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The latest issue of Ohio Farmer has a bit about the lack of new machinery on the dealer lots. Apparently the value of the dollar is making American iron pretty popular in overseas markets and there is not a lot of stock for the home dealers. Many farmers are finding they need to get on a list...

I happened to have my tractor key in my pocket the other day when I was near the NH dealership. Having misplaced one of the keys for my Case DX29, I thought I'd just see if the NH keys worked and stopped in. Sure enough, they found an exact match (except for the ugly blue weather cap where...

Quite often I see someone wondering about the quality of Titan brand tires on their CUT. FYI, there is a Titan plant in Bryan, Ohio. Today's Wooster paper had a little article about the fact that this plant is expanding to make tires to fit on 63" rims. That's 5 feet 3 inches across the...

I'm building a second floor on my deck. I will be setting 5, 16' 4x6 treated posts into holes 3' deep that are either in or immediately next to my existing deck. I have a DX 29 with the LA14 loader and a grapple on the bucket. There is a 900 lb. counterweight on the rear end. I am working...

A while ago, someone posted regarding the fact that they never seemed to find anything in their Mr. Funnel, wondering if it was worth the bother of using the thing. I suggest you pour some diesel through it when it's cold out, like I did this past week. I had never before noticed any water...

... rear hydraulic doubler? RKO has an item in the flyer for an electrically controlled device that connects to your single remote and has two remotes coming out of it. There is an electric switch that appears to direct the flow to one or the other set of connectors on the doubler, meaning you...

I got an email from a friend with a link to a youtube segment on a JD walking tractor. I've never posted a link before, so this may not work, but this should be it. YouTube - john deere walking tractor II That doesn't look right, but try going to youtube and searching for walking tractor if...

I don't often post in this forum, so I don't know who all is here, but I'm sure someone will know the answer to this one. I have a JD 240. This weekend there's an auction near here which has, among other things, 2 JD 212s, a JD snowblower, and a JD rear tiller. Presuming the tiller is for a...

Someone is advertising a 20kw PTO generator for about $1300 in the local paper. Seems like a decent price, but how much tractor does a generator that size need? It's way more generator than I need for backup, but more power is often nice.

This is only tractor related in the sense of the equipment needed to get this set right. After the windstorm, I discovered a 15 inch hickory had snapped off about 14 feet above the ground, coming to rest with the butt end of the bole still attached to the trunk in the neighbors pasture, hanging...

I'm considering the acquisition of a tractor powered splitter, mounted on the 3 point, using the rear hydraulics. My extra hydraulic valve works the grapple double acting cylinder -- it doesn't matter how I reconnect the lines when I take the grapple off, all it does is reverse the relationship...

I tore a rotator cuff or something a month or so ago. I finally saw the doctor last night and he said no woodsplitting for several months. I have plenty of wood on hand that I split with my 8 lb maul, but this incident has set me to thinking about a splitter run by the tractor hydaulics...

I'm not quite sure this belongs here, maybe in owning/operating, but it's more in line with choices when considering a purchase, I think. If not, put it where it fits best. While listening to the local Farm Hour at 5 this morning, a guy announces that NH has just declared all their engines to...

I spent Saturday using an All Mand 220 TLB at my SIL's place. I've never heard of the brand, but it was a very stable, strong, and solid little machine. Maybe it was due to the flatness of the ground compared to my place, but I never felt in any danger of tipping the little beastie over. The...

I bought a new spring for the idler pulley on my mower over the weekend. Got it all installed, remounted the deck, mowed about 15 minutes, and the spring broke. I called the dealer and they gave me a new spring Monday. The spring I installed over the weekend broke in exactly the same place as...

While working with moving rocky dirt in a rough area, my PTO light came on even though neither PTO was engaged. The light wouldn't shut off when I engaged and disengaged the PTOs, and didn't bother anything, so I kept working. A while later, I shut down the tractor, coincidentally parked...

I was asking around the county fair looking for a rear blade that could be offset to the side, kind of like a trail mower. I found 3 dealers who could supply one. Two had prices -- JD with their aftermarket line for $1700, and I believe 550 (unless that was the weight as I sneaked a peak at...

