John Deere??!?!?!

[kyle]

i heard through the grapevine that somebody is teaming up with john deere and making a quad? i think it was cannondale but im not sure, im a farm boy and let me tell ya, john deere sucks!! international is the tractor!!!! just like honda! RIDE RED!!!!!

[Bill X_R]

Harley, Deer, Polaris and others were looking to buy Cannondale MotorSports division after the Chapter 11, but they did not bid enuff $$$$. A Co. called Pegasus purchased both div. and is selling off the motorsports. Rumor mill has it that Rad2Go has purchased them???? If they did, it should be finnalized by the end of this month.


If that's the case....I'll be sorry I didnt buy a 03' Crated Cannibal for 4k :(

[bbechtel16]

i heard through the grapevine that somebody is teaming up with john deere and making a quad? i think it was cannondale but im not sure, im a farm boy and let me tell ya, john deere sucks!! international is the tractor!!!! just like honda! RIDE RED!!!!!

They are teaming up with bombardier and John Deere rules!

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[kyle]

thats sad that you say john deere rules. lol just kiddin, but i am an international fan myself.

[bbechtel16]

thats sad that you say john deere rules. lol just kiddin, but i am an international fan myself.

It's ok, we're fellow SX owners!!! Go Honda!

Anyway, yeah John Deere has some pretty gay stuff going on lately cough4000seriescompactscough, and the quads will probably suck lol, we'll see. The 4000/4010 series compacts are great tractors to operate and all that good stuff, but their reliability is questionable. Although their new X series lawn and garden tractors seem to be doing quite well so far. I get 2 mowing hours behind the wheel of my uncles new X495 (24 horse Yanmar diesel) tomorrow afternoon :-D . My dad once told me when we were making fun of the 4000 series, even though some of this new stuff sucks, its still better than what the competition can do, or something like that. I guess we're both guilty of bias, he's a parts manager at our local dealership. Although it does say something that he grew up a Ford/Ford man from birth and converted to Chevy(VW, can't afford them anymore though)/John Deere.

[kyle]

i mow with a ford 2000 and spread and plow with an international 1466 turbo, awesome tractor, i still love the international 660 turbo a little better but i still like the old farmalls. my first tractor i ever got to use was a 1952 farmall H, it was sweet!! we also have a john deere gator which is a piece of manure lol

[bbechtel16]

Haha, gator.... Yeah they are funny machines.

My dad says the harder you run them the less problems, I guess why they run pretty good for us over at Lake Tobias, (think high school summer employment, they get beat).

[bentwrench]

:?

[kyle]

whats up with my pic upside down?

[bentwrench]

just wanted you to have the feelin' of landing on your head. Cause that is must of what happened to your thinkin'.. :D

[kyle]

lol so what are you tryin to say? :rolleyes:

[dc]

How can you say John Deere sucks!? Their two cylinders were the best!

[Jonathan]

How can you say John Deere sucks!? Their two cylinders were the best!
I gotta agree. We've got 2 John Deere Model "M"s from the late 40's/early 50's. My grandfather and great grandfather bought one of them new and one of them used. Both run great although one of them hasn't been driven in probably about 9 months or so due to a bad (as in the wheel's about to fall off) front wheel bearing, but it still fires right up and runs. Both are unrestored and I know they haven't had anything done to them besides oil/spark plugs/tires since my grandfather died in 87, but still run great. We're actually members of the two-cylinder club and get a magazine every other month, I think we started that when I was 5 and was really into tractors. We must have gotten a life-time membership or something.

[kyle]

ALL older tractors kick @$$, but i still hjave to say international is the toughest longest lasting tractor out there.

[Jonathan]

I don't know about that, I see more older John Deeres than I do older Internationals, I do see alot of Farmalls though, International is a close second.

[kyle]

all of the john deere old tractors you see are mostly restored, you see more original Internationals still working the feilds than original deeres in the fields.

[Jonathan]

Not around here. I see just as many restored Internationals as I do restored John Deeres (and that's not very many at all).

[bbechtel16]

I wans't busting on the older JD twin cylinders. I was talking about the Lawn & Garden V-twin Kawasucki engines.

[kyle]

:twisted: Down with Deere :twisted: :D :D one cool thing i did to a John Deere is weld a strait pipe to a Gator :D

[bbechtel16]

:twisted: Down with Deere :twisted: :D :D one cool thing i did to a John Deere is weld a strait pipe to a Gator :D

You should swap in a real (Honda) motor in that thing too, LOL.

