MY2012 5085M ordered today!

[ddivinia]

How wide is your grapple? Looks to be pretty big! Be easy to get ahold of more than you should...

Last night, our local hay Co-op received half of our 88 ton order. I unloaded 22 tons of it with the 110TLB. Picking those ton bags from the straps at the top of the semi-trailer was all the 110 could do! 'Course the loader was nearly at the top of the boom cylinder lift, too. Had to use the curl to clear the bottom off the pallets.

Unloaded the second trailer (22 tons) with the neighbor's 5425. No weight in the tires and just ~400lb wheel weights... oh, oh! One of the neighbor's started out unloading before I got there and grabbed a bag and left the load high while turning - darn near tripped the tractor onto it's nose! :shocked: Dropped the 1 ton bag onto the ground and puked fertilizer all over!

Nonetheless, they didn't want to operate the tractor anymore after that; so, I started using it. The 542 NSL loader didn't impress me a whole lot. I stalled it into relief trying to lift a bag over the fender on one of the trailers. My 110 did just as good (or better).

AKfish

I have never been impressed with buy 542 SL on my 5525....

D.

 

[ddivinia]

I really like the loader suspension system on my New Holland. I have a Stoll F8 loader on it ( self leveling) and I really like it. I am going to miss it when I sell it which I hope is this year. I'm stepping down to a 4520 as I am down sizing and the NH is just too big and heavy. The NH lives at the farm in TN. The JD is at the dealer and I hope to pick it up in a week. I am considering adding an accumulator to the 400cx. Having a shock absorber on the loader makes it that much more comfortable.

It is really nice hauling hay over pastures.

I have it on my 5525 with 542 SL.

D.

 

[Edward. S]

Here's what I have to share. My 5 Minutes of work. A little bit of the farm practically.

Toyota 8FGU15 Moving 5 Pallets / Tons of Urea. - YouTube

Sorry if this kind of hijacked your thread. :ashamed:

 

[Zebrafive]

It would be recommended to get that parking stand actually you should be forced to have it.. If not its going to stay up do they expect you to put it put it down like a bucket in the fully dumped position? That would be hard to put back on. Pain to look at look at it and think "Shi*... I have to put that back on?

I'm putting together a something something for later. I'll show it later. :drool: Here's a sneak peak. :thumbsup:

Well the first picture is, not the second one. The second one is how stupid they are not to use it. I thought I was getting free stuff..

Still waiting for the tractor all I'm getting is, "Its a big port, 6 hours of transport, truck company is stuck at the border, problems with paperwork, hopefully here tomorrow, its not here" Enough already get me some real information and stop stalling it I need that poor little tractor! :thumbdown::smiley_aafz: That thing better not be stolen in transport. Better not tell me that next. Ordering from the Germany plant is a pain.. Darn little gremlins working at that factory. Those truck drivers too!

Your first picture looks like a portable camera?
Second? Scale readout coupled to a scale and computer with price per unit info?

 

[pclausen]

Still waiting for the tractor all I'm getting is, "Its a big port, 6 hours of transport, truck company is stuck at the border, problems with paperwork, hopefully here tomorrow, its not here" Enough already get me some real information and stop stalling it!

I hear you! Just called my dealer for an update. It was supposed to ship yesterday, and Augusta, GA is only 7 hours from my dealer, so I was hoping it might show up today. Now the dealer is saying the computer shows "released" status is scheduled for the 4th. So now it looks like next week before I'll get my hands on it. This is killing me!

 

[AKfish]

I hear you! Just called my dealer for an update. It was supposed to ship yesterday, and Augusta, GA is only 7 hours from my dealer, so I was hoping it might show up today. Now the dealer is saying the computer shows "released" status is scheduled for the 4th. So now it looks like next week before I'll get my hands on it. This is killing me!

That is a bit aggravating... But, you can just step outside and walk over the hill a bit and - take out all that frustration on the shed addition!! :thumbsup:

A few hours slaving away - and you'll sleep just fine!

AKfish

 

[AKfish]

Here's what I have to share. My 5 Minutes of work. A little bit of the farm practically.

Toyota 8FGU15 Moving 5 Pallets / Tons of Urea. - YouTube

Sorry if this kind of hijacked your thread. :ashamed:

Don't think the forklift would have worked very well in the dirt, mud and tire ruts at the farm we unloaded the last tractor-trailer!

One of the neighbors has an older, Deere forklift (2WD) that's rated for 7,500lb... but it won't even lift itself - when it's stuck! :laughing:

AKfish

 

[AKfish]

I have never been impressed with buy 542 SL on my 5525....

D.

Hey Darin,

Nice to see you're still "out and about"! Well... we have all seen the differences between how some folk's "work and maintain" their equipment!

At one time, that JD 5425 was a real sweet tractor! Not so today.. it's been worked hard and put up wet!

Same tractor that I wrote about several years ago that had been rolled onto it's side while feeding big round bales during the winter.

Ain't been treated any better since then... I wouldn't give 'em $20k for it right now! Clutch is going and it needs tires all around and the loader has been beat to **** and the 3pt arms are busted! Looks like somebody backed into something and destroyed the right side lift arm, etc on the 3pt.

Just amazing what you can do to a $50K machine!

AKfish

 

[Edward. S]

Don't think the forklift would have worked very well in the dirt, mud and tire ruts at the farm we unloaded the last tractor-trailer!

One of the neighbors has an older, Deere forklift (2WD) that's rated for 7,500lb... but it won't even lift itself - when it's stuck! :laughing:

AKfish

It doesn't work well! Mine works alright in hardpacked areas. Once you spin your done. Dealer said tractors are here I'm going soon!

 

[AKfish]

It doesn't work well! Mine works alright in hardpacked areas. Once you spin your done. Dealer said tractors are here I'm going soon!

OK, Edward!! Hope to see those "Premium pics" real soon!

AKfish