Recommend it be a two person process. You can have one person drive and the other hold chain to tire while backing slowly.go until the chain is 3/4 around the tire. The chain is even, and you don't have to fight the weight of the chain. The chain will scratch asphalt driveways if you slide or spin tires. To prevent, they make Terra Grip. Have a great day
Thanks for the advice! I agree about scratching pavement so a gentler traction device would be something I may look into. As far as chaining up goes, I never have been able to get the chains on in such a way so as to not become slack once I get going. I've had a lot of good suggestions here.
I hope you see this before you take the machine off the trailer.... At 18:36 you can see that you are missing the cotter pin on the left hand elevation foot. The washer is sitting in the "v" between the foot mount and the blade.
You might be right on that. So they're not cotter pins in there, they are a different kind of hairpin looking thing. But you might be right that it came out at the land. While plowing, the left shoe did come out and I saw it sticking out of the snowbank. I put it aside and took the other one off since it was in float on the rubber edge as well. But I may have lost that pin that goes through the holes which that pin would go through the backside. Guess I'll have to wait for the melt, but good looking out on that. You gave me another place to look if I don't find it in the first location. Thanks for the help and for watching!
Hi Joe. Just wanted to thank you again. It's around 50 today in Ohio and almost all the snow melted. I found the lost clevis pin laying in the alley. I appreciate you calling my attention to it and I will use a better cotter pin instead of the loose hitch pin that was in it before.
You don't see many of these tractors in working order. I found one a few years ago and drove 4 hours to get it. Mine is a 1984 that is complete after a year long restoration. Front hydraulics, 3 point and rear PTO. I bought new AG tires and have pushed some really deep snow without chains or weights. My tires are at about 10 psi, I have maybe a hundred lbs. of ballast and I am 6'2' and weigh about 245. I have yet to get stuck. I built a shovel bucket for mine that is removable from that plow and it works great. I'm curious about your 3 point. That looks like a cat one quick hitch. How did you do that? I want to buy a tiller but everything cat 0 is too far gone.
Thanks for watching John! You are correct, it is a cat 1 quick hitch as shown in the Christmas presents video. That part is simple. As shown in my 3 point hitch install video, Ruegg Manufacturing here in Ohio makes a cat 1 3 point hitch for a few garden tractor models (the 318, 420, and 430 come to mind) the install would be the same as any other of their 3 point hitches except that the top link is cat 0 at the rockshsft but cat 1 (3/4] at the end. The lower arms have cat 1 pinholes too at 7/8 I think. From there, the install of the quick hitch is the same as it would be on any 3 point hitch. The reasoning behind my choice to go with cat 1 is the scarcity of cat 0 implements as you stated, and the fact that I do intend eventually to buy a subcompact or compact tractor and the cat 1 quick hitch and implements will be usable on it as well.
Thanks for the heads up! Thankfully I didn't have any wheel spin on a driveway that I can remember but it's definitely a concern. Another commenter recommended rubber chains which might be a better way to go.
Recommend it be a two person process. You can have one person drive and the other hold chain to tire while backing slowly.go until the chain is 3/4 around the tire. The chain is even, and you don't have to fight the weight of the chain. The chain will scratch asphalt driveways if you slide or spin tires. To prevent, they make Terra Grip. Have a great day
Thanks for the advice! I agree about scratching pavement so a gentler traction device would be something I may look into. As far as chaining up goes, I never have been able to get the chains on in such a way so as to not become slack once I get going. I've had a lot of good suggestions here.
I hope you see this before you take the machine off the trailer.... At 18:36 you can see that you are missing the cotter pin on the left hand elevation foot. The washer is sitting in the "v" between the foot mount and the blade.
You might be right on that.
So they're not cotter pins in there, they are a different kind of hairpin looking thing. But you might be right that it came out at the land.
While plowing, the left shoe did come out and I saw it sticking out of the snowbank. I put it aside and took the other one off since it was in float on the rubber edge as well.
But I may have lost that pin that goes through the holes which that pin would go through the backside. Guess I'll have to wait for the melt, but good looking out on that.
You gave me another place to look if I don't find it in the first location.
Thanks for the help and for watching!
Hi Joe. Just wanted to thank you again. It's around 50 today in Ohio and almost all the snow melted. I found the lost clevis pin laying in the alley. I appreciate you calling my attention to it and I will use a better cotter pin instead of the loose hitch pin that was in it before.
And also if you want to get those chains super tight let the air out of ur tires put the chains on then fill them back up
That's an idea that I haven't heard before but it makes sense. Appreciate it.
Thanks for watching!
Go to the John Deere Terra grip rubber chains for asphalt and concrete drive ways. The metal chains will tear them up.
I appreciate it! Thanks for watching
You don't see many of these tractors in working order. I found one a few years ago and drove 4 hours to get it. Mine is a 1984 that is complete after a year long restoration. Front hydraulics, 3 point and rear PTO. I bought new AG tires and have pushed some really deep snow without chains or weights. My tires are at about 10 psi, I have maybe a hundred lbs. of ballast and I am 6'2' and weigh about 245. I have yet to get stuck. I built a shovel bucket for mine that is removable from that plow and it works great. I'm curious about your 3 point. That looks like a cat one quick hitch. How did you do that? I want to buy a tiller but everything cat 0 is too far gone.
Thanks for watching John!
You are correct, it is a cat 1 quick hitch as shown in the Christmas presents video. That part is simple. As shown in my 3 point hitch install video, Ruegg Manufacturing here in Ohio makes a cat 1 3 point hitch for a few garden tractor models (the 318, 420, and 430 come to mind) the install would be the same as any other of their 3 point hitches except that the top link is cat 0 at the rockshsft but cat 1 (3/4] at the end. The lower arms have cat 1 pinholes too at 7/8 I think.
From there, the install of the quick hitch is the same as it would be on any 3 point hitch.
The reasoning behind my choice to go with cat 1 is the scarcity of cat 0 implements as you stated, and the fact that I do intend eventually to buy a subcompact or compact tractor and the cat 1 quick hitch and implements will be usable on it as well.
Be very careful on concrete with those chains I just bought the same ones and they did a number on the driveways I plowed
Thanks for the heads up!
Thankfully I didn't have any wheel spin on a driveway that I can remember but it's definitely a concern.
Another commenter recommended rubber chains which might be a better way to go.