Driving a NEW tractor is much different than driving an OLD tractor. Back in the 70's my summer jobs were working on a tree farm spraying pine trees for beetles and helping with prescribed burns to help growth of the longleaf pine and eliminate out of control wildfires...anyway, the land owner had an old Ford Tractor, probably vintage 1950's or so. Over the years, in various situations I drove newer tractors...BUT
...Fast forward to when I bought my 32 HP John Deere! It seemed to be mostly computers and digital! But the sumbitch rode and drove like a sophisticated beast.
I blew up my radiator last summer and it took me many hours to take apart a bunch of stuff to try and find the leaks, it took me HOURS...I had to take apart a ton of unrelated stuff and I am not a very good "mechanic".
All's well that ends well I suppose and my JD gets the job done for now...but one day I'd love to have an old BEAST of a simple 1950's era tractor!
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Inor,
tractor will change your life for the better immediately!
But just because I am an amicable asshole sometimes, and my hatred for government involvement pisses me off, and I want everyone else to be pissed off with me...I will urge you to do some research on the the Diesel Engine REGEN process on your tractor. It surprised me the first time my new tractor went into REGEN Mode. Without going into detail, do your research and ask your dealer. If nothing else it will be fun to see how much your dealer knows about the EPA induced REGEN on diesel engines.
I think LS may have a Mitsubishi engine, but I grabbed a quick info sheet on the Yanmar REGEN just to get you started. Enjoy! (****ing Government Involvement )
https://www.yanmartractor.com/resour...tor-tips/regen
It came this morning!
I only played with it for about an hour today but I was surprised how quickly I got the hang of the bucket. I just filled in a few sinkholes that developed from the construction of the house and the She Shack. It definitely has the power to knock down a Yucca. (The weed of the desert.) Unfortunately it does not have quite enough weight to rip out the roots. I may try it again when I put the box grader on the back.
Speaking of the box grader, here is the box grader and hay spear in the background.
And the brush hog.
Slip -
We learned all about Regen mode when they dropped it off this morning. It has a switch to put it in "Regen mode" manually and the dealer suggested doing that about every 20 hours. I am not happy about the damn government mandating that my tractor has to run at 2600 RPMs for a freakin HALF HOUR not doing anything!!! Grrrr!
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What hell is regen mode ? Never heard of that.
What happens of you don't use the button or disconnect it?
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It's new emissions bullshit all new Diesels have this in the exhaust system if it doesn't have the automatic system you have to buy DEF Diesel Exhaust Fluid to make it work.
Stupid stupid stupid this has broke me down more in the last 6 years than any other malfunction.
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Wow that would piss me off! That's nuts force you into service...
My bloods boiling thinking about that.
I can see I'd be a candidate for an antique tractor.
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