Recent content by hedgerow

I have gotten close to 70 hours before on my MX6000 between regens and last August we had some 90 MPH winds go threw and took out a bunch of tress so I had a couple friends out helping clean up and put the MX6000 on a flatbed trailer for hauling brush about a half mile to a brush pile. The guy...

I have seen that kind of build up on filters on tractors that had eight or ten thousand hours on them but not on tractors with 400 on the tractor and 200 on the oil. I have way north of two thousand hours on my MX6000 and never seen that kind of build up on the filters when I change them or any...

I have to lube the range lever were it bolts to the tractor on my MX6000 at least ever other week during the spraying season or it gets hard to shift. I wash the back of the tractor off every time I load the sprayer. So that area gets wet a lot. I need to take it off this winter and drill it...

How many total hours on the tractor?

Just was in the city this am and road diesel has went from $5.60 a gallon to $6.00 since I was in the city Monday. gas is still around four dollars to four ten. I am glad I bought all my fuel for the farm in Dec last year.

OP its your money but I see no need to spend up for the L70. I have a MX6000 with north of 2500 hours on it and have had zero issues with it. It will do what you want for a lot less money. HST for loader work is nice. I have put counter weight on the back and loaded 1400 pound round bales on a...

I voted no. I have run loaders on and off since I was a kid. I have had a few with the rod type indicator and I never use them. I have had a couple of loaders with the self leveling and I always turn them off. A little seat time and your good to go. I hope your idea works out.

Welcome to the forum. Have a SIL that goes to Green Valley every winter. I have a wife that doesn't want to go any where for the winter so we stay in Nebraska for the winter. Enjoy the new new tractor. Mostly green around this farm but I still like my MX6000 and my Kubota side by side.

I have three main flatbed trailers. All bumper pull. One has two 3500 pound axles and 15 inch tires. One has two 7,000 axles and 16 inch tires and the other has three 7,000 axles with 16 inch tires. I always run metal valve stems and have run the heaviest ply Kumho truck tires I can buy and have...

Growing up in the fuel and oil business we heated the two shops we had at my folks truck stop, filling station with used oil. Back in the 60's 70's and 80's Lainair was a big dog in waste oil furnaces dripper's were the early ones then the later ones used compressed air. Before they sold out the...

I have been farming with JD tractors for close to fifty years. I have only owned one new JD tractor. Farming with mostly 20 to 40 year old tractors. Sprayer and combine much newer. The reason I have stay with mainly JD is I can get parts for a 40 plus year old JD 4440 try to get parts for a...

I have ran a bat wing mower's for thousand's of hours and always engaged and disengaged the PTO at idle and I have yet to hurt a PTO brake on any tractor. Have run several tractors over ten thousand hours and never replaced a PTO clutch or brake in one. If you idle down and disengage the...

I grew up in the retail end of the oil business. My folks had a truck stop and bulk fuel business and also had semi trucks running the road. Our flagship oil was Mobil and we did some testing with Mobil One when it came out in trucks. We also sold all major brands and some not so major. Oil...

Since you have the 240 Volts I say go old school and pickup a old buzz box off Craigslist or Facebook for a couple hundred dollars . I would buy a AC-DC one. Buy some rod and start teaching you self. That's how I did it when I was a kid. A adult class at a trade school won't be a bad thing. You...

I have two different shops and both are piped with copper. One inch, three quarter inch and half inch pipe. Use the heavy pipe and the heavy fittings on all of it. Did one almost forty years ago and one just over twenty years ago. Wasn't cheap then but I have had zero issues with it over the...