[kyle]

i was thinkin more along the lines of a small block Ford :twisted: :D

[bbechtel16]

i was thinkin more along the lines of a small block Ford :twisted: :D

Or Chevy. ;)

[kyle]

but i want it to run, not sit in the garage... ;)

[bbechtel16]

My Chevy Celebrity 2.8 V6 with over 162,000 miles is running great. It's been in my family for over 10 years and all we've done to it is cleaning the mass airflow sensor, a couple alternators (rebuilt, go figure), coil (there's 3, so it still ran, but really crappy), and a water pump. I think it had 74,000 when we bought it. My dad bounced it off the gardrails one winter and last week I smashed it into a bank, did a 180, and smashed it again, still going strong, depite the dents. :-D

This is never gonna end LOL. :twisted:

[kyle]

my girlfriend has a 1985 chevy s-10. it had a 2.8 in it, we tore it out and put a 3.4 yes 3.4 not 4.3 lol its out of a 1995 camaro. it runs real good, we put 3in lift on the truck and 31 x10 x50's on it. its her baby. there is still some work that needs to be done to the motor. but its a chevy so there will always work to be done. :D

[bbechtel16]

my girlfriend has a 1985 chevy s-10. it had a 2.8 in it, we tore it out and put a 3.4 yes 3.4 not 4.3 lol its out of a 1995 camaro. it runs real good, we put 3in lift on the truck and 31 x10 x50's on it. its her baby. there is still some work that needs to be done to the motor. but its a chevy so there will always work to be done. :D

That's awesome! Can I have it? :-D

edit: Is it a 5 speed?

[kyle]

lol i doubt she will give it away, its her baby. she loves her truck like i love my trike. and no its an automatic, she wants to put a 5 speed in tho. :twisted:

[bbechtel16]

Wow your g/f rules, there should be more like her.

[kyle]

yea shes pretty awesome, she does all her own mechanic work on her truck also, shes pretty good. and i hear that a lot that there should be more like her. lol hey my AIM name is Reblcwboy so put me on your list and look for me on.

[Tecate250]

How do you even crap over john deere?
There snowmobiles were madd with the kawasaki engines. And I remember seeing crap about how bonbardier was gonna suck in the atv market. Well no honda atv won best atv of the year this year.
There ds 650 is killer and there new 2 rider atv is gay but is a new design.
I mean yamaha isnt doing all that well with there bikes.
I hear more trash about yam then kaw and zuki combined.

[kyle]

i just dont like john deere farm tractors.

[niggerkiller]

i go with the ford tractors

[bbechtel16]

What model is that, looks real firmilar, my grandpa has a Jubilee and an 801 Powermaster (and a 4000 but thats not exactly vintage, nice tractor though, except I don't care for the tranny, not very smooth, hard to shift on the go. [I know you're not suppose to do that.])

[ATC crazy]

NiggerKiller?? I dont think that name is going to last on here very long. :rolleyes:

[kyle]

i agree with ATCcrazy, grow up and get a new name. and bbechtel16, that looks to be a Ford 8n.

[Russell 350X]

When we had our farm, we had a Case International 885 4x4 with a bucket , Ford 8000, and a John deere(dont remember what model, older). The Case was a awsome ass tractor. The Ford 8000, there is no bad way to decribe it, it was a bad ass tractor! It was a puller! The Deere, well, umm, not bad but more bad than good. It was in real rough shape, and we had problems with it. The Ford had some problems, not many. The Case never had a problem. Red Rules!

[NebraskaTrikeRider]

NOTHING RUNS LIKE A DEERE :twisted:


hey kyle, Case sucks ;)

[ATC crazy]

hey kyle, Case Bites ;)

You talkin' to me?....huh?...You talkin' to me? :evil: ;) Hehe

[kyle]

hands down International is the best tractor out there. :twisted:

[DakotaDoc7]

John Deere forever!!!!

[dc]

I think it's funny how John Deere was so reluctant to leave it's two cylinder engines saying that they were more economical and such. Nowadays any tractor that does serious work in a field has an in-line six with a turbocharged diesel engine. John Deere milked that two-cylinder for all it was worth. lol.

[bbechtel16]

What? You do realize we're talking about twin cylinder garden tractors right?

mmmmmmmmmmm............ I-6 turbo.........

[dc]

What?!?!

You guys were talking about both garden tractors and field tractors. I also think it's funny how JD two cylinder diesels had a gas starting motor on them. If I ever get another antique JD it will have to be one of those. Although I've heard that parts for those starting motors are few and far between and are priced accordingly.
But there's another reason why you see more restored JD tractors than any other companys. It's because JD can get you the parts you need. (most of the time). And they are cheaper than parts for other old tractors.

[bbechtel16]

What?!?!

You guys were talking about both garden tractors and field tractors. I also think it's funny how JD two cylinder diesels had a gas starting motor on them. If I ever get another antique JD it will have to be one of those. Although I've heard that parts for those starting motors are few and far between and are priced accordingly.
But there's another reason why you see more restored JD tractors than any other companys. It's because JD can get you the parts you need. (most of the time). And they are cheaper than parts for other old tractors.

How did they manage that with the crazy mad diesel compression and all? Compression release?

[dc]

Yep, they had a compression release.

[yamaha225dx]

Hmmm, interesting. On our farm, (We farm around 10,000 acres in SD) We use nothing but JD and for a reason they last a long long time. We have an old 50 that still runs and we still use it for moving bales of hay around. We have the 50, 3020, 4440, 4850, 4960, 8820 combine, and 2 9600 combines then we have our beast steigers 2 of them, Go green.
case and international aren't half the tractor as the JD's. All the big farms use JD around us and in most other places I have visited.

[bbechtel16]

Go John Deere!!!

So yeah, how 'bout a 250R carb on my SX because it was free (34mm flat-slide as opposed to 27mm butterfly)?