Our county fair is going on. The Cadet dealer has 2 of the new 3200 Yanmar powered units on display. One with FEL and R4 tires is priced at a fair special of 16200, a bare tractor with turfs at 15000. The JD rep came by while I working in the booth next to the Cadet display. I know the guy...

Well, I went to an auction today. About 600 numbers were out, so it was pretty big. A Massey 231 with 45 hours on it went for $10500, which I thought was a pretty good price. A half ton Silverado in outstanding shape, 100k miles, 4x4, good cap, '93 model year went for 5700, again not bad. I...

There is a general agreement that HST's are not ideal for ground engaging work. I have a DX29 (TC29D in red paint) HST. I am thinking about getting a 3 point disc to drag around my unplowed wooded area that we call a pasture in hopes of killing or chopping some of the less desirable stuff and...

I was doing the 200 hour service on my DX29 (TC29DA in red paint) over the weekend and discovered the zerk to grease the left side brake pedal was messed up. Apparently it's been this way ever since the tractor was new but I never noticed it before. The thing is pretty well buried and kind of...

I have a DX-29 with R1s. I'm on the advisory committee of a new hunting/hiking park taking shape about 3 1/2 miles away. Part of the park is 3 spring fed ponds that will serve as kind of the center for the non-hunting uses like hiking, birding, etc. There is some ground around the ponds that...

HELP! I ACCIDENTALLY PUT THIS IN THE WRONG FORUM! Can someone move it to the general forum about owning and operating? Delete this confession of idiocy if you can, too, please. Some of you may remember a series of posts last fall about a female student who was restoring an old Oliver...

I don't know if this belongs here or in the LG forum. I'm sure it'll get moved if needed. I just acquired a JD240, which is an older gear model with Ag tires. I'm hoping it will turn out to be a good machine, but am wondering if there are any special things I need to know about it.

After about 3 years of collecting sandstone blocks from wherever I could find them cheap, we are finally going to get started on a major construction project involving cutting out an old wood retaining wall, moving the hillside back about 10 feet, regrading the upper area, and building a...

While checking out possibilities for a replacement mower, I came across a JD322. This is a '93 with 1025 hours on the Yanmar engine. The sales guy said it was diesel, but folks here say it's gas but on the same block as one of the diesels. Either way, it runs smooth and quiet. It's a hydro...

Situation -- I've been using a Cadet 129 with a 42"(?) deck and a Cadet 1215 with a 38"(?) deck to mow my lawn areas, supplemented by a JX series JD walk behind and a weedeater. The 1215 has basically died. I have a larger deck(48"?) to fit the 129 but find it a bit cumbersome for much of the...

... to put a dent in the garage door trim!

My ungly conversion of a rear blade to a front worked well in the snow here today. This was the first real opportunity to try it out. All I did was mount the rear blade (only) to a plate that I bolted to a rear carry-all. The carry-all was modified by making up my own QA plates so I could...

I had to laugh when our local paper said diesel gels at 20F. They went on to talk with local school superintendents who said the wind chill was low enough to gel diesel, showing a lack of understanding of wind chill on their part. I've heard different things for when the stuff actually gets...

On my DX29 hst, a short while after start-up, say 10 to 15 seconds, there is a pronounced hissing noise that seems to be coming from the vicinity of the hydro pump in the right front. Everything works, nothing leaks, and the noise goes away after a few minutes. This is not a new thing, but...

I saw an article in Ohio Farm Journal about Firestone making different style tractor tires in interchangeble sizes. The pic with it showed a turf tire and an R4 that fit on the same rim. The article implied that they will be making different tread types to fit the same rim size, unlike now...

I'm going to have some serious landscaping done, involving removing about 90 feet of timber retaining wall, moving the hillside back about 10 feet, and building a new wall out of barnstone -- the 2 x 2 x 3 or 4 foot sandstone blocks. The guy who is doing most of the work has a Bobcat with a 6...

It looks like winter will be arriving today. It's snowing as I type this and the temperature is dropping. It should be near 10F tonight. I imagine Pineridge will be getting about 6 inches of snow or more. How about the rest of you guys? I should get only 1 to 3, probably not enough to close...

