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Tractor Time With Chiefforlife -

Alright, I stole it from Tim.

I just bought a new John Deere 1025R with the Back Hoe, Snow Plow, Forks and Brush Hog. Comes with the Bucket too.

This may be the coolest thing Ive ever owned. Been playing with it the last couple of days, watching TTWT is awesome and I know a bunch of you guys are Tractor experts!

Thought we could share some Tractor stories, tips and attachments?

I'd like to borrow that tractor for a couple weeks if you don't mind.

Tractors are cool.

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That sounds sweet. Wish I was better at operating a backhoe.
I had my neighbors mini-backhoe at my house for a week as he was letting me use it for a field stone retaining wall. I was so slow it was re-runned.
But at least I know the basics now.

I bought a 1025R in December 2018. Got a Mower Deck, Snow Plow, and a Tiller. I did purchase a spreader the following fall for putting down ice melt on my lane in the winter time. I also had a Mauser Cab with heater installed for the snow plowing during cooler temperatures. Cab can be a little warm in the summer, but the front and rear windows easily lift up to make things more comfortable. If you have a cab or decide to add one do not lift the loader and bucket to high with the window open. I found that out the hard way. I do not regret the purchase at all as it has been a huge help in maintaining my property. Congratulations on the purchase!

I think your tractors sexy

I really LUVZ dem HOES!!

Is that Buehler?

It comes with a black hoe? That sounds pretty racist to me.

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I have an older case tractor with a loader and finishing mower, it does pretty good

Had a bunch of Flagstone, retaining wall bricks and other bricks on pallets in the back. Of course it was right where I wanted to build a shed.
The fork lift made it so damn easy I am going to start putting everything on pallets!!

Then i figured I would level the ground where the shed is going. Put the bucket back on and proceeded to make the ground much worse!

Thats a lot harder than it looks? Ha!

Started to get the hang of it though and had so much fun, you really feel like you are a bad ass with this thing. Then it started pouring rain of course so later today Ill see what other damage I can do.

Great tip on the Cab glass! I could easily see myself doing that. LOL

I want to get more accessories/ attachments!! What are some good ones?

The ground leveling thing can be tricky, it's easiest to tilt the bucket and do it in reverse from what I've found

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100% Yes!

I did eventually figure this out. I should have spent more time on you tube. LOL

Buckets are for moving dirt a blade is for smoothing and leveling. Well in the construction road building world anyway.

I want one of those..Just have no use for one.

Jealous

My 1976 Kubota L260 w/ FEL

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It was being used here to roll out the fencing we ran to contain my goats. I have a 6ft blade attachment as well. Need to get a 7ft mowing deck for it.

I bought an LS MT125 with loader bucket and backhoe for tree clearing and cutting a driveway down/across a steep slope. That thing is a beast and will push over and dig out big trees easily. After the driveway is done, I’ll be using it to excavate a basement and foundation.

Handsome!

Got any pictures? I LOVE SEEING LIVE ACTION!

So, I ordered the edge tamers for the bucket. Seems like those could help prevent damage to the ground, Parking lot and the bucket itself.

Also ordered the LH step and some bolt on tie downs.

Ordered the bolt on hooks for the bucket, a seat cover, they get like 600 for a new seat!

Ordered the wife a Pink John Deere hat because she thinks my tractors sexy!

Don’t have any live action pics at the moment, but here is the tractor parked next to my kids’ JD.

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Welcome to the world of Deere. Your experience is entirely different than mine, but fire away.

I don’t know if it is available on one that size but they make self leveling pallet forks so you don’t get cock-eyed and tear shit up.

I don’t think I can bring myself to operate one without a cab. I’ve been trying to find one in the 35 HP range for moving snow and mowing but I can’t justify the cost.

My advice to you is read the maintenance portion of the manual and do it. It will save you headache and try to store it out of the sun if possible. It will hold its value better.

Oh and be sure to put dyed diesel in. Don’t be paying any road tax.

Box scraper is where it’s at for leveling.

Wow, they could use that picture in an ad. Beautiful!

Yeah, I think i read about a self leveling option which sounds great!

Goodworks tractor has a great video on a snow pusher. Wish I had seen that before I bought the Snow plow. Damn

Ive already spent a few hours reading the manuals (very good advice).

Any favorite flavors of Grease, oil, filters? Was just gonna get the Deere stuff out of an abundance of caution?

Building a shed for the tractor right now, its just to pretty to leave out in the elements.

Not sure where to buy the Ag diesel? Is it really that much cheaper?

Box scraper, hell yeah! I went from "what the hell is that for" to better add that to my list!

This is so much fun! What an amazing machine.

If you have a dedicated snow plow, I'd just eat the L and buy a pusher. My understanding those work great. Although I don't have any actual experience.

If you've never run snow with a front end loader the big thing you need to manage is keeping it out of gravel if your driveway is gravel. If it's paved, fire away, but if there is gravel it is better to leave a layer of snow. You'll end up with a pile of rocks when the snowdrift melts. Then mowing is troublesome etc. Again, from my understanding, pushers work well. There are a lot of YouTube videos on them. Watch them before you pull the trigger, but if I were starting from scratch it would be with a pusher.

Right, so doing the maintenance is far more important than the products used. Pins and low temp bearings are supposed to have the blue grease (I think Deere's is green - SD polyurea or something). I'm guessing you probably don't have any high temp applications. If you did it would take a different type of grease.

If you want the best type of grease, Deere's extreme duty synthetic is good stuff but it's $10 a tube. And frankly if you grease with the green stuff regularly and the white stuff once a year, you'd be better off with the green.

On our farm we use Mystik High Temp because we have some high temp applications and we're not going to screw up running 2 grease guns and squirt some cheap grease in a high temp zerk.

