So I did a thing... Agria 8900D

[mark in portugal]

Low tech idea for the steering; add a knob to the steering wheel, like some forklifts have.

That might give you a bit of extra leverage and make it more comfortable, and if it doesn't you didn't spend much on the experiment.

 

[ptsg]

Low tech idea for the steering; add a knob to the steering wheel, like some forklifts have.

That might give you a bit of extra leverage and make it more comfortable, and if it doesn't you didn't spend much on the experiment.

That definitely helped. I did it sometime ago.

Used my ball turning attachment on the lathe and turned a nice knob out of some hard wood. That indeed helped a lot.

 

[ptsg]

The little Agria had a though mission yesterday. Mowing brush as tall as the tractor using a way too big of a brush cutter but it did accomplish the mission.

Had to do 2 passes per row. Reversing with the cutter about a foot high, then go forward with the cutter all the way down.

This cutter is the one I use on the Branson. Ideally, the Agria would use a 0.8 meter cutter, instead of this 1.2 meter one. It's actually quite a difference on the HP required, since these cutters use chains instead of blades.

This took about 2.5 hours and it's amazing how little fuel these old school air cooled diesel engines use. Pretty sure it ended up using less than 1 liter an hour, even though it was running at max power 90% of the time.

Anyway, this little tractor has been doing great. Well, other than me killing the hour meter by pulling a dumb stunt and the one way clutch on the start acting up.

 

[Gregster613]

I can't believe that won't bug you enough to relocate the tach, lol.

Or re-machine the locker lever so the handle faces down.

 

[Gregster613]

Got my new tines this week. As you can see from the pictures, the old ones were just barely broken in. They were also the wrong length at 170 mm vs 205 mm for the correct ones.

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These new tines kinda arose another issue, which is the missing skate under the gearbox. I'll need to build one now because it just goes too deep and causes the entire tractor to bounce constantly.

Regardless of this minor issue, it now tills super nice. I'm much happier with it now.

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ptsg, Per the last picture, with your machining skills couldn't you fabricate some type of semi rounded plate to bolt on and protect the center portion of the casing from being drug against the ground? I'd think that would help protect it from wear?

 

[ptsg]

ptsg, Per the last picture, with your machining skills couldn't you fabricate some type of semi rounded plate to bolt on and protect the center portion of the casing from being drug against the ground? I'd think that would help protect it from wear?

I don't think I showed it but I ended up making a skid under the gearbox, that not only protects the gear box, it also lets me adjust the tilling depth. I also had previously welded some steel bars directly on the gearbox case.

These tillers with gearbox in the center tend go a lot deeper than the conventional tillers with the transmission on the side. We still have a manufacturer in the country that makes 3 pt version of these tillers for all kinds of HP and they still sell loads of them.

 

[Gregster613]

I don't think I showed it but I ended up making a skid under the gearbox, that not only protects the gear box, it also lets me adjust the tilling depth. I also had previously welded some steel bars directly on the gearbox case.

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These tillers with gearbox in the center tend go a lot deeper than the conventional tillers with the transmission on the side. We still have a manufacturer in the country that makes 3 pt version of these tillers for all kinds of HP and they still sell loads of them.

Looks good, that's exactly what I was thinking you could do to help with wear.