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Greetings, folks. I just discovered this forum via Google search, trying to find a hydraulic schematic for my Ford 1520 HST, to debug a problem I'm having. One of the very first hits was a link to this forum, and directly into a discussion on my EXACT problem! I've been around Web forums in general for years, and I could immediately sense that there were some very knowledgeable people providing good advice in that discussion. This looks like a fantastic resource, and I couldn't join fast enough.
I am a mechanical engineer, and I've been a tractor fan for many years. In the past I've owned antiques ('53 Farmall Cub followed by a '48 Ford 8N) and I've owned the '91 Ford 1520 since about 1999 or so. It performs a wide variety of chores around my 6 acres. The tractor has a FEL. For the 3-pt I've got a York rake, a Woods blade (for snow plowing), a boom crane, a 5' arena harrow, and I have access to a Landpride 6' bushhog. My wife is into horses, and hers lives at a neighbor's farm-ette within walking distance. I pitch in down there with bushhogging and maintaining the manure pile plus some snowplowing if their regular guy can't get there fast enough. I average around 60-75 hrs per year of tractor seat time.
I am a mechanical engineer, and I've been a tractor fan for many years. In the past I've owned antiques ('53 Farmall Cub followed by a '48 Ford 8N) and I've owned the '91 Ford 1520 since about 1999 or so. It performs a wide variety of chores around my 6 acres. The tractor has a FEL. For the 3-pt I've got a York rake, a Woods blade (for snow plowing), a boom crane, a 5' arena harrow, and I have access to a Landpride 6' bushhog. My wife is into horses, and hers lives at a neighbor's farm-ette within walking distance. I pitch in down there with bushhogging and maintaining the manure pile plus some snowplowing if their regular guy can't get there fast enough. I average around 60-75 hrs per year of tractor seat time.
