life with a B2650

[terryknight]

Just picked up a B2650 today. Open station, FEL, SSQA, 60" bucket, Turf tires, One rear remote, quick hitch. Bought it from Burke Equipment in DE for 18600. I thought this was a pretty good deal. I was looking to replace John Deere 750 2wd, gear, no loader, no power steering, without go larger in size, I was also looking for a bit more HP.

This will be a thread for everyone to see what life with a small compact is like, or at least mine. I will post what I do with it and when I do them, both for the knowledge of the forum and it may help me remember when/how I did things.

Picked it up today around noon with .5 hrs, brought it out to the farm to pick up the rake, dad asked me rake the lane did that, then brought it home. tomorrow rake my driveway swap to the rear mount mower and then take the JD back to town. We're upto 1.3 hours now.

Need to do a couple things add hooks and 2" receiver to the bucket, receiver will require a bit of fabrication. I would like to widen the front track, don't know if I can flip the front wheels to do that or not. I will find out. The remote is kinda ugly looking, but I haven't found a way to make it better looking/protected. However it does give e nice place to lean against.

Pics to come tomorrow when it's not dark.

 

[mpham]

Nice! We love pics! I think you will find it a good combination to do lots of projects. I use mine for more and more every day.

 

[terryknight]

rake which was the first thing to do



remote valve looks funny sticking out there

 

[terryknight]

old next to the new. JD is a little shorter, both in height and length, and maybe an inch or two wider. the three point hitch arms on the JD are longer. and there is more room back there.





in it's new home in the garage

 

[terryknight]

hooked up the woods RM59. it is tight in the back

to hook up the check chains i need to get the lower pin out you need to remove the upper pin.



had to remove the shield from the PTO so the check chains wouldn't hit it. two 13mm bolts and it slid out.



the check chains are interfering with the stabilizers. going to cut the grass for the last time then modify the where the chain mounts to mower deck. the mower is what will spend the most time on the back so it needs to work properly

 

[Paystar]

That is the same rear remote my dealer put on my B2620......but I don't understand why they used it on your B2650? I thought the 50 series had two slots in the rear fender for two remote valves?

 

[Paystar]

Nice tractor though. I love the B series.

 

[terryknight]

Picked up my new B2650 at end of August with a mid-mount mower deck. Still don't have the FEL mounted, but hope the dealer will get it all together by mid November. I primarily used it for mowing the acreage. It mows really well. I haven't removed the deck yet for the winter, which has always been my norm for the last 30 years with my old Boomer. It will take a little while to make it mine. I have removed the tiny tool box and replaced it with a 50cal. Ammo box. the factory box would hold a pair of gloves, and a few small little items, not near enough space for the minimal amount of things one should carry out onto the property.

yeah everything is tight back there... the box works for me for now. this property is only 5 acres so the house isn't far away. but the box isn'yt big and the slow vehicle sign is in the way. that is the next thing to go.

That is the same rear remote my dealer put on my B2620......but I don't understand why they used it on your B2650? I thought the 50 series had two slots in the rear fender for two remote valves?

nope. i knew it was going to be like this still i was holding out hop it would be a little better designed.


once works slows down in early Dec the tractor will go to the shop to work on the bucket and mower. then i'm going to take the mower all apart and clean it, wirebursh/sandblast it, then paint and back together again

 

[Maine Hills]

Why the mower check chains on the B2650? My understanding is they are usually used to set the height of the front of the mower. The B2650 has position control for the 3 Pt lift, and a stop to control how far down the lift will go.

Set the front mower height as desired. Then loosen the stop at the bottom of the slot for the lift control lever. Move the stop up against the lift control lever. Now when you lower the mower the lift arms and front of the mower will return to the same height every time.

 

[terryknight]

Why the mower check chains on the B2650? My understanding is they are usually used to set the height of the front of the mower. The B2650 has position control for the 3 Pt lift, and a stop to control how far down the lift will go.

