Between the River Hills & the River Bottom

[cliftonbros89]

Yesterday it was back to ripping.
It’s a pretty common thing for shear bolts on the shanks of the ripper to break. So I had extra bolts and the tools to quickly replace them ready to go in the cab with me.Dad chisel plowed while I ripped. It was quite a bit cooler and cloudy all day so he didn’t really have to worry about not having a/c.

The only time I stopped was to fuel up the tractor and grease the tractor and ripper again.

I ran til a little after 11 and made it along a ditch that I though would serve as a good stopping point. So I called it a day. Another full day and that job will be done.

 

[captain14]

I’m not sure if this would help but could you cut a short piece of copper pipe to act as the hub on the blower?

I hate to ask but How much does impatience cost the farm during the growing season?

 

[cliftonbros89]

I’m not sure if this would help but could you cut a short piece of copper pipe to act as the hub on the blower?

I hate to ask but How much does impatience cost the farm during the growing season?

I just ordered a new impeller to get it over with.

what do you mean?

 

[cliftonbros89]

Back at it again today.

Topped off the 8760 with fuel so I’d be good to go for the day.


Got the ground work all done by this afternoon.
Equipment is going to be at a stand still for awhile now. I’m ok with that.

Had another issue with the 8600 truck today.

Checked on the cattle this afternoon. Then took care of a few things and called it a day earlier today than I did yesterday.

 

[XJSuperman]

How deep and how fast are you going with that ripper?

 

[cliftonbros89]

How deep and how fast are you going with that ripper?

Fairly deep. I don’t have it buried. But it’s down to about the wheels on the ripper. I was running about 5-5.5 mph. Not super deep. Definitely not fast. It could’ve definitely been drier though. Sandy spots worked up well.

 

[welder57]

When running the ripper, are you using two wheel drive or all wheel drive? Are you just using all wheel drive in some wet areas?
Thanks for all the updates!!!

 

[cliftonbros89]

When running the ripper, are you using two wheel drive or all wheel drive? Are you just using all wheel drive in some wet areas?
Thanks for all the updates!!!

The 8760 is all or nothing all the time. It of corse has differential lock. But that never really gets used. If you need that you’re some place you shouldn’t be in the first place.

There was only one wet area I went around. It still had some water standing on top.

 

[rabakoe]

Out of curiosity, how many of your Deere's are synchros vs power shift? Do you have a preference?

 

[cliftonbros89]

Out of curiosity, how many of your Deere's are synchros vs power shift? Do you have a preference?

Everything except for the 8400 is synchro or quad range. The 8400 is basically power shift, although that’s not what it’s called in that. Of corse the sprayer and 9770 aren’t like the rest either.

As far as preference I guess it depends on the job. Like the grain cart the 8400 is great. I can quickly shift up or down to catch up with or match the speed of the combine to unload on the go then speed right back up again to unload the cart. The 4440 isn’t as handy for this. You have to be a little more strategic to catch up and run along the combine.

Other jobs I can say it makes me much difference. Most things I’ll stay the same speed for. Working ground, spreading fertilizer. Things like that. But I’ve honestly never ran a powershift 4020 or anything like that.

I ran an IH powershift style for some guys a few years during harvest. Shifting was fine, but again it was the grain cart scenario, it was what I would’ve wanted. The annoying thing was the shifter didn’t match up with the gear chart on the console. So you could never really tell what gear you were in to hit the right place each time. If I’m being honest I hated the cab set up as well. Big air filter sticking off the top of the cab made the visual area to watch the combine unload auger to the cart terrible. The PTO switch was in a stupid location. The levers for your hydraulic are way back to the side. The stiff, flat, hard metal steering wheel wasn’t as easy to spin with just your finger making those tight quick turns either. Maybe I’m biased, but for running a grain cart that 8400 is the cat’s *** compared to that IH I ran.

But one thing I do like a preference of is left hand reverse on a loader tractor. Being able to operate the loader with the right hand and forward/backward with the left in the 7230 is way better for things like handling bales than it is with the 3020 and 4020. The shifter for the 4020 is longer so I can usually operated the loader with the right and steer/shift quickly with the left on it. But the shorter shifter on the 3020 isn’t quite as handy for that process. But then if we talk about the 7510 on the brush hog I don’t mind the forward/reverse on the right. Typically with the brush hog I’m backing into spots quite a bit, plus going up and over things. So it works out kind of good to have that on the right as I’ll typically have my hand there to raise/lower and occasionally idle up or down for things.

