Posted by Don-Wi on October 26, 2011 at 19:07:48 from (75.207.188.68):
Dad was gonna start hauling manure today and didn't even get one load out. He was in the field but not running yet, and he went through a trench I dug with the loader back in the spring to drain a hole.
The drawbar on the 285 just plain snapped off. No warning, no fatigue marks, just snapped off at a hole before the drop.
He wasted the rest of the day tracking down a new (used) one, only to discover that our loacal dealer had about 30 on a skid that they scrapped out not too long ago. He went to the bone yard and got one with a 2" drop (ours was a 4" drop) out of a 1085. They took it off the tractor while it was there, and it had MF written on it in paint marker so it was purchased from a junk yard before. Makes it the 3rd tractor this drawbar is going on...
Just glad the drawbar didn't decide to snap on the road while hauling loads of corn silage...
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