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I am so sick of this junk tractor! Now I can't disengage the clutch on it. It feels like a pilot bearing dragging but I don't hear anything from it. I push the pedal and it just doesn't stop. I'm not even at 1000 hours yet and this thing is a 2007 model. It's been nothing but problems I just...

I went out to mow yesterday with our two year old lawn tractor that has 200 hours on it and at first the forward and reverse pedals just made the transmission whine loudly for a couple seconds before it moved. Everything seemed fine after that till I was almost done. It just stopped moving and...

The design of the condenser and radiator leaves something be desired. It's designed much more like a car than a tractor from the old days, Smaller, more fins per inch and not very well shielded from debris at all. I mowed 400 acres late last summer of old dried out crp grass and tall weeds with...

I'm trying to cross the factory filters so I can go buy them all from a baldwin store tomorrow. My tractor is a 07 TD95D with the iveco engine. I am running into problems with the cross from the dealer supplied filters on it now. They probably gave me the wrong ones knowing them but anyway...

I got fed up a few years ago when diesel got to 5 bucks a gallon. It's headed there again now. More fed up when I started having problems with ULSD tearing up my trucks seals. Even more fed up when the new tractor I got had to spend it's first summer in the shop due to fuel problems. And 2 years...

I want to put a pre cleaner on my TD95D and am looking for advice on how. The air filter is in the worst place possible on this tractor. Up front and low as possible. We live in West Texas and just about any time I am using to plow, disc or plant it it's so dusty that I can barely see and go...

I dug one a couple years ago with just my farm tractor and the rear blade. I got about 8 feet deep and 50 foot across in 3 days. It's actually holding water good too in an area of dirt that wasn't supposed to hold water. Well, it's now only about 5 feet deep from sand blowing in I guess and I...

Anyone know of an effective treatment for warbles on a cow? I just noticed a few of them on the back of one of my cows and everything I read says to squeeze them out, kill them and disinfect the hole. I can't squeeze them out though.

I have a 07 model td95D and haven't yet been able to figure out the right way to use the glow plug on it. It looks like just a single one in the intake on this tractor. We've been getting a lot of snow lately and low teens for temps. It's a bear to get started on these cold mornings. I haven't...

I grow hay for the local horse market on my farm here and cut every 28 days. As soon as I get it baled I fertilize according to soil samples I take every month. This month I did the same as always but had to put out more nitrogen and a lot of potash and sulphur as well as micronutrients. I've...

A man I am baling alfalf for is interested in buying a bale band it to hopefully take all the kids out of the field that currently are picking it up and stacking it in the barn. It costs too much paying me and all of them at the same time. He also needs to store hay in one barn then move it to...

I have a new holland 116 swivel tongue mower conditioner that I got well used a couple years ago. I've rebuilt everything on it but the rollers now. It needs them real bad. My windrows are pretty ugly and every now and then it throws a chunk of rubber off one of the rollers and bangs loud enough...

I have to bale tomorrow night about 40 acres, I hope, of alfalfa. So far I've been lucky with the rain and since we're irrigated the alfalfa got really tall this time. We did get some rain in the middle of the month too. Anyway, Here in West Texas it is HOT and DRY. We do all our baling at...

I'm looking for a used round baler to expand my custom baling services a bit. I've worked on tons of geihls but that is the only brand I have experience with at all. I want another brand I think. I have never used a round baler and have very little idea of what to look for in one. Should it...

I'm wondering because I have the TD95D and I am putting in a EZ guide 500 lightbar right now and a EZ Steer 500 auto steering system next month hopefully. The problem is trimble doesn't support my tractor specifically but they do support the JX95. Does anyone know if the steering columns are the...

I have a TD95D with an ongoing problem with the AC belt. It started after my local dealer worked on it trying to figure out whythe engine wouldn't run and they had my injection pump rebuilt. Several months later it turned out to be just the fuel pump but anyway, they gave it back to me with a...

I'm about to finally. The company says it's good for B100 and that's what I am getting delivered. It's only 10 cents cheaper than dino diesel but a dime is a dime and I do go through a lot of it during the haying season! I only got 500 hours on my tractor now and the fuel system is clean as a...