 

[XJSuperman]

Wow, I figured at least one of your new generation tractors was a powershift.
From what you described above, you'd really like a new 6R with a loader. I'm not a fan myself of the direction reverser there but thats just because I don't spend much time in one, nor am I doing real work with it. The hydros and IVTs and new powershifts are completely different animals compared to the older transmissions. But they make graincart op slick for anyone.

 

[cliftonbros89]

Wow, I figured at least one of your new generation tractors was a powershift.
From what you described above, you'd really like a new 6R with a loader. I'm not a fan myself of the direction reverser there but thats just because I don't spend much time in one, nor am I doing real work with it. The hydros and IVTs and new powershifts are completely different animals compared to the older transmissions. But they make graincart op slick for anyone.

As far as I know there aren’t very many new generation powershift around this area. I don’t think my grandpa ever even had a powershift.

If I had bales gather up to load on a trailer or I’m unloading a trailer and putting bales in a shed the left hand is the way to go. So much smoother, faster operation.

I’ve heard good things about the new powershift and IVT’s but no one is usually very excited over the price on them. The operation of the 8400 is good for me. If I could find another decent 8400 without a ton of hours I’d absolutely go for it.

 

[rabakoe]

Thanks for the detailed answer! I've driven both, but I don't farm myself. Just help with field and harvest work when there aren't enough hours in the day for my uncle to get it all done. I know how difficult that work can be though, thanks for putting in the hours!

 

[cliftonbros89]

Thanks for the detailed answer! I've driven both, but I don't farm myself. Just help with field and harvest work when there aren't enough hours in the day for my uncle to get it all done. I know how difficult that work can be though, thanks for putting in the hours!

No problem. Thanks.

 

[cliftonbros89]

Not a lot going on today. Rained a good 1/2” early this morning. Took it fairly easy today. Ran some errands today. Had to make some phone calls. Sold some tools. Made some calls on some tools. I pulled the truck in the shop. I emptied out the extra parts and tools from fall. I cleaned the shop up and put things away so everything isn’t cluttered.

The 8400 is in for a few repairs. Also while dad was finishing chisel plowing a hose blew under the cab.

Right there on top of the differential. It’ll be a fun one to replace. But plenty of jobs to do before I get to that one.

Lots of things to do. August-November updates coming soon.

 

[cliftonbros89]

Let’s get caught up on a few things. I’m sure I’m going to miss some stuff. But we’ll get on with it somehow. I’ll start with a few things here and there. I may also repeat a few things I’ve previously posted. I’m just going by pictures still on my phone.

Let’s start with some quick ones.

back in August we got a new aluminum trailer. Ordered it back in February, but trailer manufacturers are so far behind it took months to get it. Did we need it? No! But my uncle was crying that we needed something they could haul just one tractor on when we wants to go to a pull or a ride. We complained that the old 16’ trailer is always being used. He also complained about having to pull a gooseneck anywhere.


Had to haul some grain for my b-i-l’s brother. Takes a little while to get a truck loaded with his smaller auger and smaller bins. He’s proud of his old H though.

Had to haul a few loads.


we finished spraying back in August so we had to get the trailer cleaned up, tanks emptied, and things put away for the year.


had to do a few things to the 2520 and get new batteries for it.


Since I’d had issues with the service truck I had to clean up the Silverado and run it for awhile. Probably good for it once anyway. It’s not drove as often as it used to be.

Wanna know something else we didn’t need? Another 2 cylinder. My dad and uncle went to a big yearly farm equipment auction. I knew I should’ve gone. Cuz I knew this would happen but I didn’t go. A guy had passed away and his family was selling his full collection of JD 30 series 2 cylinders. My uncle just had to have one. Had to be the 630 cuz grandpa used to have one years ago. Whatever. As usual he thought it was in great shape. Only to find the reason it didn’t leak any oil anywhere was because it didn’t have it. The front tires has sat flat for so long they were dry rotted and wouldn’t hold air long. The gas tank is full of rust. The carburetor is all screwed up. It has plenty of **** that needs addressed, including that the starter crapped out now too. Of corse he always has to think he’s going to do all these repairs immediately and starts ordering parts. Then gets distracted by deer season and does absolutely nothing with it. He doesn’t want to have to turn all the wrenches himself anyway. So there’s that.

