TOP 10 WAYS TO BREAK YOUR TRACTOR! 👨‍🌾🚜👩‍🌾

guys how we doing today we are gonna be talking about how an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure and it's funny because just as I was coming out here to start shooting this video I had a call from a customer who hadn't and well I guess it's not well it's kind of funny buddy was asking to get a value on a replacement model for a John Deere 770 you know he happened to have a tree fall on his 770 tractor and I mean it just demolished it like point-blank couldn't have been any worse so you know well I say that dropping a tree on your tractor is gonna be a really common way that you could break your tractor I don't think so you know but I do surprisingly enough get a handful of customers in here every year that are buying a tractor they got an insurance check in their hand because something like that happens whether it's a fire which is probably the most common thing you know the most common reason where somebody has a fire and burns up the tractor or at least you know it's enough of a loss where they could a check cut to them and they're shopping for a new one but yeah a tree that's happened before - and I tell you this one was a bad one but if you need a parts tractor or you're looking for some parts for a John Deere 770 there might still be a few that can be scrapped off of this one here so let's get into it then let's go over the most common ways that people break their tractor and if you haven't done so yet hit that subscribe button below make sure you hit subscribe read the description all the links in there go to the website good works tractors calm would love to help you out with the tractor an attachment delivery and financing - here we go shoving a log a stick a branch or whatever it might be right through the front grille of your tractor okay you know you got the battery right behind there you got the radiator the fan everything else and then obviously the engine block back in there but depending on how aggressive you are you know how perhaps out of control you could be you could cause some significant damage if you're not careful in a recent video when I was using this tractor out in the woods I was getting a little carried away and in fact the brush crusher here you know a log had come through this way long ways and worked its way right through there and ended up hitting right down here I don't know if you can see that or not but this area right here I got pretty lucky there but it can happen you know it happens this is the kind of thing that can just occur in the blink of an eye before you know it and it's too late at that point so you know just a reminder to be careful when you're on your machine too but that's one of the very common ways that folks are gonna damage their tractor is right through the front grille of it you see a lot of them that are bent up banged up and and that's why I'm a big proponent of getting some sort of a deluxe an all-encompassing grille guard if they make it for your model the 10:25 are they don't make such a thing so take a look at this ram cylinder here okay this isn't the fully extended position the widest stroke that it could have right now and you know I do think when engineers are I would hope anyways that when they're putting together them these machines and they're putting everything sizing it appropriately with cylinders of the hydraulic system and the steel thickness and this and that and the other thing that they're designing it to be used and they're testing it in every sort of application however you will hear you will read about fully extended cylinders like this being damaged you know say you are using the bottom edge of the bucket right here you know and you're driving forward or you're pulling backwards and you're scraping the surface that kind of thing you know I think that it's okay to do that perhaps not in the fully extended position you know you got to use common sense here right I mean it just looks like it could get damaged in this kind of scenario right so again do I think they're designed with some sort of intent in mind yes I do but again it comes down to common sense you know you'll read about it on like green tractor talk or orange tractor talk I would encourage you to check those websites out to their great forums full of tractor owners of all the kinds of tractors that we're talking about here it's just a great wealth of information they're problem solvers on there they have some really creative ideas too so again just a I'd encourage you to check it out any of you guys that are tractor owners I know a lot of you are on there already so it can be aware of this this is a common way this is a common thing you're gonna hear about folks damaging a cylinder on their loader from a situation like this you know don't go too fast driving forwards or backwards again that's when you get out of control and bad things happen take it nice and easy you know pull that cylinder back in a little bit there get a little bit more control of the more you ruggedness I guess out of it there for lack of a better term and you'll be good to go so if you follow my channel long you know that I used to have a John Deere 3046 are now I've got the forty sixty six hour doesn't really matter as this applies to a lot of the subcompact and compact tractors and I appreciate the fact that somebody pointed that out in a recent video as well but a lot of these valve stems here are gonna be completely unprotected on these smaller tractors and I don't really know why I'm sure there's an Associated cost with welding on a little surround or protective structure right around the valve stem but it can't be that much so when I was out working trying to blaze a trail through my woods last summer I think it was maybe last spring I was working that sucker pretty hard it was real muddy and everything else and I ended up just you know tire was spinning I was in four-wheel and got sideways on this muddy slope and as it was spinning that sucker just caught a branch and before I knew it tire was off the rim and my day was done and it didn't completely rip the valve stem off but a dis disrupted it enough where it lost the bead it lost the seal and you know that was it that was done so that's one of the common ways you got to be aware of that and I don't know of a real workaround for this problem here but it's a common situation that will happen especially if you're working in some pretty nasty environments you know but something to be aware of and don't just think you always go plowing right through it because if you get sideways because I was out a little bit of an incline you get sideways you're spinning you just slider it into a log or whatever it was and boom you know kaput common way that you can break your tractor guys I've talked about it before I want