GerMarsh
New member
Hello again more experienced agri people! We have had the 2016 TD5.95 about a year now and I rarely use it on the road. However, when I first bought it I had to fetch a trailer from a neigbbouring farm (only about a mile away) and we (my long suffering wife was in the "instructor's seat"!) nearly ended up in a ditch as I temporarily lost steering.
After a discussion with the supplier, he suggested I check the hydraulic oil level which was indeed at the minimum. I told him that the machine was supposed to be serviced. He reckoned that the oil was not rechecked after putting the front-end loader on it!
I still think it may have a problem though as it tends to drift to the right when travelling along a track or road. Even I soon sussed out that the system is purely hydraulic as there is no mechanical link from the steering wheel to the front wheels. There is no evidence of any oil leak anywhere on the tractor - which I thought unusual! Oh, and the faster I go, the more I have to compensate by constantly turning the steering wheel to the left.
As ever, any help would be gratefully received.
Finally, a warning to other newbies out there to be very careful with your implement! The tractor has been brilliant at our small type of farming and I was actually looking forward to tedding hay a couple of months ago. The contractor had a massive Massey with triple mower and could only just get it through the gateway as the entrance was 90 degree turn from another gate to the road. He suggested I remove some fence as the rake and baler could not get in there. As the fence already had a joint in it, I did so and "secured" the two parts on the outside of the field. Except one half was not that secure and I did not notice that the fence had jumped back into the field. Result: lots of banging noises, snapped fence and post and knackered tedder. Photo attached! (I was shaking like a leaf but no real harm done to the tractor.)
After a discussion with the supplier, he suggested I check the hydraulic oil level which was indeed at the minimum. I told him that the machine was supposed to be serviced. He reckoned that the oil was not rechecked after putting the front-end loader on it!
I still think it may have a problem though as it tends to drift to the right when travelling along a track or road. Even I soon sussed out that the system is purely hydraulic as there is no mechanical link from the steering wheel to the front wheels. There is no evidence of any oil leak anywhere on the tractor - which I thought unusual! Oh, and the faster I go, the more I have to compensate by constantly turning the steering wheel to the left.
As ever, any help would be gratefully received.
Finally, a warning to other newbies out there to be very careful with your implement! The tractor has been brilliant at our small type of farming and I was actually looking forward to tedding hay a couple of months ago. The contractor had a massive Massey with triple mower and could only just get it through the gateway as the entrance was 90 degree turn from another gate to the road. He suggested I remove some fence as the rake and baler could not get in there. As the fence already had a joint in it, I did so and "secured" the two parts on the outside of the field. Except one half was not that secure and I did not notice that the fence had jumped back into the field. Result: lots of banging noises, snapped fence and post and knackered tedder. Photo attached! (I was shaking like a leaf but no real harm done to the tractor.)