We had plenty of seed delivered for fall wheat and cover crops.


We retired the old wooden bull feeder for the calves that I’m pretty sure exceeded my years by more than a few. It’d been patched on enough so we bought a new one.

For whatever reason anyplace that has feeders this size only have ones that are on wheels and don’t hold as much as this one does. Luckily, one location of one of the farm stores had this last one left in stock not on wheels that holds more. Good thing we got it. The store said if they’d have to order a new one it’d be a the new price, almost a 40% increase. Also, they had no idea when it would arrive.

Also serviced the fertilizer spreader before fall. Looked it over, torqued they lugs, greased and lubed everything up. Changed oil in the gearboxes too. It was definitely due for that.

 

[cliftonbros89]

One annoying job we had to do late this summer was for a neighbor/land lord. We farm his ground but he still has maybe around 20 or so cattle that he pastures and raises calves off of. Fences are never kept up, pastures look terrible, cattle aren’t cared for as often as they should be. His equipment is ignored most of all. He makes hay for the cattle but never has enough for winter. He’ll usually bring over no less than 3 things to the shop each year to have something welded. His hay equipment is worn out and he won’t fix things. So he patches it and hopes it at least makes it through the day.

He has a few older JD two cylinders that were his dads. None of them run, haven’t in years. He has an old red belly Ford that quit on him this summer. He let it sit where it died for months. There’s a 4030 with a loader that quit on him last year. He’s got a 4430 that still runs but needs some major work. Since nothing else was running he had to take the duals off the 4430 and cut, rake and bale the hay with it. Also had to mow his pastures with it. I think he used a bale carrier on the back to feed hay last winter. I don’t mean to sound bad, but they guy just doesn’t take care of his stuff. He works an office job up in the city and just doesn’t take care of the stuff.

Anyway, he was going to have someone work on his 4030, the transmission was screwed up. But he had to take the loader off of it before he could take it to the guy.

He couldn’t get the pins out to take the loader off so he called us. Luckily, he was at work so he wasn’t in the way.

The annoying thing about this was he called about 3 times to have us haul this tractor, all times of which we took the time and do things to make it happen then last minute he backed out.

This 4030 would only go in reverse. It would run but all round sounded terrible. He weren’t even going to try and mess with it at his place to we just towed it with a chain and the 4020 to the shop.

We tried everything we had put the torch and could absolutely not get the pins out to dismount the loader. So that meant attempting to remove the loader and mounting brackets all at once. I don’t have any pictures of that unfortunately, cuz it was a job. It took some time as well.
It’s impossible to just lift the loader brackets up. So we had to old the loader up with the 4020 loader and slowly reverse the 4030 out from its loader. But that wasn’t easy either. We had several pry bars, and 2x4’s shoved in places to bring the mounting brackets out from parts of the frame to avoid catching the sheet metal, the frame, fuel lines and more.

But we got the oily mess off of there.

He shouldn’t have to worry about rust because everything was coated in oil and doesn’t fuel. Literally just about the whole tractor. There was no way in hell I was taking that to someone to have it worked on without being washed. Taking the loader off was enough off a mess let alone splitting that thing. There was just a steady stream of diesel leaking from the filter prime pump. Oil dripping from everywhere. The radiator was absolutely full of dirt and oil, looked like it hadn’t been cleaned out in years, not just a few either. From the time we hooked to it with the chain to pull it to the time we got it loaded on the trailer it was 4 and a half hours we had in this tractor that 1. Isn’t even out and 2. we weren’t even working on.

I pushed it on the trailer with the 4020.

Dad hauled it off to have it worked on. Then we found out it’s been almost impossible to find the parts they need for it. The transmission was junk. The guy had to split it to tear it apart and couldn’t find several of the gears and other parts to rebuild it. It was Aug. 23 when we did all this. I know it isn’t back together yet. I’m not sure if they’ve found all the parts yet or not.

If anything it’s a good lesson for everyone to be a reminder to take care of your stuff! Instead of just adding a bucket of oil to it every time you use it you should actually address the issues and regularly maintain and inspect things. Otherwise it’s all just a big waste of time and money.