I finished making my own pasture renovator a couple days ago. It's got 5 coulters on the front frame and 5 B33 mole knives on the back directly behind the coulters. The knives are mounted on 1x3 inch plow shanks and bolted with grade 5 bolts on the bottom and grade 8 on top. I thought that would...

This is our second year hosting exchange students. Last year we had a 16 year old boy from Germany and he did great here. Right from the start he did his best to fit in both at home and at school. I had to teach him a thing or two about responsibility and American ethics but he was a fast...

I may not be able to bale my giant bermuda field again due to it being too wet. I'm now having the same problem everyone up north had earlier in the year. SInce I cut and fertilized last time, 5 weeks ago, we've gotten 16 inches of rain here. The bermuda and alfalfa field are loving the wet...

Nevermind. I'm taking it up with the BBB before I go here again.

Has anyone else noticed their AC compressor brackets breaking right where the bolt goes through on their newer NH tractors? When I was going through the mess trying to get the dealer to fix my engine quitting problem the mechanic there broke the adjuster bracket when he replaced the injector...

I just cut part of my alfalfa field and noticed this when I was going to clean off my swather. The whole cutter bar is just covered with them. It looks like aphids mostly and I don't know what the rest of them are. I was wondering why there are patches out there that looked kinda thin. Could all...

My neighbor has a female boar goat that has a nasty case of Mastitis. It looks like one of the kids bit her on the nipple and the scab sealed it shut. Now it's HUGE, hard as a rock and what I can get out of it is bloody. My wife and the vet said to wrap a warm moist towel around it and try to...

Has anyone here had major problems with their vehicles or tractors since ULSD was made mandatory in your area? From what I have been reading, there are a lot of hard to diagnose problems lately on tractors especially that just were almost unheard of just a few months ago when we still mostly...

Many of you probably know what is going on with my NEW tractor and how it can't stay out of the shop. It went back again yesterday, 1 hour after they dropped it off again and not even 5 minutes of running time. Anyway, I'm looking for a new one now and need you all's help deciding what to get...

We currently have two BIG water heaters in our house. One of them is leaking and we have a remodeling project going on in the other bathroom. The room right next to the bathroom we are working on is the laundry room and we are moving that to another room in the back of the house. The laundry...

Anyone got any tips for hooking up my baler to the tractor to minimize the rocking back and forth? Lots of other questions too. This is really my first year doing this with all of my own equipment so I'm sure I got a lot to learn. My equipment is: New New Holland TD95D. Tires are are all...

I called around a couple weeks ago to get prices on renting either a track loader or bulldozer. I have a little digging to do to finish my pond. I called two places first that only do rental heavy equipment and got some prices around 500 a day for a pretty big cat dozer. Then I called a...

My dealer here stripped out the bleed screw on my fuel filter when they rebuilt the injector pump a couple weeks ago. It's back in the shop now because apparently that wasn't the problem and it still won't run very long. The service manager told me that filter assembly isn't under warranty and...

I'm curious about this mainly for the ongoing efforts to properly diagnose my tractor. My dealer says it doesn't have one but they also don't know the proper way to time my injector pump so I really have a lot of faith ya know. I keep hearing about people with smaller tractors than mine having...

What do you all think is a reasonable markup for a large international companies dealer to be charging for parts? I think 10-20% myself. That's about where most business's are. I asked the price on a filter assembly today from our dealer and he told me I think 108.00. I gave him the part...

Does anyone know which mark to line up on a TDD series tractor? Mine is a TD95D. It has a short and a long line on the pump and I'm trying to figure out which one is correct.

If any of you have ever been to a parts store and tried to cross a NH part number for a filter then you have seen my frustration. It can't be done by anyone here, including Napa for my tractor. They do have a few NH tractors listed but generally older ones if you try to look up the filter by...

As I sit here cussing my new tractor that hasn't worked right in about two months now and looking out the door of my shop I see rain coming down on my nice bermuda field which I just finished fertilizing 10 minutes ago! My broke down tractor just limped and smoked it's way across the field...

