Posted by JD Seller on December 20, 2016 at 17:10:57 from (208.126.196.24):
I am officially done with this tractor!!!!! I have tried everything I know to do and just about anything anyone has suggested to try. It just will not run dependably. I had it running real good. It would start and take throttle. Even when hot it would start IF you did not touch the choke.
So I decided to leave the loader on it and put a rear blade on the back. I had tire chains for it so I kept it to push light snows here at the house. Two and three inch snows just do not work very well with the blowers. I also thought it would be nice to start in the middle temperatures without plugging it in. This it has been doing. If it is above 15 or so it will take right off.
Well we had some snow over the weekend but it was deep enough I used the blower to clean the lane. Well we had a south wind last night that drifted snow back into the lane in a few places and across the highway entrance. So when I got home from doing afternoon chores I started cleaning the lane. All was going well. My lane comes out onto a four lane divided highway. The state does not usually clean the median crossing. So at about 5 PM I am cleaning the median crossing out. There is light traffic. Nothing much but steady cars. When I am cleaning the median crossing I always stay out of the lanes of traffic. Unless the snow has gotten real deep I can just drag it into the median and spread it over a short distance. So I got the crossing all cleaned out.
There where some cars about 3/4 of a mile down the road. So I just shifted up into 6 th gear to get across the highway faster and avoid any issue with the cars coming. When I let out on the clutch the tractor took off fine. When the governor opened up it started doing it's farting and stumbling act. Even when I clutched the tractor it would not smooth out and finally died. So here I am setting cross ways blocking the south bound lanes of traffic right at dark. The darn tractor would not start. The neutral starter switch is working on this tractor so I could not even crank it off the road. I have cars coming at me at 65 MPH. They can't see my flashing lights since I am cross ways to them. I have two cars dart around the front of the tractor just about hitting the loader. I finally get the side panel thrown off into the ditch.I take my pocket knife an jump across the starter and crank the tractor in gear to get it off the road. Just as I cleared the yellow line two semis barreled by side by side not even slowing a bit.
Scarred the crap out of me!!!!!
That POS is in the shop right now. The loader is off and the brackets will be off by morning. I will take the wide front end off and the factory roll guard/canopy. Then this POS is going to the bone yard. I am not selling it to anyone that might get hurt running this POS. It is going to Colfax Thursday!!!!!
I have a good late model Diesel JD 4020 that I will put the loader, blade and tire chains on. I will sell the roll guard and Wide frontend. I might have to plug it in to get it started in real cold weather but this tractor will RUN after that without the farting/stumbling act.
I will NOT own another NEW Generation JD gas farm TRACTOR!!!!!! I gave up on the JD 3020 gas I fed with when it started doing these tricks 15 year ago.
I came as close as I have in years to being seriously hurt while operating a tractor. Someone else could have been easily hurt too.
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