Yes, the whole thing did slightly aggravate me.

 

[XJSuperman]

Oooh another 2 cylinder! My excitement, your displeasure.
That aluminum trailer looks nice but who complains about using a gooseneck? They're so much more maneuverable. Now he can load up his new 630 and drive off into the sunset lol.

 

[cliftonbros89]

Another pre-fall job was replacing the auger and tube on the 10” x 51’ auger. The tube was wearing and the flighting on the auger was as well. I know I did post when we finally received the new parts. Yet again something that took months to get. It was about $3,000 cheaper to just replace the old tube and auger than buy a whole new setup. The new stuff is supposed to be thicker and heavier to last longer as well.

I don’t have many pictures of it. But we had to take all the shield stuff off of it. The support cables, the pto shaft, gearbox, jack, pto shaft holder, things like that. Then we had to undo the running gear and roll it out from underneath.

We split the old one in two and put it on the scrap pile. Then we laid out the new one and pieced it together.

We definitely had to use the loader to roll the chassis off the old and onto the new. That made the job a lot easier.
Once we got the new tube mounted onto the chassis it was time to put all the other old parts back on. Shield, gearbox, etc. It worked well with the loader and was a fairly easy job to do. It didn’t take too long to do either. I didn’t time it but probably between 4-5 hours or so. But it was ready to go and should last for a good while now.

 

[cliftonbros89]

Oooh another 2 cylinder! My excitement, your displeasure.
That aluminum trailer looks nice but who complains about using a gooseneck? They're so much more maneuverable. Now he can load up his new 630 and drive off into the sunset lol.

It seems like it’s the same situation with everyone! No one has to see it from my side.

Despite the fact we didn’t need it I will say the new aluminum trailer is really nice. It’s well made for sure. I think the price tag was as well though. But it should hold up well for just pulling a tractor around. We hauled the service truck on it and it worked great. Ramps are nice. It came with d-ring hooks you can move in the pockets of the side rails to strap things down. Toolbox on it is nice as well.

I agree with the gooseneck statement as well! But he hates having to pull anything with his truck. When he “retired” he thought he need a new pickup. He bought a brand new 3/4 ton 2013 Chevy. Said he need 3/4 for just that, pulling the gooseneck to take tractors for rides and pulls. But turns out he hates that truck. It’s too big, it’s too tall, he can’t see anything out of it. He says it’s a pain in the *** to hook the gooseneck. The bed is too tall for him to climb in. The connector for the lights is different and he always looses his special adaptor. The list goes on. Oh, and if anyone’s knows he has a gooseneck then they try to talk him into hauling their tractor as well.

I’d be ok with someone riding off into the sunset on the 630. I appreciate that old iron, you know I do. But there comes a time when you have to be serious and draw the line somewhere. The line should’ve been drawn a long time ago. They’re cool. They were made to last. They’re American history. They’re agricultural history. But I’d much rather see someone else get some use or enjoyment or something out of them rather than all of them sitting around here.

 

[cliftonbros89]

Dad cleaned the cattle lots again this summer.

No broken axle on the 4440 this year luckily.

I took care of cleaning out the barns.

4010 had some issues again.

The generator and regulator had some issues. Wasn’t charging the batteries anymore. Luckily, the generator was able to be rebuilt. That was yet another part that there was no ETA on if we had to get a new one.

4440 got a quick service. It it had some problems too.

Damn radiator that I had fixed back in the spring is leaking again. Guy who fixed it retired shortly after. I doubt he’ll fix it. But it was done for the year, besides a few days on the grain cart for beans. So that job was postponed.

For whatever reason the bleed screw for the fuel filters was super tight. It’s in a tight spot. It’s also like an aluminum screw so it easily rounded the head when trying to loosen it.

But it was no match for my handy basin wrench! I have a new bleed screw to go in it. But it hasn’t been addressed yet. It’s on the to-do list.

The Kubota got a full service before fall as well. It’s doing pretty good yet.

7230 was pulled in for an oil change and a few other things as well. I can’t recall everything. It think it got new engine oil filter, transmission/hydraulic oil and filters, fuel filters and air filters.

 

[cliftonbros89]

Had a few repairs in the fall.