It's an interesting bit of history to note that while modern Ford (nee NH) tractors are blue in color (MSU) the tractors that made Ford famous were colored the red and gray of OSU. Why were the early Ns red and gray? I know the original 9Ns were gray, but 8Ns and several of the models...

You have a large irregularly shaped pond of indeterminate and variable depth on your property. You need to treat it with Copper Sulfate to control algae, but the local EPA is very strict about the application rate. You need to find the volume of your pond. How can you do so simply? Filling...

So I'm listening to "The Farm Hour" as I'm getting ready for school this morning. There's a little segment that opens with mention of a guy who sits down to a nice dinner -- while riding in his tractor as it drives itself across a field planting wheat and he monitors what's going on behind the...

I just wonder what you guys think about this one. One of my students brought in two pistons from a tractor she is restoring for FFA. The engine is a gasser, tops out about 1600 rpm. The pistons are 5 inches in diameter on a 4 cylinder engine. She has two new ones and two old ones. The new...

There are two auctions happening this Saturday. Time and distance means I can only go to one of them. One has a Kubota G4200 diesel mower, some tools and a few guns, while the other has lots of quality sockets and other tools plus several guns and reloading stuff. I'm not familiar with the...

I'm not sure this is the right forum for this one, but it seems close enough. I have the QA fel on my Case DX29. I also have a 3 point carry-all that was bought thinking it would be very useful with my old Kubota, which turned out to be incorrect, leaving me with a nice carry-all and nothing...

Somehow I knew from the title that Doc Bob's thread would be closed. I was surprized you guys kept it acceptable as long as you did. :)

I've been in Missouri for a week, missed the storms in St. Louis, though. While there, as everywhere else, I was checking the stores looking for a Mr. Funnel with no luck. Well, suprize, today the DHL delivery guy arrived at the house with a package for me. The wife ordered me one for my...

I'm about due for the 50 hour service on my DX29. I was in the NAPA store the other day and asked about filters. The woman finally found the listing among their many books, and gave me Farm Bureau discount prices. While looking through things for the listings, I had suggested looking for the...

I went to the junk yard yesterday and picked up some scrap steel discs for about a quarter a pound with the objective of making some wheel weights. The factory cast iron weights sell for $88 per hundred pound weight and are set up for two per rear wheel with Ag tires. When I checked out of the...

Just wondering -- has anyone here ever added a "wing" or extension to the end of a back blade to make it work a little like a box blade so far as keeping material in the driveway? I think I have a pretty good way to do this with deck plate, a little welding, and some bolts. I'm just wondering...

I'll put this here since my tractor is red, but it applies in the blue board, too. Looking for the neutral safety switch connectors to make sure they were not liable to get hung up or torn loose on my tractor, I noticed an unused plug with a jumper in place in the same area. I have the mid and...

There has been a lot of discussion about tire types, pressures, footprint, etc. in the past. I just thought I'd share something I noticed with everyone. As you know I have this new DX29. I've been working carrying some fairly heavy loads in the bucket while having about 900 pounds hanging on...

While using the hst DX29 last night, I got myself into a situation that seemed a little awkward. I can see it being a problem in similar situations in the future. I was moving several buckets full of glacial debris rock -- chunks of granite and similar dense material. A loosely filled bucket...

It was terrible -- first day since the new tractor arrived that I haven't found some reason to start it up and run it a while! We need the rain we got, could use some more, but it softens the ground and limits where I want to drive the thing, too. The grapple is very nice for pulling large...

I guess this fits here since my tractor is basically new. It could have been a major problem had it occurred anywhere other than where it did, and might help someone trying to decide between hydro and gear drive. I had about 7 hours on my new DX29, was using it near my shop to move some...

nhown-ML-875507-ML- NH specific thread.

I hope these fit. This is the B7100, now at the dealership.

Arrrrrgh! After going to check out the tractor Monday and noticing that they had mounted the grapple on the wrong bucket, they said they could make the switch and get the thing to me on Tuesday about 3:30. They also said they would call if that wasn't going to happen. So I hustled home, got...

While I was busy helping my chapter of the Izaak Walton League host the state convention Saturday, my dealer called to inform me my tractor is finally all here and ready to deliver! I plan to drive up there after school Monday to check it out and probably have it delivered Tuesday. To refresh...

