Hey All,
Just wanted to do a little update, and add a tid-bit of info that I think might help someone in the future.
So I'm almost 150 hours right now, I'd say 80-100 of those are in the snow. Its done a great job powering my snow push and my blower these past two winters, I'm very happy with the set up. Sure, an extra 50 hp and a huge blower would be faster, but this gets the job done and I don't go so fast I get in trouble, and I can fit in tight areas with it.
I've also been in the woods, dragged logs, raked driveways, loaded compost to spread and used my pallets to do all sorts of great things!
If I had to give this tractor a rating I'd give it a solid 10, I've really been very happy. I've had two "issues" and both were somewhat my fault, well 1 was 100% my fault! My dealer has been good, even dealing with my when I've been a little "pissy" in the heat of the moment. Sure some parts i've wanted have taken a little while to get here, but get here they do.
So my little tip, and this is shown on youtube, so I stole it.
When I was cruising between properties I put my 3 pt up and it got stuck! Well I didn't need it so "whatever" then looked online a few days later. It got stuck because the speed adjustment knob was turned to "lock"! So it wasn't stuck, it was doing what it was supposed to! All I had to do was adjust the knob back to a faster setting and I was in action.
A couple of things I need to look into:
1) My radio is out, I did put in aftermarket loud speakers, so maybe I blew the fuse, been lazy looking at that.
2) I crashed and hit my connex box, shattering a door (this was the issue that was 100% my fault lol) and in that crash I also damaged my rear work light and the roof a little. I have patched the roof, but want to replace all the lights with nice LED's for snowblowing/roadside visibility. I think I will do that some point this summer.
I will be building a shop (so excited) this spring, and will do the 150 hour service in there. I will document it, most likely on a separate thread but will link it in this as well. I have found a few of my others have helped since there are limited tutorials out there for our tractors. So I will keep doing them.