M6800

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I bought the 6800 and I think I think I am really going to like it.
 
   / M6800 #2  
I'll bet you do like it./w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif Have fun in comfort./w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

Bird
 
   / M6800 #3  
If you decide you don't, I'd sure like to hear why! /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

Mark
 
   / M6800 #4  
I certainly like mine and am sure you will too. The M6800SD is a lot of power in a small package. I haven't found the first thing that I didn't like and I sure found a lot wrong with my last tractor before this one! /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif
 
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My 16 year old boy has been mowing on it.He may even take his girl out on it he likes it so much.Washes it every day.The 3 point hook up is very easy to use.So far so good.
 
   / M6800 #6  
Wen or Saltyhorse,
Any trouble with the tires? After about 5 hours of bush hogging my fields with my M9000 the other day I was heading for the tractor shed when I noticed the smell of antifreeze- thought I had busted a radiator hose and I was watching the temperature gauge as I drove, but it did not budge. I then noticed something splashing on the side window, so I stopped and found fluid leaking from around the valve stem off a rear tire. My dealer said that I must have punctured the inner tube on the thorn of a locust tree, although I can't find any puncture site. Can the inner tube burst from normal use? He is coming out tomorrow to pick up the tractor for repair. A down side of the cast rims is that each tire/wheel weighs over 600 lbs, hence not something I can pop off and take in for repair. Any tricks to handling a 600 lbs tire?
 
   / M6800 #7  
If you have both 600 # rims and anti/freeze in the tires, you need a tire truck unless you have another tractor with a loader to pick them up and put them on a trailer.

The tires are pretty hard to puncture, but nails or thorns can certainly do that. I have tubeless tires, but for a puncture it wouldn't make much difference, the tire has to come off either way. Be sure to watch the anti-freeze unless it is the non/toxic type as it tastes very sweet and pets and animals drink it and die shortly from kidney failure (terrible stuff).

I have yet to have a flat on an Ag type tire. Had quite a few of them in the 2WD front tires on my last tractor. Just put plugs in them and kept going. That is what I would do with the tubeless tires also, but that won't work on tubes. Always possible to pinch a tube putting it on and have it fail later - the tire guy will tell you what happened if you ask him.
 
   / M6800 #8  
Saltyhorse-Sounds like you got yourself a real toy, I mean tool. Hope you will register and keep us up to date on your new tractor. Makes us guys with little tractors ponder the possiblities.
 
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No trouble with the tires yet.But I am not sure if they are inflated with the right pressure.
 

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