I checked with the dealer yesterday. My new DX29 is all set except for the grapple, which is coming from Missouri. I hope to have it home sometime next week. They've got the Ag tires on, the extra valve in and plumbed to the grapple mounting point, the fuel tank full, and everything set to...

May be just a bit mathematical, but interesting. Also the methods employed would need to be modified for larger machines.

the Goodyear Farm Tire handbook is very useful, but I only have it as a file, not a link. What can be done to get it available to everyone here?

I think I've got it working now.

Okay, most of these are acrobat files. I hope I can get them posted here, but they may be too big.

After a discussion somewhere here about distributing weight on the tractor for balance, I emailed my daughter and SIL, who are automotive suspension/brake engineers and have connections with tire guys. I'll be posting the links they sent when I get a chance to sit down and figure out how to do...

I'm eagerly awaiting my TC, oops I mean DX, -29's arrival. Reading the manual, they call for Hy Tran Ultra in the gearbox etc. for both transmissions. I'll probably be using an equivalent that meets the same standards rather than the dealer brand oil, but I just wondered what the NH book says...

A suggestion was made over on the Case forum that perhaps that one and this one should be combined since the tractors are now so similar and there is so little traffic over there. Comments?

Now that I've finally made the big jump and ordered a DX-29, I'm kind of wondering which board I'll be spending most of my time on. This one seems pretty quiet compared to the general forum, the NH forums, the Kubota forums, and the JD forum. Who visits here on a regular basis? Or all the...

Made up my mind that is. I called the dealer this morning and talked with the brother of my salesman, who is out today. I told him to hang a sold sign on the Case DX-29 with 114 loader that I drove last weekend. They'll install a rear hydraulic valve and run plumbing to the loader hookup from...

I just have a couple of questions that aren't crucial, but kind of bother me. 1) Since torque is so important to tractor types, why don't they list torque in the specs found in the brochures? Car and pickup sellers do. 2) On loader specs, are the lift strength figures taken with the bucket in...

Okay, I think I've decided I'll be getting a Case tractor. Looking at the DX26 and DX29 on Saturday, I noted the following things: The 29, while visually much bigger, is only about 5 or 6 inches wider, has a longer wheelbase, but is shorter overall by .1 inch. It weighs 800 lb. more. Both...

Upon checking further with my dealer, it turns out the 0% for 60 months I was commenting about in several posts or threads here applies only to older 29/33 models. Apparently there are a couple of 02 or 03 production units on lots in 2 or 3 states which they want to move out. A new model 29...

Well, here I am again, still trying to make up my mind. Having finally decided on a pretty tight physical dimension envelope and eliminated a number of tractors for various reasons, having prices to work with and trade-in values for my B7100 to work with, I'm looking at the above 3 machines...

I drove a Case DX26 today and tried out the turning brake/cruise control thing with the following results: You can use the turning brakes when cruise control is on. They work in either 4 or 2 wheel drive, but much better in 2 wheel drive. Hitting both brake pedals shuts off the cruise. So...

Mahindra is now offering 0% for 36 months on new tractor purchases. I think it's good through the end of April. This, combined with the fact that Mahindra Man came out to my place to look the terrain over while evaluating my Kubota definitely gives him some serious cred in the choice between...

I have located a JD 4200 with less than 250 hours on it. FEL with QA, hydro, used for maintaining a small horse farm, traded in to the original selling dealer and now on the used market. Has Ag tires, no power beyond kit. Loader has a replaced bucket that looks nice in the pics. What kind...

I think it\'s getting close. Well, I have narrowed it down to 3 strong prospects, so am wondering what the collective opinions might be. I can go with one of the following and pretty well fit all my parameters: 1) A JD 770 with 600 hours, a brand new loader, brand new Ag tires and a full set...

Could you guys fill me in on the 770? As far as I can determine, it's the immediate predecessor of the 790, running a few less hp, but otherwise the same tractor. I've found one with under 600 hours and turf tires. Nothing else on it, just the bare tractor. It's currently owned by a...

Well, right now my search for the ideal is kind of at boiling point. There is a Cadet 7305, 2003, 190 hrs, R4s, FEL for $9950 before I start talking with them. Guys here tell me I can get a new Mahindra 2015 with R1s for close to that. Or I can get into a new Case DX26 at A-plan prices...