Almost had a blow out on the front of the 9400. Had to put a spare on for a few days til we got a new tire on the rim.

The belt for the screen on the radiator of the 9770 had twisted backward and almost came off. A result of my uncle driving so close to the trees at the edge of the woods. A result of him planting so close to the edge of the woods.

Had to replace a few terminals and the connector on the 9500. It’s the connector for the header.

Had to get a special new little terminal removal tool to take the terminals out to replace the connector and fix a few bad terminal. Thanks John Deere….

But we still have an issue there.

Had the drill ready to go.

As usual had to replace some closing wheel springs on it.

Had the fertilizer spreader ready to go.

Had a belt just about not make it on the 9500 as well.

 

[cliftonbros89]

Poly liner inside the auger in the grain tank of the 9770 came out. That has to be fixed.

I don’t even know where to start on the 8600 truck. As mentioned, it had a lot of problems. I’ll have to go back through the repair list to tell you what had to be done. It’s currently back at the shop we took it to. More repairs and federal and states inspections.

Serviced my uncles truck. Found out the radiator had a major leak.

Got a new one from CarQuest, but it ended up being wrong. Filler neck was too tall.

Got the correct one. Lucky, it sounded like this was the only one CarQuest had in the whole country. I was in a rush and didn’t noticed right away that there was some sort of adaptor screwed in where the line for the oil cooler goes for some other type of fitting. That wasted time til I finally payed attention and realized what was going on.

Got it taken care of and back on the road again.

At least I got some “free” plugs off the new radiator. I always like holding on to this type of stuff. Not cuz I’m a hoarder. They’re just handy when you need them.

Had to start cutting and splitting wood for dad for the winter.

Never a job that I enjoy very much either.but we got a decent pile made to start with at least.

 

[cliftonbros89]

You may recall I’d had some issue with the service truck this summer. I took it to my Matco guy’s shop. They said it was major. They didn’t tear into it. But said it probably wouldn’t be worth it.

As fall approached I knew I couldn’t go without it. I needed to do something. The place that put the different engine in it a few years ago specializes in these older GM Diesel engines. Everyone acts like it’s the place to go. So I got a second opinion from that guy. Told him what was going on with it. He was he was 98% sure what the issue was and he was right.

Chipped valve in cylinder 6. He said he’s been working on these since they were new and never had that happen til after ‘08 when they started switching the fuel. He said after that he’s had about 8 truck do the exact same thing. Can’t say for sure why.

So I thought I was good to go. Except this thing has no power anymore. Runs rough. Can’t pull hardly at all. I got it through the fall but it’s time to get serious about looking for something different.

After I got it back I cleaned it up and got it ready for fall.

I rearranged things around. Added some more old storage drawers for bolts other things. Added some more tools in and spare header parts and a few select combine parts and had it ready to go.

Like I said, I got it through fall. Is I recently took a bunch of the extra stuff back out. Time to look for something different. Over 210,000 on the truck. Over 100,000 on a rebuilt motor that’s already having issues. No sense in dumping a bunch more money in it. It’s getting worn out. If winter gets very cold I think it’ll be hard on it too.

The search has begun.

 

[cliftonbros89]

A job that had to be addressed in between things this fall was the bucket cylinders on the 4020.

For whatever reason they both seemed to decide to blow at about the same time. So even though I knew it would have to sit for awhile I pulled it in the shop. I wasn’t going to let it in the barn for anyone to use and risk really screwing something up.

I only had time on a few wet days to work on it in between doing all the other activities.

I hate these things too. Mainly putting things back together. That set of packing (or whatever you want to call it) on the back piston are always so tight you can hardly get the cylinder back together without ripping them. It’s aggravating.

The Wera Chiseldrivers worked for a good advertising picture for removing those snap rings though.

I just about had one together when I managed to somehow bend the ever living **** out of the snap ring for it. I thought I had one on hand. But it turns out it was one for the 3020 loader. Looks exactly the same but it’s smaller. So I had to take everything apart and order a new one.

I finally got the snap ring and managed to get the first one done.

Luckily, to assemble the second one I had Noah there to give me an extra hand. Trying to fight those super tight new seals on those things are tough. Not to mention you need 4 hands to get the super snug new snap rings in place as well.

So eventually I got them back together and back on. No leaks and they’re good to go for awhile again.

