kwright
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Having taken delivery of the new TC21D yesterday (Friday 07Jul), I spent some quality time carefully going over the tractor and attachements this morning. I also spent quite a bit of time reviewing the manuals last night. I thought my inital observations may be of interest to others, especially someone considering a new tractor.
Delivery: Arrived right on the button, dealer hit the time within five minutes.
Condition as delivered was OK but not great; i.e. was reasonbly clean, but not spotless. Delivery person was a bit hurried (it *was* 6:00pm on a Friday evening), but he did take a couple of minutes to run through a few things with me.
The machine was obviously serviced as all the grease fittings had evidence of grease seepage. I would have expected each one to have been wiped clean at time of service though (which I did this morning). Fluids were full, including fuel tank (nice touch - but probably should be expected).
Everything on the tractor, mower and loader worked as expected. Notice a slight binding or resistance from time to time when shifting from two wheel to four wheel drive and back. After moving the tractor slightly, it will shift though so I assume this is fairly normal and might even be due to the fact that it's new.
Observation on mid-mount mower: Dealer set up with cutting height of 1"! I thought this odd, as I don't know of anyone that mows at 1". I changed it to 2 1/2", which is my standard mowing height. Change of height only took about 2 minutes and this was my first time and I had to study it a bit first. Nice touch - Label on mower details specifics of height adjustments.
User Manuals: Frankly, I'm not impressed. I'd rate the tractor manual average or fair, the same with the loader documentation, the mower info was poor.
Please note, my reference point on user manuals is Dell computer. Now those folks know how to put together quality user documentation! They use color for visual ques, printed on good quality stock, detailed and organized extremely well.
In any event, the manual for the loader had clearly gotten wet at one point, as it was damaged (pages stuck together and such), but usable. The mower manual had several minor but noticable errors and isn't particularly well organized. It appears the manuals were produced by different folks as there are noticable differences in presentation between them.
I would have thought (expected?) that for a multi-thousand dollar piece of equipment, the user documentation would have been more polished and accurate.
As I haven't actually used the tractor for anything yet, I haven't drawn any conclusions in that regard.
If folks are interested, I'll post that too when I've had some "seat" time.
REAL horses weigh a ton.
Delivery: Arrived right on the button, dealer hit the time within five minutes.
Condition as delivered was OK but not great; i.e. was reasonbly clean, but not spotless. Delivery person was a bit hurried (it *was* 6:00pm on a Friday evening), but he did take a couple of minutes to run through a few things with me.
The machine was obviously serviced as all the grease fittings had evidence of grease seepage. I would have expected each one to have been wiped clean at time of service though (which I did this morning). Fluids were full, including fuel tank (nice touch - but probably should be expected).
Everything on the tractor, mower and loader worked as expected. Notice a slight binding or resistance from time to time when shifting from two wheel to four wheel drive and back. After moving the tractor slightly, it will shift though so I assume this is fairly normal and might even be due to the fact that it's new.
Observation on mid-mount mower: Dealer set up with cutting height of 1"! I thought this odd, as I don't know of anyone that mows at 1". I changed it to 2 1/2", which is my standard mowing height. Change of height only took about 2 minutes and this was my first time and I had to study it a bit first. Nice touch - Label on mower details specifics of height adjustments.
User Manuals: Frankly, I'm not impressed. I'd rate the tractor manual average or fair, the same with the loader documentation, the mower info was poor.
Please note, my reference point on user manuals is Dell computer. Now those folks know how to put together quality user documentation! They use color for visual ques, printed on good quality stock, detailed and organized extremely well.
In any event, the manual for the loader had clearly gotten wet at one point, as it was damaged (pages stuck together and such), but usable. The mower manual had several minor but noticable errors and isn't particularly well organized. It appears the manuals were produced by different folks as there are noticable differences in presentation between them.
I would have thought (expected?) that for a multi-thousand dollar piece of equipment, the user documentation would have been more polished and accurate.
As I haven't actually used the tractor for anything yet, I haven't drawn any conclusions in that regard.
If folks are interested, I'll post that too when I've had some "seat" time.
REAL horses weigh a ton.
