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Hello all. I kind of had my heart set on a New Holland TD5050 until I saw that video that AGCO put out comparing the MF2670HD to the NH, JD, and Kubota comparable tractors. I thought the video was pretty compelling on the Massey side, but, of course, AGCO put out the video. It would be a toss...

Hello All, I am having trouble deciding which tractor to buy. Basically, a 4.75 would replace my TC-40 and become my utility/chore tractor, along with some tillage work like discing. If I got the 4.75, that would leave me with a Ford 8600 for plowing (4x14) and running the 15' batwing mower...

Hey All, Is there any reason not to get an aftermarket starter for my TC40A? It is well out of warranty. New Holland wants ~$650 for one of their starters and I can get an aftermarket one with a one year warranty for $100. Thanks, Bob

I was wondering if a TD5050 can pull a four bottom plow and power a 14' bat wing rotary mower? Or are both or either of them pushing it? Thanks, Bob

Obviously, from the thread title, I am in the market for a 75 hp New Holland (primarily because of dealer support and a good five year experience with a TC-40a) tractor. I just can't decide which one. Whichever one I get will have a FEL, be FWD, and have two rear remotes. Land base: 75 acres...

Hello all, Recently when operating the PTO I have been hearing a high pitched grinding sound -- it sounds a lot like someone running a stick very very quickly over a washboard. The sound is intermittent, of variable duration -- lasting from a tenth of a second to one second, maybe two at the...

I was wondering what your thoughts might be on a new T4020 vs a used TN-75A. Both are 4wd with loaders. The used TN-75A has 2300 hours on it. I haven't seen it yet, but the tires are supposed to be about 90% and the dealer says it is sharp. I haven't gotten a firm price from the dealer on the...

Hello all, My farm is expanding and I am pretty quickly outgrowing my TC-40A. I am starting to look at bigger tractors that will better suit my current and future needs. There is a FWD TN75 with a loader coming into the dealership that sounds like it might be a good fit, but I thought I might...

Do you think a TC40A with R4s will pull a 14" two-bottom plow (with coulters)? My concern is the R4s. Also, what do you think about this two-bottom plow? Is it a good price? 2 Bottom Moldboard Plow for Category 1 3-Point Hitch Thanks.

I have a one year old TC-40A with about 240 hours on it. When it is cold out (forty and below, especially below freezing), the hydraulics squeal like crazy when I first start the tractor and for about fifteen minutes after, even if I am using the loader to plow snow. The loader works really...

Ever since I did my 50 hour service (70 hours ago), I have noticed that the hydraulics hiss. I feel like they didn't hiss before I performed the service, but I can't be sure. The only thing I did with the hydraulics was change the hydraulic filter. The seal is good and the oil level is fine. I...

I hooked up my 6' standard duty Woods bush hog to my new TC40A for the first time today. When I engaged the PTO (at about 1300 rpm), the shear bolt broke. It was the first time that I engaged the bush hog this season, so I thought that maybe the blades had frozen up and that was why the shear...

I am planning to buy a New Holland TC40A sometime in the next couple of weeks. I am going to trade-in an Allis Chalmers 160 as part of the deal. The dealer and I have not yet talked about how much he is going to give me for the trade-in. My wife is insisting that I find out how much the Allis...

OK, so I am driving myself nuts. I need to accept that what I should get is what I need and not what I want. What I want is a TC55DA. What I need is something smaller, a TC40A. I have already posted this, but just so that it is here in this message, what I currently will use the tractor for...

A few weeks ago, I was thinking about a TC40A, and then you all got me thinking about a TC48DA or a TC55DA. I am still thinking about a TC48DA, and if we can afford it, a TC55DA. I have one question, however. I was reading all of the past posts that mention either the 48 or the 55, and I came...

I was pretty sure that I was set on a TC40A, but now I am wondering if I should pay for the extra 4.6 PTO HP and go up to a TC45A. I didn't get a quote on the TC45A, but the difference in the base price between a 40A/DA and a 45A/DA on the New Holland website's Product Counselor is $1668. For...

I was wondering what you all thought of this quote I got from my dealer on a TC40A. I like the dealer, he is just down the road, and my boss (who is a John Deere guy) at the farm I work at told me that the dealer's mechanic is "probably the best mechanic in the county." There are less expensive...

I was just poking around in the attic and two crawl spaces since I have noticed that it has gotten a little chilly on the second floor during our fall cold snaps. I discovered that all of the attic and crawl spaces have insulated floors. The main attic has blown insulation about six inches...

My wife and I are looking to get a truck to tow a simple two-horse bumper-pull trailer. We are leaning toward a new or recent model F-150.* We will be living about 40 miles west of Albany, NY and should average about 50" of snow per winter, which for me, having grown up in Syracuse, NY is not...