 

[cliftonbros89]

A late summer job was finally installing a new waterer over at my uncles. We bought it back last fall but never did replace it when we replaced another one.

Loaded everything up.

Had to pour a new and larger pad for it.

Got it in and repaired the fence around it. The old was was a metal one that had been around for years. It was getting in rough shape. The heating elements weren’t holding up anymore. It was falling apart. The one like this one that we installed last year was the only waterer that didn’t freeze up last winter. That means a lot when it gets real cold. It’s a huge pain to thaw those things out.

After doing that we had to fix the fences around 2 of the other waterers. The cattle had the old fences just about pushed over.

We had to replace some rotten post at both. New boards and wire panels for extra reinforcement. They should hold up for awhile.

 

[cliftonbros89]

Back in the winter when we had a big snow with a lot of wind a large amount of snow blew on top of the roof covering dad’s camper and my b-i-l’s camper. I believe I posted this. You may recall it damaged both campers.

After that happened dad decided he wanted something better. So back in January or February he got a contract to have the shed added on to.

The construction company was so backed up they didn’t come til September.They added on 40’ to the end of the existing building. We had to add quite a bit of rock for fill along the outside edge to get things leveled up. With all cost going up this year it definitely wasn’t a cheap addition either.

It took the crew over 2 weeks to do it. Any sign of rain and they’d call it quits. One day a shower popped up out of nowhere right before noon. It literally rained a small shower for 10 minutes and that was it. They packed up their tools and left. Didn’t come back for the rest of the day.


But now dad and the b-i-l both have better cover for storage of their beloved campers. They both got different ones this summer after the damage from the winter storm. As you can see the plus to this addition is it allows space to store several of the two cylinder tractors. This way it will keep them out of the way of the main part of the shed. That’s fine by me.

 

[cliftonbros89]

Another late summer job was something I wasn’t planning on doing. There was a contracting company for the electric company coming through cutting limbs and things out of the way along the power lines. All over the place.

It’s usually not a big deal. But this crew didn’t do a great job. I’ll spare you the pictures because it’s hard to really see what’s going on.

They had to cut tree limbs along several fences where the power lines cross. The crew left limbs laying on top of the fences. Limbs laying right along the edge of uncle’s lane. But the worst part was they drove right over one of our fences and didn’t bother to do anything about it.

So that Saturday Noah and I picked up all the limbs. Cut limbs off of fences.

We also had to put the fence back up where the plowed it over too. Luckily, no cattle got out.

No this rubbed me the wrong way. Limbs on the fence was one thing. But knocking a fence completely over is another.

I contacted the electric company who gave my information to the contracting company. This was all Saturday. First thing Monday morning a guy from the contracting company called me. I’d taken photos of everything before and after and sent them to him. Told him the story. He said what happened was definitely not normal procedure. He asked what I wanted done. I told him I just wanted compensation for my time, materials and use of equipment to fix the issue. He said to send him a figure.

Now I wasn’t going to be greedy and get carried away with it. I wanted to be fair and I feel. I was more than fair. It took Noah and I almost 3 hours to clean everything up and fix the fence. I figured an hour of use on the 7230 and an hour on the Kubota. Then the fencing material. I sent it to him. Then before noon that same Monday morning he shows up to the shop with cash in hand.

Even gave me a little extra for the trouble. But he was nice and easy to work with on the whole situation. He said the same to me. Gave me his card told me if there were any other problems to call him. He mentioned he’d already gave the crew a talking to. We seemed to have a mutual understand on both sides. So it was settled well. I was aggravated but we got it take care of. Hopefully, it doesn’t happen again.

 

[cliftonbros89]

Well we’re not caught up all the way but we’re definitely catching up. I’ll have more soon. Hopefully, sooner rather than later.

Few more things from awhile back. A few things from this fall that weren’t in the field. Then we’ll be caught up to the past week or so.

Didn’t hit it just too hard this week. I haven’t had much help the past week or so. It’s been deer season. That pretty much all my dad and my uncles have been doing. I actually skipped this year. I think this year was the first year in about 18 years I haven’t gone deer hunting at all. But I’ve got plenty of meat left in the freezer.

