First Post, First day owning a tractor, and I already need HELP! Kinda Long!

[Professor Marvel]

I've got an L4240 HST and I'm going to have to do an indepth study to determine what that pedal on the left side is for! Maybe it's a spare?

GOOD ONE!!!

 

[rScotty]

Better be careful who you talk to if you're that influenced by others, you might find someone who will talk you into a Studebaker.

When I was a young mechanic Studebakers were still common. They were a weird auto company, making a line of really high end sporty cars and also a line of economy cars. Most of what I saw come in were the pickups. They were nice pickups. Well made, heavy metal bodies and frames, easy to work on. Nothing special, just basically well made.
When the company went under, the common opinion was that their autoworkers union killed them with industries highest wages & benefits. Could be.....
rScotty

 

[metalbender]

If I could just go back in time to grab the Studebaker Avanti on a local car lot. lol

 

[THEPARTYHOUND]

When I was a young mechanic Studebakers were still common. They were a weird auto company, making a line of really high end sporty cars and also a line of economy cars. Most of what I saw come in were the pickups. They were nice pickups. Well made, heavy metal bodies and frames, easy to work on. Nothing special, just basically well made.
When the company went under, the common opinion was that their autoworkers union killed them with industries highest wages & benefits. Could be.....
rScotty

I think the unions have had a lot to do with why America can no longer manufacture even simple things like our own underwear anymore! I'm sorry, but some highschool dropout does not deserve $50/hr plus benefits to stand there all day and put the same 5 lugnuts on over and over. JMHO

 

[grm61]

When I was a young mechanic Studebakers were still common. They were a weird auto company, making a line of really high end sporty cars and also a line of economy cars. Most of what I saw come in were the pickups. They were nice pickups. Well made, heavy metal bodies and frames, easy to work on. Nothing special, just basically well made.
When the company went under, the common opinion was that their autoworkers union killed them with industries highest wages & benefits. Could be.....
rScotty

Good lookin pickups, even today grab your eye:thumbsup:


When I was a little kid neighbor has a 49 parked along side his house we used to play in.

 

[grm61]

He's home!! What a beauty!! Not his actual home, He will be residing at my property a mile down the road. More pictures to come! View attachment 592438

Very nice congrats! Check tighten your loader subframe bolts often, every ten hours or so...you can stretch the time out as things settle in and quit loosening up...Just check em for a while...big can O worms If they are run loose and not detected.


Mabey not a issue on the Branson.I dunno, the Kiotis you need to watch for a while.

 

[k0ua]

Very nice congrats! Check tighten your loader subframe bolts often, every ten hours or so...you can stretch the time out as things settle in and quit loosening up...Just check em for a while...big can O worms If they are run loose and not detected.


Mabey not a issue on the Branson.I dunno, the Kiotis you need to watch for a while.

As far as I know it is true for any brand. Don't forget the wheel bolts/nuts also. Same deal. Check lots at first, and as they age in and the paint is displaced, and the stretch has come out you can keep lengthening the time between checking them.

 

[coobie]

I think the unions have had a lot to do with why America can no longer manufacture even simple things like our own underwear anymore! I'm sorry, but some highschool dropout does not deserve $50/hr plus benefits to stand there all day and put the same 5 lugnuts on over and over. JMHO

You are clueless..Maybe you think CEO,s of a company should get paid $30 million to.Don"t forget there sweet golden parachute package when they get canned.There are quite a few college graduates with 4 year degrees with $200,000 in student loans making $40,000 a year. I know quite a few trade folks with no college degree making $60,000 grand plus with no student debt.You tell me what is the better choice.

 

[THEPARTYHOUND]

I'm not even going to dignify that incoherent rambling with a response. There's one in every crowd, and look everybody, there he is!

 

[coobie]

I'm not even going to dignify that incoherent rambling with a response. There's one in every crowd, and look everybody, there he is!

I am so hurt by your reveal..Some folks cannot handle the truth and look here he is.Laffin my old union arse off though.

