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O/T Just another reason I hate Deere's (and a MF sometimes)

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Levi Keech

11-07-2007 20:14:51




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I get out to the farm today and my uncle's all ready there doing chores. I'm all happy cause I can go right to what I need to do, which is seal the crib so we can pick corn. We hook up the picker (which is a JD 300) to our older MF 1155 and try to get the electric elevator to run which takes an hour to get it to go. So my dad goes out and picks a load he brings it back so we can grind it for creep feed. We grinding with the 4020, which is not something we normally do. All of a sudden, white smoke starts rolling off the engine and shooting out of bypass on the bottom. I run over to it and shut it down but not before it starts slowing down on it's own. We look it over and start it again. The heat gauge is off the mark and it has a knock. So we pull it off and put our other 1155 on it and it has a linkage problem with the transmission, but is drivable. My uncle gets ready to take off to unload, nothing happens, linkage busted! Just gets better. I wish we would rid of the 4020 and buy a Case.

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Hugh MacKay

11-08-2007 02:29:20




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 Re: O/T Just another reason I hate Deere's (and a MF sometim in reply to Levi Keech, 11-07-2007 20:14:51  
Levi: Those are old tractors, and old tractors any breed can pull stunts like this. In fact you put enough hours on and they will do it long before they are 30 years old.

My IH 1066 had to have engine done at 8 years from new, but it also had 10,000 hours on it. My Farmall 560D broke rim off sleeves, sucked sleeve down, when piston came back up two of them came through the block in 1978, and at 11,000 hours. Pistons and sleeves had been replaced at roughly 9,600 hours. This happened because I went cheap on that piston-sleeve replacement. The guy I hired to do it found a cheap kit, he was cheap, but he also wasn't very good at his work.

These tractors, any make do wear out, and if they do it prematurely, there are one of two causes, .005% of the time they are a lemon, the rest is poor maintainence.

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