Recent content by amschind

That's almost certainly where I' m going. I also built a hydraulic Tpost driver and folks for the Westendorf QA, and if I went this route they would get sold for a fraction of their value to me along with the TA26. Assuming that I got $2500 for the LA1251, the overall cost for a used but...

Looks aside, the engines are exactly the same, but I know that the M8200/9000 frames are about a half ton heavier. It's hard to guess at because the V3300 is common to the 6800-9000 even if other parts are different.

A few of you may have seen my efforts to get a Westendorf TA26 onto an M6800. I deeply appreciate all of that help, and am happy to report that it worked great. The loader is a beast and I use it often. I am in the market for an M9000 to pair with the M6800 for heavier tasks, and adding...

A good friend has a 90hp MF from ~2005 with a Perkins diesel, and it might be closer to what you want. It has less PTO hp than an M9000, but that's because it has a monster AC which will freeze you out even in the Texas heat. The 6800/8200/9000 are known to have marginal air conditioners for...

I did this with my M6800, and it was exceptionally easy. Removed the lowest coolant line like the manual said, ran a load of distilled water through it, and then replaced it with 50/50 Ford Coolant. The only surprise was how good the old coolant looked, but I prefer to restart from a known...

I was pondering this for a while, but I will add my thoughts. Look at the weight for the M8200/9000 vs the M6800. The engines are the same, but the rest of the tractor is not; the M8200/9000 is a heavier machine. Adding an intercooler to an M8200 should be very doable, but adding a turbo (+/-...

Messicks has parts diagrams that will not only point you in the right direction, but also save you quite a bit vs dealer pricing

The TS125A is far and away a last choice. It's a Fiat engine that nobody else ever used vs the 5.9l Cummins I6 or the Kubota V3300.... people seem to like the NH, but I bet parts are a nightmare and it has double the parts count of the other two. Ideally, I find that what I already have works...

I'm pondering which direction to go next if I find that I need more power or if replacing the dry clutch is more money or more time than I want. I even started pricing parts for replacing my dry clutch with a wet clutch, before realizing that it got my a 1/4 of the way to a whole new-to-me...

I would have no problem doing a dry nitrogen purge over the tank. N2 is cheap.

I think that's great news, and I'd be thrilled to keep using diesel additives, but most folks that I talk to think that diesel additives buy you at most a year of diesel storage. I would prefer to buy 250-500 gallons at a time when the market dictates and then use that over a period of YEARS...

I agree, thought UV exposure is a time based kill. Meaning that residence time within the loop is the decisive factor, such that for a reasonable pump flow rate, you would need a length of pipe arranged in a labyrinth. As a practical matter, how hard is it to feed baling wire through a coil of...

Bread without preservatives gets moldy in about 2 days, so my idea was to run little UV LED strips inside the breadbox hooked to a tiny 5VDC wall wart. I threw my test loaf away after about 6 months; it was hard enough to kill a man if thrown with sufficient velocity, but it didn't have a speck...

I thought that additives were mostly to try to prevent gelling or to make fuel last longer?

I had no idea. Those stupid biting flies will actually take a hunk of flesh out of you!