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Thought I was reading this for the first time...

After 4 years of off-and-on use the corners are still sharp on my new cutting edge. The edge it replaced was worn almost to the bolts on both sides and was not an original JD part. Poor thing has seen some adventure.

I think what most people want a ROPS for is protection from falling trees versus rollover protection. Most of us deere crawler operators pucker up long before we get in a potential roll over situation. Absolutely. I'd only put a canopy on because of the stuff that tends to come raining down when yo...

Go to steel roofing and than slam a door hard :D :twisted: Dan. That's the best thing for snow, too slippery for the stuff to hang around very long unless the slope is shallow. Standard shop roof is 3/12 pitch and stubborn snow might stick, my house is about 3.5/12 and the snow hangs out for a coup...

My 420 has an adjustable seat bracket (3 sets of bolt holes), in the highest position it looks to be a couple inches higher than yours.

Definitely a child size machine, good thing I'm short.

Keeping the machine in a slightly warmer place would increase engine life as well. Engine wear increases greatly with reduced temperature due to poor oil circulation and incorrectly fitting parts from thermal contraction.

If you're dealing with a plow that mounts on the tool carrier, disregard my last post.

I don't know if the MC is the same, but on the 420 the drawbar can be unbolted and moved to an extended position. Perhaps that would increase the offset enough?

Could be brake band or something in the final drive hanging up. Try using the actual reverse gear instead of the reverser and see what it does.

Very nice attention to detail. Was it originally green and painted yellow like mine? There must have been a real aversion to non-yellow dozers in those days.

I like the ammo case lunchbox on the fender! I might have to steal that idea.

Well, the casting of cylinder heads is a pretty intricate business, so it's possible that metal got left behind. The water passages and other tunnels are hollowed out by pieces of sand called cores that are placed in the sand mold. Sometimes these cores themselves are hollow, depending on the proced...

That snowblower is serious business. My dad has a 7' 3 pt mount blower and I don't think it throws snow much farther than that.

We got enough snow dumped on us Valentine's Day to make a dozer actually useful! When it came time to shove the snow bank over a couple days later to clean the driveway better, it was so heavy I had to climb on top and knock the upper half over (blade angled), then go back and push the rest. I got p...

I don't care about football or anything, but I did watch the first few minutes of the Super Bowl and was thinking to myself that my grandmother could do a better job of catching a ball.

I put a new Deere battery in last year and I have not even come close to needing the battery charger yet, been down to -15 degrees F and it just goes to work.

You say the ignition cuts out when you go over a bump. That sounds like an ignition wire broken inside the insulation. After 50 years of being jostled around, heated and cooled, etc. wires will eventually fatigue and fall apart. It's very likely that when you replaced the points again, you moved the...