daugen
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started a little after 6am, came in before noon, just wore out from heat. Helper still at it.
well, paybacks were made this morning. I jinxed myself by complaining about the ridiculous 13 dollar price for a bushing on
my JD mower deck, which they call an axle. Went to powerwash the mower today, along with a variety of other equipment, and
to my utter dismay saw that one of the four mower guage wheels was now totally missing in action. Wheel, bolt, stupid axle, the works.
Clearly my error in not tightening one of them enough, must have done it hand tight and got distracted, never snugged it. Big Sigh.
So...feeling quite humble I went back to JD parts this morning and was met with smiles and left with fifty bucks of parts. I even got a second "axle" so I
could mike it and see if I could match the dimensions with rod stock. While I was there, admired a nice baby TLB, built on the 1 series SCUT, 20 grand for package.
Looks similar to Massey offering though Massey looks like the equivalent of a 2 series JD, but maybe not. I asked how the backhoe worked and was told
only light duty, little ditches, putting in phone lines, etc. Makes sense.
Spoke with my old Kubota salesman, who now sells JD, about the state of other dealers. Pretty sad, Kubota dealer falling apart, he offered, allegedly, 2M for the whole place
from the owner but was told 4M. Too rich for him, and his backers. I told him I was having the same problem with lack of service/tech knowledge at the Massey dealer as I had with the Kubota, no long term seasoned techs and a Service Manager that seems to be useless. JD all of a sudden becomes the safe choice. All I want is for the dealer to be able to fix what they sell me.
On one issue I contacted Kubota directly and they got hissy with me, telling me
I had to deal with local dealer. Well...if that had worked I wouldn't be calling, would I?...
Came home to find this big orange pad right next to my mailbox, had flown off some truck.
I'm thinking electric company/cable company, expensive rubber with markings about voltage rating.
I'll drive it down to the local electric company and see if they want it. I bet that is one expensive piece of rubber
and I sure have no use for it.
PJ's comments on memory card capacity had me worried, I never checked. Got lucky, unit will handle the 128gig card I bought for it.
Tiny little thing, compare to wheel on mower which isn't that big.
somewhere out in 10 acres that missing hard rubber wheel is lurking. Oh boy is that going to be a huge bang if I hit it before finding it...
well, paybacks were made this morning. I jinxed myself by complaining about the ridiculous 13 dollar price for a bushing on
my JD mower deck, which they call an axle. Went to powerwash the mower today, along with a variety of other equipment, and
to my utter dismay saw that one of the four mower guage wheels was now totally missing in action. Wheel, bolt, stupid axle, the works.
Clearly my error in not tightening one of them enough, must have done it hand tight and got distracted, never snugged it. Big Sigh.
So...feeling quite humble I went back to JD parts this morning and was met with smiles and left with fifty bucks of parts. I even got a second "axle" so I
could mike it and see if I could match the dimensions with rod stock. While I was there, admired a nice baby TLB, built on the 1 series SCUT, 20 grand for package.
Looks similar to Massey offering though Massey looks like the equivalent of a 2 series JD, but maybe not. I asked how the backhoe worked and was told
only light duty, little ditches, putting in phone lines, etc. Makes sense.
Spoke with my old Kubota salesman, who now sells JD, about the state of other dealers. Pretty sad, Kubota dealer falling apart, he offered, allegedly, 2M for the whole place
from the owner but was told 4M. Too rich for him, and his backers. I told him I was having the same problem with lack of service/tech knowledge at the Massey dealer as I had with the Kubota, no long term seasoned techs and a Service Manager that seems to be useless. JD all of a sudden becomes the safe choice. All I want is for the dealer to be able to fix what they sell me.
On one issue I contacted Kubota directly and they got hissy with me, telling me
I had to deal with local dealer. Well...if that had worked I wouldn't be calling, would I?...
Came home to find this big orange pad right next to my mailbox, had flown off some truck.
I'm thinking electric company/cable company, expensive rubber with markings about voltage rating.
I'll drive it down to the local electric company and see if they want it. I bet that is one expensive piece of rubber
and I sure have no use for it.
PJ's comments on memory card capacity had me worried, I never checked. Got lucky, unit will handle the 128gig card I bought for it.
Tiny little thing, compare to wheel on mower which isn't that big.
somewhere out in 10 acres that missing hard rubber wheel is lurking. Oh boy is that going to be a huge bang if I hit it before finding it...
