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fixerupper

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I have a Deere 960 field cultivator with a Deere mulcher or evener on the back. At the hinge point area in the linkage where the mulcher bolts to the cultivator frame there is a bolt with a round rubber bumper around it that acts as an upper and lower depth stop if you want to call that. This rubber bumper is basically a rubber wheel 2 1/2" in diameter and approximately 1 1/2" thick with a 1/2" hole in the center. One of these broke so I went to the Deere dealer for a replacement and the parts man knew right what I was talking about and went to the parts room. He came back out with a steel puck and said they are made out of steel now. This is a nicely machined steel puck 2 1/2" in diameter and an inch and a half thick with a 1/2" hole in it, just like the rubber one only steel and colored gold. The price tag was $50.00!!!!!!!!! I left it on the counter. Looks like something home made is going in it's place!
 
I don't mean to be a smart a**, but when I read the title of your thread the first thing that came to mind was..."he musta been at the JD dealer." Only because I am working on JD equipment now. Next month I will be thinking the same thing about my CIH dealer.
 
thats nothing unusual, i know alot fellows pay more than that for a toy tractor, what your time worth if try make something to
match. 50.00 does not buy much period good luck in your build
 
Yep!!! I just looked at the invoice for filters for my 2 biggest tractors both Deere, 'bout fell over, I guess when new machinery sales are slow gotta' jack parts up. I've always thought it's best to use Deere filters but I'll be looking somewhere else for filters next year. I'll look around my scrap pile to see if I have an old harrow frame with a good "puck" I won't guarantee you anything 'til I find something.
 
(quoted from post at 11:36:02 03/16/16) I don't mean to be a smart a**, but when I read the title of your thread the first thing that came to mind was..."he musta been at the JD dealer." Only because I am working on JD equipment now. Next month I will be thinking the same thing about my CIH dealer.
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Price any New Holland stuff....same thing. Working on a NH manure spreader....the little pawls that control the feed gear for the apron $96, little bushing that goes inside $32!!
 
I feel your pain. I just ordered a new water temp gauge for my JD 1010 tractor and it was $180.00 +/-. Bout fell over. Checked on the little yellow back rest. About 4" by 10" long. Just over $150.00.

Don't think that Case/IH is any better. I called my dealer one time for the price of a PTO shield for my Case 5230 tractor. Mind you now, this was just the top piece with a wire spring hinge. The two sides were molded out of the rear end of the tractor. So this piece was only about 8" x 10" at best, with a little spring piece on it. Over $650.00. I was telling them they were quoting too much, I just needed the little top piece. They kept saying that is all they were quoting. I finally stopped in one day and had them show me on the computer, and that is all they were quoting. That is the worst I believe I had heard, still to this day. Bob
 
It's not hard to walk into any dealer or even the generic parts place and come out with a 150
dollars worth of parts that you can fit in a shoe box
 
Was in Rockford Il. last week and stopped at the Wheel Horse dealer to get a set of blades for my old 4 foot deck. $79.00, left them laying. This is a 1970 deck that I can't wear out, bought a real nice newer deck a few years ago and can buy blades for that on E Bay.
 
I thought this would be about the price of a new
tractor or piece of equipment. I just had a new silo
unloader put in last month. $14k. Eliminated any
chance of me buying a round baler this year.
 
I just bought banjo fitting & 2 fiber washers (they used to be copper that go on the fuel return line to filter on a Massey 165. Banjo fitting $10.40 and the washers $9.00 each. Just don't see how Agco is gonna make it. Seems like every time I need something the price has gotten totally out of site. I hate to see what baler twine is gonna be this year.
 
No kidding, steel prices
are down and it
apparently isn't a
finely machined piece,
that's kinda crazy. I
priced out injector pre-
cups for the IH 656
diesel I'm rebuilding,
wowser, they are $347
each! And I need all
six! Guess I better
start looking for used
ones.

Ross
 
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I put a better cab on this 1 ton about 6 years ago and one of the cab mounts was a hockey puck. It's still there today.
 
Don't know what you guys a crying about , every part I buy comes from the U.S and my
dollar is only worth .70 .You should see our sticker shock ! New Holland round baler ,
silage special is now north of 40 grand. When I bought mine in 2013 , CNH ,but same
thing, it was $27,500.00. money has really lost value. Got to go know , wife wants me
to take a wheel barrow full of money , and go buy a loaf of bread !
 
