John Deere 110 TLB Technical Manual

[rScotty]

Thanks @rScotty !

You're welcome. Enjoy the reading.... For anyone interested, that official JD 110TLB design and specification history is attached to message #19 in this thread.

Reading through it again today makes me wonder how a product designed so well could end up being cut out of the lineup so quickly. The 110TLB really was special. It was designed to be a real construction machine equally useful on the farm or for the small acreage homeowner.

rScotty

 

[joecdeere]

We sold a lot of them to golf courses and small towns, I think the mini-ex explosion beat them out. Our biggest selling point was the travel speed for moving between locations. It did have some design problems, but most were worked out. It's a shame it wasn't build with the regular hydro transmission instead of the E-Hydro. Ive never been a fan of that much electronics in a tractor.

 

[rScotty]

We sold a lot of them to golf courses and small towns, I think the mini-ex explosion beat them out. Our biggest selling point was the travel speed for moving between locations. It did have some design problems, but most were worked out. It's a shame it wasn't build with the regular hydro transmission instead of the E-Hydro. Ive never been a fan of that much electronics in a tractor.

Yes, I realize there were some design problems. In fact, more than I would have expected.
Maybe it was a case of too much, too new, and too electonic.
But I like to think the 110 could have been fixed if JD had stuck with it.
Kubota has sure done well on their similar size TLBs.

I look at JD 310 series. It took 20 years of refining the first 310 before they got to the model 310D - which I think is about when they finally became popular. Now they are everywhere.

 

[MountainMover299]

New 110 owner here. Thank you for the design history document, there is a lot of interesting and useful information in there!

Is anyone here able to point me to a user manual or technical handbook?
Thanks!