While deciding with the dealer that the 7274 would be too high in price by the time I set it up the way I want it, he mentioned that they had just taken a 7305 hst, FEL, R4 tires, and 400 hours. This is about 1700 lb without the loader, 30 hp. Loader will lift around 750 lb, 3 point about...

cubcadet-ML-827398-ML- Cub Cadet specific thread

I happened to be in the neighborhood of one of my local Kubota/Case dealers and saw a pretty big Cadet. It's a model 7274, '96 vintage, 900 hours, 9 x 3 gear tranny, rear hydraulics, no FEL, turf tires. Dealer says the guy who owned it used to run a sprayer on a small farm, traded it in on an...

I was talking with a JD/Kubota dealer this morning. He quoted me $14,650 for a 790 with loader and Ag tires. He also said 0% for 36 month financing is now available, hopefully 'til the end of July. Thought some would like to know.

There is a pretty big equipment auction coming up Saturday. One of the items I saw tonight was a 4210 with FEL and MMM plus an extra set of hydraulic valves at the rear. It looked like it has the e-hydro transmission and is in excellent shape. I didn't get a chance to check the hours. I'm...

There is a good sized equipment auction coming up here on Saturday. I jsut happened to be passing the fairgrounds and saw some of the stuff set out in preparation, so stopped in to see what was there. There is a very nice Ford 1220 with 550 hours and a MMM. Anyone with some idea what it's worth?

Let's say you could purchase a tractor from a dealer you've worked with for several years at his cost or less, perhaps A-plan on a NH. What would you guys think is a fair profit for the salesman? I'm presuming the sales guy gets nothing for writing up the deal officially. What amount of money...

While on the Mahindra board, I read a post about some Cadets being mitsu powered and made like Mahindra 15 series are now. I went to the Cub Cadet site and found the 6000 series has Caterpillar engines. Does anyone know anything about the genealogy of Caterpillar? Where are their engines made...

My dealer guesstimated a price of $12,700 on a gear 2015 with ag tires and 104 loader. This seems pretty nice compared to a similar Case machine (DX23 gear). How would you guys rate it compared to prices around you? My dealer is pretty new -- 2 years on his own but about 10 years working for...

I went to talk with a more knowledgeable sales guy today at the main store of my Kubota/Case dealer. While discussing the merits of various sizes and models, we were looking at a Case DX26/23 and the DX33/29. I had been pointing out my size/space concerns and he mentioned that I'd be better...

A couple of guys asked about the teeth I put on my Kubota B7100 with 1630 FEL to chew up ice on my hilly gravel drive. Here's a pic or two. The size is really unimportant, just build or have built to fit your bucket. The one in the pics is 3' wide, the teeth are 15" long and protrude 10"...

I just found out that the main store of my favorite dealer sells NH along with Case and Kubota. I've been slowly narrowing my field of choices down, and there are "only" 5 brands I'm considering at the present time. I can get A plan pricing on CNH equipment, so that will be a big factor...

Just happened to be reading "Ohio Farmer" and noticed a couple of ads for Power Show Ohio. I checked out the web site (omeda.org/powershow) and it's a trade show for equipment dealers in Ohio, Michigan, and West Virginia. I'm planning to go with my FIL and BIL, but have never been there...

After reading all the posts on the Kioti vs. Kubota thread, I decided to drive to the Kioti dealer and see what the CK30 was like up close and personal. The dealership was basically a farmyard where they sold balers, spreaders, and Kiotis. They said they've been selling them for about 10 years...

I went to a couple of dealers again yesterday. One had an L 3400 parked next to a B7610. I was amazed how close they were in physical size -- shadow size so to speak. I had more or less ruled out the Ls from looking at some L xx30's, which seem much bigger. Anyways, the L3400 had the manual...

I went to a dealer that carries orange and green to compare them side by side and pick some more brains about tractors. They have a new store, about 10x more space than before -- the place used to be a lumber store -- and have several tractors inside to look over. Among the toys was a nice...