 

[buickanddeere]

I'm not even going to dignify that incoherent rambling with a response. There's one in every crowd, and look everybody, there he is!

Yes let’s look at partyhound with his liberal arts degree , student debt and your only employment opportunity is a grade school history teacher in rural Alaska .

 

[THEPARTYHOUND]

Ha, you've got me pegged just about as completely opposite as could be possible. I'm a proud NRA member, veteran, backwoods born and raised Montana country boy, and craftsman in my profession. Not sure where this liberal arts degree garbage is coming from, unless it's the correctly spelled words and proper use of grammer; sorry, it's a force of habit and I take no shame in using what God gave me. Nope, I've earned my skills the old fashioned way...lots of hands on and hard work.

 

[buickanddeere]

Ha, you've got me pegged just about as completely opposite as could be possible. I'm a proud NRA member, veteran, backwoods born and raised Montana country boy, and craftsman in my profession. Not sure where this liberal arts degree garbage is coming from, unless it's the correctly spelled words and proper use of grammer; sorry, it's a force of habit and I take no shame in using what God gave me. Nope, I've earned my skills the old fashioned way...lots of hands on and hard work.

Sorry you are so bitter about unions . You wouldn’t have weekends , 40 hour weeks , benefits or vacation without unions .

 

[coobie]

Sorry you are so bitter about unions . You wouldn稚 have weekends , 40 hour weeks , benefits or vacation without unions .

^^^^THIS is so true.Love the union bashing when the economy takes a chit it,s the unions fault.Last time I checked the unions were not setting in GM,Ford,Chryslers board rooms making the BIG $$ decisions.Just to PI$$ you off more party hound I am retired UNION electric lineman with a pension,401k,health care benefits(which I pay)and social security check every month.AHHHH life is good...**** all this with a dumb ***** high school degree and 4 years of electric IBEW trade school and NO student debt..

 

[THEPARTYHOUND]

If we didn't have a bunch of union people with the mindset that they are entitled to absurdly high pay ($50/hr plus benefits may be an underexxageration in many cases) to perform drive-through food service level of skilled labor, then maybe we in the US would still manufacture most of our own goods instead of forcing US companies to outsource overseas.
I perform work that is usually performed by union workers in most areas of the US; IBEW usually. Our company provides better service, a better product, at better prices than our union counterparts just a few miles away all while paying a fair wage.

 

[TheMadOne]

Does the union argument have a single thing to do with OP's issues?

 

[coobie]

If we didn't have a bunch of union people with the mindset that they are entitled to absurdly high pay ($50/hr plus benefits may be an underexxageration in many cases) to perform drive-through food service level of skilled labor, then maybe we in the US would still manufacture most of our own goods instead of forcing US companies to outsource overseas.
I perform work that is usually performed by union workers in most areas of the US; IBEW usually. Our company provides better service, a better product, at better prices than our union counterparts just a few miles away all while paying a fair wage.

Your story/fantasy go with it you might soon believe yourself.You seem somewhat jealous of what others have.Keep that nose to the grind stone little buddy.It pays dividends in the long haul.

 

[coobie]

Does the union argument have a single thing to do with OP's issues?

I agree the dipstick party hound had to bring it up.Set it off kilter..

 

[two_bit_score]

Does the union argument have a single thing to do with OP's issues?

Maybe, but it’s time for a break. Anyway, he finally settled on a new tractor. Probably Union made.

 

[tradosaurus]

As a 30 yr experience mechanical engineer I would join a union in a heartbeat if I was in the private sector. I'm sure there are unions that abuse the system but as long as corporations look out for the bottom dollar at the mercy of the employee then unions will always have their place.

One job I was laid off I had more seniority than half of the engineers and was just as productive. The union members with overtime made more money than I did with less the heartache.

In the private sector you were forbidden, at the point of being fired, of never revealing your salary to another co-worker and that was only to suppress wages while the fat-cats in upper management were paid high salaries.

As a gov't employee everyone's salary is known by simply going to a Gov't GS pay table and knowing a person's grade pay.