to talk about it again I'm telling you maintenance just that regular routine maintenance it goes a long way to prevent breaking your tractor okay so you look in your manual the oil filter is the oil itself you know it does not need to get changed that often you know we're talking about every 200 hours here for a lot of these machines so very infrequently or once a year as the manual will say so one of the other common things a more common thing that you need to do on a regular basis is to grease the machine you know grease those zerk fittings they're very easy to do it's one of the ways that you can prevent premature wear out on your bushings you know on different front axles that are gonna have zerks on there and and just different attachments even you know so my father-in-law just came back recently from Arizona for the winter and I showed him the new grease gun that I had and he said oh I got to get me one of those you know because yeah I get it we can all change the grease gun but it's just not a fun process so if you can make it simple make it easy to do then it's gonna make that process a lot more frequent right you know so innovative product here this is gonna be lube shuttle all this is right here is just a protective cover but these grease tubes seriously all they do they just screw in and they screw out you can change it with different kinds of grease then so if you had different applications or you want to go back and forth you just get a cap they'd be off the other two bit grease and screw back on here store this one there's no Springs or anything else all you all you do really I mean you just take your tube agrees you put it in here you tighten it down and you're good to go yeah so if you go to loop shuttle I will put a link in the description below so make sure you read that lube - shuttle dot us buy something from their story and get a whole starter kit or just the gun or just replacement tubes of grease you get five percent off with code GWT so five percent off your order these tubes are recyclable you use 99.9 percent of the grease that's in there you can also refill these you can reuse these tubes as well so there's a lot of good benefits here it's a smart product I like the kind of thing and if it's easy to use you're gonna do it more often if you think about it your three-point hitch is really designed to pull forward to pull attachments and go forward with it right so you know rear blade a box blade LAN level or a tiller a brush hog you name it you know a million attachments you can hook onto your three-point hitch and pull for word but what happens when you push backward you know I mean you could do that with a box blade you could do that with a rear blade you know with the handful of other attachments I suppose but typically when you hear of damage to your three-point hitch it's going to be in those situations when you're pushing backwards and it's not that you can't do that with these machines you can definitely push backwards but you got to keep that in mind you know if you really think about it they're designed to pull you know okay so using the tractors power to pull this way and when you're pushing back I think you want to be careful just be a little bit more aware and cognizant of the fact that you know when you're pushing backwards that force is all being exerted right back onto the base of these three-point arms here and you know I don't know I'm not a john deere engineer but I have heard enough times of damage happening and damage occurring when you're when you're pushing back you know where it's you know breaking an arm or bending an arm or if there's damage down here at one of the links or bending a top link or whatever it might be something to be aware of because I've really never heard of breaking something when you're driving forward it's more often when you're pushing backwards in the tractor world you know with your power reverses you can change direction on the fly you can even clutch and change certain gears on the fly but all of our hydrostatic machines they are not designed to go from you know low to high or low medium high whatever while you're moving you need to come to a stop before you change the range otherwise you could really inflict some serious damage and you'll for sure here's some grinding noises and the same can be said for transitioning or engaging the four-wheel drive or front wheel assist that is intended to be done at a standstill not on the fly at the very least you know at an almost creeping halt or a very very slow movement it's just not a good thing to try to shift that on the fly and switch your range switch from two wheel to 4-wheel or vice versa bad move don't do that okay so this one is a bit of a conundrum to me you often hear about three-point mounted backhoes braking tractors just splitting them right in half because the frame can't support it there's too much load on the three-point hitch being placed and being exerted versus what a frame mounted backhoe would have which this is gonna be a frame out of backhoe here and anything essentially that's gonna be branded you know Kubota or John you know Massey's backhoes or coyotes all that kind of thing those are generally gonna be frame-mounted back hoes where their supports that go all the way up underneath here and and really hold that whole structure together to spread out the stress you know of the load the torque the force that's being applied so three point mounted back hoes I have never personally seen this happen but I tell you you read it all the time on forums and and different locations where if you get an aftermarket one you put it on the three-point hitch you're risking a chance of breaking it so I think that may be true to a certain extent I think though if you use your head you know you're using the tractor with in its in the backhoe with in its normal operation without really trying to push it to the limits I think folks are gonna be okay it's one of those things you're gonna hear all about and something you want to keep in mind if you're asking about it on forums or to other dealers or wherever it may be you know one thing that drives me nuts and another common way to break your tractor is gonna be actually breaking these lights off the side of the ROPS mount here okay and the rollover protection system that we have I don't know why John Deere hasn't got with a game and done something different now they do offer for an upcharge you can buy a steel a metal brush card that goes around here to provide some protection but I'm telling you this is one of the super common things that you'll break on your tractor you will see a lot of folks that actually just unbolt these things unscrew them and put them right on the inside of the ROPS here okay so that is a good idea as well you're gonna get a lot more protection