Since after much reading and looking I've pretty well decided I need to get a shuttle shift tractor (I think ), but I also want a small one, I'm wondering who makes the smallest tractor with a shuttle. I don't care if it needs to be clutched when going from forward to reverse or not, but am...

There's an L3130 on Ebay that is near me, about 40 miles away. It has the larger loader, larger hoe, 2 buckets for the hoe, skid steer QA on the loader, a 72" loader bucket and pallet forks. There's 200 hours on it. It has the FST tranny. Current bid is 10,600 with 6 days left, more or less...

I managed to get some time Saturday to drive the 1/2 hour or so to a 3rd Agco dealer in my area. The reason for the trip is that this one has an ST28A in stock. The other two don't. What I found out is this: The small-medium chassis machines do not have the low hanging glass fuel filter bowl...

In all my looking for a different tractor than my little B7100, I've been thinking I need R4s. Some posts I've read lately are making me wonder about that. I have Ag tires on the Kubota. When working in the woods they seem just fine, but I sometimes wonder about the sidewall strength. I...

Is there a link available to a site that has the jumble of Deere terminology organized so a guy could seach for a given combination of weight and horsepower and then go to the used equipment section of the Deere site and find specific models that fit his needs? I have a similar thing for...

When I got home today, the wife wasn't here yet. I decided to burn some fossils and drove over to the Agco dealer. They had 2 ST25s, hydro and gear. Also an ST30x and an ST34A. The unsuffixed models have been sitting there for a while, showing paint fade and fade on the seat material from...

Well, it wasn't in the single digits today, but I did have the day off work. I had to go into town for errands and decided to make the run up to the Deere store. I looked closely at a 2305. I have to rule it out because there is very little ground clearance for running around in the woods and...

I visited the Case dealer this morning to see how the tractors worked in the cold. It was 8 F when I got up today. I found the following things out. Their DX33 would not start. The battery was totally dead and they had replaced it once since the one in there was a Crown, not the brand that...

At least to me. I visited the Deere dealer and talked with one of my former students. I was trying as usual to decide between two chassis sizes and was also trying to make some logical sense of the JD model numbering system. He told me the 4110 designation will be going away, and the new...

I've been looking/dreaming about a new tractor long enough that I have 3 different Agco brochures. The numbers are the same in the ST series except one has no suffix, one has an X, and one has an A. Which one is the newest, and are these still current? I've got 3 Agco dealers plus a...

I don't know if this belongs here, but I couldn't find anywhere else toput it that is likely to be read by a lot of folks. While continuing my search for the perfect replacement for my B7100, I've found myself being swayed by suspension seats. Several cheaper tractors that would otherwise be...

I am among the many here seeking help in deciding which compact will best suit my purposes. Last night I visited the NH dealer just to see in person the differences between the TC series and the DX Case. They had a couple of TC30's, which I first thought were older lot sitters. The salesman...

In trying to decide which tractor to get, I'm basically going nuts sorting out all the numbers. I have brochures from all the big names, dealers for all the big names within about the same distance, and one type of relationship or another with either the dealers or sales staff. Right now I'm...

I'm putting this here since most of the posts about Case-NH seem to land here and I thought I might get more opinions. I'm still having fun shopping for an upgrade for my old issue B7100 gear. After reading much here, I've pretty much decided to stick with my trusty dealer, who sells Case...

\"A\" plan pricing on NH tractors?? I thought I just read in a post somewhere on here that someone got a good price by virtue of being a Ford employee. My daughter works for Ford as an engineer, so I can get "A" plan prices on cars and trucks. Does that work for tractors, too? If so, that...

Like so many posters, I'm enjoying trying to decide which tractor I should move up to when the time comes. Knowing you guys have a certain bias, I'd still like your comments. I sat on a B2630 and a Case DX26. They are both sold by my usual dealer as well as another dealer about the same...

I am dreaming about upgrading to a slightly larger machine than my old (70's?) Kubota B7100 gear with FEL. This little tractor has been very reliable and handy to have around, but I'm finding my back would very much appreciate something with a suspension seat and a roomier operator station. I...

I've been lurking around here for a bit, with an auction coming up near me. I went to see the Kubota L 2900 they had advertised. I've decided against it, but that is not the reason for this post. Prior to going to see it, I've been haunting the web looking for something, anything, about an L...