When I buy alfalfa in the feed store it's always bright green and fresh looking. This will only be my second time baling our alfalfa and it's not looking nearly as green on the top of my windrows right now as what I usually buy. On the bottom of the row it's still nice looking. It's just...

I have a 5 horse 3 phase pump in my well that's putting out about 200 gpm roughly going out the 2 inch pipe wide open. I'm holding about 50 PSI at 60-70 gpm through my one big sprinkler with a 3/8 nozzle and a 1/8 nozzle on it. Last year I was able to run 2 of these where the big one has a...

There is a family down the road from us that can't seem to keep their animals put up. They don't know the first thing about keeping horses or anything else either becasue they are keeping horses, pigs, cows, chickens, goats and last I saw a couple pit bulls in the same pen. 4 times now their...

My dealer here is getting me one and hopefully dropping it off today. It's not something I was planning on getting but a grass drill they ordered for me 3 months ago took way too long to get here and when it did show up it was a piece of trash so I sent it back. SInce it's too late to plant now...

Do any of you own small farms that are covered with insurance? I checked into it once here and all the agents were telling me my crops weren't a publicy traded crop so they are uninsurable. I grow alfalfa, bermuda and Tiffany for horse hay. It's only 25 acres but a good living when someone...

I was in my shop working this morning and my eyes started burning so I went outside to see what was going on and I saw my neighbor about 400 yards away out spraying on his tractor. He's spraying roundup a day after he went over his field with the tiller which makes no sense to me at all. Those...

A couple weeks ago I went through this mess with my new TD95D where right after I filled up with fuel my tractor wouldn't run. It started and almost got back to where I was in the field then started puffing white smoke and dying. Like it was running out of fuel. Long story short, The dealer...

I've never been inside the transmission on a New holland yet but I have rebuilt several similar to it and I've been wondering is it better to leave the PTO clutch engaged or disengaged? With it disengaged it seems to me like it's unnecessary wear on the pto clutch throw out bearing. I sure...

This may sound stupid but I have been wondering exactly how this stuff works. Usually I use 32-0-0 at 200 pounds per acre here on my bermuda field and I try to spray in the late afternoon or night time then immediately get the big water guns fired up to water it in but is it necessary? Is this...

How can this possibly happen? I keep a very clean 55 gallon steel drum in my air conditioned garage filled with the red stuff normally. I needed some on Sunday and couldn't get the red so I went and filled up my barrel at the gas station. A very busy station that has diesel shipments every day...

It wasn't the tractors fault but I'm sure not happy about what happened. I have a TD95D that I got last fall. I was out mowing hay the other night and came back to the house to fill up with fuel. I had a fresh barrel of diesel that I got that morning. I always keep the barrel full and in my...

I have always left this up to the fertilizer distributer but untill now with these high fertilizer prices, I never paid any attention to what I was paying for and I noticed they gave me different amounts each time I went there. I always told them the same recommendations though as per our soil...

Do any of you have any tips you could share that you are using to conserve fuel on the farm? We're paying close to 5 bucks a gallon right now so I'm reimplementing some of the old diesel tricks I learned in the navy for saving fuel and really trying to cut down on the number of trips around...

All of our hay is now in from our first cutting using all the new USED equipment I just got. Everything went pretty well. I found a New holland 116 mower conditioner in decent condition and my son and I fixed it up pretty well. It did blow a hose on me but only after I got out of the field...

I just went out and did all my soil sampling and I figured while I was waiting for the results to tell me how much I needed I'd call and get the current price on fertilizer. For the liquid 32-0-0 that I like to use it's now 435 a ton! I'm just trying to understand what makes it so expensive...

Do any of you have any advice for a first time user/owner of one of these machines? Like what type of pattern to run height settings and all that. I got a used new holland 116 and finally have it ready to go now. I'm itching for the 1st to get here when my bermuda is due to cut so I can use...

I'm about to plant 2 of our pastures in Native grasses for grazing I had thought but I was also thinking about baling it. My reason for native grasses is my well is bad on that half of the property and it's dryland now. The grasses in the mix are Blue Grama, Green Sprangletop, Indiangrass and...