you know when you're inside the defenders here you know otherwise when you're going through the woods you know along field edges that kind of thing it's super easy a branch comes down and just whacks them and you know if you're lucky it's just gonna break on one of these lenses here but if you're not so lucky it's gonna break off the whole thing there and then you're munching the thing on here and there about ninety dollars or so at least right now to replace one of these one of these whole fixtures so I'm telling you a super common be aware that you know it's pretty easy to reroute them put them on the inside here if you want to tackle that but yeah watch out you know so one of the common areas that these John Deere tractors get damaged on then is really going to be on the seat you know the vinyl will tear it'll rip you know if you carry a pocketknife or another tool in your pocket like I do it's easy when you're sliding on and off to just rip and tear those seats unintentionally okay one of the good ways to protect that is with a John Deere seat cover like this this is for the 1025 s the new style 2025 links in the description below to it but a nice way to keep all that grind you can see here even as I get on and off on a regular basis it's starting to get dirty up here but just put this thing on your seat it's gonna protect it cheap insurance there gets the dirt on here keeps underneath clean you can wash this thing if you need to and you know if something tears it's gonna be the seat cover here teryn unless you're you know taking a knife and stabbing it but good cheap insurance therefore your seat keep it looking nice and new so I see two really common areas when you're trailering a tractor that you could have damaged okay and so the first one is gonna be on the hood you know those things go flying off you know I think somewhere in the manual it'll tell you proper procedure to trail your tractor you know I try to put a little strap or a bungee or something across the hoods we've had it happen here you know we've had it happen on tractors getting shipped in to us the other common area are gonna be with canopies okay those are notorious for maybe not blowing all the way off but at least bending in half and breaking and being unusable after the fact so that also poses a danger to other folks that are driving down the road as well so make sure those things are secured they're very expensive to replace and they could be a danger to others as far as canopies go I would urge you to check out the Rhino hide canopies there's gonna be a link below in the description there but you know Don they're over at Rhino hide you know he made this thing he drives over it he hits it with the sledgehammer he shoots it with a gun you know he runs into tree limbs and all that kind of stuff it really is about the toughest canopy that I've seen in the market it's also easy on and easy off and so why that's important is for trailering applications you can quickly easily take that thing on and off that way you don't have to worry about it flying off and it also helps in that regard getting it in and out of your garage - especially if you have a height restriction that you're working with you know so this is it right here I'm telling you once they get that thing put on get the brackets in place and everything aligned it really is an easy on Easy Off system again link is in the description below if you purchase through his website there you'll get a link to a survey or you'll be sent a survey to fill out after that after the purchase say that you bought it from good works tractors and you'll get five percent off your order so I've talked about it before and I'll talk about it again underbody damaged undercarriage damaged here very easy to have happen and it's not an operator's fault necessarily you know it's just look at all the stuff that's underneath here and there's just so many things that could get damaged you know things that I've done things that other folks have done ways that I've never heard of there's always a new way you know and so recently I did a video you know I was out in the woods and I got back here in a few days later I noticed just a few small little drops of oil on the ground underneath the middle and so I took a look underneath there and I had sure enough just put a tiny little whole little dent right in the hydraulic filter that's tucked up underneath there and it's not even down here it's it's way up in there and then you know I had a buddy one of my good friends here or two ago something like that he was using his 3e series tractor and somehow a stick went up all the way through here and messed up this whole four-wheel-drive system and you know I it was over $1000 I think to have that repaired I was on green tractor talk a couple years ago I remember seeing it on there gentleman had a one of the new to our Series tractors I think it was if memory serves well and he had his mid mount motor linkage down here didn't had the had a brand new pole barn that he'd just built and was going and for outside and pulling into the garage right up on the concrete there concrete had a lip on it when he went up on the front wheels well that undercarriage the arms the brackets for the mower deck were hanging down and smacked right into the edge of the concrete that was an expensive repair as well so there's just a lot of ways you can damage the bottom side of these tractors and again where's this good plate options at you know I mean I know it could be expensive an expensive proposition and maybe you know maybe a lot of folks would just take the risk to not have a skid plate and just roll the dice you know but I think there's a market for it you know can we come up with one that is certainly not an all exhaustive list but it is a list of the very common things that I see you know one other thing I forgot to mention to those cab doors you know if you're trailering down the road secure those cab doors if one of those things flies open oh man those are bear those are expensive to replace in a complete nightmare of course always dropping something on your hood roll on your tractor on to the side or roll it over those are just horrible situations as well so again a lot of ways to break your tractor this is all meant to get you thinking ahead of time so you use your tractor more safely more effectively and you just have a better all-around experience with it so again if you haven't done so yet please hit that subscribe button below make sure you read the description go to all those links check out the accessories go to good works tractors again love to help you with the tractor or an attachment until next time take care we'll see you soon

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Length: 17min 23sec (1043 seconds)

Published: Sat Apr 18 2020