SUCKS!!!!! AC line just blew. ARGGGGGG!!!

JD Seller

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I just started the JD 4450 that I use on the one round baler. It is already 86 degrees here and humid. Pulled it over to the fuel tank. While I was fueling it I thought I heard some thing POP. Shut everything off and sure enough one of the cab lines was whistling under the cab post cover. I took the cover off and there is a hole in the side of the rubber line. The entire AC system was replaced just two years ago.

So I now have to go out and switch the baler/monitor over to another tractor. There is no way I could take running the baler in a cab tractor today without the AC working.
 
Wanna trade? I blew a hose on the baler yesterday to the end gate cylinder. It runs down behind a wheel,up through the frame,under the front of the baler and up to a valve block. I had to go tip the parts baler up on end in the nettles and bees and get that hose out,then lay under the good one with chaff falling all over even after I blew it out good. I sure WISH I could have just switched tractors.
 
You Yankees gotta learn to do things the Redneck way. Just get yourself a power inverter, wire it to your tractor battery, then plug a 5,000 BUT window A/C in and be on your way!

This same method works just as well in cars and trucks, too! :lol:

In all seriousness though, the A/C in this link only pulls about 400 watts on startup, then runs (on high) at about 336 amps. So an 800W to 1,000W inverter would be plenty.
https://www.amazon.com/Frigidaire-F...1529160979&sr=8-3&keywords=window+a/c

Before you laugh, just build a screen box to cover the back end - keep grasses and chaff and bugs out.
 
Must be this season. Just put a high side compressor to condeser line on a customer's 4430 last week. He was side dressing when the air quit, he tried putting in a can of refrigerant, and it started hissing behind the left grill screen. He did not investigate, so when I put a little in, that hose swelled up like a golf ball when I turned the air on. New line and he is back in business.
 
I finally got around to cleaning home condenser, it was worst I have ever seen for cobwebs and dust, might have forgotten it last year.
 
Hi Ronnie! The AC in my 1586 has not worked in years. I will get around to it one day but I use it mostly in the Fall and early Spring. If I had to use it in Summer it would have been fixed long ago! I feel your pain. Yesterday I pulled out the square baler at 10:30 AM to get an early jump on the hay I raked Thursday. One time around the field and it stopped tying on both sides. I had pre sold this field and the trucks were coming around 4 PM, so not a good thing. Knotters were a mess so I opened those up and cleaned off the bits of twine. Neighbor walked over and asked me what the problem was. Then a bunch more questions, each followed by a more terse answer by me. Had to ask him to move a couple times so I could get at stuff. Each time he asked me if I thought the thing I wanted to get at was the problem. Then he asks me if I knew rain is moving in. He finished it up by asking me if I knew what time it was and a comment about how time flies and how the day was wasting away. I responded as you might expect and he left. Not sure we are friends anymore!

Once the idiot left I quickly found the baler had broke a small spring. Friday afternoon in Michigan so the spring shop had closed at noon. Actually found a spring but it was most of the way to Grand Rapids. LSS...I drove 150 miles round trip in a 1976 Chevy PU with no air, no radio and no muffler. Got back by 4:30, had the baler back on the field 10 minutes later. Shortly after 5:00 I looked down field and saw a line of trucks on the road. By 8:30 the field was picked clean and I was showered and ready for a late dinner. Already have orders for more so back I go later in the week.
 
It is going to be upwards of 100 today, would be suicide to work in cab tractor without AC, either AC or open station and sweating today.
 
I grew up in the South no AC anywhere including the house we survived just fine, at 86 its hardly worth turning the AC on anyway better to wait til it gets hot(LOL)
 
Almost any cab that came from the factory on a tractor from the mid-seventies on up just can't be opened up enough to get good air flow through the windows. Last summer I spent a twitch over $1500 putting new air conditioning in the old 1086. Everything is new but the evaporator and condenser. It's just a yard tractor now but on days like this that air sure feels good.
 
We made 717 square bales with it 96 degrees and the heat index 101 on Saturday. We usually go pretty slow when it is real hot but by the end of the day I had to trade off with my brother in law every few rounds because the heat finally got to us. I would load and he would drive then we would switch.
 

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