Pulled the trigger... L5460HSTC

[Gator6x4]

Yes, I'm looking forward to the new cab tractor. I mowed pasture with my present tractor yesterday afternoon and certainly would enjoy being inside an air conditioned cab away from the dust and chaff. I'm up early every morning usually by 4 AM. It's a habit I acquired during the 30+ years when I worked since I liked to have time for the three S's, enjoy breakfast with my wife (married 47 years), and be at work early and it has carried over into my retirement years.

Bill

I stopped getting up early after I retired. What really reinforced the decision was, I was standing in the driveway one morning waiting for the paper delivery person. He stopped, handed me the paper and told me he had been noticing my lights on every morning and then he advised the paper was looking for delivery people for early morning deliveries.

Getting up,lounging around drinking coffee while reading the newspaper is one thing, going to work now that is another. So I started learning how to sleep until the sun starts up.

Congrats on the new tractor. Enjoy the AC.

A neighbor was cutting and baling "Horse Hay" in a pasture near the house the other day. He was driving a new, other color 100 plus HP tractor with a cab. He advised he had resisted a cab for years but after having a cabbed tractor for only a few weeks during hay season has now made him question his sanity for all those years. The neighbor also has a neat unit that attaches to his loader to pick up the small square bales preferred by horse owners. He can pick up I believe he said eight bales at a time and then stack them on his big goose neck trailer for transport. Sure beats the old back breaking job of manually picking up and loading in the heat.

 

[Retired Iron Peddler]

I've been officially retired for 21 years as of the first of this month; however, I still work part time as a consultant using my computer. To go to work, I walk across the driveway to my shop office where I work. I like getting up early to work on my computer while I drink my morning coffee, it's quiet, and I can think clearly and then I have the rest of the day for doing what I want.

Yep, I've hauled many a square bale. After my father passed away, my brother took over the farm and shortly afterward bought a big round baler... no more hauling square bales, but I had left the farm about 10 years previously. My brother purchased cabbed tractors and a combine with a cab. I ran the old combine for years harvesting wheat, oats, barley, and sorghum without a cab. So yes, I have years of experience breathing dust and chaff.

Bill

 

[Retired Iron Peddler]

I've been officially retired for 21 years as of the first of this month; however, I still work part time as a consultant using my computer. To go to work, I walk across the driveway to my shop office where I work. I like getting up early to work on my computer while I drink my morning coffee, it's quiet, and I can think clearly and then I have the rest of the day for doing what I want.

Yep, I've hauled many a square bale. After my father passed away, my brother took over the farm and shortly afterward bought a big round baler... no more hauling square bales, but I had left the farm about 10 years previously. My brother purchased cabbed tractors and a combine with a cab. I ran the old combine for years harvesting wheat, oats, barley, and sorghum without a cab. So yes, I have years of experience breathing dust and chaff.

Bill

 

[C4Ranch]

Sounds like a great setup. I would recommend your remote to get it with Float.

 

[hawkeye08]

I will start looking for a newer tractor with a cab in the next few years. I mowed some pasture (not being used as pasture currently) and the pollens from the grasses almost did me in.. that was Saturday and I'm still feeling the effects. You only go around once, just as well enjoy things a bit..

 

[Retired Iron Peddler]

Sounds like a great setup. I would recommend your remote to get it with Float.

Why? My experience has been on I-H and JD farm tractors of 60 to 130-hp and all had double acting remotes. What implement would the "Float" be used on?

Bill

 

[C4Ranch]

I have 3 remotes, 2 float and 1 DA all currently in use. TNT with hydraulic rippers on box blade. The floating valves are DA with a detent to float so you basically have both. You and use it as DA or pop it in float. With DA you can only use it as a DA.

Advantages of float:
- with TNT you can float the top link when bush hogging so it follows the contour of the land when ungulating
- with TNT you can float the side link when box blading to follow the berm of a curve
- when using hydraulic motors you can put in float to slow down vs an abrupt stop
When using hydraulic dump trailers you can allow the bed to drop on its own in a more controlled smoother fashion

I'm sure there are more uses that I haven't heard about.

That said, I recommend 2 remotes minimum for TNT use. If you have float you have the option if needed. If you don't you have to add or change valve if u need.

 

[Retired Iron Peddler]

I have 3 remotes, 2 float and 1 DA all currently in use. TNT with hydraulic rippers on box blade. The floating valves are DA with a detent to float so you basically have both. You and use it as DA or pop it in float. With DA you can only use it as a DA.

Advantages of float:
- with TNT you can float the top link when bush hogging so it follows the contour of the land when ungulating
- with TNT you can float the side link when box blading to follow the berm of a curve
- when using hydraulic motors you can put in float to slow down vs an abrupt stop
When using hydraulic dump trailers you can allow the bed to drop on its own in a more controlled smoother fashion

I'm sure there are more uses that I haven't heard about.

That said, I recommend 2 remotes minimum for TNT use. If you have float you have the option if needed. If you don't you have to add or change valve if u need.

Thanks for the replay and explanation. I don't have any implements that require a remote valve/outlet installation, but may in the future. I don't have TNT an my present L3830GST and don't plan on a TNT on my new tractor. I used my box blade about an hour over the past three years and I am considering selling it. Both my Bush-Hog brand rotary mower Bush-Hog brand finish mower have flexible top links and a hydraulic top link isn't necessary.

I do very little dirt work with the loader since I have had most of the necessary dirt work done on this place completed previously by a contractor with larger earth moving equipment.. The loader used mainly to haul fence repair material, brush and cut wood from my grown up with trees and brush fence rows and it's why I'm equipping the loader for using a grapple. My present tractor is used 80% of the time to mow our pastures and to carry a 100-gallon (filled to only 80 gallons) 3-point mounted folding boom spray rig for spraying weeds in pastures and one of the reasons why I wanted to upgrade to a CAT II hitch and a heavier tractor in order to utilize the 100 gallon capacity. With the 3rd loader valve that is required for using with a grapple, I will also be able to use a hydraulically powered post hole digger mounted on the loader for re-building our fences. The pasture mowing and spraying operations is the prime reason why I'm upgrading to a cab tractor.

Bill

 

[C4Ranch]

Thanks for the replay and explanation. I don't have any implements that require a remote valve/outlet installation, but may in the future.
Bill

Gotchya. Makes sense given your uses. If you're gonna put a remote on for the point above, why wouldn't you go ahead and get the option of float? It doesn't add much cost above the DA remote already. Or don't add any remotes if you have no need, you can always add them later. That's what I did and installed them myself from Kubota.

 

[Retired Iron Peddler]

Gotchya. Makes sense given your uses. If you're gonna put a remote on for the point above, why wouldn't you go ahead and get the option of float? It doesn't add much cost above the DA remote already. Or don't add any remotes if you have no need, you can always add them later. That's what I did and installed them myself from Kubota.

Yep. I probably should. When I was on the farm, we had a Farmall F656D and a Farmall F856D that had two remotes with float position. The float position was used with six row front mounted cultivators that used gauge wheels. It was a fourth position on the valve. The float position in the valve was activated by pushing the lever past the down position where it remained until it was manually pulled back when raising the implement.

Bill