</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Soundguy with all respect on the smaller New Holland's all one has to do is open the hood and the battery is right up front staring them in the face. It couldn't get any easier to service.
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Not all the smaller Nh are/were like that. On my ex-NH 1920.. when you opened the hood, the battery was at the base of the radiator.. you had to reach in and then all the way down to get the battery out.. lift it straight up, and try not to ding the radiator with it.. only about an inch of room to move around with...Absolutely nothing easy about that that i ever experienced... Besides the fact that having a battery anywhere in front of the radiator would seem to block flow.. also.. having a battery in front of radiator might let acid get on the very thin aluminum...
As I stated.. i like the swing out battery frame that some of the larger tractors used. Pop the hood, pull a pin, and the battery swings out 90' perpendicular to the tractor.. easy to wash it down, do cables.. and you don't have to lift that battery off with the fear that if you drop it, that it will break something expensive on the engine or radiator.. etc.
Soundguy
