Re: Thinking of buying a LCG tractor to mow with?

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Well over half of the members on this
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Means you are reaching less than half of
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Learning how both classic and modern
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Your post is new to me, but I will say if you are looking for a finish mower, spindle and belt design and repairability are my choice factors. Common
bearings, and distance between bearings on the spindle. A brush cutter is a much different animal. Jim

I think I have looked at modern view twice. In the five years I have been here.

Yes, having modern view just makes this site confusing, one or the other, and I like Classic!

(quoted from post at 08:28:20 12/28/19) You are replying to a 2 week old thread
using Modern View.
Did you know that in Classic view your
last post shows up as a stand alone post
that is not connected to Anything?
Well over half of the members on this
board use classic and are not going to
bother clicking over to modern to see
the history of your thread.

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Why not? I click over to classic on occasion to find a post that appears to be missing in modern.
Can't say how many times I see a Re: with no heading or it takes off with no reference to what the original post was about, so I just pass over it and move on.
I know I'm a new guy compared to many but high speed internet only became available here in the last 5-7 years, by then most forums where using some type of modern format.
This site and a few others that I don't go on are all that still use classic.

Sorry guys but if this site was classic only, I wouldn't be here, to confusing.

Who makes that brand. parent company? Guess like LG appliances I sure not buying any brand that
cannot spell out their name. Saw an LS tractor at farm show tried to find what the company was.
Guys showing the tractor did not seem to know them selves!!! What has our world come to when
manufactures and other people are to lazy to put out the full name.

Modern is what messes things up for every body by trying to stick iys nose in where it is not wanted. Modern is responsible for all those broken posts you are complaining about. Classis would be very easy to follow everything if every body would use it and get rid of modern. But then people have to hopefully remember how they were supposed to be tought to compose a letter back in grade school. I think way too many were never tought that and that is why some cannot understand how to do things and in trying to make a reply to somebody they actually start that broken thread. Onlt time I will ever go to modern is if I want to try to see a larger picture as when they droped sizing pictures on classic in the large size just to get people to go to modern that they did not want and if they droped classic probley 75% of the people on here would have been gone upon dropping classic. Modern is absoultely impossible to follow anything on, classic if posters would just remember their schooling. If they drop classic I would be gone along with probably 50% of the posters. And that 50% is where the most knolage to answer questions comes from. So then there would be no YT site to go to for getting good information. We would miss very little is they dropped modern.

(quoted from post at 11:50:02 12/28/19) Who makes that brand. parent company? Guess like LG appliances I sure not buying any brand that
cannot spell out their name. Saw an LS tractor at farm show tried to find what the company was.
Guys showing the tractor did not seem to know them selves!!! What has our world come to when
manufactures and other people are to lazy to put out the full name.

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The OP bought a Ford 4610 Low Center of Gravity (LCG) tractor to mow on his hilly ground.

I'd love to see some numbers to prove who's assertions about how many people are using which style forum is true. One says "most" are using classic. Another says "most" are using modern.

I've been using forum sites since they took over from USENET, and I have NEVER encountered another forum site that had anything even close to "classic." How is classic anything like writing a letter?

I had a good friend who farmed W. Texas and was exposed to the local red sales force when LP became popular. Just about the time he got his corral
full of them and their problems, out comes Diesel fuel as the salvation and the retailer was back out at his place with a trailer full of demos to load him
up with them. This was back in the early '60s general time line and he was glad to get the Diesels.

I had one, a well worn JD 4020 with the 100 gal liquid line "Nurse" tank (wheeled with tow bar) you had to drag around with it if you were going to be out
more than 6 hours plowing. Not only was getting the gas a problem, the weather was a big factor in the ability to refuel the thing and sitting in the open
station in the summer was dreadful. On running out of fuel in the field, a later Diesel acquisition would run all day on a tank of fuel and you didn't need
to bring along a babysitter!

On refueling the Diesels, need I say anything that folks on here don't already know.......wink!

Those are good tractors I?d put fluid in the front and
rear if it was me

Excellent choice, very stable on slopes with fluid filled tires and the front weight kit with 4 suitcase weights, using a 6' rotary mower. It will also traverse 24" of snow very easily. Here is my later version of the same model. I like the Ford colors much better, very sharp looking tractor. I'm 3rd owner of this, true 1300 some odd hours, previous owner was not so kind to it but fixed all the little things, complete fluid change and I mean everything, front axle planetary, coolant. Mine has the 8x8 with mechanical shuttle, deluxe remotes, front weight kit, fold down ROPS. If I saw one like yours, be very hard to pass up, very nice example of a 4610.

It has to be the most versatile and productive general purpose tractor I have ever operated, it can do anything I will ever need of a tractor here, be nice to have a pair and I have passed on others. Also never had a loader on it. No leaks as of yet besides the darned fuel sending unit on the fuel tank which I replaced and with a new gasket. Never could figure that out, maybe screws loosened.

NICE! That front axle will help keep the front end down. If you don't want calcium in the rears at least get some wheel weights. Should be nimble on the hills, make sure your seatbelt works;-)

Billy NY you said you did a complete fluid change, did you pull the suction screen from the bottom of the transmission and clean it, that's a very important maintenance requirement on the shuttle shift transmissions.

Absolutely, and you sir were the one who informed me about this screen assembly !
I am very grateful and highly appreciative of you pointing that out. It's obscure on the parts diagram and I am not so sure ifit is shown in the multi volume shop manual set I have for this tractor and other models they cover.

I took it apart, flushed and cleaned it repeatedly. Installed a new gasket and O ring, even bought a set of spares for next service.

I did find some metal fines, but it did seem very clean. Servicing this transmission is very easy, similar quantity of oil to the engine. When I first got the tractor, the transmission was overfull for some reason, not sure why anyone would do that.

I took photos and documented the work I did on this tractor with photos. Had planned to make an informative post about it for others.

Re-assembly, someone had used some kind of sealant on the gasket, the last time, well at least it was serviced or came from factory like that, I used no sealant when re-installing.

Small amount of metal fines that came out, aerosol can spray tip for scale.

Good to hear and thanks for the photos.
Being a low hour tractor the fines are probably from the synchro's wearing in, I wouldn't be concerned about it.

That is an all around good sized tractor