally and up a small ramp on the trailer, do you think that will be strong enough? or should i buy a bigger winch???

It's about a 8 hr drive for me so i don't want to have to make two trips, so im really hoping it will roll on the trailer.

Again, thanks for all your help, every topic i read on this site i learn from, hopefully i'll learn from this tractor and be able to contribute to someone in the future.

 

[Egon]

That really sounds good. The winch may be a bit small. Consider using some snatch blocks for a little extra leverage. Much bigger winch would be nice.

Take along an air pump too.

If you do pull the injectors and squirt stuff into the cylinders go real easy on it and make sure the engine is turned over with the injectors left out. You would not want to crack the head.

 

[JoelD]

I use an old 20 gal. propane tank as an air tank, a dear friend of mine, Alan, put it together and gave it to me 25 years ago and I still use it all the time. I was 13-14 and raced motocross, his son was 5 and our families met at the track, made a perfect portable air tank, I take it with me each time to pick up an old machine.

I would bring a bottle jack or two to lift the machine up if the wheels are in any way burried in the soil, will make inflating the tires easier also.

Bring a come-along, can help with the winching, i've also used chainfalls, they are cheap and strong at pulling heavy loads.

May even help to hook the tractor up to your truck and giving a pull to get dislodged from where it is sitting prior to winching.

I've chained my winch to the trailer tongue rather than bolting down, works good because winch will still be portable.

Bring an extra battery if you are not hooking winch to truck's battery, the winch pulls a lot of juice and can kill a battery quick.

Also, be mindfull of the soil you are on, don't want to get the truck and trailer and rig stuck in the mud, been there trying to pull a big boat on a trailer out of a spot it had sat for a long time, this time of year, soil turns to mud quick.

There will be a lot more advice coming.

Joel

 

[ScottAR]

Those are every filter you will need. The fuel filter is one or the other. I dunno the serial
number on the machine so could be either. Any decent parts house should have or be
able to interchange these filters.

 

[Wis Bang]

Those road tractors ruined bearings & stuff over time, a linehaul truck goes 200,000 to 250,000 miles a year. If it will move, just pulling it up on the trailer shouldn't do much in neutral.

I'll 2nd the chainfall -or- the chain style come along. Your boat wench isn't geared low enough unless you are popeye and have a ton of spinach...You may move it forward but up any ramp takes muscle or reduction gears. I used a car dolly w/ a boat winch & it was all I could do to get the front wheels of a S-10 pickup into a dolly - on a down grade!

Flat tires don't roll well at all you have to air them.

The caution about not getting mired while loading is good advise. It might pay to have a local wrecker drag it to the edge, spend a few bucks to make life plesant -or- the local guy who mows the place might pull it to the road for a guick pair of $20.00's

 

[L-ENTERPRISES]

JD 1250s are great machines . I had a problem with using a non JD filter on the Hydrolic filter under your left foot . Put a JD on it and everything was fine .
If the Hydrolic screen in the rear axel plug is rusted get a new one .

 

[Cat_Driver]

Well I can tell you from my direct experience - no second hand, I heard it from a friend deal.

I have an early 80's Kubota that I let sit for 10 years, and was about to get rid of it as the weeds grew up as high as the seat and the tires were flat. So one had I cut down the weeds and filled up the tires, put in a new battery and turned the key. To my astonishment it fired right up. I pulled it around checked the fluids, all were fine, and have been running it ever since and that was two years ago. I have yet to change any fluids or filters on it.

I was going to get rid of it, but after that performance I will keep her forever.

It's not my primary tractor so I can get away with not keeping it in tip top condition.

I'll get some picture of her on here soon.

 

[JoelD]

Well I can tell you from my direct experience - no second hand, I heard it from a friend deal.

I have an early 80's Kubota that I let sit for 10 years, and was about to get rid of it as the weeds grew up as high as the seat and the tires were flat. So one had I cut down the weeds and filled up the tires, put in a new battery and turned the key. To my astonishment it fired right up. I pulled it around checked the fluids, all were fine, and have been running it ever since and that was two years ago. I have yet to change any fluids or filters on it.

I was going to get rid of it, but after that performance I will keep her forever.

It's not my primary tractor so I can get away with not keeping it in tip top condition.

I'll get some picture of her on here soon.

OK, so now I'm not gonna sleep until you post that you've changed fluids and filters. Just aint right.

Joel

 

[gengine]

I am about a month behind here, but i think that you will be just fine with your tractor. It was parked for lack of use, not something broken. I am in Wyoming, and maybe we do things a little different around here, and we don't have any humidity unless it is currenty raining. In that case, wait ten minutes, it will be dry again. Anyway, I just picked up a Case 930 diesel that had been sitting for eight years because the power steering pump was broke. We used two trucks to load it, one truck hooked to trailer, "jack knifed" a little bit, and a few tow ropes hooked together to pull the tractor up the trailer with the other truck. We drained all the engine fluids, changed the filters, and refilled the fluids. We had to use the hand pump to pull in new fuel. Next we put new batteries in it, charged it up, and it fired right up. It has been running since. After about a year, we finally changed the hydraulic filter. It leaks enough fluid from the FEL pistons that I decided not to change that fluid. I think that you will be just fine taking the course that I did. I really wouldn't worry too much about the bearings and such. That damage is possible, but not likely. Do check for the mouse nests and such though, a mouse got into my father-in-laws power stroke air intake. The cover above the air filter had a hole in it. Anyway, the mouse got in, built a nest, and when he fired the truck up, the nest got sucked into the turbo. the truck idled fine, but wouldn't rev up, just white un-burnt smoke rolled out the exhaust. Stuck a vacuum down the tube, truck runs fine. But it is a good idea for you to look into that. The exhaust shouldn't be a problem, everything will get blown out of that.