Largely it doesn't matter, as long as you do it. The pins in the loader are probably the biggest concern. Grease it more often than you think you should. Especially if you catch a bunch of rain or move snow with it. Keeping moisture out of the pivot pins is a critical function of grease. If it is creaking at all, grease that bitch.

Deere does have a pretty good electric grease gun. Buy it and a lock and lube tip for it and just do it.

Like cars, you don't want to overgrease your tie rod ends and blow out the boots. If it has a front suspension, do it, the loader, the mower and the 3 point a lot. The rest by the manual.

Oh and don't grease the threads on the 3 point adjustment arms. Deere still puts them on, and they never aren't dumb. If you adjust the links regularly (if you do buy a quick coupler), take them apart and spray them with slip plate and put them back together dry.

Noice. Just make sure you can get a cord out there to plug in the block heater. Your engine will thank you.

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In Kansas it is exempt from Road Tax. So any off-road activity would be eligible for dyed diesel. Looks like Colorado wants it only tax exempt activities (which homeowners would probably not be included).

In Kansas, the only way you'll get tagged is if you put it in a pickup or truck and the DOT stops you. Then you're in deep shit, but if you can buy some for a tractor, there is no way anyone would know. My guess is you can roll into a rural station and look for dyed or non-tax diesel and load it up.[/QUOTE]

Enjoy it man, there is a lot you can do. As I said, your interaction is a lot different than mine, but that's not to say it can't be super enjoyable, so fire away.

I just looked up that model. I was expecting the next size larger frame, but that should be a good tractor for you.

The hydrostatic transmission will be incredibly handy for you, but don't pull that thing too hard. If you're digging or pushing hard (with good traction) don't just sit there and work the piss out of it. Run it, and let it rest a bit. Let the oil cool. Also keep the radiator/oil cooler clean so the oil can keep cool.

A couple things I'd look at if I were you are:

1. A ballast box. It's a weighted box you can put on the 3 point so the back wheels will stay on the ground if you go to lift something heavy with the 3 loader.

2. A grapple. It looks like they are available for that model of loader. They are pretty handy also.

3. Snow chains for the tires. Those ones won't dig. Might get a little dicey with snow.

4. It's open station, so hearing protection, friend :)

5. Lights. Add some more lights, those won't be particularly good if you need to work at night. My Deere dealer had some decent quality LED add on work lights.

Enjoy dude.

It was hay day on the homestead today... I feel like I could just take a day and do it myself but I don't have the tools yet. So my neighbors come by with their big boy tractors and get me sorted.

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Thanks Buehler! I wanted a BIG tractor but I only have two acres. It will go to my shop for winter so I can use it for my parking lot. Also, I have always wanted a fork lift for the shop, this way I get both. The smaller size actually made sense for me.

I am a stickler for maintenance so thanks again for that advice and the tips on what to grease more often.

Think Im going to go ahead and order the snow pusher, hopefully have it by fall that way. I have never wanted it to snow so badly!!

Tractor envy is REAL!

My front tire lost pressure and came off the rim. After watching some YouTube videos about it, I’m going to head out there with a ratchet strap, compressor and dish soap to try to get the bead back on. Any other suggestions?

Be sure to bring a thermos of Antifreeze

LMAO

It will probably be thirsty work.

My kingdom for a rock auger....

Man those things are nice when you invariably hit a big old shelf of limestone in the middle of some project and no matter where you dig you can't find the edge of the MFer and the shelf is probably 6 inches deep so no amount of hitting it with a pick axe is going to save you.

But you do need a TON of power out of your PTO to really spin one of those us and get them to bite worth a damn. Otherwise you're just gonna hit things pretty slowly and either bounce off or just flat tear through shear bolts.

As for shear bolts - whatever you do, DON'T get impatient and throw a grade 8 bolt in there and try to power through shit. That gets...expensive.

(I mean, you're gonna do it anyway, but don't do it often. Sooner or later you will break something you wish you hadn't...)

Jack. Get it off the ground or you’ll never get it.

I like brake fluid better than dish soap. WD40 or penetrating oil if you don’t want to drop coin on brake fluid.

Personally I want the ether method as long as you video it. ROFL

Backhoe? I think those small trackhoes rent pretty cheap. I live where there is dirt so I don’t have a good solution for you. (No rain, but there is dirt LOL)

Yeah those things take a lot of power. PTO isn’t a particularly efficient application of horsepower anyway. But yeah, tell me you shelled a gearbox without telling me you shelled a gearbox :D

I’D RIPPED THROUGH 8 SHEAR BOLTS AND THE JOB WASN’T DONE YET, DAMMIT!!!

Maybe blaming the bolt was unwise.

And yes, there were a dozen better alternatives and a small trackhoe was easily the smartest one. But that wasn’t the direction we went.

Yeah, I jacked the wheel off the ground just by pushing the loader bucket down. I don’t have water at the lot yet so I’m not going to risk a forest fire with the ether method.

ROFL

It burns quick. It’ll probably just be your eyebrows.

You’ll be fine. Just get the fastest compressor you have. Oh yeah, and if the bead seats get that strap off there quick or it becomes a pain in the rectum and you may have to deflate the tire to get it. I’d like to say that isn’t the voice of experience but I would be lying.

If that doesn’t get it go buy a bead seater.


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Looks like a Benjamin at Home Depot will get you one. They’re worth it when you need one.

ROFL

The last 2 times I had any digging at all to do I hired a guy. Because ain’t nobody got time for that.

LMAO, that was way easier than I expected. I barely put the strap around the tire, figured I'd just try the bike tire pump I'd brought along, and the tire just slid itself right into place with barely any pressure. I'm not sure I even needed the strap.

Shoulda went to Vegas. ROFL