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Thanks a lot for the picture. That may work, but I’ll have to wait until daylight tomorrow to see.

I bought a new hood to replace the cracked hood on my 4310 including the spring-hinged fuel lid (not the screw on cap), but I can't seem to figure out how the two springs attach. The springs in the old one came off, so I don't have them to look at. If one of you good people could show me a...

This is apparently what happens when a shear bolt doesn't shear. You can see the hub is split, and you can also see the key that has rotated out of the keyway and jammed the hub on the shaft. The hub will NOT come off. I would cut it off with a torch, but I'm out of acetylene.:( I think...

We got hammered a little here in Michigan on Monday with snow and wind. I had been moving earlier light snow with my John Deere 4310 FEL and bucket, but figured I'd better get the front blower mounted Sunday to be ready for the big blast. Off with the FEL, on with the freshly greased blower...

We had a heavy downpour on Friday, and another one on Saturday, and my JD 4310 hydrostatic was sitting out in both of them. Today I noticed the loader was raising in a jerky fashion and the power steering was acting the same way - it would move easily for a little portion of a turn, then lose...

I just got a new 5 ft King Kutter II tiller and the paint quality is pretty much as nasty as a lot of you have said, although at this point most of it is still on. I'm hoping the mechanical quality is a good as it has been for you guys that have had good luck with them. We're finally losing...

I've got eight older full sized apple and pear trees in my yard and this year is the best/worst year for fruit that I can remember. The ground under the trees is almost totally covered with apples and pears. I've heard that you should keep it all cleaned up to cut down on disease, so I've been...

I just came across this site while I was trying to find some cool truck pictures for my 2 year old grandson. He used to love tractors, but lately it's trucks, so I humor him. This site is part of a bigger truck picture site, but I really liked this part because the driver who took them has...

I've just developed this annoying circulation problem where my fingertips turn white and get numb if they get even a little bit cold. (Raynaud's disease) This was happening to me in the summer! Now that it's getting cooler around here, I'm going to have to wear gloves pretty much every...

Does anyone know of a case where there was damage caused by switching the mid PTO on while the rear PTO was already engaged? The owner's manual clearly says that to avoid damage, the rear PTO should be off when engaging or disengaging the mid PTO. The reason I am interested, is that my...

I need to weld a trailer stub axle onto a piece of C-channel steel and I don't exactly know how to deal with the differences in the thicknesses of the two pieces. It makes sense that the thicker stub axle will need more heat than the thinner channel steel, but how do I go about doing that and...

I admit it, I was kinda stupid. Even though the weather guys were calling for a storm, we've had three good snows so far and we just drove through the driveway and eventually the snow melted in our unusual 50 degree weather. I like to have the loader on as long as I can and I thought I could...

While buying about $100 worth of filters for my 4310 yesterday, the dealer asked me if I had John Deere brand motor oil to use. He said that they had seen non-JD brand oil gum up the fuel shutoff - "even the synthetic oil". He seemed sincere, but good salesmen always do. If what he said is...

I'm more of a cobbler than a fabricator and I could really use some ideas on how to build something. I have hundreds of small maple saplings growing in different places that are from a half-inch to maybe one-plus inches in diameter, and I want to pull them up. I could brush hog them, but I...

I have a 20 year old home-built towable wood splitter with a 5hp B&S engine that I am going to sell, and I don't really know how much to ask for it. I see new ones in the Northern catalog for around $1000, so I'll definitely have to go way under that. It still works great, but I am not burning...

A 19 year old was killed at a local golf course last summer when the mower he was operating rolled over and trapped him under the ROPS. If he'd been wearing a seat belt, he might have walked away, but apparently the mower had no seat belt. It was not included by the manufacturer. The local...

I'm building a small building (21' x 22') for tractor storage and I am going to build two sliding doors, a five footer and a nine footer. I know about the faults of rolling doors, but my mind is made up and I don't want to be confused with facts. Can anyone offer advice on a roller and...

I wanted something to help raise some 14 foot 6x6 posts for my little tractor barn project, so I welded this 10 foot A-frame bucket boom together. It's not real pretty and I don't expect to lift anything too heavy with it, but it did do the job. Tom

Most bucket hooks I've seen have them near the front edge of the bucket, usually with some kind of reinforcing underneath. On my JD bucket, the mounting bracket is pretty substantial (3/8") so I think I'll put the hooks there. Does anyone see any problem with having them set back like that...

I got this birthday card yesterday from my wife. She knows me well. But I don't recognize the little tractor. Does anyone? Tom

Does anyone know how I can fix a sticking joystick on my 4310 with 230 hours on it? It just started doing this a few weeks ago. I can free it up by working it back and forth a bunch of times, but the next time I use the tractor it sticks again, in both left-right and forward-backward motion...

Has anyone ever seen a wild turkey take a dust bath? I hadn't until today. There was a mama turkey and four chicks rolling around in my garden and I snapped a couple of pictures. It was pretty comical. In this shot you can see one of the chicks to the left of the feathery dust cloud. Yes...

Two years after we moved in, I finally am getting around to building a deck in back of the house. Alas, I didn't get to use the tractor to dig the pier holes - I don't own a 3 pt auger. The rental guys wanted about $200 for an auger-equipped Bobcat, so I dug them by hand, 12 inch diameter and...

The other post on subsoilers got me thinking. How do I know if I need to use one? I have a new place that I started a garden in last year, and all I did is work the ground with a walk-behind tiller. It was slow work, and the tiller definitely had a tough time getting very deep. Would it...

When I'm on my 4310 with e-hydro and accidentally put my big fat right foot on the forward and reverse pedals at the same time, the tractor refuses to move and won't reset itself no matter how long I wait. In order to get moving again, I have to shut off the key, wait a second or two and turn...

Has anyone ever built his own tractor cab? It's getting mighty cold out there in the tractor seat, but I don't really have a thousand dollars or more to buy a tractor cab. I'm thinking about welding up a frame out of small square tubing and having a local canvas shop make a cover for it, or...

I bought my 4310 last summer specifically for some serious snowblowing. It replaced an older Kubota L185DT that couldn't cut the mustard with a 5 foot rear snowblower. I was hoping the 4310 would do the job when the snow really started coming down, and the answer is in: It Does! I am very...

I have a JD 4310 and I know that the owner's manual and John Deere's lawyers say that I need to lock the brake before getting off the tractor. But if I'm on fairly level ground, or even a gentle slope, I've noticed that when I have my foot off the HST pedal the tractor won't roll. A few times...

Been shopping for a ten series tractor and my dealer has a used 4310 with under 200 hours on it that he says was used at the factory as a tow and gofer vehicle. His price is about $3000 less than a new 4310, with no warranty. Has anyone ever heard of these factory used JDs? Is it standard...