Set the front mower height as desired. Then loosen the stop at the bottom of the slot for the lift control lever. Move the stop up against the lift control lever. Now when you lower the mower the lift arms and front of the mower will return to the same height every time.

that's a very good idea and i feel like and idiot for not thinking of it. thank you for pointing it out. i do it with the bush hog. never even crossed my mind to use it with the rear mount. i just have always used the chains. yes it does have position control, that was one of the benefit of this model over some of the used ones with 1/4 inching. i will try it tomorrow for the last cutting

 

[terryknight]

cut the grass yesterday. took the bucket off to make the tractor smaller. I will need to take the loader off to next year, but for the one time it was fine. hydro was nice for backing into a couple of places that i would normally skip most times cutting. The 2650 turned tighter, might be the steering geometry or the power steering, my favorite thing so far. medium range at PTO speed is a little slower than 6th gear in the JD at PTO speed. It will take me a couple more times to get use to the size and how it handles.

probably cut the leaves one more time and then to the shop to weld on the bucket and clean up the mower.

up to 3.8 hours

 

[Tractorable]

Nice B2650!

and green Yanmar!

 

[LarJea]

When I ordered my factory rear remote kit on my B2601 I noticed that the B2650 valves had the same part number and mount the same way on the right side transaxle with the levers coming up through the right fender.

 

[terryknight]

the tractor has sat in the garage for a while, but yesterday i fired it up and use the bucket to spread some gravel back onto the driveway that wound up in the grass after the last snow. then it went to the shop for a job today in baltimore. we were going up to pick up a bunch of shop and wood working equipment, workbenches, table saws, jig saws, drill presses, bandsaws, etc. so i took the finish mower off added a 200 hunk of steel and put the forks on the front then loaded it. today we got up to baltimore with 5 guys 3 trucks/3 trailers and started loading, we had one trailer loaded before the police showed up and we had to unload since somewhere along the line the left hand didn't communicate with the right hand. on the ride home our contact asked if we were still coming today, told him too late. i think they will wind up throwing away most of the stuff as opposed to giving it to some non profits. waste of time, but the tractor was a big help loading and unloading.

 

[civilian]

the tractor has sat in the garage for a while, but yesterday i fired it up and use the bucket to spread some gravel back onto the driveway that wound up in the grass after the last snow. then it went to the shop for a job today in baltimore. we were going up to pick up a bunch of shop and wood working equipment, workbenches, table saws, jig saws, drill presses, bandsaws, etc. so i took the finish mower off added a 200 hunk of steel and put the forks on the front then loaded it. today we got up to baltimore with 5 guys 3 trucks/3 trailers and started loading, we had one trailer loaded before the police showed up and we had to unload since somewhere along the line the left hand didn't communicate with the right hand. on the ride home our contact asked if we were still coming today, told him too late. i think they will wind up throwing away most of the stuff as opposed to giving it to some non profits. waste of time, but the tractor was a big help loading and unloading.

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Bummer on the wood working equipment! Any story about that? Jon

 

[terryknight]

Bummer on the wood working equipment! Any story about that? Jon

there was a high school shop class closing. the stuff hasn't been used in 20 years. one of our guys used to teach there and he had a verbal okay from someone to pick up and distribute the equipment to local non profits, someone else thinks that it should all be thrown away.

 

[AStanton]

It's kind of like the grocery stores. All the out of code stuff gets throw in the dumpsters rather than to the workers. The fear is that the workers would hide the stuff off the selves then say: "Look at what I found; it's out of code."

 

[civilian]

there was a high school shop class closing. the stuff hasn't been used in 20 years. one of our guys used to teach there and he had a verbal okay from someone to pick up and distribute the equipment to local non profits, someone else thinks that it should all be thrown away.

bummer!

 

[terryknight]

missed the little tractor today. it is still at the shop since last weeks failure. i ordered weld on bucket hooks and weld on 2" receiver so i figured i'd leave it at the shop till i was done. then put the rake on and bring it home again. well our house has settled some more, maybe it has to do with frost heave, and now we have a door that won't close. so i brought home two 20 ton jacks and a bunch of cribbing. the crawl space is opposite the driveway. all the stuff was in the bed of the truck and since the ground is so wet i didn't want to drive the truck over the ground. so i had to carry everything around by hand. wish i had the bucket of the tractor.