Hi from Texas with the smallest of JDs...

TXChinook · Jan 10, 2014

I'm glad to have found this forum. I have the smallest of John Deere's, a 2305 with QD front-end loader (which I love) and a belly mower that lives on the tractor because I failed to get the QD version (dealer did not tell me about it :-( ).

I have an immediate question about CycloneRakes and will post a separate query about them. I will say that I need to learn how to use the search engine here; I was unable to locate threads on the CR and I'm sure they exist. Perhaps someone can give me a hint on how to do proper (effective) searches...

Best regards

murphy1244 · Jan 10, 2014

:welcome:

creekbend · Jan 10, 2014

Go to the SEARCH section at the top of this page and type in your inquiry. Welcome aboard.

Bird · Jan 10, 2014

I, too, think the "Google custom search" works better than the Tractorbynet search below it.

farmgirl19 · Jan 10, 2014

:welcome: from a fellow Texan!

mguitas · Jan 10, 2014

Welcome to the forum.

RalphVa · Jan 10, 2014

Welcome. Think you maybe need to search for "landscape rakes". Just a Google search will often turn up threads here.

I went with the 4010 but looked at the 2305 at that time. Glad I didn't. Don't think the 2305's underneath cooling fan would have survived what I used the 4010 for. Like you though, I never removed the loader on the 4010. Got the QD one on the 1025 but wish that JD produced something like a 1018 or 1019, maybe a 1018S, the "S" for the split brakes in addition to the "R" stuff on the 1025. Don't need that extra hp, but would love to have my split brakes.

Ralph