One of the local Amish guys has one of those band saw Sawmills (Woodmizer - I THINK...) He needed a 6' extention on it. Priced it at the company, and it was $1300 with shipping. We took it to my neighbor (another Amish guy), and he built the section he wanted for $475, and made a good chunk on it.
 
I know they've become popular, but... among other reasons, they wouldn't work well for me because I fill silo with one person helping, or alone. Hard to chop, haul, and pack like that. And that wouldn't let me feed the silage I already have in the silo.
 
Remember the joke about the guy that needed small flat washers.Went to the hardware store,they were .10 cents each.Left,went home and drilled holes in a bunch of nickels,problem solved!
 
Sorry no luck on the puck. I've got a small section of harrow but there were no mounting brackets. I've got 8 on my 960 but @ $50/piece I better lock it away.
 
Fordfarmer, What kind of silo unloader did you buy? When I was 16 back in 1980 I helped install Jamesway silo unloaders and barn cleaners. In the late 80's we had a new Kelly Ryan ag bagger and was nice feed but the plastic wadded in the mud was a pain. My neighbor down the road works alone most day's and has 2 silos and it works good for him. His farm was one of the first pics I posted on YT a couple years ago. Greg
 
Went to buy a radiator cap for 1520 52 dollars. went to another dealer got an after market for 26 dollars.
 
I went with another Patz ring drive. An A1 series II. The one that came out had given me lots of trouble for the last few years, but it was over 20 years old.
 
i just don't get it why anyone would go to the dealer for oil,air,fuel filters do people think that Deere,Case,or Agco make them well they don't.with just a little research you can buy online any filter you need. i buy by the case most of the time they are fleet guard some are oem for well under 1/2 that dealers get plus shipping is free. the internet is your friend when looking for ANY PART.machinery trade parts search is my friend.i get parts OEM parts from dealers 500 miles away cheaper them the dealer 15 miles away why i don't know.you have to shop around.just ordered seal kits for some rams dealer wanted 62 and change dealer out west 37 and change came and they were caseih kits same as local dealer want almost twice the price for.
 
Well I'm getting to the point where my Case 931 rebuild in going to come to life. Going to my friendly Federated Auto Parts store to get 5gal. of engine oil. 15 gal. of 303 tranny/hyd oil, 5 gal of 50/50 antifreeze and two new group 31 12V bats and one new bat cable. Total will be about $420 with farm tax exemption. The little things sure add up.
Loren
 
Hank thanks for the link. I glanced through it for future reference for when the next rubber puck breaks someday. There are seven of them on this cultivator. I also looked at McMaster Carr and they did have a few wheels my diameter and almost my thickness for a couple bucks. They had a 200 pound rating and with the leverage figured in the field cultivator linkage will put a lot more weight on them than that.

I did luck out though. Went to the neighbor to see if he had a 2 1/2" shaft I could cut a 1 1/2" piece off of and when we were looking around we found a puck the exact size I needed, and there was a hole started in the center. I took the puck home, finished drilling the hole and put it on the cultivator. Works like a charm. I told him I owe him a $50 supper and he laughed at me.
 
Bottom of the Muffler stack was kinda burnt through on the Cat 35. Priced a replacement. $823.00. I patched the one I had. A little charcoal grill paint and she looks good as new.
 
Rboots, this IS a finely machined piece, it's a rediculously shiny smooth work of art machined to the thousandths and it's totally unnecessary for it to be like that. Nobody sees it, it doesn't turn, all it does is exist back there getting rusty in a mostly hidden location. This is one rare occasion where the part I wanted is way over qualified for the job. Deere does need to keep up a reputation but...........
 
I did that trick... I needed some corrosion proof washers, bigger thicker size, didn't see paying for stainless, drilled holes in nickles, worked perfectly.
 
Sometime it depends on the value of your time and the value of other people's time. When I have other work to get done I try to value my time and other people's time at $20 per hour or more. When I have time to kill it's lower.
 
I've been buying filters from Fleet Filter for a while. You just gotta have the number (they sell Wix/Napa and Baldwin) and you can order it. If you get enough, shipping is free. Some filters, unfortunately, don't always come with the correct gaskets like OEM, but Wix makes them for AGCO so it's the same exact filter. Prices are usually 1/2 of what AGCO gets.

Donovan from Wisconsin
 
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