First Post, First day owning a tractor, and I already need HELP! Kinda Long!

[Professor Marvel]

I've got an L4240 HST and I'm going to have to do an indepth study to determine what that pedal on the left side is for! Maybe it's a spare?

GOOD ONE!!!

 

[rScotty]

Better be careful who you talk to if you're that influenced by others, you might find someone who will talk you into a Studebaker.

When I was a young mechanic Studebakers were still common. They were a weird auto company, making a line of really high end sporty cars and also a line of economy cars. Most of what I saw come in were the pickups. They were nice pickups. Well made, heavy metal bodies and frames, easy to work on. Nothing special, just basically well made.
When the company went under, the common opinion was that their autoworkers union killed them with industries highest wages & benefits. Could be.....
rScotty

 

[metalbender]

If I could just go back in time to grab the Studebaker Avanti on a local car lot. lol

 

[THEPARTYHOUND]

When I was a young mechanic Studebakers were still common. They were a weird auto company, making a line of really high end sporty cars and also a line of economy cars. Most of what I saw come in were the pickups. They were nice pickups. Well made, heavy metal bodies and frames, easy to work on. Nothing special, just basically well made.
When the company went under, the common opinion was that their autoworkers union killed them with industries highest wages & benefits. Could be.....
rScotty

I think the unions have had a lot to do with why America can no longer manufacture even simple things like our own underwear anymore! I'm sorry, but some highschool dropout does not deserve $50/hr plus benefits to stand there all day and put the same 5 lugnuts on over and over. JMHO

 

[grm61]

When I was a young mechanic Studebakers were still common. They were a weird auto company, making a line of really high end sporty cars and also a line of economy cars. Most of what I saw come in were the pickups. They were nice pickups. Well made, heavy metal bodies and frames, easy to work on. Nothing special, just basically well made.
When the company went under, the common opinion was that their autoworkers union killed them with industries highest wages & benefits. Could be.....
rScotty

Good lookin pickups, even today grab your eye:thumbsup:


When I was a little kid neighbor has a 49 parked along side his house we used to play in.

 

[grm61]

He's home!! What a beauty!! Not his actual home, He will be residing at my property a mile down the road. More pictures to come! View attachment 592438

Very nice congrats! Check tighten your loader subframe bolts often, every ten hours or so...you can stretch the time out as things settle in and quit loosening up...Just check em for a while...big can O worms If they are run loose and not detected.


Mabey not a issue on the Branson.I dunno, the Kiotis you need to watch for a while.

 

[k0ua]

Very nice congrats! Check tighten your loader subframe bolts often, every ten hours or so...you can stretch the time out as things settle in and quit loosening up...Just check em for a while...big can O worms If they are run loose and not detected.


Mabey not a issue on the Branson.I dunno, the Kiotis you need to watch for a while.

As far as I know it is true for any brand. Don't forget the wheel bolts/nuts also. Same deal. Check lots at first, and as they age in and the paint is displaced, and the stretch has come out you can keep lengthening the time between checking them.

 

[coobie]

I think the unions have had a lot to do with why America can no longer manufacture even simple things like our own underwear anymore! I'm sorry, but some highschool dropout does not deserve $50/hr plus benefits to stand there all day and put the same 5 lugnuts on over and over. JMHO

You are clueless..Maybe you think CEO,s of a company should get paid $30 million to.Don"t forget there sweet golden parachute package when they get canned.There are quite a few college graduates with 4 year degrees with $200,000 in student loans making $40,000 a year. I know quite a few trade folks with no college degree making $60,000 grand plus with no student debt.You tell me what is the better choice.

 

[THEPARTYHOUND]

I'm not even going to dignify that incoherent rambling with a response. There's one in every crowd, and look everybody, there he is!

 

[coobie]

I'm not even going to dignify that incoherent rambling with a response. There's one in every crowd, and look everybody, there he is!

I am so hurt by your reveal..Some folks cannot handle the truth and look here he is.Laffin my old union arse off though.