We have 25 acres here and it's all really nice pastures. I'm from Tennessee and now in West Texas so Of course I'm doing things different. I think we have the nicest horse pasture in the county myself but recently, I gave up trying to board horses for other people and made the switch to baling...

I'm really new at doing this for other people so please forgive the stupid question. A family asked me to plow and plant haygrazer on their 15 acres and I'm not exactly sure what the going rate on this is. I was thinking 25-30 dollars an acre for plowing it then 25-30 an acre to plant. Since...

I am looking at a Hesston 4590 baler at our dealer right now and wondering what everyones opinion of them is. It looks great and is only a few years old. It was kept indoors it looks like. It has the hydraulic tensioner and quarter turn tail on it which I really like. I can't find a thing wrong...

My neighbor is retired now and has a full section of land in CRP. He has to mow it twice a year and he has asked me to give him a quote on doing it for him. I only own 25 acres here and have no idea what to say. I asked around and most people tell me between 20 and 30 dollars an acre is what...

Here's another one I can't get an answer for at the dealer. I asked them if I have to use the clutch or not for the shuttle lever and they all gave me different answers. It doesn't say in the owners manual. I did try it carefully once and it does shift without clutching but I don't want to...

I just did my second oil change on the new tractor and was wondering about the capacities listed in the owners manual. My tractor is the 4 cylinder turbo diesel with an oil filter and a oil cooler under the filter. The book says 3 gallons with a filter change. The first time I changed the...

the GT 1554 and 2554? I have only seen the gt1554 at the two local tractor supply stores here. Tractor supply said they could order one of the 2554s for me but I don't know what the difference is. According to the cubcadet website the gt1554 has more horsepower but I don't see any other...

I have a 25 acre horse farm. It's 4 separate grass pastures that are irrigated and grow like crazy for West Texas. 2 of them we cut and bale for hay. We also have about 3 acres of yard, orchard area and other manicured grass to mow. Last year I had to go buy a new farm tractor and I got a big...

I have 12 acres of Giant bermuda hayfields and 10 acres of Alfalfa here in hot and dry West Texas. I have to irrigate all the time which is no big deal and I don't mind paying for that but fertilizer prices have gotten way out of hand this year so I began looking for another company to buy from...

I'm sure most of you have noticed the steady increase in farm inputs like feed, fertilizer, seed, fuel and water even. Or the electricity to pump water. Down here our whole place is irrigated. Nothing would grow without it. I can't even afford running my big well now at over a hundred bucks a...

I have 25 acres of giant bermuda here that has been in production for 2 seasons now. This will be the third. We graze our horses on it and bale for hay. Normally I'm on a 28 day cycle with cutting, fertilizing an baling. Last year we really did great and got lucky with timing the cuttings...

I was wondering if anyone knew where to get a set of knives for building my own pasture renovator. I found some nice carbide fertilizer knives at a local place but I'm not sure if they will go deep enough being used as a renovator. It looks like they will only cut maybe 8-10 inches deep. I've...

I'm almost done making a 3 point round bale spear setup for the back of my tractor and I had one question. 1 spear or two? Is there any benefit two having 2 of them or is it just more money. So far I haven't spent a dime on this project as I made the frame all out of scrap laying around the...

I have an old krause 10 foot wide double offset disc and it's time to start replacing the discs on it. The front ones are worn 6 inches shorter than the rear. It has been taking multiple passes down the field to do anything so I need to start rebuilding it and save some gas. I found some...

Do any of you own any hard keepers? By that I mean hard to keep weight on? We have a 13 year old thoroughbred mare that is hard to keep weight on. She's the only one like this here. We also have an American warmblod, a quarterhorse, a foxtrotter/appy mix and a 20 week old colt from the...

I was just out splitting firewood from two trees we had die this year. I just cut them down a couple weeks ago. It was our two biggest trees on the farm too. Anyway, They got hit by a crop duster 3 years ago and defoliated real early and struggled ever since. This year there were hardly any...

