Black bucket or JD green?

/ Black bucket or JD green? #1  

Ezlivn

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Robbinston Maine
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2001 JD 790
My 790 came with the black bucket. Why are some black and some green? Anyway I'm thinkin of paintin her JD green. Ok it's Monday and I'm bored.:laughing:
 
/ Black bucket or JD green? #2  
I kinda like the black sometimes.... makes the wholesome JD kinda "special ops"...!!

You gotta see my big nasty black snowblade on mine!!

-Jer.
 
/ Black bucket or JD green? #3  
Here it is....
 

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/ Black bucket or JD green? #5  
Can't really answer your question. My 790 has a 300 loader w/green bucket.

It's yours, paint it whatever color you like!
 
/ Black bucket or JD green? #7  
Does your loader have skid steer mounts? If so, you might have a skid steer bucket
 
/ Black bucket or JD green? #8  
I've never seen anything to indicate why some are black and some are green. Mine is black. Attached are x55 Deere ads with the same picture. The early ad (1987) shows a green bucket. The later one (1994) shows a black bucket. Clearly they just altered the picture to change green to black.
 

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/ Black bucket or JD green? #9  
Don't know what year the green paint changed tints but offering the implements in black would eliminate that issue.

We obviously need more to do.:laughing:
 
/ Black bucket or JD green? #11  
Don't know what year the green paint changed tints but offering the implements in black would eliminate that issue.

We obviously need more to do.:laughing:

Sometime around the mid nineties my dealer told me Deere was looking at changing certain implement colors so they would look nicer longer. He said in a couple days the district rep was bringing by a black mower deck and wanted me to come back then to see it. As it turned out I could not make it then but would have liked to see it. The idea with black was to show dirt less than the yellow did. At the time I guessed that was why they were doing some loader buckets in black instead of green. Some time after that they started producing green mower decks. I suppose that won out over black. Could be that was why they seemed to go back later more toward green buckets just to make it all match. Again just all speculation on my part, but somehow interesting in its own way.:)
 
/ Black bucket or JD green? #12  
The 70 loader has a green bucket, and when they started calling it the 70A loader, the bucket was more squarish and painted black. I think a lot of 790's had the 70/70A loader on them.
 
/ Black bucket or JD green? #14  
The 70 loader has a green bucket, and when they started calling it the 70A loader, the bucket was more squarish and painted black. I think a lot of 790's had the 70/70A loader on them.

The change to the black squarish bucket did about line up with the introduction of the 70A loader,but I wouldn't say that was the reason. Originally two versions of the 70 loader were sold. One to fit the 755 and one to fit the 855. Same loader, the 855 version just had a longer horizontal frame to fit the tractor. Later the 855 version was changed to instead "kink" the masts forward. They called that the 70A, while the 755 (and 770) retained the 70. Since buckets were sold separately from the loader, some 70A got black and some got green.
 

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/ Black bucket or JD green? #16  
ORANGE???!!!! :thumbsup:

I kid, I kid. :)
 
/ Black bucket or JD green? #17  
PINK!!! Sorry, just couldn't help myself! :ashamed::confused2::laughing:
 
/ Black bucket or JD green? #18  
My 1993 755 has a 70A loader with the black bucket.
 
/ Black bucket or JD green? #19  
That's a rather flat looking 'bucket'.

Ya, its a special one. Designed it myself. Had it fab'd by NASA's JPL. I wasn't supposed to show it, it's for optimum bucket performance in zero gravity.

-Jer.
 
/ Black bucket or JD green? #20  
When I bought my bucket it was black, but now it is mostly the color of steel.
 

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