Another reason for no deer season is that I’ve been trying to catch up on some things at my house. Had some major cleaning to do. Finally rearranging some things that haven’t been settled since I moved in over 3 years ago. I’ve got a dish washer to fix, water line leak in the basement, electrical work in the basement, drop ceiling to redo, shelved to hang and more. Had to stock up on material lately.

So still plenty to talk about, plenty more on the list to come.

Happy Thanksgiving.

 

[BORING HOP YARD]

Wow nice update, thank you for sharing.
Happy Thanksgiving.

 

[MacTexas]

Happy Thanksgiving. I love the updates.

 

[captain14]

Thanks for the update. Hope you had a great Thanksgiving.

You definitely need to spend sometime at your place to get those projects all caught up too. They don’t go away if you ignore them.

Good luck on the replacement service truck. There’s not a whole lot out there that’s not junk and over priced.

 

[cliftonbros89]

Thanks for the update. Hope you had a great Thanksgiving.

You definitely need to spend sometime at your place to get those projects all caught up too. They don’t go away if you ignore them.

Good luck on the replacement service truck. There’s not a whole lot out there that’s not junk and over priced.

That’s for sure. The projects just keep adding up all the time.

Yeah. I’m not looking forward to it. Terrible time to look for truck.

 

[XJSuperman]

Loving the addition. Not sure what to tell ya on the truck front. Its insane out there. Maybe an army surplus crate motor is an option if you find one. Watch govdeals.com
I want to know what happened to the rest of the valve. If it ran thru the motor that might explain the current conditions.

Better get used to those deere connectors, theyre in the new stuff still. Im very familiar with them lol. Most of our display harnesses for corner posts have them

 

[cliftonbros89]

Loving the addition. Not sure what to tell ya on the truck front. Its insane out there. Maybe an army surplus crate motor is an option if you find one. Watch govdeals.com
I want to know what happened to the rest of the valve. If it ran thru the motor that might explain the current conditions.

Better get used to those deere connectors, theyre in the new stuff still. Im very familiar with them lol. Most of our display harnesses for corner posts have them

Loving the addition. Not sure what to tell ya on the truck front. Its insane out there. Maybe an army surplus crate motor is an option if you find one. Watch govdeals.com
I want to know what happened to the rest of the valve. If it ran thru the motor that might explain the current conditions.

Better get used to those deere connectors, theyre in the new stuff still. Im very familiar with them lol. Most of our display harnesses for corner posts have them

That’s not a bad idea. I’ll have to keep that in mind. I’m not sure what I’m going to do yet. But I’m going to have to do something for sure.

The rest of the valve I’m not sure either. I’m not sure I want to know. But I definitely thought that’s likely part of the issue as well.

I haven’t been around much of that newer stuff. Is that really the type of connector they have? I know the 9770, 7230 and 4630 have several Deutsche connectors on them. This definitely isn’t that. I showed it to my Matco guy he was like, “what the hell is that?” That’s one of those things, why can’t everyone just stick to one thing.

 

[XJSuperman]

Yes the corner post harness for mounting a 2630 or 4640 display in a machine uses that connection specifically.

 

[cliftonbros89]

Yes the corner post harness for mounting a 2630 or 4640 display in a machine uses that connection specifically.

That’s good to know. I did find the terminal tool online somewhere. But ordered one from the dealer too. The JD tool took about 3 weeks til I had it. It does work. Just a pain in the *** that it has to be something different. Good thing I’ve got a few of them.

 

[egerton]

Regarding the service truck, could you mount the box off the truck on a trailer? This would allow any vehicle to tow the service trailer to where it is needed and would require one less motorized vehicle to deal with.

 

[cliftonbros89]

Dad suggested that as well but it’s way too handy to just have it on the truck. The down side, I think, it when we’re going from one farm to the other with equipment it’s one more trip we have to make to go get it and bring it to the farm where we’re at.

Knowing how things typically go I have my doubts that it would happen all the time. Then when something happens and you do need tools or spare parts then next thing you know you’re completely stopping everything then taking the trip yo whatever farm the trailer was last left at and possibly wasting even more time.

Then there are times when we’re all/both at different farms. Someone has a problem at one farm the trailer would likely be at the shop or somewhere else it wouldn’t be any help. Then there are occasions you stop to do something that you think should be no problem and something comes up then I don’t have what I may need there.

 

[cliftonbros89]