Tips on loading dead tractor

[sandman2234]

Work the winch cable under the bucket, then attach to the tractor, tie the loader lever back as if to raise the loader, as the cable tightens to pull the tractor, it will also raise the bucket enough to load.

That has been my way of doing it for years!
David from jax

 

[zzvyb6]

Before you go that far, rethink the no-start situation. No crank?, fuel solenoid clicks?, bypass the starter solenoid and see it it turns over. Might even start with the key on. That suggests battery cables, weak ground, neutral safety switch, main key switch, seat switch, or worn solenoid contacts. If its a hydro drive, maybe pedals are not in sync for starting. Mine did that: no crank. Turns out the contacts in the solenoid eventually wear out. Don't need a new starter or even solenoid. Just the contacts (eBay). easy to replace.

 

[wolc123]

Im in the same situation with my Farmall Cub. It quit on me, with a yet undiagnosed “no spark”issue, while I was plowing snow in February. Fortunately, the front snowplow was raised at the time, and I just pushed it into the barn with my John Deere loader tractor.

That was the second of my “non green” antique tractors to go down last year. I sold off the dead Ford a few weeks ago. I got one last ride on it, when the buddy I sold it to towed it over to his place 4 miles away, with his pickup.

I just don’t have the time to keep off-color antique gas tractors running but owning then has sure given me a lot more appreciation of John Deere tractors and diesel engines.

Back when it ran, the Ford 8n was great on a 2 bottom plow and in my two row corn planter. The Farnall Cub may be the funnest tractor that I’ve ever plowed snow with, so I’m definitely going to get that one running again.

Fortunately, I know of a great Farnall mechanic, and my plan is to haul it over to his place to repair. I bought it at a “silent auction” at the factory where I work. It hadn’t run on about 20 years and had very lw hours. He changed all the fluids and and got it running good, but after (3) years of decent service for me, it’s dead again.

He loaned me a trailer with a winch, when I picked it up from the factory. That worked good, but I think I’ll just use a coyote coma-longs , to pull it into the bed of my pickup to transport this time.

I made a couple of wood ramps, that test on my bumper and I can run a chain across the front hooks in the truck bed, to attach the come-along hook to. I’ll pull it onto the truck from the drawbar, facing backward. That will make it easier to roll it off at his place, where I will back the pickup into a shallow ditch, such that gravity will assist in the unload.

Here it is on the his trailer the first time I brought it home, and facing forward on the bed of my pickup, the timw that I hauled it over to my parents place, to do some disking.

 

[Rockbadchild]

is your FEL quick attach / easy on easy off ? I would figure one could remove it pretty easily even without having it running?

 

[5030]

My very first tractor was an IH Farmall A with a Woods belly mower. Nice little and somewhat under powered unit that was always finicky to start. Sold it to a farmer down the road who totally restored it and now it's a 'parade' tractor. I have fond and not so fond memories of it.

 

[DarkBlack]

Don't try this at home.

Bruce

Pretty good. It’s not as dangerous or “crazy” as it looks. There’s a driver in the car steering and to hit the brakes. Not much more dangerous than driving the car up onto the trailer, other than he has to put more effort into steering and braking because he won’t have power assist. Got to hope the strap doesn’t get snagged

 

[dusty3030]

All the safety switches are controlled by a module on right side behind seat behind a panel. They had some bad modules in that time frame. You will chase switches and relays until you go crazy trying to identify it.
The module will tell the ecm whether or not to allow a start. The ecm allows the start by completing path to ground of the start relay. You can bypass the whole safety system with a jumper wire to ground on the start relay.

 

[dusty3030]

Previous thread that might help.

NX4510 starter not turning over

What are you drinking tonight….??😉

www.tractorbynet.com

 

[JC2398]

Thanks everyone for the responses. Lots of good ideas and stories out there.

I’m going to contact the dealer next week and see what their schedule is like; will continue to try to troubleshoot in the meantime.

I do think the root cause is related to some of the safety sensors, mainly because of the error code (007 & 008) that comes up. I’ve got another thread with more details on that.

Thanks again all

 

[RayIN]

My tractor PTO lever has a safety switch to prevent starting the engine with PTO engaged. Sometimes I have to hold the lever back to start the engine, because I've bumped it enough to engage the safety switch.
BTW, it's also a pretty good theft prevention trick.