I got a new tractor a few months ago that I want to keep looking new and protected from our terrible hail storms around here. It's a big New holland that is way too tall to fit in my garage. My garage is a large 3 car detached and I thought about raising a doorway to let it in but it's still...

About a month ago the hard drive in my dell desktop died and it really screwed us up with the business. I can't even say how ticked I was over that. I was able to recover much of the data myself but lost all my pictures and emails from the last two years. I have had this computer a little over...

We have 25 pecan trees, several different fruit trees, an alfalfa field and most years a 2 acre garden. The problem is I have never seen any bees around here. Lot's of hornets but no bees. The plants must all be getting polenated by the ind and other bugs I guess. If I wanted to put up a...

We have around 80 chickens now that are 10 months old. 40 something of them are hens and they were laying about 50-60 eggs a day untill a couple months ago. At first we thought they were just hiding them better than usual but I also noticed them all starting to moult all at the same time so...

How would you all do it? Right now there is a mess of barbed wire all over the place. It's mostly broken down, burried or grown into some trees because it hasn't been maintained in a lot of years. I know I need to clear all of that out first. Then I need to refence it all. On my farm now I use...

Would anybody know where to download or have the service manuals and any other shop literature for this model tractor? I have the owners manual but that thing is only a happy homeowner guide to make it work. I am looking for the in depth stuff that the dealership mechanic would be using if it is...

So now that I've had my tractor about 3 months and got it all broke in I'm looking around too see what kinds of neat accessories there are available for it. I got a nice tractor with cab, AC and al the bells and whistles available in a so called economy tractor. I even put an AM/FM CD radio in...

I have a 97 F-250 heavy duty 4x4 with the powerstroke engine and auto trans. It can pull down mountains almost and I keep it in the best condition possible. I regularly haul a 16,000 pound horse trailer with it and the truck isn't even working untill I get into the mountains. Now I need to...

Here on our farm I need one for mowing the pastures occasionally. Half of it is nice manicured giant bermuda and half is winter wheat that gets grazed. It's got small rows and is terraced on the wheat side. I have a New Holland TD95 D tractor so power will not be a problem for just about...

My truck is now passing 200K miles and it's about due for a new set of springs. I have already started replacing all the front end bushings one set at a time and just setting the toe myself each time I replace something. I did enough alignments in my years that I can eyeball it better than most...

Have any of you recently bought one of the little low priced chain saws and gotten really ticked off with it? I sure have. I did some research on the net yesterday on the particular model I got and was shocked to hear how so many other people were as frustrated as I am with the same model. In...

I just noticed mites on our chickens yesterday. Actually I found a dead one and it was covered so I checked a few others and so were they. I have no idea where they came from but I have to do something about it fast. This is probably why all my hens quit laying. We have about a hundred chickens...

I feel stupid even asking this but ............ The manual for my new tractor is pretty vague on the operation of the glow plug. This tractor only appears to have one in the intake and it appears to be manually operated by a push button below the steering wheel. I am used to working on a lot...

I've been trying to get some good calves to start raising on our farm for over a year now and nobody has been selling. Now winter is coming close and for some reason there are just born calves running through the auctions like crazy. My neighbor can get some week old polled herefords (registered...

I'm pretty annoyed about this. I spent the entire year keeping the field disced up and sprayed to eradicate all the weeds and I planted 5 acres worth of alfalfa seed 2 weeks ago. I know my field was completely void of anything other than a few small patches of Bermuda. I even irrigated the bare...

I have been looking at this one by Hay King: I'm wondering, with all the junk I got around here if I could get the points and standards to make one. I've looked all over the net and haven't had any luck. I don't really need openers here. I just need to break the soil open and fix the hardpan...

I was wondering what the biggest disc I could run on this tractor is. I'm currently using a 10 foot wide and even with it set at the maximum angle the tractor doesn't even breathe hard running along in 4th gear on the middle range. I saw one set up for a class 2 3 point like I have at a dealer...

My neighbors think I am weird because I can't seem to get out of it but that's only because I am catching up on so much farm work that has fallen behind thanks to our old MM that is falling apart. That poor old tractor seems to break almost every time I use it so I have been taking it easy on it...