I used my new old tractor (Allis Chalmers 160) this weekend to mow the pastures and the first thing that I noticed is that even with the throttle wide open, the RPMs would barely get above 2000, whereas the PTO-speed is marked at 2200 and the max RPMs are at 2700 (maybe 2500). Going downhill...

I recently purchased a property that came with a bunch of equipment. One thing was a New Holland manure spreader (I don't remember the model number, but 3-4 cu yd. is the size, I think). The previous owner was supposed to have emptied the spreader before he left. It turns out that he didn't and...

The Allis Chalmers 160 that I recently purchased came with a "wide angle" bucket. It is basically a small square bucket with a lip that has two wide low sloped wings branching off of it so that the front of the bucket runs toward the back of the bucket at maybe a 30 degree angle (maybe more)...

I am going up to my new property this weekend to mow the pastures with a Woods XT172 mower. I have never hooked anything up to a pto before, let alone a rotary mower that can take my head off with thrown rocks, and quite frankly I am rather frightened of it. The pastures have only been out of...

Hi all, my wife and I are in the process of purchasing an 18-acre property outside of Albany, New York that is set-up primarily for horses. There is very little land that will not either be used as pasture for horses or dairy goats. However, we do plan on having a small(-ish) garden. I found...

\"Save as a Draft\" Option? I don't know anything about any of this stuff, so I don't know if I am asking you to build a mountain, but how complicated would it be to add a "save as a draft" option to the posting window? I was writing a response to a few responses to a question that I asked...

A cousin of mine is selling his 1996 Dodge Ram 2500 4x4 quad cab gasser for a good price because he wants to get a diesel. The truck has 86k miles, but soon after my cousin purchased it he noticed an oil leak and took it back to the dealer (he had a 3 mo warranty). They poked around (a lot) and...

I am buying a property that is coming with an Allis Chalmers 160 with R1s (I do not know if they are loaded). It seems that an air compressor would be a good thing to have on the property. Although, the only thing that I can think of using it for is to maintain tractor, truck and car tire air...

I blew a hydraulic hose yesterday. I did a search and have read all of the "replacing a hydraulic hose" threads and am confident that I can successfully replace the hose. But, since I don't know and the threads didn't tell me, I have two questions. 1) When I disconnect the hose all of the...

Any comments on an Allis Chalmers 160 (1975 [yr], 40hp gross) with FEL, R1s, canopy and 3200 hours for $2900? The current owner is a professional mechanic and has kept it well-maintained, although it is a little rough and rusty from being out in the elements for some time. The owner says there...

Hi all. I am interested in learning about soil, crops, livestock, general farming, etc. There are a ton of free extension publications available on the internet and I have already read quite a bit. However, I would like to know what people's favorite books on general agronomy and/or agriculture...

This post is about the apparently too challenging task of not being an idiot, even though in the end there was no accident. On the property that my wife and I manage, we have a much abused poorly maintained tractor whose top link pin was lost long before we took over. Rather than buy a new one...

TBN is a place for politics [It\'s a little long] As an aspiring political theorist (I am beginning a PhD program in the fall) with a strong interest in democratic theory and political participation, I followed the "Bringing Back the Draft/Iraq" thread with a great deal of interest. I would...

I have often come across discussions of projects where the instruction is to "strip off the top soil." Unless one digs down to bedrock (or a solid layer of clay), how does one determine where the top soil ends? I feel like I can go dig a hole in my field and the composition of the soil won't...

My wife and I will be moving shortly and plan on purchasing a place with some acreage that we will turn into a horse lesson/training/boarding facility. I will eventually manage a small herd of dairy goats as well. As we are doing research online, we are discovering that it is conceivable that we...

OK folks, I'd like you all to have some fun with this one so that I can get as much free knowledge as possible from the living tractor encyclopedia that is TBN. No fighting! What is it that makes a good tractor good? Or, conversely, what is it that makes a bad tractor bad? It seems that a...

I inherited a poorly maintained Ford 1600 tractor with an oil bath air cleaner that needs to be cleaned (the body itself; the oil cup is clean, since there was no oil in it!). The manual says to soak it in solvent. I have two questions. 1) what kind of solvent are they talking about? 2) The...

Does anybody know if Kioti is planning to introduce HST on models other than the CK20? And if so, what models and when? I checked the Kioti website and it didn't say anything about it. I also did a quick search of the forum here for "hydrostatic" and "hst" but didn't find anything that would...

In the next year or so, I will be purchasing a tractor to be used at a small horse stable. We have not yet purchased the property, so it's not time to get into size and implements yet, but there is one question that can be addressed now. Although, so that we have something to work on, let's say...

Hi folks, I've been reading TBN for a couple of months now and I have a problem that I hope somebody out there can help me with. I recently inherited a poorly treated Ford 1600 tractor (1978, 2015 hours) with FEL when my wife (and I) took over management of a horse stable. The tractor is owned...